Recommended Reading
3rd Grade
Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate
A Boy Called Bat by Elana Arnold
Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
The Eerie Elementary series by Jack Chabert
The Year of the Garden by Andrea Chen
Mercy Watson by Kate DiCamillo
Words with Wings by Nikki Grimes
A-Z Mysteries by Ron Roy
The Dragon Masters series by Tracey West
Dragonbreath by Ursula Vernon
4th Grade
The Book Scavenger series by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo
Absolutely Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick
Mr. Lemoncello’s Library series by Chris Grabenstein
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm
The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann
Holes by Louis Sachar
I Survived Series by Lauren Tarshis
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
5th Grade
Booked by Kaime Alexander
Pieces and Players by Blue Balliett
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
Fish on a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Smile by Raina Telgemeier
6th Grade
The True Confessions of Sarah Doyle by Avi
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
The Ranger’s Apprentice series by John Flanagan
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
Refugee by Alan Gratz
The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
