LA CAÑADA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

CORE LITERATURE K-6

Kindergarten	Grade 1	Grade 2	Grade 3	Grade 4	Grade 5	Grade 6
SELF (Any 3) I Like Me Carlson Leo the Late Bloomer Kraus (E gr 2-4) Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day Curtis My Five Senses Aliki Owen Henkes Goodnight Moon Brown (C) Good-night Owl Hutchins The Gingerbread Boy Galdone Peter Rabbit Potter Nursery Rhymes	FAMILY (Any 3) Stellaluna Cannon Thundercake Polacco A Chair For My Mother Williams (C) Five Minutes’ Peace Murphy The Baby Sister T. dePaola Goldilocks and the Three Bear (E) ADDED Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (C) Barrett Corduroy (C) D. Freeman Frog and Toad are Friends (C) A. Lobel	COMMUNITY (Any 3) Just Plain Fancy Polacco Josefina Story Quilt Coerr Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Aardema (C) DELETED Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (C) Barrett Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge Fox (E) The Wednesday Surprise Bunting (E) The Long Way to a New Land Sandin	UNDERSTANDING OTHER WAYS OF LIFE (Any 1) Biography of a National Hero Annie and the Old One Miles (C) Molly’s Pilgrim Cohen (C) Little House in the Big Woods Wilder (C) Miss Rumphius Cooney (C) FRIENDSHIP (Any 1) Charlotte’s Web White (C gr 4-6) Mr. Popper’s Penguins Atwater Sarah Plain and Tall MacLachlan (C gr 4-6) Aesop’s Fables…….	CALIFORNIA HISTORY (Any 1) Blue Willow Gates (C) By the Great Horn Spoon Fleischman (E gr 5-6) Island of the Blue Dolphin O’Dell (C gr 5-6) Anita of Rancho del Mar E.F. O’Brien CONFLICT RESOLUTION (Any 1) Cricket in Times Square Selden (E gr 5-6) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH R.C. O’Brien (E gr 5-7) Trumpet of the Swan White …….Grades 3-4	COURAGE (Any 1) Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor (C gr 6-8) Johnny Tremain Forbes (C) Wrinkle in Time L’Engle (C) Call it Courage Sperry (C) My Side of the Mountain George (R) Summer of the Monkeys Rawls LOYALTY (Any 1) Harriet the Spy Fitzhugh (E ) Tuck Everlasting Babbitt (E gr 6-8) Song of the Trees Taylor Witch of Blackbird Pond Speare (E) Follow My Leader Garfield Sign of the Beaver Speare (C) American Tall Tales	TOLERANCE (Any 1) The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi The Cay Taylor (E) COMING OF AGE (Any 1) Tom Sawyer Twain Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls (C) Dragonwings Yep (R) Bible Parables Mythology

C=State Core Reading; E=State Extended Reading; R= StateRecreational Reading Over – Grades 7-12 Core Literature

LA CAÑADA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

CORE LITERATURE GRADES 7-12

Grade 7	Grade 8	Grade 9	Grade 10	Grade 11-12
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (play) The Miracle Worker Gibson (C gr 9-11) Contemporary: The White Mountain Trilogy Christopher (R) Or Z is for Zachariah O’Brien (R) Or Freak The Mighty Philbrick Or The Giver Lowry “Hunger” Wright Poetry Selections: Carl Sandburg (C) Greek and Roman Mythology	Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years Delany Dances with Wolves Blake Lord of the Flies Golding (C gr 9-12) The Coffin Quilt Rinaldi An Acquaintance with Darkness Rinaldi The Glass Menagerie Williams (C gr 10-12) The Red Badge of Courage Crane (C gr 7-12) Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare (C gr 9-12) Flowers for Algernon” Keyes (C gr 9-12) “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” Frost (C)	(English 1) To Kill a Mockingbird Lee (C) Things Fall Apart Achebe (E gr 10-12) Bean Trees Kingsolver Play by Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice (C) or Julius Caesar (C) or Othello (C) “The Gift of the Magi” O.Henry (E) “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” Dickinson (C)	(English 2) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain (C) The Crucible Miller (C) The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald (C) Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston (C) “The Cask of Amontillado” Poe (C) “Mending Wall” Frost (C)	(English 3-4) Novel by Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities (C) or A Christmas Carol (C) or Oliver Twist (C) Play by Shakespeare: Macbeth (C) or Hamlet (C) Modern Invisible Man (C) Ellison The Chosen (C) Potok Contemporary: The Joy Luck Club Tan or Animal Dreams Kingsolver or A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Dorris (R) or Bless Me, Ultima Anaya (C) “The Rocking Horse Winner” Lawrence (C) “The World is Too Much With Us” (C) Wordsworth

C= State Core Reading; E= State Extended Reading; R= State Recreational Reading Over – Grades K-6 Core Literature