Kid-Lit - Quick List Ages 6 to 8

Title	Author	Synopsis	Appeals to	Reading Level	Kid-Lit Stars
Mr. Popper's Penguins	Atwater, Richard & Florence	Mr. Popper turns his 12 pet penguins into a vaudeville act.	Boys and Girls	06
Fire Cat, The	Averill, Esther	A stray cat finds an important job.	Boys and Girls	02
Flat Stanley	Brown, Jeff	The adventures of Stanley who became flat after a bulletin board fell on him. Series.	Boys and Girls	03
Goose Dinner	Bunting, Eve	Goose is a nuisance on the farm until a raccoon threatens the family's chickens.	Boys and Girls	03
Josefina Quilt Story, The	Coerr, Eleanor	Faith brings her pet hen, Josefina, with the family when they travel to California by covered wagon.	Girls	02
Bears on Hemlock Mountain	Dalgliesh, Alice	A young boy must travel alone over Hemlock Mountain despite the stories of bears living there.	Boys and Girls	03
Hundred Dresses, The	Estes, Eleanor	A poor girl who wears the same dress to school everyday is ridiculed by her classmates for claiming she has 100 dresses at home.	Girls	03
My Father's Dragon	Gannett, Ruth S.	The story of Elmer Elevator's quest to free the baby dragon. Series.	Boys and Girls	04
This is the House Where Jack Lives	Heilbroner, Joan	The story of the misadventures in the house where Jack lives.	Boys and Girls	01
Fat Cat Sat on the Mat, The	Karlin, Nurit	A story in rhymes about a cat, a rat and a mat.	Boys and Girls	01
Horrible Harry and the Drop of Doom	Kline, Suzy	Classroom stories from the 2nd grade. Series.	Boys	02
Betsy and Tacy	Lovelace, Maud Hart	The beginning of a life long friendship between two girls. Series.	Girls	03
Buster Loves Buttons	Manushkin, Fran	Buster is a "button glutton". When he steals Kippy's dog's buttons, Kippy tries to get them back.	Boys and Girls	03
Drinking Gourd	Monjo, F.N.	The story of how a white family helps a family of runaway slaves make their escape on the underground railroad.	Boys and Girls	02
Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business	Park, Barbara	The many antics of a kindergarten girl. Series.	Girls	02
Henry and Mudge in the Sparkle Days	Rylant, Cynthia	Henry and his big dog Mudge enjoy the wintertime. Series.	Boys and Girls	03
Cricket in Times Square	Selden, Georege	Chester the cricket winds up in a newsstand in New York City. He develops several new friendships there. Series.	Boys and Girls	03
Caps for Sale	Slobodkina, Esphyr	The story of a cap salesman and a treeful of monkeys.	Boys and Girls	03
Charlotte's Web	White, E.B.	Wilbur the pig develops a close relationship with Charlotte, a spider. They help each other in special ways.	Boys and Girls	03
Trumpet of the Swan, The	White, E.B.	Louis, a swan, was born without a voice. This is the story of how Louis found a "voice" and what he did with it.	Boys and Girls	03
Morris the Moose	Wiseman, B.	Lovable, goofy Morris has an identity crisis.	Boys and Girls	01