Reading Lists K-6

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

Reading List for Grades K-6

Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade
Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade
Sixth Grade

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

Carol Pica, Principal
Marlton Elementary School

8506 Old Colony Drive So.
Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772

Telephone number 301 952 7780
Fax Number 301 952 7718

Web Master Jo-Ellen Youngblud 02/04/2007