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Here is a list of quality English books for free-reading that are not 'dumbed down' (not over-simplfied) and are 'twaddle free (not trivial).  Please add German ones to the top of each grade level list until we have a replacement list of quality German books.

Please add your own reviews, and any comprehension quizzes and worksheets.

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Living books

(fiction that retell historical/ technical facts)

 

Kindergarten

 

Aesop's Fables, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney

Good Night Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown

The Complete Tales of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter

The Original Mother Goose, illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright

The Runaway Bunny, by Margaret Wise Brown

The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant, by Jean de Brunhoff

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle

Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak

 

1.Klasse

Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parish

Blueberries for Sal, by Robert McCloskey

Bread and Jam for Frances, by Russell Hoban

Billy and Blaze, by C.W. Anderson

A Chair for My Mother, by Vera B. Williams

Corduroy, by Don Freeman

The Courage of Sarah Noble, by Alice Dalgliesh

Curious George, by H.A. Rey

Frog and Toad All Year, by Arnold Lobel

Frog and Toad are Friends, by Arnold Lobel

Harry the Dirty Dog, by Gene Zion

Little Bear, by Else Homelund Minarik

The Little Engine that Could, by Watty Piper

The Little House, by Virginia Lee Burton

Madeline, by Ludwig Bemelmans

Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton

The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats

Stone Soup, by Marcia Brown

Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf

Story About Ping, by Marjorie Flack

 

2. Klasse

The Boxcar Children, by Gertrude Chandler Warner

A Child's Garden of Verses, by Robert Louis Stevenson (illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith)

Little House on the Prairie series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit

The Random House Book of Fairy Tales, by Amy Ehrlich

Tikki Tikki Tembo, by Arlene Mosel

The Velveteen Rabbit, by Marjery Williams

Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne

 

3. Klasse

Baby Island, by Carol Ryrie Brink

Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink

Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White

Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry

(Assateague: Island of the Wild Ponies, by Andrea Jauck and Larry Points)

Owls in the Family, by Farley Mowat

Paul Bunyan, by Steven Kellogg

Pollyanna, by Eleanor H. Porter

Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan

Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims, by Clyde Robert Bulla

Story of Dr. Doolittle, by Hugh Lofting

Stuart Little, by E.B. White

Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White

 

4. Klasse

Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl

The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

King Arthur, by Roger Lancelyn Green

A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Lord Fauntleroy, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster

Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi

he Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow, by Allen French

The Sword in the Stone, by T.H. White

Tom Sawyer, by Mark TwainTwenty-One Balloons, by William Pene du Bois

Redwall, by Brian Jacques

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame

 

5. Klasse

Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery

Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell

Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.

Gentle Ben, by Walt Morey

Heidi, by Johanna Spyri

Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O'Dell

Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes

Lad: A Dog, by Albert Payson Terhune

Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson

Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls

The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare

 

6. Klasse

Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling

Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), by J.R.R. Tolkien

White Fang, by Jack London

The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

 

7. Klasse

Animal Farm, by George Orwell

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury

Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens

The Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan

The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain

Sounder, by William H. Armstrong

Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

8. Klasse

Christy, by Catherine Marshall

David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

The Divine Comedy, by Dante

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes

Emma, by Jane Austen

The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis

Paradise Lost, by John Milton

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by J.R.R. Tolkien

 

9. Klasse

1984, by George Orwell

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

The Chosen, by Chaim Potok

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemmingway

The Pilgrim's Regress, by C.S. Lewis

The Pit and the Pendulum, by Edgar Allen Poe

Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

10. Klasse -

The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer

The City of God, by Augustine

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens

Ben Hur: A Tale of Christ, by Lew Wallace

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

Guilliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift

Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hinds' Feet on High Places, by Hannah Hurnard

The Last of the Mohicans, by James Fenimore Cooper

The Odyssey, by Homer

The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis

Silas Marner, by George Eliot

The Space Trilogy, by C.S. Lewis

The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

 

11. Klasse

 

12. Klasse