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
Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! (Pigeon)
by Mo Willems
Big Time Trouble (Blue, Barry & Pancakes #5)
by Jason Jason
Apple and Magnolia
by Laura Gehl
Field Trip to Volcano Island (Field Trip #3)
by John Hare
Doggo and Pupper Save the World (Doggo and Pupper #2)
by Katherine Applegate
Favorite books to be read by Kindergarteners
Color the Sky
by David Elliott
We Are the Shapes
by Kevin Jenner
Just to See
by Morgane de Cadier
Fiona Plays Soccer (I Can Read! Level 1: Beginning Reading)
by Richard Zondervan
Jeff Goes Wild
by Angela Rozelaar
See Kindergarten to 1st Grade Gift Guide
Favorite books to be read with 1st Graders
Lights That Dance in the Night
by Yuval Zommer
Hello, Puddle!
by Anita Sanchez
Izzy Paints
by Tim Miller
Iamasaurus
by Anne Ylvisaker
We Are the Ocean
by Paul Watson
Favorite books to be read by 1st Graders
Pretty Perfect Kitty-Corn (Kitty-Corn #2)
by Shannon Hale
Pizza My Heart: (Norma and Belly #3)
by Mika Song
I Am You: A Book About Ubuntu
by Refiloe Moahloli
This Is a School
by John Schu
See Kindergarten to 1st Grade Gift Guide
Favorite books to be read with 2nd Graders
Sydney & Taylor and the Great Friend Expedition (Sydney & Taylor)
by Jacqueline Davies
Old Friends
by Margaret Aitken
Sour Grape (Food Group)
by Jory John
Miguel's Community Garden (Where in the Garden? #2)
by Janay Brown-Wood
Favorite books to be read by 2nd Graders
Madison Morris Is Not a Mouse! (Class Critters #3)
by Kathryn Holmes
Karen's School Picture (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphix #5)
by Ann M Martin
Gina and the Last City on Earth (Hilo #9)
by Judd Winick
Investigators: Agents of S.U.I.T. (Investigators)
by John Patrick Green
Oona in the Arctic (Oona #3)
by Kelly Dipucchio
See 2nd to 3rd Grade Gift Guide
Favorite books to be read with 3rd Graders
Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border
by Stephen Briseño
I Am Golden
by Eva Chen
Our Fort
by Marie Dorléans
Everything in Its Place: A Story of Books and Belonging
by Pauline David-Sax
Love Is Loud: How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement
by Sandra Neil Wallace
Favorite books to be read by 3rd Graders
Matchmaker (Miles Lewis #3)
by Kelly Starling Lyons
Frankenstein Doesn't Plant Petunias (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids #2)
by Marcia Thornton Jones
Prank You Very Much (Big Nate: Big Nate TV Series Graphic Novel #2)
by Lincoln Peirce
On Purpose (Cat Kid Comic Club #3)
by Dav Pilkey
Stella the Starlight Dragon (Dragon Girls #9)
by Maddy Mara
See 2nd to 3rd Grade Gift Guide
Favorite books to be read with 4th Graders
On the Move: Home Is Where You Find It
by Michael Rosen
If You Read This
by Kereen Getten
Turtle of Michigan (Turtle of Oman #2)
by Naomi Shihab Nye
City of the Dead (City Spies #4)
by James Ponti
Doom's Day Camp
by Joshua Hauke
Favorite books to be read by 4th Graders
Last Mapmaker
by Christina Soontornvat
The Troll's Toe Cheese (Fart Quest #4)
by Aaron Reynolds
Invisible (English With Some Spanish)
by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Mindy Makes Some Space (Paws #2)
by Nathan Fairbairn
Last Dodo (The Adventures of Team Pom #2)
by Isabel Roxas
See 4th to 5th Grade Gift Guide
Favorite books to be read with 5th Graders
Maya and the Lord of Shadows (Maya and the Rising Dark #3)
by Rena Barron
New Pets on the Block (Minecraft Stonesword Saga #3)
by Random House
Holler of the Fireflies
by David Barclay Moore
Freestyle
by Gale Galligan
Last Fallen Moon (Gifted Clans #2)
by Graci Kim
Favorite books to be read by 5th Graders
Crunch (Click #5)
by Kayla Miller
Theo Tan and the Fox Spirit
by Jesse Q Sutanto
You Only Live Once, David Bravo
by Mark Oshiro
See 4th to 5th Grade Gift Guide