ELA Approved Books,
organized by school

The following books have been approved by the Board of Education:
(This list was updated January 25, 2005)
 

TITLE	AUTHOR	SCHOOL	GRADE	YR. APPROVED	DAY & MO. APPROVED
Bound for Oregon	Jean Van Leeuwen	Birchwood	5		None
Chester’s Way	Kevin Henkes	Birchwood	1-2 Multiage	1995	8-May
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault	Birchwood	Kdg	1995	22-May
Hare’s Choice	Dennis Hamley	Birchwood	4	1995	8-May
Henry Mudge - The First Book	Cynthia Rylant	Birchwood	2	1995	8-May
Indian in the Cupboard	Lynn Reid Banks	Birchwood	4
Kid in the Red Jacket, The	Barbara Park	Birchwood	5	1995	8-May
Lily's Crossing	Patricia Reilly Giff	Birchwood	5	1998	9-Jun
Mary Wore Her Red Dress	Merle Peek	Birchwood	1	1995	8-May
Mick Harte Was Here	Barbara Park	Birchwood	3	1995	8-May
Muggie Maggie	Beverly Clearly	Birchwood	3	1995	8-May
Report Card, The	Andrew Clemens	Birchwood	4
Return of the Indian in the Cupboard	Lynn Reid Banks	Birchwood	4
Searching for David's Heart	Bennett	Birchwood	4
Skinnybones	Barbara Park	Birchwood	4
Walk Two Moons	Sharon Creech	Birchwood	5	1995	9-Jan
War With Grandpa, The	Robert Kinnel Smith	Birchwood	4,6
Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear	Lensey Namioka	Birchwood	3	1997	6-June
A Taste of Blackberries	Buchanan	Craig
Abel's Island	Steig	Craig	4,5
Alice in Wonderland	Carrol	Craig
Bigger	Patricia Calvert	Craig	5	1996	20-May
Bunnicula	Howe	Craig	4
Captive, The	Joyce Hansen	Craig	5	1996	20-May
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl	Craig	4	1995	22-May
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom	Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault	Craig	1	1995	22-May
Chocolate Touch, The	Patrick Skene Catling	Craig	3	1995	22-May
Cry Uncle	Auch	Craig
Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail	Elvira Woodruff	Craig	5	1996	20-May
Door and the Wall	DeAngeli	Craig	5
Encyclopedia Brown Series	Donald Sobol	Craig	4	1995	4-Apr
Fire Bug Connection, The	Jean Craighead George	Craig	5	1995	22-May
Great Brain, The	Fitzgerald	Craig	4,5
Green Book, The	Walsh	Craig	5,6
Harriet the Spy	Fitzhugh	Craig	4,5
How to be Cool in Third Grade	Betsy Duffey	Craig	3	2001	2-Apr
Images		Craig
Ira Sleeps Over	Bernard Waber	Craig	2	1995	22-May
James and the Giant Peach	Dahll	Craig	4
Lemonade Trick, The	Corbett	Craig
Math Wiz, The	Betsy Duffey	Craig	3	1995	22-May
Minstrel in the Tower, The	Naylor	Craig	4
Miracles on Maple Hill	Sorensen	Craig
Mr. Tucket	Gary Paulsen	Craig	5	1996	20-May
Philip Hall Likes Me	Greene	Craig	12	2000	6-Nov
Root Cellar, The	Lunn	Craig
Salsa Stones	Lulu Delaeve	Craig	5	2001
Shiloh Season	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	Craig	4	1995	8-May
Snow Treasure	McSwigan	Craig	5	1999	22-Oct
Tall Tales	Steck-Vaughn	Craig	5-6	1996	6-May
Treasure Island	Stevenson	Craig	3	1995	8-May
The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson	Lord	Craig	5
The Year of Miss Agnes	Kirkpatrick Hull	Craig	7
Wish Giver, The	Brittan	Craig	4,5	1997	6-Jun
Weasel	DeFelice	Elem/Midd.	5,6	1997	6-Jun
Alexander & the Wind Up Mouse	Lionni	Elementary	2
Amelia Bedelia	Peggy Parrish	Elementary	2
Baby Sitters	Ann M. Martin	Elementary	2
Back to Paul Revere	Beatrice Gormky	Elementary	4
Because of Winn Dixie	Kate DiCamillio	Elementary	5
Chicken Little	S. Kellogg	Elementary	1
Courage of Sarah Noble	Alice Dalgliesh	Elementary	4
Daphine's Book	Mary Downing Hahn	Elementary	4,5
Dear Mr. Henshaw	Beverly Clearly	Elementary	4
Doorbell Rings, The	Pat Hutchins	Elementary	1
Farmer Boy	Laura Ingles Wilder	Elementary	4
From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	Konigsburg	Elementary	4,5
Henry Huggins	Beverly Clearly	Elementary	3
If Your Name was Changed at Ellis Island	Ellen Levine	Elementary	4
Indian's of the Northeast Woodlands	Beatrice Siegel	Elementary	4
Indian Summer	Barbara Girion	Elementary	4
Island of the Blue Dolphins	Scott O'Dell	Elementary
Junior Great Books - Series 5	Varied (Anthology)	Elementary	5
Loner, The	Wier	Elementary
Morning Girl	Michael Dorris	Elementary	4
Mouse and the Motorcycle	Beverly Clearly	Elementary	3
My Side of the Mountain	Jean Craighead George	Elementary	5
Mystery of Dead Man's Curve, The	Louis Williams	Elementary	4
Next Spring an Oriole	Gloria Whelan	Elementary
Number the Stars	Lois Lowry	Elementary		2001	11-Nov
Oh A-Hunting We Will Go	John Langstaff	Elementary	1
One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest	Jean Craighead George	Elementary	5	1995	6-Mar
Orphan of Ellis Island, The	Elvira Woodruff	Elementary	4
People of the Longhouse	Ridington	Elementary	4
Pinballs, The	Betsy Byars	Elementary	5
Romana Forever	Beverly Clearly	Elementary	3,4
Romana Quimby, Age 8	Beverly Clearly	Elementary	3,4
Robinhood of Sherwood Forest	McGovern	Elementary	12	1998	30-Sep
Sarah, Plain and Tall	Patricia MacLachlan	Elentary	5
Scott Foresman Reading	20 Authors	Elementary	7	1995	9-Jan
Shiloh	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor	Elementary	K-5	2000	2-May
Sign of the Beaver	Elizabeth George Speare	Elementary	4
Summer of the Swans, The	Betsy Byars	Elementary	6-Jan
Teeny Tiny	Jill Bennett/Tomie dePaola	Elementary	1
There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom	Louis Sachaar	Elementary	4
Voyage of the Half Moon	Tracey West	Elementary	4
Eric Carle's Animals Animals	Laura Whipple, comp.	Glencliff	3-4 Multiage	1997	6-Jun
Journey to Nowhere	Mary Jane Auch	Glencliff	4	1999	10-May
Julius, The Baby of the World	Kevin Henkes	Glencliff	2	1995	6-Mar
Letters From Rifka	Karen Hesse	Glencliff	5	1996	20-May
Lunch Box Surprise, The	Grace Maccarone	Glencliff	1	1996	20-May
What's Alive	Kathleen Weidner Zoechfeld	Glencliff	1-2 Multiage
Who Eats What -- Food Chains and Food Webs	Patricia Lauber	Glencliff	2-Jan	1995	8-May
Adventures of Huck Finn	Tom Sawyer	High School
Aenid	Vergil	High School
Alicia: My Story	Alicia Appleman Jurman	High School
All's Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Marice Remarque	High School
Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	High School
Animal Farm	George Orwell	High School
Antigone	Sophocles	High School
The Assistant	Bernard Malamud	High School
Autobiography of Ben Franklin	Benjamin Franklin	High School
The Awakening	Kate Chopin	High School
The Bean Trees	Barbara Kingslover	High School
Becket	Jean Anouilh	High School
The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	High School
Beloved	Toni Morrision	High School	12H	1998	14-Dec
Billy Budd, Sailor	Herman Melville	High School
The Bonfire of the Vanities	Tom Wolfe	High School
Breakfast at Tiffany's	Truman Capote	High School
Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	High School
Catch 22	Joseph Heller	High School
Candide	Voltaire	High School
Cat's Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	High School
The Cherry Orchard	Anton Chekhov	High School
The Chocolate War	Robert Cormier	High School
The Chosen	Chaim Potok	High School
The Clock Winder	Anne Taylor	High School
Chronicles of a Death Foretold	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	High School
The Crucible	Arthur Miller	High School
Cry the Beloved Country	Alan Paton	High School
David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	High School
A Death in the Family	James Agee	High School
Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller	High School
Dairy of Anne Frank	Anne Frank	High School
A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen	High School