Read-Aloud

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams

Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg

The Polar Express by Chris van Allsburg

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Picture Books

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

The Big Sneeze by Ruth Brown

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archimbault

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin

Dinosaur Cousins by Bernard Most

Doctor de Soto and Pete’s a Pizza by William Steig

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie; If You Give a Pig a Pancake; If You Take a Mouse to the Movies; If You Take a Mouse to School;
by Laura Numeroff

Miss Nelson is Missing; Miss Nelson is Back by Harry Allard

Miss Bindergarten gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate

No, David! by David Shannon

No Jumping on the Bed by Todd
Arnold

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish
Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! by
David McPhail

Dogzilla by Dav Pilkey

Also: Dog Breath; Hallo-wiener; The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

Also: The Very Quiet Cricket; The Very Hungry Caterpillar; Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Easy Read Series

Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish

Arthur by Marc Brown

Curious George by H.A. Rey

Franklin by Paulette Bourgeois

Series for Young Boys

The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey

The Hardy Boys: All New Adventures by Franklyn W. Dixon

The Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborn
Also: Afternoon on the Amazon; The Knight at Dawn; Mummies in the Morning; Night of the Ninjas

Munschworks: The First Munsch Collection by Robert Munsch

Sam: Dog Detective by Mary Labatt

Screech Owls by Roy MacGregor

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snickett

Sideways Stories from a Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Star Wars Jedi Apprentice by Jude Watson

The Time Warp Trio by Jon Scieszka

Series for Older Boys

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Tales of Redwall by Brian Jacques

Novels for Young Boys

Holes by Louis Sachar

Island by Gordon Korman

I was a Rat by Philip Pullman

Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
Also: George’s Marvelous Medicine; Matilda

Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

Sam Samauri by Jon Sciezka

This Can’t be Happening at MacDonald Hall! by Gordon Korman
Also: Beware the Fish; Bruno and Boots; The Chicken Doesn’t Skate; Fifth Grade Radio; Our Man Weston; No Coins, Please

Novels for Older Boys:

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Also: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident

The Case of the Raging Rottweiler by John R. Erickson

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Also: The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Also: Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Avi (many)

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Silverwing Trilogy by Kenneth Oppel

Poetry for Young Boys

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, also A Light in the Attic

Poetry for Older Boys

Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep by Jack Prelutsky

Non-Fiction

Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

Eyewitness Books

Guinness Book of Records (newest)

Hockey for Kids: Heroes, Tips
and Facts by Brian McFarlane

How Hockey Works by Keltie
Thomas

The Way Things Work by David
Macaulay
Also: Building Big; Cathedral; Castle; Pyramid

Knights and Castles: a nonfiction companion to The Knight at Dawn by Will and Mary Pope Osborn

Mummies and Pyramids: a nonfiction companion to Mummies in the Morning by Will and Mary Pope Osborn

I Spy (series) by Jean Marzollo

Z is for Zamboni: A Hockey Alphabet by Mike Ulmer