Exciting Books For Homeschoolers

Here is a list of great books for kids to read from Kindergarten through 12th grade. From fun books to learning books there is something here for every child. A lot of these books I remember reading when I was younger. Some of these books I still enjoy reading to this day. I would love for my children to grow up reading these books too. I hope this list inspires and blesses you and your children.
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Books by grade:

Kindergarten Book List

1. Alpha Oops! The Day the Z Went First. By: Alethea Kontis


2. Oh Say Can You Say Whats the Weather Today. By: Tish Rabe


3. Clifford's Collection of Books. By: Norman Bridwell


4. Maisy's Wonderful Weather Book. By: Lucy Cousins


5. The Little Engine That Could. By: Watty Piper


6. Row, Row, Row Your Boat. By: Pippa Goodhart


7. Backhoe Joe. By: Lori Alexander & Craig Cameron


8. If I Built a Car. By: Chris Van Dusen


9. Airport. By: Byron Barton


10. Toy Boat. By: Randall de Seve


11. Monstergarten. By: Daniel J. Mahoney


12. Curious George and the Hot Air Balloon. By: Margret & H.A. Reys


13. Moose on the Loose. By: Kathy-Jo Wargin


14. Rainforest Wonders. By: Erin Ranson


15. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. By: Laura Joffe Numeroff


16. I know it's Autumn. By: Nancy Hayashi


17. The Kissing Hand. By: Audrey Penn


18. All Around the Seasons. By: Barney Saltzberg
 


1st Grade Book list


1. The Berenstain Bears: Trouble With Money. By: Stan & Jan Berenstain


2. The Rainbow Fish. By: Marcus Pfister


3. The Tortoise and the Hare. By: Betty Miles


4. Charlottes Web. By: E.B White


5. Ready, Freddy! Tooth Trouble. By: Abby Klein


6. The Lorax. By: Dr. Seuss


7. Just Me and My Mom. By: Mercer Mayer


8. This is the House That Jack Built. By: Simms Taback


9. The Foot Book. By: Dr. Seuss


10. Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon. By: Patty Lovell


11. Why Should I Recycle. By: Claire Llewellyn


12. Follow That Map. By: Scot Ritchie


13. How a Seed Grows. By: Helene J. Jordan


14. Morris the Moose. By: B. Wiseman


15. Frog and Toad Together. By: Arnold Lobel


16. Hi Fly Guy. By: Tedd Arnold


17. The Berenstain Bears: Sleepover. By: Stan & Jan Berenstain


18. Amelia Bedelia. By: Peggy Parish


19. Junie B., First Grader One Man Band. By: Barbara Park


20. Who's Afraid of the Dark. By: Grosby Bonsall



2nd Grade Book List


1. The Best Seat in the Second Grade. By: Katherine Kenah


2. Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed. By: Eileen Christelow


3. Junie B. Jones Third Boxed Set Ever! By: Barbara Park
Set Includes:
Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook,
Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal,
Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy,
Junie B. Jones Smells Something.


4. The Juice Box Bully. By: Bob Sornson & Maria Dismondy


5. Box of Clementines. By: Sara Penny Packer
Box includes:
Clementine
The Talented Clementine
Clementine's Letter


6. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2; Rodrick Rules. By: Jeff Kinney


7.The Berenstain Bears; Old Hat, New Hat. By:Stan & Jan Berenstain


8. Three Hens and a Peacock. By: Lester L. Laminack


9. Amelia Bedelia; Play Ball. By: Peggy Parish


10. Goldilocks and the Three Bears. By: Samantha Berger


11. Just a Little Love. By: Mercer Mayer


12. Duck, Duck, Moose! By: Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen


13. The Story of Babar. By: Jean de Brunhof


14. Arthur's Mystery Envelope. By: Marc Brown Arthur


15. Max and Jax in Second Grade. By: Jerdine Nolen




3rd Grade Book List


1. Judy Moody Was in a Bad Mood. By: Megan McDonald


2. How Chipmunk Got His Stripes. By: Joseph Bruchac & James


3. The Magic School Bus at the Water Works. By: Joanna Cole


4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5: The Ugly Truth. By: Jeff Kinney


5. When a Dragon Moves in. By: Jodi Moore


6. Diary of a Worm. By: Doreen Corin


7. I'm Still Here in the Bathtub. By: Alan Katz


8. Beezus and Ramona. By: Beverly Cleary


9. Leroy Ninker Saddles Up. By: Kate Di Camillo


10. Nancy Clancy: The Secret of the Silver Key. By: Jane O'Connor



11. Third Grade Detectives. By: George E. Stanley


12. Joe and Sparky Get New Wheels. By: Jamie Michalak


13. Monkey Me and the Golden Monkey. By: Timothy Roland


14. Breakfast at Danny's Diner. By: Judith Stamper


15. Chronicles of Narnia. By: C.S.Lewis


16. Pipi Longstocking. By: Astrid Lindgren


17. The Lewis & Clark Expedition. By: John Perritano


18. Paul Bunyan. By: David L. Harrison



4th Grade Reading Books


1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. By: Mark Twain


2. Black Beauty. By: Anna Sewell


3. The Boxcar Children Mysteries. By: Gertrude Chandler Warner


4. Charlie Boxed Set. By: Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator


5. Tales of King Arthur. By: Felicity Brooks


6. The Adventures of Marco Polo. By: Roger Smalley


7. Mary Poppins. By: P.L. Travers


8. Old Yeller. By: Fred Gipson


9. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. By:Judy Blume


10. Basil of Baker Street. By: Eve Titus


11. Mrs. Wishy-Washy. By: Joy Cowley


12. ... If You Lived With the Indians of the Northwest Coast. By: Anne Kamma


13. The Sign of the Beaver. By: Elizabeth George Speare


14. The Magic School Bus: Science Fair Expedition. By: Joanna Cole




5th Grade Reading List


1. Anne of Green Gables. By: Lucy Maud Montgomery


2. Around the World in Eighty Days. By: Jules Verne


3. The Prince and the Pauper. By: Mark Twain


4. Treasure Island. By: Robert Louis Stevenson


5. Where the Red Fern Grows. By: Wilson Rawls


6. Ranger in Time: Rescue on the Oregon Trail. By: Kate Messner


7. Daniel Boone Young Hunter and Tracker. By: Augusta Stevenson


8. The Secret Garden. By: Frances Hodgson Burnett


9. The Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew Collection. By: Carolyn Keen


10. Little Women. By: Louisa May Alcott


11. The Little House on the Prairie. By: Laura Ingalls Wilder


12. The Last of the Mohicans. By: James Fenimore Cooper


13. The Indian in the Cupboard. By: Lynn Reid Banks


14. Heidi. By: Johanna Spyri


15. Number the Stars. By: Lois Lowry




6th - 8th Grade Book List


1. Island of the Blue Dolphins. By: Scott O'Dell


2. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frank Weiler. By: E.L. Konigsburg


3. The Borrowers. By: Mary Norton


4. The Black Stallion. By: Walter Farley


5. Black Beauty. By: Anna Sewell


6. Middle School Boxed Set. By: Chris Tebbetts, James Patterson and Laura Park


7. Holes. By: Louis Sachar


8. Matilda. By: Roald Dahl


9. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. By: Mildred D. Taylor


10. The Hunger Games Series. By: Suzanne Collins


11. The Maze Runner Series. By: James Dashner


12. The Westing Game. By: Ellen Raskin


13. The Babysitters Club. By: Ann M. Martin


14. The Outsiders. By: S.E. Hinton



9th - 12th Grade Reading List


1. The White Darkness. By: Geraldine McCaughrean


2. Divergent Series. By: Veronica Roth


3. The Fault in Our Stars. By: John Green


4. Macbeth. By: William Shakespeare


5. Julius Caesar. By: William Shakespeare


6. Twelfth Night. By: William Shakespeare


7. The Temptest. By: William Shakespeare


8. Romeo and Juliet. By: William Shakespeare


9. Othelo. By: William Shakespeare


10. Hamlet. By: William Shakespeare


11. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. By: Michael Lewis


12. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By:


13. Jesse's Girl. By: Miranda Kenneally


14. Between Shades of Gray. By: Ruta Spetys


15. The List. By: Siobhan Vivian


16. Wonderstruck. By: Brian Selznick


17. Life of Pi. By: Yann Martel