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To participate in our Reading Is The Way Up program, simply visit any City National office to donate much needed books and supplies. Browse the list below for recommended book selections, grouped by grade level and alphabetized by book title.

Scroll through the list below, or jump directly to a grade level: Recommended Books: Grades Kindergarten - 2
AUTHOR TITLE
Sharon Davis Adventures of Capitol Kitty
Brian Pinkney The Adventures of Sparrowboy
Debra Barracca The Adventures of Taxi Dog
Richard Albert Alejandro's Gift
Judith Viorst Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day
Leo Lionni Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse
Sheila Hamanaka All the Colors of the Earth
Paula Danziger Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon
Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon
Jan Brett Annie and the Wild Animals
Mitsumasa Anno Anno's Journey
P. D. Eastman Are You My Mother?
M. Petit-Jean Baby Earth
Heather Forest The Baker's Dozen
Amy Schwartz Bea and Mr. Jones
Russell Hoban Bedtime for Frances
Maud Hart Lovelace Betsy-Tacy
Bill Peet Big Bad Bruce
Lynn Ward The Biggest Bear
Leo Lionni The Biggest House in the World
Robert McCloskey Blueberries for Sal
Peter Spier Bored, Nothing To Do
Thomas Locker The Boy Who Held Back the Sea
Esphyr Slobodkina Caps for Sale
Dav Pilkey Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants: The Fourth Epic Novel
Sandra and Susan Steen Car Wash
Ruth Krauss The Carrot Seed
Steven Kellogg Chicken Little
Robert Louis Stevenson Child's Garden of Verses
Johanna Hurwitz Class Clown, Class President, School's Out, Teacher's Pet
Margaret Willey Clever Beatrice
A. K. Roche Clever Turtle
Floyd Cooper Coming Home
Don Freeman Corduroy
Bagram Ibatoulline Crossing
DuBose Heyward The Country Bunny
Robert Munsch David's Father
Al Perkins The Digging-Est Dog
Brinton Turkle Do Not Open
Matt Christopher The Dog that Called the Pitch
Matt Christopher The Dog that Pitched a No-Hitter
Matt Christopher The Dog that Stole Football Plays
Andrej Dugina, Olga Dugina & Arnica Esterl Dragon Feathers
Rudyard Kipling The Elephant's Child
Ruth Stiles Gannett Elmer and the Dragon
Paul Galdone The Elves and the Shoemaker
Philippa Pearce Emily's Own Elephant
Jean Little Emma's Yucky Brother
Brothers Grimm The Fisherman and His Wife
Emily Jenkins Five Creatures
Jeff Brown Flat Stanley
Pat Hutchins Flat Stanley
Jeanette Winter Follow the Drinking Gourd
Rafe Martin Foolish Rabbit's Big Mistake
Judy Blume Freckle Juice and The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo
Leo Lionni Frederick
Paul Goble The Friendly Wolf
Arnold Lobel Frog and Toad Are Friends
Marie Hall Ets Gilberto and the Wind
Patricia Mc Kissack Goin' Someplace Special
Margaret Wise Brown Goodnight Moon
Helen V. Griffith Granddaddy's Place
Claudia Mills Gus and Grandpa at Basketball
Kathleen Fain Handsigns: A Sign Language Alphabet
Crockett Johnson Harold and the Purple Crayon
Gene Zion Harry the Dirty Dog
Louis Phillips Haunted House Jokes
Betty McDonald Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Lenore Look Henry's First-Moon Birthday
Lisa Rowe Fraustino The Hickory Chair
Suzy Kline Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion
Suzy Kline Horrible Harry in Room 2B
A.A.Milne The House on Pooh Corner
Betsey Duffey How To Be Cool in the Third Grade
Eleanor Estes The Hundred Dresses
Paul Geraghyty The Hunter
Andrea Pinkney I Smell Honey
Fransico X. Alarcon Iguanas in the Snow
Donald Crews Inside Freight Train
Bernard Waber Ira Sleeps Over
Ted Hughes The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights
Steven Kellogg The Island of the Skog
Paul Galdone Jack and the Beanstalk
Margot & Harve Zemach Jake and Honeybunch Go to Heaven
Marisa Montes Juan Bobo Goes to Work
Fred Gwynne The King Who Rained
Mick Inkpen Kipper's A to Z: An Alphabet Adventure
Bob Graham Let's Get a Pup
Else Holmelund Minarik Little Bear
Watty Piper The Little Engine that Could
Trina Hyman Little Red Riding Hood
Peter Spier London Bridge Is Falling Down
Lucile Clifton The Lucky Stone
Roald Dahl The Magic Finger
Robert McCloskey Make Way for Ducklings
Beatrice De Regniers May I Bring a Friend?
Pam Munoz Ryan Mice and Beans
Wanda Gag Millions of Cats
Jon Agee Milo's Hat Trick
Ellen Stoll Walsh Mouse Count
James Stevenson Mr. Hacker
Betty McDonald Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Byron Barton My Car
Ruth Stiles Gannett My Father's Dragon
Mercer Mayer The New Baby
Harriet Zieffert A New Coat for Anna
Ian Falconer Olivia Saves the Circus
Nonny Hogrogian One Fine Day
Jacqueline Woodson The Other Side
E & J Brett The Owl and the Pussycat
Brothers Grimm Peter and the Wolf
Steven Kellogg Pinkerton, Behave!
C. Clyde Robert Bulla The Poppy Seeds
Garth Williams Rabbit's Wedding
Lise Lunge-Larsen The Race of the Birkebeiners
Marcus Pfister Rainbow Fish
Lynn Cherry A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History
Margaret Wise Brown Runaway Bunny
Richard Scarry Scarry's Mother Goose
Ann Cameron Secret Agent
Kevin Henkes Sheila Rae's Peppermint Stick
Robert Munsch Show and Tell
Gloria Whelan Silver
Susan Cooper The Silver Cow: A Welsh Tale
Gary Soto Snapshots from the Wedding
Ezra Jack Keats The Snowy Day
John Steptoe Stevie
Margaret Wise Brown Stone Soup
Ann Cameron The Stories Julian Tells
Rumer Godden The Story of Holly and Ivy
Mare Simont The Stray Dog
William Steig Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Otfried Preussler The Tale of the Unicorn
Robert D. San Souci The Talking Eggs: A Folktale from the American South
Mercer Mayer There's a Nightmare in My Closet
Paul Galdone The Three Bears
Paul Galdone The Three Little Pigs
Arlene Mosel Tikki Tikki Tembo
W. Wondriska Tomato Patch
Jan Brett Trouble with Trolls
Jon Scieszka The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!
Cathryn Falwell Turtle Splash: Countdown at the Pond
Roald Dahl The Twitz
Chris Van Allsburg Two Bad Ants
Eric Carle The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Margie Palatini The Web Files
H. C. Andersen Ugly Duckling
Mary Ann Hoberman Very Short Stories To Read Together
Barbara Brenner Wagon Wheels (I Can Read Books)
Lois Ehlert Waiting for Wings
Robert Munsch Where Is Gah-Ning?
Maurice Sendak Where the Wild Things Are
A.A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh
Alice and Martin Provensen Year at Maple Hill Farm
Mary Ann Hoberman You Read to Me, I'll Read to You

Recommended Books: Grades 3-6
AUTHOR TITLE
Willieam Steig Abel's Island
Sharon Davis Adventures of Capitol Kitty
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Miska Miles Anne and the Old One
Judy Blume Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Ernest Small Baba Yaga
Gary Soto Baseball in April
Matt Christopher The Basket Counts
Robert Lawson Ben and Me: A New and Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin as Written by His Good Mouse Amos
Barbara Robinson The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Isabella Leitner The Big Lie: A True Story
Andrea Pinkney Bill Pickett - Rodeo Ridin' Cowboy
Charlotte Huck The Black Bull of Norroway: A Scottish Tale
Susan Shreve Blister
Judy Blume Blubber
Doris Gates Blue Willow
Susan Cooper The Boggart
Susie Morgenstern A Book of Coupon
Ingri D'Aulaire and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
Mary Norton The Borrowers
Phyllis Reynolds The Boys Start the War and the Girls Get Even
Lynn Curlee Brooklyn Bridge
Sue Macy Bull's Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley
Sid Fleischman By the Great Horn Spoon
Carol Ryrie Caddie Woodlawn
Armstrong Sperry Call It Courage
Jan Romero Stevens Carlos and the Cornfield
Elizabeth Winthrop Castle in the Attic
Theodore Taylor The Cay
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith Celebrating Ramadan
Roald Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
E. B. White Charlotte's Web
Laurence Yep Child of the Owl: Golden Mountain Chronicles: 1965
L. M. Boston Children of the Green Knowe
Jane Goodall The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours
Robert Kimmel Smith Chocolate Fever
P. Catling The Chocolate Touch
C.S. Lewis The Chronicles of Narnia (Series)
Gail Carson Levine Cinderellis and the Glass Hill
Mark Kurlansky The Cod's Tale
Yin Coolies
Alice Dalgliesh Courage of Sarah Noble
Virginia Hamilton Cousins
George Selden The Cricket in Times Square
John Bellairs The Curse of the Blue Figurine
Walter Dean Myers Darnell Rock Reporting
Beverly Cleary Dear Mr. Henshaw
Barbara Kerley The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: An Illuminating History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer
Kathleen Zoehfeld Dinosaur Parents, Dinosaur Young: Uncovering the Mystery of Dinosaur Families
Todd Strasser The Diving Bell
Ruth Stiles Gannett The Dragons of Blueland
F. N. Monjo The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino El Guero: A True Adventure Story
Gail Carson Levine Ella Enchanted
Polly Horvath Everything on a Waffle
Joseph Jacobs The Fables of Aesop (Dover Juvenile Classics)
Gail Carson Levine The Fairy's Mistake
Alfred Slote Finding Buck McHenry
Mildred D. Taylor The Friendship
Andrew Clements Frindle
E.L. Konisburg From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Richard Peck The Ghost Belonged to Me
Paul Goble The Gift of Sacred Dog
Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree
Alice and Martin Provenson The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
Eve Bunting Going Home
John Fitzgerald The Great Brain
Jane Yolen Greyling
Edward Eager Half Magic
M.T. Anderson Handel: Who Knew What He Liked
Louis Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter (Series)
Beverly Cleary Henry Huggins
Keith Robertson Henry Reed, Inc.
Gail Gauthier The Hero of Ticonderoga
Stephen Kramer Hidden Worlds: Looking Through a Scientist's Microscope
Virginia Hamilton House of Dies Drear
Karin Gundisch How I Became an American
Thomas Rockwell How To Eat Fried Worms
Eleanor Estes Hundred Dresses
Ellen Levine If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King
Carmen Lomas Garza In My Family
Russell Freedman In the Days of the Vaqueros: America's First True Cowboys
Betty Boa Lord In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Sheila Burnford The Incredible Journey
Lynne Reid Banks The Indian in the Cupboard
Scott O'Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins
Roald Dahl James and the Giant Peach
Andrew Clements The Janitor's Boy
Louis Sachar Johnny's in the Basement
Megan McDonald Judy Moody Gets Famous!
Matt Christopher The Kid Who Only Hit Homers
Marguerite Henry King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian
Ed Zotti Know It All!: The Fun Stuff You Never Learned in School
Francine Patterson Koko's Kitten
Dick King-Smith Lady Lollipop
Jacqueline Martin The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish
Laurence Yep Later, Gator
Andrew Clements The Laundry News
Jean Fritz Leanardo's Horse
C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Laura Ingalls Wilder The Little House (Series)
Mercer Mayer The Little Jewel Box
Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince
Sharon Creech Love That Dog
Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen Magic School Bus (Series)
Anna Fienberg The Magnificent Nose and Other Marvels
Jerry Spinelli Maniac Magee
Sylvia Waugh Mennyms
Barbara Cohen Molly's Pilgrim
Richard & Florence Atwater Mr. Popper's Penguins
Robert C. O'Brien Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
John Steptoe Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
James Lincoln and Chris Collier My Brother Sam Is Dead
Chris Van Allsburg Mysteries of Harris Burdick
Louis Fitzhugh Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
Covault Pablo and Pimienta
Virginia Hamilton The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Brent Ashabrenner People Who Make a Difference
Norton Juster The Phantom Tollbooth
David Adler A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman
Patricia Polacco Pink and Say
Chris Van Allsburg The Polar Express
Avi Poppy
Robert Lawson Rabbit Hill
Beverly Cleary Ramona and Her Father
Beverly Cleary Ramona the Pest
Kenneth Grahame The Reluctant Dragon
Thomas B. Allen Remember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanese Survivors Tell Their Stories
Pam Munoz Ryan Rising Esperanza
Carol Otis Hurst Rocks in His Head
Mildred D. Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Deborah Wiles Ruby Lavender Love
Jessie Haas Runaway Radish
Evaline Ness Sam, Bangs and Moonshine
Patricia Maclachlan Sarah, Plain and Tall
Amy Schwartz Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden
Eleanor E. Tate The Secret of Gumbo Grove
Rhoda Blumberg Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy
Florence Parry Heide Shrinking of Treehorn
Elizabeth George Speare The Sign of the Beaver
Linda Sue A Single Shard
Joseph Bruchac Skeleton Man
Eileen Spinelli Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch
William H. Armstrong Sounder
William H. Armstrong Sour Land
Pamela F. Service Stinker from Space
Elisa Carbone Storm Warriors
Aliki The Story of Johnny Appleseed
A. LaFaye Strawberry Hill
Tomi De Paola Strega Nona
E. B. White Stuart Little
Judy Blume Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Julius Lester (retold) The Tales of Uncle Remus
Goss & Barnes Talk That Talk: An Anthology of African-American Storytelling
Barbara Cohen Thank You, Jackie Robinson
Judy Blume Then Again, Maybe I Won't
Eugene Trivizas The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
Herge Tintin in Tibet
Maxine Trottier The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing
Gary Soto Too Many Tamales
James Rumford Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Buttuta, 1325-1354
Avi The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
E.B. White The Trumpet of the Swan
Natalie Babbitt Tuck Everlasting
George Selden Tucker's Countryside
W. P. DuBois The Twenty-One Balloons
M. Williams Velveteen Rabbit
E.L. Konisburg The View from Saturday
Louis Sachar Wayside School Is Falling Down
Wilson Rawls Where the Red Fern Grows
Bill Peet The Whingdingdilly
Verna Aardema Why Mosquitoes Buss in People's Ears: A West African Tale
A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh
Eleanor Cameron The Wonderful Flight to Mushroom Planet
Bonnie Christensen Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People
Ouida Sebestyen Words by Heart
Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time
A. LaFaye The Year of the Sawdust Man
Ai-Ling Louie Yeh Shen: Cinderella Story from China

Recommended Books: Grades 7 -9
AUTHOR TITLE
Margaret Haddix Among the Hidden
L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
Judy Blume Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Brian Jacques The Bellmaker
Francisco Jimenez Breaking Through
Katherine Patterson Bridge to Terebithia
Karen Cushman Called Birdy Catherine
Cynthia Voigt The Callender Papers
Marilyn Nelson Carver: A Life in Poems
Paula Danziger The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine G. Carey Cheaper by the Dozen
Lloyd Alexander Chronicles of Prydain
Susan Cooper The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Robert N. Peck A Day No Pigs Would Die
Patricia C. Wrede Dealing with Dragons
Zilphra Keatley The Egypt Game
Priscilla Cummings A Face First
Cynthia Rylant A Fine White Dust
Lloyd Alexander The Gawgon and the Boy
Louis Lowry The Giver
Philip Pullman The Golden Compass
Walter Dean Myers The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter (Series)
Gary Paulsen Hatchet
Jan Greenberg Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
David Almond Heaven Eyes
Laurie Lawlor Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit
J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit
Louis Sachar Holes
Robin Friedman How I Survived My Summer Vacation and Lived to Write about It
Diane Lee Wilson I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
Scott O'Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins
Emily Chaney Neville It’s Like This, Cat
Judy Blume It’s Not the End of the World
Jean Craighead George Julie of the Wolves
Mildred Taylor The Land
Mildred D. Taylor Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Jerry Spinelli The Library Card
Jean Craighead George My Side of the Mountain
Lois Lowry Number the Stars
Fred Gibson Old Yeller
Beverly Naidoo The Other Side of Truth
Paula Danziger P.S. Longer Letter Later
Ben Mikaelsen Petey
Brian Jacques Redwall
Mildred D. Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Peter Dickinson The Ropemaker
Margaret Peterson Haddix Running Out of Time
Kevin Crossley-Holland The Seeing Stone
Paul Fleishman Seek
Kathryn Lasky Shadows in the Water
Katherine Patterson The Sign of the Chrysanthemum
William Nicholson Slaves of the Mastery
William H. Armstrong Sounder
William H. Armstrong Sour Land
An Na A Step from Heaven
Bette Greene Summer of My German Soldier
Betsy Byars The Summer of the Swans
Andrea Warren Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
Virginia Euwer Wolff True Believer
Jan and Sandra Jordan Greensberg Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
Phillip Hoose We Were There Too!: Young People in U.S. History
Ellen Raskin The Westing Game
Wilson Rawls Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy
Gail Carson Levine The Wish
Elizabeth George Speare The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Karen Hesse Witness
Joan Aiken Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Belinda Rochelle Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art
Joan Dash The World at Her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller
Madeleine L'Engle A Wrinkle in Time

Recommended Books: Grades 9 -12
AUTHOR TITLE
Bruce Brooks All That Remains
Adele Griffin Amandine
Philip Pullman The Amber Spyglass
Walter Dean Myers Bad Boy: A Memoir
Vivian Vande Velde Being Dead
Jim Murphy Blizzard: The Storm That Changed America
Han Nolan Born Blue
Jennifer Holm Boston Jane: An Adventure
Dennis Brindell Fradin Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves
Alex Finn Breathing Underwater
Ron Koertge Brimstone Journals
Daniel King Chess: From First Moves to Checkmate
James Howe Color of Absence: Twelve Stories about Love and Hope
David Rice Crazy Loco
Patricia McCormick Cut
A.M. Jenkins Damage
Rebecca Tingle The Edge on the Sword
Jean Ferris Eight Seconds
Sara Ryan Empress of the World
Martha Kendall Failure Is Impossible: The History of American Women's Rights
Richard Peck Fair Weather
Jaclyn Moriarty Feeling Sorry for Celia
Markus Zusak Fighting Ruben Wolfe
David Clement-Davies Fire Bringer
Chris Lynch Freewill
Albert Marrin George Washington and the Founding of a Nation
Janet Tashjian The Gospel According to Larry
James Heneghan The Grave
Jan Greenberg Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by 20th Century American Art
David Owen Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them
Liza Ketchum Into the New Country: Eight Remarkable Women of the West
Mildred Taylor The Land
Allan Stratton Leslie's Journal
Garth Nix Lirael: Daughter of the Clayr
Michael Cart Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth
Hilari Bell A Matter of Profit
Jean Ferris Of Sound and Mind
Beverly Naidoo The Other Side of Truth
Robert Cormier The Rag and Bone Shop
Ellen Wittlinger Razzle
Beth Weaver Rooster
Sheryl Jordan Secret Sacrament
Paul Fleishman Seek
Orson Scott Card Shadow of the Hegemon
Roxane Orgille Shout, Sister, Shout!: Ten Girls Who Shaped a Century
Susanna Vance Sights
Linda Sue Park A Single Shard
Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Diane Les Becquets The Stones of Mourning Creek
Betsy Franco Things I Have to Tell You: Poems and Writing By Teenage Girls
Meredith Ann Pierce Treasure at the Heart of Tanglewood
Adele Geras Troy
Jan and Sandra Jordan Greenberg Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist
Barbara Brenner Voices: Poetry and Art from Around the World
Chris Crutcher Whale Talk
Sonya Sones What My Mother Doesn't Know
Celia Rees The Witch Child
Vickie Nam Yell-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity and Growing Up Asian-American
Richard Mosher Zazoo

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