These include some well-known favorites and some newer great books:

Pre-K and K

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.

Corduroy by Don Freeman

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin

Grades 1-4

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne

Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park

Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo

Stella Luna by Janell Cannon

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows

Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Grades 5-8

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Holes by Louis Sachar

Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

Grades 9-12

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

1984 by George Orwell

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green