Reading List

PRIMARY GRADES P - 3

THIRD GRADE EXTENDED READING

GOOD BEGINNING CHAPTER BOOKS

NOVELS WITH A BROAD AGE SPAN OF INTEREST FOR FAMILY SHARING

UPPER ELEMENTARY : GRADES 3 - 5

4th & 5th GRADE BOOKS RECOMENDED BY OUR ROOSEVELT LIBRARIAN

FICTION

• Old Black Fly - Jim Aylesworth
• Arthur's Family Vacation - Marc Brown
• The Chalk Box Kid - Clyde Robert Bulla
• Golly Sisters Ride Again - Betsy Byars
• In the Tall, Tall Grass - Denise Fleming
• The King, The Princess, and the Tinker - Ellen Kindt McKenzie
• Mr. Putter and Tabby Pick the Pears (series) - Cynthia Rylant
• Albert's Ballgame - Leslie Tyron
• Max and Ruby's Midas: Another Greek Myth - Rosemary Wells

FOLKLORE

• Anansi Finds a Fool - Verna Aardema
• The Great Ball Game. A Muskogee Story - Joseph Bruchac
• Too Much Talk - Angela Shelf Medearis
• Tops and Bottoms - Janet Stevens

NONFICTION

• Fossils Tell of Long Ago - Aliki
• Bigmama's - Donald Crews
• Makeup Art - Ron Freeman
• My Place in Space - Robin & Sally Hirst
• I Love Guinea Pigs - Dick King-Smith
• If You Should Hear A Honey Guide - April Pulley Sayre
• From Pictures to Words - Janet Stevens

POETRY

• A Cup of Starshine: Poems and Pictures for Young Children
• Who Shrank My Grandmother's House? Poems of Discovery - Barbara Juster Esbensen
• All Join In - Quintin Blake
• Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers: A Collection of Family Poems - Mary Ann Hoberman
• Blast Off! Poems About Space - Lee Bennett Hopkins
• Soap Soup and Other Verses - Karla Kuskin
• July is a Mad Mosquito - J. Patrick Lewis
• One Sun: Book of Terse Verse - Bruce McMillan
• Sunflakes: Poems for Children

REALISTIC FICTION

• Freckle Juice - Judy Blume
• Giving Tree - Shell Silverstein
• Homer Price - Robert McCoskey
• Muggie Maggie - Beverly Cleary

HISTORICAL FICTION

• Annie and the Old One - Miska Miles
• Farmer Boy - Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Follow the Drinking - Jeanette Winter
• Penny in the Road - Katharina W. Precek
• Wagon Wheels - Barbara Brenner
• Who Came Down That Road? - George Ella Lyon

FANTASY / SCIENCE FICTION

• Caitlin's Holiday - Helen Griffith
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle - Betty MacDonald
• Sideways Stories from Wayside School - Louis Sachar
• Stuart Little - E.B. White
• Velveteen Rabbit - L. Frank Baum

MYSTERY / ADVENTURE

• Boxcar Children - Gertrude Warner
• Eleventh Hour - Graeme Base
• Encyclopedia Brown - Donald Sobol

FOLK & FAIRY TALES / FABLES / LEGENDS / TALL TALES / MYTHS

• Enchanted Tapestry - Robert San Souci
• Favorite Greek Myths - Mary Pope Osborn
• Fisherman and His Wife - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
• Keepers of the Animals - Michael Caduto
• Oxfam Book of Children's Stories - Mike Rosen
• Paul Bunyan - Steven Kellogg
• Pecos Bill - Brian Gleeson
• Tale of the Mandarin Ducks - Katherine Paterson

BIOGRAPHY

• Hellen Keller - Stewart and Polly Ann Graff
• Story of Alexander Graham Bell - Margaret Davidson
• Story of Harriet Tubman - Kate McMullan or other editions

NONFICTION

• Ocean Alphabet Book - Jerry Pallotta
• Kites Sail High - Ruth Heller
• Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor - Joanna Cole
• Many Luscious Lollipops - Ruth Heller
• Life in a Tidal Pool - Alvin and Virginia Silverstein

POETRY / SONG

• Butterfly Jar - Jeffrey Moss
• Casey at Bat - Ernest Thayer
• I am the Ocean - Suzanna Marshak
• If I Were in Charge of the World - Judith Viorst
• Week in the Life of Best Friends - Beatrice de Regniers
• Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
• Zoo - Ogden Nash
• Zoo Doings - Jack Prelutsky

• Wishgiver - Bill Brittain
• Flat Stanley - Jeff Brown
• My Friend the Monster - Clyde Rober Bulla
• Julian's Glorious Summer - Ann Cameron
• Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? - Rebecca Caudill
• Magic in the Park - Ruth Chew
• Jinx Glove - Matt Christopher
• Ramona the Pest - Beverly Cleary
• Help, I'm a Prisoner in the Library - Eth Clifford
• Pure Magic - Elizabeth Coatsworth
• Jenny Archer, Author - Ellen Conford
• Weird Wolf - Margery Cuyler
• Selene Goes Home - Lucy Diggs
• Give Us A Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole - Sheila Greenwald
• Pioneer Cat - William Hooks
• Rip-Roaring Russell - Johanna Hurwitz
• Meg Mackintosh & the Mystery At Camp Creek - Lucinda Landon
• Summer In the South - Edward Marshall
• Josie Smith - Magdalen Nabb
• Monster in the Third Dresser Drawer - Janice Lee Smith
• Birdy and the Ghosties - Jill Paton Walsh
• Curse of the Squirrel - Laurence Yep

• The Wizard In The Tree - Alexander Lloyd
• Mr. Popper's Penguins - Richard & Florence Atwater
• Devil's Storybook - Natalie Babbitt
• The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks
• Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
• The Sea Egg - L.M. Boston
• The Wish Giver - Bill Brittain
• Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain - Robert Burch
• The Incredible Journey - Sheila Burnford
• The Enormous Egg - Oliver Butterworth
• Did You Carry the Flag Today, Charley? - Rebecca Caudill
• Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl
• Half Magic - Edward Eager
• The Whipping Boy - Sid Fleischman
• Stone Fox - John K. Gardiner
• Bunnicula: A Rabbi Tale of Mystery - James & Deborah Howe
• Pigs Might Fly - Dick King-Smith
• Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit - Julius Lester, reteller
• Anastasia Again - Lois Lowry
• Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh - Robert C. O'Brien
• How to Eat Fried Worms - Thomas Rockwell
• Chocolate Fever - Robert Kimmell Smith
• The Bully of Barkham Street - Mary Stolz
• Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder

FICTION

• The Skull of Truth - Bruce Coville
• Elsie Piddock skips in her sleep - Eleanor Farjeon
• Sun and Spoon - Kevin Henkes
• Seven Brave Women - Betsy Hearne
• Birdie's Lighthouse - Deborah Hopkinson
• Nim and the War Effort - Milly Lee
• Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
• The Amber Cat - Hillary McKay
• Shiloh Season - Phyllis Naylor
• The Adventures of Sparrowboy - Brian Pinkney
• Treasures in the Dust - Tracey Porter
• Mysterious Thelonius - Chris Raschka
• Snapshots from the Wedding - Gary Soto
• Mailing May - Michael Tunnell

FOLKLORE

• One Grain of Rice - Derri
• Brother Rabbit: A Cambodian Tale - Minfong Ho
• The Bootmaker and the Elves - Susan Lowell
• The Girl who Dreamed Only Geese and Other Tales of the Far North - Howard Norman
• Bearskin - Howard Pyle
• Smoky Mountain Rose: An Appalachian Cinderella - Alan Schroeder
• The Bone Man: A Native American Modoc Tale - Laura Simms
• Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter - Diane Sanley

FANTASY

• Time for Andrew: A ghost story - Hahn
• Sword of the Samurai-Kimmel
• Help I'm Trapped Series - Strasser
• DNAgers Series - Englehart
• Magic Shop Series - Coville
• Monster's Ring - Coville
• Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher - Covile
• Jennifer Murdley's Toad - Coville
• King of Shadows - Cooper
• Over Sea, Under Stone Series - Cooper
• Lost Year's of Merlin Series - T.A. Barron
• Heartlight Series - T.A. Barron
• Half Magic Series - Eager
• So you Want to be a Wizard Series - Duane
• Enchanted Forest Chronicles Series - Wrede
• #1 Dealing with Dragons - Wrede
• Dragons of Rern Series - (6th grade level) McCastne
• Prince of the Pond - Napoli
• Jimmy the Pick Pocket - Napoli
• Young Merlin Trilogy - Yolen
• Tartan Magic Series - Yolen

SCIENCE FICTION

• Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow - Card
• Young Jedi Knights Series - Anderson
• Rogue Planet - Bear

FICTION

• Landry News - Clements
• Dave at Night - Levine
• The Princess Test - Levine
• Ghost in the Tokaido Inn - Hoobler
• Rocket's World Series - Day
• Holes - Sachar
• Ella Enchanted - Levine
• The Wish - Levine
• Watsons Go to Biringham - Curtis
• Bud, Not Buddy - Curtis
• Youlanda's Genius - Fenner
• Class Clown - Hurwitz
• P.S. Longer Letter Later - Danziger
• Snail Mail No More - Danziger
• Bingo Brown Series - Byars
• Homecoming - Voight
• Solitary Blue - Voight
• Dicey's Song - Voight
• Someday Angeline - Sachar
• Gypsy Rizka - Alexander
• Girls Revenge - Naylor
• Traitor Among the Boys - Nalor
• Boys Start the War - Nalor
• Sammy Keyes Series - Van Draanen
• Catherine Called Birdy - Cushman
• Midwife's Apprentice - Cushman
• Walk to Moons - Creech
• Chasing Redbird - Creech
• Lily's Crossing - Giff
• Running out of Time - Haddix
• Among the Hidden - Haddix
• Letters from Rifka - Hesse
• Frindle - Clements
• The War with Grandpa - Smith
• Egypt Game - Snyder
• How to be a Perfect Person in Just 3 days - Manes
• Make 4 Million Dollars by Next Thursay - Manes
• Long Way from Chicago - Peck
• Mr. Fred - Pinkwater
• Abraham's Battle: A Gettysburg Novel - Banks
• The Trolls - Horvatn
• Running on Eggs - Levine
• Hidden Talents - Lubar
• The Boy Trap - Matson
• You're a Brave Man, Julius Simmerman - Mills
• Speed of Light - Rosen
• Rewind - Sleator