Children's Books
Award Winning Children's Books
100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know
Books 1st & 2nd Graders Will Love
Books 3rd & 4th Graders Will Love
Books 5th & 6th Graders Will Love
BEginning Chapter Books
| Author | Title |
| Armstrong, Jennifer | Lili the Brave |
| Averill, Esther | Jenny the Cat |
| Bauer, Marion | Alison’s Wings |
| Boegehold, Betty | Pippa the Mouse |
| Brisson, Pat | Hot Fudge Hero |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur books |
| Byars, Betsy | Tornado |
| Calmenson, Stephanie | Rockin' Reptiles |
| Christopher, Matt | Lucky (series), Zero's Slider |
| Conford, Ellen | Jenny Archer |
| Corbett, Scott | The Great McGonnigle |
| Dadey, Debbie | Bailey School Kids |
| Danziger, Paula | Amber Brown |
| DeClements, Barthe | Spoiled Rotten |
| Delton, Judy | Pee Wee Scouts |
| Duffey, Betsy | Camp Knock-Knock Mystery, Lucky on the Loose |
| Galbraith, K. | Roommates Again |
| Gannett, Ruth S. | My Father's Dragon |
| Gerstein, Mordicai | Behind the Couch |
| Giff, Patricia | Not-So-Perfect Rosie |
| Gilson, Jamie | You Cheat! |
| Greenburg, Dan | Through the Medicine Cabinet |
| Herzig, Alison | The Big Deal |
| Hiser, Constance | Scoop Snoops |
| Howe, James | Pinky and Rex (series) |
| Impey, Rose | No-Name Dog |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry (series), Mary Maroney (series) |
| Koller, Jackie | Dragonling |
| Lamb, Nancy | World's Greatest Toe Show |
| LeGuin, Ursula | Catwings |
| Levine, Caroline | Detective Stars and the Case of the Super Soccer Team |
| Levy, Elizabeth | Wolfman Sam |
| Mauser, Pat | Patty's Pet Gorilla |
| Myers, Walter | Miffy Blue: Ace Crime Detective |
| Miller, Sara | Better Than TV |
| Nixon, Joan Lowery | Gloria Chipmunk, Star! |
| O'Connor, Jim | The Ghost in Tent 19 |
| Osborne, Mary Pope | Magic Treehouse (series) |
| Parks, Barbara | Junie P. Jones (series |
| Petersen, P.J. | The Fireplug is First Base, The Amazing Magic Show |
| Pfeffer, Susan Beth | Twin Surprises |
| Quackenbush, Robert | Miss Mallard Mystery (series) |
| Sathre, Vivian | Leroy Potts Meets the McCrooks |
| Sachar, Louis | Marvin Redpost |
| Saunders, Susan | Mystery of the Hard Luck Rodeo |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Bathwater Gang |
| Stevens, Carla | Anna, Grandpa, and the Big Storm |
| Stevenson, James | Mud Flat Olympics |
| Stevenson, Sucie | The Emperor's New Clothes |
| Yep, Lawrence | Curse of the Squirrel |
| Ziefert, Harriet | Worm Day |
Books 1st & 2nd graders will love
| Author | Title |
| Aardema, Verna | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears |
| Aesop | Aesop’s Fables |
| Aliki | Digging up Dinosaurs |
| Bemelmans, Ludwig | Madeline |
| Berenstain, Stan and Jan | Berenstain Bears Books |
| Blume, Judy | Freckle Juice |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur Books |
| Brunhoff, Jean de | Babar |
| Bunting, Eve | How Many Days to America |
| Burton, Virginia Lee | The Little House |
| Burton, Virginia Lee | Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel |
| Byars, Betsy | Hooray for the Golly Sisters |
| Cannon, Janell | Stellaluna |
| Carrick, Carol | Patrick’s Dinosaurs |
| Cohen, Barbara | Molly’s Pilgrim |
| Cohen, Miriam | Starring First Grade |
| Cole, Joanna | The Magic School Bus |
| Conford, Ellen | Get the Picture, Jenny Archer? |
| Cooney, Barbara | Miss Rumphius |
| Flack, Marjorie | The Story About Ping |
| Galdone, Paul | The Little Red Hen |
| Goble, Paul | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses |
| Hall, Donald | Ox-Cart Man |
| Heilbroner, Joan | This is the House Where Jack Lives |
| Hoban, Russell | Bedtime for Frances |
| Hoffman, Mary | Amazing Grace |
| Keats, Ezra Jack | The Snowy Day |
| Kellogg, Steven | Best Friends |
| Kellogg, Steven | Paul Bunyan |
| Lear, Edward | The Owl and the Pussycat |
| Lobel, Arnold | Frog and Toad books |
| Marshall, Edward | Space Case |
| Marshall, James | George and Martha |
| Mayer, Mercer | A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog |
| McCloskey, Robert | Make Way for Ducklings |
| McDermott, Gerald | Arrow to the Sun |
| Minarik, Else | Little Bear books |
| Monjo, F.N | The Drinking Gourd |
| Munsch, Robert | The Paper Bag Princess |
| Parish, Peggy | Amelia Bedelia |
| Pelligrini, Nina | Families Are Different |
| Piper, Watty | The Little Engine That Could |
| Potter, Beatrix | The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
| Roop, Peter | Keep the Lights Burning Abbie |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge; Mr. Putter and Tabby |
| Say, Allen | Grandfather’s Journey |
| Selsam, Millicent | Greg's Microscope |
| Seuss, Dr. | The Cat in the Hat |
| Sharmat, Marjorie | Nate the Great books |
| Silverstein, Shel | The Giving Tree |
| Slobodkina, Esphyr | Caps for Sale |
| Steig, William | Sylvester and the Magic Pebble; Doctor de Soto |
| Steptoe, John | Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters |
| Thompson, Kay | Eloise |
| Van Allsburg, Chris | The Polar Express |
| Viorst, Judith | I’ll Fix Anthony |
| Waber, Bernard | Ira Sleeps Over |
| Waber, Bernard | Lyle, Lyle Crocodile |
| Williams, Vera B. | A Chair for My Mother |
| Wiseman, Bernard | Morris Goes to School |
| Yolen, Jane | Owl Moon |
| Zion, Gene | Harry, the Dirty Dog |
| Williams, Margery, | The Velveteen Rabbit |
Books 3rd & 4th Graders will love
| Author | Title |
| Adler, David | Cam Jansen series |
| Atwater,Richard | Mr. Popper's Penguins |
| Blume, Judy | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing |
| Bond, Michael | A Bear Called Paddington |
| Brink, Carol Ririe | Caddie Woodlawn |
| Byars, Betsy | The Seven Treasure Hunts |
| Carrol, Lewis | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona, the Pest, Henry Huggins, Ralph S. Mouse |
| Dahl, Roald | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| Farley, Walter | The Black Stallion |
| Fitzgerald, John | The Great Brain |
| Fitzhugh, Louise | Harriet the Spy |
| Fleischman, Sid | The Whipping Boy |
| Fritz, Jean | And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? |
| Grahame, Kenneth | The Wind in the Willows |
| Henry, Marguerite | Misty of Chincoteague |
| Howe, James | Bunnicula |
| Hurwitz, Johanna | Class Clown |
| Juster, Norton | The Phantom Tollbooth |
| Kline, Suzy | What’s the Matter with Herbie Jones? |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |
| Lawson, Robert | Rabbit Hill |
| Lewis, C. S. | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
| Lindgren, Astrid | Pippi Longstocking |
| Lovelace, Maud | Betsy-Tacy |
| Lowry, Lois | All About Sam |
| MacDonald, Betty | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle |
| MacLachlan, Patricia | Sarah Plain and Tall |
| Manes, Stephen | Chocolate-Covered Ants |
| O'Brien, Robert | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
| O'Dell, Scott | Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| Paterson, Katherine | The Great Gilly Hopkins |
| Porter, Connie | Meet Addy: an American Girl |
| Rockwell, Thomas | How to Eat Fried Worms |
| Sachar, Louis | Sideways Stories from Wayside School |
| Selden, George | Cricket in Times Square |
| Silverstein, Shel | Where the Sidewalk Ends |
| Spyri, Johanna | Heidi |
| Taylor, Theodore | The Trouble With Tuck |
| Tripp, Valerie | Meet Molly: an American Girl |
| Warner, Gertrude | The Boxcar Children |
| White, E.B. | Charlotte's Web |
| Wright, Betty Ren | Ghost of Popcorn Hill |
Books 5th & 6th graders will love
| Author | Title |
| Alexander, Lloyd | The Book of Three |
| Armstrong, William | Sounder |
| Avi | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle |
| Babbitt, Natalie | Tuck Everlasting |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | The Indian in the Cupboard |
| Bauer, Marion | On My Honor |
| Baum, L. Frank | The Wizard of Oz |
| Burnett, Frances H. | The Secret Garden |
| Burnford, Sheila | The Incredible Journey |
| Byars, Betsy | Summer of the Swans |
| Christopher, John | The White Mountains |
| Cleary, Beverly | Dear Mr. Henshaw |
| Coerr, Eleanor | Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes |
| Cooper, Susan | The Dark Is Rising |
| Fleischman, Paul | Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (j 811.54) |
| Forbes, Esther | Johnny Tremain |
| Fox, Paula | The Slave Dancer |
| Freedman, Russell | Lincoln: a Photobiography |
| Fritz, Jean | Homesick, My Own Story |
| George, Jean Craighead | Julie of the Wolves |
| My Side of the Mountain | |
| Gipson, Fred | Old Yeller |
| Hamilton, Virginia | M.C. Higgins, the Great |
| Jacques, Brian | Redwall |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | A Wrinkle in Time |
| Lenski, Lois | Strawberry Girl |
| London, Jack | The Call of the Wild |
| Lord, Betty Bao | In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson |
| Lowry, Lois | Number the Stars |
| Anastasia Krupnik | |
| Macaulay, David | Cathedral: the Story of its Construction (j 726) |
| Castle (j 623.19) | |
| Pyramid (j 690.68) | |
| Malory, Sir Thomas | King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table |
| Montgomery, L. M. | Anne of Green Gables |
| McKinley, Robin | The Hero and the Crown |
| Naylor, Phyllis | Shiloh |
| Norton, Mary | The Borrowers |
| O'Dell, Scott | The Black Pearl |
| Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet |
| Peck, Robert Newton | Soup |
| Raskin, Ellen | The Westing Game |
| Rawls, Wilson | Summer of the Monkeys |
| Rawls, Wilson | Where the Red Fern Grows |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Missing May |
| Scieszka, Jon | Math Curse (Picture Book) |
| Sewell, Anna | Black Beauty |
| Silverstein, Shel | A Light in the Attic (j 811.54) |
| Sobol, Donald | Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective |
| Soto, Gary | Baseball in April and Other Stories |
| Speare, Elizabeth George | The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| Sperry, Armstrong | Call It Courage |
| Stevenson, Robert L. | Treasure Island |
| Taylor, Mildred | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
| Taylor, Theodore | The Cay |
| Thayer, Ernest | Casey at the Bat (j 811.52) |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit: Or, There and Back Again |
| Trevino, Elizabeth de | I, Juan de Pareja |
| Voigt, Cynthia | Dicey's Song |
| White, E.B. | The Trumpet of the Swan |
Great Family Read-Aloud Books
| Author | Title | Description |
| Aiken, Joan | Arabel’s Raven | When Mortimer the Raven joins the Jones family, they are never the same again. |
| Alexander, Lloyd | The Book of Three | Legend and mythology are blended in the tale of an assistant pig keeper who becomes a hero. |
| Anno, Mitsumasa | Anno’s Aesop | Aesop’s Fables retold by Mr. Fox, with his own special twist on the tales. |
| Balliet, Blue | Chasing Vermeer | Two children set out to solve an mystery involving a famous painting that stumps the experts. |
| Banks, Lynn Reid | The Indian in the Cupboard | A toy Indian placed in a magical cupboard comes to life. |
| Baum, L. Frank | The Wizard of Oz | Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas. The Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Cowardly Lion help. |
| Bredsdorff, Bodil | The Crow-Girl | A girl is orphaned and must leave her remote cove to find others. She finds adventure on the way. |
| Bunting, Eve | The Mother’s Day Mice | Three little mice go looking for Mother’s Day gifts. One brings home a song. |
| Burnett, Frances | The Secret Garden | A ten-year-old girl discovers the mysteries of a locked garden when she moves to England. |
| Cameron, Ann | The Stories Julian Tells | Six stories about Julian and his family. |
| Corbett, Scott | The Limerick Trick | An experiment gone haywire makes a boy speak only in rhyme. |
| Dahl, Roald | James and the Giant Peach | James is unhappy living with his mean aunts, until magic makes a peach that becomes his home. |
| DiCamillo, Kate | Because of Winn-Dixie | A dog a girl finds at the grocery store helps make a summer memorable. |
| Erickson, Russell | A Toad for Tuesday | Warton the toad is captured by an owl who wants to eat him for dinner on Tuesday. |
| Farmer, Nancy | The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm | In futuristic Africa, a family’s children are kidnapped. They are saved by remarkable means. |
| Grahame, Kenneth | The Wind in the Willows | The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside. |
| Howe, James | Bunnicula | What happens when a cat thinks the family’s pet rabbit is a vampire? |
| Jacques, Brian | Redwall | Medieval mice defend their monastery against mean rats. |
| Keller, Charles | Belly Laughs: Food Jokes and Riddles | Jokes and riddles with an emphasis on food. |
| King-Smith, Dick | Babe: The Gallant Pig | A piglet destined for the dinner table is adopted by a dog who coaches her in sheep herding. |
| Konigsburg, E. L. | The View from Saturday | How the experiences and friendship of four children help them in a school competition. |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Four children enter the magical land of Narnia through a wardrobe. |
| Levine, Gail Carson | Ella Enchanted | What if Cinderella was really enchanted to have to obey everything she was told? |
| Lord, Bette | In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson | The story of a Chinese girl who leaves China to join her father in New York. |
| MacDonald, Betty | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves all children, good or bad. |
| Martin, Jacqueline Briggs | Washing the Willow Tree Loon | A loon is rescued from an oil spill, cleaned and cared for before being returned to the wild. |
| Mason, Simon | The Quigleys | Hilarious books about a normal family. |
| McKinley, Robin | Beauty | A beautiful retelling of Beauty and the Beast |
| Mowat, Farley | Owls in the Family | The adventures of a family that adopts two owls. |
| Norton, Mary | The Borrowers | Little people, no taller than a pencil, live in old houses and borrow what they need from humans. |
| O’Brien, Robert C. | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh | A widowed mouse turns to some rats whose imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise. |
| Pratchett, Terry | The Wee Free Men | Tiffany is a young girl who finds out she is a witch and must save her little brother. |
| Prelutsky, Jack | Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast | A collection of humorous poems about dinosaurs. |
| Raskin, Ellen | The Westing Game | When an old man dies, he makes a special treasure hunt in his will for some old acquaintances. |
| Rawls, Wilson | Summer of the Monkeys | Jay and his dog spend a summer chasing 29 escaped circus monkeys. |
| Robinson, Barbara | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | The six mean Herdman kids become involved in the community Christmas pageant. |
| Rockwell, Thomas | How to Eat Fried Worms | Billy takes on a bet that he will eat 15 worms. His friends find "tasty" ways to cook them. |
| Rosen, Michael | South and North, East and West | Twenty-five traditional tales from countries around the world, including Iran, Brazil and Greece. |
| Silverstein, Shel | Falling up: Poems and Drawings | A collection of humorous poems and drawings. |
| Steig, William | Abel’s Island | Stranded on an island, a mouse must use all of his resourcefulness to survive and return home. |
| Voigt, Cynthia | Homecoming | Four children on their own learn to find their place in the world. |
| White, E.B. | Charlotte’s Web | Barnyard tale about a spider who saves the life of Wilbur the pig. |
| Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Little House in the Big Woods | Story of a log-cabin family in Wisconsin in the late 1800s. |
| Williams, Margery | The Velveteen Rabbit | Love brings a toy rabbit to life. |