FUN SERIES BOOKS
Houndsley and Catina and the Birthday Surprise by James Howe
Houndsley and Catina by James Howe
Mr. Putter & Tabby Fly the Plane by Cynthia Rylant
Mr. Putter & Tabby Make A Wish by Cynthia Rylant
Mr. Putter & Tabby Paint the Porch by Cynthia Rylant
Mr. Putter & Tabby Run the Race by Cynthia Rylant
The Werewolf Club Meets Oliver Twit by Daniel Pinkwater
The Werewolf Club Meets the Hounds of the Basketballs by Daniel Pinkwater

MISS DATE’S PICKS FOR 1st GRADE
Big Al by Andrew Clements
Epossumondas by Coleen Salley
Flotsam by David Wiesner
Good Night Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
Good Sports: Rhymes about Running, Jumping, Throwing and More by Jack Prelutsky
Gregory The Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat
The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster
Skippyjon Jones by Judy Scachner

OPEN COURT BOOKS
America My Land, Our Land, Your Land – W. Nikola-Lisa
A Cake For Herbie – Petra Mathers
Can’t You Sleep Little Bear? – Martin Waddell
First Day Jitters – Julie Dannenberg
Hey Little Ant – Phillip M. Hoose
I’m Not Moving, Mama! – Nancy White Carlstrom
Inch By Inch – Leo Lionni
The Listening Walk – Paul Showers
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge – Hildegarde Hoyt Swift
Moo Moo, Brown Cow – Jakki Wood
Mop’s Treasure Hunt – Martine Schaap
My Town – Rebecca Treays
Night Shift Daddy – Eileen Spinelli
Old Henry – Joan W. Blos
One Duck Stuck – Phyllis Root
Rain – Robert Kalan
Sheila Rae, the Brave – Kevin Henkes
Sleep, Little One, Sleep – Marion Dane Bauer
Splish! Splash! Animal Baths – April Pulley Sayre
The Storm – Marc Harshman
The Story of a Blue Bird – Tomasz Bogacki
Take Me Out to the Ballgame – Jack Norworth
This Plane – Paul Collicutt
Twister – Darleen Bailey Bear

MAGIC TREE HOUSE
Magic Tree House #21 – Civil War on Sunday
Magic Tree House #22 – Revolutionary War on Wednesday
Magic Tree House #25 – Stage Fright on a Summer Night
Magic Tree House #28 – High Tide in Hawaii
Magic Tree House #33 – Carnival at Candlelight
Magic Tree House #34 – Season of the Sandstorm
Magic Tree House #35 – Night of the New Magician
Magic Tree House #38 – Monday with a Mad Genius
Magic Tree House #39 – Dark Day in the Deep Sea

MISS DATE’S PICKS FOR 2nd GRADE
Curious George Visits the Library by H.A. and Margaret Rey
Jazz On A Saturday Night by Leo and Diane Dillon
Marvin Redpost – Kidnapped at Birth by Louis Sachar
The Talented Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Uptown by Bryan Collier
The Weird School #1: Miss Daisy is Crazy! (My Weird School) by Dan Gutman
The Wump World by Bill Peet
Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth

OPEN COURT BOOK
Birdie’s Lighthouse by Deborah Hopkinson
The Buffalo Jump by Peter Roop
Dear Annie by Judith Caseley
Dragon Parade: A Chinese New Year Story by Steven A. Chin
Just Like Me by Barbara J. Neasi
The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland
A Picnic in October by Eve Bunting
Ruth Law Thrills a Nation by Don Brown
White Dynamite & Curly Kidd by Bill Martin

MISS DATE’S PICKS FOR 3rd GRADE
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco
Doodle Dandies: Poems That Take Shape by J. Patrick Lewis and Lisa Desimini
The Dragon Machine by Helen Ward
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman
Imagine a Day by Sarah L. Thomson
Imagine by Norman Messenger
Ish by Peter H. Reynolds
Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O’Malley
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
Shredderman: Secret Identity by Wendelin Van Draanen
The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith

OPEN COURT BOOKS
Backyard Safaris: 52 Year-Round Science Adventures by Phyllis S. Busch
Behind the Couch by Mordicai Gerstein
Best Friends by Steven Kellogg
Birds, Nests, and Eggs by Mel Boring
County Fair: Adapted from the Little House in the Prarie Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Daydreamers by Tom Feelings
The Empty Lot by Dale Fife
How I Spent My Summer Vacation by Mark Teague
The Mountain That Loved a Bird by Alice McLerran
My Teacher’s Secret Life by Stephen Krensky
Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
The Raft by Jim LaMarche
A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History by Lynne Cherry A Storyteller’s The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
Story by Rafe Martin
Sunflowers by John F. Prevost

THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES
Book 1: The Field Guide by Holly Black
Book 2: The Seeing Stone by Holly Black
Book 4: The Ironwood Tree by Holly Black
Book 5: The Wrath of Mulgrath by Holly Black
Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You by Holly Black

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MISS DATE’S PICKS FOR 4th GRADE
The Capture (Guardians of Ga’hoole, Book 1) by Kathryn Lasky
Ice Story: Shackleton’s Lost Expedition by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Messenger by Lois Lowry
No Talking by Andrew Clements
Patty Reed’s Doll: The Story of the Donner Party by Rachel K Laurgaard and Elizabeth Skye Michaels
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Shiloh Season by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

NEWBERY MEDALS/HONORS
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo

OPEN COURT BOOKS
Better Than a Lemonade Stand! Small Business Ideas for Kids – Daryl Bernstein
Brainstorm! The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors – Tom Tucker
The Landry News: A Brand New School Story – Andrew Clements
The Toothpaste Millionaire – Jean Merrill

REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST
I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova
The Night Spies by Kathy Kacer
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Secret of Priest’s Grotto: a Holocaust Survival Story by Peter Lane Taylor with Christos Nicola
Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Children’s Holocaust Memorial by Peter W. Schroeder