Early Readers (Blue)
Blue Early Readers use longer sentences and more complex sentence structure. Some are divided into short chapters. For easier books, try our Red Early Readers. For harder books, try our First Chapter Book Series list. In the nonfiction section, look for the purple "ER - Early Reader" sticker on the spine. Click here for a print-friendly version of this list.
| Author | Title | Call Number |
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| Adler | Bones and the Big Yellow Mystery Young Detective Jeffrey Bones helps find a school bus lost at the shopping mall. | JE ER Adler |
| Adler | Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game When fifth-grader Cam Jansen and her friend Eric go to a birthday party, she uses her photographic memory to solve a mystery. | JE ER Adler |
| Ahlberg | The Man Who Wore All His Clothes Mrs. Gaskitt the taxi driver, Mr. Gaskitt the heavily dressed man, and their twins, Gus and Gloria, foil a bank robbery. | JE ER Ahlberg |
| Archer | Urgency Emergency! Itsy Bitsy Spider A spider arrives at City Hospital with some strange head injuries. How did this happen? And does it have anything to do with all the water rushing down the water spout? | JE ER Archer |
| Arnold | Fly Guy Presents: Space During a visit to a space museum, Fly Guy and Buzz learn all about planets, space crafts, space suits, and comets. | JE ER Arnold |
| Avi | Prairie School In 1880, Noah's aunt teaches him how to read as they explore the Colorado prairie together. | JE ER Avi |
| Bell | Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover Rabbit is excited about the sleepover he has planned for his friend Robot, but Robot has different ideas about how things should go. | JE ER Bell |
| Bradman | Red Riding Hood Takes Charge Granny's recovered from her scare with the Big Bad Wolf, but she's lonely. Thankfully Little Red Riding Hood is on the case! | JE ER Bradman |
| Catalanotto | Monkey & Robot Best friends Monkey and Robot enjoy a variety of activities. | JE ER Catalanotto |
| Danziger | It's Justin Time, Amber Brown Unlike her best friend Justin, Amber Brown loves to measure time and hopes to receive a watch on her seventh birthday. | JE ER Danziger |
| DiCamillo | Mercy Watson to the Rescue After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor. | JE ER DiCamillo |
| Gantos | Rotten Ralph Feels Rotten Rotten Ralph comes to appreciate Sarah's healthy cat food after he gets sick from eating out of trash cans. | JE ER Gantos |
| Hoban | Arthur's Funny Money When Violet has a numbers problem and Arthur is penniless, they go into business and solve both problems. | JE ER Hoban |
| Howe | Houndsley and Catina Houndsley and Catina run into trouble when they decide to prove that they are the best at cooking and writing, respectively. | JE ER Howe |
| Howe | Pinky and Rex Rex and her best friend Pinky find their visit to the museum and its gift shop complicated by Pinky's little sister Amanda. | JE ER Howe |
| Jacobson | Andy Shane and the Very Bossy Dolores Starbuckle Andy Shane hates school, mainly because of a tattletale know-it-all named Dolores Starbuckle, but Granny Webb joins him in class one day and helps him solve the problem. | JE ER Jacobson |
| Lobel | Frog and Toad are Friends Five tales recount the adventures of two best friends—Frog and Toad. | JE ER Lobel |
| McDonald | Rocky Zang in the Amazing Mr. Magic Rocky is perfecting the tricks for his magic show when Judy Moody offers to be his assistant. Rocky agrees, but it turns out that Judy is the most UN-spectacular assistant ever. Is Rocky's magic good enough to mend his and Judy's friendship? | JE ER McDonald |
| Miller | Three Stories You Can Read to Your Cat Stories addressed to cats and written from a cat's point of view. | JE ER Miller |
| Parish | Come Back, Amelia Bedelia Amelia Bedelia is fired from one job after another for doing exactly as she is told. | JE ER Parish |
| Sharmat | Nate the Great Nate the Great uses all of his detective skills to solve the mystery of his friend Annie's missing picture. | JE ER Sharmat |
| Winters | Pete & Gabby: The Bears Go to Town Two curious and rambunctious bear cubs go into town to see what people do there when they are not in the woods camping. | JE ER Winters |
| Yee | Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole Mouse and his downstairs neighbor, Mole, discover that when they help each other, housecleaning and other daily tasks are much easier. | JE ER Yee |
Last Updated: 3/15
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