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10 for Dinner Bogart, Jo Ellen 3
100 Book Race: Hog Wild in the Reading Room, The Giff, Patricia Reilly 1
11 Birthdays Mass, Wendy 4
12 Ways to Get to 11 Merriam, Eve 2
26 Fairmount Avenue dePaola, Tomie 2
3D Modeling Zizka, Theo 3
3D Printing O'Neill, Ternece 3
4 Valentines In A Rainstorm Bond, Felicia 1
5th of March Rinaldi, Ann 5
6 Titles: Eagles, Bees and Wasps, Alligators and Crocodiles,
Giraffes, Sharks, Tortoises and TurtlesMorgan, Sally 1
A Likely Place Fox, Paula 4
A Nightmare in History: The Holocaust 1933-1945 Chaikin, Miriam 5
A Rock is Lively Aston, Diana Hutts 1
A, My Name Is Alice Bayer, Jane 2
Abandoned Puppy Costello, Emily 3
ABC Bunny, The Gag, Wanda 1
Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington Harness, Cheryl 2
Abe Lincoln's Hat Brenner, Martha 2
Abel's Island Steig, William 3
Abigail Adams, Girl of Colonial Days Wagoner, Jean Brown 2
Abraham Lincoln Cashore, Kristen 2
Abraham Lincoln, Lawyer, Leader, Legend Fontes, Justine & Ron 2
Abraham Lincoln: Great Man, Great Words Cashore, Kristen 5
Abraham Lincoln: Our 16th President Luciano, Barbara L. 4
Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 1
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Absolutely Lucy Cooper, Ilene 2
Absolutely Normal Chaos Creech, Sharon 4
Accident, The Carrick, Carol 3
Across Five Aprils Hunt, Irene 5
Across the Stream Ginsburg, Mirra 1
Across the Wild River Gutman, Bill 4
Addie Across the Prairie Lawler, Laurie 4
Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse Campbell, Marcy 1
Adventure in Alaska Kramer, Sydelle 3
Adventure in the Haunted House McBrier, Page 3
Adventure of Backyard Sleepout McArthur, Nancy 3
Adventure of the Bailey School Kids: Dragons Don’t Cook
PizzaDadey, Debbie 2
Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein, The Hurwitz, Johanna 2
Adventures of Isabel, The Nash, Ogden 2
Adventures of the Bailey School Kids: Zombies Don’t Play
SoccerDadey, Debbie 3
Aesop's Fables Watson, Carol 3
Africa Aspen-Baxter, Linda 3
Afternoon of the Elves Lisle, Janet Taylor 4
A-Hunting We Will Go Langstaff, John 1
Air is All Around Us Branley, Franklyn 1
Al Capone Does My Shirts (BOE approved April 2014) Choldenko, Gennifer 4
Alamo, The Goldsworthy, Steve K
Alaska and Hawai'i Howse, Jennfer 3
Albert the Alabatross Hoff, Syd 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 2
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Albert the Running Bear Gets the Jitters Isenberg, Barbara 1
Albert's Toothache Williams, Barbara 2
Aldo Applesauce Hurwitz, Johanna 3
Alex and the Amazing Lemonade Stand (BOE approved Nov 2015)Scott, Liz and Jay 1
Alexander & The Terrible Horrible No Good… Viorst, Judith 1
Alexander & The Wind-Up Mouse Lionni, Leo 1
Alexander Who’s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Viorst, Judith 2
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday(BOE approved Nov 2015)
Viorst, Judith 1
Aliens for Breakfast Spinner, Stephanie 2
Alison’s Wings, 1996 Bauer, Marion Dane K
Alistair's Elephant Sadler, Marilyn 1
All About Alligators Arnosky, Jim 2
All About Deserts: The Question and Answer Book Sanders, John 3
All about Inclined planes Howse, Jennfer 3
All about Levers Howse, Jennfer 3
All about Pulleys Howse, Jennfer 3
All about Screws Howse, Jennfer 3
All About Seeds Berger, Melvin 2
All About Seeds Kuchalla, Susan K
All about Wedges Tomlijanovic, Tatiana 3
All about Wheels and Axels Banting, Erinn 3
All By Myself Mayer, Mercer 1
All Keyed Up Christopher, Matt 1
All My Toys Are On The Floor Blocksma, M. 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 3
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
All New Jonah Twist Honeycutt, N. 3
Alligator Shoes Dorros, Arthur 1
Alligator With The Lean Mean Smile Nordlicht, Lillian 1
Alligators Gillespie, Katie 3
Alligators and Crocodiles Stone, Lynn 3
All-of-A-Kind Family Taylor, Sydney 4
Almost Starring Skinnybones Park, Barbara 4
Along the Dangerous Trail Gutman, Bill 4
Alpha Kids Series Sundance Publishers K
Alphabatics MacDonald, Suse 1
Always Inventing: The True Story of Thomas Alva Edison Murphy, Frank 2
Always Room for One More Leodhas, Sorche Nic 2
Amanda Pig & Her Big Brother Oliver Van Leeuwen, Jean 1
Amazing Bats Greenway, Frank 3
Amazing Bears Greenway, T. 3
Amazing Birds Parsons, Alexandra 3
Amazing Bone Steig, William 3
Amazing Butterflies and Moths Still, John 3
Amazing Crocodiles and Reptiles Ling, Mary 3
Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, The Mazer, Anne 3
Amazing Gorillas! (BOE approved Nov 2015) Thomson, Sarah L. 1
Amazing Lizards Smith, Trevor 3
Amazing Mark Supraner, Robyn 1
Amazing Monkeys Steedman, Scott 3
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 4
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Amazing Power of Ashur Fine, The Sobol, Donald 4
Amazing Rescues Shea, George 2
Amazing Sharks Thomson, Sarah L. 1
Amazing Snakes Parsons, Alexandra 3
Amazing Spiders Parsons, Alexandra 3
Amazing World of Butterflies and Moths Sabin, Louis 3
Amazing World of Spiders Craig, Janet 2
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon Danziger, Paula 2
Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Ryan, Pam Munoz 4
Amelia Bedelia Series Parish, Peggy and Herman 1
American Flag Kissock, Heather K
American Girls Series Shaw-Adler-Tripp 4
American Holiday (10 book set) (BOE Approved Nov 2014) Nelson, Robin 1
Amigo Baylor, Byrd 2
Amigo Means Friend Everett, Louise 1
Aminal, The Balian, Lorna & Lecia 1
Among the Hidden, 1998* Haddix, Margaret Peterson 4
Amos & Boris Steig, William 2
Amos Fortune, Free Man Yates, Elizabeth 5
Amphibians Zayarny, Jack 3
Amphibians Are Animals Holloway, Judith K
An Elf for Christmas Hollands, Judith 2
An Even Break Hite, Sid 5
An Extraordinary Egg Lionni, Leo K
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 5
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Anansi the Spider McDermott, G. 2
Anastasia Krupnik Lowry, Lois 3
Anazi & The Moss-Covered Rock Kimmel, Eric 1
And I Mean It, Stanley Bonsall, Crosby 1
And Now Miguel Krumgold, Joseph 5
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? Fritz, Jean 4
And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry St. Seuss, Dr. 1
Andromeda Rose, Simon 3
Andy Pig's Great Flying Adventure Koci, Marta 1
Anelina Ballerina Holabird, Katharine 2
Angel Child, Dragon Child Surat, Michele Marie 2
Angus Series Flack, Marjorie 1
Animal Ark Series Baglio, Ben 2
Animal Defenses Grambo, Rebecca 3
Animal Families Feinstein, J. 1
Animal Inn Vail, Virginia 3
Animal Strike at the Zoo Wilson, Karma K
Animal, the Vegetable & John D. Jones Byars, Betsy 4
Animals Carle, Eric K
Animals At Night Peters, Ralph K
Animals Should Definitely Not Act Like People Barrett, Judi 1
Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing Barrett, Judi 1
Anna Banana And Me Blegvad, Lenore 1
Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner Schwartz, Amy 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 6
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Anna's Garden Songs Steele, Mary Q. 2
Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, Lucy Maud 5
Annie and the Old One Miles, Miska 2
Annie Bananie Komaiko, Leah 1
Anno's Journey (BOE approved Nov 2015) Anno, Mitsumasa K
Another Point of View Series The Little Red Hen/ Help
Yourself Little Red HenGranowsky, Alvin 2
Ant and The Dove, The Aesop 1
Ant and the Grasshopper, The: An Aesop's Fable (BOE approved Nov 2015)
Paxton, Tom K
Antarctica Aspen-Baxter, Linda 3
Antarctica Cowcher, Helen 2
Antarctica Land of Endless Water George, Michael 3
Anteater Named Arthur Waber, Benard 2
Ants Siemens, Jared K
Apple Tree, Apple Tree Blocksma, Mary 1
April Rabbits Cleveland, David 1
April’s Kitten Newberry, Clare 2
Apt. 3 Keats, Ezra Jack 2
Arctic and Antarctic Regions Sabin, Francene 4
Are You There Bear? Maris, Ron 1
Armies of Ants Retan, Walter 2
Arthur Meets the President Brown, Marc 2
Arthur Series Brown, Marc 1
Arthur Series Hoban, Lillian 1
Arthur’s Teacher Trouble Brown, Marc 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 7
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Arthur's Birthday Brown, Marc 2
Arthur's Pet Business Brown, Marc 2
Asia Aspen-Baxter, Linda 3
Ask Mr. Bear Flack, Marjorie 1
Astronaut Kissock, Heather K
At Ellis Island: A History in Many Voices (BOE approved Nov 2015)Peacock, Louise 3
At Home in the Rain Forest (BOE Approved April 2013) Willow, Diane 2
At Mary Bloom's Aliki 1
At the Seashore Schwartz, David M. 3
Atlantis, The Lost City Donklin, Andrew 4
Attaboy, Sam! Lowry, Lois 2
Aunt Clara Brown, Official Pioneer Lowery, Linda 3
Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky Ringgold, Faith 5
Australia Hudak, Heather 3
Australia Santrey, Laurence 2
Autumn Leaves are Falling Fleming, Maria K
Autumn Street Lowry, Lois 5
Avalanche Roth, Arthur 4
Avalanche! Hopping, Lorraine Jean 2
Avalanches Kopp, Megan 3
Babar and The Ghost Brunhoff, Laurent de 1
Babe: The Gallant Pig King-Smith, Dick 2
Baby Alligator Clarke, Ginger L. 3
Baby Animals Kuchalla, Susan K
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 8
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Baby Animals Learn Chanko, Pamela 1
Baby Whales Drink Milk Esbensen, Barbara Juster K
Baby Who Got All the Blame, The Nelson, JoAnne 2
Baby Zoo Animals Kaufman, Elizabeth 2
Babysitters Little Sister #1 “Karen’s Witch” Martin, Ann M. 3
Babysitting Is A Dangerous Job Roberts, Willo Davis 5
Back to Paul Revere Gormley, Beatrice 4
Back to the Day Lincoln was Shot Gormley, Beatrice 4
Back Yard Tent Daniel, Kira 1
Backyard Players Present: Abracadabra, The Spencer, Bevin Rolfs 4
Bad Bear Ahlberg, Allan. 1
Bad Case of Stripes, A Shannon, David K
Badger in the Basement Baglio, Ben 4
Bag Full of Pups Gackenbach, Dick 1
Bag of Smiles, The Cowley, Joy 1
Bah! Humbug? Balian, Lorna 2
Bald Eagle Kissock, Heather K
Ballad of the Civil War, A Stolz, Mary 3
Balto and the Great Race Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody 3
Banana Twist Heide, Florence Parry 4
Banza Wolkstein, Diane 2
Barefoot – Escape on the Underground Railroad Duncan, Pamela 3
Barn Cat Saul, Carol P. K
Barn, The 1994 Avi 3
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 9
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Barnetts, The Eggleton, Jill 1
Barry the Bravest Saint Bernard Hall, Lynn 2
Bartholomew and The Oobleck Seuss, Dr. 1
Baseball Kissock, Heather K
Baseball Ballerina Cristaldi, Kathryn 1
Baseball Counting Book, The McGrath, Barbara Barbieri 2
Baseball Saved Us Mochizuki, Ken 3
Basil Series Titus, Eve 2
Basketball Kissock, Heather K
Bat Loves the Night (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Davies, Nicola 2
Bat Zamboree Appelt, Kathi 2
Bats Althea 1
Battle of the Class Clowns Baer, Jacqueline A. 2
Battles of Lexington and Concord, The Peacock, Judith 4
Be A Perfect Person In Just 3 Days Manes, Stephen 3
Bea & Mr.Jones Schwartz, Amy 2
Bear and the Fly, The Winter, Paula K
Bear Ate Your Sandwich, The (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Sarcone-Roach, Julia K
Bear Called Paddington Bond, Michael 3
Bear Facts Gentner, Norma L. 1
Bear Shadow Asch, Frank K
Bear’s Busy Year, 1990 Leonard, Marcia K
Bear’s New Friend Wilson, Karma K
Beardance Hobbs, Will 4
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 10
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Bears Gillespie, Katie 3
Bears Krauss, Ruth 1
Bears Kuchalla, Susan K
Bears 1,2,3 Ziefert, Harriet 1
Bears Are Curious Milton, Joyce 1
Bears on Hemlock Mountain Dalgliesh, Alice 2
Bears, Bears and More Bears Morris, Jackie 1
Bears, Bears Everywhere Connelly, Luella 1
Bears's Toothache McPhail, David 1
Bearstone Hobbs, Will 4
Beast & The Halloween Horror Giff, Patricia Reilly 2
Beast in Ms Rooney's Room, The Giff, Patricia Reilly 2
Beast in the Bathtub Stevens, Kathleen 1
Beats Me, Claude Nixon, Joan Lowery 2
Beautiful Christmas Tree Zolotow, Charlotte 3
Beauty and the Beast Various Authors 3
Because of Mr. Terupt Buyea, Rob 3
Because of Winn Dixie DiCamillo, Kate 3
Becoming Naomi Leon Ryan, Pam Munoz 4
Bedtime for Bear Stoddard, Sandol 1
Bedtime For Frances Hoban, Russell K
Beetles Watts, Barrie 1
Beetles, Lightly Toasted Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds 5
Beezus & Ramona Cleary, Beverly 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 11
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Begin at the Beginning Schwartz, Amy 1
Behavior Goldsworthy, Steve 3
Behind Rebel Lines Reit, Seymour 5
Behind the Attic Wall Cassidy, Sylvia 5
Ben and Me Lawson, Robert 3
Ben and The Bear Riddell, Chris 1
Ben and the Porcupine Carrick, Carol 3
Ben Franklin and the Magic Square Murphy, Frank 2
Benjamin & Tulip Wells, Rosemary 2
Benjamin Blair and the Case of the Missing Noun Hound Slocum, Allie 1
Benjamin Franklin Davidson, Margaret 4
Benjamin Franklin Roop, Peter and Connie 3
Benji the Bug Olson, Marjorie 1
Benjy & the Power of Zingies Van Leeuwen, Jean 4
Benny's Bad Day Pellowski, Michael 1
Berenstain Bear Series Berenstain, Stan 1
Berenstain Bear’s New Pup, The Berenstain, Stan K
Berenstain Bears' Trouble with Money, The (BOE approved Nov 2015)
Berenstain, Stan & Jan 1
Bermuda Triangle Donkin, Andrew 3
Bess’s Log Cabin Quilt Love, D. Anne 3
Best Bug Parade, The Murphy Stuart Y. 1
Best Castle Ever, The Ziefert, Harriet 1
Best Christmas Pageant Ever Robinson, Barbara 3
Best Dressed Bear, The Blocksma, Mary 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 12
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Best Enemies Leverich, Kathleen 2
Best Friends Albright, Molly 3
Best Friends Hollaner, Cass 2
Best Friends Kellogg, Steven 2
B-e-s-t Friends Giff, Patricia Reilly 2
Best Little Monkeys in the World Standiford, Natalie 1
Best Teacher in the World Chardie, Bernice 2
Best Thanksgiving Book Whitehead, Patricia 1
Best Town in the World, The Baylor, Byrd 2
Betsy & the Circus Haywood, Carolyn 2
BFG Dahl, Roald 3
Big Bad Bruce Peet, Bill 3
Big Balloon Race Coerr, Eleanor 1
Big Bird Says Lerner, Sharon 1
Big Block of Chocolate, The Redhead, Janet 1
Big Bunny & the Magic Show Kroll, Steven 3
Big City PortMasestro, Betsy
Delvecchio, Ellen2
Big Fat Enormous Lie Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman 1
Big Fat Hen Daxer, Keith 1
Big Fat Pie Edwards, Pat 1
Big Mamma's Crews, Donald 2
Big Max Platt, Kin 1
Big Orange Splot Pinkwater, D. Manus 1
Big Red Kjelgaard, Jim 4
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 13
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Big Red Apple Johnston, Tony K
Big Red Barn Brown, Margaret Wise 1
Big Shark’s Lost Tooth Metzger, Steve K
Big Snow, The Hader, Berta K
Big Something, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Giff, Patricia Reilly 1
Big Tree Buff, Conrad 5
Big Wave, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Buck, Pearl S. 3*
Bigger Giant, The Green, Nancy 2
Biggest Bear, The Ward, Lynd 1
Biggest Cookie in the World, The Hayward, Linda 1
Biggest Pumpkin Ever Kroll, Steven 3
Bill and Pete dePaola, Tomie 1
Bill Peet: an autobiography Peet, Bill 5
Billy Jo Jive, Super Private Eye Shearer, John 2
Billy the Bird King-Smith, Dick 2
Bingo Brown & The Language of Love Byars, Betsy 5
Binky Bros, Detectives Lawrence, James 1
Binky Brothers & the Fearless Four Lawrence, James 3
Bird Siemens, Jared K
Bird Watch Jennings, Terry K
Birds Canizares, Susan 1
Birds Goldsworthy, Steve 3
Birds Kuchalla, Susan K
Birds (Now I Know) Kuchalla, Susan 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 14
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Birds Nests Curran, Eileen K
Birds-Life Cycle Books Braithwaite, Althea 1
Birthday Present for Mama Lorian, Nicole 1
Bison Siemens, Jared K
Bison Tomlijanovic, Tatiana 3
Black Bear Adventures Hansen, Mary Lewis 3
Black Beauty Sewell, Anna 4
Black Pearl O'Dell, Scott 5
Black Stallion Farley, Walter 4
Black Star, Bright Dawn* O'Dell, Scott 5
Blackberries in the Dark Jukes, Mavis 3
Blackbird's Nest Harvey, Olive 1
Blair's Nightmare Snyder, Zilpha Keatley 5
Blind Flight Milton, Hilary 3
Blind Outlaw Rounds, Glen 3
Blizzard! Snowstorm Fury Turck, Mary C. 2
Blizzard’s Wake Reynolds Naylor, Phyllis 5
Blizzards Wiseman, Blaine 3
Blood Brothers: Four Men of Science Sterne, Emma Gelders 5
Blood on the River (BOE Approved Nov 2014) Carbone, Elisa 5
Blubber Blume, Judy 4
Blue and the Gray, The Bunting, Eve 5
Blue Hill Meadows, The Rylant, Cynthia 2
Blue or Gray? A Family Divided Connell, Kate 5
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 15
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Blue Ridge Summer Naice, M. 4
Blue Willow Gates, Doris 5
Blueberries For Sal McCloskey, Robert 1
BMX Hudak, Heather 3
Boa Constrictors Bargar & Johnson 2
Boat to Nowhere Wartski, Maureen Crane 5
Bobbsey Twins, Mystery On the Mississippi Hope, Laura Lee 3
Bobby's Zoo Lunn, Carolyn 1
Bobsledding and the Luge Brimner, Larry Dane 2
Body Facts Drew, David 2
Body Maps Drew, David 3
Bollo Caper Buchwald, Art 5
Bony-Legs Cole, Joanna 1
Book About Planets & Stars Reigot, Betty Polisar 2
Book About Your Skeleton, A Gross, Ruth Belor 4
Book of Animal Records, The Drew, David 1
Book Report from the Black Lagoon (BOE approved April 2014) Thaler, Mike 1
Boom Town, 1998 Levitin, Sonia K
Boreal Forests Miller-Schroeder, Patricia 3
Borrowers, The Norton, Mary 4
Boss For a Week Handy, Libby 2
Boston Coffee Party, The Rappaport, Doreen 3
Boston Tea Party, The Furstinger, Nancy 4
Boxcar Children Warner, Gertrude Chandler 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 16
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Boy and the Ghost, The San Souci, Robert 2
Boy in the Doghouse, A , (1991) Duffey, Betsy 2
Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Littledale, Freya 2
Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, The; Young Readers Edition (BOE Approved Apr 2016)
Kamkwamba, William 4
Boy Who Remembered Everything Abbott, Jennie 5
Boy who Saved Baseball, The Ritter, John 4
Boy Who Spoke Chimp, The Yolen, Jane 3
Boy Who Wanted a Family, The Gordon, Shirley 3
Brady Fritz, Jean 5
Brain on Quartz Mountain Anderson, Margaret 3
Brave Irene Steig, William 3
Brave Little Steam Shovel Evers, Alf 1
Bravest Blacksmith, The Owens, Thomas 3
Bravest Cat!, The The True Story of Scarlett Driscoll, Laura 1
Bravest Dog Ever, The Standiford, Natalie 1
Bread & Butter Journey Colver, Anne 3
Bread and Jam for Frances Hoban, Russell 2
Breadwinner, The Ellis, Deborah 5
Bremen-Town Musicians Gross, Ruth Belov 1
Brian's Winter Paulsen, Gary 5
Bridge to Terabithia Paterson, Katherine 5
Bright Freedom's Song Houston, Gloria 5
Brighty of the Grand Canyon Henry, Marguerite 5
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Aardema, Verna 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 17
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Broccoli Tapes, The Slepian, Jan 3
Broderick Ormondroyd, Edward 2
Brontosaurus Redhead, J. 2
Brown Bear, Brown Bear Martin, Bill 1
Bubba: The Cowboy Prince Ketteman, Helen 3
Bubblegum Jorgensen, Gail 1
Buck Stops Here Provensen, Alice 2
Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express Coerr, Eleanor 2
Buffalo Hunt Freedman, Russell 4
Buffalo Knife Steele, William O. 3
Bugs McKissack, Pat Fredrick 1
Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! Dussling, Jennifer 2
Buildings Chessen, Betsy K
Bulb, The Garrard, Ian 1
Bull Run Fleischman, Paul 5
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! Fritz, Jean 5
Bully of Barkham Street Stolz, Mary 5
Bully Trouble Cole, Joanna 2
Bumblebees Siemens, Jared K
Bumps In The Night Allard, Harry 2
Bunches & Bunches of Bunnies Mathews, Louise 1
Bunnicula Howe, James 2
Bunny Trouble Wilhelm, Hans 1
Bunny Who Found Easter Zolotow, Charlotte 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 18
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Buried Bones Mystery, The (Clubhouse Mysteries #1)(BOE Approved Nov 2014)
Draper, Sharon M. 3
Buried City of Pompeii, The Tanaka, Shelly 4
Burning Questions of Bingo Brown, The Byars, Betsy 5
Buster Loves Buttons! Manushkin, Fran 1
Buster’s Dino Dilemma Brown, Marc 2
Busy Beavers Dabcovich, Lydia 1
Busybody Nora Hurwitz, Johanna 2
But Names Will Never Hurt Me Waber, Bernard 3
But Not Like Mine Facklam, Margery 1
But Not Stanleigh Cloven, George 1
Butter Battle Book, The Suess, Dr. 1
Butterflies Braithwaite, Althea 1
Butterflies and Moths Bailey, Donna 1
Butterfly Canizares, Susan 1
Butterfly Siemens, Jared K
Butterfly, The Nash, Pamela 1
Buttermilk Cosgrove, Stephen 3
Button Box, The Reid, Margarette 2
Button Soup Disney, Walt K
Buz Egielski, Richard 2
Buzz Buzz Buzz Barton, Byron 1
Buzz Said the Bee Lewison, Wendy K
C is for Colorado Shirley, Gayle 1
C.O.L.A.R. Slote, Alfred 4
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 19
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Cabin Faced West Fritz, Jean 5
Cabin in Cripple Creek, A Luxa, Sue 4
Cacti Rae, Rowena 3
Cactus Hotel Guiberson, Brenda 1
Caddie Woodlawn Brink, Carol 4
Cake That Mack Ate Robart, Rose 1
Caleb & Kate Steig, William 2
Caleb's Story (BOE Approved November 2014) MacLachlan, Patricia 2
Call it Courage Sperry, Armstrong 4
Cam Jansen Series Adler, David 2
Camouflage Zayarny, Jack 3
Can We Be Friends? Wright, Alexandra 3
Can We Get That Here? Foley, Donna 2
Can You Hear a Shout in Space? Questions and Answers
About Space ExplorationBerger, Melvin and Gilda 4
Can You Hear Me, Grandad? Thomson, Pat 1
Can’t You Sleep, Little Bear Waddell, Martin 2
Canada Canizares, Susan 1
Canada Geese Quilt, The Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie 3
Candy Corn Contest, The Giff, Patricia Reilly 2
Can't You Make them Behave King George? Fritz, Jean 3
Caps for Sale Slobodkina, Esphyr 1
Caps, Hats, Socks & Mittens Borden, Louise 1
Captive Indian Boy Hafer, Flora Van Buren 4
Captive, The Hansen, Joyce 5
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 20
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Capybobby Peet, Bill 2
Carnival Burden-Patmon, Denise 2
Carnivorous Plants Willis, John 3
Carol Reef Hideway-The Story of a Clown Anemonefish Boyle, Doc 3
Carrot Seed, TheKrauss, Ruth and
Johnson, Crockett1
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Latham, Jean Lee 5
Cars Rockwell, Anne 1
Cartoon World of Jeff Kinney, The Webster, Christine 3
Case of the Cat's Meow Bonsall, Crosby 2
Case of the Cool Itch Kid Giff, Patricia Reilly 2
Case of the Dumb Bells Bonsall, Crosby 2
Case of the Hungry Stranger Bonsall, Crosby 2
Case of the Lost Boy, The (BOE Approved April 2014) Hillestad Butler, Dori 2
Case of the Lost Lookalike Farley, Carol 5
Case of The Missing Cat Palazzo-Craig, Janet 2
Case of the Missing Dinosaur Brandt, Keith 3
Case of the Nervous Newsboy Hildick, E. W. 4
Case of the Scaredy Cats Bonsall, Crosby Newell 1
Case of the Two Masked Robbers, The Hoban, Lillian K
Casey Jones York, Carol Beach 2
Cassie Binegar MacLachlan, Patricia 5
Castle in the Attic Winthrop, Elizabeth 4
Cat Nugent, Samantha K
Cat Ate My Gymsuit Danziger, Paula 5
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 21
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Cat In The Hat Suess, Dr. 1
Cat In The Hat Comes Back Suess, Dr. 1
Cat Walk Stolz, Mary 3
Cat Who Went to Heaven, The Coatsworth, Elizabeth 3
Cat’s Burglar, The Parish, Peggy 2
Caterpillar and th Polliwog, The Kent, Jack 1
Catwings LeGuin, Ursula 2
Cave Boy Dubowski, Cathy 2
Caves Banting, Erinn 3
Cay Taylor,. Theodore 5
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day-Dreaming of Change Kupperstein, Joel K
Celebrating Presidents’ DayJardano, Kimberly & Callella-
Jones, TrishaK
Celebrating Thanksgiving Kupperstein, Joel K
Celebrating the Powwow Kalman, Bobbie 1
Celery Stalks at Midnight Howe, James 3
Cells and Systems Wallace, Holly 5
Centipedes Siemens, Jared K
Chains (BOE Approved October 2011) Halse Anderson, Laurie 5
Chair for My Mother Williams, Vera 1
Chalk Box Kid, The Bulla, Clyde Robert 2
Champ On Ice Peters, Sharon 1
Changes Creyling 3
Changes in Latitudes Hobbs, Will 5
Changes, Changes Hutchins, Pat K
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 22
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Changing Seasons Greydanus, Donald K
Chaparrals De Medeiros, Michael 3
Character Education Series Various Authors K
Charley Skedaddle Beatty, Patricia 5
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dahl, Roald 3
Charlie and The Great Glass Elevator Dahl, Roald 5
Charlie Brown Series Schulz, Charles 1
Charlie Needs A Cloak dePaola, Tomie 1
Charlie’s Raven George, Jean Craighead 4
Charlotte Sometimes Farmer, Penelope 4
Charlotte's Web White, E.B. 3
Chasing Verneer Balliett, Blue 4
Cherries and Cherry Pits Williams, Vera 2
Chester Cricket's New Home Selden, George 5
Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride Selden, George 2
Chester The Wordly Pig Peet, Bill 2
Chick and the Duckling Ginsburg, Mirra 1
Chick Challenge Baglio, Ben 3
Chick That Wouldn’t Hatch, The Daniel, Claire 1
Chicken Forgets Miles, Miska 1
Chicken Little Kellogg, Steven 1
Chicken Pox Party, The Wyeth, Sharon Dennis 2
Chicken Soup with Rice Sendak, Maurice 1
Chicken Squad, The Cronin, Doreen 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 23
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Chickens Siemens, Jared K
Chicken's Aren't the Only Ones Keller, Ruth 1
Child of the Silent Night Hunter, Edith 4
Children Around the World Wilkins, Verna K
Children Of Green Knowe Boston, Lucy M. 5
Child's Garden of Verses, A Stevenson, Robert 3
Chinese New Year Siemens, Jared K
Chinese New Year's Dragon Sing, Rachel 2
Chisholm Trail, The Mercati, Cynthia 4
Chocolate Fever Smith, Robert Kimmel 3
Chocolate Touch Catling, Patrick 3
Choose Your Own Adventure Series Various Authors 2
Christmas Carol Dickens, Charles 5
Christmas Cup, The Patterson, Nancy Ruth 3
Christmas Secret Lexau, Joan 2
Christmas with Ida Early Burch, Robert 5
Christopher Columbus Krensky, Stephen 1
Christopher Columbus McGavern, Ann 3
Chronicles of Narnia Lewis, C. S. 5
Chrysanthemum Henkes, Kevin 2
Cinco de Mayo Carr, Aaron K
Cinco de Mayo Tait, Leia 3
Cinderella Karlin, Barbara 2
Cinderella McKissack, Pat 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 24
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Cinder-Ella Minters, Frances 2
Cinderhazel: The Cinderella of Halloween Lattimore, Deborah Nourse 3
Circle of Gold Boyd, Candy Dawson 4
Circus Days Pare, Roger 1
City Mouse, Country Mouse Wallner, John 1
City of Ember, The DuPrau, Jeanne 4
City Rhythms Nayer, Judy 2
City Storm Parker, Mary 2
Clara and the Book Wagon Levison, Nancy 2
Class Clown Hurwitz, Johanna 3
Class President Hurwitz, Johanna 3
Claude the Dog Gackenbach, Dick 1
Clean House for Mole & Mouse, A Ziefert, Harriet 1
Clementine Pennypacker, Sara K
Clifford Series Bridwell, Norman 1
Cloud Book dePaola, Tomie 2
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Barrett, Judi 1
Clownfish Kissock, Heather K
Clue at the Zoo, The Giff, Patricia Reilly 1
Clue Junior “The Case of the Chocolate Fingerprints” Hinter, Parker 3
Clues in the Woods Parish, Peggy 1
Coal Daly, Ruth 3
Cobras Bargar & Johnson 2
Cock-a-doodle-hoooooo! Manning, Mick K
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 25
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Collecting Things Is Fun! Graves, Kimberly 1
Columbus Day Carr, Aaron K
Come Away from the Water, Shirley (BOE approved Nov 2015) Burningham, John K
Come On Up! Kim, Joy K
Come Out & Play Little Mouse Kraus, Robert 1
Comeback Dog Thomas, Jane Resh 4
Comets and Meteor Showers Sipiera, Paul 2
Commander Toad Series Yolen, Jane 2
Communities All Over Foley, Donna K
Conquistadores: Building a Spanish Empire in the Americas,
The Stein, Conrad 5
Cookies Week Ward, Cindy 1
Copperheads Bargar, Sherie 2
Coral Reef Berger, Melvin 3
Corduroy Freeman, Don 1
Corn Raid, The (A Story of the Jamestown Settlement) Collier, James Lincoln 5
Cougars Tomlijanovic, Tatiana 3
Could Be Worse Stevenson, James 1
Counting Is For The Birds Mazzola, Frank Jr. 3
Country Mouse and City Mouse McKissack, Pat 1
Courage of Sarah Noble, The Dalgliesh, Alice 3
Cows Siemens, Jared K
Crabs Kissock, Heather K
Crack-Of-Dawn Walkers Hest, Amy 3
Crane Wife, The Yagawa, Sumiko 3
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 26
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Crash, Bang, Boom Spier, Peter 2
Cream of Creature from the School Cafeteria Thaler, Mike 2
Creature Features Jenkins, Steve & Page, Robin K
Creepy Crawlies A to Z Aisworth, Louisa 1
Cricket in Times Square Selden, George 3
Crictor Ungerer, Tom 2
Crisis in Space Apollo 13 Beyer, Mark 4
Crocodile Beat Jorgensen, Gail 1
Crocodiles and Alligators Seventy, V. 1
Cross Country Cat Calhoun, Mary 1
Crow Boy Yashima, Taro 2
Crystals Rose, Simon 3
Cub in the Cupboard Baglio, Ben 4
Cuckoo Clock Cuckoo, The Fuchshuber, Annegert 2
Curious George Series Rey, H.A. & M. 1
Custard Kid, The Deary, Terry 3
Cybil War Byars, Betsy 5
Cygnus the Swan Rose, Simon 3
Dabcovich, Lydia D'adamo, Francesco 5
Dakota Dugout Turner, Ann 1
Dance Away Aruego, Jose 1
Dancing Teepees Sneve, Virginia 2
Dancing with Manatees McNulty, Faith 3
Dandelion Freeman, Don 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 27
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Dandelions Bunting, Eve 2
Danger on Midnight River Paulsen, Gary 3
Danger On Panther Peak Wallace, Bill 5
Danger! Volcanoes Simon, Seymour K
Dangerous Promise, A - The Orphan Train Adventure Nixon, Joan Lowry 5
Daniel's Duck Bulla, Clyde Robert 1
Danny and the Dinosaur Hoff, Syd 1
Daphne's Book Hahn, Mary 5
Dar Tellum:Stranger from a Distant Planet Berry, James 3
Daring Resue of Marlon the Swimming Pig, The Saunders, Susan 2
Dark and Full of Secrets Carrick, Carol 3
Dark Dark Tale Brown, Ruth 1
David’s Journey on the Underground Railroad Sibley, Linda 4
Day at Greenhill Farm, A Nicholson, Sue 1
Day It Snowed Tortillas, The Hayes, Joe 4
Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash Noble, Trinka Hakes 1
Day of the Blizzard (BOE Approved November 2014) Moskin, Marieta 2
Day The Teacher Went Bananas, The Howe, James 1
Day We Walked on the Moon, The Sullivan, George 4
Day you Begin, The Woodson, Jacqueline K
Days With Frog and Toad Lobel, Arnold 1
Deadly Powers of Medusa Osborne, Will 4
Deadly Promise, A Nixon, Joan Lowery 5
Dear America Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie Gregory, Kristiana 4
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 28
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Dear America My America – The Starving Time Hermes, Patricia 3
Dear America Our Strange New Land Hermes, Patricia 3
Dear Garbage Man Zion, Gene 2
Dear Levi (Letters From the Overland Trail) Woodruff, Elvira 2
Dear Mr. Henshaw Cleary, Beverly 4
Death in the Afternoon, 1996 Chester, Kate 5
Debra Sampson Goes to War Stevens, Bryna 3
December Secrets Giff, Patricia Reilly 2
Deciduous Forests Hurtig, Jennifer 3
Decomposers Lappi, Megan 3
DeDe Takes Charge Hurwitz, Johanna 2
Deep in the Forest Turkle, Brinton 1
Deer Webster, Christine 3
Denver Days Luxa, Sue 4
Deputy Dan and the Bank Robbers Rosenbloom, Joseph 2
Deserts Banting, Erinn 3
Destination Everest Glenn, Karen 2
Destination: Antarctica Swan, Robert 5
Diagnostic System, The Stille, Darlene R. 2
Diary of a Sunflower (BOE Approved April 2014) Pugliano, Carol 2
Diary of a Worm Cronin, Doreen K
Dick Whittington Brown, Marcia 3
Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? Caudill, Rebecca 4
Did You Ever See? Einsel, Walter 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 29
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Did You Hear That? Blocksma, Mary 1
Did You Know? Hill, Sandi 1
Diego Rivera Vasquez, Sarah 2
Dig a Dinosaur Gentner, Norma 1
Digby Shook Hazen, Barbara K
Digging Up Dinosaurs Aliki 2
Digging Up the Past (The Adventure of Wishbone) Sathre, Vivian 4
Dinner at Alberta's Hoban, Russell 1
Dinosaur Day Donnelly, Liza 1
Dinosaur Days Milton, Joyce 1
Dinosaur Dream Nolan, Dennis 2
Dinosaur Explorer Dixon, Dougal K
Dinosaur Garden Donnelly, Liza 1
Dinosaur Habitat Griffith, Helen 2
Dinosaur Hunters McMullan, Kate 2
Dinosaur Named Sue, A Robinson, Fay 2
Dinosaur Story Cole, Joanna 2
Dinosaur Time Parish, Peggy 2
Dinosaur Who Wouldn't Go to School Salmon, Michael 2
Dinosaurs Charlesworth, Liza 2
Dinosaurs Elting, Mary 1
Dinosaurs Alive and Well! Brown, Laurie & Marc 2
Dinosaurs Before Dark Osborne, Mary Pope 2
Dinosaurs Travel Brown, Laurie & Marc 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 30
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Dinosaurs, 1987 Gibbons, Gail K
Dinousaurs' Halloween Donnelly, Liza 1
Dirty Beasts Dahl, Roald 1
Disaster at Sea Donkin, Andrew 2
Discovery of the Americans, The Maestro, Betsy and Giulio 2
Dive! Berger, Melvin 3
Diving Dolphins Wallace, Karen 2
Do I Need It? Or Do I Want It?: Making Budget Choices(BOE approved Nov 2015)
Larson, Jennifer S. 2
Do Not Open Turkle, Brinton 2
Do Whales Have Belly Buttons? Berger, Melvin and Gilda 1
Do You Love Me? Gackenbach, Dick 2
Do You Want to be My Friend? Carle, Eric K
Doctor DeSoto Steig, William 1
Does 3rd Grade Last Forever? Schanback, Mindy 2
Dog Siemens, Jared K
Dog on Barkham Street Stolz, Mary 3
Dog That Pitched a No-Hitter, The Christopher, Matt 2
Dogsong Paulsen, Gary 5
Doll Bones (BOE Approved April 2014) Black, Holly 5
Dollhouse Murders, The Wright, Betty Ren 4
Dolphin Morris, Robert 1
Dolphin Named Bob, A George, Twig C. 3
Dolphin Treasure (BOE Approved November 2014) Grover, Wayne 2
Dolphins Berger, Melvin 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 31
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Dolphins Bokoske, Sharon 1
Dolphins Siemens, Jared K
Dolphins and Porpoises Gordon, Sharon 1
Dolphins at Daybreak Osborne, Mary Pope 2
Don’t Call Me Beanhead! Wejciechowski, Susan 2
Donkey's Tale Oppenheim, Joanne 1
Don't Make Me Smile Park, Barbara 4
Doodles of Sam Dibble, The Press, J 2
Door In the Wall de Angeli, Marguerite 5
Doorbell Rang Hutchins, Pat 1
Dorrie Series Coombs, Patricia 2
Double Dragon Trouble McMullan, Kate 3
Down By The Bay Raffi 1
Down on the Funny Farm King, Patrick 1
Dozen Dogs Ziefert, Harriet 1
Dr. Seuss's ABC Seuss, Dr. K
Dragon Granowsky, Alvin 1
Dragon Rider Funke, Cornelia 4
Dragonflies Siemens, Jared K
Dragonwings Yep, Laurence 5
Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building (BOE Approved Apr 2016)
Hale, Christy K
Drift Mayne, William 4
Drinking Gourd, The Monjo, F. N. 2
Drip Drop Gordon, Sharon 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 32
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Drita, My Homegirl Lombad, Jenny 3
Drop Dead Cunningham, Julia 5
Drummer Hoff Emberley, Barbara 1
Duck Lloyd, David 1
Ducks Siemens, Jared K
Each Orange Has Eight Slices Giganti, Paul K
Each Peach Pear Plum Ahlberg, Janet 1
Eagels Baker, Lucy 3
Eagle Feather Bulla, Clyde Robert 2
Eagles Gillespie, Katie 3
Early Thunder Fritz, Jean 5
Earth Brandt, Keith 2
Earth Kissock, Heather K
Earthquack! Palatini, Margie 1
Earthquakes Nault, Jennifer 3
Eating Ice Cream with a Werewolf Green, Phyllis 4
Echidna and the Shade Tree Lofts, Pamela 1
Eclipse Darkness In Daytime Branley, Franklyn Mansfield 2
Eddie's Happenings Haywood, Carolyn 3
Eddie's Menagerie Haywood, Carolyn 3
Eency Weency Spider Oppenheim, Joanne 1
Effles Bath Thompson, R. 1
Egypt Game, The Snyder, Zilpha Keatley 5
El Deafo Bell, Cece 5
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 33
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Eleanor Everywhere-The Life of Eleanore Roosevelt Kulling, Monica 2
Electricity and Magnetism Adamczyk, Peter 5
Elephant in Trouble Crawford, Thomas 1
Elephant is Child, The – Rudyard Kipling Medley, Linda, Ill. 1
Elephants (BOE Approved October 2011) Depree, Helen K
Elephants Can Paint Too! (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Arnold, Katya K
Elephants Swim Riley, Linda Capus K
Eli Peet, Bill 1
Elihu the Elephant Brennan, Gale 2
Ella Earns Her Own Money (BOE approved Nov 2015) Bullard, Lisa 1
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed (BOE approved Nov 2015) Chodos-Irvine, Margaret K
Ella the Bad Speller Kraus, Robert 2
Ellen Tebbitts Cleary, Beverly 2
Ellis Island Quiri, Patricia 2
Ellis Island (We the People: Modern America) (BOE approved Nov 2015)
Raatma, Lucia 3
Ellray Jakes Walks the Plank Warner, Sally 3
Elmer McKee, David K
Elmer And The Dragon Gannett, Ruth Stiles 2
Elves and the Shoemaker, The Littledale, Freya 1
Emil the Eagle LeFleur, Thomas 2
Emily's Runaway Imagination Cleary, Beverly 3
Emma Stevenson, Juliet 2
Emma's Christmas Trivas, Irene 3
Emma's Pet McPhail, David 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 34
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Emma's Poem Glasser, Linda 3
Emmett's Pig Stolz, Mary 2
Emperor's New ClothesAnderson, Hans Christian
Westcott, Nadine2
Empty Pot, The Demi 2
Empty School House Carlson, Natalie Savage 5
Encounter Yolen, Jane 5
Encyclopedia Brown Series Sobol, Donald 2
Endangered Animals-Zoobooks Wexo, John Bonnett 3
Enormous Crocodile Dahl, Roald 1
Enormous Egg, The Butterworth, Oliver 4
Enormous Turnip Hunia, Fran 1
Eruption! The Story of Volcanoes Ganeri, Anita 2
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library (BOE Approved November 2015)
Grabenstein, Chris 4*
Escape From Slavery:Five Journeys to Freedom Rappaport, Doreen 3
Escape on the Missouri Thomasma, Kenneth 3
Escape to Witch Mountain Key, Alexander 4
Esperanza Rising* Ryan, Pam Munoz 4
Euphonia and the Flood Calhoun, Mary 2
Europe Watson, Galadriel Findlay 3
Everest - Reaching for the Sky Masoff, Joy 2
Everett Anderson's Goodbye Clifton, Lucille K
Every Soul a Star Mass, Wendy 5
Everybody Needs A Rock Baylor, Byrd 1
Everybody Say Cheese Bates, Betty 4
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 35
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Everything on a Waffle Horvath, Polly 4
Excuses, Excuses Avitabile, Robert 1
Exploding Frog, The Aesop 1
Exploration and Conquest Maesto, Betsy and Giulio 4
Explorers from Columbus to Armstrong Everett, Felicity 4
Exploring and Mapping the Am. West Alter, Judy 4
Extreme Machines Maynard, Christopher 2
Extreme Sports Platt, Richard 4
Eye of the Needle Sloat, Teri 2
Fables Ginsburg, Mirra 3
Fables Lobel, Arnold 2
Fall Kissock, Heather K
Fallen Spaceman, The Harding, Lee 3
Families Share Williams, Roxanne Lanizak K
Family Apart, A Nixon, Joan Lowery 5
Family Groups Rose, Simon 3
Family Under the Bridge, The Carlson, Natalie Savage 4
Fancy Nancy at the Museum (BOE Approved April 2014) O'Conner, Jane K
Fanny Cosgrove, Stephen 3
Fantail, Fantail Mahy, Margaret 1
Fantastic Frogs Robinson, Fay K
Fantastic Mr. Fox Dahl, Roald 2
Fantastic Voyage* Asimov, Isaac 5
Far North* Hobbs, Will 4
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 36
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Farewell To Shady Glade Peet, Bill 3
Farmer In The Dell, The Rae, Mary Maki 1
Farming Gibbons, Gail 1
Farmyard Cat, The Anello, Christine 1
Fast Frog Ahlbert, Allan 1
Fat Cat Kent, Jack 2
Fat Cat Sat on the Mat, The Karlin, Nurit K
Fat Men From Space Pinkwater, Daniel 3
Father Fox's Pennyrhymes Watson, Clyde 2
Feathers For Lunch Ehlert, Lois K
Febold Feboldson- The Fix-it Farmer York, Carol Beach 2
Feeling Things Fowler, Allan 1
Felix and the 400 FrogsBurier, Jon and Schade,
Susan2
Ferrell Davis Peterson, Brian C. 4
Ferret Siemens, Jared K
Ferret in the Bedroom, Lizards in the Fridge Wallace, Bill 5
Fever 1793 Anderson, Laurie Halse 5
Fifth Grade Magic Gormley, Beatrice 5
Fighting Fish (Life Cycles) Schwartz, David M. 3
Fighting Ground, The Avi 5
Finding the Titanic Ballard, Robert D. 3
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous
Bear (BOE Approved Apr 2016)Mattick, Lindsay 4
Fir Tree, The Andersen, Hans Christian 3
Fire Fighter Royston, Angela 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 37
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Fire Flies Brinckloe, Julie 1
Fire Station, The Carr, Aaron K
Fire! Raging Destruction Bondar, Barbara 3
Fire, Fire, Said Mrs. McGuire Martin, Bill 1
Firefly Named Torchy Waber, Bernard 3
First American Colonies Oney, Yannick 2
First Clay Gathering, A Naranjo-Morse, N. 2
First Day Jitters Danneberg, Julie 2
First Dinosaurs, The Dixon, Dougal 2
First Experiences: Going to the Dentist Hewitt, Sally K
First Flight McPhail, David 2
First Flight Shea, George 2
First Passover, A Swartz, Leslie 2
First Snow McCully, Emily Arnold K
First Thanksgiving, The Hayward, Linda 1
Fish Nugent, Samantha K
Fish Zayarny, Jack 3
Fish in a Tree Hunt, Lynda Mullaly 3
Fishy Color Story Wylie, Joanne 1
Five Chinese Brothers, The Bishop, Claire Huchet 2
Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins Suess, Dr. 2
Five Little Ducks Raffl 1
Five Little Foxes & the Snow Johnston, Tony 1
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Christelow, Eileen 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 38
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Five Minutes Peace Murphy, Jill 1
Five Notable Inventors Hudson, Wade 5
Flag for Our Country, A Spencer, Eve 3
Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll Branley, Franklyn 2
Flat Stanley Brown, Jeff 1
Flight McDowell, Pamela 3
Flight of the White Wolf Ellis, Melvin Richard 5
Flight to Freedom Veciana-Suarez, Ana 5
Flip Series Dennis, Wesley 1
Floating in Space Branley, Franklyn M. 2
Floods Hopping, Lorraine Jean 2
Flora and Ulysses (BOE Approved November 2014) DiCamillo, Kate 3
Flotsam (BOE approved Nov 2015) Wiesner, David K
Flowers Braithwaite, Althea 1
Flunking of Joshua T. Bates Shreve, Susan 3
Flush Hiaasen, Carl 5
Flute’s Journey: The Life of a Wood Thrush Cherry, Lynne 2
Flutterby Cosgrove, Stephen 2
Fly Away Home Bunting, Eve 2
Flying Flea, Callie, and Me, The Wallace, Carol & Bill 3
Flying Saucer Full of Spaghetti, A Krahn, Fernando K
Flying Solo Fletcher, Ralph 5
Fog Magic Sauer, Julie 4
Follow a Raindrop: The Water Cycle Ward, Elsie 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 39
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Follow Me Ziefert, Harriet 2
Follow My Leader Garfield, James 4
Follow The Dream Sis, Peter 2
Following the Mystery Man Hahn, Mary Downing 5
Foolish Rabbit's Big Mistake Martin, Rafe 2
Football Kissock, Heather K
Football That Won, The Sampson, Michael 2
Footprints In The Sand Benjamin, Cynthia 1
For the Love of the Game – Michael Jordan & Me Greenfield, Eloise 3
Forces & Motion Trumbauer, Liza 3
Forecast Hall, Malcolm 2
Forests McClure, Jason 3
Forever Amber Brown Danziger, Paula 2
Forgetful Bears Weinberg, Larry 1
Forgetfuls Give a Wedding Weinberg, Larry 1
Forgotten Door Key, Alexander 5
Fossils Lappi, Megan 3
Fossils Tell of Long Ago Aliki 1
Foundling Fox Korshunow, Irina 2
Foundling, The Carrick, Carol 3
Four Black Puppies Grindley, Sally K
Four On The Shore Marshall, Edward 1
Four Scary Stories Johnston, Tony 1
Fourteenth Goldfish, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Holm, Jennifer 5
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 40
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Fourth Grade Celebrity Giff, Patricia Reilly 4
Fox and His Friends Series Marshall, Edward 1
Fox Be Nimble Marshall, James 1
Fox On the Box, The Gregorich, Barbara 1
Fox Went Out on Chilly Night Spier, Peter 1
Foxes Braithwaite, Althea 1
Foxes Yasuda, Anita 3
Foxes and Wolves Ripper, Charles 3
Fraction Fun Adler, David 3
Frances Series Hoban, Russell 1
Frankenstein Moved in on the 4th Floor Levy, Elizabeth 3
Franklin in the Dark Bourgeois, Paulette 1
Freaky Friday Rodgers, Mary 5
Freckle Juice Blume, Judy 2
Freddie's Spaghetti Doyle, Catherine 1
Frederick Lionni, Leo K
Frederick Douglass Patterson, Lillie 5
Free At Last Bull, Angela 3
Freedom Crossing Goff Clark, Margaret 5
Freedom Summer (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Wiles, Deborah 4
Freedom Train Sterling, Dorothy 5
Freight-Train Crews, Donald K
Fresh Waters Aspen-Baxter, Linda 3
Fried Feathers for Thanksgiving Stevenson, James 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 41
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Friend is Someone Who Likes You Anglund, Walsh 1
Friendly Book, The Brown, Margaret Wise 1
Friendly Snowman Gordon, Sharon 1
Friends Are a Special Part of Christmas Schulz, Charles 1
Friendship, The Taylor, Mildred 4
Friendship, The Wallace, B. 5
Frindle Clements, Andrew 3
Frog Siemens, Jared K
Frog & Toad Series Lobel, Arnold 1
Frog Goes to Dinner Mayer, Mercer K
Frog Prince Continued, The Scieszka, Jon 2
Frog Prince, The Tarcov, Edith 1
Frog Prince, The Wang, Mary Lewis 1
Frog Went A-Courtin' Langstaff, John 2
Frog, The Nash, Pamela 1
FrogsCanizares, Susan & Moreton,
Daniel1
Frog's Home Butterworth, C. 1
From Egg to Robin Canizares, Susan 1
From One to One Hundred Sloat, Teri 1
From Tadpole to Frog Kottke, Jan 1
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil Konigsburg, E. L. 5
Frosty the Snowman Bedford, Annie North K
Fruits Quinn, Lauren D. 3
Fudge-a-mania Blume, Judy 3
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 42
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Funny Feet Weiss, Leatie 1
Funny Fingers, Funny Toes Damon, Laura K
Funny Fish Story, A Wylie, Joanne 1
Funny Little Woman, The Mosel, Arlene 1
Funny Old Man And Funny Old Woman, The Barber, Martha 1
Funnybones Ahlberg, Allan 2
Fur Mark, Jan 1
Fury Witch Freeman, D. 2
Futuristic World of Suzanne Collins, The Kopp, Megan 3
Fuzzy Rabbit Billam, Rosemary 1
Gadget War, The Duffey, Betsy 2
Galactic Warlord Hill, Douglas 4
Game Design Austic, Greg 3
Gammage Cup, The Kendall, Carol 5
Garbage Juice for Breakfast Giff, Patricia Reilly 2
Garden For A Groundhog, A Balian, Lorna 2
Garden in My Mind, The McCumbee 3
Gas Giants, The Drew, David 3
Gases Siemens, Jared K
Gathering Of Days:New England Girls Journal* Blos, Joan 5
Gemstones Friesen, Helen Lepp 3
Gentle Ben Morey, Walt 5
George Konigsburg, E. L. 5
George & Martha Series Marshall, James 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 43
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George Bush-Story of 41st Presdent Sufrin, M. 4
George the Drummer Boy Benchley, Nathaniel 2
George Washington and the General’s Dog Murphy, Frank 1
George Washington Carver Eliot, T.S. 5
George Washington, Our First Leader Stevenson, Augusta 2
George Washington, Our First President Jackson, Garrett 3
George Washington, Soldier, Hero, President Fontes, Justine & Ron 2
George Washington, Young Leader Santrey, Laurence 3
George Washington's Breakfast Fritz, Jean 3
George Washington's Socks Woodruff, Elvira 4
George's Marvelous Medicine Dahl, Roald 3
Georgie Bright, Robert 1
Geraldine's Big Snow Keller, Holly 1
Germs Make Me Sick Berger, Melvin 1
Ghost Cadet Alphin, Elaine Marie 4
Ghost Canoe Hobbs, Will 4
Ghost in the Big Brass Bed Coville, Bruce 5
Ghost in the Third Row Coville, Bruce 5
Ghost Named Rhonda, A Greenburg, Dan 3
Ghost of Windy Hill Bulla, Clyde Robert 2
Ghost On The Hill Maccarone, Grace 3
Ghost Town Treasure Bulla, Clyde Robert 4
Ghost With The Halloween Hiccups, The Mooser, Stephen 2
Ghost Wore Gray, The Coville, Bruce 4
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 44
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Ghost-Eye TreeMartin, Bill & Archambault,
John2
Ghosts Beneath Our Feet Wright, Betty Ren 4
Ghosts of the White House Harness, Cheryl 3
Giant Dinosaurs Rowe, Erna 2
Giant Story Mouse Tale Fushchuber, A 1
Gift for Tia Rosa Taha, Karen 2
Gift Of The Sacred Dog Goble, Paul 3
Gingerbread Boy Galdone, Paul 1
Gingerbread Man Schmidt, Karen 1
Gingerbread Man, Loose in School, The (BOE Approved April 2013)
Murray, Laura K
Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, The Dahl, Roald 2
Girl Called Al, A Greene, Constance C. 3
Girl Named Helen Keller, A Lundell, Margo 2
Girl Who Knew It All Giff, Patricia Reilly 3
Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, The (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Goble, Paul 3
Girl Who Owned a City Nelson, O.T. 5
Girl With the Silver Eyes, The Roberts, Willo Davis 5
Giving Tree, The Silverstein, Shel 2
Glaciers Webster, Christine 3
Gloomy Gus the Hippopotamus Brennan, Gale 2
Glorious Flight: Across The Channel, The Provensen, Alice 4
Gnome from Nome, The Cosgrove, Stephen K
Go and Hush the Baby Byars, Betsy 1
Go Free or Die: A Story About Harriet Tubman Ferris, Jeri 5
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 45
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Go Tell Aunt Rhody Aliki K
Goat in the Garden Baglio, Ben 4
Goats Siemens, Jared K
Gobble, Growl, Grunt Spier, Peter 2
Godzilla Ate My Homework Jones, Marcia Thornton 2
Goggles Keats, Ezra Jack 1
Going West Van Leeuwen, Jean 2
Gold McClure, Jason 3
Gold Cadillac, The Taylor, Mildred 5
Gold Fever McMorrow, Catherine 2
Gold Rush – Life in the Old West, The Kalman, Bobbie 4
Golden Fleece & Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Colum, Padraic 4
Golden Goose Grimm Brothers 1
Goldilocks and the Three Bears Buehner, Caralyn K
Goldilocks and the Three Bears Marshall, James 1
Goliath Beetles Siemens, Jared K
Golly Sisters Go West Byars, Betsy 2
Gone Fishing Long, Earlene R. 1
Gone-Away Lake Enright, Elizabeth 4
Good Dog, The Avi 4
Good Hunting, Blue Sky Parish, Peggy 2
Good Morning, Chick Ginsburg, Mirra 1
Good News Brenner, Barbara 2
Good Work, Amelia Bedelia Parish, Peggy 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 46
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Good-Bye House Asch, Frank 1
Good-Bye, My Wishing Star Grove, Vicki 3
Goodnight Moon Brown, Margaret Wise 1
Goodnight Owl Hutchins, Pat 1
Goodnight, Goodnight Rice, Eve 2
Gooney Bird Greene Lowry, Lois 2
Gooseberry Park Rylant, Cynthia 3
Gorilla Browne, Anthony 2
Gorilla Did It, The Hazen, Barbara Shook 1
Gorillas Demuth, Patrica 2
Gorillas Simon, Seymour 3
Graduation of Jake Moon, The Park, Barbara 5
Grandpa, Grandpa Cowley, Joy K
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup Creech, Sharon 3
Grasshopper and Crickets Watts, Barrie 1
Grasshopper and the Ants Franklin, P. 2
Grasshoppers Siemens, Jared K
Grasslands Erlic, Lily 3
Gravity Whelan, Piper K
Gravity Is A Mystery Branley, Franklyn 2
Gray Boy Arnosky, Jim 4
Great Attitude, A Hill, Sandi 1
Great Big Enornous Turnip, The Tolstoy, Alexei 1
Great Brain Series Fitzgerald, John 4
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 47
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Great Cheese Conspiracy Van Leeuwen, Jean 4
Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper Van Leeuwen, Jean 4
Great Day For Up Suess, Dr. 1
Great Easter Egg Mystery Sabin, Fran 2
Great Gilly Hopkins Paterson, Katherine 5
Great Green Turkey Creek Monster Flora, James 1
Great Houdini – World Famous Magician and Escape Artist,
TheKulling, Monica 2
Great Race Of The Birds & Animals Goble, Paul 3
Great Seal Kissock, Heather K
Great Soap Bubble Ride Poskanser, Susan Cornell 1
Greatest Treasure, The Demi 2
Great-Grandpa’s in the Litter Box Greenburg, Dan 2
Greedy Cat Cowley, Joy 1
Greedy Goat Bolton, Faye 1
Greek Gods, The Evslin, Benard 4
Green Book Paton-Walsh, Jill 4
Green Book, The Walsh, Jill Paton 3
Green Eggs and Ham Suess, Dr. 1
Green Ghost of Appleville, The Marzollo, Jean 3
Green Lion of Zion Street, The Fields, Julia 2
Green Thumbs Everyone Giff, Patricia Reilly 1
Gregor the Overlander Collins, Suzanne 5
Gregory, the Terrible Eater Sharmat, Mitchell 1
Greg's Microscope Selsam, Millicent 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 48
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Grimm's Fairy Tales Kramer, Nora 4
Grizzly Johnson, Annabel and Edgar 5
Grizzwold Hoff, Syd 1
Grouchy Ladybug, The Carle, Eric 1
Grover Cleaver, Vera and Bill 5
Growing Up Feet Cleary, Beverly 1
Growing Vegetable Soup Ehlert, Lois 1
Growl! Berger, Melvin 2
Guinea Pig Siemens, Jared K
Guinea Pig Gang Baglio, Ben 3
Gum on The Drum, The Gregorich, Barbara 1
Guns for General Washington Reit, Seymour 5
Gus the Greedy Puppy Dale, Jenny 2
Gus Was a Real Dumb Ghost Thayer, Jane 2
Gus, A Beaver Highsmith Taylor, Bonnie 4
Gymnastics Kissock, Heather K
Halloween Dream Dolgin, Phyllis 1
Halloween Performance Bond, Felicia 1
Hamster Nugent, Samantha K
Hamster Hotel Baglio, Ben 3
Hang Tough, Paul Mather Slote, Alfred 4
Hangman's Ghost Trick Corbett, Scott 3
Hannah Whelan, Gloria 2
Hannah’s Journal Moss, Marissa 3
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 49
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Hansel & Gretel Gross, Ruth Belov 1
Hanukkah! Schotter, Roni 2
Happy , Happy Mother's Day Tripp, Valerie 1
Happy Birthday To You Suess, Dr. 1
Happy Birthday, Dear Duck Bunting, Eve 1
Happy Birthday, Dr. King! Jones, Kathryn D. 2
Happy Birthday, Moon Asch, Frank 1
Happy Day Kraus, Ruth 1
Happy Easter, Little Critter Mayer, Mercer 1
Happy Hippopotami Martin Jr, Bill 1
Happy Honey: The Best Fall of All Godwin, Laura K
Harbor Me Woodson, Jaqueline 4
Hard Gold: The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859 Avi 4
Hardy Boys Dixon, Franklin 4
Harold & the Dinosaur Mystery Frost, Erica 2
Harriet the Spy Fitzhugh, Louise 4
Harriet Tubman Sabin, Francene 5
Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Fox, Mem K
Harry & the Terrible Whatzit Gackenbach, Dick 1
Harry the Dog Series Zion, Gene 1
Harvey's Horrible Snake Disaster Clifford, Eth 2
Hatchet Paulsen, Gary 4
Hate that Cat Creech, Sharon 4
Hating Book Zolotow, Charlotte 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 50
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Hattie and the Fox Fox, Mem 1
Haunted House Parish, Peggy 1
Haunting of Cabin 13 Holl, Kristi 4
Haunting of Grade Three Maccarone, Grace 3
Have You Seen Birds? Oppenheim, Joanne 1
Have You Seen Hyacinth Macaw? Giff, Patricia Reilly 3
Have You Seen My Cat? Carle, Eric 1
Have You Seen My Duckling? Tafuri, Nancy K
Have You Seen the Crocodile? West, Colin 1
Hearing Kissock, Heather K
Hearing Things Fowler, Allan 1
Heartbeat Creech, Sharon 4
Heat Waves Corbett, Sean 3
Heavenly Zoo; Legends and Tales Lurie, Alison 5
Hedgehog Siemens, Jared K
Hedgehogs in the Hall Baglio, Ben 4
Helen Keller Davidson, Margaret 5
Helen Keller Graff, Stewart 2
Helen Keller Keller, Helen 4
Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark Hurwitz, Johanna 2
Helga High Up Neuhaus, D. 2
Helga's Dowry dePaola, Tomie 2
Hello, Cat, You Need a Hat Gelman, Rita Golden 1
Hello, My Name is Scrambled Eggs Gilson, Jamie 5
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 51
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Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library Clifford, Eth 4
Henny Penny Galdone, Paul 1
Henny Penny Zimmerman, H. Werner 1
Henry and Mudge Series Rylant, Cynthia 2
Henry Bear's Park McPhail, David 2
Henry Huggins Cleary, Beverly 4
Henry Reed Series Robertson, Keith 4
Henry Series Cleary, Beverly 3
Herbie Jones and the Second Grade Slippers Kline, Suzy K
Herbie Jones Series Kline, Suzy 3
Herbivores Forgan, Jill 3
Hercules Rose, Simon 3
Here Are My HandsMartin, Bill & Archambault,
John1
Here Comes Hungry Albert Whitehead, Patricia 1
Here Comes the Strikeout Kessler, Leonard 2
Here Comes Winter Craig, Janet 1
Here Is The Tropical Rainforest Dunphy, Madeleine 3
Herman the Great Olsen, Zora 3
Herman the Helper Kraus, Robert 1
Heron Street Turner, Ann 2
Hey, Get Off Our Train Burningham, John 2
Hey, Kid! Gelman, Rhonda 2
Hi, Cat! Keats, Ezra Jack 1
Hibernation McDowell, Pamela 3
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 52
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Hibernation (Scholastic Reader Level 2) (BOE Approved April 2013)
Kosara, Tori K
Higglety Pigglety Pop Sendak, Maurice 2
High Trail to Danger Nixon, Joan Lowery 5
High Wizardry Duane, Diane 5
High-Rise Private Eyes # 4: The Case of the Troublesome
TurtleRylant, Cynthia K
Hill of Fire Lewis, Thomas 1
Hip - Hippo - Ray Ahlbert/Amstutz 1
Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher Thaler, Mike 1
Hoboken Chicken Emergency Pinkwater, Danial 3
Hockey Durrie, Karen K
Hole is to Dig Krauss, Ruth 1
Holes* Sachar, Louis 4
Holiday Handwriting School, The Pulver, Robin 1
Home Alone Schick, Eleanor 1
Home for a Puppy Gordon, Sharon 1
Home of the Brave (BOE Approved November 2014) Applegate, Katherine 4
Homer Price McCloskey, Robert 2
Homesick, My Own Story Fritz, Jean 5
Homework Hassles Klein, Abby 1
Homework Machine, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) Gutman, Dan 3*
Honey Bus Cutting, Brain & Jullian 1
Hoop Heroes Kramer, Sydelle 2
Hoot* Hiaasen, Carl 4
Hop on Pop Seuss, Dr. K
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 53
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Horrible Harry Series Kline, Suzy 2
Horse in Harry’s Room, The Hoff, Syd K
Horses Siemens, Jared K
Horton Hatches The Egg Seuss, Dr. 1
Horton Hears A Who Seuss, Dr. 1
Hospital Carr, Aaron K
Hot Air Henry Calhoun, Mary 3
House For a Hermit Crab Carle, Eric 1
House is a House For Me Hoberman, Mary Ann 1
House Mouse - Senate Mouse Barnes, Peter & Cheryl 3
House On Hackman's Hill, The Nixon, Joan Lowery 4
House on the Gulf, The Haddix, Margaret Peterson 5
House That Jack Built Cutts, David 1
House That Jack Built Simon, I. 1
House Without a Christmas Tree Rock, Gail 4
How A Plant Grows Kalman, Bobbie 4
How America Works Holmes, Nigel 3
How and Why Animals Hatch From Eggs Pascoe, Elaine 2
How and Why Spiders Spin Silk Pascoe, Elaine 2
How Big Is A Brachiosaurus? Carroll, Susan 2
How Could You Do It, Diane Pevsner, Stella 5
How do things Grow? Althea 3
How Do We Move Morgan, Sally K
How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head Peet, Bill 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 54
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
How I Survived the Oregon Trail Wilson, Laura 2
How Many Days to America Bunting, Eve 2
How Many Snails? Giganti, Paul K
How Much is A Million? Schwartz, David M. 1
How Pizza Came to Queens Khalsa, Dayal Kaur 2
How Spider Saved Easter Kraus, Robert 1
How Spider Saved Halloween Kraus, Robert 1
How The Grinch Stole Christmas Seuss, Dr. 1
How To Catch A Ghost Mitchell, Betty Jean (Noodles) 1
How to Eat Fried Worms Rockwell, Thomas 3
Howliday Inn Howe, James 4
Hugh Pine Van de Wetering, Janwillem 3
Human Body Riddle Book, The Fleming, Maria 3
Humbug Rabbit Balian, Lorna 2
Humbug Witch Balian, Lorna 2
Hummingbird’s Life, A Himmelman, John 1
Humpback Whales Siemens, Jared K
Hundred Dresses Estes, Eleanor 3
Hungry Crocodile Webb, Melissa 1
Hungry Thing Slepian, Jan 2
Hungry, Hungry Sharks Cole, Joanna 2
Hunter of Fossils, A Baylor, B. 2
Hunting the Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals Dixon, Dougal 2
Hunting With My Camera Enting, Brian 3
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 55
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Hurricane Sorneson, Margo 4
Hurricanes Zayarny, Jack 3
Hurricanes! Hopping, Lorraine Jean 2
Hurry Up, Jessie Ziefert, Harriet 1
Hush Little Baby Aliki 1
I Am A Leaf Marzollo, Jean 1
I Can Be a Baseball Player Greene, Carol 2
I Can Blink Asch, Frank 1
I Can Build A House Wantanabe, Shigeo 1
I Can Read About Christopher Columbus Knight, David 3
I Can Read About Creepy Crawly Creatures Naden, C. J. 1
I Can Read About Dinosaurs Howard, Linda 1
I Can Read About Spiders Merrians, Deborah 1
I Can Read About Trees and Plants Warren, Elizabeth 1
I Can Roar Asch, Frank 1
I Can Take A Walk Wantanabe, Shigeo 1
I Can't Said the Ant Cameron, Polly 1
I Go With My Family to Grandma's Levinson, Riki 1
I Hate My Brother Harry Dragonwagon, Crescent 2
I Just Forgot Mayer, Mercer 1
I Know a Lady Zolotow, Charlotte 1
I Know An Old Lady Boone, R. 1
I Like Books Browne, Anthony 1
I Like Me! Carlson, Nancy 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 56
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
I Love You Mary Jane Balian, Lorna 2
I See Patterns Benton, Linda 1
I Spy Noonan, Diana 1
I Want A Pet Gregorich, Barbara 1
I Want To Be An Astronaut Barton, Byron 1
I Was a Second Grade Werewolf Pinkwater, Danial 2
I was Dreaming to Come to America: Memories from the
Ellis Lawlor, Veronica 3
I Was Walking Down the Road Barchas, Sarah 1
I Went Walking Williams, Sue K
I Will Not Wear That Sweater Marie, Susan 1
I Wish I Were A Butterfly Howe, James 1
I Wish You More (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Krouse Rosenthal, Amy K
I, Amber Brown Danziger, Paula 2
I’m Sorry, Almira Ann Kurtz, Jane 2
Ice Whelan, Piper K
Ice Cream Soup Herman, Gail 1
Ice MummyDubowski, Mark and Cathy
East3
Iceberg Hermit Roth, Arthur 5
Icky, Sticky Gloop Matthews, Morgan 1
I'd Like to Be Kroll, Steven 2
Ida B… and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and
(Possibly) Save the WorldHannigan, Katherine 5
Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain Burch, Robert 3
If At First You Do Not See Brown, Ruth 1
If I Could Nayer, Judy 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 57
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
If I Ever Mayer, Mercer 1
If I Ran The Circus Seuss, Dr. 1
If I Ran The Zoo Seuss, Dr. 1
If I Were An Ant Moses, Amy K
If the Dinosaurs Came Back Most, Bernard 1
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Numeroff, Laura Joffe 1
If You Grew Up With Abraham Lincoln McGovern, Ann 3
If You Grew Up With George Washington Gross, Ruth Belov 3
If You Had Lived at the Time of the American Revolution Moore, Kay 3
If You Lived At The Great San Francisco Earthquake Levine, Ellen 4
If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days Brenner, Barbara 2
If You Made a Million (BOE approved Nov 2015) Schwartz, David M. 3
If You Say So Claude Nixon, Joan Lowery 3
If You Were An Animal Doctor Levine, Ellen 2
If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution Levy, Elizabeth 3
Iggie's House Blume, Judy 3
Igneous Rocks Daly, Ruth 3
Iguana Siemens, Jared K
I'll Fix Anthony Viorst, Judith 2
I'll Meet You At The Cucumbers Moore, Lilian 3
I'm King Of The Castle Watanabe, Shigeo 1
I'm Terrific Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman 3
Images of Beauty: Ugly Duckling, Beauty & BeastMilne, A. A. and Mayer,
Marianna5
Imagine a Day (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Thomson, Sarah L. 4
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 58
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Imagine a Night (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Thomson, Sarah L. 4
Imani's Gift at Kwanzaa Burden-Patmon, Denise 2
Immigrant Kids (BOE approved Nov 2015) Freedman, Russell 3
Imogene's Antlers Small, David 1
Important People of the Revolutionary War Smolinski, Diane 5
In 1492 Marzollo, Jean 1
In a Dark Dark Room Schwartz, Alvin 1
In A Dark, Dark Wood Melser, June K
In A Pickle and Other Funny Idioms Terban, Marvin 4
In My GardenCristini, Ermanno and
Puricelli2
In Our Country Canizares, Susan 1
In The Attic Oram, Hiawyn 1
In the Dinosaur's Paw Giff, Patricia Reilly 2
In the Garden McDougall, Jim K
In the PondCristini, Ermanno and
Puricelli2
In the Year of the Boar & Jackie Robinson Lord, Bette Bao 4
Incident at Hawk's Hill Eckert, Allan 5
Incredible Journey Burnford, Sheila 5
Independence Day Foran, Jill 3
Indian In the Cupboard Banks, Lynne Reid 4
Indian School, The Whelan, Gloria 2
Indians Silver, D. 1
Insects Are Animals Holloway, Judith K
Inside Out and Back Again Lai, Thanhha 4
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 59
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Inside the Titanic Marschau, Ken 2
Into the Dream Sleator, William 4
Invaders from Outer Space Kindersley, Porling 4
Invasion from Below the Earth Curtis, Philip 5
Invisible Boy, The (BOE Approved Apr 2016) Ludwig, Trudy 2
Invisible Stanley Brown, Jeff 2
Iqbal (BOE Approved Apr 2016) D'Adamo, Francesco 5
Ira Says Good-Bye Waber, Bernard 1
Ira Sleeps Over Waber, Bernard 1
Is There Room For Me? Pigdon, Keith and Woolley 1
Is Your Mama a Llama? Guarino, Deborah 2
Ish Reynolds, Peter K
Island Boy Cooney, Barbara K
Island of the Blue Dolphins O'Dell, Scott 5
Island of the Skog, The Kellogg, Steven K
Islander, The Rylant, Cynthia 3
It Came From Beneath the Bed Howe, James 2
It Could Still Be a Bird Fowler, Allan 1
It Could Still Be a Fish Fowler, Allan 1
It is the Law Magalnick, Barbara 3
It Looked Like Spilt Milk Shaw, Charles 1
It’s a Fruit, It’s a Vegetable, It’s a Pumpkin Fowler, Allan K
It’s Mine! Lionni, Leo K
Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox Maccarme, Grace 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 60
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
It's A Good Thing There Are Insects Fowler, Allan 1
It's Christmas! Prelutsky, Jack 2
It's Halloween Prelutsky, Jack 2
It's Not the End of the World Blume, Judy 5
It's So Nice To Have A Wolf Around the House Allard, Harry 2
It's Valentine's Day Prelutsky, Jack 2
Ivy + Bean Barrows, Annie 2
Izzy Kline has Butterflies Ain, Beth 4
J.T. Wagner, Jane 2
Jack and The Beanstalk Various Authors 1
Jackalope Stevens, Janet 1
Jacket I Wear in the Snow, The Neitzel, Shirley K
Jackie Robinson Brandt, Keith 3
Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball O’Connor, Jim 2
Jacobs Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Various Authors K
Jacob's Rescue, A Holocaust Story Drucker, M. & Halperin, M. 4
Jake Baked the Cake Hennessy, B. G. K
Jake Drake, Know it All Clements, Andrew 2
Jamaica's Find Havill, Juanita 1
Jamberry Degen, Bruce 1
James & the Giant Peach Dahl, Roald 3
James Meets the Prairie Allen, Katy 2
Janet's Thingamajigs Cleary, Beverly 1
Jar of Dreams, A Uchida, Yoshiko 4
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 61
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Jeanie Blair, Author Extrodinaire Slocum, Allie 3
Jelly Belly Smith, Robert Kimmel 3
Jellyfish Kissock, Heather K
Jenius: the Amazing Guinea Pig King-Smith, Dick 2
Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me,
ElizabethKonigsburg, E.L. 3
Jennifer, Tom Hamill, Juanita 2
Jeremy Bean's St. Pastrick's Day Schertle, Alice 2
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? Carlstrom, Nancy White 1
Jessica Henkes, Kevin 1
Jigaree, The Cowley, Joy K
Jigsaw Jones Mystery, A (Series) Preller, James 2
Jillian Jiggs Gilman, Phoebe 1
Jim and the Beanstalk Briggs, Raymond 3
Jimmy's Boa and the Big Splash Birthday Bash Noble, Trinka Hakes 2
Jim's Dog Muffins Cohen, Miriam 1
Jingle Bells Chartier, Normand 1
Jobs People Do Ganeri, Anita K
Joey The Jack-O'Lantern Palazzo-Craig, Janet 1
Jog Frog Jog Gregorich, Barbara 1
John Henry Naden, Corinne 2
John Patrick Norman McHennessey Burningham, John K
Johnny Appleseed Demuth, Patricia K
Johnny Appleseed Moore, Eva 2
Johnny Appleseed York, Carol Beach 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 62
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Johnny Appleseed, 1988 Kellogg, Steven K
Johnny Lions Book Thacher Hurd, Edith K
Johnny Tremain Forbes, Esther Hoskins 5
Jolly Monsters, The Gordon, Sharon 1
Josefina Story Quilt, The Coerr, Eleanor 1
Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War
Patriot, The (My Name is America)Denenberg, Barry 3
Journey Home* Uchida, Yoshiko 4
Journey Into A Black Hole Branley, Franklyn Mansfield 3
Journey to Ellis Island Bierman, Carol 3
Journey to the River Sea Ibbotson, Eva 5
Juan Ponce de Leon Sakurai, Gail 4
Judge Benjamin Series McInerney, Judith 3
Judy Moody Goes to College, 2008 McDonald, Megan 3
Julius Hoff, Syd 1
Julius - The Baby of the World Henkes, Kevin 2
Jump, Frog, Jump Kalan, Robert 1
Junie B. Jones Series Park, Barbara 2
Jurassic Dinosaurs Dixon, Dougal 2
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln – The Story of the Gettysburg
AddressFritz, Jean 2
Just a Rainy Day Mayer, Mercer 1
Just Camping Out Mayer, Mercer 1
Just For You Mayer, Mercer 1
Just Go to Bed Mayer, Mercer 1
Just Grandpa and Me Mayer, Mercer 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 63
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Just Like Abraham Lincoln Waber, Benard 2
Just Like Daddy Asch, Frank 1
Just Me & My Little Sister Mayer, Mercer 1
Just Me and My Puppy Mayer, Mercer 1
Just Shopping with Mom Mayer, Mercer 1
Justin & the Best Biscuits in the World Walter, Mildred Pitts 3
Kangaroo Eggleton, Jill 1
Kangaroo, The Granowsky, Alvin 1
Kate Little, Jean 5
Kate's Book Shura, Mary Francis 3
Katie’s Trunk Turner, Ann 2
Katy & The Big Snow Burton, Virginia Lee 1
Katy No-Pocket Payne, Emma 2
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie Roop, Peter 2
Keep Your Mouth Closed, Dear Aliki K
Keeping Healthy Hewitt, Sally K
Kermit the Hermit Peet, Bill 3
Kevin's Grandma Williams, Barbara 1
Key to the Treasure Parish, Peggy 2
Kid in the Red Jacket, The Park, Barbara 4
Kid Who Ran For President, The Gutman, Dan 4
Kid's Money Book, The (BOE approved Nov 2015) McGillian, Jamie Kyle 5
Kids Throughout History: Kids During the American Civil War (BOE Approved October 2011)
Wroble, Lisa A. K
Kids Throughout History: Kids During the Renaissance(BOE Approved October 2011)
Wroble, Lisa A. K
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 64
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Kids Throughout History: Kids in Colonial Times(BOE Approved October 2011)
Wroble, Lisa A. K
KidsThroughout History: Kids in Ancient Greece(BOE Approved October 2011)
Wroble, Lisa A. K
KidsThroughout History: Kids in Pioneer Times(BOE Approved October 2011)
Wroble, Lisa A. K
KidsThroughout History: Kids in the Middle Ages(BOE Approved October 2011)
Wroble, Lisa A. K
King Arthur Pyle, Howard 5
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub Wood, Audrey 1
King Midas Littledale, Freya 1
King's New Clothes, The McKissack, Pat & Fredrick 1
Kiss for Little Bear Minarik, Else Holmelund 1
Kissing Hand, The (BOE Approved April 2014) Penn, Audrey K
Kit Carson Burke, Rick 3
Kites Sail High Heller, Ruth 1
Kitten Crowd Baglio, Ben 3
Kitten in the Cold Baglio, Ben 4
Kitten's First Full Moon (BOE approved Nov 2015) Henkes, Kevin K
Kittens in the Kitchen Baglio, Ben 4
Klondike Gold Rush, The Sheperd, Donna Walsh 4
Knee - Knock Rise Babbitt, Natalie 4
Knights of the Kitchen Table Scieszka, Jon 2
Knots in My Yo-Yo String Spinelli, Jerry 5
Knots On A Counting RopeMartin, Bill & Archambault,
John2
Koalo Lou Fox, Mem 2
Koko's Kitten Patterson, Francine 3
Koko's Story Patterson, Francine 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 65
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Korean Children's Day Suyenaga, Ruth 2
Lady Bugs Braithwaite, Althea 1
Lady Bugs Watts, Barrie 1
Ladybugs Siemens, Jared K
Laila's Wedding Sakakeeny, Kaleel 2
Lamb in the Laundry Baglio, Ben 4
Lamb Who Came to Dinner, The Smallman, Steve K
Lance Armstrong – The Race of His Life Armstrong, Kristin 2
Land Battles of the Revolutionary War Smolinski, Diane 5
Landry News, The Clements, Andrew 3
Landslides McDowell, Pamela 3
Last Dinosaur, The Murphy, Jim 2
Last Look Bulla, Clyde Robert 2
Last Silk Dress, The Rinaldi, Ann 5
Last Treasure, The Anderson, Janet S. 5
Laura Ingalls Wilder Walker, Pamela 3
Lazy Bear, The Wildsmith, Brian 1
Leanin Dog, The Nuzum, KA 4
Left-Handed Shortstop Giff, Patricia Reilly 3
Legand of the India's Paintbrush dePaula, Tomie 2
Legend of Sleepy Hollow Irving, Washington 5
Legend Of The Blue Bonnet, The dePaola, Tomie 2
Legend Of The Milky Way Lee, Jeanne 3
Lemonade Trick Corbett, Scott 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 66
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Lemonade War, The (BOE Approved April 2013) Davies, Jacqueline 2
Lentil McCloskey, Robert 2
Leo And Emily Brandenberg, Franz 1
Leo and Emily and the Dragon Brandenberg, Franz 2
Leo the Lop Cosgrove, Stephen 2
Leo the Lucky Kitten Dale, Jenny 2
Leo-The Late Bloomer Kraus, Robert 1
Leprechauns Never Lie Balian, Lorna 2
Let’s Go Apple Picking! Lakin, Patricia K
Let’s Go Home, Little Bear Waddell, Martin 2
Let's Be Enemies Udry, Janice May 1
Let's Get A Pet Cowley, Joy 1
Let's Get A Pet Greydanus, Rose 1
Let's Read-And-Find-Out Science Series Various Authors 1
Letter for Mr. Lincoln, A Cunningham, Alvin Robert 3
Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt, A De Young, C. Coco 4
Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt, A (1999) DeYoung, C. Coco 3
Lewis and Clark Sabin, Francene 5
Lewis And Clark Stein, R. Conrad 4
Lewis and Clark Expedition, The Bursell, Susan 4
Liar, Liar Ethan McWyer (BOE Approved May 2018) Slocum, Allie 3
Libby On Wednesday Snyder, Zilpha Keatley 5
Liberty Bell Kopp, Megan K
Liberty! How the Revolutionary War Began Penner, Lucille Recht 2
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 67
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Library Carr, Aaron K
Life Cycles: Caterpillar to Butterfly Hewitt, Sally K
Life in the Desert Baker, Lucy 3
Life In The Forest Curran, Eileen K
Life in the Meadow Curran, Eileen 1
Life in the Oceans: Animals, People, Plants Baker, Lucy 3
Life In The Pond Curran, Eileen K
Life of a Butterfly, A Bernard, Robin 1
Life of the Butterfly, The Drew, David K
Light A Single Candle Butler, Beverly 5
Light In The Forest, The * Richter, Conrad 5
Lightning Hopping, Lorraine Jean 3
Lightning Thief, The 2005 Riordan, Rick 4
Like Bug Juice on a Burger Sternberg, Julie 3
Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie Sternberg, Julie 3
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse Henkes, Kevin 1
Lily and Miss Liberty Stevens, Carla 2
Lily Learns About Wants and Needs (BOE approved Nov 2015) Bullard, Lisa K
Lily the Lost Puppy Dale, Jenny 2
Lily's Crossing Giff, Patricia Reilly 4
Limestone Caves Gallant, Roy A. 4
Lincoln Memorial Kissock, Heather K
Lincoln: A Photobiography Freedman, Russell 5
Lindgren, Astrid Dubowski, Cathy 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 68
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Lion and the Mouse Aesop 3
Lion to Guard, A Bulla, Clyde Robert 4
Lionel At Large Krensky, Stephen 2
Liquids Rodriguez, Cindy K
Listen to the RainMartin, Bill & Archambault,
John2
Listen! Tolan, Stephanie 4
Listening Silence, The Root, Phyllis 3
Little Bear Series Minarik, Else Holmelund 1
Little Beaver and the Echo MacDonald, Amy 2
Little Boy Who Loved Dirt & Almost Became Superslob Vigna, Judith 1
Little Britches (The Wild Country) Moody, Ralph 5
Little Bunny's Lunch Nelson, JoAnne 2
Little Christmas Star Craig, Janet 1
Little Critter Series Mayer, Mercer 1
Little Engine That Could Piper, Watty 1
Little Fish That Got Away Cook, B. 1
Little Fox Goes to the End of the World Tompert, A. 2
Little Fox’s Secret Finky, Mary Peace 4
Little Ghost French, Vivian K
Little Gorilla Bornstein, Ruth 1
Little House Burton, Virginia Lee 1
Little House Chapter Book Series Wilder, Laura Ingalls 2
Little House on the Prairie Series Wilder, Laura Ingalls 2
Little Monster Series Mayer, Mercer 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 69
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Little Mouse Makes a Mess Leonard, Marcia 2
Little Old Man Who Could Not Read Black, Irma Simonton 1
Little Owl Leaves the Nest Leonard, Marcia 1
Little Pig's Birthday Leonard, Marcia 1
Little Prince de Saint-Exupery, Antoine 1
Little Quack’s New Friend Thompson, Lauren K
Little Rabbit's Baby Brother Manushkin, Fran 1
Little Rabbit's Baby Sister Leonard, Marcia 1
Little Rabbit's Loose Tooth Bate, Lucy 2
Little Raccoon & The Outside World Moore, Lilian 1
Little Red Hen Galdone, Paul 1
Little Red Hen McQueen, Lucinda 1
Little Red Riding Hood Hyman, Trina Schart 1
Little Shopping, A Rylant, Cynthia 2
Little Soup’s Birthday Peck, Robert Newton 2
Little Sure Shot: The Story of Annie Oakley Spinner, Stephanie 2
Little Tim & The Brave Sea Captain Ardizzone, Edward 1
Little Witch’s Big Night Hautzig, Deborah 2
Littles Go Exploring, The Peterson, John 3
Littles Have A Wedding, The Peterson, John 3
Littles Seno's, The Peterson, John 3
Littles Take a Trip, The Peterson, John 3
Littles, The Peterson, John 3
Littlest Leaguer Hoff, Syd 1
Updated April 22, 2019
*previously approved at higher grade level 70
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Elementary Approved Literature List by Title
Living in Space Daynes, Katie 2
Lizard Music Pinkwater, Daniel 5
Lizards Home Shannon, George 1
Lizard's Song Shannon, George 1
Lizzie Lies a Lot Levy, Elizabeth 4
Llamas Siemens, Jared K
Loch Ness Monster (Series) Granowsky, Alvin 1
Locked in the Library Brown, Marc 2
Lon Po Po Young, Ed 3