Books Used in the Berlin Curriculum

This is the list of books used in classrooms of the Berlin Public Schools for instructional purposes.  Teachers, please review the list and DO NOT read aloud or instruct from a book that is used in a grade level ABOVE yours.  Thank you.

 

GRADE LEVEL BOOKS USED FOR INSTRUCTION  

(Note: You will find a book listed under "A" or "The" when appropriate.)

 

Grade 4

 

Africa

 

Ali Baba Bernstain Lost & Found

 

Annie and the Old One

 

Antarctica

 

Asia

 

Australia

 

Battle for the Castle

 

Boy of the Three Year Nap

 

Cam Jansen & the Mystery of the TV Dog

 

Castle in the Attic

 

Caves

 

Charlotte's Web

 

Chasing After Annie

 

Child of the Sun

 

Chocolate Touch

 

Daily Life on Ellis Island

 

Dear Austin

 

Dear Levi

 

Dinosaur Hunters

 

Drinking Gourd

 

Encyclopedia Brown: Case of the Roller Skates

 

Europe

 

Farmer Boy

 

Farmer Schulz's Ducks

 

Flat Stanley

 

Helen Keller

 

Helen Keller: In Their Own Words

 

Icebergs

 

If You Lived in the Days of the Knights

 

If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon

 

If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island

 

Indian in the Cupboard

 

Jumangi

 

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World

 

Kate's Book

 

Knight at Dawn

 

Knights of the Round Table

 

Life and Words of Martin Luther King

 

Life on a Southern Plantation

 

Life on the Oregon Trail

 

Little House on the Prairie

 

Long Way to a New Land

 

Louis Braille

 

Magic Amber

 

Magic School Bus in the Time of Dinosaurs

 

Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane

 

Magic School Bus Inside the Earth

 

Making Room for Uncle Joe

 

Marian Anderson

 

Meg Mackintosh and the Case of the Missing Ball

 

My Teacher is an Alien

 

Mysterious Girl in the Garden

 

Next Stop New York City

 

North America

 

On the Banks of Plum Creek

 

One Day on the Prairie

 

Paddington Turns Detective

 

Picture Book of Harriet Tubman

 

Pioneer Cat

 

Pippi Longstocking

 

Pochahontas and the Stranger

 

Prince of the Stable

 

Sign in Mendel's Window

 

South America

 

Story of Harriet Tubman

 

Strange Creatures that Rally Lived

 

Take Me Out to the Airfield

 

Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing

 

Talk Talk

 

Teacher's Pet

 

The Great Brain

 

The Lion and the Stoat

 

The Llama's Secret

 

The Midwest

 

The Most Beautiful Place in the World

 

The Northeast

 

The Ostrich Chase

 

The Secret Moose

 

The Shrinking of Treehorn

 

The Southwest

 

The West

 

Thomas Alva Edison

 

Trouble for Lucy

 

Tyrannosaurus

 

Volcanoes

 

Walt Disney - Maker of Magical Worlds

 

Walt Disney - Master of Make-Believe

 

We Will Never Forget You Roberto Clemente

 

Why Possum is Gray

 

Wild and Woolly Mammoths

 

Young Guinevere

 

 

GRADE 5

 

A Lion to Guard Us

 

A View from Saturday Night

 

Andy Bear: A Polar Cub Grows up at the Zoo

 

Ben and Me

 

BFG

 

Blue or Gray

 

By Secret Railway

 

Cabin Faced West

 

Call it Courage

 

Captain Grey

 

Christopher Columbus

 

Colonial Life

 

Dicey's Song

 

Fever

 

Fly Away Free

 

Forming a New Nation 1756-1796

 

Freedom Train: Story of Harriet Tubman

 

Fudge-a-mania

 

George

 

Ghost of the Lagoon

 

Her Seven Brothers

 

Homer Price - The Doughnuts

 

Humans on Mars?  Where Will the US

 

Island of the Blue Dolphins

 

Journey

 

Julie of the Wolves

 

Life on the Underground Railroad

 

Maniac Magee

 

Mars

 

McBroom Tells the Truth

 

Men Who Won the West

 

Night Journeys

 

Number the Stars

 

Pedro's Journal

 

Philip Hall Likes Me - Pretty Pennies

 

Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

 

Red Dog

 

Saving the Peregrine Falcon

 

Secret Mosse

 

Sign of the Beaver

 

Sounder

 

Space Challenger - Guion Bluford

 

Sterling: The Rescue of a Baby Harb

 

Stuart Little

 

The Blossoms Meet the Vulture

 

The Boy with One Red Shoe

 

The Dollhouse Murders

 

The Emir's Son

 

The Hey, Hey Man

 

The Kid in the Red Jacket

 

The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

 

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

 

The Peregrine Falcon

 

The River

 

The Scarebird

 

The Spirit of a New Nation

 

The Streets Are Free

 

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

 

The Weaving of a Dream

 

The Whipping Boy

 

The Wish Giver

 

There's an Owl in the Shower

 

To Space & Back

 

Trouble River

 

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

 

Tuck Everlasting

 

Vassilisa The Wise

 

Volcano Disaster

 

Where's Buddy?

 

Why Save the Rain Forest

 

Witch of Blackbird Pond

 

Woodsong

 

 

Grade 6

 

A Wrinkle in Time

 

Abraham Lincoln; A Photobiography

 

Blue Creek Farm

 

Bridge to Terabithia

 

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

  From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

 

Hatchet

 

Holes

 

Inbetween Days

 

Is Anybody There?

 

It's Not the End of the World

 

Jacob's Rescue

 

Julie of the Wolves

 

My Name is Brain Brian

 

On My Honor

 

Pinballs

 

Quake

 

Rock River

 

Summer of the Monkeys

 

The Cay