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5th
Grade Lowell Curriculum Guides
Recommended
Reading List
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Sign of the Beaver
- Elizabeth Spear
Maniac Magee - Jerry
Spinelli
Indian in the Cupboard
-
Lynn R. Banks
Sadako and the Thousand
Paper Cranes - Eleanor B. Coerr
In the Year of the Boar
and Jackie Robinson - Bette Lord
From the Mixed Up Files
of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konisburg
My Brother Sam is Dead
- James and Christopher Collier
Sing Down the Moon
- Scott O'Dell
Call it Courage - Armstrong
Sperry
Caddie Woodlawn - Carol
Brink
Shiloh- Phyllis R.
Naylor
Zeely -Virginia Hamilton
Dear Mr. Henshaw -
Beverly Cleary
Black Beauty - Anna
Sewell
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
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Supplementary List
Morning Girl - Michael
Dorris
Homesick: My Own Stories
- Jean Fritz
Columbus - Ingri and
Edgar D'Aulaire
Trumpet of the Swan
- E.B. White
The Life and Adventures
of Robinson - Daniel DeFoe
Guests - Michael Dorris
The Cricket in Times Square
- George Delden
Dr. Doolittle - Hugh
Lofting
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6th
Grade Lowell Curriculum Guides
Recommended
Reading List
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Julie and the Wolves
- J.C. George
So Far From the Bamboo
Grove - Yoko K. Watkins
War With Grandpa -
Robert k. Smith
The Great Gilly Hopkins
- Katherine Paterson
Dicey's Song - Cynthia
Voigt
My Side of the Mountain
- J.C. George
Anne of Green Gables
- L.M. Montgomery
Roll of Thunder, Hear my
Cry - Mildred Taylor
Number the Stars -
Lois Lowry
The Egypt Game - Z.K.
Synder
Island of the Blue Dolphin
- Scott O'Dell
The Star Fisher - Lawrence
Yep
The Secret Garden -
F.H. Burnett
The Wind in the Willows
- Kenneth Grahame
The Borrowers - Mary
Norton
Little House on the Prairie
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Supplementary List
Last Summer With Maizon
- Jacqueline Woodson
The Golden Goblet -
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Hello, My Name is Scramble
Eggs - Jamie Gilson
The River - Gary Paulsen
Sing Down the Moon
- Scott O'Dell
The Whipping Boy -
Sid Fleischman
A Wrinkle in Time -
Madeline L'Engle
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7th
Grade Lowell Curriculum Guides
Recommended
Reading List
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The Giver - Lois
Lowry
Dragon Wings - Lawrence
Yep
The Witch of Blackburn
Pond - Elizabeth George Speare
Selected Poems - Robert
Frost
The Pearl - John Steinbeck
Rumble Fish - S.E.
Hinton
Jungle Book - Rudyard
Kipling
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
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Supplementary List
The Martian Chronicles
- Ray Bradbury
The House of Dies Dear
- Virginia Hamilton
A Seperate Peace -
John Knowles
The Clay Marble - Minfong
Ho
A Night to Rmember
- Walter Lord
Earthquake to Dawn
- Kristina Gregory
The Sword in the Stone
- T.H. White
Gulliver's Travels
- J. Swift
When the Stars Begin to
Fall - James Collier
A Christmas Carol -
Charles Dickens
Light in the Forest
- Concord Richter
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8th
Grade Lowell Curriculum Guides
Recommended
Reading List
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Across Five Aprils
- Irene Hunt
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
Nothing But The Truth
- Avi
Johnny Tremain - Ester
Forbes
Harriet Tubman - Ann
Petry
Lyddie - Katherine
Paterson
Selected Poems - Langston
Hughes
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Supplementary List
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Friends - Rosa
Guy
The Pigman - Paul Zindel
Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine
L'Engle
Where the Red Fern Grows
- Wilson Rawls
Zlata's Diary - Zlata
Filipovic
Nightjohn - Gary Paulsen
Bull Run - Sid Fleischman
Freedom's Children
- Ellen Levine
Children of the River
- Linda Crew
Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkum
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Grade
5
and 6
District
List - Summer Reading
Summer 2007
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Below is a list of
recommended titles for summer reading.
In addition, you may read books by authors
on this list; Newbury Award Books; Newbury Honor Books; books that have
won awards; and books by authors on the Massachusetts State Framework Author
list.
Avi Poppy
Brooks,
Bruce What Hearts
Byars,
Betsy Midnight Fox; Keeper of the Doves
Cleary, Beverly Strider
Clements, Andrew Janitor’s Boy
Corbett, Sue Free Baseball
Creech, Sharon Ruby Holler;
Absolutely Normal Chaos
Giff, Patricia Reilly Pictures
of Hollis Woods
Gantos, Jack Heads or Tails; Joey Pigza Swallowed the
Key
Hermes, Patricia Kevin Corbett
Eats Flies
Howe, James The Misfits
MacLachlan, Patricia Journey
Martin, Ann A Corner of the
Universe
McKay, Hilary Saffy’s Angel
Myers, Walter
Dean Me, Mop and the Moondance Kid
Naylor, Phyllis
Reynolds Beetles, Lightly Toasted / Shiloh
Paulsen, Gary Hatchet; The
River
Rylant, Cynthia Missing May
Sachar, Louis Holes; Small Steps
Shreve, Susan The Gift of the
Girl Who Couldn’t Hear
Spinelli, Jerry Crash; Maniac McGee; Library Card
Voigt, Cynthia Bad Girls; Dicey’s Song;
Homecoming
Woodson, Jacqueline Locomotion
(Poetry)
Multicultural/ Historical Fiction
Avi Fighting
Ground
Alvarez, Julia How Tia Lola
Came to (Visit) Stay
Blos, Joan Gathering of
Days
Curtis,
Christopher Paul Bud, Not Buddy
Cohen, Barbara Thank You, Jackie Robinson
Dorris, Michael Sees
Behind Trees; Morning Girl
Ho, Minfong The Clay Marble
Mohr, Nicholasa Felita
Namioka, Lensey Yang the Third
and Her Impossible Family
O’Dell,
Scott Black Star, Bright Dawn
Uchida, Yoshiko A Jar of Dreams
Whelan, Gloria Goodbye, Vietnam
Science
Fiction/ Fantasy
Alexander, Lloyd
Time Cat
Avi Bright
Shadow
Colfer, Eoin Artemis Fowl
DiCamillo, Kate The Tale of
Despereaux
Corneila Funke Dragon Rider
Gutman, Dan Babe & Me
Haddix, Margaret Peterson Among
the Hidden
Howe, James Bunnicula
Juster, Norton
Phantom Tollbooth
O’Brien, Robert Mrs. Frisby and
the Rats of NIMH
Paolini, Christopher Eragon
Rowling, J.K. Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Scieszka, Jon Summer Reading
is Killing Me
Yolen, Jane Boots and the
Seven Leaguers
Non-Fiction
Bonner, Hannah When Bugs
Were Big
Dahl, Roald Boy
Fritz, Jean Double
Life of Pocahontas
Garza, Carmen Lomas
Family Pictures: Cuadros de Famila
Macaulay,
David The Way Things Work
Ride, Sally To Space
and Back
Scieszka, Jon Science
Verse
Seymour Simon
Crocodiles & Alligators
Sullivan, George Built
to Last
Thimmesh, Catherine
Girls Think of Everything
Yates, Elizabeth Amos
Fortune: Free Man
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Grade
7
and 8
District
List - Summer Reading
Summer 2007
Below is a list of
recommended titles for summer reading.
In addition, you may read books by authors
on this list; Newbury Award Books; Newbury Honor Books; books that have
won awards; and books by authors on the Massachusetts State Framework Author
list.
Fiction
Avi Somewhere
Upstairs; Blue Heron
Brooks, Bruce Moves
Make the Man
Choldenko, Gennifer Al
Capone Does My Shirts
Conly,
Jane Crazy Lady
Cooney, Caroline Code
Orange, Flight #116 is Down
Paulsen,
Gary Harris and Me; The Hay Meadow; Dogsong
Philbrick, Rodman
Freak The Mighty
Rawls,
Wilson Where the Red Fern Grows
Rylant,
Cynthia Every Living Thing
Shusterman, Neal The
Shadow Club
Soto,
Gary Baseball in April
Voigt, Cynthia Izzy,
Willy, Nilly
Multicultural/Historical
Fiction
Avi The
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Banks, Lynne Reid One
More River
Buss, Fran Leeper
Journey of the Sparrows
Choi, Sook Nui Year of Impossible Goodbyes; Echoes of the White Giraffe
Clark, Ann Secret of
the Andes
Cushman,
Karen Ballad of Lucy Whipple, Catherine Called Birdy
Ellis, Deborah
Parvana’s Journey
Gregory, Kristiana Earthquake
at Dawn
Hesse, Karen Out of
the Dust
Hobbs,
Will Wild Man Island; Jason’s Gold; Crossing the Wire
Hughes, Dean Soldier
Boys
Jimenez, Francisco
The Circuit; Breaking Through
Nixon, Joan Lowery A
Family Apart
Paulsen, Gary
Soldier’s Heart
Polikoff, Barbara Why
Does the Coqúi Sing?
Spinelli, Jerry
Stargirl
Turner, Megan Whalen
The Thief
Yep, Laurence Dragon’s
Gate; Rainbow People
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Babbit, Natalie Tuck
Everlasting
Cooper, Susan King
of Shadows; The Dark is Rising; Seaward
Farmer, Nancy
The House of the Scorpion*
Haddix, Margaret
Peterson Double Identity
Ibbotson, Eva
The Secret of Platform 13
Levine, Gail Carson Ella
Enchanted; Fairest
Nonfiction
Fleischman, John Phineas
Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
Hickman, Homer, Jr. October Sky
Hopkinson,
Deborah Up Before Daybreak
Huynh, Quang Nhuong The Land I Lost
Montgomery, Sy The Tarantula Scientist
Nelson, Peter Left
for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
Parker, Steve
Sponges, Jellyfish & other Simple Animals
Paulsen, Gary
Guts
Platt, Richard Forensics
Walker,
Paul Pride of Puerto Rico
Grade
8
District
List - Summer Reading
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Summer
2006
Fiction
Brashares, Ann The
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Brooks, Bruce Moves Make
the Man
Cohn, Rachel Gingerbread
Creech, Sharon Walk Two
Moons
MacLachlan, Patricia Baby
Myers, W. D. Somewhere
In the Darkness
Paulsen, Gary Dogsong
Rodman, Philbrick The Mighty
Soto, Gary Baseball
in April
Voight, Cynthia Izzy,
Willy, Nilly
Multicultural/Historical
Fiction
Avi
The True Confessions
of Charlotte Doyle
Choi, Sook Nui Year of
Impossible Goodbyes
Cushman, Karen Ballard
of Lucy Whipple
Greene, Bette Summer
of my German Soldier
Hobbs, Will Beardance
Jocelyn, Marthe Mable
Riley
Nixon, Joan Lowery A Family
Apart
Hughes, Dean Soldier Boys
Yep, Laurence Dragon’s
Gate
Science
Fiction/Fantasy
Brittain, Bill The
Wish Giver
Jacques, Brian Redwall
Cooper, Susan The
Dark is Rising
Classic
London, Jack Call
of the Wild
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure
Island
Folktales
and Legends
Hamilton, Virginia Her Stories:
Africian American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Stories
Nonfiction
Bausum,
Ann With Courage and Cloth
Nelson,
Peter Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
Books by a state framework
author also recommended
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9th
Grade - Lowell High
Summer
Reading List
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Summer
2005
You may read any novels
by Agatha Christie, Robert Cormier, John Grisham, J.K. Rowling, or Paul
Zindel
Watership Down - Richard
Adams
Dibbs in Search of Self
- Virginia Axline
Rainbow Jordan - Alice
Childress
Jurassic Park - Michael
Crichton
Heartbeat - Norma Fox
Mazer
Downriver - Will Hobbs
The Bloody Country
- James Lincoln Collier
A Night to Remember
- Walter Lord
The Wave - Todd Strasser
The Thread that Runs so
True Jesse Stuart
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Latin
Lyceum
Summer
Reading List
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Summer
2005
The
Incurable Wound - Berton Rouche
The
Lives of a Cell - Thomas Lewis
Space
- James Mitchener
The
Idiot - Dostoyevsky
Year
of Illusion, 1776 - Thomas Fleming
Now
We Are Enemies - Thomas Fleming
Martian
Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Catch
22 - Joseph Heller
Their
Eyes Were Watching God - Z.N. Hurston
Slaughter
House Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The
Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Chrososome
6 - Robin Cook
The
Orestia - Aeschulus
Medea
- Euripdes
Electra
- Euripdes
Andromache
- Euripdes
Trojan
Women - Euripdes
Antigone
- Sophocles
Jane
Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering
Heights - Emily Bronte
Germinal
- Emile Zola
Stranger
in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Antartica
- K.S. Robinson
The
Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov
The
Bluest Eyes - Toni Morrison
Master
and Commander - Patrick O'Brien
Farenheit
452 - Ray Bradbury
Steppenwolf
- Herman Hesse
Siddartha
- Herman Hesse
Ragtime
- E.L. Doctorow
Pilgrim
at Tinker's Creek - Anne Dillard
Blue
Highways - James Least Heat Moon
Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
Hunger
of Memory - Richard Rodriguez
A
Tour of Calculus - David Berlinski
Whom
the Gods Love: The Story of Evariste Galois - Leopold Infeld
On
the Road - Jack Kerouac
Things
Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The
Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest - Ken Kesey
The
Color Purple - Alice Walker
Man
Child in the Promise Land - Claude Brown
Uncle
Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Life
on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
Truman
- David McCullough
The
Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
Travels
with Charley - John Steinbeck
Tender
is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The
Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctrow
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9th
Grade - Voke
Summer
Reading List
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Summer
2005
Light Reading
145 Street: Short Stories
Walter Dean Myers
Felita
Nicholasa Mohr
**Frenchtown Summer
Robert Cormier
If You Come Softly
Jacqueline Woodson
Children Of the River
Linda Crew
**April Morning
Howard Fast
The Cay
Theodore Taylor
*The Witch of Blackbird
Pond Elizabeth George Speare
Greatest: Muhammad Ali
Walter Dean Myers
Silver
Norma Mazer
Tears of a Tiger
Sharon Mills Draper
**White Fang
Jack London
Reaching
**Monster
Walter Dean Myers
*Dicey’s Song
Cynthia Voigt
Reaching With the Demon
Terry Brooks
All for the Better: A story
Of El Barrio Nicholasa Mohr
Black Like Me
John Griffin
Roughnecks
Thomas Cochran
*Recommended notably
(more than one English Teacher
values the book or is very familiar with it)
**Highly Recommended
(recommended by a number of
English Teachers for value or/and familiarity with the book)
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Grado
5
Lectura
de Verano
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(S) Available at the Sullivan
Library |
| Ficción
Ada, Alma Flor La
Moneda de Oro
Altman, Linda Jacobs El
Camino de Amelia
Alvarez, Naiara Lo
de Soñar
Byars, Betsy La Zorra Negra
Jiménez, Angeles El
Abrigo
Maclachlan, Patricia Sarah,
Sencilla y Alta (S)
Steig, William La Isla
de Abel
Selden, George Un
Grillo en Times Square
White, E.B. Las Telerahas
de Carlota (S)
Ficción
Multicultural y Histórica
Gardiner, John Stone
Fox y la Carrera de Trineos
Spere, Elizabeth George EL
Signo del Castor
Perera, Hilda Kike
(S)
San Souci, Robert D. Los
Peregrinos de N.C. Wyeth
Ficción
/Científica
Ballaz, Jesus Luces en el
Mar
Perera, Hilda Cuentos de
Apolo
Osorio, María Cuentos
de Cinco Minutos
O’Brien' Robert Señora
Frisby y las Ratas de Nimh (S)
Literatura
Clásica
Twain, Mark Las Aventuras
de Huck Finn
Alcott, Louisa May Mujeritas
(S)
Carroll, Lewis Alicia en
el Pais de las Maravillas
Fábulas
y Leyendas
Hao, Kuang Tsai Los
Siete Hermanos Mágicos |
Grado
6
Lectura
de Verano
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(S) Available at the Sullivan
Library |
| Ficción
Bryars, Betsy Burbujas,
el tez de una Tonelada
Cleary, Beverly La Escapada
de Ralph
Delong, Meindert La Colina
que Canta
Gardiner, John Alto Secreto
(S)
Gutiérrez, Scott La
Noche De Eskellas
O'Dell, Scott La Isla de
los Delfines Azules(S)
Speare, Elizabeth El Estanque
de Mirlo
White,E.B. La Trompeta
del Cisne
Ficción
Multicultural y Histórica
Aliki Momias de Egipto
Alonso, Fernando Feral
y las Cigúeñas
Alonso,Fernando El Hombrecillo
de Papel
Araujo, Orlando Miguel Vicente
Pata
Calicute
Armstrong, Sperry
Esto es Coraje
Armstrong, William Trueno
(S)
Gates, Doris Sauce Azul
(S)
Singer, Isaac Bashevis Golem,
el Coloso del Barro
Ficción
Científica
Babbit, Natalie El Cerro
del Abismo
Otero, Rodolfo La Estrella
Peregrina
Literatura
Clásica
Dumais, Alexandre Los Tres
Mosqueteros
Swift, Jonathan Los Viajes
de Gulliver (S) |
Grado
7
Lectura
de Verano
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| (S) Available at the Sullivan
Library |
| Ficción
Byars, Betsy El Verano de
los Cisnes
Herrera, Juan Haced
Sitio a Mi Hermano
Lowry, Lois El Dador
Lowry, Lois Quién
Cuenta las Estrellas
Paterson, Katherine Amé
a Jacob (S)
Paterson, K. Un Puente
Hasta Terabithia (S)
Paulsen, Gary El Hacha
Perera, Hilda La
Jaula del Unicornio
O'Dell, Scott La Perla
Negra
Ficción
Multicultural y Histórica
Amo, Montserrat La Piedra
y el Agua
López, Narraez Concha
El Tiempo y la Promesa
López, N. Concha
La Tierra del Sol y la Luna
O'Dell, Scott No me Llama
Angélica
Smucker, Barbara Nubes
Negras (S)
Taylor, Mildred D. Lloro
por la Tierra
Literatura
Clásica
Kipling, Rudyard El Lobo
de la Selva
Stowe, Harriet Beecher La
Cabaña del Tío Tom
Fantasía
/Ficción Científica
Babbit, Natalie Tuck Para
Siempre (S)
Otero, Rodolfo La Travesia
Quiroga, Horacio Los Cuentos
de mis Hijos
Fábulas
y Leyendas
Rohmer, H. y J. Guerrero Atariba
y Niguayona |
Grado
8
Lectura
de Verano
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| (S) Available at the Sullivan
Library |
Ficción
Duffy, James Desaparecida
Fox, Paula La Danza de
los Esclavos
Fleishman, Sid El Niño
que Pagaba el Pato
Gallico, Paul El Ratón
Manx
George, Jean Craighead Mi
Rincón de la Montaña
Ocampo, Silvina La Naranja
Maravillosa
Paulsen, Gary El Hacha
Soto, Gary Béisbol
en Abril y otras Historias (S)
Voight, C. La Farnilia
Tillerman Busca Hogar
Ficción
Multicultural y Histórica
Ballaz, Jesus El Ultimo
Vuelo
Bandera, María del
Carmen de la Cuba Linda y Perdida
Barnes, Joyce Annette Amistad
Becerra, de Jenkins, Lyll
La Prision de Honor
Maestro, B. y Guillo Una
Unión más Perfecta (S)
Perrera, Hilda Mai
(S)
Smucker, Barbara Huida
al Cánada (S)
Trevino, Elizabeth Borton
de Yo Juan de Pareja
Fantasía/
Ficción Científica
L'Engle, M. Desaparecida
Una Arruga en el Tiempo (S)
Verne, Jules 20,000 Leguas
de Viaje Submarino
Literatura
Clásica
Cervantes, Miguel Don Quijote
de la Mancha
London, J. Colmillo Blanco,
la Llamada de la Selva |
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Massachusetts
Framework Author List
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A
List of Suggested Authors, Illustrators, or Works Reflecting Our Common
Literary and Cultural Heritage
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Grades
3-4
British authors:
Frances Burnett
Lewis Carroll
Kenneth Grahame
Dick King-Smith
Edith Nesbit,
Mary Norton,
Margery Sharp,
Robert Louis Stevenson
P. L. Travers
American authors
and illustrators:
L. Frank Baum
Beverly Cleary
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Mary Mapes Dodge
Elizabeth Enright
Eleanor Estes
Jean George
Sterling North
Howard Pyle
Carl Sandburg
George Selden
Louis Slobodkin
E. B. White
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Poets:
Stephen Vincent and Rosemarie Carr Benét
Lewis Carroll
John Ciardi
Rachel Field
Robert Frost
Grades 5-8
British and European
authors or illustrators:
James Barrie
Frances Burnett
Lucy Boston
Lewis Carroll
Carlo Collodi
Charles Dickens
Arthur Conan Doyle
Daniel Defoe
Leon Garfield
Kenneth Grahame
C. S. Lewis |
George MacDonald
Edith Nesbit
Mary Norton
Philippa Pearce
Arthur Rackham
Anna Sewell
William Shakespeare
Johanna Spyri
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jonathan Swift
J. R. R. Tolkien
T.H.White
American authors
or illustrators:
Louisa May Alcott
Lloyd Alexander
Natalie Babbitt
L.Frank Baum
Nathaniel Benchley
Carol Ryrie Brink
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Esther Forbes
Paula Fox
Jean George
Virginia Hamilton
Bret Harte
Washington Irving
L. M. Montgomery (Canadian)
Sterling North
Scott O’Dell
Howard Pyle
Edgar Allan Poe
Ellen Raskin
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Elizabeth Speare
Booth Tarkington
Mark Twain
James Thurber
E. B. White
Laura Ingalls Wilder
N. C. Wyeth
Poets:
Stephen Vincent and Rosemarie Carr Benét
Lewis Carroll
John Ciardi
Rachel Field
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
Edward Lear
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
David McCord |
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Contemporary
American Literature and World Literature
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Grades 3-4
Joan Aiken (fiction: adventure/fantasy)
Lynne Reid Banks (fiction:adventure/fantasy)
Raymond Bial (informational; photo-essays)
Judy Blume (fiction: realistic)
EveBunting (multi-genre)
Joseph Bruchac (fiction: historical )
Ashley Bryan (folktales; poetry)
Betsy Byars (fiction: realistic)
Ann Cameron (folktales)
Andrew Clements (fiction: realistic)
Shirley Climo (folktales)
Eleanor Coerr (fiction: historical)
Paula Danziger (fiction: realistic)
Walter Farley (fiction: horses)
John Fitzgerald (fiction: Great Brain)
Louise Fitzhugh (fiction: realistic)
Paul Fleischman (realistic fictions)
Sid Fleischman (fiction: humorous)
Mem Fox (fiction)
Jean Fritz: (fiction: historical; autobiography)
John Reynolds Gardiner (fiction: realistic)
James Giblin (biography, history)
Jamie Gilson (fiction: realistic)
Paul Goble (folktales)
Johanna Hurwitz (multi-genre)
Peg Kehret (multigenre)
Jacob Lawrence (illus.)
Patricia Lauber (informational: science,
socialstudies)
Kathryn Lasky (multi-genre)
Jane Langton (fiction: mystery)
Julius Lester (multigenre)
Gail Levine (fantasy; realistic fiction)
David Macaulay (informational: socialstudies/science)
Patricia MacLachlan (fiction: historical)
Mary Mahy (fiction)
Barry Moser (illus.)
Patricia Polacco (fiction: multi-ethnic)
Daniel Pinkwater (fiction: humorous)
Jack Prelutsky (poetry)
Louis Sachar (fiction: humorous)
Alvin Schwartz (short stories: suspense)
John Scieszka (humorous fiction; adventure)
Shel Silverstein (poetry)
Seymour Simon (informational: science)
Mildred Taylor (historical fiction)
Ann Warren Turner (fiction: historical)
Mildred Pitts Walter (multigenre)
Janet Wong (poetry)
Jane Yolen (fiction: fantasy)
Patricia Reilly Giff (fiction: realistic,
historical)
Marguerite Henry (fiction: horse stories) |
Grades 5-8
Isaac Asimov (science fiction)
Avi (multi-genre)
James Berry (fiction)
Nancy Bond (fiction: fantasy)
Ray Bradbury (science fiction)
Bruce Brooks (fiction)
Joseph Bruchac (fiction: historical)
Alice Childress (fiction: realistic)
Vera and Bill Cleaver (fiction)
James and Christopher Collier (fiction:historical)
Caroline Coman (fiction: realistic)
Susan Cooper (fiction: fantasy)
Robert Cormier (fiction)
Bruce Coville (fiction: fantasy)
Sharon Creech (fiction: realistic)
Chris Crutcher (fiction)
Christopher Paul Curtis (fiction: historical)
Karen Cushman (fiction: historical)
Michael Dorris (fiction)
Paul Fleischman (poetry, fiction)
Russell Freedman (biography)
Jack Gantos (fiction: humorous)
Leon Garfield (fiction: historical)
Sheila Gordon (fiction: Africa)
Bette Greene (fiction)
Rosa Guy (fiction: realistic)
Mary Downing Hahn (fiction)
Joyce Hansen (fiction)
James Herriot (informational: animals)
Karen Hesse (fiction: historical, fanciful)
S.E. Hinton (fiction: realistic)
Felice Holman (fiction: historical, realistic)
Irene Hunt (fiction: historical, realistic)
Paul Janeczko (poetry)
Angela Johnson (fiction)
Diana Wynne Jones (fiction: fantasy)
Norton Juster (fiction: fantasy)
M. E. Kerr (fiction: realistic)
E. L. Konigsburg (fiction: realistic)
Kathryn Lasky (multi-genre)
Madeleine L'Engle (fiction: fantasy)
Ursula LeGuin (fiction: fantasy)
Lipsyte, Robert (fiction: realistic)
Lois Lowry (fiction)
Anne McCaffrey (fiction: fantasy)
Robin McKinley (fiction: fantasy)
Margaret Mahy (fiction: realistic)
Patricia McKissack (informational: history)
Albert Marrin (biography)
Milton Meltzer (informational: history;biography)
Jim Murphy (informational: history)
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (fiction: realistic)
Naomi Nye (poetry; fiction)Richard Peck
(fiction: historical, realistic)
Daniel Pinkwater (fiction: humorous)
Philip Pullman (fiction: fantasy)
Ellen Raskin (fiction: mystery)
J.K. Rowling (fiction: fantasy)
Cynthia Rylant (short stories; poetry)
Louis Sachar (fiction: humorous, realistic)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (fiction: historical)
Gary Soto (fiction)
Mildred Taylor (historical fiction)
Theodore Taylor (fiction: historical)
Yoshiko Uchida (fiction: historical;nonfiction)
Cynthia Voigt (fiction: realistic, fantasy)
Yoko Kawashima Watkins (fiction:historical)
Janet Wong (poetry)
Laurence Yep (fiction)
Jane Yolen (fiction: fantasy)
Paul Zindel (fiction: realistic) |
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