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8506 Old Colony Drive So.  Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772
301 952 7780

Reading List for Grades K-6



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Kindergarten Reading Material

 
The Three Little Pigs by Paul Galdone
George and Martha One Fine Day by James Marshall
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert
Jamaica's Find by Juanita Havill
We Are Best Friends by Aliki
Fireflies For Nathan by Shulamith Oppenheim
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Sam Goes Trucking by Henry Horenstain
The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
How To Be A Nature Detective by Millicent Selsam
Sunflower House by Eve Bunting
 Do Like Kyla by Angela Johnson
Fish Eyes:  A Book You Can Count On by Lois Ehlert
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Mouse Paint by Ellen Walsh
Corduroy by Don Freeman
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
 

First Grade Reading Materials

Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Berlioz the Bear by Jan Brett
JoJo's Flying Side Kick by Brian Pinkney
A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
Johnny Appleseed by Steve Kellogg
Tell Me a Story, Mama by Angela Johnson
Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
Little Red Riding Hood retold by Trina Schart Hyman
Now One Foot, Now the Other by Tom DePaola
Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats
Jamaica Tag-Along by Juanita Havill
Newt by Matt Novak
Galimoto by Karen Lynn Williams
Home in the Sky by Jeannie Baker
How Many Starts In the Sky? by Lenny Hort
Beaver at Long Pond by William and Lindsay George
The Paperboy by Dav Pilkey

 

 

SECOND GRADE READING MATERIAL

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
The Legend Of the Bluebonnet retold by Tom De Paola
Mirandy and Brother Wind by Pat McKissack
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
Miss Nelson is Missing! by James Marshall
The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
Aunt Flossie's Hats ( and Crab Cakes Later) by Elizabeth Howard
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virgina Burton
Meet Danitra Brown by Mikki Grimes
The Popcorn Book by tom DePaola
Kitten Training And Critters, Too by Judy Person-Fleming
Gregory Cool by Caroline Binch
Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems by Eloise Greenfield
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst
 

THIRD GRADE READING MATERIAL

Julian, Dream Doctor by Ann Cameron
Uncle Jed's Barbershop by Margaree Mitchell
Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
Teammates by Peter Golenbock
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszka
The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
John Henry by Julius Lester
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Nathaniel Talking by Eloise Greenfield
The Wall by Eve Bunting
Handmade Alphabet by Laura Rankin
Amber Brown Goes Fourth by Paula Danziger
Flight:  The Journey of Charles Lindbergh by Robert Burleigh
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
Arrow to the Sun by Gerald Mc Dermott
Iva Dunnit and the Big Wind by Carol Purdy
Three Terrible Trins by Dick King-Smith
Wilma Unlimited:  How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastes Woman by Kathleen Krull
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aaradema
Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? by R. Wells
Bill Pickett:  Rodeo Ridin' Cowboy by Andrea D. Pinkney

 

 

FOURTH GRADE READING MATERIAL

A Kid's Guide To Building Forts by Tom Birdseye
Amazing Magic Tricks by Dave Brown
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
Exploring The Titanic by robert Ballard
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Willie Pearl:  Under the Mountain by Michelle Green
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
The Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
Chadwick the Crab by Priscilla Cummings
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Gila Monster Meets You At the Airport by Marjorie Sharmat
Mae Jemison, Space Scientist by Gail Sakurai
The Winter of Red Snow:   The Revolutionary War, Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart by Kristiana Gregory
How To Make Super Pop-Ups by Joan Irving
Jamanji by Chris Van Allsburg

 

FIFTH GRADE READING MATERIAL

The Sign Of the Beaver by Elizabeth Speare
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Koya Delaney And The Good Girl Blues by Eloise Greenfield
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
Into The Mummy's Tomb by C. N. Reeves
Circle of Gold by Candy Boyd
Yolanda's Genius by Carol Fenner
Sharks by Seymour Simon
Where Do You think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? by Jean Fritz
North Star To Freedom by Gena Gorrell
The Orphan Train Quartet:  A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon
The Pirate's Handbook by Margarette Lincoln
Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney
My First Photography Book by Dave King

 

SIXTH GRADE READING MATERIAL

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Sixth-Grade Sleepover by Lois Lowry
Under The Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury
Secret of Gumbo Grove by Eleanora Tate
To Space and Back by Sally Ride and Susan Okie
The Young Producer's Video Book by Nancy Bentley
Red-Tail Angels:  The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II by Pat McKissack
The New Complete Babysitter's Handbook by Carol Barkin
Call it Courage by Sperry Armstrong
Stepping On the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn
The Bone Detectives:  How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes by Donna Jackson
Jayhawker by Patricia Beatty
 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
 
 
 

 
 

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Carol Pica, Principal
Marlton Elementary School
8506 Old Colony Drive So.
Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772 
Telephone number 301 952 7780
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Web Master  Jo-Ellen Youngblud  02/04/2007

 

 

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