Reading is a very important learning tool.  A child who can not read can not study any other subject well.  To help encourage your child to read you should offer them age appropriate books.  One of the best places to offer your child a wide range of books is your local library.  Here is a listing of great books for children, divided by age groups.

Preschoolers
01. Aardvarks, Disembark by Ann Jonas
02. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
03. The Amazing Bone by William Steig
04. Annabelle Swift, Kindergartener by Amy Schwartz
05. Beach Ball by Peter Sis
06. The Big Alfie and Annie Rose Storybook by Shirley Hughes
07. Block City by Robert Lewis Stevenson
08. Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
09. Bye Bye Baby: A Sad Story with a Happy Ending by Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg
10. The Caterpillar and the Pollywog by Jack Kent
11. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin and John Archambault
12. Christina Katerina and the Time She Quit the Family by Patricia Lee Gauch
13. Emma’s Vacation by David McPhail
14. Exactly the Opposite by Tana Hoban
15. Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
16. Frog Goes to Dinner by Mercer Mayer
17. Georgie by Robert Bright
18. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
19. The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
20. The Stupids Take Off by Harry Allard and James Marshall
21. Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
22. Tucking Mommy In by Morag Loh
23. The Village of the Round and Square Houses by Ann Grifalconi
24. We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
25. The Wizard by Jack Kent

 

Early Graders
01. Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
02. Arthur Meets the President by Marc Brown
03. Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
04. Captain Snap and the Children of Vinegar Lane by Roni Schotter
05. Feelings by Aliki
06. Folow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter
07. Funnybones by Allan Ahlberg
08. Henery and Mudge Take the Big Test by Cynthia Rylant
09. If You Make a Million by David M. Schwartz
10. Island Boy by Barbara Cooney
11. Jimmy’s Boa and the Big Splash Birthday Bash by Trinka Hakes Noble
12. Julius: The Baby of the World by Kevin Henkes
13. The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie de Paola
14. The Magic School Bus inside the Human Body by Joanna Cole
15. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
16. My Father Always Embarrasses Me by Meir Shalev
17. My Friend Jacob by Lucille Clifton
18. The Nativity by Julie Vivias
19. Nicholas Cricket by Joyce Maxner
20. The Purple Coat by Amy Hest
21. The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
22. The Story of Hanukkah by Amy Ehrlich
23. Stringbean’s Trip to the Shinning Sea by Vera B. Williams
24. The Very Best of Friends by Margaret Wild
25. When I am Old with You by Angela Johnson

Middle Graders
01. Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
02. Afternoon of the Elves by Jane Taylor Lisle
03. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery
04. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
05. Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
06. Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep
07. Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting Sneakers by Donald J, Sobol
08. The Friendship by Mildred Taylor
09. Fudge-a-mania by Judy Blume
10. King of the Cloud Forests by Michael Morpurgo
11. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
12. The Mermaid Summer by Mollie Hunter
13. Millie Cooper, 3B by Charlotte Herman
14. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
15. An Occasional Cow by Polly Horvath
16. The Riddle of Pencroft Farm by Dorothea Jensen
17. Saying Goodbye to Grandma by Jane Resh Thomas
18. Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
19. Village by the Sea by Paula Fox
20. Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera and Bill Cleaver
21. China Homecoming by Jean Fritz
22. Dawn to Dusk in the Galapagos: Flightless Birds, Swimming Lizards, and Other Fascinating Creatures by Rita Golden Gelman
23. Growing Up Amish by Richard Ammon
24. Something Big Has Been Here by Jake Prelusky
25. Tales Mummies Tell by Patricia Lauber
 

Teenagers
01. The Alfred Summer by Jan Slepian
02. And One for All by Theresa Nelson
03. Badger on the Barge and Other Stories by Janni Howler
04. Celine by Brock Cole
05. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
06. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
07. The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff
08. A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant
09. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
10. I Only Made Up the Roses by Barbara Ann Porte
11. The Keeper by Phyllis Naylor
12. Letters form Atlantis by Robert Silverberg
13. The Man from the Other Side by Uri Orlev
14. My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier
15. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
16. The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
17. The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause
18. A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond
19. Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
20. Tex by S.E. Hinton
21. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
22. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
23. The Year without Michael by Susan B. Pfeffer
24. Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer
25. Why Am I Grown So Cold? Poems of the Unknowable Edited by Myra Cohn Livingston
 

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