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Read Across America "Great Read Alouds"
Titles available in the CVCA Library FC - Fiction FN – Fantasy AL- Allegory FF- Folklore & Fairy Tales BI – Biography
AT – Animal Tales HF- Historical Fiction RM- Romance SF-Science Fiction HU-Humor
YA-Young Adult CL-Classics MY-Mystery CH-Children’s HS-History AD-Adventure
SH-Self Help FM-Family SI-Social Issues FR-Friendship PO-Poetry MT- Multicultural
SU-Survival SP-Sports TR-Tragedy AN-Animals SS-Short Stories AA-African American 
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| Classification | Title | Author | Grade | | SF/HU | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Adams, Douglas | 9-12th | | AT | Watership Down | Adams, Richard | 9-12th | | FF | Aesop’s Fables | Aesop | Ageless | | FN/AL | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Albom, Mitch | 9-12th | | BI | Tuesdays With Morrie | Albom, Mitch | 9-12th | | FN | The Book of Three | Alexander, Lloyd | 9-12th | | FN | The Chronicles of Prydain | Alexander, Lloyd | Ageless | | FF | Andersen’s Fairy Tales | Andersen, Hans Christian | Ageless | | | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Angelou, Maya | | | FC/AT | Sounder | Armstrong, William | 6-8th | | FN/AT | Crispin: the Cross of Lead | Avi | 6-8th | | FC/YA | Nothing But the Truth | Avi | 9-12th | | HF | True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi | 6-8th | | FN | The Indian in the Cupboard | Banks ,Lynne Reid | Ageless | | FC/MY | The Wright 3 | Balliett, Blue | 6-8th | | | Hope Was Here | Bauer, Joan | 6-8th | | CH/FC | Madeline | Bemelmans ,Ludwig | Ageless | | FC/YA | Tangerine | Bloor, Edward | 9-12th | | FC/YA/HU | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants | Brashares , Ann | 9-12th | | HF/CL | Caddie Woodlawn | Brink , Carol Ryrie | Ageless | | HS | The Greatest Generation | Brokaw , Tom | 9-12th | | FC/AD | Jumping the Nail | Bunting, Eve | 6-8th | | HF SOS | Titanic | Bunting, Eve | 6-8th | | FC/CL | The Secret Garden | Burnett, Frances | Ageless | | SH/YA | Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff | Carlson , Richard | 9-12th | | FC/CL | Through the Looking Glass | Carroll , Lewis | Ageless | | FC/CL | Alice in Wonderland | Carroll , Lewis | Ageless | | BI | Gifted Hands | Carson , Ben | 9-12th | | HF | Year of Impossible Goodbyes | Choi, Sook Nyul | 6-8th | | FC/YA/SI | The Chocolate War | Cormier, Robert | 9-12th | | FC/AD/FM | Bloomability | Creech, Sharon | 9-12th | | FC/FM | Granny Torrelli Makes Soup | Creech, Sharon | 6-8th | | FC/SI/FR | Heartbeat | Creech, Sharon | 6-8th | | FC/AD | The Wanderer | Creech, Sharon | 6-8th | | FC/YA | Walk Two Moons | Creech, Sharon | 6-8th | | HF/AA | The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Curtis, Christopher | 6-8th | | HF | Play to the Angel | Dahlberg, Maurine | 6-8th | | FC/FN/CL | Robinson Crusoe | Defoe , Daniel | Ageless | | FC/CL | The Little Prince | de Saint, Antoine | Ageless | | FC/FN/YA | The City of Ember | DuPrau, Jeanne | 6-8th | | FC/AT | Incident at Hawk’s Hill | Eckert, Allan | | | PO/CL | Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats | Eliot , T.S. | Ageless | | FC/MT | The Breadwinner | Ellis, Deborah | 6-8th | | PO | Favorite Poems Old and New | Ferris , Helen | Ageless | | BI/HS | Diary of a Young Girl | Frank , Anne | Ageless | | BI/FM | Cheaper By the Dozen | Gilbreth, Frank & Ernestine | Ageless | | FC/AD/SU | My Side of the Mountain | George, JeanCraighead | 6-8th | | FC/CL/SU | Lord of the Flies | Golding, William | 6-8th | | FC/FN/AT | The Wind in the Willows | Grahame , Kenneth | Ageless | | FC/SP/SI | Bleachers | Grisham, John | 6-8th | | FC | A Painted House | Grisham , John | 9-12th | | SF/YA | Among the Hidden | Haddix, Margaret | 6-8th | | FC/TR | The Old Man and the Sea | Hemingway, Ernest | 9-12th | | FC/YA/FM | Olive's Ocean | Henkes, Kevin | 6-8th | | FC/AN | All Things Wise & Wonderful: the Lord God made them all | Herriot , James | Ageless
| | HF | Out of the Dust | Hesse, Karen | 6-8th | | FC/MY | Hoot | Hiaasen, Carl | 6-8th | | FC/FM | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | Holt, Kimberly Willis | 6-8th | | FC/YA | Everything on a Waffle | Horvath, Polly | 6-8th | | HF/ | Across Five Aprils | Hunt, Irene | Ageless | | FF/CL | Rip Van Winkle | Irving , Washington | Ageless | | FC/FN/AT | Redwall Series | Jacques , Brian | Ageless | | FC/FN/HU | The Phantom Tollbooth | Juster, Norton | 6-8th | | FC/AT/CL | The Jungle Book | Kipling , Rudyard | Ageless | | SS/FN | Just So Stories | Kipling, Rudyard | Ageless | | FC/YA | A Separate Peace | Knowles, John | 6-8th | | FC/YA | From the Mixed Up Files -Mrs. Basil Frankweiler | Konigsburg, E.L. | Ageless | | FC/FN | A Wrinkle in Time | L’Engle , Madeleine | Ageless | | HF/YA/SI | To Kill a Mockingbird | Lee, Harper | 6-8th | | FC/FF/FN | Ella Enchanted | Levine, Gail Carson | 6-8th | | FC/FN/YA | The Two Princesses of Bamarra | Levine, Gail Carson | 6-8th | | FC/FN/AL | The Lion the Witch, and the Wardrobe | Lewis, C.S. | Ageless | | FC/AT | Call of the Wild | London, Jack | 6-8th | | FC/CH | Rules | Lord, Cynthia | 6-8th | | FC/YA | The Betsy/Tacy Series | Lovelace , Maud Hart | Ageless | | SF/YA | Gathering Blue | Lowry, Lois | 6-8th | | HF/YA | Number the Stars | Lowry, Lois | 6-8th | | SF/YA | The Giver | Lowry, Lois | 6-8th | | HF/CL | Sarah, Plain and Tall | MacLachln, Patricia | Ageless | | FC/FR | A Corner of the Universe | Martin, Ann M. | 6-8th | | FC/FM/SI | Parrot in the Oven | Martinez, Victor | 6-8th | | HF | Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor | Mazer, Harry | 6-8th | | FC/CH | Make Way for Ducklings | McCloskey , Robert | Ageless | | FC/FN | Spindle’s End | McKinley , Robin | 9-12th | | FC/CL/FM | Anne of Green Gables (series) | Montgomery , L.M. | Ageless | | FC/AA | The Bluest Eye | Morrison , Toni | 9-12th | | FC/AD/SU | Lost in the Barrens | Mowat, Farley | 6-8th | | HF | An American Plague | Murphy, Jim | 6-8th | | HF/AD | Mutiny on the Bounty | Nordhoff , Charles | 9-12th | | HF/MT | Sing Down the Moon | O’Dell , Scott | Ageless | | HF | Sarah Biship | O’Dell , Scott | 9-12th | | BI | Born to Fly | Osborn, Shane | 6-8th | | FC/FN/YA | Bridge to Terabithia | Paterson , Katherine | Ageless | | HF/FM | Jacob Have I Loved | Paterson , Katherine | Ageless | | HF | Lyddie | Paterson, Katherine | 6-8th | | HF | Soldier’s Heart | Paulsen, Gary | 9-12th | | FC/AD/SU | Brian’s Hunt | Paulsen, Gary | 9-12th | | FC/AD/SU | Brian’s Return | Paulsen, Gary | 6-8th | | FC/AD/SU | Hatchet | Paulsen, Gary | 6-8th | | HF | A Year Down Yonder | Peck, Richard | 6-8th | | FC/AT/CH | The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Potter , Beatrix | Ageless | | SF | The Last Book in the Universe | Philbrick, Rodman | 9-12th | | FC/YA | The Mighty/Max the Mighty | Philbrick, Rodman | 6-8th | | FC/FN | The Golden Compass | Pullman , Phillip | 6-12th | | HF/AT | The Yearling | Rawlings, Marjorie | 6-12th | | HF/AT | Where the Red Fern Grows | Rawls , Wilson | Ageless | | HS/SU | Alive | Read, Piers Paul | 9-12th | | HF | All Quiet on the Western Front | Remarque , Erich Maria | 9-12th | | FC/CH | Curious George | Rey , H. A. | Ageless | | FC/SP | The Boy Who Saved Baseball | Ritter, John H | 6-12th | | HF | Iceberg Hermit | Roth, Arthure | | | HF/MC | Esperanza Rising | Ryan, Pam Munoz | 6-8th | | FC/YA/SI | Holes | Sachar, Louis | 6-8th | | FC/YA | The Catcher in the Rye | Salinger, J. D | 6-12th | | FC/YA/FM | Lord of the Deep | Salisbury, Graham | 6-8th | | FC/AT | The Cricket in Times Square | Selden , George | Ageless | | FC/CH | Where the Wild Things Are | Sendak, . Maurice | Ageless | | FC/AT | Black Beauty | Sewell, Anna | Ageless | | FC/HR | Frankenstein | Shelley, Mary | 6-8th | | FC/SI | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Smith , Betty | 9-12th | | FC/HU/FN | The Series of Unfortunate Events (series) | Snicket, Lemony | 6-8th | | FC/MY | Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective | Sobol, Donald J. | Ageless | | HF | The Sign of the Beaver | Speare, Elizabeth George | 6-8th | | | Call it Courage | Sperry, Armstrong | 6-8th | | | Milkweed | Spinelli, Jerry | 6-8th | | | Stargirl | Spinelli, Jerry | 6-8th | | | Growing Pains Maniac Magee | Spinelli, Jerry | 6-8th | | | The Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck , John | 9-12th | | | Of Mice and Men | Steinbeck, John | 6-12th | | | The Red Pony | Steinbeck , John | Ageless | | | Travels with Charlie | Steinbeck , John | 9-12th | | | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Taylor, Mildred | Ageless | | | The Cay | Taylor, Theodore | 6-8th | | | Surviving the Applewhites | Tolan, Stephanie S. | 6-12th | | | The Hobbit | Tolkien , J. R. R. | Ageless | | | The Lord of the Rings trilogy | Tolkein, J. R. R. | 6-8th | | | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Crt | Twain , Mark | Ageless | | | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Twain, Mark | 6-8th | | | Life on the Mississippi | Twain , Mark | 9-12th | | | So B. It | Weeks, Sarah | 6-8th | | | The Time Machine | Wells , H.G. | Ageless | | | Charlotte’s Web | White , E.B. | Ageless | | | Belle Prater's Boy | White, Ruth | 6-8th | | | The Sword in the Stone | White, T. H. | 6-8th | | | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Wilde , Dorian | Ageless | | | The Happy Prince and Other Tales | Wilde , Oscar | Ageless | | | Little House on the Prairie | Wilder , Laura Ingalls | Ageless | | | Tanglewreck | Winterson, Jeannette | 6-8th | | | Shadow of a Bull | Wojciechowska, Maia | 6-8th | | | The Swiss Family Robinson | Wyss , J.R. | Ageless |
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