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Primary Picture Books

10 Minutes til Bedtime by Peggy Rathman

And If the Moon Could Talk  by Kate Banks

Bad Case of the Stripes by  David Shannon

Barnyard Song  by Rhonda Gowler Greene

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

Bunny Cakes or Bunny Money by Rosemary Wells

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! by Bill Martin, Jr.

The Fool and the Fish: A Tale from Russia - illustrated by Genedy Spirin

Gotta Go! Gotta Go! by Sam Swope

Guess How Much I Love You? by Sam McBratney 

Good Night Gorilla  by Peggy Rathman

I Can Read With My Eyes Closed! by Dr. Seuss

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (and sequels) by Laura Numeroff

Kashtanka by Anton Chekhov

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

Lunch Money and Other Poems About School by Carol Diggory Shields

Mama Cat Has Three Kittens  by Denise Fleming

The Mitten by Jan Brett

Never Spit on Your Shoes by Denys Cazet

No, David!  by  David Shannon

Not in the House, Newton!  by  Gilliland,

Olivia & Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian Falkoner

Ouch!  by Natalie Babbitt

Pete's a Pizza  by William Steig

Stellaluna by Janelle Cannon

Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora

Zelda and Ivy  by Laura McGee Kvasnosky

The Z was Zapped by Chris Van Allsburg


Primary Fiction K-2

 

Adventures from Bailey Street School Kids series by Debbie Dadey et al

The Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla

Henry and Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant

My Father's Dragon (and sequels) by Ruth Stiles Gannett


Intermediate Fiction 3-6

 

The BFG by Roald Dahl

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White

The Birthday Room by Kevin Henkes

Boggart by Susan Cooper

Bridge to Terabithia  by Katherine Paterson

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Faith and the Electric Dogs by Patrick Jennings

Harry Potter series  by J.K. Rowling

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Holes - by Louis Sachar

I am Regina by Sally M. Keehn

The Ink Drinker by Eric Sanvoisin

A Long Way from Chicago - by Richard Peck

LoveThat Dog by Sharon Creech

Mary on Horseback by Rosemary Wells

Minty : A Story of Young Harriet Tubman  by Alan Schroeder

My Side of the Mountain series by Jean Craighead George

Passager  by Jan Yolen

Poppy (and sequels) by Avi

Redwall Series by Brian Jacques

A Series of Unfortunate Events  by Lemony Snicket

Shiloh (trilogy) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Sideways Stories from Wayside School (series) by Louis Sachar

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck


Thanksgiving Picture Books

Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende Devlin

Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen

Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey


Christmas Picture Books

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The 12 Days of Christmas by Sabuda, Robert

Cajun Night Before Christmas by Trosclair

The Christmas Alphabet by Robert Sabuda

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan  Wojciechowski

The Crippled Lamb by Max Lucado

An Early American Christmas by Tomie De Paola

How Santa Got His Job  by Stephen Krensky

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

Jacob's Gift by Max Lucado

The Jolly Christmas Postman by the Ahlbergs

The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore

The Nutcracker by L.E. Hoffman

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg

The Rocking Horse Christmas by Mary Pope Osborne

Santa Calls by William Joyce

Santa's Book of Names by David McPhail

Snowie Rolie by William Joyce

The Snowman (original version without words) by Raymond Briggs

Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto

Welcome Comfort by Patricia Polacco

A Wish to be a Christmas Tree by Colleen Monroe

Why Christmas Trees Aren't Perfect by Dick Schneider

 

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