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Preschool - 3rd Grade


A Cache of Jewels And Other Collective Nouns   /Heller, R. 
A Chair For My Mother/Williams, V.   [4-5yr old] 
A Country Mouse in a Town House/ 
A Day in Space   /Lord, S. and Epstein, J. 
A House Is a House for Me /Hoberman, M. 
A Mouse in a House/ 
Arabic "Spot" Series by Eric Hill. 
A True Promise by Abidullah&Ghazi
A Seed Is a Promise / Merrill, C.
A Tree Is Nice/Simont 
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day  /Viorst, J. 
All By Myself  /Hines 
Amazing Grace(Arabic/English) by Hoffman, M.
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon  /Danzinger, P. 
Amigo Means Friend /Everett, L. 
Animal Tracks   /Dorros, A. 
Animals Born Alive and Well   /Heller, R. 
Anno's Counting Book  /Anno, M. 
Are You My Mother?/Eastman 
Arthur's Eyes/Brown 
Being Bad for the Baby-Sitter /Tulloch, R. 
Big Brother/Zolotow   [brother who teases, good solution] 
Big Wheels  /Barkan, J. 
Bitter Bananas by Odlaleye, I
Blueberries For Sal/McCloskey 
Bored -Nothing To Do!/Spier    [7-8yr old]  [great adventure,pictures!] 
Brambly Hedge Autumn Story /Barklem 
Butterfly Story  /Hariton, A. 
Camp Rotten Time /Thaler, M. 
Caps, Hats, Socks, and Mittens A Book About the Four Seasons  /Borden, L. 
Changes, Changes   /Hutchins, P. 
Charlie Needs a Cloak   /dePaola, T. 
Chicken Soup With Rice/Sendak   [my son asked for a lot] 
City Storm   /Parker, M. 
Clifford The Big Red Dog/Bridwell    [series] 
Corduroy  /Freeman   [asked for a lot..teddybear] 
Could Be Worse  /Stevenson 
Crack of Dawn Walkers/Hest   [Grandfather] 
Daddy Makes The Best Spaghetti  /Hines 
Dangerous Journey  /Bunyan 
Darcy and Gran Don't Like Babies  /Cutler, J. 
Days With Frog And Toad  /Lobel     [friendship series] 
Deep In The Forest  /Turkel 
Dinosaurs and More Dinosaurs   / Craig, M. 
Do You Love Me?/Gackenbach   [Kids asked for it a lot] 
Do You Want To Be My Friend?  /Carle 
Easy Sceince Experiments   /Molleson, D. and Savage, S. 
Eating Fractions  /McMillan,B. 
Eureka!  It's an Airplane!   /Bendlick, J. 
Evan's Corner 
Everybody Cooks Rice /Dooley, N. 
Families Are Different   /Pellegrini, N. 
Feelings /Aliki 
Ferdinand  /Munro 
Finding the Titanic   /Ballard, R. 
First Snow/McCully   [no words] 
Five True Dog Stories   /Davidson, M. 
Fix-it!/McPhail   [reading over TV] 
Fixing the Crack of Dawn   /Silverman, E. 
Frederick Douglass: Portrait of a Freedom Fighter   /Keenan, S. 
Frederick  /Lionni 
Freight Train/Cregg 
Frog Where Are You? /Mayer  [friendship series] 
Go, Dog, Go! /Eastman 
Good As New/Douglass 
Good Morning City   /Moore, E. 
Goodbye Arnold  /Roche   [sibling rivalry] 
Goodnight Moon  /Brown, Wise 
Granddaddy's Gift   /Mitchell, M. 
Grandpa's Slippers   /Watson, J. 
Gregory, the Terrible Eater  /Sharmat, M. 
Growing Vegetable Soup  /Ehlert, L 
Handsigns: A Sign Language Alphabet   / Fain, K. 
Harry and The Terrible Whatzit/Gackenbach 
Harry The Dirty Dog/Zion 
Henry Explores The Mountains/Taylor  [adventure, values, is a series, preschool] 
Hill of Fire  /Lewis, T. 
Horrible Hannah/Bottner 
How a House Is Built   /Gibbons, G. 
How Is a Crayon Made?   /Oz, C. 
How Many Teeth? /Showers, P. 
How Much Is A Million?  /Schwartz  [preschool] 
How Pizza Came to Queens /Khalsa, D. 
Huge Harold  /Peet 
I Am Eyes   Ni Macho /Ward, L. 
Ibn Battuta Book Set by Durkee & Azzam
I Hate English /Levine, E. 
I Spy...series  /Marzollo, J. 
If You... series   /various authors 
Inch by Inch /Lionni, L. 
Is is it Dark?  Is it Light?   /Lankford, M. 
Is Your Mama a Llama? /Guarino, D. 
Island Boy: Story and Pictures /Cooney   [4-5yr old] 
It Begins with an A /Calmenson, S. 
Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox /Maccarone, G. 
Jamaica Tag-Along  /Havill, J. 
Jamaica's Find  /Havill, J. 
Jamal’s Prayer Rug by Fannoun, K 
Just Us Women   /Caines, J. 
Kamal’s Quest by Profilet, C.
Katy & The Big Snow  /Burton 
Kindergarten Kids  /Senisi, E. 
Lapsnatcher  /Covill,B. 
Let's Go Traveling   /Krupp, R. 
Little Nino's Pizzeria  /Barbour, K. 
Look! Look! Look! /Hoban,T. 
Louis Braille:The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind   /Davidson, M 
Lunch /Fleming, D. 
Make Way for Ducklings  /McCloskey, R. 
Mama, Do Yuo Love Me? /Joose, B. 
 Many Luscious Lollipops: A Book About Adjectives   /Heller, R. 
Mary Had a Little Lamb /Hale, S. 
May I Bring A Friend? /Dekegniers 
Mike Mulligan & His Steam Shovel  /Burton 
Millions of Cats  /Gag 
More More More, Said the Baby /Williams, V. 
Muslim Fables & Folktales by Denys, Johnson-Davies
My Cat Is Going to the Dogs /Thaler, M. 
My First Word Book(Arabic/English)
My Friends /Gamo, T. 
My Picture Book of the Planets   / Krulik, N. 
My Spring Robin /Rockwell, A. 
My Tooth is About to Fall Out /Maccarone, G. 
Nettie's Trip South /Turner,A. 
New Shoes for Silvia  /Hurwitz, J. 
New Shoes  /Corey 
Night Ones /Grossman, P. 
Nine True Dolphin Stories   /Davidson, M. 
Noah's Ark/Spier 
Notorious Numbers /Giganti Jr., P. 
OBadiah The Bold/Turkle 
Of Colors and Things   Hoban, T. 
Old Arthur/Skorpen   [Wonderful story of dog-kids asked for repeatedly] 
On Market Street /Lobel,A. 
On Mother's Lap/Scott 
On the Go   /Morris, A. 
One Morning In Maine/McCloskey  [Another fav] 
Only One /Harshman,M. 
Ouch! A Book About Cuts, Scratches and Scrapes /Berger, M 
Over The River & Thru The Woods/Turlke   [Thanksgiving] 
Owl Moon /Yolen, J. 
Ox-Cart Man/Cooney, Hall 
Pancakes for Breakfast  /dePaola, T. 
Pancakes, Pancakes  /Carle,E. 
Patrick's Dinosaurs/Carrick  [good author] 
Peppe the Lamplighter /Bartone, E. 
Picnic/McCully   [no words] 
Pierre /Sendak, M. [my son asked for this one a lot] 
Pizza Party /Maccarone, G. 
Play Ball, Amelia Bedilia  /Parish, P. 
Prophets of Allah by Ghazi & El-Amin
Quick as a Cricket /Wood, A. 
Rachel and Obadiah/Turkle  [sibling rivalry] 
Rain Drop Splash /Tresselt, A. 
Rain  /Kalan, R. 
Rain/Spier   [no words, kids asked for a lot] 
Re-Zoom   /Banyai, I. 
Read Aloud Rhymes For The Very Young/Prelutsky 
Regards To The Man In The Moon/Keats   [a favorite] 
Rehema's Journey: A Visit to Tanzania   / Margolis, B. 
Rent a Third Grader  /Hiller, B. 
Ride A Purple Pelican/Prelutsky  [collection of poems, ages 4+] 
Rise and Shine, Mariko-Chan!  /Tomioka, C. 
Rooster's Off to See the World  /Carle, E. 
Rosie's Walk/Hutchins 
Sam Who Never Forgets/Rice 
Sarah Saw a Blue Macaw  /Bogart, J. 
School Bus  /Crews, D. 
School Days  /Hennessy, B. 
Science - Just Add Salt   /Markle, S. 
Second Grade Friends  /Cohen, M. 
Seven Blind Mice  /Young, E. 
Simple Pictures are Best  /Williard, N. 
Sky Dog/Turkle 
Something Queer Is Going On/Levy 
Steven Kellogg books 
Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea  /Williams, V. and Williams, J. 
Taking a Walk/Cominando:A Book in Two Languages  /Emberley, R. 
Teach Us, Amelia Bedilia   /Parish, P. 
Ten Black Dots   /Crews, D. 
Ten, Nine, Eight  /Bang 
The Baby Zoo   /McMillan, B. 
The Ball Game   /Packard, D. 
The Bear Under the Stairs  /Cooper, H. 
The Bully Brothers: Making the Grade  /Thaler, M. 
The Carrot Seed/Krauss 
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret by Lewin
The Diggingest Dog/Perkins 
The Doorbell Rang /Hutchins, P. 
The Drinking Gourd  /Manjo, F.N. 
The Garden in Our Yard  /Quinn, G. 
The Hit-Away Kid /Christopher, M. 
The House I Live In At Home in America /Seltzer, I. 
The King's Flower/Anno 
The Little House/Burton 
The Magic School Bus series   /Cole, J. 
The Milk Makers   /Gibbons, G. 
The Pain and the Great One  /Blume, J. 
The Pearl/Heine   [Gorgeous illustrations] 
The Pet That I Want  /Packard, M. 
The Quicksand Book  / dePaola, T. 
The Quilt Story  /Johnston, T. 
The Relatives Came/Rylant 
The Relatives Come  /Rylont,C. 
The Snowy Day  /Keats, E. 
The Snowy Day  /Keats 
The Story About Ping /Flack 
The Story of Jumping Mouse/Steptoe 
The Terrible Thing That Happened at Our House   /Blaine, M. 
The Tiny Seed   /Carle, E. 
The Very Busy Spider   /Carle, E. 
The Very Hungry Caterpillar  /Carle, E. 
The Whales' Song   /Sheldon, D. 
This is Baseball   /Blackstone, M. 
This Is My House   / Dorros, A 
Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe   /Williams, V. 
Three Names  /MacLachlan, P. 
Three Smart Pals   /Rocklin, J. 
Thunder Cake   /Polacco, P. 
Tiki Tiki Tembo  /Mosel  [kids love saying along with it] 
Tim To The Lighthouse/Ardizzone 
Time Of Wonder/McCloskey 
Time To... /McMillan, B. 
To Bed or Else (Arabic/English) by Lipniacka&Bogdanowicz
Tom   /dePaola, T. 
Too Many Tamales   /Soto, G. 
Truck /Crews, D. 
Two Plus One Goes A.P.E.   /Springstrub, T. 
Up, Up and Away: A Book About Adverbs   /Heller, R. 
Wake up, Jeremiah!/Himler 
Wake Up and Goodnight/Zolotow 
Wanted: Perfect Parents   /Himmelman, J. 
Watch The Stars Come Out  /Levinson    [4-5 yr old] 
We are Muslim, Alhamdulillah! By Fannoun
We Scream for Ice Cream   /Chardiet, B. and Maccarone, G. 
We're Going On A Bear Hunt  /Rosen 
Weather Is Full Of The Nicest Sounds  /Fisher 
What Am I? Very First Riddles   /Calmenson, S. 
What Comes in 2's, 3's, and 4's?   /Aker, S. and Karlin, B. 
What Kind of Baby-Sitter Is This?   Johnson, D. 
What Mary Jo Shared   /Udry, J. 
When I Grow Up by Kezziez, E
When This Box is Full   /Lillie, P. 
White Snow, Bright Snow  /Duvoisin 
Who Said Sue, Said Who?  /Raskin 
Wigger  /Goldman  [special blanket]] 
Will I have a Friend?/Cohen   [Series, kindergarten] 
William Where Are You?  /Gerstein 
Zoom   /Banyai, I. 
 
 
 

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4th - 6th Grade


A Pocket Full of Seeds   / Sachs, M. 
A Question of Trust   /Bauer, M. 
A Taste of Blackberries   /Smith, D. 
Amazing True Stories   /Wulffson, D. 
Anne Frank:Beyond the Diary A Photographic Remembrance/Verhoevan and van der Rol 
Batman Exploring the World of Bats   /Pringle, L. 
Blood and Guts: A Working Guide to Yor Own Insides  /Allison, L. 
Buffalo Hunt   /Freedman, R. 
Bull Run   /Fleischman, P. 
Caddie Woodlawn  /Brink,C 
Call It Courage   /Sperry, A. 
Cassie Binegar   / Maclachlan, P. 
Child Times  /Greenfield, E. and Little, L. 
Children of the Wild West   /Freedman, R. 
Cousins   /Hamilton, V. 
Day of the Blizzard   / Maskin, M. 
Digging Up Tyrannasaurs Rex   /Horner, J. and Lessem, D. 
Discovering Electricity   /Bains, R. 
Dragon's Gate   /Yep, L. 
Encyclopedia Brown series   /Sobol, D. 
Fabulous Facts About the 50 States   /Ross, W. 
50 Simple Things Kids Can Do To Save the Earth   /The Earthworks Group 
Finding Buck McHenry   /Slote, A. 
Follow My Leader   / Garfield, J. 
Frederick Douglas Fights for Freedom   /Davidson, M. 
Freedom Crossing   / Clark, M. 
Freedom Train - The Story of Harriet Tubman 
From Rags to Riches: People Who Started Businesses from Scratch   /Aaseng, N. 
Gandhi, Peaceful Warrior   /Bains, R. 
Garbage!  The Trashiest Book You'll Ever Read   /Lord, S. 
Get on Board - The Story of the Underground Railroad   /Haskins, J. 
Good Neighbors and other Moral Stories by Busool
Great Women in the Struggle   Igus, T. 
Harriet and the Promised Land  /Lawrence,J 
Heidi   /Spyri,J 
History of Al-Khalifah Ar-Rashidah by al-Ahsan
Hitty, Her First HundredYears   /Field, Rachel 
Ibn Talun - Story of a Mosque by Macdonald
I hate Mathematics! Book   / Burns, M. 
Invincible Abdullah Series by Hutchinson
Invincible Lousa   /Meigs, C 
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell 
Jim Abbott: Against All Odds / White, E. 
Karavan by Siddiqui
Kidnapped   /Stevenson, R 
King of the Wind   /Henry, M 
Listening to Crickets: A story about Rachel Carson   /Ranson, C. 
Little House series   /Wilder,L 
L¢ng is a Dragon: Chinese Writing for Children   /Goldstein, P. 
Looking Inside :Machines of Construcition /Fleischer, P. and Keeler, P. 
Marie Curie, Brave Scientist   Brandt, K. 
Math for Smarty Pants /Burns, M. 
Michael Jordon   /Lovitt, C. 
Micro Aliens: Dazzling Jouneys with an Electron Microscope   /Tomb H. and Kunkel, D. 
Misty of Chincoteague   /Henry,M 
More Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School   /Sachar, L. 
Muscles and Bones   /Saunderson, J. 
My Name is Brain Brian   /Betancourt, J. 
Nature Explorer, A Step-by- Step Guide   /Hulser, C. 
Nelson Mandela: "No Easy Walk to Freedom"   /Denenberg, B. 
New Kids in Town: oral Histories of Immigrant Teens   / Bade, J. 
Old Yeller   /Gipson,F 
1000 Facts About the Earth   /Butterfield M. 
1000 Facts About Space   / Beasant, P. 
1000 Facts About Wild Animals   /Butterfiled, M. 
Phoebe the Spy /Griffin, J. 
Pippi Longstocking series   /Lindgren, A 
Plain Girl   /Sorenson, V. 
Ramona and Her Father   /Beverly Cleary 
Remember My Name   /Sara H. Banks 
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry   / Taylor, M. 
Rosa Parks: My Story   /Parks, R. and Haskins, J. 
Samuel's Choice   /Berleth, R 
Scooter/Williams,V 
Sign of the Beaver 
Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School   / Sachar, L. 
Slake's Limbo /Holman, F. 
Snow Treasure /McSwigan, M. 
Someone to Count On   /Hermes, P. 
Soul Looks Back in Wonder   /Feelings, T. 
Sounder   /Armstrong, W. 
Steal Away   /Armstrong, J. 
Stuart Little   /White, E 
Superfudge   /Blume, J. 
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt   /Hopkinson, D. 
Take A Look - An Introduction to the Experience of Art /Davidson, R. 
Taking Flight / Van Meter, V. and Gutman, D. 
Tales of a Fouth Grade Nothing   /Blume, J. 
Tarek by Kaaki
Teachings of Our Prophet by Iqra
The Assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy   /Hayman, L. 
The Book of Where Or How to be Naturally Geographic   / Bell, N. 
The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown   /Byars, B. 
The Cabin Faced West/Fritz,Jean 
The Call of the Wild/London,J 
The Captive   /Hansen, J. 
The Courage of Sarah Noble  /Dalgliesh,A 
The Cricket in Times Square 
The D-Poems of Jeremy Bloom   /Korman, G and Korman, B. 
The Day Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Shot  /Haskins, J. 
The Day We Walked on the Moon   /Sullivan, G. 
The Day the Woman Got the Vote   /Sullivan, G. 
The Defenders   /McGovern, A. 
The Diving Bell   / Strasser, T. 
The First Woman Doctor   /Baker, R. 
The Kids' Money   /Godfrey, N. 
The Land I Lost:Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam   /Nhuong, H. 
The Light at Tern Rock   /Sauer, J 
The National Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Everyday People   / Duncan, A. 
The Perilous Road   / Steele, W. 
The Prophets by Iqra
The Real McCoy:  The Life of An African Inventor  /Towle 
The Red Pony   /Steinbeck, J 
The Secret Garden  /Burnett, Frances 
The Star Fisher   /Yep, L 
The Swiss Family Robinson   /Wyss, Johann 
The Trumpeter of Krakow   /Kelly, Eric 
The Velveteen Rabbit   /Williams, M 
The Wind in the Willows   /Grahame,K 
The Wolfling   /North, S. 
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane   /Freedman, R. 
Through the Microscope Atoms and Cells   /Bender, L. 
Through the Microscope The Body   /Bender, L. 
Throughout the Ages series   /Steele, P. 
Travellers and Explorers by Iqra
True Crimes and How They Were Solved: Sccience unravels baffling cases   /Larsen, A. 
Two Tickets to Freedom:The True Story of William and Ellen Craft, Fugitive Slaves /Freedman 
Undercover Tailback   /Christopher, M. 
White Fang   /London,J 
Who Comes With Cannons   /Beatty, P. 
Why Doesn't the Earth Fall Up? And other not such dumb questions about motion /Cobb, V. 
Winter Camp   /Hill, K. 
Witnesses to Freedom: Young People Who Fought for Civil Rights   /Rochelle, B. 
You Shouldn't Have to Say Good-Bye   /Hermes, P. 
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarejevo   /Filipovic, Z. 
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7th Thru 9th Grades


A Handful of Haiku   /complied by Marjorie L. Burns 
A Raisin in the Sun  /Hansberry, L 
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn   /Smitt, Betty 
Amos Fortune, Free Man   /Yates, Elizabeth 
Assignment: Rescue An Autobiography   /Fry, V. 
Cry, The Beloved Country   /Paton,A 
Dakota Dream   /Bennett, J. 
Dancing on Dark Water   /Carter, A. 
Diary of a Young Girl  /Frank, Anne 
Emergency Room   /Cooney, C. 
Gonna Bake Me a Rainbow Poem   /Sears, P. 
I Am Fifteen -and I Don't Want to Die   /Arnothy, C. 
In My Father's House   /Rinaldi, A. 
Incredible Captures   /Morgon, B. 
Ivanhoe   /Scott,Sir Walter 
Johnny Tremain   /Forbes, E 
Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary   /Myers, W. 
Molly By Any Other Name   /Okimoto, J. 
My Brother Sam is Dead   /Collier, J 
National Velvet  /Bagnold, E 
Neighborhood Odes   /Soto, G. 
Our Solar System  /Graham, I. 
Part of Me Died, Too / Fry, V. 
Plain City /Hamilton, V. 
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell 
Somewhere in the Darkness   /Myers, W. 
Stand and Deliver   /Edwards, N. 
Steal Away Home by Ruby Lewis 
Story of My Life   /Keller, Helen 
The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn /Twain, M. 
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer /Twain, M. 
The African Queen  /Forester,C 
The Empty Summer   /Brooks, C. 
The Iceberg Hermit   /Roth, A. 
The Last of the Mohicans   /Cooper,J 
The Old Man and the Sea   /Hemingway, E 
The Pearl   /Steinbeck,J 
The Return by Sonia Levitin 
The Yearling  /Rawlings, M 
To Kill a Mockingbird   /Lee, H 
Up From Slavery   /Washington, Booker T. 
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit  /Kerr 
When the Phone Rang   /Mazer, H. 
Where Do I Go From Here?   /Wesley, V. 
Wings of a Falcon   /Voigt, C. 
Zia by Scott O'Dell 

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9th Thru 12th Grade


Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years/Sandburg,C 
Animal Farm/Orwell,G 
Anna Karenina/Tolstoy,L 
African Muslims in the Antebellum America by Austin
A Tale of Two Cities/Dickens 
Black Boy/Wright,R 
Companions of the Prophet by Hamid
Daughters of Another Path by Anway
David Copperfield/Dickens 
Essays/ Emerson, RW 
Fiqh as-Seerah by Imam Ghazali
Go Tell it On The Mountain/Baldwin,J 
Great Expectations/Dickens 
Introducing Muhammad by Sardar/Malik
Invisible Man/Ellison,R 
Islamic Art by Brend
Islam the Natural Way by Hamid
Native Son/Wright,R 
Of Mice and Men/Steinbeck,J 
Oliver Twist/Dickens 
Out of Africa/Dinesen, I 
Poems/Dickinson,E 
Raising Children According to Quran and Sunnah by Rahbar
Realities of Faith by Umm Muhammad
Stories from Around the World by Hipple 
Stories of the Prophets by Imam ibn Kathir
The Grapes of Wrath/Steinbeck,J 
The Importance of Being Earnest/Wilde,P 
The Lonely African by Turnbull 
The Prophets Appointed by Allah by Um Muhammad
The Red Badge of Courage/Crane, S 
War and Peace/Tolstoy,L 
 

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