Teachers and Parents,
Are you looking for a good book to read aloud? Here are some books that Mrs. Potter and Mrs. Sparks recommend. All of these books can be found in the FES Library.
Great Read Alouds for Grades K-3
Bunnicula by James Howe
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Clover Twig and the Magical Cottage by Kaye Umansky
A Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
The End of the Beginning by Avi
The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
Evangeline Mudd and the Golden-Haired Apes of the Ikkinasti Jungle by David Elliott
Frindle by Andrew Clements
How Oliver Olson Changed the World by Claudia Mills
Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville
The Key to Rondo by Emily Rodda
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards
The Legend of Thunderfoot by Bill Wallace
The Magical Ms. Plum by Bonny Becker
Masterpiece by Elise Broach
A Mouse Called Wolf by Dick King-Smith
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr
No Talking by Andrew Clements
Poppy by Avi
Puffling Patrol by Ted Lewin
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith
Word After Word After Word by Patricia MacLachlan
The World According to Humphrey by Betty Birney
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
Great Read Alouds for Grades 4 & 5
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman
The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs by Sandra Markle
Dragon’s Egg by Sarah L. Thomson
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
Extra Credit by Andrew Clements
Eye of the Storm by Kate Messner
The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester by Barbara O’Connor
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Doll Bones by Holly Black
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
Holes by Louis Sachar
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Jeremy Bender vs. the Cupcake Cadets by Eric Luper
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery
Leon and the Spitting Image by Allen Kurzweil
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
The Magic Thief by Sarah Prineas
Masterpiece by Elise Broach
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Moonbird by Phillip Hoose
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of N.I.M.H. by Robert O’Brien
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Poppy by Avi
Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Rump: the True Story of Rumplestiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff
The Runaway Princess by Kate Coombs
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson
Secrets at Sea by Richard Peck
Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus
The Sisters Grimm by Michael Buckley
Starry River of the Sky by Grace Lin
Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
The Thing About Georgie by Lisa Graff
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm
The Water Castle by Megan Frazer Blakemore
The Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry