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Suggested Chapter Books to Read to Your K-2nd Grader
 Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Richard Atwater / J ATW
The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by Polar dreams.
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie / J BAR
The adventures of the three Darling children in Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum / J BAU
After a cyclone drops her in the land of Oz, Dorothy and her dog travel to the Emerald City with a scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion to try to get back to Kansas.
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett / J BUR
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London School, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett / J BUR
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll / J CAR
A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.
Ramona the Pest
Beverly Cleary / J CLE
Ramona meets a lot of interesting people in kindergarten class, including Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled.
James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl / J DAH
James escapes from his fearful aunts by rolling away inside a giant peach.
Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling / J KIP
Mowgli, the "man-cub," is abandoned as a baby by his parents and raised by the wolves in the wilds of the jungle.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis / J LEW
Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren / J LIN
Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh Lofting / J LOF
The adventures of a kind-hearted doctor, who is fond of animals and understands their language, as he travels to Africa with some of his favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness.
Betsy-Tacy
Maud Hart Lovelace / J LOV
A new girl named Tacy moves into the house across the street from Betsy and they become such good friends that everybody thinks of them as one person-- Betsy-Tacy.
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery / J MON
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
The Borrowers
Mary Norton / J NOR
Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock.
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter / J POR
A young orphan changes the heart of an entire town due to her own optimistic outlook on life.
Rootabaga Stories
Carl Sandburg / J SAN
A collection of fanciful, humorous short stories introducing such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, Henry Hagglyhoagly, the Blue Wind Boy, Googler and Gaggler, and others.
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Margaret Sidney / J SID
A fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman.
Heidi
Johanna Spyri / J SPY
Little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her gruff grandfather high in the Alps and travels to the city to be a companion to an invalid but ends up back in the mountains.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain / J TWA
The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.
The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann Davis Wyss / J WYS
Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island abundantly inhabited by animal and plant life.
Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White / J WHI
Wilbur, the pig, discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte decides to help him.
Stuart Little
E. B. White / J WHI
The debonair mouse Stuart Little he seeks out a little bird who visited his family's garden.
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder / J WIL
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.
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