Curators’ Favorite Reads by Grade Level
We’ve put together our favorite reads for kids in different grade levels. Whether they’d want to read on their own or you’d like to spend some quality time reading a book along with them, there’s a suitable book in our guide below!
Favorite books to be read with Kindergarteners
Itty-Bitty Kitty-Corn
by Shannon Hale
Thing Called Snow
by Yuval Zommer
Grandude's Green Submarine (Grandude #2)
by Paul McCartney
Field Trip to the Moon (Field Trip #1)
by John Hare
Rock from the Sky
by Jon Klassen
Favorite books to be read by Kindergarteners
Circle Under Berry
by Carter Higgins
Hike
by Pete Oswald
We All Play
by Julie Flett
I'm on It! (Elephant & Piggie Like Reading!)
by Andrea Tsurumi
Fish and Sun (I Can Read! Comics Level 1 Beginning Reading)
by Sergio Ruzzier
See Kindergarten to 1st Grade Gift Guide
Favorite books to be read with 1st Graders
Hello, Star
by Stephanie V W Lucianovic
Cat Problems (Animal Problems #3)
by Jory John
It Fell from the Sky
by Terry Fan
Room for Everyone
by Naaz Khan
Smart Cookie (Bad Seed #7)
by Jory John
Favorite books to be read by 1st Graders
See the Dog: Three Stories about a Cat (See the Cat #2)
by David Larochelle
When Cloud Became a Cloud
by Rob Hodgson
Apple of My Pie (Norma and Belly)
by Mika Song
Ruffles and the Red, Red Coat
by David Melling
Home Under the Stars
by Andy Chou Musser
See Kindergarten to 1st Grade Gift Guide
Favorite books to be read with 2nd Graders
Night Walk
by Marie Dorleans
My First Day
by Phung Nguyen Quang
Aaron Slater, Illustrator (Questioneers)
by Andrea Beaty
Watercress
by Andrea Wang
Nina: A Story of Nina Simone
by Traci Todd
Favorite books to be read by 2nd Graders
Meet Yasmin! (Yasmin #1-4)
by Saadia Faruqi
Bad Guys in They're Bee-Hind You! (the Bad Guys #14)
by Aaron Blabey
Gina---The Girl Who Broke the World (Hilo #7)
by Judd Winick
Ants in Our P.A.N.T.S. (InvestiGators #4)
by John Patrick Green
Dinosaurs Are Not Extinct: Real Facts about Real Dinosaurs
by Drew Sheneman
See 2nd to 3rd Grade Gift Guide
Favorite books to be read with 3rd Graders
Willodeen
by Katherine Applegate
When You Trap a Tiger
by Tae Keller
Stella
by McCall Hoyle
1619 Project: Born on the Water
by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Favorite books to be read by 3rd Graders
Ways to Make Sunshine (Ryan Hart Story #1)
by Renée Watson
Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids #1)
by Marcia Thornton Jones
Wishypoofs and Hiccups (Zoey and Sassafras #9)
by Asia Citro
Mothering Heights (Dog Man #10)
by Dav Pilkey
See 2nd to 3rd Grade Gift Guide
Favorite books to be read with 4th Graders
Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood
by Kwame Mbalia
Pony
by R J Palacio
Beatryce Prophecy
by Kate DiCamillo
We Dream of Space
by Erin Entrada Kelly
Flight of the Puffin
by Ann Braden
Favorite books to be read by 4th Graders
Allergic: A Graphic Novel
by Megan Wagner Lloyd
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe (Sal & Gabi #1)
by Carlos Hernandez
Jukebox
by Nidhi Chanani
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks (FunJungle #6)
by Stuart Gibbs
Big Shot (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #16)
by Jeff Kinney
See 4th to 5th Grade Gift Guide
Favorite books to be read with 5th Graders
Red, White, and Whole
by Rajani Larocca
Starfish
by Lisa Fipps
Land of the Cranes
by Aida Salazar
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team
by Christina Soontornvat
Nowhere Boy
by Katherine Marsh
Favorite books to be read by 5th Graders
Real Friends (Real Friends #1)
by Shannon Hale
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong #1)
by Kwame Mbalia
Stuntboy, in the Meantime
by Jason Reynolds
Almost There and Almost Not
by Linda Urban
See 4th to 5th Grade Gift Guide