No Child Left Behind

ADVOCACY PLAN - BUY A BOOK, HELP A CHILD READ

During the summer of 2004, the U.S. Department of Education began a summer reading program in major cities across the nation. You can help continue the effort by purchasing books from the following level-specific lists and donating them to local schools, libraries, and after-school programs.

READING BOOK LIST

Kindergarten to Grade 3
Aardema, Verna. Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears.
Aesop. Fables.
Bremelmans, Ludwig. Madeline.
Bret, Jan. Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Brown, Margaret Wise. Goodnight Moon.
Brunhoff, Jean de. The Story of Babar.
Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Cleary, Beverly. The Mouse and the Motorcycle.
Galdone, Paul. The Three Little Pigs.
McCloskey, Robert. Make Way for Ducklings.
Milne, A.A. Winnie-the-Pooh.
Parish, Peggy. Amelia Bedelia.
Piper, Watty. The Little Engine That Could.
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Rey, H.A. Curious George.
Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are.
Seuss, Dr. The Cat in the Hat.
Viorst, Judith. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
White, E.B. Charlotte's Web.

Grades 4 to 6
Andersen, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales.
Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting.
Baum, L. Frank. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden.
Farley, Walter. The Black Stallion.
Fitzhugh, Louise. Harriet the Spy.
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Howe, Deborah. Bunnicula.
Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Books.
Knight, Eric. Lassie Come Home.
Lamb, Charles and Mary. Tales from Shakespeare.
Lindgren, Astrid. Pippi Longstocking.
Lofting, Hugh. Doctor Doolittle.
Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables.
Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia.
Salten, Felix. Bambi.
Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty.
Spyri, Johanna. Heidi.
Travers, P.L. Mary Poppins.

Grades 7 to 8
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women.
Bagnold, Enid. National Velvet.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451.
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans.
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Dumas, Alexander. The Count of Monte Cristo.
Frost, Robert. Poems.
Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders.
Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils.
Irving, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
London, Jack. Call of the Wild.
Pyle, Howard. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling.
Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit.
Twain, Mark. Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Verne, Jules. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Grades 9 to 12
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Anonymous. Beowulf.
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.
The Bible. Old and New Testaments.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights.
Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales.
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby.
Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter.
Homer. The Illiad and The Odyssey.
Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables.
Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House.
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick.