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English Reading Diploma grades 1-2
English Reading Diploma grades 1-2
This HelMet English Reading Diploma is for 1-2 grade students.
When you have read ten (10) books, you get a diploma. You can select books from this list or select books that are interesting to
you that are not found on this list. Ask your teacher if books not on the list can be used for the Reading Diploma. You can also ask a
librarian for ideas.
You can also read audiobooks and e-books.
When you have completed the Reading Diploma you can then complete a bonus diploma by reading ten (10) different books. Ask
for help from your teacher and or a librarian. The Reading Diploma should be completed before the end of April.
Table of contents
Poetry, Fairy tales and Comic Books • Picture books • Easy readers • Children's fiction • Nonfiction
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Poetry, Fairy tales and Comic Books
Billy and the Minpins When pigs fly
Billy's mum says he must never go out Will the Angry birds win against the pigs?
through the garden gate and explore the
dark forest beyond. So, one day, that's
exactly what he does!
Coelho, Joseph Dahl, Roald
Poems aloud The enormous crocodile
There are tongue twisters, poems to The Enormous Crocodile is a horrid
project, poems to whisper, poems to greedy grumptious brute who loves to
make you laugh. There are poems to guzzle up little boys and girls. But the
perform to a whole class and others to other animals have had enough of his
whisper in somebody's ear. cunning tricks, so they scheme to get the
better of this foul fiend, once and for all!
Dahl, Roald Donaldson, Julia
Revolting rhymes Shuffle and squelch : poems
and rhymes for children
This book is filled with revolting rhymes!
A wonderful rhyme book full of action
and noise!
Duffy, Carol Ann Fine, Anne
Queen Munch and Queen Under a silver moon
Nibble
In a hot, faraway land, two baby boys are
Queen Munch loves delicious cakes and born under the same silver moon:
hefty breakfasts, while Queen Nibble Haroun, the son of the sultan, and Akil,
prefers making necklaces out of the son of the gardener.
raindrops. What will happen when
Queen Munch invites Queen Nibble for a
visit?
Greig, Louise Jansson, Tove
The bear who did Stories from Moominvalley
Where is the bear who did? There are Anything can happen in Moominvalley!
some consequences to that...
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Jeffers, Oliver Lloyd, Sam
The fate of Fausto : a painted First day at Bug School
fable
Welcome to Bug School! There you can
There was once a man who believed he learn all you need to know about being a
owned everything and set out to survey bug.
what was his. ""You are mine,"" Fausto
said to the flower, the sheep and the
mountain, and they bowed before him.
Naidoo, Beverley Pearson, Luke
Who is King? : ten magical Hildafolk
stories from Africa
What will happen when Hilda spends the
This book has African fairy tales, for night in a tent?
example one story tells how elephants
got their trunks.
Rissanen, Riikka Saint-Exupery, Antoine De
Green tights -18 funny rhymes The Little Prince
Green Tights is a playful rhyme and Meet the Little Prince, a young fellow
word-gymnastics book for young and who hails from a tiny, distant planet. He
older schoolchildren and all wordniks loves to watch sunsets and look after his
who take an interest in English. The flower, to ask questions and to laugh.
colourful illustrations contain terms in And now here he is on Earth, appearing
both English and Finnish. out of nowhere in the middle of the
desert, looking for a friend.
Simonson, Louise Stevens, Roger
How the camel got his hump : Apes to Zebras: An A-Z of
the graphic novel Shape Poems
Find out how camel got his hump This beautiful book features a full
according to Rudyard Kipling. alphabet of shape poems of different
animals, birds, and insects.
Underwood, Deborah
Interstellar Cinderella
Once upon a planetoid, amid her tools
and sprockets, a girl named Cinderella
dreamed of fixing fancy rockets. With a
little help from her fairy godrobot,
Cinderella is going to the ball.
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Picture books
, Ladybird
In a minute Little people, big dreams series
What can you do in a minute? This series explores the lives of
outstanding people who all began life as
children with a dream.
Bishop, Poppy Bright, Rachel
Bear's House of Books The Way Home for Wolf
Rabbit loves adventure stories, Wilf is as strong and independent as a
Hedgehog adores happy endings, and wolf cub can be. He doesn't need help
Mouse and Fox enjoy reading together. from his friends and family - whatever it
So when the friends discover a is, he can do it all by himself.
mysterious house full of books, it's a
dream come true!
Brill, Calista Brown, Peter
The Secret garden My teacher is a monster! : (no,
I Am Not)
The classic story is retold and beautifully
illustrated! Open the door to a world of Are all monsters what they seem?
wonder and enter the secret garden...
Easton, Grace Ferry, Beth
Cannonball Coralie and the Swashby and the Sea
Lion
Captain Swashby loves the sea, his oldest
Coralie longs to join the circus - but the friend. And he loves his life by the sea
Man in the Big Hat says her tricks just just as it is: salty and sandy and
aren't good enough. With the help of her serene.One day, much to Swashby's
new friend, Lion, Coralie realises she's chagrin, a young girl and her granny
perfect just the way she is. commandeer the empty house next
door. All Swashby wants is for his new
neighbors to GO AWAY and take their
ruckus with them.
Havukainen, Aino John, Jory
This is Finland The Bad Seed
Tatu and Patu’s guide contains hard facts This is a book about a bad seed. A
couched in hilarious form. Those wacky baaaaaaaaaad seed. How bad? Do you
Oddville brothers Tatu and Patu do not really want to know?
leave a stone, a sauna, or even a Santa
unturned in their quest to get to the
bottom of Finland, its history, its wild
natural landscape, or even its quirky
inhabitants.
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Kemp, Anna King-Chai, Sharon
The worst princess Starbird
A princess story with a twist. Starbird's songs weave the richest
dreams and delight all who hear him, but
when the Moon King traps him in a cage,
the colour and life in his voice begin to
drip away. What follows is a story with
the feel of a timeless myth, with the
message that that captivity dims even
the brightest star.
Klassen, Jon Kowalczuk, Brayden
I Want My Hat Back The mole and the hole
This hilarious book tells the story of a Mole is stuck inside his hole. Every day
bear who's hat has gone. And he wants it he tries to leave, and every day the rocks
back. block his way. Mole can't understand it.
After all, he's never been any trouble to
anyone. Has he?
Leonard, M.G. Litchfield, David
The tale of a toothbrush The bear and the piano
Children use their toothbrush each What happens when the bear learns to
morning and evening, and get new ones play the piano?
every few months.That's billions of
toothbrushes! What happens to them all
when they're no longer needed?
McCardie, Amanda Smith, Alex T.
A book of feelings Little Red and the very hungry
lion
Feelings. We all have them, all the time.
This book is about them. What if Little Red Riding Hood lived in
Africa?
Sperring, Mark Yoshitake, Shinsuke
The astro naughty naughty It might be an apple
baddies
It might be an apple, but if it’s not? What
The Naughty Naughty Baddies are else could it be?
wickedly wicked, awfully awful and
diabolically dreadful, and they have just
come up with a mischievous plan to blast
off to the moon and to stitch up the
President.
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Easy readers
Reading champion series Usborne first reading series
Exciting stories and beautiful artwork. An exciting series of for children who are
just starting to learn to read.
Little Gems series Read it yourself
Fun, colorful pictures and easy to read Reading these Ladybird's books is fun.
books.
Green Bananas series Blue bananas series
Three easy and fun stories in each book Blue Bananas are exciting short stories
to learn reading. for beginner readers that bridge the gap
between picture books and fiction.
Red bananas series Early Reader series
Red Bananas helps students progress Early Readers are fun stories that help
from the first stages of fluent reading to starting readers go from picture books to
the demands of a chapter book. reading books.
Faruqi, Saadia Cobb, Amelia
Yasmin series Zoe's Rescue Zoo series
Yasmin is a spirited second-grader who's Zoe lives at her uncle’s rescue zoo that
always on the lookout for those "aha" takes care of lost and homeless animals.
moments to help her solve life's little But Zoe also has a secret: she can
problems. understand what animals say and talk to
them!
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Davies, Jacqueline Donaldson, Julia
Sydney and Taylor Explore the Swallows and spiders : two
Whole Wide World stories in one
Sydney is a skunk and Taylor is a Two delightful animal tales that are just
hedgehog, but no matter how odd the right for young readers.
pairing may seem, their friendship comes
naturally.
Fine, Anne Gallo, Tina
Gnomes Gnomes Gnomes! Batman Has a Plan
Sam loves making gnomes out of clay. Batman Has a Plan was written for
When Sam's mum says the gnomes will children who have learned the alphabet
have to go, he plans a send-off for his and are ready to start reading!
clay friends.
Hargreaves, Roger Hart, Caryl
Reading Ladder series The Beast of Bramble Woods
Level 1 Reading Ladder titles are perfect Nell and Freddie go camping and have
for new readers who are beginning to the best time ever! But the Beast of
read simple stories with help. Bramble Woods wants to join in the
fun...
Jenner, Caryn Meadows, Daisy
Dorling Kindersley readers Rainbow magic series
Fiction and nonfiction titles from DK for These fairy books are divided to smaller
early and emerging readers. book series. You can read any book from
this series.
Philpott, Ellen Stock, Lisa
Read it yourself with Ladybird Battle for Naboo
A renowned series featuring non-fiction A reading book based on the climatic
as well as modern and traditional stories. battle of Naboo from ""Star Wars
Designed so that children can read them Episode 1"". Learn about the characters
for themselves, the stories are carefully and their weapons and vehicles.
graded into five reading levels.
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Webb, Holly Woodfine, Katherine
Animal Stories series Sophie Takes to the Sky
These beautifully illustrated stories Scaredy-Cat Sophie is afraid of
introduce a host of lost and lonely everything! So when a balloonist comes
puppies and kittens. These books are to the town fair, Sophie is left behind
guaranteed to melt your heart! while everyone else goes to watch him
fly in his marvellous balloon.
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Children's fiction
Atinuke Bird, Pip
Too Small Tola Super Cute series
Three delightful stories about Too Small Prepare to enter a whole world of cute!
Tola, a young girl who, though small, is Pip Bird's laugh-out-loud, heart-warming
very determined. stories celebrate the differences in us all.
Colfer, Eoin Corderoy, Tracey
Anna Liza and the happy Willow Valley series
practice
Perfect for children who are just starting
Anna Liza likes to cheer up her mother's to read alone. Willow Valley is a very
psychiatric patients. special place. Nestled in a hidden valley,
trees of all shapes and sizes grew on the
rolling green hills and pretty flowers
dance in the meadows.
Davidson, Zanna Gough, Julian
Billy and the Mini Monsters Rabbit and Bear series
series
This is a brilliantly funny series of a rabbit
Billy is an ordinary boy until one night he and a bear who discover that things are
finds five mini monsters living in his sock always better when they're shared with a
drawer. friend. Ideal for readers moving on from
picture books.
Hale, Shannon Harrison, Paula
The princess in black The secret rescuers series
When trouble raises its blue monster Can Sophy and the other children
head, Princess Magnolia becomes the manage to keep their rescued baby
Princess in Black! dragons and other mythical animals
secret?
Harrison, Paula McCall Smith, Alexander
Kitty series Freddie Mole, lion tamer
Kitty is a superhero-in-training with Freddie is an ordinary boy who joins the
feline superpowers. She dreams of being circus one day. He can't believe his luck
like her superhero mum one day, but as he is asked to understudy some of the
she's still got a lot to learn. acts. But is he brave enough to go into
the lions' cage?
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Magic Animal Friends series Mimi and the mountain
dragon
In this magical world animals can talk
and play just like us. Read about their A Christmas tale from Switzerland about
magical adventures. a brave little girl and a terrible mountain
dragon...
Murphy, Jill Nadin, Joanna
The worst witch series Penny Dreadful series
Mildred Hubble is a trainee witch at Miss Penny’s name is not actually Penny
Cackle's Academy, and she's making an Dreadful. She just happens to be a
awful mess of it. magnet for disaster…
O'Shea-Meddour, Wendy Parvela, Timo
The secret railway Bicycling to the moon
Leo and Ella move to a new house and Purdy the cat and Barker the dog live
think it's boring... until they stumble to together in a sky-blue house on top of a
an adventure! hill.
Taylor-Smith, Claire Vulliamy, Clara
The dragon's song Marshmallow Pie series
Looking after a world of fairytale Marshmallow Marmaduke Vanilla-Bean
creatures! Sugar-Pie Fluffington-Fitz-Noodle is a big,
fluffy (and grumpy) cat.
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, Stella Gurney
Everyday journeys of ordinary Around the world in 80 ways
things
Travel around the world by yacht, tram,
Why does a light come on when you flick train, jetpack, camel...
a switch? How can cheese from the
supermarket have come out of a cow?
What happens when you send a text?
Usborne pet guides series Let's read and find out series
Looking after cats, dogs, rabbits or Find out about the skeleton inside you or
gerbils is fun. But what do they need? the simple machines that help the work
go easier.
Barr, Catherine
100 Things to Know About... The story of people
Series
When did the first humans live? How did
These richly illustrated books are perfect humans spread all over the world? What
for broadening knowledge of an essential will happen to humans in the future?
subject, away from the classroom.
Barr, Catherine Bone, Emily
The story of space Usborne Young beginners
series
Read about the big bang, what happened
then and afterwards... You can read about woodland creatures,
dinosaurs or seashore.
Brett, Anna Davies, James
Daredevil's guide to outer Meet the Ancient Egyptians
space
What did the Ancient Egyptians wear?
Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Blast off! How did they build the pyramids? These
and many other questions are answered
in this book!
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What is a virus? Usborne lift-the-flap
computers and coding
All the big questions children are asking
about viruses (and adults are struggling Learn how computers and coding works.
to answer) are covered in this
much-needed addition to the
ever-popular First Questions & Answers
series.
Durley, Natasha Graham, Ian
Dinosaurs Stephen Biesty's books
This is a dinosaur book with a difference! Biesty's illustrations open a world of
wonder. The artwork will have children
and adults alike poring over every detail.
Helsby, Genevieve Hunt, Wendy
My first orchestra book What do animals do all day?
There are all kinds of instruments in the What do animals do on a tropical island
orchestra, do you know them all? or in a desert? This book introduces
animals from 14 different habitats from a
jungle to a coral reef.
Lomax, Dean R. Packham, Chris
My Book of Dinosaurs and Amazing animal journeys
Prehistoric Life
Many animals migrate to other places
From the first living cells to fearsome each year. Find out more about them.
dinosaurs and giant mammals, take a
journey through prehistory to find out
about the supersized, the scary, and the
downright bizarre animals and plants
that inhabited Earth in ancient times.
Sanchez Vegara, Isabel Zommer, Yuval
Big Dreams series The big book of bugs
Discover the lives of outstanding people, "Just how slow does a snail go? Are bugs
from designers and artists to scientists afraid of the dark?" Find the answers to
and activists. All of them achieved these questions and even more from this
incredible things, yet each began life as a book.
child with a dream.
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