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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.

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.