Recommended Reading:
New Standards Project Reading List

Elementary | Middle School | High School

Poetry
Heard It in the Playground, Ahlberg
Oxford Book of Poetry for Children, Blishen & Wildsmith
Sing a Song of Popcorn, De Regniers, Moore, White & Carr
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People, Giovanni
Honey I Love and Other Love Poems, Greenfield
For the Good of the Earth and Sun, Heard
Strings: A Gathering of Family Poems, Janeczko
Talking to the Sun, Koch & Farrell
The Random House of Mother Goose, Lobel
Seasons, Manguel
Red Dog, Blue Fly: Football Poems, Mathis
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Silverstein

Children’s Magazines
Weekly Reader
Creative Classroom
Social Studies for the Young Learner
World (National Geographic)
News (Scholastic)
Action (Scholastic)

Nonfiction
Corn is Maize: The Gift of the Indians, Aliki
The Way to Start a Day, Baylor
The Great Kapok Tree, Cherry
History of Women in Science for Young People, Epstein
Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir, Greenfield
Wolf Island, Godkin
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave, Hamiilton
Frederick Douglass: The Black Lion, McKissack
Song of the Swallows, Politi
Dinosaurs of North America, Sattler
And The What Happened, Paul Revere?, Fritz
The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson, McGovern

Folklore
Tales From the Hispanic Southwest, Griego y Maecstas
Snow White in New York, French
Princess Furball, Huck & Lobel
Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story From China, Louie & Young
The Dragon Kite, Luenn
Buffalo Woman, Goble
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, Steptoe
The Story of Jumping Mouse, Steptoe
The Elephant’s Child, Kipling
Legend of the Milky Way, Lee

Modern Fantasy/Science Fiction
The Ugly Duckling, Andersen
A Bear Called Paddington, Bond
James and the Giant Peach, Dahl
The Wind in the Willows, Grahame
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Lewis
The Borrowers, Norton
Jumanji, Van Allsburg
Charlotte’s Web, White

Other
Newspapers, manuals appropriate for elementary school children, e.g., video game instructions, computer manuals.

Fiction
Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya
Sounder, Armstrong
Durango Street, Bonham
Tell Us Your Secret, Cohen
My Brother Sam is Dead, Collier
I am the Cheese, Cormier
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Danziger
April Morning, Fast
A Gathering of Old Men, Gaines
The Princess Bride, Goldman
Summer of My German Soldier, Greene
Which Way Freedom, Hansen
The Outsiders, Hinton
Slakes Limbo, Holman
The Call of the Wild, London
Listen for the Fig Tree, Mathis
Nilda, Mohr
Lisa, Bright and Dark, Neufeld
Z for Zachariah, O’Brien
The Upstairs Room, Reiss
Shane, Schaefer
Treasure Island, Stevenson
Dicey’s Song, Voigt
To Hell With Dying, Walker
Because We Are, Walter
The Pigman, Zindel

Nonfiction
The Cat Who Came for Christmas, Amory
No Palce to Be: Voices of Homeless Children, Berck
The Diary of a Young Girl, Frank
The Talking Earth, George
Cheaper by the Dozen, Gilbreth
Outward Dreams, Haskins
Endless Steppe: A Girl in Exile, Hautzig
All Creatures Great and Small, Herriott
To Be a Slave, Lester
Pearson, A Harbor Seal Pup, Meyers
Living Up the Street, Soto
Ryan White: My Own Story, White
Amos Fortune, Free Man, Yates

Folklore/Mythology
Tall Tale America, Blair
The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story, Bruchac
Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum, Bryan
Norse Gods and Giants, D’Aulaire
The Snow Goose, Gallico
Toad Is the Uncle of Heaven: A Vietnamese Folk Tale, Lee
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Pyle

Poetry
Poetry of Earth and Sky, Adams
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Eliot
You Come Too, Frost
Night on Neighborhood Street, Greenfield
Cat Poems, Livingston

Drama
Brian’s Song, Blinn
Escape to Freedom, Davis
The Miracle Worker, Gibson
Inherit the Wind, Lawrence & Lee
On Borrowed Time, Osborn
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare
Metamora, or, the Last of the Wampanoags, Stone

Modern Fantasy/Science Fiction
Dandelion Wine, Bradbury
Tuck Everlasting, Babbitt
The Grey King, Cooper
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl,Hamilton
A Wrinkle in Time, L’Engle
The Hobbit, Tolkien
Dragon of the Lost Sea, Yep

Magazines/Periodicals
Scope (Scholastic)
World (National Geographic)
Junior Scholastic (Scholastic)
Science World (Scholastic)
Cobblestone (American history)
Calliope (world history)
Faces (anthropology)
Odyssey (science)

Other
Computer manuals, instructions, contracts. See also the reading lists included in award books corresponding to reading provided by the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of America.

Fiction
Alice in Wonderland, Carroll
The House on Mango Street, Cisneros
The Ox-Bow Incident, Clark
Lord of the Flies, Golding
The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book, Hentoff
Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Hilton
Shoeless Joe, Kinsella
A Separate Peace, Knowles
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, McCullers
1984, Orwell
Canyons, Paulsen
True Grit, Portis
Davita’s Harp, Potok
Dracula, Stoker
A Boat to Nowhere, Wartski
The Golden Apples, Welty

Nonfiction
Late Innings, Angell
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou
Days of Grace, Ashe
"I Will Fight No More Forever": Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War, Beal
The Day Lincoln Was Shot, Bishop
The Closing of the American Mind, Bloom
The Power of Myth, Campbell
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey
Barrio Boy, Galarza
A Brief History of Time, Hawking
Farewell to Manzanar, Houston
Profiles in Courage, Kennedy
Count Us In: Growing Up With Down Syndrome, Kingsley
Woman Warrior, Kingston
Going Where I’m Coming From, Mazer
The Way to Rainy Mountain, Momaday
Hunger of Memory, Rodriquez
User’s Guide to the Internet, Sternberg
Black Boy, Wright

Poetry
I Shall Not Be Moved, Angelou
News of the Universe, Bly
Collected Poems, Cummings
Complete Poems. Dickinson;
The Black Poets, Randall
The Voice That Is Great Within Us, Carruth
Selected Poems, Hughes
American Sports Poems, Knudson & Swenson
Evangeline, Longfellow
Things of This World, Wilbur

Drama
And Then There Were None, Christie
A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry
The Member of the Wedding, McCullers
The Elephant Man, Pomerance
Twelve Angry Men, Rose
Cyrano de Bergerac, Rostand
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare
I Remember Mama, Van Druten
The Skin of Our Teeth, Wilder
The Piano Lesson, Wilson

Folklore/Mythology
Adventures of Ulysses, Evslin
Greek Mythology, Pinsent
The Crystal Cave, Stewart
North American Indian Mythology, Burland
The Once and Future King, White

Modern Fantasy/Science Fiction
Watership Down, Adams
Foundation, Asimov
The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury
2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke
Childhood’s End, Clarke
Alas, Babylon, Frank
Dune, Herbert
Out of the Silent Planet, Lewis
Dragonflight, McCaffrey
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Twain
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Verne

Magazines/Newspapers
Omni
Sports Illustrated
Literary Cavalcade (Scholastic)
National Geographic
Smithsonian
Newsweek

Other
Computer manuals, instructions, contracts, technical materials.