Stories by Grade

Stories in the Program by Grade

1st Grade

The Black Hen's Egg French folktale as told by Natalie Savage Carlson
The Mouse and the Wizard Hindu fable as told by Lucia Turnbull
"Imagination" Poetry by Leslie Norris, Mark Van Doren, and Robert Louis Stevenson
Rumpelstiltskin Brothers Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim
Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents A. A. Milne
"When I Grow Up" Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore and X. J. Kennedy, and a Chippewa song
The King of the Frogs African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs Brothers Grimm, translated by Randall Jarrell
"Mysterious Animals" Poetry by T. S. Eliot, Jenifer Kelly, and Robert Graves

 2nd Grade

The Happy Lion Louise Fatio
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin Beatrix Potter
How the Camel Got His Hump Rudyard Kipling
Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath A. A. Milne
Arap Sang and the Cranes African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman
Blue Moose Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Anancy and Dog and Puss and Friendship West Indian folktale as told by James Berry
Jack and the Beanstalk English folktale as told by Joseph Jacobs
The Magic Listening Cap Japanese folktale as told by Yoshiko Uchida
The Jackal and the Partridge Punjabi folktale as told by Flora Annie Steel
Nail Soup Swedish folktale as told by Linda Rahm
The Apple of Contentment Howard Pyle

3rd Grade

The Banza Haitian folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein
The Man Whose Trade Was Tricks Georgian folktale as told by George and Helen     Papashvily
The Fisherman and His Wife Brothers Grimm
Ooka and the Honest Thief Japanese folktale as told by I. G. Edmonds
It's All the Fault of Adam Nigerian folktale as told by Barbara Walker
The Monster Who Grew Small Joan Grant
The Selkie Girl Scottish folktale as told by Susan Cooper
The Mushroom Man Ethel Pochocki
The Princess and the Beggar Korean folktale as told by Anne Sibley O'Brien
The Fire on the Mountain Ethiopian foltktale as told by Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau

4th Grade

Thank You, M'am Langston Hughes
The Gold Coin Alma Flor Ada
Tuesday of the Other June Norma Fox Mazer
Prot and Krot Polish folktale as told by Agnes Szudek
Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat Jennifer Armstrong
The Nightingale Hans Christian Anderson
Fresh Philippa Pearce
Thunder, Elephant, and Dorobo African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman
All Summer in a Day Ray Bradbury
Beauty and the Beast Madame de Villeneuve

5th Grade

The No-Guitar Blues Gary Soto
Kaddo'S Wall West African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog
Turquoise Horse Gerald Hausman
A Game of Catch Richard Kennedy
Oliver Hyde's Dishcloth Concert Richard Kennedy
The Hundred-Dollar Bill Rose Wilder Lane
The Invisible Child Tove Jansson
In the Time of the Drums Gullah folktale as told by Kim L. Siegelson
Learning the Game Francisco Jimenez
The Bat-Poet Randall Jarrell

6th Grade

Through the Tunnel Doris Lessing
Raymond's Run Toni Cade Bambara
My Greatest Ambition Morris Lurie
A Likely Place Paula Fox
The Mysteries of the Cabala Isaac Bashevis Singer
Bad Characters Jean Stafford
Chura and Marwe African folktale as told by Humphrey Harmon
Superstitions Mary La Chapelle
The Last Great Snake Mary Q. Steele
Gaston William Saroyan
Soumchi Amos Oz

7th Grade

Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I Just Kept On Smiling Simon Burt
At Her Father's and Her Mother's Place Natalya Baranskaya
The White Circle John Bell Clayton
The Zodiacs Jay Neugeboren
End of the Game Julio Cortázar
The Cat and the Coffee Drinkers Max Steele
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (selection)
The Secret Lion Alberto Alvaro Rios
Day of the Butterfly Alice Munro
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens

8th Grade

Sucker Carson McCullers
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse William Saroyan
Rules of the Game (from The Joy Luck Club) Amy Tan
The Destructors Graham Greene
The Watch Ivan Turgenev
Approximations Mona Simpson
The Griffin and the Minor Canon Frank R. Stockton
Star Food Ethan Canin
Winter (from The Winter Room) Gary Paulsen
High School Graduation (from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) Maya Angelou
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (selection) Mark Twain