Suggested Level and Books

Title Author

Do You Want to Be My Friend? Eric Carle

Have You Seen My Cat? Eric Carle

Have You Seen My Duckling Nancy Tafuri

Pancakes for Breakfast Tomie dePaola

Yo! Yes? Chris Raschka

Good Night Gorilla Peggy Rathman

Sight Word Practice:

At these levels of text it is imperative that your child begin to create a known bank of sight words.

Fun Ways to Practice Sight Words:

1. Write sight words on post its around the house. Have your child go hunting for words and when she

finds one, she must read it to you.

2. Write a few words with chalk on the driveway. Say one of the words and your child must run to stand

on the word.

3. Write words with magnetic letters, on whiteboards, or in sand.

4. Practice words with back writing. Have your child turn around and use your finger to trace a word on

the back. See if your child can feel the word you were writing. Take turns to practice sight word

spelling.

5. As you read higher level books to your child, go on a sight word hunt. After reading the book through

one time, go back and hunt for any sight words your child might know.

Make Your Own Books:

Level A and B books typically follow a pattern of 1 or 2 sentences on a page. Often, the pattern changes on the

last page. In this level of text you will find many beginning sight words and high levels of picture support.

To Make Your Own Level A/B book:

1. Think of a pattern (i.e. I see the… I see the… I see the… or Here comes a… Here comes a...). As you

read, introduce your child to the pattern before reading. You might even want to show them with

magnetic letters or on a white board the sight words in the pattern so the words will be familiar to your

child when she sees them in text. Once your child has started reading, encourage her to point under each

word as she reads.

2. Draw or find clear pictures to match each sentence. Encourage your child to “check the picture” at

points of difficulty when reading.

3. Change the pattern on the last page to create a surprise sentence. Help your child figure out the pattern

change together as you read.

Suggested Level Books

Title Author

Brand New Readers series Candlewick Press

Cat the Cat series Mo Willems

Brown Bear, Brown Bear Eric Carle

What’s For Lunch? Eric Carle

The Fox on the Box Barbara Gregorich

I Want a Pet Barbara Gregorich

I Went Walking Sue Williams

Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails Nancy Tafuri

Things I Like Anthony Browne

Cat and Dog Rozanne Lanczak Williams

Suggested Level Books

Title Author

Tiny the Dog series Carl Meister

Sam series Barbro Lindgren

The Chick and the Duckling Mirra Ginsberg

Bears in the Night Stan and Jan Berenstain

Bears on Wheels Stan and Jan Berenstain

Bears, Bears Everywhere Stan and Jan Berenstain

Feathers for Lunch Lois Ehlert

Five Little Monsters Rozanne Lanczak Williams

One Happy Classroom Charnan Simon

Freddie and Flossie and the Leaf Monster Laura Lee Hope

Freddie and Flossie and The Train Ride Laura Lee Hope

Puppy Mudge Has a Snack Cynthia Rylant

Puppy Mudge Loves His Blanket Cynthia Rylant

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Gossie series Olivier Dunrea

Life of Max series Adria Klein

Dear Dragon series Margaret Hillert

Puppy Sam series Mary LaBatt

Dinosaurs Dance Larry Brimmer

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Eileen Christelow

The Foot Book Dr. Seuss

Go, Dog, Go P.D. Eastman

I Wish I Had Duck Feet Dr. Seuss

The Eye Book Dr. Seuss

Fire Fire Said Mrs. McGuire Bill Martin

It Looked Like Spilt Milk Charles Shaw

My Five Senses Aliki

All By Myself Mercer Mayer

Rosie’s Walk Pat Hutchins

Puppy Mudge Finds a Friend Cynthia Rylant

Puppy Mudge Wants to Play Cynthia Rylant

Play Ball! (Pete the Cat) James Dean

Too Cool for School (Pete the Cat) James Dean

Silly Lilly and the Four Seasons (Toon Books) Agnes Rosentiehl

Morris the Moose Bernard Wiseman

Just Clowning Around David McPhail

Suggested Level Books

Title Author

Robot and Rico series Anastasia Suen

Chick and Chickie in Play All Day (Toon Books) Claude Ponti

A Pet for Pete (Pete the Cat) James Dean

Pete at the Beach (Pete the Cat) James Dean

Puppy Mudge Takes a Bath Cynthia Rylant

Across the Stream Mirra Ginsburg

Cookie’s Week Cindy Ward

Hooray for Snail John Stadler

Itchy Itchy Chicken Pox Grace Maccarone

Pizza Party! Grace Maccarone

Soccer Game Grace Maccarone

“What is That?” Said the Cat Grace Maccarone

Just Like Daddy Frank Asch

The Lady with the Alligator Purse Nadine Westcott

Shhhh Kevin Henkes

Who Will Be My Friends? Syd Hoff

Tiger is a Scaredy Cat Joan Phillips

Clifford’s Puppy Days Norman Bridwell

Can I Play too? Mo Willems

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Biscuit series Cynthia Rylant

Pup and Hound series Susan Hood

Noodle series Hans Wilhelm

Digger and Daisy series Judy Young

Robin Hill School series Margaret McNamara

Are You Ready to Play Outside? Mo Willems

Carl and the Baby Duck Alexandra Day

Carl and the Kitten Alexandra Day

Carl and the Sick Puppy Alexandra Day

David Gets in Trouble David Shannon

No David David Shannon

The Great Race David McPhail

More Spaghetti I Say Rita Gelman

One Monday Morning Uri Shulevitz

Sheep on a Ship Nancy Shaw

Sheep in a Jeep Nancy Shaw

Snail Saves the Day John Stadler

The Carrot Seed Robert Kraus

Buzz Said the Bee Wendy Lewinson

I Want to Be Somebody New Robert Lopshire

The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat Nurit Karlin

New House for Mouse and Mole Harriet Zieffert

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Little Mouse series Robert Kraus

Titch series Pat Hutchins

Danny and the Dinosaur series Syd Hoff

Fly Guy series Tedd Arnold

Pigeon board book series Mo Willems

Oliver Robert Kraus

Sammy the Seal Syd Hoff

Captain Cat Syd Hoff

Mo Jackson David A. Adler

Good Night, Owl Pat Hutchins

There’s a Nightmare in My Closet Mercer Mayer

George Shrinks William Joyce

Katie Woo and Her Big Ideas Fran Manushkin

Katie Woo, Where Are You? Fran Manushkin

A Nervous Night (Katie Woo) Fran Manushkin

A Kiss For Little Bear Else H. Minarik

Put Me in the Zoo Robert Lopshire

My Friend Rabbit Eric Rohmann

Leon the Chameleon Melanie Watt

Nina, Nina Ballerina Jane O’Connor

Nina, Nina and the Copycat Ballerina Jane O’Connor

Should I Share My Ice-Cream Mo Willems

Sheep Blast Off Nancy E. Shaw

Suggested Level Books

Title Author

The Pigeon series Mo Willems

Elephant and Piggie series Mo Willems

Dragon Tales series Dav Pilkey

How Do Dinosaurs…? series Jane Yolen

Maisy First Experience series Lucy Cousins

Messy Bessy series Patricia and Frederick McKissack

Otto series (Passport to Reading Level 1) Todd Parr

Leo the Late Bloomer Robert Kraus

Lola at the Library Anna McQuinn

Moo, Katie Woo Fran Manushkin

Who Needs Glasses? (Katie Woo) Fran Manushkin

Are You My Mother? P.D. Eastman

Hattie and the Fox Mem Fox

The Relatives Came Cynthia Rylant

Noisy Nora Rosemary Wells

The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and

the Big Hungry Bear

Don and Audrey Wood

Sugar Snow (My First Little House books) Laura Ingalls Wilder

Summertime in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder

Two Crazy Pigs Karen Berman Nagel

My Tooth is About to Fall Out Grace Maccarone

Hiccups for Elephant James Preller

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Poppleton series Cynthia Rylant

Fox series James Marshall

Henry and Mudge series Cynthia Rylant

Mr. Putter and Tabby series Cynthia Rylant

Katie Woo series (most) Fran Manushkin

Little Bear series (most) Else Holmelund Minarik

Iris and Walter series Elissa Haden Guest

Curious George series H.A. and Margret Ray

Cork and Fuzz series Dori Chaconas

Young Cam Jansen series David Adler

Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak

Harry the Dirty Dog Gene Zion

Harry and the Lady Next Door Gene Zion

Beezy at Bat Megan McDonald

Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa Betsy Lewin

Owl at Home Arnold Lobel

Mouse Soup Arnold Lobel

Peter’s Chair Ezra Jack Keats

Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman

Winter Days in the Big Woods (My First Little

House Books)

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Going to Town (My First Little House Books) Laura Ingalls Wilder

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Zelda and Ivy series Laura McGee Kvasnosky

Bones Mysteries series David Adler

Pete the Cat (original) series James Dean

Frog and Toad series Arnold Lobel

Minnie and Moo series Denis Cazet

Commander Toad series Jane Yolen

Frances series Russell Hoban

The Golly Sisters series Betsy Byars

M & M series Pat Ross

Jamaica series Juanita Havill

Nate the Great series Marjorie Sharmat

Froggy series Jonathan London

Franklin series Paulette Bourgeois

Arthur series Marc Brown

Mercy Watson series (most) Kate DiCamillo

Lionel series Stephen Krensky

If You Give a… series Laura Numeroff

Ling and Ting series Grace Lin

Houndsley and Catina series James Howe

Here Comes the Strikeout Leonard Kessler

Sheila Rae, the Brave Kevin Henkes

Whistle for Willie Ezra Jack Keats

The Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Cam Jansen series David Adler

Horrible Harry series Suzy Kline

Amelia Bedelia series Peggy Parrish

George and Martha series James Marshall

Pinky and Rex series James Howe

Peewee Scouts series Judy Delton

Tales of Amanda Pig/ Oliver Pig series Jean VanLeeuwen

Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot series Dav Pilkey

Olivia Sharpe (Nate the Great’s Cousin) series Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

The Werewolf Club series Daniel and Jill Pinkwater

Mouse and Mole series Wong Herbert Yee

Milo and Jazz Mysteries series Lewis B. Montgomery

Polk Street Kids series Patricia Reilly Giff

Most books by Robert Munsch Robert Munsch

Tooter Pepperday Jerry Spinelli

Miss Nelson is Missing James Marshall

Alexander and the Wind Up Mouse Leo Lionni

Gregory the Terrible Eater Mitchell Sharmat

The Dog That Pitched a No-Hitter Matt Christopher

Those Shoes Maribeth Boelts

Suggested Level Books

Title Author

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Judi Barrett

Face-Off Jake Maddox

The Littles series John L. Peterson

Katie Kazoo series Nancy Krulik

Stink series Megan McDonald

Judy Moody series Megan McDonald

My Weird School series Dan Gutman

Magic Tree House series Mary Pope Osborne

Bailey School Kids series Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones

Buddy, The First Seeing Eye Dog Eva Moore

George Washington’s Mother Jean Fritz

Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express Margaret K. Wetterer

How a House is Built Gail Gibbons

Titanic: The Disaster That Shocked the World! Mark Dubowski

Boris (Scholastic Branches series) Andrew Joyner

Missy’s Super Duper Royal Deluxe series Susan Nees

Haggis and Tank Unleashed series Jessica Young

Owl Diaries (Scholastic Branches series) Rebecca Elliot

Stuart Goes to School Sara Pennypacker

Stuart’s Cape Sara Pennypacker

Press Start series Thomas Flintham

Princess Black series Shannon Hale

Suggested Level Books Title Author

The Chocolate Touch Patrick Skene Catling

Donavan’s Word Jar Monalisa DeGross

The Enormous Crocodile Roald Dahl

Lily and Miss Liberty Carla Stevens

The Magic Finger Roald Dahl

My Name is Maria Isabel Alma F. Ada

Shoeshine Girl Clyde R. Bulla

Shark Attack! Cathy East Dubowski

Louis Braille, The Boy Who Invented Books for

the Blind

Margaret Davidson

Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln Jean Fritz

How a Book Is Made Aliki

Amber Brown series Paula Danziger

A-Z Mysteries series Ron Roy

The Zack Files series Dan Greenburg

Franny K. Stein series Jim Benton

The Secrets of Droon Tony Abbott

A Big Day for Baseball Mary Pope Osborne

A Matter of Fact Magic Book series Ruth Chew

Ballpark Mysteries series David A. Kelly

Brand-New School, Brave New Ruby Derrick Barnes

Stella and the Night Sprites series Sam Hay and Turine Tran

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Baseball Saved Us Ken Mochizuki

Chocolate Fever Robert K. Smith

The Boxcar Children series Gertrude C. Warner

Class Clown Johanna Hurwitz

The Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes

The Legend of the Bluebonnet Tomie dePaola

The Mouse and the Motorcycle Beverly Cleary

Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren

Ramona Quimby series Beverly Cleary

Clementine series Sara Pennypacker

Jake Drake series Andrew Clements

Ant Cities Arthur Dorros

The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth Jean L.S. Parnell

Ten True Animal Rescues Jeanne Betancourt

What’s The Big Idea, Ben Franklin? Jean Fritz

Looniverse series David Lubar

Lotus Lane Girls Club series Kyla May

Monkey Me series Timothy Roland

The Notebook of Doom series Troy Cummings

Silver Pony Ranch series D.L. Green and Emily Wallis

Dragon Masters series Tracey West and Graham Howells

Princess Pink and the Land of Fake-Believe

series

Norah Z. Jones

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl

George’s Marvelous Medicine Roald Dahl

Sideways Stories series Louis Sachar

Timewarp Trio Jon Scieska

Through Grandpa’s Eyes Patricia MacLachlan

Dinosaur Bones Aliki

Brainstorm! Tom Tucker

The Land I Lost Quang Nhuong Huynh

Bad Kitty Gets a Bath Nick Bruel

Bad Kitty School Daze Nick Bruel

Bad Kitty vs. Uncle Murray Nick Bruel

Stick Dog series Tom Watson

Fourth Grade is a Jinx Colleen McKenna

Full Court Dreams Jake Maddox

Look Who’s Playing First Base Matt Christopher

Little Lefty Matt Christopher

Mallory series Laurie Friedman

Max Flash Mission series Jonny Zucker

Jake Maddox graphic novel series Jake Maddox

Squish series Jennifer L. Holm

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale Mystery James Howe

Fudge series Judy Blume

James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl

Little House in the Big Woods Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Original Adventures of Hank, the Cowdog John R. Erickson

Finding the Titanic Robert Ballard

Punished David Lubar

Anastasia Krupnik series Lois Lowry

Sam Krupnik series Lois Lowry

Chet Gecko series Bruce Hale

Fourth Grade Rats Jerry Spinelli

The Year of the Dog Grace Lin

The Get Rich Quick Club Dan Gutman

Humphrey series Betty G. Birney

Spiderwick Chronicles series Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

The Sasquatch Escape Suzanne Selfors

A Dog Called Homeless Sarah Lean

Lacrosse Firestorm Matt Christopher

Jake Maddox Sports series Jake Maddox

Girls to the Rescue series Bruce Lansky

Baby Mouse series Jennifer L. Holm

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl

Charlotte’s Web E.B. White

Frindle Andrew Clements

Hatchet Gary Paulsen

Sarah, Plain, and Tall Patricia MacLachlan

Shiloh Phyllis R. Naylor

The Whipping Boy Sid Fleischman

The Great Migration Jacob Lawrence

Mummies Made in Egypt Aliki

Mummies! Secret of the Dead Harriet Griffey

Lunch Money Andrew Clements

They Came From Center Field Dan Gutman

The Report Card Andrew Clements

Spider Boy Ralph Fletcher

The TV Kid Betsy Byars

Shredderman series Wendelin Van Draanen

Fig Pudding Ralph Fletcher

The Wild Robot Peter Brown

Finding Serendipity Angelica Banks

The Homework Machine Dan Gutman

Numbed! David Lubar

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Flying Solo Ralph Fletcher

The Dollhouse Murders series Betty Ren Wright

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.

Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsburg

The Great Gilly Hopkins Katherine Paterson

A Boy Called Slow Joseph Bruchac

The Nameless City Faith Erin Hicks

President of the Whole Fifth Grade Sherri Winston

Big Nate series Lincoln Peirce

Out of My Mind Sharon M. Draper

The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate

My Life as a Book Janet Tashjian and Jake Tashjian

Emily Windsnap series Liz Kessler

The Lemonade War Jacqueline Davies

The Borrower series Mary Norton

Million Dollar Sports series Dan Gutman

Artemis the Loyal: Goddess Girls series Suzanne Williams and Joan Holub

Persephone the Phony:: Goddess Girls series Suzanne Williams and Joan Holub

11 Birthdays Wendy Mass

Lunch Lady series Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Boys vs. Girls series Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Dog Diaries Kate Klimo

Suggested Level Books

Title Author

Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Jack Gantos

The Chronicles of Narnia C.S. Lewis

Love That Dog Sharon Creech

Something Upstairs Avi

Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil

War Spy

Seymour Reit

Boy: Tales of Childhood Roald Dahl

Earthquakes Seymour Simon

The Thing About Georgie Lisa Graff

All the Answers Kate Messner

Ida B… and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster and (Possibly)

Save the World

Katharine Hannigan

Penderwicks series Jeanne Birdsall

Athena the Wise: Goddess Girls series Suzanne Williams and Joan Holub

The Girl Games: Goddess Girls series Suzanne Williams and Joan Holub

Aphrodite the Diva: Goddess Girls series Suzanne Williams and Joan Holub

My Life as a Gamer Janet Tashjian

I Funny series James Patterson

Middle School series James Patterson

Diary of a Wimpy Kid series Jeff Kinney

Close to Famous Joan Bauer

Surviving the Applewhites Stephanie S. Tolan

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda Tom Angleberger

Smile Raina Telgemeier

Deltora Quest series Emily Rodda

Suggested Level Books Title Author

My Life as a Stuntboy Janet Tashjian

Charlie Bones series Jenny Nimmo

The BFG Roald Dahl

The Sisters Grimm series Michael Buckley

The 39 Clues series Rick Riordan

Eggs Jerry Spinelli

Wringer Jerry Spinelli

Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine

Loser Jerry Spinelli

Nothing But the Truth Avi

The Summer of the Swans Betsy Byars

Tangerine Edward Bloor

The View from Saturday E.L. Konigsburg

Insects Bettina Bird

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Kate DiCamillo

Knots in My Yo-Yo String Jerry Spinelli

Every Soul a Star Wendy Mass

Warriors series Erin Hunter

Survivors series Erin Hunter

Mandela Floyd Cooper

The Silk Route John S. Major

The Key to Extraordinary Natalie Lloyd

Half Upon a Time James Riley

Tapper Twins series Geoff Rodkey

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Powerless Matthew Cody

Absolutely Almost Lisa Graff

Star Girl Jerry Spinelli

Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling

Princess Academy Shannon Hale

Holes Louis Sachar

Absolutely Normal Chaos Sharon Creech

Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbit

The Westing Game Ellen Raskin

Ellis Island R. Conrad Stein

Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson Barry Denenberg

The Underground Railroad R. Conrad Stein

Habibi Naomi Shihab Nye

The Adventurer’s Guide to Successful Escapes Albert Wade White

The Secret of Dreadwillow Carse Brian Farrey

Raymie Nightingale Kate DiCamillo

Wonder R.J. Palacio

Auggie and Me: Three Wonder Stories R.J. Palacio

The Mysterious Benedict Society Stewart Trenton

A Series of Unfortunate Event series Lemony Snicket

Fablehaven series Brandon Mull

Heat Mike Lupica

Million Dollar Throw Mike Lupica

Suggested Level Books Title Author

Hope Was Here Joan Bauer

Chomp Carl Hiaasen

Scat Carl Hiaasen

The City of Ember series Jeanne DuPrau

Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick

Wonderstruck Brian Selznick

I am Not Joey Pigza Jack Gantos

Running Out of Time Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Apothecary Maile Meloy

Bad Magic Pseudonymous Bosch

Percy Jackson series Rick Riordan

100 Cupboards series N.D. Wilson

Inkheart Cornelia Funke

Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli

Hero Mike Lupica

Kane Chronicles series Rick Riordan

The Secret Keepers Trenton Lee Stewart

Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized

Autobiography

Lemony Snicket