Fiction
* The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins
* Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
* Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
* Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
* The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
* Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
* The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
* Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle
* Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
* One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
Nonfiction
* All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon
* Dinosaurs Big and Small by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
* How Does My Garden Grow? by Mary Ann Fraser
* In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming
* Little Cloud by Eric Carle
* Look Up! by Annette LeBlanc Cate
* The Seashore Book by Charlotte Zolotow
* The Sun: Our Nearest Star by Franklyn M. Branley
* This Is the Moon by Anita Ganeri
* Weather by Gail Gibbons
6th Grade
Fiction
* The Giver by Lois Lowry
* Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
* The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
* A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
* The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
* Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
* Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
* The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
* Holes by Louis Sachar
* Frindle by Andrew Clements
Nonfiction
* The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney
* Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
* The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Philip Hoose
* Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
* Wonder by R. J. Palacio
* Refugee by Alan Gratz
* March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
* Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
* Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
* When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson
8th Grade
Fiction
* To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
* The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
* Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
* The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
* Animal Farm by George Orwell
* Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
* The Crucible by Arthur Miller
* Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
* The Odyssey by Homer
Nonfiction
* The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
* Night by Elie Wiesel
* The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
* Black Elk Speaks by Black Elk
* Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
* The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
* The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
* In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
* The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
* March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell