Leader In Me

7 Habits Reading List

*This is a just a few books to help reinforce the leader in students. There are many more!

Habit 1: Be Proactive

• The Berenstain Bears and the Bad Habit by Stan and Jan Berenstain

• Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban

• D. W., Picky Eater

• The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Teasing by Stan and Jan Berenstain

• Sam Who Never Forgets by Eve Rice

Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind

• The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

• Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats

• Click, Clack, Moo by Doreen Cronin

• Pancakes, Pancakes by Eric Carle

• Galimoto by Karen Williams

• Bobby Baseball by Robert K. Smith (chapter book)

• The School Story by Andrew Clements (chapter book)

Habit 3: Put First Things First

• Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London

• The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

• Alejandro’s Gift by Richard E. Albert

• Jamaica’s Find by Juanita Havill

• Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter

• Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan (chapter book)

Habit 4: Think Win! Win!

• The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss

• Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse by Leo Lionni

• The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

• The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins

• The Very Clumsy Click Beetle by Eric Carle

• Let’s Be Enemies by Janice May Udry

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand and Then to Be Understood

• Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

• The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown

• Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman

• Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino

• Rules by Cynthia Lord (chapter book)

Habit 6: Synergize

• Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall

• Swimmy by Leo Lionni

• A Chair for my Mother by Vera Williams

• Clifford’s Spring Clean-Up by Norman Bridwell

• How the Second Grade Got $8205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty by Nathan Zimelman

• Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco

• The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla (chapter book)

• The View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg (chapter book)

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle (chapter book)

• Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech (chapter book)

Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

• Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

• Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late by Mo Willems

• Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson

• Me I Am! by Jack Prelutsky

• Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen by DyAnne DiSalvo Ryan