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Authors You Should Read by..... List of authors that students should read by certain ages...as suggested from the collective and eclectic librarians in the Shanghai Librarians Group

**Elementary/Primary (grade 1-4?)**
By the end of Elementary or Primary school, students should have at least 1 book by the following authors... Barbara Boyer, Shanghai American School-Pudong, from USA Eric Carle Audrey Wood- The Napping House Lois Ehlert- Growing Vegetable Soup Denise Fleming- In the Small Pond Patricia Polacco- Thank you, Mr. Falker and Thundercakes Chris Van Allsburg- Jumanji and The Stranger Eve Bunting- Fly Away Home Jan Brett- The Mitten Laurent de Brunhoff- Babar Comes to America Kevin Henkes- Chrysanthemum Cynthia Rylant- Henry and Mudgle or The Relatives Came David Wiesner- Tuesday or Flotsam Rosemary Wells- Max and Ruby Laura Ingalls Wilder-Little House on the Prairie Gertrude Chandler Warner- The Boxcar Children Carolyn Keene or Franklin Dixon-Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys Bill Martin, Jr.- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Steven Kellog Robert San Souci- PD Eastman Mo Willems

**Middle School (grade 5-8?)**
By the end of middle school.... Lewis Carroll-Through the looking Glass Avi-True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Katherine Patterson-Bridge to Terabithia Louisa May Alcott-Little Women or Little Men Lucy Maude Montgomery-Anne of Green Gables or Emily of New Moon Susan Cooper-Dark is Rising series Madeleine L'engle-Wrinkle in Time
 * All Newbery Award winners would be a great goal

Upper School (grade 9-12)
The knife that killed me watch this space....