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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST - Level 7A ~ Level 3AThese are read-aloud books to be used by a parent when reading to the student.
1Barnyard Banter
Denise Fleming
LEVEL 7A
2Each Peach Pear Plum
Janet and Allen Ahlberg
3Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown
4Here Are My Hands
Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
5I Heard A Little Baa
Elizabeth MacLeod
6Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young
collected by Jack Prelutsky
7Quick as a Cricket
Audrey Wood
8Three Little Kittens
retold by Paul Galdone
9Where’s My Teddy?
Jez Alborough
10Whose Mouse Are You?
Robert Kraus
11All the Colors of the Earth
Sheila Hamanaka
12Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing
Judi Barrett
13Have You Seen My Duckling?
Nancy Tafuri
14Lunch
Denise Fleming
15The Carrot Seed
Ruth Krauss
16Kitten’s First Full Moon
Kevin Henkes
17The Napping House
Audrey Wood
18On Market Street
Arnold Lobel
19Ten Black Dots
Donald Crews
20Ten Terrible Dinosaurs
Paul Strickland
1Hop on Pop
Dr. Seuss
LEVEL 6A
2Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?
Nancy White Carlstrom
3Eating the Alphabet, Fruits and Vegetables from A to Z
Lois Ehlert
4Black? White! Day? Night!
Laura Vaccaro Seeger
5Big Red Barn
Margaret Wise Brown
6Noisy Nora
Rosemary Wells
7Sheep in a Jeep
Nancy Shaw
8Silly Sally
Audrey Wood
9How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?
Jane Yolen
10Angus and the Cat
Marjorie Flack
11Swimmy
Leo Lionni
12If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Numeroff
13Alligators All Around
Maurice Sendak
14Feast for 10
Cathryn Falwell
15One Was Johnny: A Counting Book
Maurice Sendak
16Ten Nine Eight
Molly Bang
17Harold and the Purple Crayon
Crockett Johnson
18In the Tall, Tall Grass
Denise Fleming
19Mr. Gumpy’s Outing
John Burningham
20Guess How Much I Love You
Sam McBratney
1Mean Soup
Betsy Everitt
LEVEL 5A
2The Doorbell Rang
Pat Hutchins
3What do you do with a kangaroo?
Mercer Mayer
4The Icky Bug Alphabet Book
Jerry Pallotta
5My Very First Mother Goose
edited by Iona Opie
6A Rainbow of My Own
Don Freeman
7The Listening Walk
Paul Showers
8The Little Red Hen
retold by Paul Galdone
9The Runaway Bunny
Margaret Wise Brown
10We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Michael Rosen
11Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
12Old Black Fly
Jim Aylesworth
13One Hundred Hungry Ants
Elinor J. Pinczes
14The ABC Bunny
Wanda Gag
15Harry the Dirty Dog
Gene Zion
16The Gigantic Turnip
Aleksei Tolstoy
17Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss
18Miss Spider’s Tea Party
David Kirk
19Ask Mr. Bear
Marjorie Flack
20The Treasure
Uri Shulevitz
1Henny Penny
retold by Paul Galdone
LEVEL 4A
2Alphabears: An ABC Book
Kathleen Hague
3Bat Jamboree
Kathi Appelt
4Curious George
H.A. Rey
5Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McCloskey
6Millions of Cats
Wanda Gag
7Stone Soup
Marcia Brown
8The Three Billy Goats Gruff
P.C. Asbjornsen and J.E. Moe
9Tikki Tikki Tembo
retold by Arlene Mosel
10A House is a House for Me
Mary Ann Hoberman
11Chicken Soup with Rice
Maurice Sendak
12Fireman Small
Wong Herbert Yee
13Mother Goose Numbers on the Loose
Leo and Diane Dillon
14Possum Come A-Knockin’
Nancy Van Laan
15This Is the House that Jack Built
Simms Taback
16There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout!
Teri Sloat
17Leo the Late Bloomer
Robert Kraus
18Sheila Rae, the Brave
Kevin Henkes
19The Empty Pot
Demi
20Too Much Noise
Ann McGovern
1A My Name is Alice
Jane Bayer
LEVEL 3A
2Each Orange Had Eight Slices: A Counting Book
Paul Giganti
3Sea Squares
Joy N. Hulme
4Bread and Jam for Frances
Russell Hoban
5Little Bear
Else Homelund Minarik
6Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
Bernard Waber
7Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Virginia Lee Burton
8Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
Arnold Lobel
9Strega Nona
Tomie dePaola
10Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
William Steig
11The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant
Jean de Brunhoff
12The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
13A Giraffe and a Half
Shel Silverstein
14Horton Hatches the Egg
Dr. Seuss
15Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present
Charlotte Zolotow
16One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale
Demi
17Six-Dinner Sid
Inga Moore
18The Salamander Room
Anne Mazer
19Umbrella
Taro Yashima
20Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Verna Aardema
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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST - Level 7A ~ Level 3AThese are books for the student to practice on his or her own. Parents should offer help when needed.
1Truck
Donald Crews
LEVEL 7A
2Pancakes for Breakfast
Tomie dePaola
3Changes, Changes
Pat Hutchins
4The Red Book
Barbara Lehman
5Free Fall
David Wiesner
6Tuesday
David Wiesner
7The Everything Book
Denise Fleming
8Do You Want to Be My Friend?
Eric Carle
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1Anno’s Counting Book
Mitsumasa Anno
LEVEL 6A
2Clown
Quentin Blake
3Orange Pear Apple Bear
Emily Gravett
4Frog Goes to Dinner
Mercer Mayer
5ABC: A Child’s First Alphabet Book
Alison Jay
6The New Alphabet of Animals
Christopher Wormell
7Alphabet City
Stephen T. Johnson
8My Very First Book of Words
Eric Carle
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1Museum ABC
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
LEVEL 5A
2Alphabatics
Suse MacDonald
3The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book
Lisa Campbell Ernst
4Alphabet Explosion! Search and Count from Alien to Zebra
John Nickle
5Yo, Yes!
Chris Raschka
6Have You Seen My Cat?
Eric Carle
7Rain
Robert Kalan
8Mice Squeak, We Speak
Arnold Shapiro
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1Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle
LEVEL 4A
2I Went Walking
Sue Williams
3It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Charles G. Shaw
4Mary Wore Her Red Dress and Henry Wore His Green Sneakers
Merle Peek
5Not a Box
Antoinette Portis
6Hattie and the Fox
Mem Fox
7Rosie’s Walk
Pat Hutchins
8In the Tall, Tall Grass
Denise Fleming
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1Here Are My Hands
Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
LEVEL 3A
2Cookie’s Week
Cindy Ward
3The Lady with the Alligator Purse
Nadine Bernard Westcott
4Freight Train
Donald Crews
5Drummer Hoff
Barbara Emberley
6We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Michael Rosen
7More Spaghetti, I Say
Rita Golden Gelman
8You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You Very Short Stories to Read Together
Mary Ann Hoberman
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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Level 2A ~ Level BII
1The Chick and the Duckling
Mirra Ginsburg
LEVEL 2A
2A Hat for Minerva Louise
Janet Morgan Stoeke
3The Easy-to-Read Little Engine that CouldWatty Piper and Walter Retan
4The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
5Jump, Frog, Jump!
Robert Kalan
6The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss
7Clifford, the Big Red Dog
Norman Bridwell
8Farmer Duck
Martin Waddell & Helen Oxenbury
9Herman the Helper
Robert Kraus
10Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle
11The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats
12The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
13If You Give a Moose a Muffin
Laura Numeroff
14The Adventures of Taxi Dog
Debra and Sal Barracca
15Here’s a Little Poem
compiled by Jane Yolen and Andrew Fusek Peters
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1little blue and little yellow
Leo Lionni
LEVEL AI
2Peter’s Chair
Ezra Jack Keats
3A Tree Is Nice
Janice May Udry
4Peanut Butter and Jelly
Nadine Bernard Westcott
5Madeline
Ludwig Bemelmans
6Arthur’s Eyes
Marc Brown
7All Kinds of Families
Norma Simon
8Curious George Flies a Kite
Margret Rey
9Little Bear’s Friend
Else Homelund Minarik
10Caps for Sale
Esphyr Slobodkina
11Henry and Mudge: The First Book
Cynthia Rylant
12Amelia Bedelia Helps Out
Peggy Parish
13Good Night, Good Knight
Shelley Moore-Thomas
14Ira Sleeps Over
Bernard Waber
15The Hat
Jan Brett
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1May I Bring A Friend?
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
LEVEL AII
2Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail
Marjorie Weiman Sharmat
3The Fire Cat
Esther Averill
4Cork and Fuzz: Short and Tall
Dori Chaconas
5Days with Frog and Toad
Arnold Lobel
6Purple, Green and Yellow
Robert Munsch
7Freckle Juice
Judy Blume
8Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
Mem Fox
9Martha Speaks
Susan Meddaugh
10The Story About Ping
Marjorie Flack & Kurt Wiese
11Blueberries for Sal
Robert McCloskey
12The Story of Ferdinand
Munro Leaf
13Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
Verna Aardema
14Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Judi Barrett
15The Magic School Bus: Inside the Earth
Joanna Cole
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1Curious George Takes a Job
H.A. Rey
LEVEL BI
2A Chair for My Mother
Vera B. Williams
3Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
4Arthur’s Pen Pal
Lillian Hoban
5The Golly Sisters Go West
Betsy Byars
6The Gardener
Sarah Stewart
7Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Dr. Seuss
8Lon Po Po
Ed Young
9There’s a Nightmare in My Closet
Mercer Mayer
10One of Each
Mary Ann Hoberman
11Corduroy
Don Freeman
12Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs
Tomie dePaola
13Doctor De Soto
William Steig
14The Mitten
Alvin Tresselt
15The Boy Who Didn’t Believe in Spring
Lucille Clifton
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1 The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo
Judy Blume
LEVEL BII
2 The Josefi na Story Quilt
Eleanor Coerr
3 The Cable Car and the Dragon
Herb Caen
4 The Little House
Virginia Lee Burton
5 The Biggest Bear
Lynd Ward
6 Aliens for Breakfast
Jonathan Etra & Stephanie Spinner
7 Paul Bunyan
Steven Kellogg
8 The Drinking Gourd
F.N. Monjo
9 The New Kid on the Block
Jack Prelutsky
10 Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl
11 Fables
Arnold Lobel
12 Snowed In with Grandmother Silk
Carol Fenner & Amanda Harvey
13 Amos & Boris
William Steig
14 The Littles
John Peterson
15 Flat Stanley, He Leads a Very Full Life!
Jeff Brown
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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Level CI ~ Level F
1Liang and the Magic Paintbrush
Demi
LEVEL CII
2My Diary from Here to There
Amada Irma Perez
3When Jessie Came Across the Sea
Amy Hest
4Maple Moon
Connie Brummel Crook & Scott Cameron
5Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express
Margaret K. Wetterer
6Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
7Frindle
Andrew Clements
8Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
Paul Fleischman
9McBroom’s Wonderful One-Acre farm
Sid Fleischman
10Cinderella
Charles Perrault
11Mr. Popper’s PenguinsRichard and Florence Atwater
12One Day in the Prairie
Jean Craighead George
13The Chalk Box Kid
Clyde Robert Bulla
14Stone Fox
John Reynolds Gardiner
15Old Mother West Wind
Thornton W. Burgess
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1Owl Moon
Jane Yolen
LEVEL CI
2The Day Gogo Went to Vote: South Africa, April 1994Eleanor Batezat Sisulu & Sharon Wilson
3Amazing Grace
Mary Hoffman
4The Snow Walker
Margaret K. & Charles M. Wetterer
5The Hundred Dresses
Eleanor Estes
6My Father’s Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett
7The Shrinking of Treehorn
Florence Parry Heide
8Action Jackson
Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan
9Star of Fear, Star of Hope
Jo Hoestlandt
10The Rough-Face Girl
Rafe Martin
11Judy Moody Gets Famous
Megan McDonald
12A New Coat for Anna
Harriet Ziefert
13Bunnicula
James Howe
14The Orchestra
Mark Rubin
15Knights in Shining Armor
Gail Gibbons
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1Jumanji
Chris Van Allsberg
LEVEL D
2The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
Paul Goble
3Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
Evaline Ness
4Many Moons
James Thurber
5Eloise
Kay Thompson
6Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Eleanor Coerr
7The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Arthur Ransome
8The Hundred Penny Box
Sharon Bell Mathis
9Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan
10The Big Wave
Pearl S. Buck
11Help! I’m a Prisoner in the Library!
Eth Clifford
12Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine
13Mama’s Bank Account
Kathryn Forbes
14Henry Reed, Inc.
Keith Robertson
15Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O’Brien
16The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster
17The Doll’s House
Rumer Godden
18The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brian Selznick
19My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
20The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
LEVEL E
2Li Lun, Lad of Courage
Carolyn Treffinger
3Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
4Old Yeller
Fred Gipson
5Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O’Dell
6James and the Giant Peach
Roald Dahl
7The Enormous Egg
Oliver Butterworth
8It’s Like This, Cat
Emily Cheney-Neville
9Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
10Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
11…and now Miguel
Joseph Krumgold
12Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way
Donald J. Sobol
13The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
14Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
15Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
16The Borrowers
Mary Norton
17Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
18Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
19By the Great Horn Spoon!
Sid Fleischman
20Tatterhood and Other Tales
Ethel Johnston Phelps
1The Princess and the Goblin
George MacDonald
LEVEL F
2Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
3The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
4Secret of the Andes
Ann Nolan Clark
5The Shakespeare Stealer
Gary Blackwood
6The House of Dies Drear
Virginia Hamilton
7A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
8Homesick: My Own Story
Jean Fritz
9Dicey’s Song
Cynthia Voigt
10Thimble Summer
Elizabeth Enright
11Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
12The Wheel on the School
Meindert DeJong
13Sounder
William H. Armstrong
14From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg
15The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
16Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh
17Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
18Strawberry Girl
Lois Lenski
19Black Ships Before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff
20Escape: The Story of the Great Houdini
Sid Fleischman
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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Level G ~ Level I
1Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson
LEVEL H
2The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
3The Pinballs
Betsy Byars
4Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
5The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
6King of the Wind
Marguerite Henry
7Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes
8Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
T.S. Eliot
9The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
10The Story of My Life
Helen Keller
11The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
12Goodnight, Mr. Tom
Michelle Magorian
13Call It Courage
Armstrong Sperry
14Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
15Daddy-Long-Legs
Jean Webster
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1A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle
LEVEL G
2Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink
3Boy
Roald Dahl
4The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
5Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
6The Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket
7I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
8Song of the Buffalo Boy
Sherry Garland
9Amos Fortune Free Man
Elizabeth Yates
10Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Jean Lee Latham
11Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
12Dragonwings
Laurence Yep
13A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
14M.C. Higgins, the Great
Virginia Hamilton
15The Other Side of Truth
Beverly Naidoo
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1The Master Puppeteer
Katherine Paterson
LEVEL I
2Ginger Pye
Eleanor Estes
3archy and mehitabel
Don Marquis
4My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
5Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Watasuki Houston & James Houston
6The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyell and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
7My Life and Hard Times
James Thurber
8Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
9Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt
10The High King
Lloyd Alexander
11The White Stag
Kate Seredy
12The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
13I, Juan de Pareja
Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
14The Hero and the Crown
Robin McKinley
15The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
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KUMON’S RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Level J ~ Level L
1A White Heron and Other Stories
Sarah Orne Jewett
LEVEL J
2To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
3Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
4The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
520,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
6Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
7Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid
8Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
9The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
10A Separate Peace
John Knowles
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1The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
John Le Carré
LEVEL K
2Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
3Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4Hamlet
William Shakespeare
5Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
6King Oedipus
Sophocles
7The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Oscar Wilde
8A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
9Night
Elie Wiesel
10Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
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1101 Great American Poems
Various authors
LEVEL L
2Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
William Blake
3The World’s Greatest Short Stories
Various authors
4The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin
5Lord of the Flies
William Golding
6The Waste Land and Other Poems
T.S. Eliot
7Macbeth
William Shakespeare
8Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
9Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
10The French Lieutenant’s Woman
John Fowles
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