Curriculum

Literature Favorites by Grade

An example of Favorite literature studied in your classes.

TK

Transitional Kindergarten

The Giving Tree 
Shel Silverstein

The Little Red Hen 
Paul Galdone

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle

The Gingerbread Boy 
Paul Galdone

The Kissing Hand
Audrey and Harper Penn

K

Kindergarten

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr.

The Three Little Pigs
Paul Galdone

The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Paul Galdone

Little Red Riding Hood
Trina Schart

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Paul Galdone

1

1st Grade

Frog and Toad
Arnold Lobel

All of a Kind Family
Sydney Taylor

Owl at Home
Arnold Lobel

Children’s Book of America
William J. Bennett

Beatrix Potter
Series

2

2nd Grade

The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo

The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum

Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder

My Father's Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Betty MacDonald

3

3rd Grade

Charlotte's Web
E.B. White 

Stone Fox
John Reynolds Gardiner 

Misty of Chincoteague
Marguerite Henry 

Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo

Stuart Little
E.B. White

4

4th Grade

Pollyanna
Elanor H. Porter

The Cricket in Times Square
George Selden

Little Britches
Ralph Moody

Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O’Dell

Summer of the Monkeys
Wilson Rawls

5

5th Grade

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis

Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes

A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Old Yeller
Fred Gipson

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Jean Lee Latham

6

6th Grade

The Hobbit
JRR Tolkien

Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls

White Fang
Jack London

Trojan War
Olivia Coolidge

Anne of Green Gables
L M Montgomery

7

7th Grade

Animal Farm
George Orwell

My Antonia
Willa Cather 

Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, 

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson

Pericles
William Shakespeare

8

8th Grade

To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies
William Goulding

The Hiding Place
Corrie Ten Boom

Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury

Red Scarf Girl
Ji Li Jiang

Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare

9

9th Grade

The Fellowship of the Ring
JRR Tolkien

The Iliad
Homer

As a Man Thinketh
James Allen

Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card

Till We Have Faces
CS Lewis

Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare

10

10th Grade

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Mark Twain 

Inferno
Dante Alighieri

Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austin

Richard II
Shakespeare

11

11th Grade

Uncle Tom's Cabin 
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Up From Slavery
Booker T. Washington

Killer Angels
Micheal Sahara

My Antonia
Willa Cather

Land of Hope
Wilfred McClay

Othello
William Shakespeare

12

12th Grade

Paradise Lost
John Milton

Man’s Search For Meaning
Victor Frankl

Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hamlet
William Shakespeare