This year’s Campaign around our Christmas in July is to collect books for students! Our primary push is for students Grades 5-12, however we will accept any grade level! See list below for book title requests. Grades 5-12 are listed first; K-4 follow at end.
5th grade
Charlotte’s Web – EB White
Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
The Giver – Lois Lowry
The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
Bunnicula Series – Howe
Rules – Cynthia Lord
Harlem – Walter Dean Myers
Each Little Bird That Sings – Deborah Wiles
Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
Maniac Mcgee – Jerry Spinelli
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor
The Ruins of Gorlan Series
Frindle – Andrew Clements
Okay For Now – Gary Schmidt
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo
Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis
Wonder – RJ Palacio
Flipped – Wendelin Van Drannen
Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon – Grace Lin
The US Constitution – Michael Burgan
Call it Courage – Armstrong Sperry
Freak the Mighty – Rodman Philbrick
6th grade
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
Maniac Mcgee – Jerry Spinelli
Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
The Giver – Lois Lowry
The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor
Okay For Now – Gary Schmidt
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken
A Long Way From Chicago – Richard Peck
Flipped – Wendelin Van Drannen
Holes – Louis Sachar
Wonder – RJ Palacio
Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper
Crispin – Avi
Esperanza Rising – Pam Muñoz Ryan
Pictures of Hollis Woods – Patricia Reilly Giff
Hoot- Carl Haasen
The Dreamer – Pam Muñoz Ryan
Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio – Tony Johnston
Life in Motion, An Unlikely Ballerina – Misty Copeland
The Emperor’s Silent Army – Jane O’Connor
What a Great Idea! – Stephen M. Tomecek
Through My Eyes – Ruby Bridges
Restless Spirit – Elizabeth Partridge
A Black Hole Is Not a Hole – Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano
7th grade
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Flipped – Wendelin Van Drannen
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
The Tiger Rising – DiCamillo
Hoot- Carl Haasen
Holes – Louis Sachar
Okay For Now – Gary Schmidt
The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken
The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper
A Long Way From Chicago – Richard Peck
Maniac Mcgee – Jerry Spinelli
Crispin – Avi
The Hunger Games Series
Esperanza Rising – Pam Muñoz Ryan
The Dreamer – Pam Muñoz Ryan
Pictures of Hollis Woods – Patricia Reilly Giff
Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio – Tony Johnston
Life in Motion, An Unlikely Ballerina – Misty Copeland
The Emperor’s Silent Army – Jane O’Connor
What a Great Idea! – Stephen M. Tomecek
A Black Hole Is Not a Hole – Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano
Through My Eyes – Ruby Bridges
Chomp – Carl Hiaasen
Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms – Lissa Evans
Odessa Again – Dana Reinhardt
The Lions on Little Rock – Kristin Levine
PS Be Eleven – Rita Williams-Garcia
The Spindlers – Lauren Oliver
Three Times Lucky – Sheila Turnage
The True Blue Scots of Sugar Man Swamp – Kathi Appelt
Shadow on the Mountain – Margi Preus
Restless Spirit – Elizabeth Partridge
Out of the Dust – Karen Hesse
Better Nate Than Ever – Time Federle
Seraphina – Rachel Hartman
Mockingbird – Kathryn Erskine
Roller Girl – Victoria Jamieson
The Queen of Water – Laura Resau
The Mysterious Benedict Society – Trenton Lee Stewart
The Crossover – Kwame Alexander
I Lived on Butterfly Hill – Marjorie Agosin
8th grade
Okay For Now – Gary Schmidt
The Hunger Games series
The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate
What a Great Idea! – Stephen M. Tomecek
The Tiger Rising – DiCamillo
Out of the Dust – Karen Hesse
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Better Nate Than Ever – Time Federle
Seraphina – Rachel Hartman
Mockingbird – Kathryn Erskine
Roller Girl – Victoria Jamieson
The Queen of Water – Laura Resau
The Mysterious Benedict Society – Trenton Lee Stewart
The Crossover – Kwame Alexander
I Lived on Butterfly Hill – Marjorie Agosin
Chomp – Carl Hiaasen
Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms – Lissa Evans
Odessa Again – Dana Reinhardt
The Lions on Little Rock – Kristin Levine
PS Be Eleven – Rita Williams-Garcia
The Spindlers – Lauren Oliver
Three Times Lucky – Sheila Turnage
The True Blue Scots of Sugar Man Swamp – Kathi Appelt
Shadow on the Mountain – Margi Preus
Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio – Tony Johnston
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
Holes – Louis Sachar
A Black Hole Is Not a Hole – Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano
Hoot- Carl Haasen
Al Capone Does My Shirts – Gennifer Choldenko
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie – Jordan Sonnenblick
Hatchet – Gary Paulsen
The Dark is Rising – Susan Cooper
A Long Way From Chicago – Richard Peck
Maniac Mcgee – Jerry Spinelli
Crispin – Avi
Esperanza Rising – Pam Muñoz Ryan
Pictures of Hollis Woods – Patricia Reilly Giff
The Dreamer – Pam Muñoz Ryan
Life in Motion, An Unlikely Ballerina – Misty Copeland
The Emperor’s Silent Army – Jane O’Connor
Through My Eyes – Ruby Bridges
Restless Spirit – Elizabeth Partridge
Divergent series
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
A Corner of the Universe – Ann Martin
Gathering Blue – Lois Lowry
Catherine, Called Birdy – Cushman
9-10th grades
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
Divergent series
Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel – Avi
Red Kayak – Priscilla Cummings
Monster – Walter Dean Myers
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems – Langston Hughes
Jackie’s Nine – Sharon Robinson
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution – Ji-Li Jiang
Within Reach: My Everest Story – Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin
The Wednesday Wars – Gary Schmidt
The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
Mary Tudor: Courageous Queen or Bloody Mary? – Jane Buchanan
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World – Jennifer Armstrong
I Am the Cheese – Robert Cormier
11-12th grades
Riot – Walter Dean Myers
The Outsiders – Hinton
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Opposite of Loneliness
Rad American Women A-Z
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Best Poems Ever – Eric S. Mesmer
Totally Tolerant- Laurie Mandel and Diane Webber
Walt Whitman: Words for America – Barbara Kerley
When Plague Strikes – James Cross Giblin
The War in Iraq – Franklin Watts
Flowers for Algernon- Keyes
Artemis Fowl – E Colfer
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Kindergarten
Zin Zin Zin a Violin
Each Peach Pear Plum
Make Way For Ducklings
Blueberries for Sal
The Dot
No, David!
The Snowy Day
Not Norman: A Goldfish Story
Duck on a Bike
A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds
Caldecott Medal and Honor books
The Tiny Seed – Eric Carle
Little Golden Books series
Olivia – Ian Falconer
Madeline series
The Rainbow Fish – Marcus Pfister
Biggest, Strongest, Fastest
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Time for Bed – Mem Fox and Jane Dyer
Winnie-the-Pooh series
Stellaluna
Where the Wild Things Are
Click, Clack, Moo
Goodnight Moon
Harold and the Purple Crayon
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series
Little Bear series by Else Minarik
Are You My Mother?
Eric Carle series
Dr. Seuss series
A Chair for my Mother
Corduroy
Curious George series
1st grade
Zin Zin Zin a Violin
Each Peach Pear Plum
Make Way For Ducklings
Blueberries for Sal
The Dot
Matilda – Roald Dahl
A Weed is a Flower – Aliki
Let’s Read About Ruby Bridges
Side by Side / Lado a Lado
Star Stuff
So you Want to be President?
Mae Jemison
A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds
The Tiny Seed – Eric Carle, and all Eric Carle
Fantastic Elastic Brain
All Shel Silverstein books
Swimmy – Leo Lionni
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – William Steig
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly – Simms Taback
2nd grade
Strega Nona – Tomie DePaola
Ramona the Pest – Beverly Cleary
Matilda – Roald Dahl
Clementine – Sara Pennypacker
Fantastic Elastic Brain
Ron’s Big Mission – Rose Blue
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop – Margaret Mitchell
Grace for President – Kelly Dipucchio
My Father’s Dragon – Ruth Gannett
Thunder Cake – Patricia Polacco
Ramona Quimby Age 8 – Beverly Cleary
Amber Brown is not a Crayon – Paula Danziger
The New Kid on the Block – Jack Prelutsky
Animal Poems – John Hollander
The Great Kapok Tree
How a House is Built
What Makes a Magnet?
Construction Zone – Cheryl Willis Hudson
Manfish – Jennifer Berne
Now and Ben – Jean Barretta
Ida B Wells – Walter Dean Myers
Rosa – Nikki Giovanni
The Story of Ruby Bridges – Robert Coles
A Cool Drink of Water – Barbara Kerley
All the Water in the World – George Ella Lyon
Biblioburro: A True Story from Columbia – Jeanette Winter
If the World Were a Village – David J. Smith
All Shel Silverstein
3rd grade
Charlotte’s Web – EB White
Matilda – Roald Dahl
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – JK Rowling
Because of Winn Dixie – Kate DiCamillo
Ramona the Pest – Beverly Cleary
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor
The Penderwicks – Jean Birdsall
Frindle – Andrew Clements
Maniac Mcgee – Jerry Spinelli
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo
The Great Gilly Hopkins – Katherine Paterson
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The BFG – Roald Dahl
Each Little Bird That Sings – Deborah Wiles
The Boxcar Children Series
A Long Way From Chicago – Richard Peck
Ramona Quimby Age 8 – Beverly Cleary
Amber Brown is not a Crayon – Paula Danziger
The New Kid on the Block – Jack Prelutsky
Animal Poems – John Hollander
Ida B Wells – Walter Dean Myers
Rosa – Nikki Giovanni
The Story of Ruby Bridges – Robert Coles
A Cool Drink of Water – Barbara Kerley
All the Water in the World – George Ella Lyon
If the World Were a Village – David J. Smith
The Magic Schoolbus Series
Biblioburro: A True Story from Columbia – Jeanette Winter
4th grade
Charlotte’s Web – EB White
Matilda – Roald Dahl
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
Because of Winn Dixie – Kate DiCamillo
The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
The Penderwicks – Jean Birdsall
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry – Mildred Taylor
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing – Judy Blume
The Bad Beginning – Lemony Snicket
Frindle – Andrew Clements
Maniac Mcgee – Jerry Spinelli
Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
Each Little Bird That Sings – Deborah Wiles
Number the Stars – Lois Lowry
The BFG – Roald Dahl
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane – Kate DiCamillo
Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis
Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda Series
The US Constitution – Michael Burgan
Bunnicula Series – Howe
Call it Courage – Armstrong Sperry
Freak the Mighty – Rodman Philbrick
Rules – Cynthia Lord
Harlem – Walter Dean Myers