KUMONS RECOMMENDED READING LIST - Level 7A ~ Level 3A

These are read-aloud books to be used by a parent when reading to the student.

LEVEL 7A LEVEL 6A LEVEL 5A LEVEL 4A LEVEL 3A

Barnyard Banter Hop on Pop Mean Soup Henny Penny A My Name is Alice
1 Denise Fleming 1 1 1 1
Dr. Seuss Betsy Everitt retold by Paul Galdone Jane Bayer

Each Peach Pear Plum
2 Janet and Allen Ahlberg
Goodnight Moon
3 Margaret Wise Brown
Here Are My Hands
4 Bill Martin Jr. and
John Archambault
Jesse Bear, What Will Each Orange Had Eight
The Doorbell Rang Alphabears: An ABC Book
2 You Wear? 2 2 2 Slices: A Counting Book
Pat Hutchins Kathleen Hague
Nancy White Carlstrom Paul Giganti Jr.
Eating the Alphabet: Fruits What do you do with a
Bat Jamboree Sea Squares
3 and Vegetables from A to Z 3 kangaroo? 3 3
Kathi Appelt Joy N. Hulme
Lois Ehlert Mercer Mayer
Black? White! Day? Night! The Icky Bug Alphabet Book Curious George Bread and Jam for Frances
4 4 4 4
Laura Vaccaro Seeger Jerry Pallotta H.A. Rey Russell Hoban

I Heard A Little Baa
5 Elizabeth MacLeod
Read Aloud Rhymes for the
6 Very Young
collected by Jack Prelutsky
Quick as a Cricket
7 Audrey Wood
Three Little Kittens
8 retold by Paul Galdone
Big Red Barn My Very First Mother Goose Make Way for Ducklings Little Bear
5 5 5 5
Margaret Wise Brown edited by Iona Opie Robert McCloskey Else Holmelund Minarik
Noisy Nora A Rainbow of My Own Millions of Cats Lyle, Lyle Crocodile
6 6 6 6
Rosemary Wells Don Freeman Wanda Gag Bernard Waber
Mike Mulligan and His Steam
Sheep in a Jeep The Listening Walk Stone Soup
7 7 7 7 Shovel
Nancy Shaw Paul Showers Marcia Brown
Virginia Lee Burton
Silly Sally The Little Red Hen The Three Billy Goats Gruff Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
8 8 8 8
Audrey Wood retold by Paul Galdone P.C. Asbjornsen and J.E. Moe Arnold Lobel

Wheres My Teddy? How Do Dinosaurs Say

The Runaway Bunny Tikki Tikki Tembo Strega Nona
9 Jez Alborough 9 Goodnight? 9 9 9
Margaret Wise Brown retold by Arlene Mosel Tomie dePaola
Jane Yolen
Sylvester and the Magic
Whose Mouse Are You? Angus and the Cat Were Going on a Bear Hunt A House is a House for Me
10 Robert Kraus 10 10 10 10 Pebble
Marjorie Flack Michael Rosen Mary Ann Hoberman
William Steig
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Chicken Soup with Rice: The Story of Babar: the Little
All the Colors of the Earth Swimmy
11 11 11 Bill Martin Jr. and 11 A Book of Months 11 Elephant
Sheila Hamanaka Leo Lionni
John Archambault Maurice Sendak Jean de Brunhoff
Animals Should Definitely
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Old Black Fly Fireman Small The Tale of Peter Rabbit
12 Not Wear Clothing 12 12 12 12
Laura Numeroff Jim Aylesworth Wong Herbert Yee Beatrix Potter
Judi Barrett
Have You Seen My Duckling? Mother Goose Numbers on
Alligators All Around One Hundred Hungry Ants A Giraffe and a Half
13 Nancy Tafuri 13 13 13 the Loose 13
Maurice Sendak Elinor J. Pinczes Shel Silverstein
Leo and Diane Dillon
Lunch Feast for 10 The ABC Bunny Possum Come A-Knockin Horton Hatches the Egg
14 Denise Fleming 14 14 14 14
Cathryn Falwell Wanda Gag Nancy Van Laan Dr. Seuss

The Carrot Seed One Was Johnny: A Counting This Is the House that Jack Mr. Rabbit and the
Harry the Dirty Dog
15 Ruth Krauss 15 Book 15 15 Built 15 Lovely Present
Gene Zion
Maurice Sendak Simms Taback Charlotte Zolotow
Kittens First Full Moon There Was an Old Lady Who One Grain of Rice:
Ten Nine Eight The Gigantic Turnip
16 Kevin Henkes 16 16 16 Swallowed a Trout! 16 A Mathematical Folktale
Molly Bang Aleksei Tolstoy
Teri Sloat Demi
The Napping House Harold and the Purple
Green Eggs and Ham Leo the Late Bloomer Six-Dinner Sid
17 Audrey Wood 17 Crayon 17 17 17
Dr. Seuss Robert Kraus Inga Moore
Crockett Johnson
On Market Street In the Tall, Tall Grass Miss Spiders Tea Party Sheila Rae, the Brave The Salamander Room
18 Arnold Lobel 18 18 18 18
Denise Fleming David Kirk Kevin Henkes Anne Mazer

Ten Black Dots Mr. Gumpys Outing Ask Mr. Bear The Empty Pot Umbrella
19 Donald Crews 19 19 19 19
John Burningham Marjorie Flack Demi Taro Yashima

Ten Terrible Dinosaurs Bringing the Rain to

Guess How Much I Love You The Treasure Too Much Noise
20 Paul Stickland 20 20 20 20 Kapiti Plain
Sam McBratney Uri Shulevitz Ann McGovern
Verna Aardema

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KUMONS RECOMMENDED READING LIST - Level 7A ~ Level 3A
These are books for the student to practice on his or her own.
Parents should offer help when needed.

LEVEL 7A LEVEL 6A LEVEL 5A LEVEL 4A LEVEL 3A

Museum ABC Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Here Are My Hands
Truck Annos Counting Book What Do You See?
1 1 1 The Metropolitan Museum 1 1 Bill Martin Jr. and
Donald Crews Mitsumasa Anno
of Art Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle John Archambault
Pancakes for Breakfast Clown Alphabatics I Went Walking Cookies Week
2 2 2 2 Sue Williams
2 Cindy Ward
Tomie dePaola Quentin Blake Suse MacDonald
The Turn-Around, The Lady with the Alligator
Changes, Changes Orange Pear Apple Bear It Looked Like Spilt Milk
3 3 3 Upside-Down Alphabet Book 3 Charles G. Shaw
3 Purse
Pat Hutchins Emily Gravett
Lisa Campbell Ernst Nadine Bernard Westcott
Alphabet Explosion! Search and Mary Wore Her Red Dress and
The Red Book Frog Goes to Dinner Freight Train
4 4 4 Count from Alien to Zebra 4 Henry Wore His Green Sneakers 4 Donald Crews
Barbara Lehman Mercer Mayer Merle Peek
John Nickle
Free Fall ABC: A Childs First Alphabet Not a Box Drummer Hoff
Yo! Yes? 5 5
5 David Wiesner 5 Book 5 Antoinette Portis Barbara Emberley
Chris Raschka
Alison Jay
Tuesday The New Alphabet of Animals Have You Seen My Cat? Hattie and the Fox Were Going on a Bear Hunt
6 6 6 6 Mem Fox
6 Michael Rosen
David Wiesner Christopher Wormell Eric Carle

The Everything Book Alphabet City Rain Rosies Walk More Spaghetti, I Say
7 7 7 7 Pat Hutchins
7 Rita Golden Gelman
Denise Fleming Stephen T. Johnson Robert Kalan
Do You Want to Be My You Read to Me, Ill Read to You:
My Very First Book of Words Mice Squeak, We Speak In the Tall, Tall Grass
8 Friend? 8 8 8 Denise Fleming
8 Very Short Stories to Read Together
Eric Carle Eric Carle Arnold Shapiro Mary Ann Hoberman

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KUMONS RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Level 2A ~ Level BII
LEVEL 2A LEVEL AI LEVEL AII LEVEL BI LEVEL BII
The One in the Middle Is the
The Chick and the Duckling little blue and little yellow May I Bring A Friend? Curious George Takes a Job
1 Mirra Ginsburg 1 1 1 1 Green Kangaroo
Leo Lionni Beatrice Schenk de Regniers H.A. Rey
Judy Blume
A Hat for Minerva Louise Nate the Great and the
Peters Chair A Chair for My Mother The Josefina Story Quilt
2 Janet Morgan Stoeke 2 2 Snowy Trail 2 2
Ezra Jack Keats Vera B. Williams Eleanor Coerr
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
The Easy-to-Read Little The Cable Car and the
Engine That Could A Tree Is Nice The Fire Cat Where the Wild Things Are
3 3 3 3 3 Dragon
Janice May Udry Esther Averill Maurice Sendak
Watty Piper and Walter Retan Herb Caen
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cork & Fuzz:
Peanut Butter and Jelly Arthurs Pen Pal The Little House
4 Eric Carle 4 4 Short and Tall 4 4
Nadine Bernard Westcott Lillian Hoban Virginia Lee Burton
Dori Chaconas
Jump, Frog, Jump! Madeline Days With Frog and Toad The Golly Sisters Go West The Biggest Bear
5 Robert Kalan 5 5 5 5
Ludwig Bemelmans Arnold Lobel Betsy Byars Lynd Ward

The Cat in the Hat Aliens for Breakfast

Arthurs Eyes Purple, Green and Yellow The Gardener
6 Dr. Seuss 6 6 6 6 Jonathan Etra and
Marc Brown Robert Munsch Sarah Stewart
Stephanie Spinner
Clifford the Big Red Dog All Kinds of Families Freckle Juice Oh, the Places Youll Go! Paul Bunyan
7 Norman Bridwell 7 7 7 7
Norma Simon Judy Blume Dr. Seuss Steven Kellogg

Farmer Duck Wilfrid Gordon McDonald

Curious George Flies a Kite Lon Po Po The Drinking Gourd
8 Martin Waddell 8 8 Partridge 8 8
Margret Rey Ed Young F.N. Monjo
Mem Fox
Herman the Helper Theres a Nightmare in My
Little Bears Friend Martha Speaks The New Kid on the Block
9 Robert Kraus 9 9 9 Closet 9
Else Holmelund Minarik Susan Meddaugh Jack Prelutsky
Mercer Mayer
Baby Bear, Baby Bear,
What Do You See? Caps for Sale The Story About Ping One of Each Fantastic Mr. Fox
10 10 10 Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese 10 10
Bill Martin Jr. Esphyr Slobodkina Mary Ann Hoberman Roald Dahl

The Snowy Day Henry and Mudge: The First

Blueberries for Sal Corduroy Fables
11 Ezra Jack Keats 11 Book 11 11 11
Robert McCloskey Don Freeman Arnold Lobel
Cynthia Rylant
The Giving Tree Nana Upstairs & Nana Snowed In with
Amelia Bedelia Helps Out The Story of Ferdinand
12 Shel Silverstein 12 12 12 Downstairs 12 Grandmother Silk
Peggy Parish Munro Leaf
Tomie dePaola Carol Fenner
If You Give a Moose a Muffin Why Mosquitoes Buzz in
Good Night, Good Knight Doctor De Soto Amos & Boris
13 Laura Numeroff 13 13 Peoples Ears 13 13
Shelley Moore Thomas William Steig William Steig
Verna Aardema
The Adventures of Taxi Dog Cloudy With a Chance of
Ira Sleeps Over The Mitten The Littles
14 Debra and Sal Barracca 14 14 Meatballs 14 14
Bernard Waber Alvin Tresselt John Peterson
Judi Barrett
Heres a Little Poem The Magic School Bus: The Boy Who Didnt Believe Flat Stanley: His Original
The Hat
15 compiled by Jane Yolen and 15 15 Inside the Earth 15 in Spring 15 Adventure
Andrew Fusek Peters Jan Brett
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen Lucille Clifton Jeff Brown

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KUMONS RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Level CI ~ Level F
LEVEL CI LEVEL CII LEVEL D LEVEL E LEVEL F
Owl Moon Liang and the Magic
Jumanji The Wizard of Oz The Princess and the Goblin
1 Jane Yolen 1 Paintbrush 1 1 1
Chris Van Allsburg L. Frank Baum George MacDonald
Demi
The Day Gogo Went to Vote: The Girl Who Loved Wild
My Diary from Here to There Li Lun, Lad of Courage Alice in Wonderland
2 South Africa, April 1994 2 2 Horses 2 2
Eleanor Batezat Sisulu Amada Irma Prez Carolyn Treffinger Lewis Carroll
Paul Goble
Amazing Grace When Jessie Came Across
Sam, Bangs & Moonshine Black Beauty The Red Pony
3 Mary Hoffman 3 the Sea 3 3 3
Evaline Ness Anna Sewell John Steinbeck
Amy Hest
The Snow Walker Maple Moon
Many Moons Old Yeller Secret of the Andes
4 Margaret K. and Charles M. 4 Connie Brummel Crook & 4 4 4
Wetterer James Thurber Fred Gipson Ann Nolan Clark
Scott Cameron
The Hundred Dresses Kate Shelley and the
Eloise Island of the Blue Dolphins The Shakespeare Stealer
5 Eleanor Estes 5 Midnight Express 5 5 5
Kay Thompson Scott ODell Gary Blackwood
Margaret K. Wetterer
My Fathers Dragon Sadako and the Thousand
Charlottes Web James and the Giant Peach The House of Dies Drear
6 Ruth Stiles Gannett 6 6 Paper Cranes 6 6
E.B. White Roald Dahl Virginia Hamilton
Eleanor Coerr
The Shrinking of Treehorn The Fool of the World and
Frindle The Enormous Egg A Wizard of Earthsea
7 Florence Parry Heide 7 7 the Flying Ship 7 7
Andrew Clements Oliver Butterworth Ursula K. Le Guin
Arthur Ransome
Action Jackson Joyful Noise: Poems for Two
The Hundred Penny Box Its Like This, Cat Homesick: My Own Story
8 Jan Greenberg and 8 Voices 8 8 8
Sandra Jordan Sharon Bell Mathis Emily Cheney Neville Jean Fritz
Paul Fleischman
Star of Fear, Star of Hope McBrooms Wonderful Charlie and the Chocolate
Sarah, Plain and Tall Diceys Song
9 Jo Hoestlandt 9 One-Acre Farm 9 9 Factory 9
Patricia MacLachlan Cynthia Voigt
Sid Fleischman Roald Dahl
The Rough-Face Girl Cinderella The Big Wave Pippi Longstocking Thimble Summer
10 Rafe Martin 10 10 10 10
Charles Perrault Pearl S. Buck Astrid Lindgren Elizabeth Enright

Judy Moody Gets Famous Help! Im a Prisoner in the

11
Mr. Poppers Penguins and now Miguel Bud, Not Buddy
Megan McDonald 11 Richard and Florence Atwater
11 Library! 11 11
Joseph Krumgold Christopher Paul Curtis
Eth Clifford
A New Coat for Anna One Day in the Prairie Ella Enchanted Encyclopedia Brown Shows
12 The Wheel on the School
Harriet Ziefert 12 Jean Craighead George
12 Gail Carson Levine 12 the Way 12 Meindert DeJong
Donald J. Sobol
Bunnicula The Chalk Box Kid Mamas Bank Account The Lion, the Witch and the
13 Sounder
Deborah and James Howe 13 Clyde Robert Bulla
13 Kathryn Forbes 13 Wardrobe 13 William H. Armstrong
C.S. Lewis
The Orchestra Stone Fox Henry Reed, Inc. From the Mixed-up Files of
14 Walk Two Moons
Mark Rubin 14 John Reynolds Gardiner
14 Keith Robertson 14 14 Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Sharon Creech
E.L. Konigsburg
Knights in Shining Armor Mrs. Frisby and the Rats
Old Mother West Wind Maniac Magee The Wind in the Willows
15 Gail Gibbons 15 15 of NIMH 15 15
Thornton W. Burgess Jerry Spinelli Kenneth Grahame
Robert C. OBrien
The Phantom Tollbooth The Borrowers Harriet the Spy
16 Norton Juster 16 16
Mary Norton Louise Fitzhugh

The Dolls House Bridge to Terabithia Number the Stars

17 Rumer Godden 17 17
Katherine Paterson Lois Lowry
The Invention of
Tuck Everlasting Strawberry Girl
18 Hugo Cabret 18 18
Natalie Babbitt Lois Lenski
Brian Selznick
My Side of the Mountain By the Great Horn Spoon! Black Ships Before Troy
19 Jean Craighead George 19 19
Sid Fleischman Rosemary Sutcliff

The Little Prince Escape: The Story of the

Tatterhood and Other Tales
20 Antoine de Saint-Exupry 20 20 Great Houdini
Ethel Johnston Phelps
Sid Fleischman

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KUMONS RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Level G ~ Level I
LEVEL G LEVEL H LEVEL I
A Wrinkle in Time Jacob Have I Loved
1 Madeleine LEngle 1 1 Fahrenheit 451
Katherine Paterson
Ray Bradbury
Caddie Woodlawn The Secret Garden Code Talker
2 Carol Ryrie Brink 2 2
Frances Hodgson Burnett Joseph Bruchac

Boy The Hobbit The Time Machine

3 Roald Dahl 3 3
J.R.R. Tolkien H.G. Wells

The Yearling Kidnapped The Color of Magic

4 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 4 4
Robert Louis Stevenson Terry Pratchett

Julie of the Wolves The Old Man and the Sea Watership Down
5 Jean Craighead George 5 5
Ernest Hemingway Richard Adams

The Giver King of the Wind Jane Eyre

6 Lois Lowry 6 6
Marguerite Henry Charlotte Bront

I, Robot Fever, 1793 The Beekeepers Apprentice

7 Isaac Asimov 7 7
Laurie Halse Anderson Laurie R. King

Song of the Buffalo Boy The Hound of the

Cry, the Beloved Country
8 Sherry Garland 8 8 Baskervilles
Alan Paton
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Amos Fortune: Free Man The Extraordinary
David Copperfield
9 Elizabeth Yates 9 Adventures of Arsne Lupin 9 Charles Dickens
Maurice Leblanc
The Adventures of
The Story of My Life Frankenstein
10 Tom Sawyer 10 10
Mark Twain Helen Keller Mary Shelley

The Diary of a Young Girl So Much to Tell You To Kill a Mockingbird

11 Anne Frank 11 11
John Marsden Harper Lee
The Race to Save the Around the World in
archy and mehitabel
12 Lord God Bird 12 Eighty Days 12
Phillip Hoose Don Marquis
Jules Verne
A Christmas Carol Shipwreck at the
I, Juan de Pareja
13 Charles Dickens 13 Bottom of the World 13 Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Jennifer Armstrong
Chinese Cinderella Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Across Five Aprils
14 Adeline Yen Mah 14 14
Mildred D. Taylor Irene Hunt

The Other Side of Truth Farewell to Manzanar

Daddy-Long-Legs
15 Beverley Naidoo 15 15 Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Jean Webster
& James D. Houston

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KUMONS RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Level J ~ Level L
LEVEL J
A White Heron and Other
1 Stories
Sarah Orne Jewett
My Family and Other Animals
2 Gerald Durrell
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
3 Thornton Wilder
The Strange Case of
4 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
20,000 Leagues Under
5 the Sea
Jules Verne
Go Tell It on the Mountain
6 James Baldwin
Annie John
7 Jamaica Kincaid
Pride and Prejudice
8 Jane Austen
The Adventures of
9 Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
A Separate Peace
10 John Knowles
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LEVEL K LEVEL L
The Spy Who Came In from
101 Great American Poems
1 the Cold 1 Various authors
John Le Carr
Great Tales and Poems of Songs of Innocence and
2 Edgar Allan Poe 2 Songs of Experience
Edgar Allan Poe William Blake
Lyrical Ballads The Worlds Greatest Short
3 William Wordsworth and 3 Stories
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Various authors
The Awakening and Selected
Hamlet
4 4 Stories of Kate Chopin
William Shakespeare
Kate Chopin
Ethan Frome Lord of the Flies
5 5
Edith Wharton William Golding
The Waste Land
King Oedipus
6 6 and Other Poems
Sophocles
T.S. Eliot
The Importance of Being
Macbeth
7 Earnest and Other Plays 7 William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
A Midsummer Nights Dream Uncle Toms Cabin
8 8
William Shakespeare Harriet Beecher Stowe
Night Death of a Salesman
9 Elie Wiesel
9 Arthur Miller
The French Lieutenants
Brave New World
10 10 Woman
Aldous Huxley
John Fowles