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 | GRADES 7-12
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
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)
|
|
WB-389701 Native Americans Book Set Grades 1-3 ... 123.75
Set includes folk tales, historical fiction, and nonfiction. 19 books.
|
|
 |
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), My Name is Maria Isabel (Ada), Snapshots from the Wedding (Soto), Tomas and the Library Lady (Mora), Too Many Tamales (Soto), Tortilla Factory (Paulsen)
|
|
WB-389702 Latino Culture, Here and Abroad Book Set Grades 1-3 ... 82.85
Set includes fiction, nonfiction, and folk tales from the Hispanic experience in the US and in Spanish-speaking countries. 13 books.
|
|
 |
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)
|
|
WB-389703 From Asia to America Book Set Grades 1-3 ... 90.75
Set includes folk tales from Asia and stories from the Asian experience in America. 14 books.
|
|
 |
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)
|
|
WB-389704 From Africa to America Book Set Grades 1-3 ... 157.00
Set includes folk tales from Africa and African Americans, nonfiction books, and fiction from the African American experience. 22 books.
|
|
 |
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), Teeny, Tiny Woman (Galdone), Today Is Monday (Carle), Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? (Nodset), Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears (Aardema)
|
|
WB-389705 Predictable Books Set Grades 1-3 ... 130.50
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. 18 books.
|
|
 |
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)
|
|
WB-389706 New Twists on Old Tales Set Grades 1-3 ... 97.50
These familiar stories told from a different point of view will have your students laughing and thinking with a fresh perspective. 12 books.
|
|
 |
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), 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 Much is a Million? (Schwartz), How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World (McNulty), 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)
|
|
WB-389707 Nonfiction Book Set Grades 1-3 ... 187.00
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. 31 books.
|
|
|
|
 |
Grade 4
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days, Because of Winn-Dixie, Bridge to Terabithia, Bud, Not Buddy, By the Great Horn Spoon, The Cay, Esperanza Rising, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Giver, The Hobbit, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Janitor’s Boy, Number the Stars, Shiloh, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
|
|
WB-389444 Grade 4 Library ... 99.95
|
|
 |
Grade 5
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Among the Hidden, Amos Fortune: Free Man, Catherine, Called Birdy, Devil’s Arithmetic, Holes, Long Way From Chicago, Maniac Magee, On My Honor, Redwall, There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom, Tuck Everlasting, Walk Two Moons, Watson’s Go to Birmingham – 1963 , Wrinkle in Time
|
|
WB-389555 Grade 5 Library ... 104.25
|
|
 |
Grade 6
Across Five Aprils, A Day No Pigs Would Die
Fever 1793, The Girl Who Owned a City, Hoot, Out of the Dust, The Pinballs, Red Scarf Girl, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, A Single Shard, Tangerine, To Kill a Mockingbird, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Warriors Don’t Cry, Witch of Blackbird Pond
|
|
WB-389666 Grade 6 Library ... 104.25
|
|
 |
Grade 5-6 Library
Among the Hidden (Haddix), Amos Fortune, Free Man (Yates), Because of Winn-Dixie (DiCamillo), Bridge to Terabithia (Paterson), Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis), The Cay (Taylor), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl), City of Ember (Duprau), Esperanza Rising (Munoz-Ryan), Fantastic Mr. Fox (Dahl), From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Konigsburg), The Giver (Lowry), The Hobbit (Tolkien), Holes (Sachar), Hoot (Hiaasen), Indian in the Cupboard (Banks), Island of the Blue Dolphins (O’Dell), Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe (Lewis), Long Way From Chicago (Peck), My Side of the Mountain (George), Phantom Tollbooth (Juster), Redwall (Jacques), Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Coerr), Walk Two Moons (Creech), Wrinkle in Time (L’Engle)
|
|
WB-389005 Grade 5-6 Library Set of 25 Books ... 172.95
|
|
 |
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)
|
|
WB-389711 Native Americans Book Set Grades 4-6 ... 96.25
Set includes historical fiction, contemporary fiction, and nonfiction. 15 books.
|
|
 |
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)
|
|
WB-389712 Latino Culture, Here and Abroad Book Set Grades 4-6 ... 68.75
Set includes historical fiction and contemporary fiction. 10 books.
|
|
 |
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), 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)
|
|
WB-389713 From Asia to America Book Set Grades 4-6 ... 134.75
Set includes historical fiction, contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and
autobiographies. 22 books.
|
|
 |
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), 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)
|
|
WB-389714 From Africa to America Book Set Grades 4-6 ... 148.75
Set includes fiction set in Africa, folk tales from America, and biographies, historical fiction, and nonfiction. 22 books.
|
|
 |
Books That Appeal to
Reluctant Readers
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Choldenko), 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)
|
|
WB-389715 Reluctant Readers Book Set Grades 4-6 ... 199.95
Set includes humor, adventure, historical fiction, science fiction, and contemporary fiction. 31 books.
|
|
 |
Autobiographies of Favorite Authors
Bill Peet: An Autobiography (Bill Peet), Bowman’s Store: A Journey to Myself (Joseph Bruchac), Boy: Tales From Childhood (Roald Dahl), 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), Moon and I (Betsy Byars), My Life in Dog Years (Gary Paulsen), Tarantula in My Purse (Jean Craighead George)
|
|
WB-389716 Autobiographies of Favorite Authors Grades 4-6 ... 118.25
Set includes 13 books.
|
|
 |
Historical Fiction – Our America Book Set
Across Five Aprils – Civil War (Hunt), Ballad of Lucy Whipple – Gold Rush (Cushman), Ben and Me – Colonial America (Lawson), Bound for Oregon – Westward Expansion (VanLeeuwen), Bud, Not Buddy – Depression Era (Curtis), Bull Run-Civil War (Fleischman), By the Great Horn Spoon – Gold Rush (Fleischman), Cabin Faced West – Revolutionary Times (Fritz), Dragon’s Gate – Building the Railroad (Yep), Fever 1793 – Post Revolutionary (Anderson), Friendship – Race Relations in Depression Era (Taylor), George Washington’s Socks – Revolutionary Times (Woodruff), Light in the Forest – Indian/Settler Relations (Richter), Lyddie – Textile mill in 1840 (Paterson), My Brother Sam Is Dead – Revolutionary Times (Collier), Orphan of Ellis Island – Immigration (Woodruff), Our Only May Amelia – Westward Expansion (Holm), Out of the Dust – Depression (Hesse), Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906 (Karwoski), Riding Freedom – Frontier Days (Ryan), Rifles for Watie – Civil War (Keith), Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Depression Era (Taylor), Sarah, Plain and Tall – Frontier Days (MacLachlan), Seaman: The Dog Who Explored the West with Lewis and Clark (Karwoski), Secret Soldier – Revolutionary Times (McGovern), Sign of the Beaver – Colonial America (Speare), Under the Blood-Red Sun – WWII (Salisbury), Watson’s Go to Birmingham-1963 – Civil Rights Era (Curtin), Witch of Blackbird Pond – Colonial America (Speare), Witness – 1920’s America (Hesse)
|
|
WB-389717 Historil Fiction - Our America Book Set Grades 4-6 ... 193.50
Includes historical fiction from Colonial America, Revolutionary Times, Civil War Era, Westward Expansion, the Depression Era and more. 30 books.
|
|
|
|
 |
Grade 7-8 Library
Across Five Aprils (Hunt), Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain), All Creatures Great and Small (Herriot), Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl (Frank), Black Pearl (O’Dell), Catherine, Called Birdy (Cushman), Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon), Devil’s Arithmetic (Yolen), Fever 1793 (Anderson), Flipped (VanDraanen), Girl Who Owned a City (Nelson), Golden Compass (Pullman), Hatchet (Paulsen), House on Mango Street (Cisneros), Lord of the Flies (Golding), Nothing But the Truth (Avi), October Sky/Rocket Boys (Hickam), Out of the Dust (Hesse), Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Taylor), Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Brashares), Slam! (Myers), Surviving the Applewhites (Tolan), Tangerine (Bloor), To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), Witch of Blackbird Pond (Speare)
|
|
WB-389007 Grade 7-8 Library Set of 25 Books ... 188.95
|
|
 |
Grade 9-10 Library
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), And Then There Were None (Christie), Animal Farm (Orwell), Black Like Me (Griffin), Bless Me, Ultima (Anaya), Cannery Row (Steinbeck), The Crucible (Miller), Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), Fast Food Nation (Schlosser), Glass Menagerie (Williams), Hole in My Life (Gantos), House of the Scorpion (Farmer), I Have Lived a Thousand Years (Bitton-Jackson), Into Thin Air (Krakauer), Jane Eyre (Bronte), Life of Pi (Martel), Maus (Spiegelman), Nineteen Eighty-four (Orwell, No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (Smith), Once and Future King (White), Seabiscuit (Hillenbrand), Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (Crutcher), Things They Carried (O’Brien), Tuesdays with Morrie (Albom), Warriors Don’t Cry (Beals)
|
|
WB-389009 Grade 9-10 Library Set of 25 Books ... 244.95
|
|
 |
Grade 11-12 Library
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), Angela’s Ashes (McCourt), Band of Brothers (Ambrose), Beloved (Morrison), Brave New World (Huxley), Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), Color Purple (Walker), DaVinci Code (Brown), Death of a Salesman (Miller), Devil in a Blue Dress (Mosley), Foundation (Asimov), Good Earth (Buck), Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), House of the Spirits (Allende), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou), In Cold Blood (Capote), Joy Luck Club (Tan), The Jungle (Sinclair), Kite Runner (Hosseini), Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Gullard), Night (Wiesel), Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway), Pride and Prejudice (Austen), Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Feynman), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston)
|
|
WB-389011 Grade 11-12 Library Set of 25 Books ... 289.95
|
|
|
|
