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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST - Level 7A ~ Level 3A
These are read-aloud books to be used by a parent when reading to the student.
LEVEL 7A 1 2 3 4 5
Barnyard Banter Denise Fleming Each Peach Pear Plum Janet and Allen Ahlberg Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown Here Are My Hands Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault I Heard A Little Baa Elizabeth MacLeod Read Aloud Rhymes for the collected by Jack Prelutsky

LEVEL 6A 1
Hop on Pop Dr. Seuss Jesse Bear, What Will You Nancy White Carlstrom Eating the Alphabet, Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z Lois Ehlert Black? White! Day? Night! Laura Vaccaro Seeger Big Red Barn Margaret Wise Brown Noisy Nora Rosemary Wells Sheep in a Jeep Nancy Shaw Silly Sally Audrey Wood How Do Dinosaurs Say Jane Yolen

LEVEL 5A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Mean Soup Betsy Everitt The Doorbell Rang Pat Hutchins What do you do with a kangaroo? Mercer Mayer The Icky Bug Alphabet Book Jerry Pallotta My Very First Mother Goose edited by Iona Opie A Rainbow of My Own Don Freeman The Listening Walk Paul Showers The Little Red Hen retold by Paul Galdone The Runaway Bunny Margaret Wise Brown We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosen Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault Old Black Fly Jim Aylesworth One Hundred Hungry Ants Elinor J. Pinczes The ABC Bunny Wanda Gag Harry the Dirty Dog Gene Zion The Gigantic Turnip Aleksei Tolstoy Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss Miss Spider’s Tea Party David Kirk Ask Mr. Bear Marjorie Flack The Treasure Uri Shulevitz

LEVEL 4A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Henny Penny retold by Paul Galdone Alphabears: An ABC Book Kathleen Hague Bat Jamboree Kathi Appelt Curious George H.A. Rey Make Way for Ducklings Robert McCloskey Millions of Cats Wanda Gag Stone Soup Marcia Brown The Three Billy Goats Gruff P.C. Asbjornsen and J.E. Moe Tikki Tikki Tembo retold by Arlene Mosel A House is a House for Me Mary Ann Hoberman Chicken Soup with Rice Maurice Sendak Fireman Small Wong Herbert Yee Mother Goose Numbers on Leo and Diane Dillon

LEVEL 3A 1
A My Name is Alice Jane Bayer Each Orange Had Eight

2 Wear? 3 4 5 6 7 8

2 Slices: A Counting Book 3 4 5 6
Sea Squares

Paul Giganti

Joy N. Hulme Bread and Jam for Frances Russell Hoban Little Bear Else Homelund Minarik Lyle, Lyle Crocodile Bernard Waber Mike Mulligan and His Steam Virginia Lee Burton

6 Very Young 7 8 9 10 11

Quick as a Cricket Audrey Wood Three Little Kittens retold by Paul Galdone Where’s My Teddy? Jez Alborough Whose Mouse Are You? Robert Kraus All the Colors of the Earth Sheila Hamanaka Animals Should Definitely Judi Barrett

7 Shovel 8 9

Ming Lo Moves the Mountain Arnold Lobel Strega Nona Tomie dePaola Sylvester and the Magic William Steig The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant Jean de Brunhoff The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter A Giraffe and a Half Shel Silverstein Horton Hatches the Egg Dr. Seuss Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely

9 Goodnight? 10 11 12 13 14

Angus and the Cat Marjorie Flack Swimmy Leo Lionni If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Laura Numeroff Alligators All Around Maurice Sendak Feast for 10 Cathryn Falwell One Was Johnny: A Counting Maurice Sendak Molly Bang Harold and the Purple Crockett Johnson

10 Pebble 11 12 13 14

12 Not Wear Clothing

Have You Seen My Duckling? 13 Nancy Tafuri

13 the Loose 14

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Lunch Denise Fleming The Carrot Seed Ruth Krauss Kitten’s First Full Moon Kevin Henkes The Napping House Audrey Wood On Market Street Arnold Lobel Ten Black Dots Donald Crews Ten Terrible Dinosaurs Paul Strickland

Possum Come A-Knockin’ Nancy Van Laan This Is the House that Jack

15 Book 16

Ten Nine Eight

Simms Taback There Was an Old Lady Who 16 Swallowed a Trout! Teri Sloat

15 Built

Charlotte Zolotow One Grain of Rice: 16 A Mathematical Folktale Demi

15 Present

17 Crayon 18 19 20

17 18 19 20

Leo the Late Bloomer Robert Kraus Sheila Rae, the Brave Kevin Henkes The Empty Pot Demi Too Much Noise Ann McGovern

17 18 19

Six-Dinner Sid Inga Moore The Salamander Room Anne Mazer Umbrella Taro Yashima Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Verna Aardema

In the Tall, Tall Grass Denise Fleming Mr. Gumpy’s Outing John Burningham Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney

20 Plain

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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST - Level 7A ~ Level 3A
These are books for the student to practice on his or her own. Parents should offer help when needed.
LEVEL 7A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Truck Donald Crews Pancakes for Breakfast Tomie dePaola Changes, Changes Pat Hutchins The Red Book Barbara Lehman Free Fall David Wiesner Tuesday David Wiesner The Everything Book Denise Fleming Do You Want to Be My Eric Carle

LEVEL 6A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Anno’s Counting Book Mitsumasa Anno Clown Quentin Blake Orange Pear Apple Bear Emily Gravett Frog Goes to Dinner Mercer Mayer ABC: A Child’s First Alphabet Book Alison Jay The New Alphabet of Animals Christopher Wormell Alphabet City Stephen T. Johnson My Very First Book of Words Eric Carle

LEVEL 5A 1 2
Museum ABC The Metropolitan Museum of Art Alphabatics Suse MacDonald The Turn-Around,

LEVEL 4A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle I Went Walking Sue Williams It Looked Like Spilt Milk Charles G. Shaw
Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers

LEVEL 3A 1 2
Here Are My Hands Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault Cookie’s Week Cindy Ward The Lady with the Alligator Nadine Bernard Westcott Donald Crews Drummer Hoff Barbara Emberley We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Michael Rosen More Spaghetti, I Say Rita Golden Gelman
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You
Very Short Stories to Read Together

3 Upside-Down Alphabet Book 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Alphabet Explosion! Search and Count from Alien to Zebra

Lisa Campbell Ernst John Nickle

3 Purse 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Freight Train

Merle Peek Not a Box Antoinette Portis Hattie and the Fox Mem Fox Rosie’s Walk Pat Hutchins In the Tall, Tall Grass Denise Fleming

Yo, Yes! Chris Raschka Have You Seen My Cat? Eric Carle Rain Robert Kalan Mice Squeak, We Speak Arnold Shapiro

8 Friend? 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Mary Ann Hoberman

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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST

Level 2A ~ Level BII
LEVEL 2A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
The Chick and the Duckling Mirra Ginsburg A Hat for Minerva Louise Janet Morgan Stoeke The Easy-to-Read Little Engine that Could Watty Piper and Walter Retan The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Jump, Frog, Jump! Robert Kalan The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss Clifford, the Big Red Dog Norman Bridwell Farmer Duck Martin Waddell & Helen Oxenbury Herman the Helper Robert Kraus

LEVEL AI 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
little blue and little yellow Leo Lionni Peter’s Chair Ezra Jack Keats A Tree Is Nice Janice May Udry Peanut Butter and Jelly Nadine Bernard Westcott Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans Arthur’s Eyes Marc Brown All Kinds of Families Norma Simon Curious George Flies a Kite Margret Rey Little Bear’s Friend Else Homelund Minarik Caps for Sale Esphyr Slobodkina Henry and Mudge: The First Cynthia Rylant

LEVEL AII 1
May I Bring A Friend? Beatrice Schenk de Regniers Nate the Great and the Marjorie Weiman Sharmat Esther Averill Cork and Fuzz: Short and Tall Dori Chaconas Days with Frog and Toad Arnold Lobel Purple, Green and Yellow Robert Munsch Freckle Juice Judy Blume Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Mem Fox

LEVEL BI 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Curious George Takes a Job H.A. Rey A Chair for My Mother Vera B. Williams Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak Arthur’s Pen Pal Lillian Hoban The Golly Sisters Go West Betsy Byars The Gardener Sarah Stewart Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Dr. Seuss Lon Po Po Ed Young There’s a Nightmare in My Mercer Mayer

LEVEL BII 1 2
The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo Judy Blume The Josefina Story Quilt Eleanor Coerr The Cable Car and the Herb Caen

2 Snowy Trail 3 4 5 6 7

The Fire Cat

3 Dragon 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

The Little House Virginia Lee Burton The Biggest Bear Lynd Ward Aliens for Breakfast Jonathan Etra & Stephanie Spinner Paul Bunyan Steven Kellogg The Drinking Gourd F.N. Monjo The New Kid on the Block Jack Prelutsky Fantastic Mr. Fox Roald Dahl Fables Arnold Lobel
Snowed In with Grandmother Silk Carol Fenner & Amanda Harvey

8 Partridge 9 10 11 12

Martha Speaks Susan Meddaugh The Story About Ping Marjorie Flack & Kurt Wiese Blueberries for Sal Robert McCloskey The Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf

9 Closet 10 11

Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What 10 Do You See? Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle

One of Each Mary Ann Hoberman Corduroy Don Freeman Nana Upstairs & Nana Tomie dePaola William Steig The Mitten Alvin Tresselt The Boy Who Didn’t Believe Lucille Clifton

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein If You Give a Moose a Muffin Laura Numeroff The Adventures of Taxi Dog Debra and Sal Barracca Here’s a Little Poem compiled by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters

11 Book 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Amelia Bedelia Helps Out Peggy Parish Good Night, Good Knight Shelley Moore-Thomas Ira Sleeps Over Bernard Waber The Hat Jan Brett

12 Downstairs 13 14

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in 13 People’s Ears Verna Aardema Cloudy With a Chance of 14 Meatballs Judi Barrett The Magic School Bus: 15 Inside the Earth Joanna Cole

Doctor De Soto

Amos & Boris William Steig The Littles John Peterson

15 in Spring 16 17 18 19 20

Flat Stanley, He Leads a Very 15 Full Life! Jeff Brown

16 17 18 19 20

16 17 18 19 20

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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST

Level CI ~ Level F
LEVEL CI 1
Owl Moon Jane Yolen The Day Gogo Went to Vote:
Eleanor Batezat Sisulu & Sharon Wilson

LEVEL CII 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Liang and the Magic Paintbrush Demi My Diary from Here to There Amada Irma Perez When Jessie Came Across the Sea Amy Hest Maple Moon Connie Brummel Crook & Scott Cameron Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express Margaret K. Wetterer Charlotte’s Web E.B. White Frindle Andrew Clements Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Paul Fleischman McBroom’s Wonderful OneAcre farm Sid Fleischman Cinderella Charles Perrault Mr. Popper’s Penguins Richard and Florence Atwater One Day in the Prairie Jean Craighead George The Chalk Box Kid Clyde Robert Bulla Stone Fox John Reynolds Gardiner

LEVEL D 1
Jumanji Chris Van Allsberg The Girl Who Loved Wild Paul Goble

LEVEL E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
The Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum Li Lun, Lad of Courage Carolyn Treffinger Black Beauty Anna Sewell Old Yeller Fred Gipson Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl The Enormous Egg Oliver Butterworth It’s Like This, Cat Emily Cheney-Neville Charlie and the Chocolate Roald Dahl

LEVEL F 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
The Princess and the Goblin George MacDonald Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll The Red Pony John Steinbeck Secret of the Andes Ann Nolan Clark The Shakespeare Stealer Gary Blackwood The House of Dies Drear Virginia Hamilton A Wizard of Earthsea Ursula K. Le Guin Homesick: My Own Story Jean Fritz Dicey’s Song Cynthia Voigt Thimble Summer Elizabeth Enright Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis The Wheel on the School Meindert DeJong Sounder William H. Armstrong From the Mixed-up Files of E.L. Konigsburg

2 South Africa, April 1994 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Amazing Grace

2 Horses 3 4 5

Mary Hoffman The Snow Walker Margaret K. & Charles M. Wetterer The Hundred Dresses Eleanor Estes My Father’s Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett The Shrinking of Treehorn Florence Parry Heide Action Jackson Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan Star of Fear, Star of Hope Jo Hoestlandt The Rough-Face Girl Rafe Martin Judy Moody Gets Famous Megan McDonald A New Coat for Anna Harriet Ziefert Bunnicula James Howe The Orchestra Mark Rubin

Sam, Bangs & Moonshine Evaline Ness Many Moons James Thurber Eloise Kay Thompson Sadako and the Thousand Eleanor Coerr The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship Arthur Ransome The Hundred Penny Box Sharon Bell Mathis Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan The Big Wave Pearl S. Buck Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Eth Clifford

6 Paper Cranes 7 8 9 10

8 Voices 9 10 11 12 13 14

9 Factory 10 11

Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren …and now Miguel Joseph Krumgold Encyclopedia Brown Shows

11 Library! 12 13 14

Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine Mama’s Bank Account Kathryn Forbes Henry Reed, Inc. Keith Robertson

12 the Way

Donald J. Sobol The Lion, the Witch and the 13 Wardrobe C.S. Lewis Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli The Borrowers Mary Norton Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt By the Great Horn Spoon! Sid Fleischman Tatterhood and Other Tales Ethel Johnston Phelps

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

14 Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 15 16 17 18 19

Knights in Shining Armor 15 Gail Gibbons

Old Mother West Wind 15 Thornton W. Burgess

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats 15 of NIMH Robert C. O’Brien

The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh Number the Stars Lois Lowry Strawberry Girl Lois Lenski Black Ships Before Troy Rosemary Sutcliff Escape: The Story of the Sid Fleischman

16 17 18 19 20

16 17 18 19 20

16 17

The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster The Doll’s House Rumer Godden The Invention of Brian Selznick

18 Hugo Cabret 19 20

My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

20 Great Houdini

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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST

Level G ~ Level I
LEVEL G 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle Caddie Woodlawn Carol Ryrie Brink Boy Roald Dahl The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George The Bad Beginning Lemony Snicket I, Robot Isaac Asimov Song of the Buffalo Boy Sherry Garland Amos Fortune Free Man Elizabeth Yates Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham Anne Frank

LEVEL H 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett The Pinballs Betsy Byars Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway King of the Wind Marguerite Henry Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes Old Possum’s Book of T.S. Eliot

LEVEL I 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
The Master Puppeteer Katherine Paterson Ginger Pye Eleanor Estes archy and mehitabel Don Marquis My Family and Other Animals Gerald Durrell Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne Watasuki Houston & James Houston The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson My Life and Hard Times James Thurber Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton Across Five Aprils Irene Hunt The High King Lloyd Alexander The White Stag Kate Seredy The Hound of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

8 Practical Cats 9 10

The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare The Story of My Life Helen Keller The Adventures of Tom Mark Twain

11 The Diary of a Young Girl 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Dragonwings

Anne Frank

11 Sawyer 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Laurence Yep A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens M.C. Higgins, the Great Virginia Hamilton The Other Side of Truth Beverly Naidoo

Goodnight, Mr. Tom Michelle Magorian Call It Courage Armstrong Sperry Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster

12 Baskervilles 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

I, Juan de Pareja Elizabeth Borton de Trevino The Hero and the Crown Robin McKinley The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder

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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST

Level J ~ Level L
LEVEL J 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
A White Heron and Other Stories Sarah Orne Jewett To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury The Time Machine H.G. Wells 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin Annie John Jamaica Kincaid Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen The Adventures of Mark Twain

LEVEL K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold John Le Carré Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hamlet William Shakespeare Ethan Frome Edith Wharton King Oedipus Sophocles The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays Oscar Wilde A Midsummer Night’s Dream William Shakespeare Night Elie Wiesel Brave New World Aldous Huxley

LEVEL L 1
101 Great American Poems Various authors Songs of Innocence and William Blake The World’s Greatest Short Stories Various authors
The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin

2 Songs of Experience 3 4 5

Kate Chopin Lord of the Flies William Golding The Waste Land

6 and Other Poems 7 8 9
Macbeth

T.S. Eliot

William Shakespeare Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller The French Lieutenant’s John Fowles

9 Huckleberry Finn 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

A Separate Peace John Knowles

10 Woman 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

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