Kindergarten

·          Aesop’s Fables
·          Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen
·          A Child’s Garden of Verses:  Robert Louis Stevenson
·          Madeline series:  Ludwig Bemelmans
·          Mother Goose: The Classic Volland Edition: illustrated by Frederick Richardson
·          The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant:  Jean de Brunhoff
·          The Velveteen Rabbit:  Or How Toys Became Real:  Margery Williams Bianco
·          Winnie the Pooh: A.A. Milne
·          A Bear Called Paddington: Michael Bond
·          Bedtime for Frances:  Russell Hoban
·          Blueberries for Sal: Robert McCloskey
·          Curious George:  H.A. Rey
·          The Frog and Toad Books:  Arnold Lobel
·          Little Bear Series:  Elsa Minarik
·          Little Engine That Could: Watty Piper
·          Make Way for Ducklings:  Robert McCloskey
·          Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel:  Virginia Lee Burton
·          Now We Are Six (Pooh Original Edition)  A. A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard
·          The Night Before Christmas: Clement Clarke Moore
·          The Snowy Day: Ezra Jack Keats
·          The Story About Ping: Majorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
·          Harry the Dirty Dog: Gene Zion
·          When We Were Very Young (Pooh Original Edition) A. A. Milne and Ernest H. Shepard
·          Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak

First Grade

·          The Adventures of Pinocchio:  Carlo Collodi
·          Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare: Edith Nesbit
·          The Burgess Animal Book For Children: Thornton W. Burgess
·          Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit: Joel Chandler Harris, David Borgenicht, Don Daily
·          House at Pooh Corner:  A.A. Milne
·          Little House in the Big Woods Collection: Laura Ingalls Wilder
·          Perrault’s Fairy Tales:  Charles Perrault
·          Beatrix Potter full collection
·          The Book of Nonsense: Edward Lear
·          Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Ian Fleming
·          Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde:  Oscar Wilde
·          Little Lord Fauntleroy: Frances Hodgson Burnett
·          Mr. Popper’s Penguins: Richard and Florence Atwater
·          Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle: Betty MacDonald
·          My Father’s Dragon: Ruth Stiles Gannett
·          The Princess and the Goblin   George MacDonald
·          Racketty-Packetty House   Frances Hodgson Burnett
·          Raggedy Ann Stories; Raggedy Andy Stories Johnny Gruelle
·          The Reluctant Dragon: Kenneth Grahame
·          Sing A Song Of Popcorn: Every Child's Book Of Poems: M. White, Ed Moore, B. De Regniers
·          The Story of Dr. Dolittle: Hugh Lofting
·          Stuart Little: E.B. White
·          Thomas the Tank Engine Story Collection (Railway Series) The Rev. W. Awdry
·          Uncle Wiggily Bedtime Stories: Howard R. Garis

Second Grade

·          The Blue Fairy Book: Andrew Lang
·          A Wonder Book: Heroes and Monsters of Greek Mythology: Nathaniel Hawthorne
·          Grimm’s Fairy Tales: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
·          Just So Stories: Rudyard Kipling
·          The Wizard of Oz series (14-book collection): L. Frank Baum
·          A History or US (individual volume or full set of 10): Joy Hakim
·          A Little Princess: Frances Hodgson Burnett
·          American Tall Tales: Mary Pope Osborne
·          Bedknob and Broomsticks: Mary Norton
·          The Borrowers:  Mary Norton
·          Caddie Woodlawn:  Carol Ryrie Brink
·          The Children of Green Knowe:  Lucy M. Boston
·          Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Ian Fleming
·          The Courage of Sarah Noble: Alice Dalgliesh
·          D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths:  Ingi and Edgar Parin D’Aulaires
·          Homer Price: Robert McCloskey
·          James and the Giant Peach: Roald Dahl
·          Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices:  Paul Fleischman
·          The Little Lame Prince: Miss Mulock
·          Pippi Longstocking:  Astrid Lindgren
·          Tanglewood Tales: Nathaniel Hawthorne
 

Third Grade

·          Arabian Nights: Andrew Lang
·          Five Children and It: E. Nesbit
·          The Jungle Book:  Rudyard Kipling
·          Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages: Harold Bloom
·          Tales of Shakespeare: Charles and Mary Lamb
·          The Water-Babies: Charles Kingsley
·          Wind in the Willows: Kenneth Grahame
·          A Child's History of the World: V. M. Hillyer
·          A History or US (individual volume or full set of 10): Joy Hakim
·          A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers: Nancy Willard
·          At the Back of the North Wind:  George MacDonald
·          Bambi: Felix Salten
·          Black Beauty: Anna Sewell
·          Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad: Rosemary Sutcliff
·          The Chronicles of Narnia: C.S. Lewis
·          Heidi: Johanna Spyri
·          Mary Poppins:  P.L. Travers
·          Misty of Chincoteague: Marguerite Henry
·          Mythology: Edith Hamilton
·          Nordic Gods and Heroes: by Padraic Colum
·          Rascal: Sterling North
·          The Red Fairy Book: Andrew Lang

Fourth Grade

·          The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien
·          The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood: Howard Pyle
·          The Story of King Arthur and His Knights: Howard Pyle
·          Kidnapped: Robert Louis Stevenson
·          A History or US (individual volume or full set): Joy Hakim
·          Anne of Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery
·          The Black Arrow: Robert Louis Stevenson
·          Bob Son of Battle: Alfred Ollivant
·          Captains Courageous: Rudyard Kipling
·          The Cat of Bubastes: The Tale of Ancient Egypt: G.A. Henty
·          Hans Brinker Silver Skates: Mary Mapes Dodge
·          Johnny Tremain: Esther Forbes
·          Journey to the Center of the Earth: Jules Verne
·          King Solomon’s Mines: H. Rider Haggard
·          The Peterkin Papers: Lucretia P. Hale
·          Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm: Kate Douglas Wiggin
·          The Swiss Family Robinson: Johann Wyss
·          Tarzan of the Apes: Edgar Rice Bourroughs
·          The Yearling: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
·          Lassie Come Home:  Eric Knight

Fifth Grade

·          The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
·          Don Quixote: Miguel Cervantes
·          Ivanhoe: Sir Walter Scott
·          The Three Musketeers: Alexandre Dumas
·          William Shakespeare: The Complete Works: William Shakespeare
·          A History or US (individual volume or full set of 10): Joy Hakim
·          A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court: Mark Twain
·          Little Men: Louisa May Alcott
·          Lord of the Ring: J.R. R. Tolkien
·          Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen
·          Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens
·          Prisoner of Zenda: Anthony Hope
·          Silas Marner: George Eliot
·          The Sword in the Stone: T.H. White
·          The Time Machine: H.G. Wells
·          Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: Jules Verne
·          Watership Down: Richard Adams
·          White Fang: Jack London
·          With Lee in Virginia: G.A. Henty

Sixth Grade
·          Frankenstein: Mary Shelley
·          Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte
·          Moby Dick: Herman Melville
·          William Shakespeare: The Complete Works: William Shakespeare
·          A History or US (individual volume or full set of 10): Joy Hakim
·          The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Benjamin Franklin
·          Candide: Voltaire
·          David Copperfield: Charles Dickens
·          Gone with the Wind: Margaret Mitchell
·          The Importance of Being Earnest: Oscar Wilde
·          Leaves of Grass: Walt Whitman
·          Lorna Doone: R.D. Blackmore
·          The Mysterious Island: Jules Verne
·          The Pearl: John Steinbeck
·          Pilgrim’s Progress: John Bunyan retold by James Reeves
·          The Scarlet Pimpernel: Baroness Orczy Emmuska
·          Uncle Tom’s Cabin   Harriet Beecher Stowe
·          Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte
·          The Man Who Was Thursday: G.K. Chesterton

Seventh Grade

·          The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Frost: Harold Bloom
·          The Count of Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas
·          Emma: Jane Austen
·          Fathers and Sons: Ivan Turgenev
·          Great Expectations: Charles Dickens
·          Walden: Henry David Thoreau
·          War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy
·          Anton Chekov’s Short Stories (Norton Critical Edition): Anton Pavlovich Chekov
·          Call of the Wild: Jack London
·          The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: Edgar Allan Poe
·          Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
·          The Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton, et. al
·          Gilgamesh: Anonymous
·          The Jungle: Upton Sinclair
·          Kafka's Selected Stories (Norton Critical Edition): Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (Editor)
·          The Origin of Species: Charles Darwin
·          Paradise Lost: John Milton
·          The Prince: Niccolo Machiavelli
·          O Pioneers!: Willa Cather
·          Out of Africa: Isak Dinesen
·          The Scarlet Letter: Nathaniel Hawthorne
·          Phantom of the Opera:  Gaston Laroux

Eighth Grade

·          The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Mark Twain
·          Beowulf: Seamus Heaney (translator)
·          The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer
·          Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoevsky
·          The Divine Comedy: Dante
·          Les Miserables: Victor Hugo
·          Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
·          The Agony and the Ecstasy: Irving Stone
·          The Aeniad: Virgil
·          Anna Karenina: Leo Tolstoy
·          Best Stories Of O. Henry: O. Henry
·          Dracula: Bram Stoker
·          The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck
·          Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad
·          Jude the Obscure: Thomas Hardy
·          The Lord of the Flies: William Golding
·          My Antonia: Willa Cather
·          To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
·          The Picture of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde
·          The Red Badge of Courage: Stephen Crane
·          Saki Stories: Saki (H.H. Munro)