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