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Grades K-2

33 titles
The Beginning of the Armadillos Rudyard Kipling Grades 2-5short story The Cat That Walked by Himself Rudyard Kipling Grades 2-5short story The Elephant's Child Rudyard Kipling Grades 2-5short story How Raggedy Ann Got Her Candy Heart Johnny Gruelle Grades K-2short story How They Bring Back the Village of Cream Puffs When the Wind Blows It Away Carl Sandburg Grades 2-5short story How the Camel Got His Hump Rudyard Kipling Grades 2-5short story How the Hat Ashes Shovel Helped Snoo Foo Carl Sandburg Grades 2-5short story How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin Rudyard Kipling Grades 2-5short story How the Whale Got His Throat Rudyard Kipling Grades 2-5short story In Which Christopher Robin Gives Pooh a Party, and We Say Good-bye A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Christopher Robin Leads an Expotition to the North Pole A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Christopher Robin and Pooh Come to an Enchanted Place, and We Leave Them There A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Eeyore Finds the Wolery and Owl Moves Into It A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which It Is Shown That Tiggers Don't Climb Trees A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Piglet Does a Very Grand Thing A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Piglet Is Entirely Surrounded by Water A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins In A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Rabbit Has a Busy Day, and We Learn What Christopher Robin Does in the Mornings A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which Tigger Is Unbounced A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which a House Is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story In Which a Search Is Organdized, and Piglet Nearly Meets the Heffalump Again A. A. Milne Grades K-3short story My Father's Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett Grades 1-4short story Raggedy Ann and the Kite Johnny Gruelle Grades K-2short story The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo Rudyard Kipling Grades 2-5short story The Two Skyscrapers Who Decided to Have a Child Carl Sandburg Grades 2-5short story

Grades 3-5

57 titles
A Helping Hand Payal Dhar Grades 3-5short story A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett Grades 3-6short story A Stitch in Time Himadri Das; Veena Prasad Grades 3-5short story Around the World With a Chilli Nayan Chanda Grades 3-5short story Arya in the Cockpit Nandita Jayaraj Grades 3-5short story Bambi: A Life in the Woods Felix Salten Grades 3-6short story The Bungalow Mystery (Nancy Drew 3) Carolyn Keene Grades 4-7short story The Butterfly That Stamped Rudyard Kipling Grades 3-5short story The Case of the Missing Water Shalini Srinivasan Grades 3-5short story Chipko takes root Jeyanthi Manokaran Grades 3-5short story The Crab That Played with the Sea Rudyard Kipling Grades 3-5short story Creatures of Old Veena Prasad Grades 3-5short story The Dragon Tamers E. Nesbit Grades 3-6short story Emil and the Detectives Erich Kastner Grades 3-6short story Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon Dhan Gopal Mukerji Grades 4-7short story The Hidden Staircase (Nancy Drew 2) Carolyn Keene Grades 4-7short story The House on the Cliff (Hardy Boys 2) Franklin W. Dixon Grades 4-7short story How Old is Muttajji? Roopa Pai Grades 3-5short story How Pintu Found Pi Sarat Talluri Rao Grades 3-5short story How the Alphabet Was Made Rudyard Kipling Grades 3-5short story How the First Letter Was Written Rudyard Kipling Grades 3-5short story The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told E. Nesbit Grades 3-6short story Kaa's Hunting Rudyard Kipling Grades 4-7short story Kaakaasaurus Shalini Srinivasan Grades 3-5short story Kali Wants to Dance Aparna Karthikeyan Grades 3-5short story Long Live Friendship! A Humorous Play for Children Meera Dixit Grades 3-5short story Lost in the Internet Kris Stokes; Madhurima Chakraborty Grades 3-5short story Mangalyaan: A Journey to Mars Nikhil Gulati Grades 3-5short story Mission Cycle Rohini Mohan Grades 3-5short story Mowgli's Brothers Rudyard Kipling Grades 4-7short story The Mystery at Lilac Inn (Nancy Drew 4) Carolyn Keene Grades 4-7short story The Mystery of the Cyber Friend Zac O'Yeah Grades 3-5short story Only Fools Go to School Chatura Rao Grades 3-5short story Peter Pan J. M. Barrie Grades 3-6short story Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter Grades 3-6short story Raju's First Flight Nandita Jayaraj Grades 3-5short story The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame Grades 3-6short story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi Rudyard Kipling Grades 3-6short story Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving Grades 5-8short story The Scavenger Hunt Ajit Narra Grades 3-5short story The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew 1) Carolyn Keene Grades 4-7short story The Secret of the Old Mill (Hardy Boys 3) Franklin W. Dixon Grades 4-7short story Smoky, the Cow Horse Will James Grades 4-7short story The Sound of Water Shalini Srinivasan Grades 3-5short story Stormy, Misty's Foal Marguerite Henry Grades 3-6short story The Tale of the Toilet Veena Prasad Grades 3-5short story There's a Hole in my Galaxy Ananya Dasgupta Grades 3-5short story The Three Questions Leo Tolstoy Grades 3-8short story Tiger! Tiger! Rudyard Kipling Grades 4-7short story Tine and the Faraway Mountain Shikha Tripathi Grades 3-5short story Toomai of the Elephants Rudyard Kipling Grades 4-7short story The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys 1) Franklin W. Dixon Grades 4-7short story The Trumpeter of Krakow Eric P. Kelly Grades 5-8short story Turtle Story Kartik Shanker Grades 3-5short story White Fang Jack London Grades 5-8short story The White Seal Rudyard Kipling Grades 4-7short story Who Stole Bhaiya's Smile? Sanjana Kapur Grades 3-5short story

Grades 6-8

62 titles
A Martian Odyssey Stanley G. Weinbaum Grades 7-10short story A Pail of Air Fritz Leiber Grades 6-9short story A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs Grades 7-10short story A Retrieved Reformation O. Henry Grades 7-10short story A Scandal in Bohemia Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story The Adventure of the Copper Beeches Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 7-10short story The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 7-10short story The Adventure of the Speckled Band Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story After Twenty Years O. Henry Grades 6-9short story Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne Grades 6-9short story Beyond Lies the Wub Philip K. Dick Grades 7-10short story The Big Trip Up Yonder Kurt Vonnegut Grades 8-12short story The Cabuliwallah Rabindranath Tagore Grades 6-10short story The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe Grades 8-11short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain Grades 7-10short story The Cop and the Anthem O. Henry Grades 8-11short story The Cosmic Express Jack Williamson Grades 7-10short story The Crystal Crypt Philip K. Dick Grades 8-11short story Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster Grades 6-9short story The Dark Frigate Charles Boardman Hawes Grades 6-9short story The Defenders Philip K. Dick Grades 8-11short story The Doll's House Katherine Mansfield Grades 7-10short story The Eyes Have It Philip K. Dick Grades 6-9short story The Final Problem Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 7-10short story The Gift of the Magi O. Henry Grades 6-10short story The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story The Interlopers Saki Grades 8-11short story The Invisible Man H. G. Wells Grades 7-10short story The Last Leaf O. Henry Grades 7-10short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving Grades 6-9short story Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper Grades 6-10short story The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe Grades 8-11short story The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs Grades 7-10short story The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell Grades 8-11short story The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie Grades 8-12short story The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie Grades 8-12short story The Musgrave Ritual Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 7-10short story The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie Grades 7-10short story The Necklace Guy de Maupassant Grades 8-11short story The Open Window Saki Grades 7-10short story Partners in Crime (selected stories) Agatha Christie Grades 7-10short story Piper in the Woods Philip K. Dick Grades 8-11short story Poirot Investigates (selected stories) Agatha Christie Grades 7-10short story Printcrime Cory Doctorow Grades 8-12short story The Ransom of Red Chief O. Henry Grades 6-9short story The Red-Headed League Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story Rocket Summer Ray Bradbury Grades 6-9short story The Runaway Skyscraper Murray Leinster Grades 6-9short story The Sargasso of Space Edmond Hamilton Grades 7-10short story Silver Blaze Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story The Stainless Steel Rat Harry Harrison Grades 8-12short story The Story-Teller Saki Grades 6-9short story The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Grades 8-11short story To Build a Fire Jack London Grades 8-11short story Tony and the Beetles Philip K. Dick Grades 8-12short story Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne Grades 6-9short story Vanka Anton Chekhov Grades 6-9short story Year of the Big Thaw Marion Zimmer Bradley Grades 6-9short story Youth Isaac Asimov Grades 6-9short story Zero Hour Ray Bradbury Grades 6-9short story

Grades 9-12

55 titles
2 B R 0 2 B Kurt Vonnegut Grades 10-12short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Ambrose Bierce Grades 10-12short story Araby James Joyce Grades 10-12short story Bartleby Herman Melville Grades 11-12short story Bernice Bobs Her Hair F. Scott Fitzgerald Grades 9-12short story The Bet Anton Chekhov Grades 9-12short story Big Two-Hearted River Ernest Hemingway Grades 11-12short story The Call of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft Grades 10-12short story The Colour Out of Space H. P. Lovecraft Grades 9-12short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button F. Scott Fitzgerald Grades 9-12short story The Dead James Joyce Grade 12short story Desiree's Baby Kate Chopin Grades 10-12short story The Dunwich Horror H. P. Lovecraft Grades 10-12short story The Eatonville Anthology Zora Neale Hurston Grades 9-12short story Eveline James Joyce Grades 10-12short story The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe Grades 10-12short story The Furnished Room O. Henry Grades 10-12short story Gambler's World Keith Laumer Grades 9-12short story The Goophered Grapevine Charles W. Chesnutt Grades 10-12short story The Hanging Stranger Philip K. Dick Grades 10-12short story Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway Grades 11-12short story The Inimitable Jeeves (selected stories) P. G. Wodehouse Grades 9-12short story Jeeves Takes Charge P. G. Wodehouse Grades 9-12short story The Killers Ernest Hemingway Grades 9-12short story Little Brother Cory Doctorow Grades 9-12short story Lord Peter Views the Body (selected stories) Dorothy L. Sayers Grades 9-12short story The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Grades 10-12short story Mr. Spaceship Philip K. Dick Grades 9-12short story The Mysterious Mr. Quin (selected stories) Agatha Christie Grades 9-12short story Omnilingual H. Beam Piper Grades 9-12short story The Open Boat Stephen Crane Grades 10-12short story Passing Nella Larsen Grades 11-12short story Paul's Case Willa Cather Grades 11-12short story Pickman's Model H. P. Lovecraft Grades 10-12short story Pillar of Fire Ray Bradbury Grades 9-12short story The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe Grades 9-12short story The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe Grades 9-12short story Pygmalion's Spectacles Stanley G. Weinbaum Grades 9-12short story Red Nails (Conan) Robert E. Howard Grades 10-12short story The Rich Boy F. Scott Fitzgerald Grades 11-12short story Second Variety Philip K. Dick Grades 10-12short story Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Grades 11-12short story The Skull Philip K. Dick Grades 9-12short story The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Grades 11-12short story The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin Grades 10-12short story The Street That Wasn't There Clifford D. Simak Grades 9-12short story The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Grades 11-12short story The Tunnel Under the World Frederik Pohl Grades 9-12short story The Variable Man Philip K. Dick Grades 9-12short story Very Good, Jeeves (selected stories) P. G. Wodehouse Grades 9-12short story Watchbird Robert Sheckley Grades 9-12short story Whose Body? Dorothy L. Sayers Grades 9-12short story Winter Dreams F. Scott Fitzgerald Grades 9-12short story The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman Grades 11-12short story Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne Grades 10-12short story