Kdgn. - 3rd Reading List
The following comprises the reading list for Liberty Christian K-3 grade students. While, of course, we cannot endorse every concept of every book, we do believe that these are among the books to choose in order to be widely read. Many can be found in the school library.
| Aesop For Children | Aesop |
| Han's Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales | Andersen, Hans Christian |
| Wiley and the Hairy Man | Bang, Molly |
| Once in Puerto Rico | Belpre, Pura |
| Madeline Books | Bemelmans, Ludwig |
| The Three Billy Goats Gruff | Blair, Susan |
| Paddington Bear | Bond, Michael |
| The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Browning, Robert |
| The Story of Babar, the Elephant | Brunhoff, Jean de |
| Ramona and Henry Huggins books | Cleary, Beverly |
| Make Way for Ducklings | Closkey, Robert |
| The Magic Schoolbus | Cole, Joanna |
| The Adventure of Pinnochio | Collodi, Carlo |
| The Courage of Sarah Noble | Daigliesh, Alice |
| Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes | De Angeli, Marguerite |
| Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates | Dodge, Mary M. |
| The Whipping Boy | Fleischmen, Sid |
| The Wonder Book | Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
| John Henry: An American Legend | Keats, Nathaniel |
| Just So Stories | Kipling, Rudyard |
| The Arabian Knights / Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp | Lang, Andrew |
| Alex Books | Levene, Nancy Simpson |
| Pippi Longstocking books | Lindgren, Astrid |
| Frog and Toad Together | Lobel, Arnold |
| Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | MacDonald, Betty |
| Winnie the Pooh | Milne, A.A. |
| Amelia Bedelia | Parish, Peggy |
| Cinderella | Perrault, Charles |
| The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Potter, Beatrix |
| Clementine | Quackenbush, Robert |
| Curious George books | Rey, H.A. |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Sendak, Maurice |
| The Encyclopedia Brown Series | Sobol, Donald J. |
| Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | Steig, William |
| A Child's Garden of Verses | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| Grimms Fairy Tales | The Brothers Grimm |
| The Box Car Children | Warner, Gertrude Chandler |
| The Happy Hollisters | West, Jerry |
| Charlotte's Web | White, E.B. |
| The Little House Series | Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
| Little House books | Wilder, Laura Ingalls |
| The Velveteen Rabbit | Williams, Margery |
| Rumpelstiltskin | Zelinsky, Paul O. |
4th - 6th Reading List
The following
comprises the reading list for Liberty Christian 4-6 grade students.
While, of course, we cannot endorse every concept of every book, we do
believe that these are among the books to choose in order to be
widely read. Many can be found in the school library.
| Born Free | Adamson, Joy |
| Sounder | Armstrong, William H. |
| The Indian in the Cupboard | Banks,Lynne R. |
| Peter Pan | Barrie, J.M. |
| On My Honor | Bauer, Marion Dane |
| Are You There God? It's Me Margaret. | Blume, Judy |
| Caddie Woodlawn | Brink, Carol R. |
| The Secret Garden | Burnett, Francis |
| The Incredible Journey | Burnford, Sheila E. |
Dear Mr. Henshaw |
Cleary, Beverly |
| Frindle | Clements, Andrew |
| Getting Near to Baby | Couloumbis, Audrey |
| The Face on the Milk Carton Voice on the Radio Whatever Happened to Janie? What Janie Found |
Cooney, Caroline B. |
| Bud, Not Buddy The Watsons Go to Birmingham |
Curtis, Christopher Paul |
| The Boy Who Talked With Animals Charlie and the Chocolate Factory James and the Giant Peach The Mildenhall Treasure The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar |
Dahl, Roald |
| Because of Winn-Dixie The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane The Tale of Despereaux : Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread |
DiCamillo, Kate |
| The Black Stallion | Farley, Walter |
| The Great Brain Series | Fitzgerald, John D. |
| Harriet the Spy | Fitzhugh, Louise |
| The Whipping Boy | Fleischman, Sid |
| Johnny Tremain | Forbes, Esther |
| Poor Richard's Almanac | Franklin, Benjamin |
| Lincoln: A Photobiography | Freedman, Russell |
| And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? | Fritz, Jean |
| A Swinger of Birches : Poems for Young People | Frost, Robert |
| Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Joey Pigza Loses Control |
Gantos, Jack |
| Stone Fox | Gardiner, John Reynolds |
| My Side of the Mountain | George, Jean C. |
| Pictures of Hollis Woods | Giff, Patricia Reilly |
| Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey | Haddix, Margaret Peterson |
| The People Could Fly: American Black Folk Tales | Hamilton, Virginia |
| Justin Morgan Had a Horse Misty of Chincoteague |
Henry, Marguerite |
| Out of the Dust Phoenix Rising Stowaway Witness |
Hesse, Karen |
| Farewell to Manzanar | Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. |
| Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery | Howe, Deborah and James |
| Across Five Aprils | Hunt, Irene |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | Juster, Norton |
| Captains Courageous The Jungle Book |
Kipling, Rudyard |
| You Don’t Know Me | Klass, David |
| Lassie Come Home | Knight, Eric |
| A Wrinkle in Time | L'Engle, Madeleine |
| Tales From Shakespeare | Lamb, Charles and Mary |
| TV Guidance Counselor | LeMieux, A.C. |
| The Chronicles of Narnia | Lewis, C.S. |
| Anastasis Krupnik Autumn Street Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye Gathering Blue (Companion book to The Giver) Gooney Bird Greene The Giver Messenger Number the Stars The Silent Boy A Summer to Die |
Lowry, Lois |
| Journey Sarah, Plain and Tall |
MacLachlan, Patricia |
| A Corner of the Universe | Martin, Ann M. |
| Paul Bunyon Swings His Ax | McCormick, Dell J. |
| Anne of Green Gable and Avonlea books | Montgomery, L.M. |
| Wally McDoogle Series | Myers, Bill |
| Island of the Blue Dolphin | O'Dell, Scott |
| Bridge to Terabithia The Great Gilly Hopkins Jacob Have I Loved |
Paterson, Katherine |
| The Cooper Kids Adventure Series | Peretti, Frank E. |
| Tales of Mystery and Imagination | Poe, Edgar Allen |
| The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood | Pyle, Howard |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | Rowling, J.K. |
| Esperanza Rising | Ryan, Pam Munoz |
| Holes | Sachar, Louis |
| Abe Lincoln Grows Up Routabaga Stories |
Sandburg, Carl |
| Black Beauty Cricket in Times Square |
Selden, George |
| Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw | Singer, Isaac |
A Series of Unfortunate Events #1 - The Bad Beginning |
Snickets, Lemony |
| Sign of the Beaver | Speare, Elizabeth George |
| Crash Loser Maniac Magee Milkweed Misha Picklemania Stargirl Wringer |
Spinelli, Jerry |
| Heidi | Spyri, Johanna |
| Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? | Tomes, Margot |
