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1 THIRD GRADE: Alvin Ho: Allergic to girls, school, and other scary things Because of Winn-Dixie Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery Clementine The Doll People EllRay Jakes Rocks the Holidays Fantastic Mr. Fox Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor Gooney Bird Greene The Iron Giant Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters Lewis & Clark & Me: A Dog s Tale Little House on the Prairie Lunch Money Marvin Redpost: Class President Marco? Polo! The Mouse and the Motorcycle The Night Fairy Phineas L. MacGuire... Erupts!: the first experiment Rosie Swanson, 4 th Grade Geek for President Shredderman: Secret Identity The Strangers at the Manger Stuart Little Wayside School is Falling Down Wild Born (Spirit Animals) Lenore Look Kate DiCamillo Deborah Howe Sara Pennypacker Ann Martin Sally Warner Roald Dahl Jon Scieszka Lois Lowry Ted Hughes Rachel Vail and Matthew Cordell Laurie Myers Laura Ingalls Wilder Andrew Clements Louis Sachar Jon Scieszka Beverly Cleary Laura Amy Schlitz Frances O Roark Dowell Barbara Park Wendelin Van Draanen Lisa M. Hendey E. B. White Louis Sachar Brandon Mull

2 FOURTH GRADE: The 100-year-old Secret Tracy Barrett The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Barbara Robinson The BFG Roald Dahl The Boys Start the War Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Brambleheart: a story about finding Henry Cole treasure and the unexpected magic of friendship Dragon Rider Cornelia Funke Drita, my Homegirl Jenny Lombard Escape from Mr. Lemoncello s Library Chris Grabenstein Half a World Away Cynthia Kadohata The Homework Machine Dan Gutman Honus and Me Dan Gutman The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick The one and only Ivan Katherine Applegate The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Jeanne Birdsall Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy Pip Bartlett s Guide to Magical Creatures Shiloh Sideways Stories from Wayside School Skinnybones The Tale of Despereaux Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing The Thing About Georgie: a novel Time for Andrew Turtle in Paradise The Wild Robot Maggie Stiefvater and Jackson Pearce Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Louis Sachar Barbara Park Kate DiCamillo Judy Blume Lisa Graff Mary Downing Hahn Jennifer L. Holm Peter Brown

3 FIFTH GRADE: Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko Brian s Winter Gary Paulsen The City of Ember Jeanne Duprau Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan Each Little Bird That Sings Deborah Wiles Go Big or Go Home Will Hobbs Gregor the Overlander Suzanne Collins How Angel Peterson Got His Name Gary Paulsen Inside Out and Back Again Thanhha Lai The Magician s Nephew C. S. Lewis Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George Out of my mind Sharon Draper The Penderwicks on Gardam Street Jeanne Birdsall Peter and the Starcatchers Dave Barry Rules Cynthia Lord Scat Carl Hiassen The Shakespeare Stealer Gary Blackwood There s a Boy in the Girls Bathroom Louis Sachar Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech The War that Saved my Life Kimberly Brubaker Bradley The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 Christopher Paul Curtis Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls Wonder R.J. Palacio

4 SIXTH GRADE: Crispin: The Cross of Lead Crossing the Wire The evolution of Calpurnia Tate Fever, 1793 Found The Girl Who Could Fly The Great Greene Heist Hold Fast Last Shot Legend Loser Pax Peak Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry The Running Dream The Safest Lie Stargirl Stella by Starlight Stormbreaker The Thief Lord Travel Team The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle The Wednesday Wars When You Reach Me The Worst Class Trip Ever Avi Will Hobbs Jacqueline Kelly Laurie Halse Anderson Margaret Peterson Haddix Victoria Forester Varian Johnson Blue Balliett John Feinstein Marie Lu Jerry Spinelli Sara Pennypacker Roland Smith Mildred D. Taylor Wendelin Van Draanen Angela Cerrito Jerry Spinelli Sharon Draper Anthony Horowitz Cornelia Funke Mike Lupica Avi Gary D. Schmidt Rebecca Stead Dave Barry

5 SEVENTH GRADE: All the Lovely Bad Ones Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 The Boy Who Dared The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club Chains The Crossover Echo The Graveyard Book I am David Okay for Now The Relic of Perilous Falls Savvy The Shadow Thieves A Wrinkle in Time Woods Runner Mary Downing Hahn Elisa Carbone Susan Campbell Bartoletti Phillip Hoose Laurie Halse Anderson Kwame Alexander Pam Munoz Ryan Neil Gaiman Anne Holm Gary Schmidt Raymond Arroyo Ingrid Law Anne Ursu Madeleine L Engle Gary Paulson

6 EIGHTH GRADE: Airborn Anne of Green Gables Artemis Fowl Brown Girl Dreaming Call of the Wild Countdown The Hobbit The Hound of the Baskervilles Little Women Rangers Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan Temple Grandin: How the Girl who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World Treasure Island Kenneth Oppel Lucy Maud Montgomery Eoin Colfer Jacqueline Woodson Jack London Deborah Wiles J.R.R. Tolkien Sir Arthur Conon Doyle Louisa May Alcott John Flanagan Sy Montgomery Robert Louis Stevenson

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