Reading List 2020

“Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader.”

— Margaret Fuller

First Grade

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures

Beyond the Pond

EARNEST explores the not-so-ordinary world in the pond depths and discovers so many wonderful things

Kindergarten

Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau

a champion of the seas and one of the best-known oceanographers in the world

The Giving Tree

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Second Grade

When you go owling you don't need words. You don't need anything but hope.

Third Grade

The Boy Who Drew Birds

this story will leave young readers listening intently for the call of birds large and small near their own homes

Otis and Will Discover the Deep

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Fifth Grade

Willa of the Wood

Filled with the history, mystery, and magic of the Great Smoky Mountains, Kirkus Reviews describes WILLA OF THE WOOD as "A moving, atmospheric journey of hope."

Fourth Grade

After a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach help Kester escape, he realizes the wild needs him

Sixth Grade

Everybody loves Mother Paula’s pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant.

The Last Day on Mars

Seventh Grade

Julie of the Wolves

Miyax survives the ALASKAN wilderness by copying the ways of a pack of wolves and soon grows to love her new wolf family.

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Eighth Grade

**A worldwide bestseller for more than forty years, Watership Down is the compelling tale of a band of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the world**