KINDERGARTEN RECOMMENDED READING

Aliki: My Visit to the Aquarium
Bacler: School Isn’t Fair
Baer: This is the Way We Go to School
Bishop: The Five Chinese Brothers
Carle: The Grouchy Ladybug
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Carlson: I Like Me
Galdone: The Gingerbread Boy
The Three Bears
Gibson: The Seasons of Arnold’s Apple Tree
Ehlert: Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On
Hoberman: A House is a House for Me
Kraus: Leo the Late Bloomer
Leonni: Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
Matthew’s Dream
Swimmy
Mayer: There’s a Nightmare in My Closet
McKee: Elmer
McMillan: Growing Colors
Mouse View: What the Class Pet Saw
Pfitzer: The Rainbowfish
Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are

GRADE 1 RECOMMENDED READING
Eastman: Go Dog Go
Freeman: Corduroy
A Pocket for Corduroy
Lobel: Frog and Toad (Series)
McDonald: Is This a House for Hermit Crab
Munsch: Love You Forever
Numeroff If You Give a Mouse a Muffin
Rylant: Henry and Mudge (Series)
Samuels: Duncan and Dolores
Sharmat: Nate the Great (Series)
Small: Imogene’s Antlers
Suess: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Zion: Harry the Dirty Dog (Series)
Cinderella (various version)
Jack and the Beanstalk (various versions)
The Three Bears (various versions)

GRADE 2 RECOMMENDED READING
Barracca: The Adventures of Taxi Dog
Brown: Flat Stanley
Cherry: The Great Kapok Tree
Child: Beware of the Storybook Wolves
Henkes: Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse
Holtzman: A Quarter from the Tooth Fairy
Lobel: Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
McMillan: Eating Fractions
Mosel: Tikki Tikki Tembo
O’Neill: Hailstone and Halibut Bones
Park: Junie B. Jones
Peet: How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head
Pope Osborne: Magic Tree House (series)
Silverstein: The Giving Tree
Slobodkina: Caps for Sale
Waber: Ira Sleeps Over
Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
Warner: Boxcar Children (Series)
Williams: A Chair for My Mother
Cherries and Cherry Pits
Music, Music for Everyone
Something Special for Me
Yolan: Color Me a Rhyme –Nature Poems for Young People

GRADE 3 RECOMMENDED READING
Cannon: Stellaluna
Cleary: Beezus and Ramona
Henry and Ribsy
Cole: Magic School Bus (series)
MacLachlan: Sarah Plain and Tall
Park: A Single Shard
Rockwell: How to Eat Fried Worms
Sobel: Encyclopedia Brown (Series)
Steptoe: Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Stiles: My Father’s Dragon, Gannett,
Various Authors: Wishbone (Series)
White: Charlotte’s Web
Any biography of an artist or musician

GRADE 4 RECOMMENDED READING
Blume: Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing
Byars: Summer of the Swans
Dahl: The Twits
Any work by this author
Fitzgerald: The Great Brain (Series)
Fleishmann: The Whipping Boy
Kipling: The Jungle Book
Just So Stories
Kongsburg: From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking
Manes: The Great Gerbil Roundup
Selden: A Cricket in Times Square
Sharmat: Maggie Marmelstein for President
White: Stuart Little
Wilder: Little House on the Prairie
Any books from this series

GRADE 5 RECOMMENDED READING
Armstrong: Sounder
Babbit: Tuck Everlasting
Banks: Indian in the Cupboard
Burnett: The Secret Garden
Cleary: Dear Mr. Henshaw
Coerr: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Dahl: James and the Giant Peach
Gary: Hatchet
Gipson: Old Yeller
Herriott: All Creatures Great and Small
Hurwitz: Class Clown
Lewis, C.S.: The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe
Lewis, E.: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Lofting: The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle
Lowery: Number the Stars
Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
Naidoo: Journey to Jo Burg
O’Brien: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
O’Dell: Island of Blue Dolphin
Paterson: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Patterson: Jip
Schlein: The Year of the Panda
Sewell: Black Beauty
Spinelli: Maniac Magee
Taylor: Shiloh
James: Smoky the Cowhorse
Spinelli: Wringer
White: Belle Prater’s Boy

Grade/Subject Area: 6
Recommended Reading List:
1. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
2. True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi
3. Where the Red Fern Grows, Rawls
4. In The Year of The Boar and Jackie Robinson, Lord
5. Canyon, Paulsen
6. Dragonwings, Yep
7. Bridge to Terebithia, Katherine Paterson
8. Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare
9. The View From Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
10. Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
11. Dicey’s Song, Cynthia Voigt
12. Oinion John, Joseph Krumgold
13. Narnia Chronicles, C.S. Lewis
1. The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
2. The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
16. The Upstairs Room, Reiss
17. Zlata’s Diary, Filipovic
18. The Cay, Taylor
19. Holes, Sachar
20. The Yearling, Rawlings
21. Tiger Eyes, Blume
22. Dragons Gate Yep
23. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
24. Trumpeter of Krakow, Erick P. Kelly
25. Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates
26. King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry
27. Johnny Tremain, Ester Forbes
28. Crispin, The Cross of Lead, Avi
29. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Townsend

Grade/Subject Area: 7
Recommended Reading List:
1. The Awakening Chopin, Kate
2. The House on Mango Street. Cisneros, Sandra
3.Who Moved My Cheese? For Teens: An A-Mazing way to Change and Win!, S. Johnson
4. Jacob, I Have Loved, Katherine Paterson
5. A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park
6. The Midwife’s Apprentice, Karen Cushman
7. Jacob I have Loved, Katherine Paterson
8. Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George
9. Catherine Called Birdy, Karen Cushman
10. Heidi, Jonathan Spyri
2. Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
3. Complete Poems, Keats, John
4. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck
6. Missing May, Cynthia Rylant
7. The Grey King, Susan Cooper
8. The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
9. …And Now Miguel, Joseph Krumgold
10. Banner in the Sky, James Ullman
11. Flowers for Algernon, D. Keyes
12. Little Women, Louisa Alcott

Grade/Subject Area: 8
Recommended Reading List:
1. The Bluest Eyes Morrison, Toni
2. The Poetry of Robert Frost, Frost, Robert
3. The Rain King Bellow, Saul
4. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
5. Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
6. Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
7. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
8. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
9. Three Musketeers, A Dumas
10. The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
11. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
12. Two Years Before the Mast R.H. Dana
13. Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
14. Kon Tiki, Thor Hyerdahl
15. The Chocolate War, Cormier, Robert
16. Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Johnson, Thomas H. ed.
17. Garden of Eden, Hemingway, Ernest
18. Of Human Bondage, Maugham, Somerset
19. Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
20. Dune, F. Herbert
21. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
22. Time Machine, H.G. Wells
23. The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
24. The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
25. Star Girl, Spinelli Jerry

Grade/Subject Area: 9
Recommended Reading List:
1. The Trial. Kafka, Franz.
2. The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Milford, Nancy Ed.
3. The Reader. Schlink, Bernhard. Janeway, Carol Brown (translator)
4. On Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Kesey, Ken
5. Schindler’s List, Keneally
6. Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
7. Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
8. Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
9. Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
10. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
11. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
12. All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque
13. Mutiny on the Bounty, C. Nordoff and J.N. Hall
14. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
15. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Howard Pyle
16. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
17. Lord of the Flies, Goulding
18. Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
19. A Renaissance in Harlem: Lost Essays of the WPA, by Ralph Ellison, Dorothy
20. West and Other Voices of a Generation. Bascom, Lionel C.
21. Poems of Dylan Thomas. Thomas Dylan
22. The Count of Monte Cristo, A. Dumas
23. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
24. 1984, George Orwell
25. A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, D. Adams
26. Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
27. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
28. A Separate Peace, John Knowles

Grade/Subject Area: 10
Recommended Reading List:
1. The Book of Ruth. Hamilton, Jane.
2. Three by O’Connor, O’Connor, Flannery
3. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
4. I, Claudius Robert Graves
5. The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
6. Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
7. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
8. Don Quixote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes
9. Crime and Punishment, Feodor Dostoyevsky
10. The Idiot, Foedor Dostoyevsky
11. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin
12. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
13. Glass Menagerie. Williams, Tennessee
14. The Jungle. Sinclair, Upton.
15. Profiles in Courage. Kennedy, John F.
16. The Republic. Plato
17. Invisible Man. Ellison, Ralph.
18. Metamorphosis. Kafka, Franz
19. Exodus, Leon Uris
20. Anna Karenina, Tolstoy

Grade/Subject Area: 11
Recommended Reading List:
1. Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book. Hong Kingston, Maxine
2. Rabbit, Run. Updike, John
3. A Box of Matches. Baker, Nicolson.
4. I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone.
5. Catch 22 Heller
6. War and Peace Tolstoy
7. Complete Poems. Sandburg, Carl
8. The Communist Manifesto . Marx, Karl
9. Frankenstein. Shelley, Mary W.
10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Angelou, Maya
11. Schindler’s List. (1982). Keneally, Thomas.
12.The Day of the Jackal, F. Forsyth
13.Sum of All Fears, Tom Clancy

Grade/Subject Area: 12
Recommended Reading List:
1. To Be The Poet (The William E. Massey. Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization) Kingston Hong, M.
2. Nine Horses. Collins, Billy
3. Rent. Larson, Jonathan.
4. The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves: Or, What You Are You Are. Brooks et al.
5. Maus, Spiegleman, Art.
6. Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir. McCourt, Frank
7. The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso by Dante
8. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Diamond, Jared.
9. Howl and Other Poems. Ginsberg, Allen
10.The Human Stain, Roth, Philip
11. My House. Giovanni, Nikki.
12. Writing about Literature, Robert, Edgar V.

Grade/Subject Area: Social Studies 9-12
Recommended Reading List:
Western Civilization
1.The Prince and the Pauper Twain
2. The Cherry Garden Chehkov
3. The Diary of a Young Girl Frank
4. Inside the Walls of Troy: A Novel of the Women Who Lived the Trojan War, C. McLaren
5 Anna of Byzantium. Tracy Barrett
6. A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance. Manchester
7 Praise of Folly. Erasumus
8. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Tracy Chevalier
9. Fever. Laurie Andersen
10. Summer of My German Soldier. Bette Greene
11. The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day. Cornelius Ryan
12. The Tale of Two Cities. Dickens
13. Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc. Nancy Gordan

US History
1. Coming of Age in Mississippi. Moody
2. The Caine Mutiny. Herman Wouk
3. After the Dancing Days. Rostkowski
4. A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck

Geography
1. The Yearling. M. K. Rawlings
2. A Journey to the Center of the Earth. Jules Verne

Asian Studies
1. Ties that Bind, Ties That Break –Lensey Namioka (China)
2. Nectar in a Sieve-Karmala Markandaya (India)
3. Homeless Bird-Gloria Whelan (India)
4. The Samurai’s Tale-Erik Haugaard (Japan)
5.When My Name was Keoko: A Novel of Korea in WWII-Linda Sue Park (Korea)
6. The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently… and Why.,R. Nesbitt

Grade/Subject Area: Language 9/10
Recommended Reading List:
1. Animal Farm, Orwell, George
2. The Giver, Lowry, Lois
3. The Outsiders, Hinton, S. E.
4.Helen Keller, Graff, Stewart
5.The Chocolate War, Cormier
6. The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury
7. The Indian in the Cupboard, Banks, Lynne Reid
8. The Secret Garden, Barnett, Frances Hodgson
9. Alice in Wonderland, Carroll, Lewis
10.The Bridge to Terebithia, Paterson, Katherine

Grade/Subject Area: French-Year 2
Recommended Reading List:
1. Series Babar:
- Babar en ballon
- Le couronnement de Babar
- Babar construit Celesteville
- Babar au cirque
- Babar retrouve ses amis
- Une surprise pour Babar
- Babar et la vieille dame

2.From Asterix
3.From Becassine

Grade/Subject Area: French-Year 3
Recommended Reading List:
1. Basile et le rat cadabra
2. 12 petites theatres de lecture
3. Jeux dramatiques et improvisations

Grade/Subject Area: Language Arts –7th grade
Recommended Reading List:
1. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
2. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
3. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
4. The Greek Myths, Robert Graves
5. Julie of the Wolves, Craighead George
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
8. Who Stole the Wizard of Oz, Avi

Grade/Subject Area: Language Arts –8th grade
Recommended Reading List:

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
4. The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald
3. The Adventure of Odysseus, Padraic Colum
4. The Giver, Lois Lowry
5. Kitchen God’s Wife, Amy Tan
6. The Pigman, Paul Zindel

Grade/Subject Area: ESL –grades 1-6
Recommended Reading List:
Grades 1-3
1. Very Hungry Caterpillar Carle, Eric
2. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, Carle, Eric
3. Clifford the Big Red Dog (Series), Bridwell, Norman
4. Strega Nona (Series), DePaola, Tomie
Grades 4-6
1. Sadako & the Thousand Paper Cranes, Coerr, Eleanor B.
2. The Hundred Dresses, Estes, Eleanor
3. The Five Chinese Brothers, Bishop, Claire
4. The Story of Ferdinand, Leaf, Munro
5. Harry Potter (Series), Rowling, J. K.
6. The Magic Brocade, Shepard, Aaron
7. The Secret of the Seal, Davis Deborah

Grade/Subject Area: ESOL –grades 7-8
Recommended Reading List:
1. Grandfather’s Journey, Allen Say
2. Dragon Wings, Lawrence Yep
3. The Lotus Seed, Sherry Garland
4. Annie and The Old One, Miska Miles
5. Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters, John Steptoe
6. Sarah, Plain and Tall, Particia MacLachlan
7. Sachiko Means Happiness, T. Arai
8. Halmoni and the Picnic
9. Year of Impossible Goodbyes, Choi, Sook Nyul
10. The Same Sky. A Collection of Poems from Around the World, Alladin Publishing
11. A Cinderella Story from China, Ai-Ling, Louie
12. Dia’s Story Cloth, Cha, Dia

UPPER SCHOOL MANDARIN RECOMMENDED READING

Beginning Level:
First year students
1．《我真棒》幼儿成长图书系列 -20本
I am great! Student Profile series -20 books
Second year students
2.新华少儿经典故事城 - 32 本
Xinhua Classical Story Cities for Young Kids
Intermediate students
1、科技知识类：提供有关生活常识、自然知识等科学常识性文章等。
Grade 6-7:
《生活小常识》（注音本）、《告诉我为什么》（低年级版）、《动脑筋爷爷》、《大自然中的老师》（彩图注音本）
Grade 8-9:
《动植物奇观》、《少年百科知识问答》、《小实验小制作》、《四季星座》、《学做多面手》、《飞向太空》、《奇趣博物馆》、《小学生十万个为什么》
Grade 10-12:
《少年百科丛书》系列、《世界科幻小说精品丛书》、《小学生漫游祖国》、《打开智慧之门的的金钥匙》、《中国科学小品文》、《学会在21世纪生存丛书》、《上下五千年》

2、文学作品类：选择名家名篇指导学生品味、赏析、学习。
Grade 6-7:
《看图学成语》（注音本）、《小学生智慧快餐》（注音本）、《安徒生童话》、《格林童话》、《儿童学古诗》、《笑话谜语大全》、《跟我学儿歌》
Grade 8-9:
《木偶奇遇记》、《伊索寓言》、《一千零一夜》、《民间故事》、《中外历史故事》、《中国革命历史故事》、《相声小品集》、《西游记》、《唐诗三百首》、《名人名言》、《少年晨读》（期刊）
Grade 10-12:
《中外名人故事》、《三国演义》、《水浒》、《中国儿童短篇小说选》、《世界儿童文学名著故事大全》、《现代背诵散文选》、《唐诗三百首》、《全国小学生获奖作文精选》。

Advanced Students
Grade 6
《格林童话》 《伊索寓言》
《一千零一夜》 《西游记》（连环画版）
《成语故事选集》 《神话故事选集》
Grade 7
《西游记》（连环画版） 《三国演义》（连环画版）
《水浒传》（连环画版） 《上下五千年》 《童话故事选集》 《成语故事选集》
Grade 8
《红楼梦》（连环画版）
《聊斋志异》（连环画版）
《史记》（连环画版）
《唐诗宋词选集》（彩图版）
《成语故事选集》 《寓言故事选集》
Grade 9
《论语》 《唐诗三百首》
《东周列国志》 《世说新语》
《隋唐演义》 《山海经》
吴承恩： 《西游记》（原著）
Grade 10
《孟子》 《宋词三百首》
施耐庵： 《水浒传》（原著）
罗贯中： 《三国演义》（原著）
曹禺： 《雷雨》
王实甫： 《西厢记》
鲁迅： 《鲁迅小说选集》
Grade 11
《战国策》 《现当代文学选集》
曹雪芹： 《红楼梦》（原著）
蒲松龄： 《聊斋志异》（原著）
司马迁： 《史记》（原著）
吴敬梓： 《儒林外史》
鲁迅： 《鲁迅小说选集》
Grade 12
《道德经》 《诗经》
《吕氏春秋》
钱钟书： 《围城》
郁达夫： 《沉沦》、《迷羊》
茅盾： 《子夜》
老舍： 《骆驼祥子》
司马光： 《资治通鉴》

LOWER SCHOOL MANDARIN RECOMMENDED READING

Beginner Level：
1. 《快乐幼儿华语》系列 - 36本
My First Chinese Words series – 36 books
2. 《淘气宝》系列 – 12本
Naughty Baby series – 12 books

Intermediate Level：
1. 《我真棒》幼儿成长图画书系列 - 20本
I’m Great! Student Profile series – 20 books
2. 《世界儿童美德故事》系列 – 10本
The Best-Loved Stories of Virtues Around The World series – 10 books

Advanced Level：
1. 《名家绘本世界童话》系列 - 18本
Famous Fairy Tales From The World series – 18 books
2. 《西游记》系列 – 12本
Monkey King series – 12 books