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First Grade Reading Level
Adventure
**Clements, Andrew | Brave Norman: A True Story. |
Dubowski, Cathy East | Pirate School. |
**Hoban, Lillian | Arthur’s Camp-Out. |
Koontz, Robin | Chicago and the Cat: The Camping Trip. |
**Laurence, Daniel | Captain and Matey Set Sail. |
O’Connor, Jane | Molly the Brave and Me. |
Spiderman | Spider-Man Saves the Day. |
We Both Read | Mighty Little Lion Hunter. |
Animals: Real Animals
Hood, Susan | Meet Trouble. |
Horowitz, Ruth | Big Surprise in the Bug Tank. |
Johnston, Tony | The Bull and the Fire Truck. |
Kanno, Wendy | Holey Moley Cow. |
Labatt, Mary | Pizza for Sam. |
Lobel, Arnold | Small Pig. |
Marzollo, Jean | Once Upon a Springtime. |
McNulty, Faith | Listening to Whales Sing. |
Meister, Cari | My Pony Jack at Riding Lessons. |
Minters, Frances | Chicken For a Day. |
Mozelle, Shirley | Zack’s Alligator. |
**Parish, Herman | Amelia Bedelia and the Cat. |
Paterson, Katherine | The Smallest Cow in the World. |
**Perkins, Al | The Digging-est Dog. |
Pomerantz, Charlotte | The Outside Dog. |
Quackenbush, Robert | Batbaby Finds a Home. |
Ries, Lori | Aggie and Ben: Three Stories. |
**Rylant, Cynthia | Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures. |
Rylant, Cynthia | Mr. Putter and Tabby Feed the Fish. |
Sadler, Marilyn | The Parakeet Girl. |
Siracusa, Catherine | Bingo, the Best Dog in the World. |
**Suen, Anastasia | Hamster Chase. |
**Thomson, Ruth | A Dinosaur’s Day. |
Walker-Hodge, Judith | Surprise Puppy! |
Weston, Martha | Cats Are Like That. |
Wheeler, Cindy | Bookstore Cat. |
Zion, Gene | Harry and the Lady Next Door. |
Zweifel, Frances | Bony. |
Animals:Talking Animals
Berenstain, Stan | The Berenstain Bears’ New Kitten. |
Catrow, David | Dinosaur Hunt. |
**Clements, Andrew | Dolores and the Big Fire: A True Story. |
Delacre, Lulu | Rafi and Rosi. |
Kvasnosky, Laura | McGee Zelda and Ivy: Keeping Secrets. |
McPhail, David | The Bear’s Toothache. |
Milne, A.A. | Pooh Invents a New Game. |
**Moon, Nicola | Alligator Tails and Crocodile Cakes. |
Nash, Margaret | The Princess and the Frog. |
Rocklin, Joanne | One Hungry Cat. |
**Silverman, Erica | Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa. |
**Spohn, Kate | Dog and Cat Make a Splash. |
Taylor, Sean | Small Bad Wolf. |
Van Laan, Nancy | Moose Tales. |
Van Leeuwen, Jean | Oliver and Amanda’s Halloween. |
**Willems, Mo | Are You Ready to Play Outside? |
Yee, Wong Herbert | A Brand-New Day With Mouse and Mole. |
**Ziefert, Harriet | Rabbit and Hare Divide an Apple. |
Biographies
Bowdish, Lynea | George Washington Carver. |
Chandra, Deborah | George Washington’s Teeth. |
Krensky, Stephen | Ben Franklin and His First Kite. |
Lakin, Patricia | Helen Keller and the Big Storm. |
Marks, Jennifer | President Barack Obama. |
Moore, Cathy | The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft. |
Prince, April Jones | Jackie Robinson: He Led the Way. |
Steig, William | When Everybody Wore a Hat. |
White, Diana | Ballerina Dreams. |
Yaccarino, Dan | The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau. |
Family
Anderson, Peggy | To the Tub. |
Bonsall, Crosby | Who’s a Pest? |
Cassidy, Anne | Naughty Nancy. |
**Cazet, Denys | The Octopus. |
**Chorao, Kay | Here Comes Kate. |
Guilfoile, Elizabeth | Nobody Listens to Andrew. |
Hayward, Linda | Monster Bug. |
Himmelman, John | The Clover County Carrot Contest. |
Lewis, Rob | Too Much Trouble for Grandpa. |
Lewis, Thomas | Frida’s Office Day. |
**Little, Jean | Emma’s Yucky Brother. |
**McDonald, Megan | Daisy Jane, Best-Ever Flower Girl! |
Minarik, Else | No Fighting, No Biting! |
**O’Connor, Jane | Fancy Nancy, Poison Ivy Expert. |
**Ormerod, Jan | Ballet Sisters: The Duckling and the Swan. |
Rocklin, Joanne | Not Enough Room! |
Ruelle, Karen Gray | Mother’s Day Mess. |
Schecter, Ellen | Sleep Tight, Pete. |
Sharmat, Marjorie | Mooch the Messy. |
Slater, Teddy | N-O Spells No! |
Warner, Gertrude | A Present for Grandfather. |
Folk & Fairy Tales
**Cohen, Caron Lee | Digger Pig and the Turnip. |
**Cole, Joanna | Bony-Legs. |
Franco, Betsy | Why the Frog Has Big Eyes. |
Hooks, William | Feed Me! An Aesop Fable. |
**Lexau, Joan | Crocodile and Hen: A Bakongo Folktale. |
Lobel, Anita | The Straw Maid. |
McDermott, Gerald | The Fox and the Stork. |
McGee, Marni | Jack Takes the Cake. |
Miles, Betty | Goldilocks and the Three Bears. |
Miles, Betty | The Sky is Falling! |
Nash, Margaret | The Princess and the Frog. |
O’Connor, Jane | The Teeny Tiny Woman. |
Oppenheim, Joanne | The Donkey’s Tale. |
Orgel, Doris | Next Time I Will: An Old English Tale. |
Tarcov, Edith | The Frog Prince. |
Tchin | Rabbit’s Wish for Snow: A Native American Legend. |
Wheeler, Cindy | The Emperor’s Birthday Suit. |
**Ziefert, Harriet | Little Red Riding Hood. |
Friends
Caple, Kathy | Duck and Company. |
**Chaconas, Dori | Cork and Fuzz. |
**Cole, Joanna | The Missing Tooth. |
De Paola, Tomie | Kit and Kat. |
Dewey, Ariane | Splash! |
Glass, Julie | A Dollar for Penny. |
**Godwin, Laura | Happy and Honey. |
**Guest, Elissa Haden | Iris and Walter. |
Holub, Joan | Pajama Party. |
Hood, Susan | Scaredy-Cat Sleepover. |
**Howe, James | Houndsley and Catina. |
Jacobson, Jennifer | Andy Shane and the Very Bossy Dolores Starbuckle. |
Krensky, Stephen | Lionel and Louise. |
Kwitz, Mary D. | Little Chick’s Friend Duckling. |
**Little, Jean | Emma’s Magic Winter. |
**Lobel, Arnold | Frog and Toad are Friends. |
**Luttrell, Ida | The Bear Next Door. |
Mayer, Mercer | Little Critter’s Staying Overnight. |
McCully, Emily Arnold | The Grandma Mix-Up. |
McDonald, Megan | Beezy. |
McPhail, David M. | A Bug, A Bear, and a Boy. |
Mills, Claudia | Gus and Grandpa. |
Novak, Matt | Newt. |
Peters, Lisa Westberg | The Hayloft. |
Pilkey, Dav | A Friend for Dragon. |
Robins, J.M. | Addie Meets Max. |
Sadler, Marilyn | Honey Bunny’s Honey Bear. |
**Van Leeuwen, Jean | Oliver and Albert, Friends Forever. |
Vaughan, Marcia K. | The Lemonade Stand. |
**Yee, Wong Herbert | Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole. |
Funny Stories
Brownrigg, Sheri | Best Friends Wear Pink Tutus. |
Daniel, Claire | The Chick That Wouldn’t Hatch. |
**Eastman, P.D. | Are You My Mother? |
Griffiths, Andy | The Cat on the Mat is Flat. |
**Jewell, Nancy | Silly Times with Two Silly Trolls. |
**Law, Karina | The Truth About Hansel and Gretel. |
Lodge, Bernard | Custard Surprise. |
**Lopshire, Robert | I Want to Be Somebody New! |
Macdonald, Maryann | Rabbit’s Birthday Kite. |
**Mack, Jeff | Frog and Fly: Six Slurpy Stories. |
McPhail, David M. | The Day the Dog Said, “Cock-a-Doodle Doo!” |
**Palmer, Helen | A Fish Out of Water. |
Paul, Ann Whitford | Silly Sadie, Silly Samuel. |
Preller, James | Hiccups for Elephant. |
Quackenbush, Robert M. | Henry’s Awful Mistake. |
Scarry, Richard | The Worst Helper Ever! |
**Seuss, Dr. | Green Eggs and Ham. |
Silverman, Martin | My Tooth is Loose! |
Spirn, Michele | A Know-Nothing Birthday. |
Surgal, Jon | Have You Seen My Dinosaur? |
Thiesing, Lisa | The Aliens are Coming. |
**Weeks, Sarah | Baa-Choo! |
Wigand, Molly | Aaahh! School Lunch. |
**Wiseman, Bernard | Morris the Moose. |
Ghost & Scary Stories
Ahlberg, Allan | Dinosaur Dreams. |
Benchley, Nathaniel | A Ghost Named Fred. |
**Berenstain, Stan | The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree. |
**Cazet, Denys | Minnie and Moo Meet Frankenswine. |
Dodds, Dayle Ann | Ghost and Pete. |
Impey, Rose | The Flat Man. |
Maitland, Barbara | The Bookstore Ghost. |
Rocklin, Joanne | This Book is Haunted. |
Rockwell, Anne | A Bear, a Bobcat and Three Ghosts. |
Ruelle, Karen Gray | Spookier than a Ghost. |
Scary Stories to Read When It’s Dark. | |
Schwartz, Alvin | In a Dark, Dark Room, and Other Scary Stories. |
Stamper, Judith Bauer | Five Creepy Creatures. |
Thiesing, Lisa | The Viper. |
Wigand, Molly | Aaahh! School Lunch. |
**Ziefert, Harriet | The Teeny-Tiny Woman. |
Historical Fiction
Alphin, Elaine Marie | Dinosaur Hunter. |
Antle, Nancy | Sam’s Wild West Show. |
**Avi | Prairie School: Story. |
Benchley, Nathaniel | Small Wolf. |
Boegehold, Betty | A Horse Called Starfire. |
Bulla, Clyde Robert | Daniel’s Duck. |
Byars, Betsy Cromer | The Golly Sisters Go West. |
Coerr, Eleanor | Chang’s Paper Pony. |
Coerr, Eleanor | The Josefina Story Quilt. |
Hoberman, Mary Ann | Strawberry Hill. |
Levinson, Nancy Smiler | Prairie Friends. |
McCully, Emily Arnold | The Battle for St. Michaels. |
Monjo, F. N. | The Drinking Gourd: Story of the Underground Railroad. |
Rappaport, Doreen | The Boston Coffee Party. |
Redmond, Shirley-Raye | Lewis and Clark: A Prairie Dog for the President. |
Redmond, Shirley-Raye | Pigeon Hero! |
Sandin, Joan | The Long Way Westward. |
Turner, Ann | Dust for Dinner. |
Walker, Sally | The 18 Penny Goose. |
Information Books
Barner, Bob | Dinosaur Bones. |
Bauer, Marion Dane | The Grand Canyon. |
Buckley Jr., James | A Batboy’s Day. |
Firestone, Mary | What’s the Difference Between a Frog and a Toad? |
Ganeri, Anita | Eruption! The Story of Volcanoes. |
Holmes, Anita | Can You Find Us? |
Linz, Kathi | Chickens May Not Cross the Road and Other Crazy (but True) Laws. |
Loewen, Nancy | Tiny Workers: Ants in Your Backyard. |
Moser, Adolph | Don’t Pop Your Cork on Mondays! : The Children’s Anti-Stress Book. |
Orgel, Doris | Button Soup. |
Rabe, Tish | Oh the Pets You Can Get! All About Our Animal Friends. |
**Thomas, Pat | Is It Right To Fight? A First Look at Anger. |
Wells, Robert E. | What’s Older Than a Giant Tortoise? |
**Worth, Bonnie | If I Ran the Rain Forest. |
Magic & Mythical Creatures
Asch, Frank | Milk and Cookies. |
Bottner, Barbara | Pish and Posh Wish For Fairy Wings. |
Bridwell, Norman | A Tiny Family. |
Grindley, Sally | The Perfect Monster. |
Hillert, Margaret | Let’s Go, Dear Dragon. |
Holub, Joan | Abby Cadabra, Super Speller. |
Kwitz, Mary DeBall | Little Vampire and the Midnight Bear. |
Low, Alice | Zena and the Witch Circus. |
Moser, Lisa | The Monster in the Backpack. |
**Murphy, Sonia | The Green Monster. |
Pickett, Anola | Old Enough for Magic. |
Roberts, Bethany | May Belle and the Ogre. |
Smith, Janice Lee | Wizard and Wart in Trouble. |
Thomas, Shelley Moore | Good Night, Good Knight. |
Mysteries
Ada, Alma Flor | Daniel’s Mystery Egg. |
Adler, David | Bones and the Roller Coaster Mystery. |
Allen, Laura | Rollo and Tweedy and the Ghost at Dougal Castle: Story and Pictures. |
Benchley, Nathaniel | The Strange Disappearance of Arthur Cluck. |
**Bonsall, Crosby Newell | The Case of the Double Cross. |
Cushman, Doug | Dirk Bones and the Mystery of the Missing Books. |
Dussling, Jennifer | The Bunny Slipper Mystery. |
Hoban, Lillian | The Case of the Two Masked Robbers: Story and Pictures. |
Hooks, Gwendolyn | The Mystery of the Missing Dog. |
Hooks, William | The Mystery of the Missing Tooth. |
Kwitz, Mary | Gumshoe Goose, Private Eye. |
Platt, Kin | Big Max and the Mystery of the Missing Giraffe. |
**Rylant, Cynthia | The Case of the Missing Monkey. |
**Skofield, James | Detective Dinosaur. |
School
Baker, Barbara | One Saturday Evening. |
**Bang-Campbell, Monika | Little Rat Makes Music. |
Catalanotto, Peter | No More Pumpkins. |
Coxe, Molly | R is for Radish. |
DePaola, Tomie | Hide-and-Seek All Week. |
Feder, Paula | Where Does the Teacher Live? |
Johnston, Tony | Sparky and Eddie: Wild, Wild Rodeo! |
McNamara, Margaret | Election Day. |
Medearis, Angela Shelf | The 100th Day of School. |
O’Connor, Jane | The 100th Day of School. |
Oppenheim, Joanne | Show-and-Tell Frog. |
**Paterson, Katherine | Marvin One Too Many. |
Wells, Rosemary | Bubble-Gum Radar. |
Science Fiction
Albee, Sarah | My Best Friend is Out of This World. |
Brenner, Barbara | Moon Boy. |
Cazet, Denys | Minnie and Moo Save the Earth. |
Corey, Shana | First Graders from Mars Episode 1: Horus’s Horrible Day. |
Hoban, Lillian | The Laziest Robot in Zone One. |
James, P.J. | Supertwins Meet the Bad Dogs From Space. |
Johnston, Tony | Alien and Possum: Friends No Matter What. |
Marzollo, Jean | Jed’s Junior Space Patrol: A Science Fiction Easy-to-Read. |
Weston, Martha | Dr. Clock-Sicle. |
Yolen, Jane | Commander Toad in Space. |
Sports
Braun, Eric | If I Were a Major League Baseball Player. |
Cartier, Wesley | Marco’s Run. |
Cristaldi, Kathryn | Baseball Ballerina. |
Hoffman, Joan | The Last Game. |
Hooks, William | Mr. Baseball. |
**Kessler, Leonard | Kick, Pass, and Run. |
McCully, Emily | Grandmas at Bat. |
Mills, Claudia | Gus and Grandpa at Basketball. |
O’Connor, Jane | Kate Skates. |
Oechsli, Kelly | Mice at Bat: Story and Pictures. |
Schade, Susan | Cat at Bat. |
Schecter, Ellen | Swim Like a Fish. |
Sharp, Paul | Paul the Pitcher. |
Stadler, John | Ready, Set, Go! |
Second Grade Reading Level
Adventure
Anderson, C. W. | Blaze and the Mountain Lion. |
**Batman | The Copycat Crime. |
Coerr, Eleanor | Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express. |
Duddle, Jonny | The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon. |
Flintham, Thomas | Game Over, Super Rabbit Boy! |
Kipling, Rudyard | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. |
O’Donnell, Liam | Blackbeard’s Sword: The Pirate King of the Carolinas. |
Reeve, Philip | Pugs of the Frozen North. |
Teague, Mark | The Secret Shortcut. |
Young, Jessica | Howl at the Moon. |
Animal Stories: Real Animals
Arnold, Elana K. | A Boy Called Bat. |
**Barkley, Callie | Amy and the Missing Puppy. |
Barr, Brady | After a While Crocodile: Alexa’s Diary. |
Bauer, Marion Dane | Alison’s Puppy. |
Cecil, Randy | Lucy. |
Dowell, Frances O’Roark | Sam the Man and the Chicken Plan. |
Feldman, Thera | Sadie: The Dog Who Finds the Evidence. |
**Greene, Stephanie | Princess Posey and the Next-Door Dog. |
Haas, Jessie | Bramble and Maggie: Horse Meets Girl. |
Himmelman, John | The Animal Rescue Club. |
Larson, Kirby | Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival. |
MacLachlan, Patricia | White Fur Flying. |
Mills, Claudia | Cody Harmon, King of Pets. |
Mitchard, Jacquelyn | Rosalie, My Rosalie: The Tale of a Duckling. |
Moser, Lisa | Squirrel’s World. |
Pomerantz, Charlotte | The Outside Dog. |
Potter, Ellen | The Sea Pony. |
**Spinner, Stephanie | Paddywack. |
Voigt, Cynthia | The Rosie Stories. |
Waas, Uli | Where’s Molly? |
**Willems, Mo | The Story of Diva and Flea. |
Animal Stories: Talking Animals
Birney, Betty G. | Humphrey’s Really Wheely Racing Day. |
Cazet, Denys | Minnie & Moo and the Seven Wonders of the World. |
Cronin, Doreen | The Chicken Squad. |
DC Super Pets | The Cat Crime Club. |
Dillard, Sarah | Mouse Scouts. |
Elliott, Rebecca | Eva’s Treetop Festival. |
Fine, Anne | The Diary of a Killer Cat. |
Green, Poppy | A New Friend. |
Howe, James | It Came From Beneath the Bed! |
McCormick, Scott | Mr. Pants: It’s Go Time! |
McCranie, Stephen | The Biggest, Bestest Time Ever. |
McKissack, Patricia | Monkey-Monkey’s Trick: Based on an African Folktale. |
Michalak, Jamie | The Show’s Over. |
**Moon, Nicola | Alligator Tails and Crocodile Cakes. |
Smith, Mavis | A Snake Mistake. |
Vande Velde, Vivian | 8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel [Divided by] 1 Dog = Chaos. |
Winters, Kay | Where are the Bears? |
Biographies
Adler, David | A Picture Book of Anne Frank. |
Anderson, William | Prairie Girl : The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. |
Engle, Margarita | The Sky Painter: Louis Fuertes, Bird Artist. |
Fisher, Leonard | Galileo. |
Gerstein, Mordicai | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. |
**Gray, Karlin | Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still. |
**Jordan, Roslyn | Salt in His Shoes. |
**Kerley, Barbara | The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins: An Illuminated History of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, Artist and Lecturer. |
Kerley, Barbara | What to Do About Alice? How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! |
**Levine, Ellen | Henry’s Freedom Box. |
Maurer, Tracy | Noah Webster’s Fighting Words. |
Maxwell, Cassandre | Fur, Fins, and Feathers: Abraham Dee Bartlett and the Invention of the Modern Zoo. |
McDonnell, Patrick | Me–Jane. |
Moss, Marissa | Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero. |
**Robbins, Dean | Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing. |
**Stanley, Fay | The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Kaiulani. |
**Sweet, Melissa | Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade. |
Yaccarino, Dan | All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel. |
Families
Ahlberg, Allan | The Woman Who Won Things. |
**Danziger, Paula | What a Trip, Amber Brown. |
Gifford, Peggy Elizabeth | Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little. |
Hanlon, Abby | Dory Fantasmagory. |
McDonough, Yona Zeidis | A Doll Named Dora Anne. |
Munsch, Robert N. | I’m So Embarrassed! |
O’Neill, Catharine | Annie and Simon. |
Porte, Barbara Ann | Harry in Trouble. |
**Sachar, Louis | Kidnapped at Birth? |
Urban, Linda | Weekends with Max and His Dad. |
Wight, Eric | Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom. |
Wissinger, Tamera Will | Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse. |
Fantasy
Allen, Elise | Autumn’s Secret Gift. |
**Andrew Lost | On the Dog. |
Baker, E.D. | Maggie and the Flying Horse. |
Citro, Asia | Dragons and Marshmallows. |
Coats, Lucy | The Beast Keeper. |
**Coven, Wanda | Heidi Heckelbeck Has a Secret. |
Doodler, Todd H. | Super Fly: The World’s Smallest Superhero! |
**Dragon Slayers | New Kid at School. |
Funke, Cornelia | Lilly and Fin: A Mermaid’s Tale. |
Gould, Robert | Rex. |
**Hayes, Geoffrey | A Poor Excuse for a Dragon. |
Jules, Jacqueline | Freddie Ramos Takes Off. |
Kent, Jaden | The Cave of Aaaaah! Doom! |
Klimo, Kate | Dragon in the Sock Drawer. |
Lacey, Josh | The Dragonsitter. |
**LeGuin, Ursula | Catwings. |
Lindgren, Astrid | Pippi’s Extraordinary Ordinary Day. |
McAnulty, Stacy | A Mysterious Egg. |
Moser, Lisa | The Monster in the Backpack. |
Oram, Hiawyn | My Unwilling Witch Goes to Ballet School. |
**Osborne, Mary Pope | Dinosaurs Before Dark. |
Quinn, Jordan | The Lost Stone. |
Rainbow Fairies | India the Moonstone Fairy. |
Sanvoisin, Eric | The Ink Drinker. |
Spiderman | Spider-Man’s Amazing Powers. |
West, Tracey | Rise of the Earth Dragon. |
Folk & Fairytales
**Aardema, Verna | Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale. |
Coats, Lucy | Beast Keeper. |
De Paola, Tomie | Fin M’Coul: The Giant of Knockmany Hill. |
Holub, Joan | Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom. |
**Kellogg, Steven | Paul Bunyan: A Tall Tale. |
Ketteman, Helen | Waynetta and the Cornstalk: A Texas Fairy Tale. |
**Kimmel, Eric | Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock. |
Marshall, James | Hansel and Gretel. |
Schwartz, Corey | Hansel & Gretel, Ninja Chicks. |
Smith, Alex T. | Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion. |
Tarcov, Edith | The Frog Prince. |
**Taylor, Harriet Peck | Coyote and the Laughing Butterflies. |
Temple, Frances | Tiger Soup: An Anansi Story from Jamaica. |
**Young, Ed | Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story From China. |
Friends
**Barrows, Annie | Ivy + Bean. |
Cole, Joanna | Bully Trouble. |
DiCamillo, Kate | Bink & Gollie. |
**Greene, Stephanie | Princess Posey and the Monster Stew. |
**Guest, Elissa Haden | Iris and Walter. |
**Harper, Charise M. | Mae and June and the Wonder Wheel. |
Hest, Amy | Party on Ice. |
Howe, James | Pinky and Rex and the Spelling Bee. |
Kerrin, Jessica Scott | Martin Bridge Ready for Takeoff! |
**Look, Lenore | Alvin Ho Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things. |
O’Connor, Jane | Molly the Brave and Me. |
O’Neill, Catharine | Annie and Simon. |
Pee-Wee Scouts | Cookies and Crutches. |
Prager, Annabelle | The Baseball Birthday Party. |
Zann, Tara | Forest’s First Home. |
Funny Books
**Applegate, Katherine | Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs. |
**Blabey, Aaron | The Bad Guys. |
**Braddock, Paige | Stinky Cecil in Operation Pond Rescue. |
**Bruel, Nick | Bad Kitty Gets a Bath. |
Clary, Julian | The Bolds. |
Coverly, Dave | Night of the Living Worms. |
**Dahl, Roald | The Enormous Crocodile. |
**DiCamillo, Kate | Mercy Watson to the Rescue. |
Eaton, Maxwell | The Flying Beaver Brothers and the Evil Penguin Plan. |
**Griffiths, Andy | The 13-Story Treehouse. |
Hooks, William | Mr. Baseball. |
Jamieson, Victoria | The Great Pet Escape. |
**Kirby, Stan | Captain Awesome to the Rescue! |
Krosoczka, Jarrett | Lunch Lady and the Bake Sale Bandit. |
**Milne, A. A. | Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees. |
Munsch, Robert | Munschworks: The First Munsch Collection. |
**Parish, Peggy | Amelia Bedelia. |
Quackenbush, Robert | Henry’s Awful Mistake. |
Ricky Ricotta | Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot. |
Schlitz, Laura Amy | Princess Cora and the Crocodile. |
**Seuss, Dr. | Oh Say Can You Say? |
**Stevenson, James | National Worm Day. |
Tashjian, Janet | Einstein the Class Hamster. |
**Thaler, Mike | The Gym Teacher from the Black Lagoon. |
Watson, Tom | A Tail of Two Kitties |
Ghost & Scary Stories
Ahlberg, Allan | The Ghost Train. |
Butler, Dori Hillestad | The Haunted Library. |
Chabert, Jack | The School is Alive! |
Corderoy, Tracey | The Super-Spooky Fright Night! |
Cummings, Troy | Rise of the Ballon Goons. |
**DiCamillo, Kate | Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Raccoon. |
Enderle, Dotti | It Creeps! |
Hayes, Geoffrey | The Mystery of the Pirate Ghost. |
Kochalka, James | Johnny Boo: The Best Little Ghost in the World. |
Schwartz, Alvin | In a Dark, Dark Room, and Other Scary Stories. |
Stamper, Judith | Five Creepy Creatures. |
Thompson, Jill | Scary Godmother. |
Utton, Peter | The Witch’s Hand. |
Historical Fiction
Alphin, Elaine Marie | Dinosaur Hunter. |
**Ame-Col | Meet Caroline: An American Girl, 1812. |
**Avi | Prairie School. |
Cline-Ransome, Lesa | Freedom’s School. |
**Cohen, Barbara | Molly’s Pilgrim. |
**Dalgliesh, Alice | The Courage of Sarah Noble. |
Davis, Tony | Future Knight. |
Gilmore, Grace | Logan Pryce Makes a Mess. |
Glass, Julie | The Fly on the Ceiling: A Math Myth. |
Hopkinson, Deborah | Steamboat School: Inspired by a True Story, St. Louis, Missouri: 1847. |
Kelly, Jacqueline | Skunked! |
McClure, Wendy | Wanderville. |
Monjo, F.N. | The Drinking Gourd. |
Polacco, Patricia | Fiona’s Lace. |
Shub, Elizabeth | The White Stallion. |
Standiford, Natalie | The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto. |
**Tarshis, Lauren | The Shark Attacks of 1916. |
Van Leeuwen, Jean | Papa and the Pioneer Quilt. |
Whelan, Gloria | Queen Victoria’s Bathing Machine. |
**Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Little House in the Big Woods. |
Information Books
Adler, David | Money Madness. |
Aillaud, Cindy Lou | Recess at 20 Below. |
**Cole, Joanna | The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge. |
Davies, Nicola | I Don’t Like Snakes. |
**Dennis, Major Brian | Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle. |
Hood, Susan | Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay. |
Jenkins, Steve | How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships. |
**Kudlinski, Kathleen V. | Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs! |
Larson, Kirby | Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship and Survival. |
**Mattick, Lindsay | Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear. |
Miller, Debbie S. | Survival At 40 Below. |
Sis, Peter | The Train of States. |
Slade, Suzanne | Zap! Wile E. Coyote Experiments with Energy. |
Smith, Danna | The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval Falconry. |
**Smith, Lane | John, Paul, George & Ben. |
**St. George, Judith | So You Want to Be President? |
**Vernick, Audrey | Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team. |
Wolf, Alex | You Wouldn’t Want to Live Without Bees. |
Mystery
**A to Z | The Absent Author. |
Adler, David | Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Carnival Prize. |
**Adler, David | Young Cam Jansen and the Missing Cookie. |
Angleberger, Tom | Inspector Flytrap. |
**Base, Graeme | The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery. |
Butler, Dori Hillestad | The Case of the Lost Boy. |
Butler, Dori Hillstad | King & Kayla and the Case of the Missing Dog Treats. |
Byars, Betsy Cromer | The Seven Treasure Hunts. |
Cronin, Doreen | The Trouble with Chickens: A J.J. Tully Mystery. |
Goldsmith, Howard | The Twiddle Twins’ Music Box Mystery. |
Grambling, Lois | Happy Valentine’s Day, Miss Hildy. |
**Newman, Robin | The Case of the Missing Carrot Cake. |
Nilsson, Ulf | The First Case. |
**Rylant, Cynthia | The Case of the Missing Monkey. |
Sharmat, Marjorie | Nate the Great and the Big Sniff. |
Stevenson, James | The Mud Flat Mystery. |
Third Grade Detectives | The Case of the Dirty Clue. |
School
Amato, Mary | Please Writer in This Book. |
**Applegate, Katherine | Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs. |
**Brown, Monica | Lola Levine is Not Mean! |
**Cleary, Beverly | Muggie Maggie. |
Duffey, Betsy | How to Be Cool in Third Grade. |
Gantos, Jack | Rotten Ralph Helps Out. |
Jacobson, Jennifer | Andy Shane and the Very Bossy Dolores Starbuckle. |
**Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry in Room 2B. |
Krulik, Nancy E. | Science No Fair! |
**McDonald, Megan | Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid. |
Meyerhoff, Jenny | Third Grade Baby. |
Nagda, Ann Whitehead | Dear Whiskers. |
**Park, Barbara | Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus. |
Salisbury, Graham | Trouble Magnet. |
Schoenberg, Jane | The One and Only Stuey Lewis: Stories from the Second Grade. |
Sheinmel, Courtney | Stella Batts Needs a New Name. |
Winkler, Henry | Bookmarks are People Too! |
Space & Science Fiction
Buller, Jon | Baseball Camp on the Planet of the Eyeballs. |
**Cole, Joanna | The Magic School Bus, Lost in the Solar System. |
Hopper, Ada | March of the Mini Beasts. |
Kochalka, James | The Glorkian Warrior Delivers a Pizza. |
Marshall, Edward | Space Case. |
O’Ryan, Ray | Hello, Nebulon! |
Passen, Lisa | Attack of the 50-Foot Teacher. |
**Ricky Ricotta | Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot vs. the Mecha-Monkeys from Mars. |
Scieszka, Jon | Baloney (Henry P.). |
**Van Allsburg, Chris | Zathura: A Space Adventure. |
Sports
**Ballpark Mysteries | The All-Star Joker. |
Christopher, Matt | The Captain Contest. |
Forest, Christopher | Play Soccer Like a Pro: Key Skills and Tips. |
Giff, Patricia Reilly | Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat. |
**Gifford, Clive | Skateboarding. |
Gurney, John Steven | Fuzzy Baseball. |
Hicks, Betty | Goof-Off Goalie. |
**Hopkinson, Deborah | Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings. |
**Jay, Betsy | Swimming Lessons. |
Kline, Suzy | Molly Gets Mad. |
**Krensky, Stephen | Louise, Soccer Star? |
Marx, Mandy R. | Paintball. |
Marzollo, Jean | Basketball Buddies. |
Marzollo, Jean | Football Friends. |
McEwan, Jamie | The Heart of Cool. |
McEwan, Jamie | Rufus the Scrub Does Not Wear a Tutu. |
Mills, Claudia | Gus and Grandpa at Basketball. |
Petersen, P.J. | The Fireplug is First Base. |
Prager, Annabelle | The Baseball Birthday Party. |
**Vernick, Audrey | Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team. |
Wallace, Rich | The Ball Hogs. |
Third Grade Reading Level
Adventure & Survival
**Bledsoe, Lucy | Tracks in the Snow. |
Bodeen, S.A. | Shipwreck Island. |
**Brown, Jeff | The Mount Rushmore Calamity. |
**Chantler, Scott | Tower of Treasure. |
**Clements, Andrew | A Week in the Woods. |
Doder, Joshua | A Dog Called Grk. |
Earhart, Kristin | Rain Forest Relay. |
**Fleischman, Sid | The Whipping Boy. |
Hill, Kirkpatrick | Toughboy and Sister. |
**MacLachlan, Patricia | The Poet’s Dog. |
**Morris, Gerald | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great. |
**Magic Tree House | Tigers at Twilight. |
Rosen, Michael | The Tale of Rescue. |
**Tarshis, Lauren | The Shark Attacks of 1916. |
Wright, Eric | Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom. |
Animal Stories: Real Animals
Arnold, Elana K. | A Boy Called Bat. |
Banerjee, Anjali | Seaglass Summer. |
Bauer, Marion | Little Cat’s Luck. |
Byars, Betsy | My Dog, My Hero. |
Davies, Nicola | Manatee Rescue. |
DiCamillo, Kate | Because of Winn-Dixie. |
Freemanm, Martha | Strudel’s Forever Home. |
George, Jean Craighead | There’s an Owl in the Shower. |
Haas, Jessie | Runaway Radish. |
**Hermes, Patricia | Emma Dilemma, the Nanny, and the Secret Ferret. |
Jennings, Patrick | Guinea Dog. |
MacLachlan, Patricia | White Fur Flying. |
Perkins, Mitali | Tiger Boy. |
**Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Shiloh. |
Rodowsky, Colby F. | Not My Dog. |
Animal Stories: Talking Animals
Birney, Betty G. | The World According to Humphrey. |
Coverly, Dave | Night of the Living Worms. |
Greenwald, Tom | My Dog is Better than Your Dog. |
**King-Smith, Dick | The School Mouse. |
**Lawson, Robert | Ben and Me: A New and Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin as Written by His Good Mouse Amos. |
Napoli, Donna Jo | The Prince of the Pond: Otherwise Known as De Fawg Pin. |
Oulton, Harry | A Pig Called Heather. |
Patton, Jack | The Lizard War. |
Schmidt, Annie | The Cat Who Came in Off the Roof. |
Sherry, Kevin | Remy Sneakers vs. the Robo-Rats. |
Whybrow, Ian | Little Wolf’s Book of Badness. |
Biographies
Blumberg, Rhoda | Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy. |
Borden, Louise | The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey. |
Burgess, Matthew | Enormous Smallness: The Story of E.E. Cummings. |
**Goodall, Jane | My Life with the Chimpanzees. |
Henry, Joanne | Log Cabin in the Woods: A True Story About a Pioneer Boy. |
Hernandez, Laurie | I Got This: To Gold and Beyond. |
Kerley, Barbara | What to Do About Alice? How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! |
Krull, Kathleen | Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman. |
**Levy, Debbie | I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark. |
McDonough, Yona Zeldis | Little Author in the Big Woods: A Biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder. |
Nelson, S.D. | Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People. |
Pipe, Jim | You Wouldn’t Want to be Cleopatra! An Egyptian Ruler You’d Rather Not Be. |
Rappaport, Doreen | Frederick’s Journey: The Life of Frederick Douglass. |
Stabler, David | Kid Presidents: True Tales of Childhood from America’s Presidents. |
Stine, Megan | Who was Sally Ride? |
Tanaka, Shelley | Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator. |
Tavares, Matt | Growing Up Pedro. |
Fantasy
Auch, Mary Jane | I Was a Third Grade Science Project. |
**Bond, Michael | Paddington at Large. |
Burgis, Stephanie | The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart. |
Butler, Dori | The Haunted Library. |
**Catling, Patrick | The Chocolate Touch. |
Christie, Robert | Quirk’s Quest. Into the Outlands. |
**Coville, Bruce | The Monster’s Ring. |
Gannett, Ruth | Three Tales of My Father’s Dragon. |
**Kessler, Liz | The Tail of Emily Windsnap. |
Lacey, Josh | The Dragonsitter. |
LaFevers, R.L. | Flight of the Phoenix. |
Levine, Gail Carson | The Princess Test. |
**Martin, Ann M. | The Doll People. |
**Mason, Jane B. | If the Shoe Fits. |
Murphy, Jill | The Worst Witch. |
Oliver, Lin | The Attack of the Growling Eyeballs. |
Patton, Jack | The Lizard War. |
Pounder, Sibeal | Witch Wars. |
**Prineas, Sarah | The Magic Thief. |
**Scieszka, Jon | Knights of the Kitchen Table. |
Sherman, Delia | The Evil Wizard Smallbone. |
Selfors, Suzanne | The Sasquatch Escape. |
**Snicket, Lemony | The Bad Beginning. |
Venokur, Ross | The Amazing Frecktacle. |
Vernon, Ursula | Harriet the Invincible. |
Webb, Holly | Rose. |
Funny Books
Amato, Mary | Snarf Attack, Underfoodle and the Secret of Life; The Riot Brothers Tell All. |
**Captain Underpants | Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman. |
Cronin, Doreen | The Trouble with Chickens: A J.J. Tully Mystery. |
Dickinson, Peter | Chuck and Danielle. |
Duffey, Betsy | The Gadget War. |
Gardner, Lyn | The Lost Treasure of Little Snoring. |
Griffiths, Andy | The Day My Butt Went Psycho! |
Heide, Florence Parry | Tales for the Perfect Child. |
Hornik, Laurie Miller | The Secrets of Ms. Snickle’s Class. |
**Howe, Deborah | Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery. |
Katz, Alan | The Day the Mustache Took Over. |
Kent, Jaden | The Cave of Aaaaah! Doom! |
Mabbitt, Will | The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones. |
My Weird School | Mr. Cooper is Super! |
O’Malley, Kevin | Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude. |
Pinkwater, Daniel | Fat Camp Commandos. |
Reeve, Philip | Pugs of the Frozen North. |
Scieszka, Jon | Battle Bunny. |
Scroggs, Kirk | Dracula vs. Grampa at the Monster Truck Spectacular. |
**Trine, Greg | Curse of the Bologna Sandwich. |
Ghost & Scary Stories
Cummings, Troy | Rise of the Balloon Goons. |
Geronimo Stilton | Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House. |
Graves, Annie | A Dog’s Breakfast. |
**Hahn, Mary Downing | The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story. |
Hale, Bruce | The Curse of the Were-Hyena. |
Kent, Derek Taylor | Scary School. |
Matthews, John | Henry Hunter and the Beast of Snagov. |
O’Hara, Mo | My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish. |
Poblocki, Dan | The Gathering. |
Preller, James | Home Sweet Horror. |
**Schwartz, Alvin | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. |
Schweizer, Chris | Night of the Frankenfrogs. |
**Selznick, Brian | The Boy of a Thousand Faces. |
Telgemeier, Raina | Ghosts. |
Tulien, Sean | Super Billy Goats Gruff: A Graphic Novel. |
Historical Fiction
Bishop, Claire | Twenty and Ten. |
Burg, Ann E. | Unbound: A Novel in Verse. |
Blackford, Cheryl | Lizzie and the Lost Baby. |
Brady, Esther | Toliver’s Secret. |
**Cohen, Barbara | Molly’s Pilgrim. |
Conkling, Winnifred | Sylvia & Aki. |
Dagg, Carole Estby | Sweet Home Alaska. |
Hill, Kirkpatrick | Bo at Ballard Creek. |
Larson, Kirby | Liberty. |
**MacLachlan, Patricia | Sarah, Plain and Tall. |
Nannestad, Katrina | When Mischief Came to Town. |
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Emily’s Fortune. |
Park, Linda Sue | The Kite Fighters. |
**Robinson, Sharon | The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend. |
Ryan, Pam Muñoz | Riding Freedom. |
Tarshis, Lauren | The Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941. |
Information Books
Campbell, Sarah C. | Mysterious Patterns: Finding Fractals in Nature. |
Fleming, Candace | Giant Squid. |
Gagne, Tammy | The Dog Encyclopedia for Kids. |
Hayes, Fiona | 51 Things to Make with Cardboard Tubes. |
Hood, Susan | Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay. |
**MacLeod, Elizabeth | Top Dogs: True Stories of Canines That Made History. |
**Nelson, Kadir | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball. |
Rockliff, Mara | Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France. |
Roy, Katherine | Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands. |
Smith, Danna | The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval Falconry. |
Mysteries
**A to Z Mysteries | The Lucky Lottery. |
**Adler, David | Cam Jansen and the School Play Mystery. |
Barrett, Tracy | The 100-Year-Old Secret. |
Briner, K.H. | Snowize & Snitch: Highly Effective Defective Detectives. |
Diamond, Jill | Lou Lou & Pea and the Mural Mystery. |
Freeman, Martha | Effie Starr Zook Has One More Question. |
Griffin, N. | Smashie McPerter and the Mystery of Room 11. |
Hale, Bruce | The Mystery of Mr. Nice: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye. |
Krosoczka, Jarrett J. | The Frog Who Croaked. |
**Landon, Lucinda | Meg Mackintosh and the Mystery in the Locked Library: A Solve-It-Yourself Mystery. |
**Larson, Kirby | Audacity Jones to the Rescue. |
Lawson, Jessica | Nooks and Crannies. |
Low, A.J. | Sherlock Sam and the Ghostly Moans in Fort Canning |
**Marois, André | The Sandwich Thief. |
McCall Smith, Alexander | The Great Cake Mystery: Precious Ramotswe’s Very First Case. |
Parish, Peggy | Key to the Treasure. |
**Sobol, Donald | Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective. |
**Spratt, R.A. | Friday Barnes, Girl Detective. |
**Warner, Gertrude Chandler | Mystery Ranch. |
Weing, Drew | The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo. |
School, Friends & Family
**Allen, Crystal | Spirit Week Showdown. |
Amato, Mary | Our Teacher is a Vampire and Other (Not) True Stories. |
**Becker, Suzy | Kate the Great: Except When She Is Not. |
**Davies, Jacqueline | The Lemonade War. |
**Giff, Patricia | Jubilee. |
Graff, Keir | The Matchstick Castle. |
Gutman, Dan | The Get Rich Quick Club. |
Krishnaswami, Uma | Book Uncle and Me. |
**Lin, Grace | The Year of the Dog: A Novel. |
**Mackler, Carolyn | Best Friend Next Door. |
**McDonald, Megan | Judy Moody. |
**McGovern, Cammie | Just My Luck. |
Mills, Claudia | The Trouble with Babies. |
Moss, Marissa | Amelia’s Notebook. |
Pennypacker, Sara | Waylon! One Awesome Thing. |
**Sachar, Louis | Kidnapped at Birth? |
Sachs, Marilyn | JoJo & Winnie: Sister Stories. |
**Shevah, Emma | Dara Palmer’s Major Drama. |
**Smith, Janice Lee | The Monster in the Third Dresser Drawer and Other Stories About Adam Joshua. |
**Spinelli, Jerry | Fourth Grade Rats. |
Sternberg, Julie | Friendship Over. |
Winkler, Henry | Niagara Falls, or Does It? |
**Woodrow, Allan | The Pet War. |
Ziegler, Jennifer | Revenge of the Flower Girls. |
Science Fiction
Ball, Nate | Blast Off! |
Brallier, Max | Cosmoe’s Wiener Getaway. |
**Coville, Bruce | My Teacher is an Alien. |
Dorman, Brandon | The Alien That Ate My Socks. |
Hughes, Ted | The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights. |
**Kelley, Jane | Octo-Man and the Headless Monster. |
Mass, Wendy | Archie Takes Flight. |
Pittman, Eddie | Red’s Planet. |
Reeve, Philip | Cakes in Space. |
Scieszka, Jon | Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor. |
Scieszka, Jan | Spaceheadz: Book 1. |
Service, Pamela | Stinker from Space. |
Torres, J. | Brobots and the Kaiju Kerfuffle. |
Sports
Bowen, Fred | Hardcourt Comeback. |
Coy, John | Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball. |
Duffey, Betsy | Lucky in Left Field. |
Gutman, Dan | The Million Dollar Shot. |
Howard, Ryan | My New Team. |
Kelly, David | The Gold Medal Mess. |
Kline, Suzy | Molly Gets Mad. |
Mills, Claudia | Basketball Disasters. |
**Peirce, Lincoln | Big Nate: Revenge of the Cream Puffs. |
Spurr, Elizabeth | Surfer Dog. |
Testa, Maria | Some Kind of Pride. |
Wallace, Rich | Double Fake. |
Fourth Grade Reading Level
Adventure & Survival
Berstein, Jonathan | Spy-in-Training. |
**Daneshvari, Gitty | The League of Unexceptional Children. |
Gannon, Nicholas | The Doldrums. |
**George, Jean Craighead | My Side of the Mountain. |
Gutman, Dan | Getting Air. |
Hunt, Elizabeth Singer | Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur: USA. |
Jacobson, Jennifer | Small as an Elephant. |
Kehret, Peggy | Abduction! |
**London, Jonathan | Grizzly Peak. |
**Mazer, Harry | The Wild Kid. |
**Patterson, James | Treasure Hunters. |
**Petersen, P.J. | White Water. |
Secret Agent Jack Stalwart | Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur: USA. |
**Snicket, Lemony | The Bad Beginning. |
**St. John, Lauren | The White Giraffe. |
Thomas, Jane Resh | Blind Mountain. |
Wilson, Nathan D. | Leepike Ridge. |
Animal Stories: Real Animals
Auch, Mary Jane | The Latchkey Dog. |
Banerjee, Anjali | Seaglass Summer. |
**Bunting, Eve | The Summer of Riley. |
Corriveau, Ari | How I, Nicky Flynn, Finally Get a Life (and a Dog): A Novel. |
Engle, Margarita | Mountain Dog. |
Fine, Anne | Diary of a Killer Cat. |
**Fleming, Anne | The Goat. |
Gibson, Sarah P. | The Truth about Horses, Friends, & My Life as a Coward. |
Greenwald, Lisa | Welcome to Dog Beach. |
Kennedy, Marlane | The Dog Days of Charlotte Hayes. |
King-Smith, Dick | Lady Lollipop. |
O’Connor, Barbara | How to Steal a Dog: A Novel. |
Staples, Suzanne Fisher | The Green Dog: A Mostly True Story. |
Animal Stories: Talking Animals
**Applegate, Katherine | The One and Only Ivan. |
Auch, Mary Jane | A Dog on His Own. |
Avi | The Good Dog. |
Bond, Rebecca | Escape from Baxter’s Barn. |
Hobbs, Valerie | Sheep. |
Jennings, Patrick | We Can’t All Be Rattlesnakes. |
Kurtz, Christopher | The Adventures of a South Pole Pig. |
**Pilkey, Dav | Dog Man. |
**Reiche, Dietlof | I, Freddy: Book One in the Golden Hamster Saga. |
Schade, Susan | Travels of Thelonious. |
White, Ellen Emerson | Webster: Tale of an Outlaw. |
Biographies
**Armstrong, Jennifer | Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: Shackleton’s Amazing Voyage. |
**Bell, Cece | El Deafo. |
Blumberg, Rhoda | Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy. |
**Coerr, Eleanor | Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. |
Furstinger, Nancy | Mercy: The Incredible Story of Henry Bergh, Founder of the ASPCA and Friend to Animals. |
Hale, Shannon | Real Friends. |
Huynh, Quang Nhuong | The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam. |
**Levine, Karen | Hana’s Suitcase: A True Story. |
Lourie, Peter | Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush. |
Myron, Vicki | Dewey the Library Cat: A True Story. |
**Paulsen, Gary | My Life in Dog Years. |
**Peet, Bill | Bill Peet: An Autobiography. |
**Scieszka, Jon | Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka. |
Sis, Peter | The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin, Naturalist, Geologist & Thinker. |
Sweet, Melissa | Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White. |
**Tillage, Leon Walter | Leon’s Story. |
Tonatiuh, Duncan | Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras. |
Woodson, Jacqueline | Brown Girl Dreaming. |
Fantasy
**Avi | Poppy. |
**Baker, E.D. | The Frog Princess. |
Boniface, William | The Hero Revealed. |
Burt, Marissa | Storybound. |
Corder, Zizou | Lionboy. |
Cowell, Cressida | How to Train Your Dragon. |
Crowl, M. Tara | Eden’s Wish. |
**DiCamillo, Kate | The Magician’s Elephant. |
**Drake, Salamanda | Dragonsdale. |
Epstein, Adam Jay | The Familiars. |
**Farmer, Nancy | Sea of Trolls. |
Gale, Eric Kahn | The Wizard’s Dog. |
Jonell, Lynne | The Sign of the Cat. |
**Kessler, Liz | The Tail of Emily Windsnap. |
**Lindgren, Astrid | Pippi Longstocking. |
Littlewood, Kathryn | Bliss. |
Lyons, Jayne | 100% Wolf. |
**MacDonald, Betty | Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. |
**Marsh, Katherine | The Door by the Staircase. |
**Mass, Wendy | 11 Birthdays. |
**Mlynowski, Sarah | Upside Down Magic. |
**Norton, Mary | The Borrowers. |
**Prineas, Sarah | The Magic Thief. |
Sanders, Stephanie | Villain School: Good Curses Evil. |
**Solomons, David | My Brother is a Superhero. |
**Weston, Robert Paul | The Creature Department. |
Whitehouse, Howard | Zombie Elementary, the Real Story. |
Funny Books
Angleberger, Tom | Poop Fountain! |
Asch, Frank | Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius. |
**Barnett, Mac | The Terrible Two. |
**Blume, Judy | Superfudge. |
**Brooks, Walter R. | Freddy the Detective. |
Buckley, Michael | NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue and Defense Society. |
Cowell, Cressida | How To Train Your Dragon. |
**DiCamillo, Kate | Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures. |
**Griffiths, Andy | The Thirteen Story Treehouse. |
**Gutman, Dan | Miss Daisy is Crazy! |
**Klise, Kate | Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, In Letters, of Liars and Leaks. |
**Korman, Gordon | Swindle. |
**McDonald, Megan | The Sisters Club. |
O’Doherty, David | Danger is Everywhere: A Handbook for Avoiding Danger by Dr. Noel Zone “The Greatest Dangerologist in the World, Ever.” |
**Pichon, Liz | The Brilliant World of Tom Gates. |
Rockwell, Thomas | How to Eat Fried Worms. |
**Sachar, Louis | Sideways Stories from Wayside School. |
Urban, Linda | A Crooked Kind of Perfect. |
Venokur, Ross | The Amazing Frecktacle. |
Ghost & Scary Stories
**Baptiste, Tracey | The Jumbies. |
Brallier, Max | The Last Kids on Earth. |
Cohen, Marina | The Doll’s Eye. |
Coville, Bruce | The Ghost in the Third Row. |
**Dahl, Roald | The Witches. |
DeStefano, Lauren | The Peculiar Night of the Blue Heart. |
Durham, Paul | Luck Uglies. |
Gilman, Charles | Professor Gargoyle. |
**Hahn, Mary Downing | The Old Willis Place: A Ghost Story. |
Half Minute Horrors. | |
Hayes, Christine | Mothman’s Curse. |
**Ibbotson, Eva | Dial-a-Ghost. |
**Johnson, Hal | Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: 20 Chilling Tales From the Wilderness. |
Klise, Kate | Dying to Meet You. |
Lubar, David | Hyde and Shriek: A Monsterterrific Tale. |
Neilsen, David | Dr. Fell and the Playground of Doom. |
Petti, Erin | The Peculiar Haunting of Thelma Bee. |
**Stine, R.L. | Who Let the Ghosts Out? |
Historical Fiction
Brady, Esther Wood | Toliver’s Secret. |
Bradley, Kimberly | The War That Saved My Life. |
Burg, Ann E. | Unbound: A Novel in Verse. |
Cerrito, Angela | The Safest Lie. |
Coats, J. Anderson | The Many Reflections of Miss Jane Deming. |
**Crisp, Marty | White Star: A Dog on the Titanic. |
**DiCamillo, Kate | Raymie Nightingale. |
Erdrich, Louise | The Birchbark House. |
Fussell, Sandy | White Crane. |
Holm, Jennifer L. | Full of Beans. |
Hopkinson, Deborah | A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket. |
Krishnaswami, Uma | Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh. |
LaFaye, A. | Worth. |
Larson, Kirby | Dash. |
**Lord, Bette Bao | In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. |
Martin, Ann M. | Belle Teal. |
Mitchell, Elizabeth | Journey to the Bottomless Pit: The Story of Stephen Bishop and Mammoth Cave. |
Murphy, Jim | Revenge of the Green Banana. |
Sepahban, Lois | Paper Wishes. |
In Other Lands
Burg, Ann E. | Serafina’s Promise. |
Donwerth-Chikamatsu, A. | Somewhere Among. |
**Ellis, Deborah | The Breadwinner. |
Hashimi, Nadia | One Half from the East. |
Nye, Naomi | The Turtle of Oman: A Novel. |
Yelchin, Eugene | Arcady’s Goal. |
Mysteries
Avi | Who Stole the Wizard of Oz? |
Barnett, Mac | The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity. |
Barrett, Tracy | The 100-Year-Old Secret. |
**Bertman, Jennifer C. | The Book Scavenger. |
**Bosch, Pseudonymous | The Name of This Book is Secret. |
Broach, Elise | The Wolf Keepers. |
Buckley, Michael | The Fairy-Tale Detectives. |
**Fairstein, Linda A. | Into the Lion’s Den. |
Fantaskey, Beth | Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter. |
Feldman, Jody | The Gollywhopper Games. |
**Grabenstein, Chris | Home Sweet Motel. |
Lloyd, Natalie | The Key to Extraordinary. |
Lyall, Casey | Howard Wallace, P.I. |
Mass, Wendy | The Candymakers. |
**Quinn, Spencer | Woof: A Bowser and Birdie Mystery. |
Shearer, Alex | Canned. |
Sobol, Donald J. | Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Soccer Scheme. |
**39 Clues | The Maze of Bones. |
Zhang, Kat | Emperor’s Riddle. |
Nonfiction
Cate, Annette LeBlanc | Look Up! Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard. |
Crilley, Mark | The Drawing Lesson: A Graphic Novel That Teaches You How to Draw. |
**Freedman, Russell | Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
**Hatkoff, Isabella | Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship. |
Leatherdale, Mary Beth | Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees. |
**Macaulay, David | Castle. |
**Murphy, Jim | The Great Fire. |
O’Connell, Caitlin | Bridge to the Wild: Behind the Scenes at the Zoo. |
Schanzer, Rosalyn | George vs George: the American Revolution as Seen From Both Sides. |
**Silverstein, Shel | Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein. |
**Watterson, Bill | Yukon Ho! A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury. |
School, Friends & Family
Amato, Mary | The Naked Mole-Rat Letters. |
Blume, Lesley M.M. | Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters. |
**Buyea, Rob | Because of Mr. Terupt. |
**Cleary, Beverly | Dear Mr. Henshaw. |
**Clements, Andrew | No Talking. |
Codell, Esmé Raji | Sahara Special. |
Conklin, Melanie | Counting Thyme. |
Conway, Celeste | The Goodbye Time. |
Cotler, Stephen | Cheesie Mack Is Not a Genius or Anything. |
**DeFelice, Cynthia | Fort. |
DiCamillo, Kate | Because of Winn-Dixie. |
Feiffer, Jules | The Man in the Ceiling. |
Ferber, Brenda A. | Julia’s Kitchen. |
Gantos, Jack | Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key. |
**Gino, Alex | George. |
**Graff, Lisa | The Thing About Georgie: A Novel |
**Grimes, Nikk | Garvey’s Choice. |
**Gutman, Dan | The Homework Machine. |
Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Because of Anya. |
Hill, Kirkpatrick | The Year of Miss Agnes. |
Hurwitz, Michele Weber | Calli Be Gold. |
Lay, Kathryn | Crown Me! |
**Levy, Dana | The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher. |
Lowry, Lois | All About Sam. |
**Martin, Ann M. | Rain Reign. |
Mazer, Norma Fox | Ten Ways to Make My Sister Disappear. |
**Myracle, Lauren | Eleven. |
Nicholls, Sally | Ways to Live Forever. |
**Park, Linda Sue | Project Mulberry: A Novel. |
**Peirce, Lincoln | Big Nate Goes for Broke. |
**Reynolds, Jason | As Brave as You. |
Shovan, Laura | The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary. |
**Tashjian, Janet | My Life as a Book. |
**Van Vleet, Carmella | Eliza Bing Is (Not) a Big, Fat Quitter. |
Walliams, David | Grandpa’s Great Escape. |
**Weeks, Sarah | Save Me a Seat. |
**Weisman, Elissa Brent | Nerd Camp. |
Science Fiction
Anderson, M.T. | Whales on Stilts. |
**Angleberger, Tom | Rocket and Groot: Stranded on Planet Strip Mall! |
**Brown, Jeffrey | Star Wars: Jedi Academy. |
**Brown, Peter | Wild Robot. |
**Byrd, Tim | Doc Wilde and the Frogs of Doom. |
Cameron, Eleanor | The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. |
**Gutman, Dan | The Lincoln Project. |
**Holm, Jennifer | The Fourteenth Goldfish. |
Klass, David | Stuck on Earth. |
Montgomery, Ross | Perijee and Me. |
**Pattersom, James | House of Robots. |
Scieszka, Jon | 2095. |
Star Wars | The Lost City of the Jedi. |
Superman | Last Son of Krypton. |
Sports
**Christopher, Matt | The Fox Steals Home. |
Coy, John | Top of the Order. |
Green, Tim | Football Genius: A Novel. |
Korman, Gordon | The Toilet Paper Tigers. |
Lupica, Mike | Safe at Home: A Comeback Kids Novel. |
Lorenzi, Natalie Dias | A Long Pitch Home. |
**Park, Barbara | Skinnybones. |
Peirce, Lincoln | Big Nate: Game On! |
Testa, Maria | Some Kind of Pride. |
**Trifunov, David | Ice Time. |
Wallace, Rich | Sports Camp. |
Fifth Grade Reading Level Books
The following list contains a selection of books to satisfy the wide variety of reading levels and interests of fifth grade readers. Most of the authors listed have written other books at this level.
Adventure and Survival
**Barry, Dave | The Worst Class Trip Ever. |
Black, Holly | Doll Bones. |
Creech, Sharon | The Wanderer. |
**George, Jean Craighead | My Side of the Mountain. |
Gutman, Dan | Getting Air. |
**Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Running Out of Time. |
Hesse, Karen | The Music of Dolphins. |
**Hiaasen, Carl | Chomp. |
Kehret, Peg | Earthquake Terror. |
Kelley, Jane | Nature Girl. |
Key, Watt | Hideout. |
**Konigsburg, E.L. | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. |
**Korman, Gordon | Shipwreck. |
London, C. Alexander | We Are Not Eaten by Yaks. |
Oechsle, Michael | The Lost Cipher. |
**Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet. |
**Rivers, Karen | The Girl in the Well Is Me. |
**Sachar, Louis | Holes. |
Salane, Jeffrey | Lawless. |
**Scanlon, Elizabeth | The Great Good Summer. |
Selfors, Suzanne | Smells Like Dog. |
Smith, Roland | Independence Hall. |
**Snicket, Lemony | The Bad Beginning. |
**Stone, Jeff | Tiger. |
**Taylor, Theodore | The Cay. |
Tougas, Shelley | The Graham Cracker Plot. |
Wallace, Brandon | Wilder Boys. |
**Watson, Jude | Loot: How to Steal a Fortune. |
Wilson, N.D. | Leepike Ridge. |
**Wood, Don | Into the Volcano: A Graphic Novel. |
Animal Stories: Real Animals
**Bagnold, Enid | National Velvet. |
Bauer, Michael Gerard | Just a Dog. |
**Creech, Sharon | Moo. |
Dinerstein, Eric | What Elephants Know. |
**Farley, Walter | The Black Stallion. |
Garlick, Nicholas | Storm Horse. |
**George, Jean Craighead | Frightful’s Mountain. |
Henry, Marguerite | Misty of Chincoteague. |
Hobbs, Valerie | Wolf. |
Kehret, Peg | Animals Welcome: A Life of Reading, Writing, and Rescue. |
Kendall, Christine | Riding Chance. |
Knight, Eric | Lassie Come-Home. |
Mowat, Farley | Owls in the Family. |
Pennypacker, Sara | Pax. |
**Rorby, Ginny | How to Speak Dolphin. |
White, Ellen Emerson | Webster: Tale of an Outlaw. |
Animal Stories: Talking Animals
**Appelt, Kathi | Maybe a Fox. |
**Applegate, Katherine | The One and Only Ivan. |
**Baker, E.D. | The Frog Princess. |
Busby, Cylin | The Nine Lives of Jacob Tibbs. |
Carter, Aimee | Simon Thorn and the Wolf’s Den. |
Collins, Suzanne | Gregor the Overlander. |
Fiedler, Lisa | Mouseheart. |
Finney, Patricia | I, Jack. |
**Hunter, Erin | Into the Wild. |
**Jacques, Brian | Redwall. |
Lee, Jenny | Elvis and the Underdogs. |
London, C. Alexander | The Wild Ones. |
Oppel, Kenneth | Silverwing. |
Biographies
Brewster, Hugh | Anastasia’s Album. |
**Bridges, Ruby | Through My Eyes. |
Codell, Esme Raji | Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-to-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade. |
**Copeland, Misty | Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina. |
Dahl, Roald | Boy: Tales of Childhood. |
Engle, Margarita | Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir. |
Fradin, Judith Bloom | Stolen Into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northus, Free Black Man. |
**Freedman, Russell | Lincoln: A Photobiography. |
**Goodall, Jane | My Life with the Chimpanzees. |
Hoge, Robert | Ugly: (A Memoir). |
Houston, Dick | Bulu: African Wonder Dog. |
Lawlor, Laurie | Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit. |
**Mah, Adeline Yen | Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter. |
Paulsen, Gary | How Angel Peterson Got His Name. |
Say, Allen | Drawing from Memory. |
**Sis, Peter | The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. |
**Scieszka, Jon | Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories About Growing Up Scieszka. |
Szabo, Corrine | Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart. |
Woodson, Jacqueline | Brown Girl Dreaming. |
Yousafzai, Malala | I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education and Changed the World. |
Fantasy
Barnhill, Kelly Regan | The Witch’s Boy. |
Black, Holly | The Iron Trial. |
Calonita, Jen | Flunked. |
DiTerlizzi, Tony | The Search for WondLa. |
Drake, Emily | The Magickers. |
**Duane, Diane | So You Want to be a Wizard. |
Ferris, Jean | Once Upon a Marigold. |
**Funke, Cornelia | Dragon Rider. |
**Gaiman, Neil | The Graveyard Book. |
George, Jessica Day | Tuesdays at the Castle. |
**Kerr, P. B. | The Akhenaten Adventure. |
**Law, Ingrid | Savvy. |
Leonard, M.G. | Beetle Boy. |
Littlewood, Kathryn | Bliss. |
**Lloyd, Natalie | A Snicker of Magic. |
Morris, Gerald | The Squire’s Tale. |
Mull, Brandon | Sky Raiders. |
**Nimmo, Jenny | Midnight for Charlie Bone. |
Nix, Garth | Mister Monday. |
Park, Linda Sue | Forest of Wonders. |
**Pierce, Tamora | Alanna: The First Adventure. |
**Riordan, Rick | The Lightning Thief. |
**Sage, Angie | Magyk. |
Sanderson, Brandon | Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians. |
Sands, Kevin | The Blackthorn Key. |
Valente, Catherynne M. | The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. |
Walden, Mark | H.I.V.E. (Higher-Institute-of-Villainous-Education). |
Wilson, N.D. | The 100 Cupboards. |
Winthrop, Elizabeth | The Castle in the Attic. |
Wood, Maryrose | The Mysterious Howling. |
**Wrede, Patricia C | Dealing with Dragons. |
Ghost & Horror Stories
Auxier, Jonathan | The Night Gardener. |
Avi | The Seer of Shadows. |
Beatty, Robert | Serafina and the Black Cloak. |
Cohen, Marina | The Inn Between. |
Delaney, Joseph | Revenge of the Witch. |
Esposito, John | The Fearsome Foursome. |
**Gaiman, Neil | Coraline. |
**Hahn, Mary Downing | Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story. |
Ibbotson, Eva | The Haunting of Granite Falls. |
Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody | School Spirit. |
Kloepfer, John | The Zombie Chasers. |
Poblocki, Dan | The Book of Bad Things. |
Smith, Roland L. | Hoodoo. |
Stine, R.L. | Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories. |
Wallace, Rich | Wicked Cruel. |
Historical Fiction
Baskin, Nora Raleigh | Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story. |
**Behar, Ruth | Lucky Broken Girl. |
Blackford, Cheryl | Lizzie and the Lost Baby. |
Bradford, Chris | Way of the Warrior. |
Bradley, Kimberley | Jefferson’s Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children. |
Cao, Wenxuan | Bronze and Sunflower. |
Fitzmaurice, Kathryn | A Diamond in the Desert. |
Frank, Steven | Armstrong & Charlie. |
Gemeinhart, Dan | Some Kind of Courage. |
Gidwitz, Adam | The Inquisitor’s Tale, or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog. |
Hesse, Karen | Letters from Rifka. |
Holbrook, Sara | The Enemy: Detroit 1954. |
Kelly, Jacqueline | The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. |
Kitchings, Taylor | Yard War. |
**Klages, Ellen | The Green Glass Sea. |
Namioka, Lensey | Ties That Bind, Ties That Break: A Novel. |
**Nielsen, Jennifer A. | A Night Divided. |
Paulsen, Gary | Mr. Tucket. |
Peck, Richard | Fair Weather: A Novel. |
Philbrick, Rodman | The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg. |
Powell, Maud Macrory | City of Grit and Gold. |
Preus, Margi | Heart of a Samurai: Based on the True Story of Nakahama Manjiro. |
Rose, Caroline Starr | Jasper and the Riddle of Riley’s Mine. |
Smith, Roland | Elephant Run. |
**Speare, Elizabeth George | The Sign of the Beaver. |
Voigt, Cynthia | The Book of Lost Things. |
**Williams-Garcia, Rita | One Crazy Summer. |
Holocaust
Bornstein, Michael | Survivors Club : The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz. |
Freedman, Russell | We Will Not Be Silent : The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler. |
Glatstein, Jacob | Emil and Karl. |
Gruenbaum, Michael | Somewhere There is Still a Sun. |
Kacer, Kathy | Hiding Edith. |
**Lowry, Lois | Number the Stars. |
Morpurgo, Michael | The Mozart Question. |
Richter, Hans Peter | Friedrich. |
Spradlin, Michael P. | The Enemy Above. |
Williams, Laura E. | Behind the Bedroom Wall. |
**Yolen, Jane | The Devil’s Arithmetic. |
Humor
**Angleberger, Tom | The Strange Case of Origami Yoda. |
Behrens, Andy | The Fast and the Furriest. |
**Dahl, Roald | The Witches. |
**Fitzgerald, John D. | The Great Brain. |
Fry, Michael | The Odd Squad: Bully Bait. |
Gutman, Dan | Funny Boy Takes On the Chitchatting Cheeses from Chattanooga. |
**Guys Read | Funny Business. |
Hale, Bruce | Curse of the Were-Hyena |
**Hiaasen, Carl | Hoot. |
**Kinney, Jeff | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s Journal. |
**Korman, Gordon | No More Dead Dogs. |
Malone, Jen | Sleepover. |
McMullan, Kate | Have a Hot Time, Hades! |
**Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | The Boys Start the War. |
**O’Donnell, Tom | Hamstersaurus Rex. |
**Patterson, James | Public School Superhero. |
**Peck, Richard | A Year Down Yonder. |
Roberts, Diane | Made You Look: A Novel. |
Rodkey, Geoff | The Tapper Twins Go to War (with Each Other). |
Selden, George | Harry Cat’s Pet Puppy. |
Spalding, Esta | Look Out for the Fitzgerald-Trouts. |
In Other Lands
Agosin, Marjorie | I Lived on Butterfly Hill. |
Al-Mansour, Haifaa | The Green Bicycle. |
Blume, Lesley M.M. | Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters. |
**Ellis, Deborah | The Breadwinner. |
**Hobbs, Will | Crossing the Wire. |
Lewis, Gill | Gorilla Dawn. |
Ryan, Pam Muñoz | Becoming Naomi León. |
Ryan, Pam Muñoz | The Dreamer. |
**Schroeder, Lisa | My Secret Guide to Paris. |
Stone, Phoebe | Paris for Two. |
Misfits & Outcasts
**Baskin, Nora Raleigh | Anything But Typical. |
Blume, Judy | Blubber. |
Dowell, Frances O’Roark | Where I’d Like to Be. |
Draper, Sharon M. | Out of My Mind. |
**Flanagan, John | The Outcasts. |
Gale, Eric Kahn | The Bully Book. |
**Gerber, Alyson | Braced. |
Holt, Kimberly Willis | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town. |
**Hunt, Lynda Mullaly | Fish in a Tree. |
**Palacio, R.J. | Wonder. |
Pla, Sally J. | The Someday Birds. |
**Sachar, Louis | There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom. |
**Spinelli, Jerry | Loser. |
Mysteries & Thrillers
**Balliett, Blue | Chasing Vermeer. |
Balliett, Blue | The Danger Box. |
Bancks, Tristan | On the Run. |
**Barry, Dave | Science Fair: A Story of Mystery, Danger, International Suspense, and a Very Nervous Frog. |
**Bellairs, John | The House with a Clock in Its Walls. |
**Bonk, John | Madhattan Mystery. |
Cherry, Allison | The Classy Crooks Club. |
**Dowd, Siobhan | The London Eye Mystery. |
Fitzgerald, Laura Marx | The Gallery. |
Gibbs, Stuart | Belly Up. |
**Grabenstein, Chris | Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library. |
**Grisham, John | Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer. |
Guys Read | Thriller. |
**Hiaasen, Carl | Scat. |
Horowitz, Anthony | The Falcon’s Malteser: A Diamond Brothers Mystery. |
**Madormo, John | Charlie Collier, Snoop for Hire: The Homemade Stuffing Caper. |
Margolis, Leslie | Girl’s Best Friend. |
Mass, Wendy | The Candymakers. |
Nye, Bill | At the Bottom of the World. |
**Raskin, Ellen | The Westing Game. |
Rylander, Chris | The Fourth Stall. |
Selfors, Suzanne | Smells Like Dog. |
Sharpe, Luke | Billy Sure, Kid Entrepreneur. |
St. Antoine, Sara | Three Bird Summer. |
**Stead, Rebecca | When You Reach Me. |
Stevens, Robin | Murder is Bad Manners. |
**Thompson, Lisa | The Goldfish Boy. |
Wells, Marcia | Mystery on Museum Mile. |
Non-Fiction
Alphin, Tom | The Lego Architect. |
Aronson, Marc | Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners From 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert. |
Albee, Sarah | Why’d They Wear That? Fashion as the Mirror of History. |
**Alexander, Kwame | The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life. |
**Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | Hitler Youth : Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow. |
Bausum, Ann | Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement. |
Bryson, Bill | A Really Short History of Nearly Everything. |
Chadwick, Fergus | The Bee Book. |
Clinton, Chelsea | It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going! |
Frydenborg, Kay | A Dog in the Cave: The Wolves Who Made Us Human. |
Grove, Tim | First Flight Around the World: The Adventures of the American Fliers Who Won the Race. |
Gutman, Dan | My Weird Writing Tips. |
**Iggulden, Conn | The Dangerous Book for Boys. |
Krull, Kathleen | Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (And What the Neighbors Thought). |
Montgomery, Sy | The Great White Shark Scientist. |
**Nelson, Kadir | We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball. |
O’Connor, Jane | The Emperor’s Silent Army : Terracotta Warriors of Ancient China. |
Olson, Tod | Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink. |
Sheinkin, Steve | Lincoln’s Grave Robbers. |
**Stone, Tanya Lee | Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream. |
Thimmesh, Catherine | Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon. |
Thornhill, Jan | The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk. |
Warren, Andrea | Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story. |
Weatherford, Carole Boston | You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen. |
Novels in Poems
Alexander, Kwame | The Crossover. |
**Atkins, Jeannine | Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science. |
Frost, Helen | When My Sister Started Kissing. |
**Hesse, Karen | Witness. |
Hilton, Marilyn | Full Cicada Moon. |
Holt, K.A. | House Arrest. |
**Rose, Caroline Starr | May B.: A Novel. |
Roth, Judith L. | Serendipity and Me. |
Shovan, Laura | The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary. |
**Woodson, Jacqueline | Locomotion. |
School, Friends & Family
**Anderson, John David | Ms. Bixby’s Last Day. |
**Arnold, Elana K | Far From Fair. |
**Buyea, Rob | Because of Mr. Terupt. |
Cavanaugh, Nancy J. | Just Like Me. |
Clark, Catherine | How Not to Run for President. |
Connor, Leslie | All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook. |
Eagar, Lindsay | Hour of the Bees. |
Ferber, Brenda A. | Julia’s Kitchen. |
**Frederick, Heather Vogel | The Mother-Daughter Book Club. |
Gantos, Jack | Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key. |
**Graff, Lisa | Lost in the Sun. |
**Greenwald, Lisa | My Life in Pink and Green. |
Greenwald, Tom | Pete Milano’s Guide to Being a Movie Star. |
Jiménez, Francisco | The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child. |
Kelly, Erin Entrada | The Land of Forgotten Girls. |
Koss, Amy Goldman | The Girls. |
Kowitt, Holly | The Loser List. |
Kuhlman, Evan | The Last Invisible Boy. |
Lane, Kathleen | The Best Worst Thing. |
Lord, Cynthia | Rules. |
Lupar, Eric | Jeremy Bender Vs. the Cupcake Cadets. |
**Margolis, Leslie | Boys are Dogs. |
Nicholls, Sally | Ways to Live Forever. |
O’Connor, Barbara | How to Steal a Dog: A Novel. |
**Patterson, James | The Worst Years of My Life. |
**Peck, Richard | Best Man. |
Shang, Wendy Wan Long | The Great Wall of Lucy Wu. |
**Steveson, Nanci Turner | Swing Sideways. |
**Tolan, Stephanie S. | Surviving the Applewhites. |
Urban, Linda | A Crooked Kind of Perfect. |
Weeks, Sarah | So. Be. It: A Novel. |
**Woodson, Jacqueline | Locomotion. |
Science Fiction
Angleberger, Tom | Fuzzy. |
Christopher, John | The White Mountains. |
DiTerlizzi, Tony | Search for Wondla. |
DuPrau, Jeanne | The City of Ember. |
Fox, Helen | Eager. |
Fry, Jason | Hunt for the Hydra. |
**Gibbs, Stuart | Space Case: A Moon Base Alpha Novel. |
**Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Among the Hidden. |
Key, Alexander | Escape to Witch Mountain. |
**L’Engle, Madeleine | A Wrinkle in Time. |
**Liss, David | Randoms. |
**Lowry, Lois | The Giver. |
Mass, Wendy | Pi in the Sky. |
Rex, Adam | The True Meaning of Smekday. |
Ross, Joel N. | The Fog Diver. |
Smith, Clete Barrett | Aliens on Vacation. |
Star Wars | The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy: An Original Retelling of Star Wars: a New Hope. |
**Stead, Rebecca | When You Reach Me. |
Tesler, Monica | Bounders. |
Short Stories
Bachman, Stefan | The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister. |
Best Shorts: Favorite Short Stories for Sharing. | |
Dahl, Roald | The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, and Six More. |
Guys Read | Other Worlds. |
**Kipling, Rudyard | Just So Stories. |
Poe, Edgar Allan | Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. |
**Riordan, Rick | The Demigod Files. |
Spies & Intrigue
Bernstein, Jonathan | Spy-in-Training. |
Buckley, Michael | NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society. |
**Daneshvari, Gitty | The League of Unexceptional Children. |
**Pearce, Jackson | The Double Cross: And Other Skills I Learned as a Superspy. |
**Ponti, James | Framed. |
Rylander, Chris | Codename Zero. |
**Stewart, Trenton Lee | The Mysterious Benedict Society. |
Sports
Bauer, Joan | Soar. |
Bildner, Phil | A Whole New Ballgame: A Rip & Red Story. |
**Christopher, Matt | Nothin’ But Net. |
Cochrane, Mick | The Girl Who Threw Butterflies. |
**Gantos, Jack | Joey Pigza Loses Control. |
**Green, Tim | Football Hero. |
Gutman, Dan | Babe & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure. |
Gutman, Dan | The Million Dollar Kick. |
Guys Read | Sports Pages. |
Harkrader, L.D. | Airball: My Life in Briefs. |
Kendall, Christine | Riding Chance. |
Lupica, Mike | The Only Game. |
Moore, Steve | No Fear! |
Nall, Gail | Breaking the Ice. |
Palmer, Iva-Marie | Gabby Garcia’s Ultimate Playbook. |
**Reynolds, Jason | Ghost. |
**Ritter, John H. | The Boy Who Saved Baseball. |
Sixth Grade Reading Level Books
The following lists contain a selection of books for sixth grade readers. Many of these titles address the issues of adolescence and are for mature readers.
Adventure & Survival
Animal Stories
Beckhorn, Susan Williams | The Wolf’s Boy. |
Christopher, Lucy | Flyaway. |
**Gipson, Fred | Old Yeller. |
Griffin, Paul | When Friendship Followed Me Home. |
Houck, Colleen | Tiger’s Curse. |
Houston, Dick | Bulu: African Wonder Dog. |
Keating, Jess | How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes are Untied. |
Kelly, Jacqueline | The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate. |
**Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book. |
**Morey, Walt | Gentle Ben. |
**Oppell, Kenneth | Half Brother. |
**Paulsen, Gary | My Life in Dog Years. |
**Rawls, Wilson | Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy. |
Schrefer, Eliot | Rescued. |
Biographies & Memoirs
Alifrienta, Cailtin | I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives. |
Andronik, Catherine M. | Hatshepsut, His Majesty, Herself. |
**Armstrong, Jennifer | Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: Shackleton’s Amazing Voyage. |
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America. |
Blumenthal, Karen | Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography. |
Brimner, Larry Dane | The Rain Wizard: The Amazing, Mysterious, True Life of Charles Mallory Hatfield. |
Fleischman, Sid | Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini. |
Fradin, Judith Bloom | Stolen Into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man. |
Jurmain, Suzanne | Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students. |
**Kamkwamba, William | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. |
Kehret, Peg | Animals Welcome: A Life of Reading, Writing and Rescue. |
Lawlor, Laurie | Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit. |
Lekuton, Joseph | Facing the Lion: Growing up Maasai on the African Savanna. |
Lowery, Lynda Blackmon | Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March. |
**Montgomery, Sy | Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World. |
Noyes, Deborah | Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original “Girl” Reporter Nellie Bly. |
Pfetzer, Mark | Within Reach: My Everest Story. |
Romero, Jordan | No Summit Out of Sight: The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits. |
Fantasy
**Almond, David | Skellig. |
**Barron, T. A. | The Lost Years of Merlin. |
Chainani, Soman | The School for Good and Evil. |
**Chima, Cinda Williams | Warrior Heir. |
**Colfer, Eoin | Artemis Fowl. |
Delaney, Joseph | Revenge of the Witch. |
Dunmore, Helen | Ingo. |
**Flanagan, John | The Ruins of Gorlan. |
**Gidwitz, Adam | A Tale Dark and Grimm. |
Grove, S.E. | The Glass Sentence. |
**Hanley, Victoria | The Seer and the Sword. |
Henderson, Jason | Vampire Rising. |
**Jacques, Brian | Mossflower. |
**Jinks, Catherine | Evil Genius. |
Jones, Diana Wynne | Dark Lord of Derkholm. |
**Levine, Gail Carson | Ella Enchanted. |
**MacHale, D. J. | The Merchant of Death. |
Marsh, Katherine | The Night Tourist. |
Napoli, Donna Jo | Zel. |
**Oppel, Kenneth | Airborn. |
**Pierce, Tamora | Wild Magic. |
Preus, Margi | West of the Moon. |
Pullman, Philip | The Golden Compass. |
**Riordan, Rick | The Sword of Summer. |
**Ryan, Pam Muñoz | Echo. |
**Shan, Darren | Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare. |
Stewart, Martin | Riverkeep: A Novel. |
Thomson, Sarah L. | Deadly Flowers: A Ninja’s Tale. |
Ursu, Anne | The Shadow Thieves. |
**Westerfeld, Scott | Leviathan. |
Historical Fiction
Anderson, Laurie Halse | Fever, 1793. |
**Atkins, Jeannine | Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science. |
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker | Jefferson’s Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children. |
**Bruchac, Joseph | Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two. |
Dumas, Firoozeh | It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel. |
Hughes, Shirley | Hero On a Bicycle. |
**Lane, Andy | Death Cloud. |
**Meyer, L. A. | Bloody Jack : Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy. |
Mone, Gregory | Dangerous Waters: An Adventure on Titanic. |
Philbrick, W.R. | The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg. |
**Rose, Caroline Starr | May B: A Novel. |
**Ryan, Pam Muñoz | Esperanza Rising. |
**Speare, Elizabeth George | The Witch of Blackbird Pond. |
**Taylor, Mildred D. | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. |
Timberlake, Amy | One Came Home. |
Vawter, Vince | Paperboy. |
Wilson, Diane | Black Storm Comin’. |
Wiles, Deborah | Revolution. |
Wolk, Lauren | Wolf Hollow: A Novel. |
Wright, Barbara | Crow. |
Holocaust & Genocide
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | The Boy Who Dared. |
**Boyne, John | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable. |
Gruenbaum, Michael | Somewhere There is Still a Sun. |
Chapman, Fern Schumer | Is It Night or Day? |
Gold, Alison Leslie | A Special Fate : Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust. |
Kherdian, David | The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl. |
Gratz, Alan | Prisoner B-3087. |
Leyson, Leon | The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible…on Schindler’s List. |
Lobel, Anita | No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War. |
**Mazzeo, Tilar J. | Irena’s Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto. |
Orlev, Uri | Run, Boy, Run: A Novel. |
Prins, Marcel | Hidden Like Anne Frank: Fourteen True Stories of Survival. |
**Yolen, Jane | The Devil’s Arithmetic. |
Horror & Ghost Stories
Auxier, Jonathan | The Night Gardener. |
Avi | School of the Dead. |
Bachmann, Stefan | The Cabinet of the Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister. |
**Novel Brosgol, Vera | Anya’s Ghost. |
**Gaiman, Neil | Coraline. |
Oppel, Kenneth | The Nest. |
Wooding, Chris | Malice. |
Humor
Ferraiolo, Jack | The Big Splash. |
Gerhardt, Jake | Me & Miranda Mullaly: A Novel. |
Korman, Gordon | Schooled. |
Lieb, Josh | I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President. |
**Malone, Lee | The Last Boy at St. Edith’s. |
Matson, Stacey | A Year in the Life of a Complete and Total Genius. |
Mowat, Farley | Owls in the Family. |
**Peck, Richard | A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories. |
Stevenson, Noelle | Lumberjanes. |
**Tolan, Stephanie S. | Surviving the Applewhites. |
In Other Lands
**Hobbs, Will | Crossing the Wire. |
Lai, Thanhha | Listen, Slowly. |
Nye, Naomi Shihab | Habibi. |
**Resau, Laura | The Lightning Queen. |
Venkatraman, Padma | A Time to Dance. |
Volponi, Paul | Game Seven. |
**Whelan, Gloria | Homeless Bird. |
Misfits & Outcasts
**Abbott, Tony | Firegirl. |
**Bell, Cici | El Deafo. |
**Choldenko, Gennifer | If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period. |
Cole, Brock | The Goats. |
**Earle, Phil | The Bubble Wrap Boy. |
Gephart, Donna | Lily and Dunkin. |
**Howe, James | The Misfits. |
**Hughes, Mark Peter | Lemonade Mouth. |
Koss, Amy | The Girls. |
Lubar, David | Hidden Talents. |
Norriss, Andrew | Friends for Life. |
Philbrick, W.Rodman | Freak the Mighty. |
Potter, Ellen | Slob. |
Schmatz, Pat | Bluefish. |
**Sloan, Holly Goldberg | Counting by 7s. |
Shusterman, Neal | The Schwa Was Here. |
Sonnichsen, A.L. | Red Butterfly. |
**Tan, Shaun | The Arrival. |
**Telgemeier, Raina | Smile. |
Mysteries & Thrillers
**Abrahams, Peter | Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery. |
**Avi | Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts. |
Berk, Josh | Strike Three, You’re Dead. |
Dionne, Erin | Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking: A 14-Day Mystery. |
Duncan, Lois | Don’t Look Behind You. |
Feinberg, Anna | Number 8. |
Feinstein, John | Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery. |
Hoobler, Dorothy | The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn. |
**Lane, Andy | Death Cloud. |
Lawrence, Caroline | The Thieves of Ostia: A Roman Mystery. |
Markell, Denis | Click Here to Start: A Novel. |
Roberts, Willo Davis | The View from the Cherry Tree. |
**Shusterman, Neal | The Shadow Club. |
Smith, Roland | Zach’s Lie. |
St. Antoine, Sara | Three Bird Summer. |
Weeks, Sarah | So. B. It: A Novel. |
Winters, Ben H. | The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman. |
Non-Fiction
Adamson, Joy | Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds. |
Bragg, Georgia | How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous. |
Fleming, Candace | The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, & the Fall of Imperial Russia. |
Freedman, Russell | We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler. |
Humphreys, Jessica Dee | Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War. |
Kidd, Chip | Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design. |
Levinson, Cynthia | We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March. |
**Macaulay, David | The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body. |
**Menzel, Peter | What the World Eats. |
Montgomery, Sy | Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa’s Fastest Cat. |
O’Connell, Caitlin | The Elephant Scientist. |
Sheinkin, Steve | Bomb: The Race to Build–and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon. |
Novels in Verse
Alexander, Kwame | The Crossover. |
Bingham, Kelly | Shark Girl. |
Burg, Ann E. | All the Broken Pieces: A Novel in Verse. |
Frost, Helen | Hidden. |
Grimes, Nikki | Planet Middle School. |
Grover, Lorie Ann | On Pointe. |
Hilton, Marilyn | Full Cicada Moon. |
Holt, K.A. | House Arrest. |
**Lai, Thanha | Inside Out & Back Again. |
**Sones, Sonya | What My Mother Doesn’t Know. |
Sonnichsen, A.L. | Red Butterfly. |
School, Family & Growing Up
Amato, Mary | Guitar Notes. |
**Baskin, Nora Raleigh | Anything but Typical. |
Benjamin, Ali | The Thing About Jellyfish. |
Blacker, Terence | Boy2Girl. |
**Bloor, Edward | Tangerine. |
**Cabot, Meg | The Princess Diaries. |
Dionne, Erin | The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet. |
Eland, Lindsay | 5 Times Revenge. |
**Friedman, Aimee | The Year My Sister Got Lucky. |
Friend, Natasha | Perfect. |
Gerhardt, Jake | Me & Miranda Mullaly: A Novel. |
Harrington, Karen | Mayday. |
Kent, Rose | Rocky Road. |
Kinney, Jeff | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s Journal. |
**Lord, Cynthia | Half a Chance. |
**Malone, Lee | The Last Boy at St. Edith’s. |
Mass, Wendy | A Mango-Shaped Space: A Novel. |
McVoy, Terra Elan | Drive Me Crazy. |
Mills, Claudia | Zero Tolerance. |
Ness, Patrick | A Monster Calls: A Novel. |
**Patterson, James | The Worst Years of My Life. |
Paulsen, Gary | Six Kids and a Stuffed Cat. |
Philbin, Joanna | The Daughters. |
**Sachar, Louis | Holes. |
Schmatz, Pat | Bluefish. |
**Schmidt, Gary D. | The Wednesday Wars. |
**Sloan, Holly Goldberg | Counting by 7s. |
Sonnenblick, Jordan | Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie. |
Springstubb, Tricia | Every Single Second. |
**Stead, Rebecca | Liar & Spy. |
**Trueman, Terry | Stuck in Neutral. |
**Van Draanen, Wendelin | Flipped. |
Science Fiction
**Anderson, John David | Insert Coin to Continue. |
Angler, Evan | Swipe. |
Black, Peter Jay | Urban Outlaws. |
**Card, Orson Scott | Ender’s Game. |
**Clements, Andrew | Things Not Seen. |
**Dashner, James | The Maze Runner. |
**Falls, Kat | Dark Life. |
Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Children of Exile. |
Klass, David | Stuck on Earth. |
**Landon, Kristen | The Limit. |
**Lowry, Lois | Gathering Blue. |
Nelson, O. T. | The Girl Who Owned a City. |
Nix, Garth | Shade’s Children. |
**Philbrick, W. R. | The Big Dark. |
**Pratchett, Terry | Only You Can Save Mankind. |
Reeve, Philip | Mortal Engines: A Novel. |
**Sachar, Louis | Fuzzy Mud. |
Smith, Alexander Gordon | Lockdown: Escape from Furnace. |
Zahn, Timothy | Dragon and Thief: A Dragonback Adventure. |
Short Stories
Fleming, Candace | On the Day I Died: Stories From the Grave. |
Gaiman, Neil | Unnatural Creatures: Stories. |
Lubar, David | In the Land of the Lawn Weenies and Other Misadventures. |
**Poe, Edgar Allan | The Pit and the Pendulum: And Other Stories. |
Saki | The Story-Teller: Thirteen Tales by Saki. |
Shelton, Dave | Thirteen Chairs. |
**Stine, R.L. | The Haunting Hour. |
Weiss, M. Jerry | This Family is Driving Me Crazy: Ten Stories About Surviving Your Family. |
Spies & Intrigue
**Carter, Ally | I’d Tell You I Love You, but Then I’d Have to Kill You. |
**Gibbs, Stuart | Spy School. |
Hale, Bruce | Playing with Fire. |
Heath, Jack | The Lab. |
Higgins, Jack | Sure Fire. |
**Higson, Charles | Silverfin: A James Bond Adventure. |
Horowitz, Anthony | Stormbreaker. |
**Lerangis, Peter | The Code. |
Walden, Mark | H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education. |
Sports
Alexander, Kwame | Crossover. |
Bates, Sonya Spreen | Off the Rim. |
Cochrane, Mick | The Girl Who Threw Butterflies. |
Crutcher, Chris | Ironman: A Novel. |
Feinstein, John | The Walk On. |
Freitas, Donna | Gold Medal Winter. |
**Green, Tim | Baseball Great. |
Heldring, Thatcher | The League. |
**Jamieson, Victoria | Roller Girl. |
Korman, Gordon | Pop. |
**Lupica, Mike | Travel Team. |
Mack, W.C. | Athlete Vs. Mathlete. |
Northrop, Michael | Plunked. |
Wallace, Rich | Curveball. |
Seventh and Eight Grade Reading Level
The following lists contain a selection of books to satisfy the wide variety of reading levels and interests of 7th and 8th grade readers. Many of these titles address the issues of adolescence and are for mature readers. Most of the authors listed have written other books at this level. When available the book’s Lexile number is listed after the title.
Adventure & Survival
Arnold, David | Mosquitoland. |
Avi | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. |
**Bray, Libba | Going Bovine. |
**Gilman, David | The Devil’s Breath. |
**Golding, William | Lord of the Flies: A Novel. |
Griffin, Paul | Adrift. |
Higgins, Jack | Sure Fire. |
Hobbs, Will | Take Me to the River. |
**Kephart, Beth | This Is the Story of You. |
Klavan, Andrew | If We Survive. |
Lake, Nick | Hostage Three. |
**Nijkamp, Marieke | This is Where It Ends. |
Northrop, Michael | Trapped. |
Perkins, Lynne Rae | As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth. |
**Pratchett, Terry | Nation. |
Tanen, Sloane | Are You Going to Kiss Me Now? |
Voigt, Cynthia | Homecoming. |
Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs
**Beals, Melba | Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High. |
Burch, Jennings Michael | They Cage the Animals at Night. |
Codell, Esmé | Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year. |
Crutcher, Chris | King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography. |
DePrince, Michaela | Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina. |
Fradin, Judith Bloom | Stolen Into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man. |
Hamilton, Bethany | Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board. |
Heiligman, Deborah | Charles and Emma : the Darwins’ Leap of Faith. |
**Hickam, Homer H. | Rocket Boys: A Memoir. |
Jennings, Jazz | Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen. |
**Jiang, Ji-li | Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution. |
Lee, Sungju | Every Falling Star: How I Survived and Escaped North Korea. |
**Opdyke, Irene Gut | In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer. |
**Pelzer, David J. | A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive. |
Samanci, Özge | Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up In Turkey. |
Seiple, Samantha | Lincoln’s Spymaster: Allan Pinkerton, America’s First Private Eye. |
**Silverstein, Ken | The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor. |
Tarbox, Katherine | A Girl’s Life Online. |
Turner, Pamela S. | Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune. |
Yousafzai, Malala | I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World. |
Crime & Punishment
**Dessen, Sarah | Saint Anything. |
**Fisher, Catherine | Incarceron. |
Hawes, Louise | The Language of Stars. |
**Lange, Erin Jade | Rebel, Bully, Geek, Pariah. |
**Mikaelsen, Ben | Touching Spirit Bear. |
**Myers, Walter Dean | Lockdown. |
**Nijkamp, Marieke | This is Where It Ends. |
**Pearsall, Shelley | The Seventh Most Important Thing. |
Rollins, Danielle | Burning. |
Fantasy
Alward, Amy | Madly. |
**Bardugo, Leigh | Shadow and Bone. |
Beddor, Frank | The Looking Glass Wars. |
**Cashore, Kristin | Graceling. |
**Chabon, Michael | Summerland. |
**Chima, Cinda Williams | The Demon King: A Seven Realms Novel. |
**Clare, Cassandra | City of Bones. |
Connolly, Tina | Seriously Wicked. |
Estep, Jennifer | Cold Burn of Magic. |
Goldman, William | The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure. |
Hamilton, Alwyn | Rebel of the Sands. |
Harris, Joanne | Runemarks. |
**Horowitz, Anthony | Raven’s Gate. |
**Le Guin, Ursula | A Wizard of Earthsea. |
Matharu, Taran | The Novice. |
McNeal, Tom | Far, Far, Away. |
Neumeier, Rachel | The Keeper of the Mist. |
**Nix, Garth | Sabriel. |
Pratchett, Terry | The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel. |
**Pullman, Philip | The Golden Compass. |
Rees, Celia | Witch Child. |
Scott, Michael | The Alchemyst. |
**Shan, Darren | Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare. |
Sheehan, Judy | I Woke Up Dead at the Mall. |
**Stiefvater, Maggie | The Scorpio Races. |
**Westerfeld, Scott | Afterworlds. |
Historical Fiction
Alban, Andrea | Anya’s War. |
**Anderson, Laurie Halse | Chains. |
Bayard, Louis | Lucky Strikes. |
Blackwood, Gary L. | Around the World in 100 Days. |
Bowman, Erin | Vengence Road. |
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker | Jefferson’s Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children. |
Hahn, Mary Downing | Mister Death’s Blue-Eyed Girls. |
Hunt, Irene | No Promises in the Wind. |
Lisle, Janet Taylor | Black Duck. |
Lee, Stacey | Outrun the Moon. |
Mills, Wendy | All We Have Left. |
Namioka, Lensey | Ties that Bind, Ties that Break: A Novel. |
Paulsen, Gary | Woods Runner. |
**Schlitz, Laura Amy | The Hired Girl. |
**Sepetys, Ruta | Salt to the Sea: A Novel. |
**Waller, Sharon Biggs | The Forbidden Orchid. |
**Walter, Jon | My Name is Not Friday. |
**Wood, Maryrose | The Poison Diaries. |
Holocaust & Genocide
Gleitzman, Morris | Once. |
**Hesse, Monica | Girl in the Blue Coat. |
Hillman, Laura | I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler’s List Survivor. |
Rappaport, Doreen | Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust. |
Rauch, Georg | Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army. |
Savit, Gavriel | Anna and the Swallow Man. |
**Spiegelman, Art | Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History. |
**Zusak, Markus | The Book Thief. |
Horror
Alender, Katie | The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall. |
Damico, Gina | Wax. |
**De la Cruz, Melissa | Blue Bloods. |
**Griffin, Bethany | The Fall. |
Helpern, Jake | Nightfall. |
Higson, Charles | The Enemy. |
Hunt, Leo | 13 Days of Midnight. |
Klause, Annette Curtis | Blood and Chocolate. |
Knudson, Michelle | Evil Librarian. |
Laybourne, Emmy | Sweet. |
McKenzie, Paige | The Haunting of Sunshine Girl: Book One. |
Ostow, Micol | The Devil and Winnie Flynn. |
Rollins, Danielle | Burning. |
Stratton, Allan | The Dogs. |
Ward, Kaitlin | Bleeding Earth. |
Waters, Daniel | Generation Dead. |
**Westerfeld, Scott | Peeps: A Novel. |
Humor
**Cabot, Meg | The Princess Diaries. |
**Carter, Ally | Heist Society. |
Dinan, Kurt | Don’t Get Caught. |
**Easton, Tom | Boys Don’t Knit (In Public). |
David, Stuart | My Brilliant Idea (And How It Caused My Downfall). |
Hannan, Peter | My Big Mouth: 10 Songs I Wrote That Almost Got Me Killed. |
Jones, Diana Wynne | Dark Lord of Derkholm. |
**Korman, Gordon | Son of the Mob. |
Rubens, Michael | The Bad Decisions Playlist. |
Schreiber, Joe | Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick. |
Strand, Jeff | The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever. |
In Other Lands
**Moriarty, Jaclyn | Feeling Sorry for Celia. |
Mulligan, Andy | Trash. |
Saeed, Aisha | Written in the Stars. |
Schrefer, Eliot | Endangered. |
Sullivan, Tara | The Bitter Side of Sweet. |
Venkatraman, Padma | A Time to Dance. |
Welch, Jenna Evans | Love & Gelato. |
Zusak, Markus | Fighting Ruben Wolfe. |
LGBTQ+
Albertalli, Becky | Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. |
Brown, Jaye Robin | Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit. |
Gephart, Donna | Lily and Dunkin. |
Gregorio, I.W. | None of the Above. |
Jennings, Jazz | Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen. |
**Levithan, David | Boy Meets Boy. (730) |
Logan, Kenneth | True Letters From a Fictional Life. |
**Myracle, Lauren | Kissing Kate. (710) |
**Nelson, Jandy | I’ll Give You the Sun. |
Peters, Julie Ann | Luna: A Novel. |
Saenz, Benjamin | Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. |
**Tamaki, Mariko | Saving Montgomery Sole. |
Ward, Kaitlin | Bleeding Earth. |
Wilkinson, Lili | Pink. |
Williamson, Lisa | The Art of Being Normal. |
Misfits & Outcasts
**Alexie, Sherman | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. |
Anderson, Laurie Halse | Speak. |
**Asher, Jay | Th1rteen R3asons Why: A Novel. |
Bennett, Cherie | Life in the Fat Lane. |
**Bloor, Edward | Tangerine. |
Cormier, Robert | The Chocolate War. |
Crutcher, Chris | Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes: A Novel. |
Giles, Gail | Girls Like Us. |
Halpern, Julie | Get Well Soon. |
**Hinton, S.E. | The Outsiders. |
**Howe, James | The Misfits. |
**Klass, David | Losers Take All: A Novel. |
**Leavitt, Martine | Calvin. |
Littman, Sarah | Backlash. |
**Murphy, Julie | Dumplin’ |
Myers, Walter Dean | Monster. |
Ness, Patrick | A Monster Calls: A Novel. |
**Niven, Jennifer | Holding Up the Universe. |
**Portes, Andrea | The Fall of Butterflies. |
Smale, Holly | Geek Girl. |
**Spinelli, Jerry | Stargirl. |
**Stork, Francisco X. | The Memory of Light. |
Thomas, Leah | Because You’ll Never Meet Me. |
Mysteries & Thrillers
Alender, Katie | Famous Last Words. |
Charbonneau, Joelle | Need. |
Cooney, Caroline B. | The Face on the Milk Carton. |
Deuker, Carl | Payback Time. |
Duncan, Lois | Killing Mr. Griffin. |
**Fitzgerald, Sarah Moore | The Apple Tart of Hope. |
Gangsei, Jan | Zero Day. |
**Haddon, Mark | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: a Novel. |
Hayes, Daniel | The Trouble with Lemons. |
Henry, April | The Body in the Woods. |
Jaffe, Michele | Bad Kitty. |
King, Laurie R. | The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, or, On the Segregation of the Queen. |
**Lane, Andy | Death Cloud. |
Levithan, David | Every You, Every Me. |
**Miranda, Megan | The Safest Lies. |
**Patterson, James | Confessions of a Murder Suspect. |
**Priest, Cherie | I am Princess X. |
Sorrells, Walter | First Shot. |
**Ward, Rachel | Numbers. |
Werlin, Nancy | The Killer’s Cousin. |
Nonfiction
**Armstrong, Jennifer | Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: Shackleton’s Amazing Voyage. |
**Bartoletti, Susan Campbell | They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group. |
Brown, Daniel James | The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team’s Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics. |
**Dye, Dan | Amazing Gracie: A Dog’s Tale. |
Ford, Amanda | Be True to Your Self: A Daily Guide for Teenage Girls. |
Freedman, Russell | Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America. |
**Goldschneider, Gary | The Secret Language of Birthdays: Personology Profiles for Each Day of the Year. |
Hoase, Phillip M. | The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club. |
Krizmanic, Judy | The Teen’s Vegetarian Cookbook. |
Miller, Sarah Elizabeth | The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & the Trial of the Century. |
**Murphy, Jim | An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. |
Peabody, Erin | A Weird and Wild Beauty: The Story of Yellowstone, the World’s First National Park. |
Schanzer, Rosalyn | Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem. |
Seiple, Samantha | Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska’s WWII Invasion. |
Sheinkin, Steve | Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War. |
Novels in Poems
Bodger, Holly | 5 to 1: A Novel. |
Crossan, Sarah | One. |
Crowder, Melanie | Audacity. |
Engle, Margarita | The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist. |
Frank, Lucy | Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling. |
Hopkins, Ellen | Crank. |
McVoy, Terra Elan | After the Kiss. |
Mass, Wendy | Heaven Looks a Lot Like a Mall. |
Nelson, Marilyn | American Ace. |
Ostlere, Cathy | Karma: A Novel in Verse. |
Sandell, Lisa Ann | Song of the Sparrow. |
**Sones, Sonya | Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy. |
**Sones, Sonya | What My Mother Doesn’t Know. |
Venkatraman, Padma | A Time to Dance. |
**Wolff, Virginia Euwer | Make Lemonade. |
Relationships
**Cabot, Meg | Princess in Love. |
**Dessen, Sarah | This Lullaby: A Novel. |
Dinnison, Kris | You and Me and Him. |
**Eulberg, Elizabeth | Prom & Prejudice. |
**Flinn, Alex | Beastly. |
**Friedman, Aimee | Two Summers. |
Hall, Sandy | Signs Point to Yes. |
Greene, Bette | Summer of My German Soldier. |
Huntley, Amy | The Everafter. |
Kiely, Brendan | The Last True Love Story. |
**Kinsella, Sophie | Finding Audrey. |
Klause, Annette Curtis | The Silver Kiss. |
Lindstrom, Eric | Not If I See You First. |
Luper, Eric | Seth Baumgartner’s Love Manifesto. |
Smith, Jennifer E. | The Comeback Season. |
Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories. | |
West, Kasie | P.S. I Like You. |
School, Family & Growing Up
**Brashares, Ann | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. |
Calonita, Jen | Belles. |
Culbertson, Kim A. | The Possibility of Now. |
**Danticat, Edwidge | Untwine: A Novel. |
**Dessen, Sarah | What Happened to Goodbye. |
Fleischman, Paul | Whirligig. |
**Friend, Natasha | Where You’ll Find Me. |
Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Takeoffs and Landings. |
Hoban, Julia | Willow. |
LaMarche, Una | Don’t Fail Me Now. |
Longo, Jennifer | Up to This Pointe. |
**Mackler, Carloyn | Tangled. |
**Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin | We are All Made of Molecules. |
Rallison, Janette | My Double Life. |
**Rice, Luanne | The Secret Language of Sisters. |
**Sachar, Louis | The Cardturner: A Novel About a King, a Queen, and a Joker. |
Schmidt, Gary D. | Orbiting Jupiter. |
Shen, Prudence | Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong. |
Sloan, Holly Goldberg | I’ll Be There: A Novel. |
Sonnenblick, Jordan | Falling Over Sideways. |
Tamaki, Mariko | This One Summer. |
Van Draanen, Wendelin | The Running Dream. |
**Wolff, Virginia Euwer | Make Lemonade. |
Science Fiction
**Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. |
**Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451. |
**Card, Orson Scott | Ender’s Shadow. |
Engdahl, Sylvia | Enchantress from the Stars. |
Farmer, Nancy | The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm: A Novel. |
Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Turnabout. |
Heinlein, Robert A. | Tunnel in the Sky. |
Jones, Diana Wynne | Hexwood. |
Kincaid, S.J. | Insignia. |
**Lancaster, Mike A. | Human.4. |
Lewis, J. S. | Invasion: A C.H.A.O.S. Novel. |
Lore, Pitticus | I Am Number Four. |
McCaffrey, Anne | Dragonflight. |
Mullin, Mike | Ashfall. |
Nix, Garth | A Confusion of Princes. |
Nix, Garth | Shade’s Children. |
Stracher, Cameron | The Water Wars. |
Vizzini, Ned | Be More Chill. |
Zahn, Timothy | Dragon and Thief: A Dragonback Adventure. |
Dystopias
**Bacigalupi, Paolo | Ship Breaker. |
**Card, Orson Scott | Pathfinder. |
Charbonneau, Joelle | The Testing. |
**Condie, Allyson Braithwaite | Matched. |
**Collins, Suzanne | The Hunger Games |
**Dashner, James | The Maze Runner. |
Dockter, Debra | Deadly Design. |
**Doctorow, Cory | Little Brother. |
Duyvis, Corinne | On the Edge of Gone. |
Hautman, Pete | Rash. |
Jones, Carrie | Flying. |
Jordan, Sophie | Uninvited. |
Landers, Melissa | Starflight. |
London, Alex | Proxy. |
Mariz, Rae | The Unidentified. |
**Metzger, Lois | Change Places With Me. |
Ness, Patrick | The Knife of Never Letting Go. |
**Oliver, Lauren | Delirium. |
**Pearson, Mary | The Adoration of Jenna Fox. |
Shusterman, Neal | Unwind. |
**Wells, Robinson | Dark Energy. |
**Westerfeld, Scott | Uglies. |
Short Stories
Datlow, Ellen | After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia. |
Strahan, Jonathan | Life on Mars: Tales From the New Frontier: An Original Science Fiction Anthology. (890) |
Lubar, David | The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies: And Other Warped and Creepy Tales. (590) |
**Perkins, Stephanie | My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories. |
Myers, Walter Dean | 145th Street: Short Stories. |
Aronson, Marc | Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court. |
Marr, Melissa | Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales. |
**Angel, Ann | Such a Pretty Face: Short Stories About Beauty. |
Tan, Shaun | Lost and Found. |
Spies & Intrigue
Benway, Robin | Also Known As. |
**Brennan, Herbie | The Shadow Project. |
Carriger, Gail | Etiquette & Espionage. |
Muchamore, Robert | The Recruit. |
Richmond, Caroline Tung | Darkest Hour. |
Stone, Sonja | Desert Dark.
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Sports
Carter, Caela | Tumbling. |
**Coy, John | Crackback. |
Deuker, Carl | Gutless. |
Dominy, Amy Fellner | A Matter of Heart. |
**Garner, Paula | Phantom Limbs. |
**Gibney, Shannon | See No Color. |
Halpin, Brendan | Shutout |
Johnson, Shawn | The Flip Side. |
**Klass, David | Losers Take All:A Novel. |
**Lupica, Mike | QB 1. |
**Murdock, Catherine Gilbert | Dairy Queen: A Novel. |
**Padian, Maria | Out of Nowhere. |
Aronson, Marc | Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court. |
Sullivan, Derek | Biggie. |
Van Draanan, Wendelin | The Running Dream. |
Volponi, Paul | Top Prospect. |
Withers, Pam | Andreo’s Race. |
War
**Collier, James | My Brother Sam is Dead. |
**Cooper, James Fenimore | The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757. |
Hughes, Dean | Soldier Boys. |
Lynch, Chris | I Pledge Allegiance. |
Mazer, Harry | The Last Mission. |
Myers, Walter Dean | Fallen Angels. |
Myers, Walter Dean | Invasion. |
Myers, Walter Dean | Sunrise Over Fallujah. |
Park, Linda Sue | A Long Walk to Water: A Novel. |
Rauch, Georg | Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army. |
Books to Read Before You Leave 8th Grade
**Adams, Douglas | The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. |
**Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women. |
**Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. |
**Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre. |
**Card, Orson Scott | Ender’s Game. |
**Carroll, Lewis | Alice in Wonderland. |
**Christie, Agatha | And Then There Were None. |
**Cisneros, Sandra | The House on Mango Street. |
**Collodi, Carlo | Pinocchio. |
**Cooper, James Fenimore | The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757. |
Cormier, Robert | The Chocolate War. |
**Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist. |
**Frank, Anne | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. |
**Golding, William | Lord of the Flies: A Novel. |
Hamilton, Virginia | The House of Dies Drear. |
**Hinton, S.E. | The Outsiders. |
**Kipling, Rudyard | The Jungle Book. |
**Knowles, John | A Separate Peace. |
**Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird. |
**Lewis, C.S. | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. |
**London, Jack | The Call of the Wild. |
**Lowry, Lois | The Giver. |
Martinez, Victor | Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida: A Novel. |
**ODell, Scott | Island of the Blue Dolphins. |
**Osborne, Mary Pope | American Tall Tales. |
**Paulsen, Gary | Hatchet. |
Poe, Edgar Allan | The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. |
Pullman, Philip | The Golden Compass. |
Pyle, Howard | The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire. |
**Rawls, Wilson | Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy. |
**Sachar, Louis | Holes. |
Saki | The Story-Teller: Thirteen Tales by Saki. |
Salinger, J.D. | The Catcher in the Rye. |
**Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. |
Steinbeck, John | The Red Pony. |
**Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island. |
Sutcliff, Rosemary | The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. |
**Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again. |
**Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. |
Voigt, Cynthia | Homecoming. |
Woodson, Jacqueline | If You Come Softly. |