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Suggested Book List - Year 1 - Grades K-3

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September -  Respect, Responsibility, Friendship

1. Dog Vs. Cat
2. We Don't Eat Our Classmates
3. The Firekeeper's Son​
4. Apple Pip Princess
5. Enemy Pie*
6. The Other Dog
7. Finding Winnie
8. The Golden Rule

           *(animated storylineonline.net)

If your class loves a meatier tale consider, add or substitute:
The Ugly Duckling
Fritz and the Beautiful Horses (2)

October – Diligence

1. The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal
2. The Kid Who Changed the World​
3. Peppe the Lamplighter
4. Issunboshi
5. Ruby’s Wish
6. Vinnie and Abraham
7. John Henry 
8. Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon
9. Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten ​
10. Seeker of Knowledge

November - Gratitude

1. All the Places to Love​ 
2. How Many Days to America 
3. Andre, The Five Star Cat
4. Sarah Morton’s Day
5. Thanks for Thanksgiving
6. Pilgrim’s First Thanksgiving
7. Passing the Music Down
8. The Stonecutter: An Indian Folktale
9.  Blessing Cup
10. ​Rivka's First Thanksgiving
11. ​The Thank You Book

December - Generosity

1. Oskar and the Eight Blessings
2. The Rainbow Fish*
3. The Christmas Candle​
4. The Quiltmaker's Gift
5. The Baker's Dozen: A Colonial American Tale
6. Winter Candle
7. Stone Soup
8. Moishe's Miracle: A Hanukkah Story
9. The House That Jane Built*
10. The Legend of the Poinsettia
11. Four Feet, Two Sandals

January - Courage

1. Brave Irene*
2. If I Never Forever Endeavor
3. Before She Was Harriet
4. When Jessie Came Across the Sea
5. Hansel and Gretel
6. The First Marathon
7. Martin’s Big Words:  The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 
8. The Bravest Woman in in America
9. Thunder Cake
10. Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett
11. Brave Margaret: An Irish Adventure​

February - Honesty and Justice

1. Ruthie and the Not So Teeny Tiny Lie 
2. Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride
3. The Boy Who Cried Wolf
4. The Lying King
5. A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman
6. The Empty Pot
7. A Pair of Red Clogs
8. Honest Abe
9. Elizabeth Leads the Way
10. The Gold Coin​

March - Compassion

1. Beauty and the Beast​
2. Lotus and Feather*
3. Nobiah’s Well: A Modern African Folk Tale
4. The Rabbit Listened
5. The Story of Jumping Mouse
6. The Paper Crane
7. Ivan. The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla​
8. Chicken Sunday
9. The Queen's Necklace:A Swedish Folktale
10. Great Gift and the Wish Fulfilling Gem. A Jataka Tale

April - Forgiveness

1. King Solomon and the Bee
2. Sorry
3. The Story of Ruby Bridges
4. The Prodigal Son; The Unforgiving Servant​
5. Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
6. Under The Lemon Moon
7. The Big Red Lollipop​​
8. Desmond and the Very Mean Word. 
9. The Selfish Giant
10. The Snatchabook​

May - Hope and Joy

1. ​Silent Lotus
2. Saving Sweetness
3. Raising Sweetness
4. More Than Anything Else
5. First to the Top
6. Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
7. The Rumor: A Jataka Tale from India
8. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez
9. Sky Boys
10. Miss Rumphius
11. ​Life.
12. Sing a Song of Seasons: A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year

June - Heroism, Lives To Learn From

1. Johnny Appleseed
2. Grace Banker and Her Hello Girls Answer the Call
3. New York's Bravest
4. Planting the Tress of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
5. Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave.
6. Brave Clara Barton
7. Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride
8. Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell
9. Lou Gehrig:  The Luckiest Man.
10. Malala's Magic Pencil
11. Shark Lady

Suggested Book List - Year 1 - Grades 4-6

September - Respect, Responsibility, Friendship

1. Ruth and the Green Book
2. The Devoted Friend
3. When the Circus Came to Town
4. The Hangashore
5. Paperboy
6. The Summer My Father Was Ten
7. The Hundred Dresses 
8. Bravo Tavo ​
9. The Last Brother. A Civil War Tale

October - Diligence

1. Story Painter: Jacob Lawrence​
2. The Man Who Made Time Travel
3. Seeds of Change: Wangari’s Gift to the World
4. Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu
5. Caravan
6. Vinnie and Abraham
7. Michelangelo
8. Uncommon Champions 
9. One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference​

November - Gratitude

1. Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot
2. The Red Bicycle
3. Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving
4. The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
5. John Muir
6. The First Thanksgiving ​
7. Rettie and the Ragamuffin Parade

Veterans Day:
In Flanders Fields
America’s White Table

December - Generosity

1. The Lady in the Box
2. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey
3. The Well at the End of the World
4. The Gift of the Magi​
5. The Trees of the Dancing Goats
6. The Talking Eggs
7. The Quiltmaker’s Gift
8. The Gift
9. In the Month of Kislev: A Story for Hanukkah
10. The Girl, the Fish and the Crown: A Spanish Folktale
11. The Ch’i-Lin Purse

January - Courage

1. The Revolutionary John Adams
2. Flight for Freedom
3. Memphis, Martin and the Mountaintop​
4. The Cats in Krasinski Square
5. The Grand Mosque of Paris
6. They Called Her Molly Pitcher
7. Nothing to Fear 
8. Remember Valley Forge
9. Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President
10. St. George and the Dragon

February - Honesty and Justice

1. Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution
2. Susan B. Anthony
3. Lincoln: A Photobiography
4. Through My Eyes
5. Sit-In. How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down
6. Frederick’s Journey
7. Streetcar to Justice​
8. Robin Hood
9. The Only Woman in the Photo

March - Compassion

1. My Heart Glow
2. The Happy Prince
3. A Story Like the Wind
4. Dangerous Jane
5. The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
6. Mercy: The Incredible Story of Henry Bergh
7. Tiktala
8. The Cranes Gift
9. Older Brother, Younger Brother​
10. Good Griselle

April - Forgiveness

1. The Invisible Seam
2. Nelson Mandela.  The Long Walk to Freedom
3. Desmond and the Very Mean Word
4. This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
5. The Painter’s Cat​
6. The Hiding Place

May - Hope and Joy

1. The Greatest Skating Race
2. Traveling Man
3. Bound for Oregon
4. Coming on Home Soon
5. Charlotte’s Web
6. One Yellow Daffodil
7. ​Home of the Brave​​

June - Heroism

1. Monument Maker
2. A Ben of All Trades
3. What Was D-Day?
4. Nurse, Soldier, Spy
5. Jars of Hope (Irena Sendler)
6. Malala, A Brave Girl from Pakistan
7. Iqbal, A Brave Boy from Pakistan ​
8. Tiny Stitches ​​