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Book recommendations are listed by
grade level. STEM Kits and Story Time In a Box may be picked up anytime during regular library hours while supplies last.
At Lee Avenue, they can be picked up by coming through the drive thru. At Belfry, Phelps, or Virgie, they may be picked
up by calling the library and having one brought out curbside. Please call your library to reserve or check availability.
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Book Recommendations by Grade Level
Available at Pike County Public Library
K-3
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom- Bill Martin Jr
Pete the Cat Series
A Bad Case of Stripes- David Shannon
Fly Guys Series- Tedd Arnold
Dogman Series- David Pilkey
A Light in the Attic- Shel Silverstein
The Snowy Day- Ezra Keats
Where the Wild Things Are- Maurice Sendak
Swimmy- Leo Lionni
The Very Hungry Caterpillar- Eric Carle
Goodnight Moon- Margaret Wise Brown
3-5
James and the Giant Peach
Because of Winn Dixie- Kate D. Camillo
Henry’s Freedom Box- Ellen Levine
Mr. Poppers Penguins- Richard and Florence Atwater
Fudge Books- Judy Bloom
Ramona Qumiby, Age 8- Beverly Cleary
Sarah, Plain and Tall- Patricia Maclachan
I Survived Book Series
Henry Huggins- Beverly Cleary
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle- Betty Macdonald
Magic Treehouse Series- Mary Pope Osborne
Junie B Jones- Barbara Park
Pippi Longstocking- Astrid Lingrend
Middle (6-8)
The Underland Chronicles- Suzanne Collins
One and Only Ivan- Katherine Applegate
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank
Lord of the Flies- William Golding
The Giver- Lois Lowry
Bridge of Terabithia- Katherine Paterson
Island of Blue Dolphins- Scott O’Dell
Matilda- Ronald Dahl
Hatchet- Gary Paulsen
Tuck Everlasting- Natalie Babbit
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh- Robert C O’Brien
Anne of Green Gables- L. M. Montgomery
The Call of the Wild- Jack London
The Chronicles of Narnia- C.S. Lewis
Holes- Louis Schar
Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
The Princess Bride- William Goldman
A Wrinkle in Time- Madeleine L’Engle
Where the Red Fern Grows- Wilson Rawls
Catherine, Called Birdy- Karen Cushman
Inkheart Series- Cornelia Funke
Walk Two Moons- Sharon Creech
The Golden Compass- Phillip Pullman
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children- Ransom Riggs
Wonder –R.J. Palacio
Bud, Not Buddy- Christopher Paul Curtis
Crossover- Kwame Alexander
Number the Stars- Lois Lowry
A Series of Unfortunate Events Series- Lemony Snicket
Harry Potter Series- J. K. Rowling
The Graveyard Book-Neil Gaiman
Highschool (9-12)
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
1984- George Orwell
The Crucible- Arthur Miller
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes
Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Lord of the Rings- J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit- J. R. R. Tolkien
Oedipus Rex- Sophocles
Romeo and Juliet- William Shakespeare
Hamlet- William Shakespeare
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
Perks of Being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky
Scarlett Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
The Outsiders- S. E. Hinton
The Hate U Give- Angie Thomas
Looking of Alaska- John Green
Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
Ready Player One- Ernest Cline
Collected Poems of Robert Frost
Speak- Laurie Halse Anderson
Scorpions- Walter Dean Myers
Activities: STEM Kits & Story Time In a Box
Story Time In a Box
STEM Kits and Story Time In a Box may be picked up anytime during regular library hours while supplies last.
At Lee Avenue, they can be picked up by coming through the drive thru. At Belfry, Phelps, or Virgie, they may be picked
up by calling the library and having one brought out curbside. Please call your library to reserve or check availability.
