Leveled Book List The following books are listed from easy to difficult by reading levels and can be found at www.amazon.com or Barnes and Noble. Books that are just right for your child will be the ones on their level. To build fluency, have your child read books on an easier level. Books above your child s level will be too difficult. However, a child s listening level is usually above their independent reading level. Reading aloud to your child will help challenge students by introducing them to more sophisticated vocabulary and increasing their cognitive skills. In addition, reading together is a great time for parents to bond with their children and will provide opportunities for meaningful discussion. It will become a time you and your child look forward to each night! Remember; don t restrict your child s reading material to only books. Provide the chance to read other types of materials (magazines, comics, newspapers, atlases, recipes, game instructions, etc.). This will allow them to discover several reading materials of interest. Guided Reading Level A/Readiness simple, decodable books At the Zoo Legs, Legs, Legs Look What I Can Do My Class The Royal Family Do You Want to Be My Friend? What Do Insects Do? What Has Wheels? Shapes I Am Dogs We Like Fruit My Cats Lunch Carol Kloes R. Gossett and Margaret Ballinger Jose Aruego Lynn Salem & J. Stewart Eric Carle Susan Canizares and Pamela Chanko Karen Hoenecke Karen Evans & Kathleen Urmston Adria Klein Amy Levin Millen Lee Eileen Robinson Gay Su Pinnell
Guided Reading Level B/ Readiness simple, decodable books Have You Seen My Cat? My Cat Muffin Mrs. Wishy-Washy s Tub Who Lives in a Tree? Who Lives in the Arctic? Monkeys Making Mountains What s for Dinner? Astronaut Snow Spaceship Cat on the Mat Chicken Soup My Cat Muffin Good Night, Gorilla Hats Around the World I Like Shapes Have You Seen My Duckling? In the Forest I m Hungry Mother and Me Eric Carle Marjorie Gardner The Story Book the Wright Group Pamela Chanko & Susan Canizares Margaret Ballinger & R. Gossett Karen Hoenecke Brian Wildsmith Pamela Fitros Marjory Gardner Peggy Rathmann Liza Charlesworth Shane Armstrong Nancy Tafuri Melissa Schiller Pamela Fitros Nancy Louise Spinelle Guided Reading Level C/ Basal 1.1 All Fall Down What s For Lunch? Pig Picnic Up Went the Goat At the Library Baby Says Bo and Peter Gregory s Dog Is it Time? Max s Pet One For You and One For Me Brian Wildsmith Eric Carle Patricia Hubbell Barbara Gregorich Christine Loomis John Steptoe Betsy Franco William Stobbs J.G. Campbell Nancy Leber Wendy Blaxland
Raindrops What A Tale! Sandy Gay Brain Wildsmith Guided Reading Level D/ Basal Level 1.2 Cat Traps Footprints in the Snow Happy Birthday, Danny the Dinosaur Sid and Sam Puppy Mudge Takes a Bath Puppy Mudge Has a Snack How Many Bugs in a Box? I Love Mud and Mud Loves Me I m Hungry! Say Please School Bus Sleepy Dog Wheels Winter is Here The Ball Game Bump, Bump, Bump Cat Traps Don t Be Late Footprints in the Snow Freight Train Molly Coxe Cynthia Benjamin Syd Hoff Nola Buck Cynthia Rylant Cynthia Rylant David Carter Vicki Stephens Judy Tuer Virginia Austin Donald Crews Harriet Ziefert Annie Cobb Kimberly Weinberger David Packard Leslie Wood Molly coxe Akimi Gibson Cynthia Benjamin Donald Crews Guided Reading Level E/ Basal Level 1.3 I See, You Saw We All Fall For Apples Bug, a Bear, and a Boy Clouds A Funny Man Flying Giants Is Tomorrow My Birthday? Just a Seed Nurit Karlin Emmi S. Herman Daivd McPhail Meredith Costain Patricia Jensen Donald Crews Wendy Blaxland
My Brother, the Brat Paper Bag Trail The Pet That I Want Read to Your Bunny Today is Monday Who Am I? Kirsten Hall Anne Schreiber and A. Doughty Mary Packard Rosemary Wells Eric Carle Nancy Christensen Guided Reading Level F/ Basal Level 1.4 Amy Loves the Snow Amy Loves the Sun Are You There, Bear? Beep, Beep Bread, Bread, Bread A Bug, A Bear, and a Boy Calico Cat at the Zoo Calico the Cat A Dozen Dogs Friendly Snowman Frog s Lunch Harry Takes a Bath Hooray for Snail Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox Jog, Frog, Jog My Dog s the Best! Soccer Game! Tiger is a Scaredy Cat Who Will Be My Friends? Julia Hoban Julia Hoban Ron Maris Barbara Gregorich Ann Morris David McPhail Donald Charles Donald Charles Harriet Ziefert William Joyce Dee Lillgard & J. Zimmerman Harriet Ziefert John Stadler Grace Maccarone Barbara Gregorich Stephanie Calmenson Grace Maccarone Joan Phillips Syd Hoff Guided Reading Level G/Basal Level 1.4 Biscuit Biscuit Finds A Friend Boats Boris Bad Enough Buzz Said the Bee Cat and Dog Alyssa Satin Capucilli Alyssa Satin Capucilli Anne Rockwell Robert Kraus Wendy Lewison Else H. Minarik
The Great Race How Do You Make a Bubble? Hungry Animals I m a Caterpillar Just Enough More Spaghetti I Say My Friends Nine Men Chase a Hen No Mail for Mitchell Sheep in a Jeep Shhhh! Sue Likes Blue Teddy Bears for Sale That s Not All Three Cheers for Hippo When You Were a Baby Why Can t I Fly David McPhail William H. Hooks Little Readers Series Jean Marzollo Lynn Salem & J. Stewart Rita Gelman Taro Gomi Barbara Gregorich Catherine Siracusa Nancy Shaw Suzy Kline Barbara Gregorich Gail Herman Start to Read Series John Stadler Ann Jonas Rita Gelman Guided Reading Level H/Basal Level 1.5 Bee My Valentine! Building a House Buzz,Buzz,Buzz The Cake That Mack Ate Captain Cat A Clean House For Mole and Mouse Come Out and Play Little Mouse Danny and the Dinosaur Go to Camp The Giant s Job Goodnight Moon The Great Big Enormous Turnip If I Had an Alligator It s George! Just Me and My Dad Just Me and My Puppy A Kiss for Little Bear Put Me in the Zoo The Rabbit Quack, Said the Billy Goat Miriam Cohen Byron Barton Byron Barton Rose Robart & Maryann Kolvalski Syd Hoff Harriet Ziefert Robert Kraus Syd Hoff J. Stewart & Lynn Salem Margaret Wise Brown Aleksei Tolstoi & Graff Nikolaevich Mercer Mayer Miriam Cohen Mercer Mayer Mercer Mayer Tana Hoban Robert Lopshire John Burningham Charles Causley
Tool Box Two Bear Cubs We are Best Friends Where are You Going, Little Mouse You ll Soon Grow Into Them Titch Anne Rockwell Ann Jonas Aliki Robert Kraus Pat Hutchins Guided Reading Level I/Basal Level 1.5 Airport Albert the Albatross Angus and the Cat All Tutus Should Be Pink Are You My Mother? Ben and the Bear Big Bad Rex Big Dog, Little Dog Bike Lesson Busy Buzzing Bumblebees and Other Tongue Twisters Dogs The Dragon Series: Dragon Gets By Dragon s Fat Cat Dragon s Halloween Dragon s Merry Christmas A Friend For Dragon Father Bear Comes Home Fix It Hiccups for Elephant Just a Mess Just Grandma and Me Liar, Liar Pants on Fire Lost in the Mueum Mice At Bat The Napping House Noisy Nora Spooky Riddles Spot s Birthday Party Teeny Tiny Byron Barton Syd Hoff Marjorie Flack Sheri Brownrigg Philip D. Eastman Chris Riddell Betty Erickson Philip D. Eastman Stan & Jan Berenstain Alvin Schwartz Pat Hutchins Dav Pilkey Else H. Minarik David McPhail James Preller Mercer Mayer Mercer Mayer Miriam Cohen Miriam Cohen Kelly Oechsli Don & Audrey Wood Rosemary Wells Marc Brown Eric Hill Jill Bennett
The Three Billy Goats Gruff The Very Busy Spider Who s Afraid of the Dark Marcia Brown Eric Carle Crosby Bonsall Guided Reading Level J/Basal Level 2.1 Bear Shadow Bear s Bargain Camp Big Paw Curious George and the Ice Cream Days with Frog and Toad Don t Eat Too Much Turkey The Fox Series: Fox All Week Fox and His Friends Fox at School Fox Be Nimble Fox in Love Fox on Stage Fox on the Job Fox on Wheels Froggy Learns to Swim Funny Bones Ghosts! Green Eggs and Ham The Henry and Mudge Series: Henry and Mudge and the Best Day of All Henry and Mudge in the Sparkle Days Henry and Mudge Take the Big Test... and many more titles!! Hop on Pop Jimmy Lee Did It Little Bear Books: Little Bear Little Bear s Friend Little Bear s Visit Mouse Soup Mouse Tales Frank Asch Frank Asch Doug Cushman Margaret Rey Arnold Lobel Miriam Cohen Edward Marshall Jonathan London Allan & Janet Ahlberg Alvin Schwartz Dr. Seuss Cynthia Rylant Dr. Seuss Pat Cummings Else H. Minarik Arnold Lobel Arnold Lobel
Mr. Putter and Tabby Books: Mr. Putter and Tabby Bake the Cake Mr. Putter and Tabby Fly the Plane... and other titles! The Teeny Tiny Woman There s an Alligator Under My Bed There s Something in My Attic Cynthia Rylant Barbara Seuling Mercer Mayer Mercer Mayer Guided Reading Level K/Basal Level 2.1 Alison s Puppy A Baby Sister for Frances A Bargain for Frances Baseball Ballerina Best Friends for Frances The Best Way to Play Bony-Legs Bread and Jam for Frances The Camp Knock Knock Mystery The Case of the Cat s Meow The Case of the Double Cross Clifford, the Big Red Dog Clifford, the Small Red Puppy The Commander Toad series: Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy Commander Toad and the Space Pirates... and other titles! Four on the Shore Three by the Sea Frog and Toad are Friends Frog and Toad Together Ibis: A True Whale Story If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Madeline The Magic Box Molly the Brave and Me The Nate the Great series of mysteries: Marion Dane Bauer Lillian Hoban Russell Hoban Cathryn Cristaldi Russell Hoban Bill Cosby Joanna Cole Russell Hobal Ann Douglas Crosby Bonsall Crosby Bonsall Norman Bridwell Norman Bridwell Jane Yolen Edward Marshall Arnold Lobel John Himmelman Laura Numeroff Ludwig Bemelmans Barbara Brenner Jane O Connor Weinman M. Sharmat
Nate the Great and the Lost List Nate the Great and the Phony Clue Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail Ruby the Copycat Soccer Cousins Space Rock Treasure of the Lost Lagoon Peggy Rathman Jean Marzollo Jon Buller Geoffrey Hayes Guided Reading Level L/Basal Level 2.2 Amelia Bedelia Books: Amelia Bedelia Amedlia Bedelia and the Baby Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping Animal Tracks The Cam Jansen Mystery series: Cam Jansen and the Chocolate Fudge Mystery Cam Jansen and the Mystery at the Haunted House The Case of the Cool-Itch Kid The Clue at the Zoo The Mystery of the Blue Ring The Horrible Harry series: Horrible Harry in Room 2B Horrible Harry and the Kickball Wedding The Marvin Redpost series: Marvin Redpost: Alone in His Teacher s House Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl? Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth? Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me? The Pinky and Rex series: Pinky and Rex Pinky and Rex and The Bully Pinky and Rex and the New Baby Peggy Parish Arthur Dorros David Adler Patricia Reilly Giff Suzy Kline Louis Sachar James Howe
The Pee Wee Scouts series: Pee Wee Scouts: Eggs with Legs Pee Wee Scouts: Halloween Helpers Judy Delton Guided Reading Level M/Basal Level 2.2 Arthur books: Arthur and the Lost Diary Arthur Makes the Team Arthur s Mystery Envelope Beast and the Halloween Horror The Beast in Ms. Rooney s Room Count Your Money With the Polk Street School Emily Arrow Promises to Do Better This Year Fancy Feet The Secret at the Polk Street School Show Time at the Polk Street School Baseball Pals The Comeback Challenge The Counterfeit Tackle Double Play at Short Crackerjack Halfback Fighting Tackle The Fox Steals Home The Hit-Away Kid The Junie B. Jones series: Junie B. Jones is a Party Animal Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus Five True Dog Stories Nine True Dolphin Stories Five True Horse Stories The Magic Treehouse series: Hour of the Olympics Marc Brown Patricia Reilly Giff Matt Christopher Barbara Park Margaret Davidson Mary Pope Osborne
Night of the Ninjas Hoopstars: Go to the Hoop! Dean Hughes Guided Reading Level N/Basal Level 3.1 Amber Brown books: Amber Brown Goes Fourth Amber Brown is Not a Crayon The Cloud Book The Enormous Crocodile The Magic Finger Helen Keller s Teacher Julian, Dream Doctor Julian, Secret Agent Julian s Glorious Summer More Stories Huey Tells More Stories Julian Tells Flat Stanley Max Malone series: Max Malone and the Great Cereal Rip- Off Max Malone Makes a Million Max Malone the Magnificient Max Malone, Superstar The Titanic The Titanic Lost... and Found True-Life Treasure Hunts Paula Danziger Tomie DePaola Roald Dahl Margaret Davidson Ann Cameron Jeff Brown Charlotte Herman Judy Donnelly Guided Reading Level O/Basal Level 3.2 Bugs Chocolate Fever Class Clown Class President Elisa in the Middle I Wonder Why Snakes Shed Their Skins N. Parker & R. Wright Robert Smith Johanna Hurwitz Amanda O Neill
Herbie Jones books: Herbie Jones Herbie Jones and the Dark Attic... and other titles! Henry and Beezus Henry and Ribsy Henry and the Clubhouse Runaway Ralph Ramona and Her Mother Ramona the Brave Ramona the Pest Socks Suzy Kline Beverly Cleary A Pony for Keeps A Pony in Trouble Pony to the Rescue Jeanne Betancourt Guided Reading Level P/ Basal Level 3.2 Dolphin Adventure Dolphin Treasure Dragon Quest Dragon Trouble Dragons and Kings The Dragonling The Encyclopedia Brown mystery series: Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues The Twits Fantastic Mr. Fox Magic School Bus books: Magic School Bus Gets Ants in Its Pants Magic School Bus Inside the Earth One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest One Day in the Woods Book of Black Heroes from A to Z Going for Gold! Time Warp Trio books: Wayne Grover Jackie French Koller Donald & Rose Sobol Roald Dahl Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen Jean Craighead George W. Hudson & V. W. Wesley Eyewitness Readers DK Books Jon Scieszka
Time Warp Trio: 2095 Time Warp Trio: The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy Time Warp Trio: The Knights of the Kitchen Table... and other titles! Guided Reading Level Q/ Basal Level 4.1 Anastasia books: Anastasia Krupnik Anastasia, Absolutely Anastasia Again! Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst Anastasia on Her Own Bunnicula Bunnicula Strikes Again! The American Girls: Changes for Addy Chages for Addy: A Winter Story Changes for Felicity: A Winter Story Changes for Samantha: A Winter Story Felicity Learns a Lesson Felicity Saves the Day Happy Birthday, Addy! Finding the Titanic Little House in the Big Woods Little House on the Prairie Little Town on the Prairie Outside and Inside Sharks Outside and Inside Snakes Outside and Inside Spiders Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Help! I m Trapped in My Teacher s Body Help! I m Trapped in Obedience School Help! I m Trapped in the First Day of School James and the Giant Peach There s a Boy in the Girls Bathroom Lois Lowry James Howe The American Girls Collection Robert D. Ballard Laura Ingalls Wilder Sandra Markle Judy Blume Todd Strasser Roald Dahl Louis Sachar
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Jon Scieszka Guided Reading Level R / Basal Level 4.2 Babe the Gallant Pig A Book About Planets and Stars Brendan the Navigator: A History Mystery about the Discovery of America The Celery Stalks at Midnight Dog Years Foul Play on the Sidelines How to Eat Fried Worms The Indian in the Cupboard Mummies Made in Egypt No More Magic The Story of Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor Strider Stuart Little The Trumpet of the Swan Weather Words and What They Mean Dick King-Smith Betty Polisar Reigot Jean Fritz James Howe Sally Warner Emily Costello Thomas Rockwell Lynne Reid Banks Aliki Avi Margaret Davidson Beverly Cleary E.B. White Gail Gibbons Guided Reading Level S / Basal Level 4.2 The Baby-Sitter Burglaries Boys Against Girls The Boys Start the War and the Girls Get Even Eagle Song Eureka! It s an Airplane Matilda My Teacher Flunked the Planet My Teacher Fried My Brains My Teacher Glows in the Dark My Teacher Is an Alien Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside Carolyn Keene Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Joseph Bruchac Jeanne Bendick Roald Dahl Bruce Coville Louis Sachar
School Samuel s Choice Poppy Poppy and Rye The War With Grandpa True Confessions Richard Berleth Avi Robert Kimmel Smith Janet Tashjian Guided Reading Level T/ Basal Level 5.1 Abel s Island A Ballad of the Civil War The Black Stallion Blubber Bud, Not Buddy But I ll Be Back Again Cracker Jackson Danny, Champion of the World Going Solo Harriet the Spy Harry Potter series Jackie and Me Shoeless Joe and Me They Came From Center Field Joey Pigza Loses Control Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key The Magician s Nephew The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrope Mufaro s Beautiful Daughters My Life as a Fifth-Grade Comedian The Power of Un Sounder Steal Away The Titanic The Well The Wish Giver William Steig Stolz Walter Farley Judy Blume Christopher Paul Curtis Cynthia Rylant Betsy Byars Ronald Dahl Louise Fitzhugh J.K. Rowling Gutman Gantos C.S. Lewis Steptoe Levy Etchemendy Armstrong Kent Taylor Bill Brittain Guided Reading Level U/ Basal Level 5.2
Baseball in April and Other Stories The B.F.G. Bridge to Terabithia The Cat Ate Mt Gymsuit Julie of the Wolves Julie s Wolf Pack My Side of the Mountain Talking Earth Number the Stars The Real Thief Report to the Principal s Office Wringer Knots in My Yo-Yo String Loser The Secret Garden The Summer of the Swans The View from Saturday Tuck Everlasting The Winter Room Woodsong The Egypt Game Ella Enchanted Gary Soto Ronald Dahl Katherine Patterson Paula Danziger Jean Craighead George Lois Lowry William Steig Jerry Spinelli Frances H. Burnett Betsy Byars E.L. Konigsburg Natalie Babbitt Gary Paulsen Snyder Levine Guided Reading Level V/ Basal Level 5.2 1000 Facts About Space Beasant Anne Frank Epstein Anne of Green Gables E.L. Montgomery The Boy Who Saved Baseball Ritter The Cay Theodore Taylor Chasing Redbird Creech Esperanza Rising Ryan The Fighting Ground Avi What do fish Have to Do With Anything? The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Old Yeller Fred Gipson Holes Louis Sachar Rascal Sterling North
A Pocketful of Seeds An Island Far From Home Brain The Biggest Klutz in the Fifth Grade Black Star, Bright Dawn Island of the Blue Dolphins Dogsong Dragonwings The Rainbow People The Westing Game Marilyn Sachs John Donahue Douglas Mathers Bill Wallace Scott O Dell Gary Paulsen Laurence Yep Ellen Raskin Guided Reading Level W/ Basal Level 6.1 The Black Pearl Dicey s Song Dragon s Gate A Blue Eyed Daisy The House on Mango Street Kiss the Dust Maniac Magee Missing May Mr. Lincoln s Drummer The Phantom Tollbooth Phoenix Rising Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Saturnalia Tiger Eyes Winterdance Scott O Dell Cynthia Voigt Laurence Yep Cynthia Rylant Sandra Cisneros Elizabeth Laird Jerry Spinelli Cynthia Rylant G. Clifton Wisler Norton Juster Karen Hesse Mildred Taylor Paul Fleischman Judy Blume Gary Paulsen Guided Reading Level X/ Upper Middle School Call It Courage The Devil s Arithmetic A Girl Named Disaster M.C. Higgins the Great Out of the Dust Armstrong Sperry Jane Yolen Nancy Farmer Virginia Hamilton Karen Hesse
Where the Red Fern Grows The Yearling Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! Definitely Cool Sarah Bishop Wilson Rawls Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Jean Fritz Brenda Wilkinson Scott O Dell Guided Reading Level Y/ Upper Middle School Call of the Wild The Diary of Anne Frank The Giver Jackaroo Jesse Living Up the Street My Brother Sam is Dead The Pushcart War Where the Lilies Bloom Jack London Anne Frank Lois Lowry Cynthia Voigt Gary Soto James and Christopher Collier Jean Merrill Vera and Bill Cleavers Guided Reading Level Z/ Upper Middle School Across Five Aprils The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Tom Sawyer After the Rain A Day No Pigs Would Die Flowers for Algernon The Golden Compass Good Night, Mr. Tom The Hobbit Of Mice and Men The Outsiders To Kill a Mockingbird Treasure Island Irene Hunt Mark Twain Norma Fox Mazer Sylvia Peck Daniel Keyes Phillip Pullman Michelle Magorian J.R.R. Tolkien John Steinbeck S.E. Hinton Harper Lee Robert Lewis Stevenson