Reading Books by Grade Level for Elementary School Students
Reading can be a more enjoyable experience if kids have “just right” books that are close to their reading levels. These levels are not written in stone and can be slightly different for different reading programs. In addition, for early readers, some books emphasize phonics, while others may focus on sight words or predictable texts. You may want to look through these books and see if they fit the way you are teaching your child to read. Still, this list of book levels will give you a good jumping off point for your little reader.
Kindergarten
BOB books (series)
Learn to Read with Tug the Pup (series)
First Little Readers (level A-D)
I Hug
I See a Cat
Big Cat
Have You Seen My Cat?
I See and See
Pig has a Plan
Bathtime for Biscuit
Spots, Feathers, and Curly Tails
Little Ducks Go
The Fly Flew In
Bad Dog
Pug
Flying
Big Pig and Little Pig
Footprints in the Snow
From Head to Toe
Bears on Wheels
Sleepy Dog, Wake Up
Mole in a Hole
Feast for 10
Good Night, Gorilla
Too Many Dogs
Cat Traps
Mary Wore Her Red Dress
Sid and Sam
Puppy Mudge (series)
The Chick and the Duckling
Go, Otto, Go
Tiny the Snow Dog
Ed and Kip
Fix this Mess
Come Back, Ben
Nate Likes to Skate
See Me Dig
Max Finds an Egg
Clara and Clem Under the Sea
Muddy Mud Bud
In the Forest
Bake, Mice, Bake!
Cat Got a Lot
Our very own Kindergarten Readers (series)
First Grade
The Foot Book
Go, Dog, Go!
It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Look! I Can Read!
Morris the Moose
Inside Outside Upside Down
Puppy Mudge (series)
The Ear Book
Big Egg
I Like Fish!
Oh, Cats!
Fish had a Wish
Look Out Mouse
Swing, Otto, Swing!
Dragon Egg
Biscuit (series)
Pumpkin Pumpkin
Cookie’s Week
Rosie’s Walk
In a People House
We Eat Dinner in the Bathtub
Mouse Makes Words
Bread, Bread, Bread
A Bug, a Bear, and a Boy
Mouse Count
Mouse Paint
I Can Help!
Fourth of July Mice
Apple Picking Day
Drop It, Rocket!
Ten, Nine, Eight
Tiny’s Bath
More Spaghetti, I Say!
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
Elephant and Piggie (series)
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
Buzz Said the Bee
Sheep in a Jeep
The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat
Each Peach Pear Plum
Freight Train
Bugs at the Beach
Chicks!
Pumpkin Day!
Monster Math
Backhoes
Cat and Dog
The Great Bug Hunt
Mine’s the Best
Nicky Upstairs and Down
P.J. Funnybunny Camps Out
Wait, Skates!
Pickles in my Soup
A Busy Guy
Generous Me
Good Luck Charlie
Sammy the Seal
Danny and the Dinosaur (series)
Fox in Socks
Just Me and My Dad
Wemberly Worried
Duck on a Bike
Little Bear (series)
Snowmen at Night
Fly Guy (series)
Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?
Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?
Growing Vegetable Soup
Ballet Stars
Silly Milly
More, More, More, Said the Baby
On Market Street
Put Me in the Zoo
Swimmy
We are Best Friends
Chocolate Chippo Hippo
The Kissing Hand
Quick as a Cricket
Arthur’s Reading Race
Benny Bakes a Cake
The Very Busy Spider
Noisy Nora
The Napping House
A Color of His Own
Leo the Late Bloomer
My Tooth is About to Fall Out
Apples and Pumpkins
Z is for Moose
Bears are Curious
Small Pig
Penny and Her Song
Ten Black Dots
Airport
Dragon’s Fat Cat
Henry and Mudge (series)
Hattie and the Fox
Froggy (series)
Stone Soup
Green Eggs and Ham
The Cat in the Hat
Frog and Toad (series)
Second Grade
Mouse Soup
The Snowy Day
Where the Wild Things Are
Poppleton (series)
Buzby
Mouse Tails
Snail at School
Owl at Home
Moondance
Little Mouse Gets Ready
Mac and Cheese
Over in the Meadow
Morris Goes to School
Mr. Putter and Tabby (series)
Chester
Julius
Get Well Good Knight
Penny and Her Doll
Katie Woo (series)
Diary of a Worm
Corduroy
Click, Clack, Moo
Nate the Great
Caps for Sale
Giggle, Giggle, Quack
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Madeline
A House for Hermit Crab
The Relatives Came
Sheila Rae, the Brave
Harold and the Purple Crayon
When Sophie Gets Angry
Duck for President
Strega Nona
The Good Luck Cat
Little Witch’s Big Night
Mercy Watson (series)
Owen
Thomas Edison and His Bright Idea
Flat Stanley (series)
Miss Nelson is Missing
Alexander and the Wind-up Mouse
Amelia Bedelia
Cam Jansen (series)
Chrysanthemum
Make Way for Ducklings
How I Became a Pirate
Ladybug Girl
Splat the Cat
Greg’s Microscope
Dolphin
Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones
Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
Abuela
Martin’s Big Words
Little Penguin’s Tale
Magic Treehouse (series)
Junie B. Jones (series)
A Chair for my Mother
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Mitten
Owl Diaries (series)
Press Start!
Ivy + Bean
Princess in Black
Sofia Martinez
Judy Moody (series)
A Drop of Blood
Air is All Around Us
A to Z Mysteries (series)
The Chocolate Touch
Stellaluna
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Chicken Sunday
Fables
26 Fairmont Avenue
Fluffy (series)
Critter Club (series)
Third Grade
My Father’s Dragon
Gooney Bird Greene
Nikki and Deja
Rainbow Magic (series)
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!
The Year of the Book (series)
Ramona (series)
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Ralph S. Mouse
Clementine
Geronimo Stilton (series)
All About Sam
Girl’s Guide to (series)
The Iron Giant
Zoey and Sassafras
Socks
Sideways Stories from Wayside School (series)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Encyclopedia Brown (series)
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Owl Moon
Stone Fox
The Best School Year Ever
Dear Mr. Henshaw
James and the Giant Peach
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Little House in the Big Woods
Love That Dog
Fourth Grade
Who Was (series)
Charlotte’s Web
Frindle
The Landry News
Homer Price
The Year of the Dog (series)
Little House on the Prairie
Because of Winn Dixie
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Hatchet
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Nim’s Island
Rules
Operation Redwood
How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay
The Wild Robot
Shiloh
Front Desk
Fifth Grade
Poppy (series)
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Sahara Special
The Great Wall of Lucy Wu
Sylvia and Aki
The Borrowers
The Toothpaste Millionaire
Save Me a Seat
Ida B.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)
The One and Only Ivan
The Lemonade War
The Sign of the Beaver
Wish
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
The Birchbark House
Wonder
Esperanza Rising
Half Magic (series)
My Side of the Mountain
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
The Phantom Tollbooth
Sixth Grade
The Chronicles of Narnia (series)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series)
Holes
The Sixth Grade Nickname Game
A Wrinkle in Time
When You Reach Me
Harry Potter (series)
I Funny
Liar, Liar
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Fish in a Tree
Counting by 7s
One Crazy Summer
The Fourteenth Goldfish
Other Words for Home
Greenglass House