Elementary School List

Grades 1/2 - read any by these authors, please feel free to read an appropriate author not on this list as well.

David Adler
Janet Ahlberg
Margaret Wise Brown
Laurene Krasny Brown
Marc Brown
Jimmy Buffett
Eric Carle
Pat Cummings
Mem Fox
Don Freeman
Gail Gibbons
Patricia Reilly Giff
Fred Gwynne
Syd Hoff
Ruth Krauss
Arnold Lobel
Betsy Maestro
Jerry Pallotta
Peggy Parish
Patricia Polacco
Jack Prelutsky
Cynthia Rylant
Shel Silverstein
Chris Van Allsburg
Judith Viorst

Grades 3, 4, & 5: read one required book and any title by the following authors
Required Reading:
Grade 3: My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Grade 4: Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
Grade 5: A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements

Authors:
David Adler
Avi
Lynne Reid Banks
Jeanne Birdsall
Judy Blume
Jeff Brown
Matt Christopher
Beverly Cleary
Andrew Clements
Sharon Creech
Kalli Dakos
Paula Danzinger
Kate DiCamillo
Eleanor Estes
Paul Fleishman
Douglas Florian
Jack Gantos
Jean Craighead George
Patricia Reilly Giff
K.L. Going
Dan Gutman
Carl Hiaasen
James Howe
Langston Hughes
Abby Klein
Suzy Kline
Cynthia Lord
Lois Lowry
Mike Lupica
Ann Martin
David McCord
Megan McDonald
Phyllis Reynold Naylor
Mary Pope Osborne
Katherine Paterson
Gary Paulsen
Richard Peck
Sara Pennypacker
James Preller
Jack Prelutsky
Ron Roy
Cynthia Rylant
Louis Sachar
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Shel Silverstein
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Deborah Wiles