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LIST OF BOOKS TO READ

Grades 1=2

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Note—This is a tentative edition of the lists, to be replaced

next year by a revised and annotated edition. Criticism of

the lists before reprinting is invited from all teachers or

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GRADES ONE AND TWO

Adelborg

Aesop

Brooke

Brooks

Caldecott

Caldecott

Caldecott

Caldecott

Craik

Crane

Crane

Dodge

Dodge

Greenaway

Lang

Lang

Lang

Lang

Norton

O’Shea

Potter

Poulsson

Poulsson

Poulsson

Tileston

GRADE ONE.

Clean Peter

The baby’s own Aesop: illustrated by Crane

The golden goose book

Stories of the red children

Picture book

Picture book. no. 2

Hey-diddle-diddle picture book

Panjandrum picture book

So-fat and Mew-mew

The baby’s opera

The baby’s bouQuet

Baby days

The new baby world

Under the window

Cinderella

Jack the giant-killer

Little Red Riding Hood

The nursery rhyme book

Heart of oak books, vol. 1

Six nursery classics

The tale of Peter Rabbit

Child stories and rhymes

Finger plays

Through the farmyard gate

Sugar and spice

GRADE TWO.

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Baldwin

Baldwin

Bass

Bass

Chance

Chase

Cox

Crane

Crane

Crane

Cruikshank

Deming

Dodge

Fletcher

Gerson

Greenaway

Grimm

Holbrook

Hopkins

Hopkins

Lang

Lang

Lang

Lang

Norton

O’Shea

Peary

Perrault

Pyle

Richards

Scudder

Shute

Stevenson

Warren

Fairy stories and fables

Fifty famous stories retold

Animal life

Plant life

Little folks of many lands

Buds, stems and roots

The Brownie books

Beauty and the beast picture book

Bluebeard’s picture book

Goody Two Shoes picture book

The Cruikshank fairy book

Indian child life

Rhymes and jingles

Marjorie and her papa

The Happy Heart family

The marigold garden

Fairy tales; ed. by Wiltse. 2 v.

The Hiawatha primer

The sandman; his farm stories

The sandman; more farm stories

The history of Whittington

Prince Darling

The princess on the glass.hill

The sleeping beauty

Heart of oak books, vol. 2-3

Old world wonder stories

The snow baby

Tales of Mother Goose

Careless Jane

Four feet, two feet and no feet

A book of fables and folk stories

The land of song, vol. 1

A child’s garden of verses

From September to June


Grade 3




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EAST ORANGE, N. J.

Aesop

Andrews

Andrews

Aspinwall

Baldwin

Baldwin

Bible

Bible

Brown, A. F.

Brown, K. L.

Browne

Burgess

Carroll, pseud.

Carroll, pseud.

Collodi

Eastman

Gibbon

Grimm

Hardy

Hazard

Holbrook

Hopkins

Husted

Jacobs

Jerrold

Lang

Mulock

Mulock

Peary

GRADE THREE.

Fables told anew, .by Joseph Jacobs

Each and all

Seven little sisters

Short stories for short people

Old Greek stories

Thirty more famous stories

Old Testament stories. (Told to the children series;

Stories from the life of Christ. (Told to the children

series)

The lonesomest doll

The plant baby and its friends

Granny’s wonderful chair

The lively city o’ Ligg

Alice’s adventures in Wonderland

Through the looking glass.

Pinnochio

Wigwam evenings

Old King Cole

Household stories; translated by Lucy Crane

Sea stories for wonder eyes

Three years with the poets

A book of nature myths

The sandman; his ship stories

Stories of Indian children

English fairy tales

The reign of King Oberon

The blue fairy book

The adventures of a brownie

The little lame prince

Children of the Arctic

Pyle The Christmas angel

Richards Five minute stories

Richards The joyous story of Toto

Scudder The book of legends

Scudder The children’s book

Shaw Big people and little people of other land

Sherman Little folk lyrics

Strong All the year round. 4 v.

Walker Lady Hollyhock

White When Molly was six

Wiggin The posy ring

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Grade 4






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GRADE FOUR.

Aanrud

Alcott

Andersen

Andrews

Andrews

Ayrton

Bertelli

Blaisdell &

Brown

Canton

Coolidge

Defoe

Drummond

Eggleston

Field

Field

Hale

Harris

Harris

Headland

Howells

Jackson

Jacobs

Jewett

Kelly

Kingsley

Kipling

Lagerlof

Lang

Lang

Lear

Longfellow

Lisbeth Longfrock

Lulu’s library. 3v.

Fairy tales; translated by Lucas

Stories Mother Nature told

Ten boys

Childlife in Japan; edited by Griffis

The prince and his ants

Ball Hero stories from American history

In the days of giants

The reign of King Herla

A New Year’s bargain

Robinson Crusoe; illustrated by Rhead

The monkey that would not kill

Stories of American life and adventure

Love songs of childhood

With trumpet and drum

The Peterkin papers

Little Mr. Thimblefinger

Uncle Remus; his songs and his sayings

A Chinese boy and girl

Christmas every day, and other stories

Cat stories

Celtic fairy tales

Play days

Short stories of our shy neighbors

The water babies

Just so stories

The adventures of Nils

The green fairy book

The yellow fairy book

Nonsense books

The song of Hiawatha

Love joy

Lucas

Lucas

Lummis

MacDonald

MacDonald

MacLeod

Miller

Monvel, Boutet

Morley

de Musset

Noel

Page

Paine

Perry & Beebe

Pyle

Pyle

Richards

Riley

Ruskin

Schwartz

Schwatka

de Segur

Shute

Spyri

Starr

Stickney

Thackeray

Thaxter

Trimmer

White

Wiggin

Zitkala-Sa

Nature in verse

A book of verses for children

Oldfashioned tales

Pueblo Indian folk stories

The light princess

The princess and Curdie

The book of King Arthur and his noble knights

The first book of birds

de Joan of Arc

Little wanderers

Mr. Wind and Madam Rain

Buz

Two little confederates

The hollow tree and deep woods book

Four American pioneers

The garden behind the moon

The wonder clock

Quicksilver Sue

The book of joyous children

The king of the Golden river

Wilderness babies

The children of the cold

The story of a donkey

The land of song, vol. 2-3

Heidi

American Indians

The bird world

The rose and the ring

Stories and poems for children

The history of the robins

A little girl of long ago

The Birds’ Christmas Carol

Old Indian legends retold


Grade 5






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GRADE FIVE.

Famous old stories and legends

Arabian nights; edited by Lang

Asbjornsen

Baldwin

Baldwin

Bible

Brown

Froissart

Hawthorne

Hawthorne

Lang

Steel

Sterling

Swift

Fairy tales from the far north

The story of the Golden Age

The wonder book of horses

The Bible for young people

The book of saints and friendly beasts

Stories from Froissart; edited by Newbolt

A wonder-book; illustrated by Crane

Tanglewood tales

The book of romance

Tales of the Punjab

The story of Sir Galahad

Gulliver’s travels; edited by Jacobs

Longfellow

Lovejoy

Lunas

Rand

Tileston

Whittier

Poetry

The children’s Longfellow

Poetry of the seasons

Another book of verse

Lilliput lyrics

The children’s book of ballads

Child life

Dodge

Du Chaillu

Gibson

Hill

Indian stories;

Peltier

Taylor

True

Travel and adventure

The land of pluck

Stories of the gorilla country

In Eastern wonderlands

Fighting a fire

retold from St. Nicholas

A Japanese garland

Boys of other countries

The iron star

Baldwin

Brooks

Brooks

Lang

(jives of famous men and women

The American book of golden deeds

The true story of Columbus

The true story of Washington

The story of Joan of Arc

Out-of-door books and animal stories

Cat stories; retold from St. Nicholas

Duncan

Kipling

Kipling

Lang

Mitton

Morley

Patterson

Stories of brave dogs;

Mary’s garden and how it grew

The jungle book

Tne second jungle book

The book of animal stories

The children’s book of stars

The bee people

The spinner family


Amusements and occupations

Beard The American boy’s handy book

Beard The American girl’s handy book

Games book for boys and girls

Alcott

Alcott

Alden

Coolidge

Coolidge

Crothers

Diaz

Ewing

Hall

Jackson

MacDonald

Otis, pseud.

Rankin

Seawell

Stoddard

Wyss

Zollinger

Stories

Eight cousins

Under the lilacs

The moral pirates

Eyebright

What Katy did

Miss Muffet’s Christmas party

The William Henry letters

A flat iron for a farthing

Flossy’s playdays

Nelly’s silver mine

At the back of the north wind

Toby Tyler

Dandelion Cottage

Little Jarvis

Two arrows

Swiss family Robinson

Widow O’Callaghan’s boys


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GRADE SIX

Bunyan

Chaucer

Harris

Irving

Laboulaye

Lamb

Lang

MacLeod

Marvin

Pyle

de Amicis

Barnes

Brooks

Brooks

Coffin

Colonial stories;

Cotes

Dix

Dix

Dodge

French

Lang

Mitton

Moffett

Peeps at many

Pyle

Twain, pseud.

Brooks

Golding

Gordy

Kelly

Lang

Nicolay

Nicolay

Seawell

Famous old stories and folk tales

Pilgrim’s progress; illustrated by Rhead

Tales of the Canterbury pilgrims; retold by Darton

Nights with Uncle Remus

Rip Van Winkle

Fairy tales

Tales from Shakespeare

The red book of romance

Stories from the Faerie Queene

The adventures of Odysseus

The merry adventures of Robin Hood

Stories from many lands

Cuore Yankee ships and Yankee sailors; tales of 1812.

Boy emigrants

Boy settlers

The boys of '76


The story of Sonny Sahib

A little captive lad

Merrylips

Hans Brinker

Sir Marrok

Princes and princesses

The children’s book of London

Careers of danger and daring

lands series; especially England, Scotland, Holland, Japan

and Burma

Otto of the silver hand

The prince and the pauper

Lives of famous men and women

The master of the Strong Hearts

The story of David Livingstone

American leaders and heroes

The story of Sir Walter Raleigh

The red book of heroes

The boy’s life of Abraham Lincoln

The boy’s life of Ulysses S. Grant

Paul Jones

Out-of-door books and animal stories.

Starland

The training of wild animals

The world of the great forest

Tenants of the trees

The book of the ocean

Four-handed folk

Beautiful Joe

Wild animals I have known

The biography of a grizzly

Black Beauty

Stories of everyday life

Little women

The story of a bad boy

Six to sixteen

Boy life on the prairie

Betty Leicester

Anne’s terrible good nature

Castle Blair

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Amusements and occupations.

Jack of all trades

The outdoor handy book

What a girl can make and do

A little cook book for a little girl

The wonderland of stamps

The boy craftsman

What shall we do now?

A. B. C. of electricity

When mother lets us sew

Pleasant day diversions

Poetry

American war ballads

The children’s garland

The land of song, vol. 3

The listening child

Golden numbers


Grade 7



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GRADE SEVEN

Baldwin

Baldwin

Cervantes

Hutchinson

Kingsley

Mabie

Plutarch

Pyle

Quiller-Couch

Spenser

Famous old stories

The story of Roland

The story of Siegfried

Don Quixote; edited by Parry; illustrated by Crane

The golden porch

The heroes

Norse stories retold from the Eddas

Boys’ and girls’ Plutarch; edited by White

The story of King Arthur and his knights

Historical tales from Shakespeare

Una and the red cross knight; edited by Roy de-Smith

Henley

Percy

Scott

Wiggin

Poetry

Lyra heroica

The boy’s Percy; edited by Lanier

The lady of the lake

Golden numbers

Bennett

Catherwood

Cooper

Drake

Earle

Fiske

Goodwin

Janvier

Lodge & Roosevelt

Lossing

Seawell

Seelye

Stockton

American history and historical stories

Barnaby Lee

Heroes of the middle west

The spy

Indian history for young folks

Child life in colonial days

The war of Independence (new ed.)

White aprons

The Aztec treasure-house

Hero tales from American history

The two spies

A Virginia cavalier

The story of Columbus

Buccaneers and pirates of our coast

Bennett

Griffis

History of other countries

Master Skylark

Brave little Holland

Lang

Leighton

Marshall

Marshall

Scott

Tappan

Van Bergen

Willson

The red true story book

Olaf the glorious

Scotland’s story

An island story

Ivanhoe

In the days of Alfred the Great

The story of Japan

Canada

Black

Du Chaillu

Duncan

Eastman

Ford

French

Garland

Kipling

Pyle

Seaman

Shigemi

Stevenson

Stevenson

Life and adventure in many lands

The four Macnicols

Wild life under the equator

The adventures of Billy Topsail

Indian boyhood

The third alarm

The lance of Kanana

The long trail

Captains courageous

The story of Jack Ballister's fortunes

Jacqueline of the carrier pigeons

A Japanese boy

Kidnapped

Treasure island

Alcott

Barbour

3rown

k)olidge

)odge

)oubleday

Eggleston

lughes

latthews

'ier

’ichards

tuart

Stories of home and school life.

Jack and Jill

For the honor of the school

Two college girls

W hat Katy did at school

Donald and Dorothy

Cattle ranch to college

The Hoosier school-boy

Tom Brown's school days

Tom Paulding

Harding of St. Timothy’s

Peggy

The story of Babette

Vaile

Wiggin

Tonga

Burroughs

Dana

Dyson

Gilmore

Heilprin

James

Martin

Merriam

Seton

Weed

Adams

Adams

Beard

Beard

Bond

Kelley

Wheeler

Greene

Howden

Jenks

St. John

St. John

Williams

Williams

Williams

The Orcutt girls

Polly Oliver's problem

The daisy chain

Out-of-door books

Squirrels and other fur-beaiers

How to know the wild flowers

Stories of the trees

Birds through the year

The earth and its story

The story of Scraggles

The friendly stars

Birds through an opera glass

The trail of the Sandhill stag

Nature biographies

Occupations and handicraft

Harper’s indoor book for boys

Harper’s outdoor book for boys

The field and forest handy book

Handicraft and recreation for girls

The Scientific American boy do Lee hundred things a bright girl can do

nfnrkinff for beginners

Applied Science

Coal and the coal mines

The boy's book of steamships

Electricity tor yo“‘ electrical apparatus

two coys n..4o eiectriclty

How it is done

How it is made

How it work*


Grade 8





Notl—This is a tentative edition of the lists, to be replaced

next year by a revised and annotated edition. Criticism of

the lists before reprinting is invited from all teachers or

librarians who may use them.

EAST ORANGE, N. J.

GRADE EIGHT

Famous old stories; legends and folklore

Bulfinch

Grinnell

Guerber

Higginson

Homer

Homer

Irving

La Motte-Fouque

Plummer

Raspe

Legends of Charlemagne

Blackfoot Lodge tales

Stories of the Wagner operas

Tales of the enchanted islands of the Atlantic

The Iliad; translated by Lang, Leaf and Myers

The Odyssey; translated by Butcher and Lang

The sketch-book

Undine and Sintram

Stories from the Chronicle of the Cid

Tales from the travels of Baron Munchausen; edited

by Hale

Henley

Lang

Longfellow

Lowell

Macaulay

Palgrave

Repplier

Scott

Tennyson

Whittier

Bangs

Clement

Frothingham

Keller

Larcom

Mitchell

Morgan

Richards

Rolfe

Poetry

Lyra heroica

The blue poetry book

Complete poetical works. (Camb. ed.)


The lays of ancient Rome

The golden treasury

A book of famous verse


Poetic and dramatic works. (Camb. ed.)


Biography.

Jeanne d’Arc

Stories of art and artists

Sea fighters from Drake to Farragut

The story of my life

A New England girlhood

About old story tellers

Abraham Lincoln, the boy and the man

Florence Nightingale

Shakespeare the boy

Scudder

Seawell

Washington, B. T.

George Washington

Twelve naval captains

Up from slavery

Abbott

Brooks

Custer

Drake

Famous adventures Goss

Grinnell

Hemstreet

Marriott

Parkman

Roosevelt

Books about the United States.

The naval history of the United States

First across the continent

Boots and saddles

The border wars of New England

and prison escapes of the Civil War

Recollections of a private

The story of the Indian

The story of Manhattan

Uncle Sam’s business

The Oregon trail

Episodes from the winning of the West

Andrews

Churchill

Churchill

Cooper

Cooper

Fox

Hale

Hoppus

Jackson

Mitchell

Page

Stowe

Historical stories (United States)

The perfect tribute

The crisis

Richard Carvel

The deerslayer

The last of the Mohicans

The little shepherd of Kingdom Come

The man without a country

A great treason

Ramona

Hugh Wynne

Red Rock

Uncle Tom's cabin

Barrie

Blackmore

Church

Church

Stories of other countries

The little minister

Lorna Doone

Pictures from Greek life and story

Pictures from Roman life and story

Dickens

Dickens

Dickens

Du Chaillu

Dumas

Irving

Kingsley

Lang

Lee

McGregor

Mulock

Porter

Pyle

Scott

Scott

Stevenson

Twain

Verne

Weyman

Yonge

Arnold

Chapman

Dana

Ingersoll

Mathews

Roberts

Roth

Serviss

Sharp

Adams

Adams

Jenks

Paret

A Christmas carol

David Copperfield

A tale of two cities

The land of the long night

The black tulip

The Alhambra

Westward ho!

Australia

When I was a boy in China

The Netherlands

John Halifax

The Scottish chiefs

Men of iron

Quentin Durward

The talisman

The black arrow

The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Twenty thousand leagues under the sea

A gentleman of France

The dove in the eagle’s nest

Out-of-door books

The sea-beach at ebb-tide

Bird life

According to season

Wild neighbors

Familiar features of the roadside

The kindred of the wild

A first book of forestry

Around the year with the stars

A watcher in the woods

Applied science; occupations

Harper’s electricity book for boys

Harper’s machinery book for boys

Photography for young people

Harper’s handy book for girls

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