BATAVIA LOCAL SCHOOLS
‘PROTECTED’ BOOK LISTS

GRADE 2

Mr. Popper’s Penguins
The Tiny Seed
The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo
The Hundred Dresses
Molly’s Pilgrim
Paul Bunyan
Magic School Bus at the Waterworks
Knots on a Counting Rope
Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe
Arthur Writes a Story
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
When I was Young in the Mountains
Horrible Harry in Room 2B
A House is a House for Me
Frog and Toad are Friends
Stone Fox (high second grade classrooms only)

 

GRADE 3

Sarah, Plain and Tall
Charlotte’s Web
Stone Fox (middle and low third grade classrooms only)
Johnny Appleseed
Sarah Morton
Samuel Eaton
Tapenum
Lon Po Po
Shiloh
Ralph S. Mouse
Harriet, the Spy
If You Lived During the Time of the Civil War
James and the Giant Peach
The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Miss Rumphius
Through Grandpa’s Eyes
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
The Keeping Quilt
Song and Dance Man
Sunken Treasure
The Wreck of the Zephyr
Buford, the Little Bighorn
Owl Moon
A Day When Frogs Wear Shoes (From More Stories Julian Tells)

 

Grade 4

Harry Potter
Something for Joey
Walk 2 Moons
Enormous Egg
The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks
Wringer
Sounder
War With Grandpa
The Witches
Whipping Boy
Family Under the Bridge
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger Incredible Journey
Anne of Green Gables
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Bridge to Teribithia
Incredible Journey
Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Island of the Dolphins
Holes
Time for Andrew
The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe (top 4th grade students)

 

GRADE 5

Kate’s House
Shoeshine Girl
Weasel
Snow Treasure
Why Don’t You Ride a Horse
The Forgotten Door
How to be a Perfect Person
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Trouble River
Maniac McGee
The BFG
Catherine Called Birdy
Tuck Everlasting
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (small group 4th grade)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
The Boxcar Children 1 & 2-5 (Ott)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Ott)

 

GRADE 6

The Call of the Wild
The Door in the Wall
The Egypt Game
Hatchet
King of the Wind
My Side of the Mountain
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Number the Stars
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Summer of the Swans
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Because of Winn Dixie
Numbering the Bones
The Christmas Rat
The Shakespeare Stealer

 

GRADE 7

Killing Mr. Griffin
The Cay
Sing Down the Moon
Walk Two Moons (small group in 4th grade)
Jacob Have I Loved
My Brother Sam is Dead
Sarah Bishop
On My Honor
Tears of A Tiger
The Lottery Rose

 

GRADE 8

Animal Farm
The Giver
The Westing Game-7/8
Summer of My German Soldier
A Day No Pigs Would Die
The Outsiders
The Pigman
Where the Lilies Bloom
The War Between the Classes
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Johnny Tremain
Locked in Time
House of Dies Drear
Romiet and Julio

 

GRADE 9

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Go Ask Alice
I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Miracle Worker
Night
The Odyssey
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
The Hobbit
The Plague Year
Swallowing Stones

 

GRADE 10

I Am the Cheese
Izzy, Willy-Nilly
Julius Caesar
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Say Goodnight, Gracie
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Separate Peace
The Chosen
Ethan Frome
The Old Man and the Sea

 

GRADE 11

As I Lay Dying
Black Boy
The Crucible
A Farewell to Arms
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Red Badge of Courage
Fallen Angels
The Chocolate War
Taming of the Shrew
The Scarlet Letter
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Ordinary People
Solomon

 

GRADE 12

Ann Karenina
Catch 22
Crime and Punishment
Death of a Salesman
A Doll’s House
Fahrenheit 451
Farewell to Manzanar
The Glass Menagerie
Hamlet
The House on Mango Street
In Country
Lord Jim
Macbeth
Oedipus Rex
Othello
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Pride and Prejudice
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Silas Marner
Slaughterhouse 5
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
The Things They Carried
Their Eyes were Watching God
The Metamorphosis
A Raisin in the Sun
Frankenstein
Heart of Darkness
The Awakening

 

 

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