Grade Level and Themed Libraries
Here are terrific starter collections of books that are selected for their kid-pleasing power.
In each Grade Level Library you get a collection of fifteen favorites, old and new, fiction and nonfiction,
contemporary and historical and multicultural, but most importantly, you get a collection with stories that kids
will want to read again and again. Or build a classroom library with our Themed Book sets
GRADES 1-3 | GRADES 4-6
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Native Americans Book Set
Annie and the Old One (Miles), Boy Called Slow: The True Story of Sitting Bull (Bruchac), Buffalo Before Breakfast (Osborne), Building an Igloo (Steltzer), Cheyenne Again (Bunting), Corn is Maize (Aliki), Death of the Iron Horse (Goble), Encounter (Yolen), Girl Who Loved Wild Horses (Goble), Goat in the Rug (Blood), How Chipmunk Got His Stripes (Bruchac), Knots on a Counting Rope (Martin), Legend of the Indian Paintbrush (dePaola), Next Spring an Oriole (Whelan), Raven: A Trickster Tale for the Pacific Northwest (McDermott), Rough Face Girl (Martin), Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims (Bulla), Story of Pocahontas (Martin), Trail of Tears (Bruchac)
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WB-389701 Native Americans Book Set ... 117.95
Set includes folk tales, historical fiction, and nonfiction. 19 books.
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Latino Culture, Here and Abroad Book Set
Abuela (Dorros), Chato’s Kitchen (Soto), Crazy, Mixed Up Spanglish Day (Montes),
De Colores and Other Latin American Folksongs for Children (Orozco), Great Kapok Tree (Cherry), Hill of Fire (Lewis), How Many Days to America? (Bunting), Most Beautiful Place in the World (Cameron), Mud Soup (Head), My Name is Maria Isabel (Ada), Snapshots from the Wedding (Soto), Tomas and the Library Lady (Mora), Too Many Tamales (Soto), Tortilla Factory (Paulsen)
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WB-389702 Latino Culture, Here and Abroad Book Set ... 83.95
Set includes fiction, nonfiction, and folk tales from the Hispanic experience in the US and in Spanish-speaking countries. 14 books.
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From Asia to America
Book Set
Baseball Saved Us (Mochizuki), Bicycle Man (Say), Crow Boy (Yashima), Dia’s Story Cloth (Cha), Five Chinese Brothers (Bishop), Grain of Rice (Pittman), Grandfather Tang’s Story (Tompert), How My Parents Learned to Eat (Friedman), Korean Cinderella (Climo), Lon Po Po (Young), Silent Lotus (Lee), Story of Little Babaji (Bannerman), Tikki, Tikki Tembo (Mosel), Yang the Youngest and the Terrible Ear (Namioka)
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WB-389703 From Asia to America Book Set ... 93.95
Set includes folk tales from Asia and stories from the Asian experience in America. 14 books.
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From Africa to America
Book Set
Anansi the Spider (McDermott), Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky (Ringgold), Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain (Aardema), Cherries and Cherry Pits (Williams), Chicken Sunday (Polacco), Donavan’s Word Jar (DeGross), Drinking Gourd (Monjo), Everett Anderson’s Goodbye (Clifton), Follow the Drinking Gourd (Winter), Hundred Penny Box (Mathis), I Have Heard of a Land (Thomas), Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book (Feelings), Journey to Freedom (Wright), Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World (Walter), Nappy Hair (Herron), Sister Anne’s Hands (Lorbiecki), Snowy Day (Keats), Stories Julian Tells (Cameron), Story of Ruby Bridges (Coles), Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Hopkinson), Under the Quilt of Night (Hopkinson), Wagon Wheels (Brenner)
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WB-389704 From Africa to America Book Set ... 144.95
Set includes folk tales from Africa and African Americans, nonfiction books, and fiction from the African American experience. 22 books.
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Predictable Books Set
Caps for Sale (Slobodkina), Carrot Seed (Krauss), Chicken Little (Kellogg), Chicken Soup with Rice (Sendak), Dark, Dark Tale (Brown), Enormous Turnip (Tolstoy), Gingerbread Boy (Galdone), Hattie and the Fox (Fox), House Is a House for Me (Hoberman), If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Numeroff), Jack’s Garden (Cole), Little Red Hen (Galdone), Millions of Cats (Gag), Seven Silly Eaters (Hoberman), Shoes from Grandpa (Fox), Teeny, Tiny Woman (Galdone), Today Is Monday (Carle), Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? (Nodset), Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears (Aardema)
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WB-389705 Predictable Books Set ... 139.95
Students will read with ease when they encounter these predictable books with text that rhymes, repeats words or phrases, or has a cumulative structure or repeated scenes. 19 books.
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New Twists on Old Tales Set
Cinder Edna (Jackson), Dear Peter Rabbit (Ada), Paper Bag Princess (Munsch), Prince Cinders (Cole), Princess Smartypants (Cole), Rumpelstiltskin’s Daughter (Stanley), Sleeping Ugly (Yolen), Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (Scieszka), Three Little Pigs (Kellogg), Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig (Trivizas), True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf (Scieszka), Yours Truly, Goldilocks (Ada)
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WB-389706 New Twists on Old Tales Set ... 97.95
These familiar stories told from a different point of view will have your students laughing and thinking with a fresh perspective. 12 books.
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Nonfiction Book Set
26 Fairmount Avenue (dePaola), Amazing Buildings (Hayden), Antarctic Adventure: Exploring the Frozen Continent (Hooper), Bones: Our Skeletal System (Simon), Born to Be a Butterfly (Wallace), Bugs, Bugs, Bugs (Dussling), Busy Buzzy Bee (Wallace), By the Dawn’s Early Light: The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner (Kroll), Cactus Hotel (Guiberson), Corn is Maize (Aliki), D-Day Landing: The Story of the Allied Invasion (Platt), Grapes of Math (Tang), Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest: Earth’s Extremes (Jenkins), How a Book is Made (Aliki), How Much is a Million? (Schwartz), How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World (McNulty), Humphrey the Wayward Whale (Callenback), Icebergs and Glaciers (Simon), Koko’s Kitten (Patterson), Leonardo da Vinci (Stanley), Many Luscious Lolipops: A Book About Adjectives (Heller), Plants Bite Back (Platt), Popcorn Book (dePaola), Red-Eyed Tree Frog (Cowley), Samuel Eaton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy (Waters), Sarah Morton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl (Waters), Stars (Simon), Storms (Simon), Story of Walt Disney: Maker of Magical Worlds (Selden), Sun (Simon), Tale of a Tadpole (Wallace), The Story of Chocolate (Polin), Volcanoes (Simon), William Shakespeare and the Globe (Aliki)
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WB-389707 Nonfiction Book Set ... 197.50
Introduce your students to the beauty and wonder of the world around us as they practice reading these nonfiction, content-based books. Most books have large full-color photos or illustrations, and all are written with student appeal in mind. 34 books.
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Native Americans Book Set
Birchbark House (Erdrich), Children of the Longhouse (Bruchac), Far North (Hobbs), I Am Regina (Keehn), Island of the Blue Dolphins (O’Dell), Julie of the Wolves (George), Light in the Forest (Richter), Long March: The Choctaw’s Gift to Irish Famine Relief (Fitzpatrick), Morning Girl (Dorris), Naya Nuki: The Girl Who Ran (Thomasma), Racing the Sun (Pitts), Sign of the Beaver (Speare), Sing Down the Moon (O’Dell), Skeleton Man (Bruchac), Talking Earth (George)
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WB-389711 Native Americans Book Set ... 95.85
Set includes historical fiction, contemporary fiction, and nonfiction. 15 books.
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Latino Culture, Here and Abroad Book Set
Baseball in April (Soto), Becoming Naomi Leon (Ryan), Black Pearl (O’Dell), The Composition (Skarmeta), Esperanza Rising (Ryan), Going Home (Mohr), Jaguar (Smith), Lupita Manana (Beatty), Pearl (Steinbeck), Secret of the Andes (Clark)
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WB-389712 Latino Culture, Here and Abroad Book Set ... 62.95
Set includes historical fiction and contemporary fiction. 10 books.
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From Asia to America
Book Set
Big Wave (Buck), Breadwinner (Ellis), Children
of the River (Crew), Dragon’s Gate (Yep), Dragonwings (Yep), Endless Steppe (Hautzig), Farewell to Manzanar (Houston), Half and Half (Namioka), Hello, My Name is Scrambled Eggs (Gilson), Hiroshima (Yep), In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (Lord), Jar of Dreams (Uchida), Journey Home (Uchida), Journey to Topaz (Uchida), Kensuke’s Kingdom (Morpurgo), Kira, Kira (Kadohata), Land I Lost (Huynh), Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (Jiang), Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Coerr), Single Shard (Park), Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam (Huynh), When My Name Was Keoko (Park), Year of Impossible Goodbyes (Choi)
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WB-389713 From Asia to America Book Set ... 139.95
Set includes historical fiction, contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and
autobiographies. 23 books.
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From Africa to America Set
Amos Fortune, Free Man (Yates), Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis), The Cay (Taylor), Dicey’s Song (Voight), Free At Last: The Story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Bull), Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman (Sterling), The Friendship (Taylor), Girl Named Disaster (Farmer), House of Dies Drear (Hamilton), Jackie and Me (Gutman), Jackie Robinson and the Story of All-Black Baseball (O’Connor), M.C. Higgins, The Great (Hamilton), Nightjohn (Paulsen), The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Hamilton), Pocketful of Goobers: A Story About George Washington Carver (Mitchell), Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Taylor), Slave Dancer (Fox), Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I a Woman? (McKissack), Sounder (Armstrong), Stealing Freedom (Carbone), Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (Lester), War Comes to Willy Freeman (Collier), Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963 (Curtis)
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WB-389714 From Africa to America Book Set ... 148.95
Set includes fiction set in Africa, folk tales from America, and biographies, historical fiction, and nonfiction. 23 books.
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Books That Appeal to
Reluctant Readers
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Choldenko), Aliens Ate My Homework (Coville), Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis), Bunnicula (Howe), Cay (Taylor), Devil’s Arithmetic (Yolen), Ella Enchanted (Levine), Everything on a Waffle (Horvath), Fantastic Mr. Fox (Dahl), Frindle (Clements), Girl Who Owned a City (Nelson), Giver (Lowrey), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling), Hatchet (Paulsen), Holes (Sachar), How to Eat Fried Worms (Rockwell), Janitor’s Boy (Clements), Knights of the Kitchen Table/Time Warp Trio Series (Scieszka), Long Way From Chicago (Peck), Maniac Magee (Spinelli), Niagra Falls, or Does It? (Winkler), Nothing But the Truth (Avi), Report Card (Clements), Running Out of Time (Haddix), Seedfolks (Fleischman), Sideway Stories from Wayside School (Sachar), Sign of the Beaver (Speare), Summer Reading is Killing Me/Time Warp Trio Series (Scieszka), The Kid Who Ran for President (Gutman), Tuck Everlasting (Babbitt), Walk Two Moons (Creech), Year Down Yonder (Peck)
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WB-389715 Reluctant Readers Book Set ... 197.95
Set includes humor, adventure, historical fiction, science fiction, and contemporary fiction. 32 books.
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Autobiographies of Favorite Authors
Behind the Desk With Matt Christopher: The #1 Sports Writer for Kids (Matt Christopher), Bill Peet: An Autobiography (Bill Peet), Bowman’s Store: A Journey to Myself (Joseph Bruchac), Boy: Tales From Childhood (Roald Dahl), Chewing the Cud: An Extraordinary Life Remembered (Dick King-Smith), Girl From Yamhill: A Memoir (Beverly Cleary), Grain of Wheat (Clyde Robert Bulla), Homesick: My Own Story (Jean Fritz), How I Came to Be a Writer (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor), Knots in My Yo-Yo String – The Autobiography of a Kid (Jerry Spinelli), Looking Back: A Book of Memories (Lois Lowry), Lost Garden (Laurence Yep), Making of a Writer (Joan Lowery Nixon), Moon and I (Betsy Byars), My Life in Dog Years (Gary Paulsen), Tarantula in My Purse (Jean Craighead George)
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WB-389716 Autobiographies of Favorite Authors ... 139.95
Set includes 16 books.
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Books That Appeal to
Reluctant Readers
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Choldenko), Aliens Ate My Homework (Coville), Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis), Bunnicula (Howe), Cay (Taylor), Devil’s Arithmetic (Yolen), Ella Enchanted (Levine), Everything on a Waffle (Horvath), Fantastic Mr. Fox (Dahl), Frindle (Clements), Girl Who Owned a City (Nelson), Giver (Lowrey), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling), Hatchet (Paulsen), Holes (Sachar), How to Eat Fried Worms (Rockwell), Janitor’s Boy (Clements), Knights of the Kitchen Table/Time Warp Trio Series (Scieszka), Long Way From Chicago (Peck), Maniac Magee (Spinelli), Niagra Falls, or Does It? (Winkler), Nothing But the Truth (Avi), Report Card (Clements), Running Out of Time (Haddix), Seedfolks (Fleischman), Sideway Stories from Wayside School (Sachar), Sign of the Beaver (Speare), Summer Reading is Killing Me/Time Warp Trio Series (Scieszka), The Kid Who Ran for President (Gutman), Tuck Everlasting (Babbitt), Walk Two Moons (Creech), Year Down Yonder (Peck)
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WB-389715 Reluctant Readers Book Set ... 197.95
Set includes humor, adventure, historical fiction, science fiction, and contemporary fiction. 32 books.
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