Book Lists
A joint booklist created by the children's librarians at the Ferguson Library in conjunction with Stamford Public Schools. (This list has been modified for Toquam Magnet School's Grade Levels.)
Grades 1 and 2
Grades 3 and 4
Grade 5
Suggestions for Pre-K - Kindergarten
All that parents and teachers can do for the child is to surround him or her with the right conditions. The child will do the rest; the things s/he will do for herself are the only things that really count in education. Anne Sullivan.
Reading aloud to your child many times a day and bringing him or her to the library weekly to select new books create the right conditions for your child to learn about books. Children who know about books and whose parents surround them with books become lifelong readers. Your child' s teachers and librarians and the librarians at the Ferguson Library invite you to read aloud to your child this summer. Your librarian will help you find many wonderful books, including the following suggested titles.
Favorite Picture Books
Bang, Molly - When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry
Bloom, Suzanne - A Splendid Friend, Indeed
Brown, Margaret Wise - The Runaway Bunny
Butler, John - Ten in the Den
Carle, Eric - Ten Little Rubber Ducks
Chodos-Irvine, Margaret- Ellah Sarah Gets Dressed (Caldecott Honor)
Cohen, Miriam- Will I Have a Friend?
Cronin, Doreen - Click, Clack, Moo, Cows that Type
Ehlert, Lois - Leaf Man
Falconer, Ian - Olivia and the Missing Toy
Feiffer, Jules - Bark, George
Freeman, Don - A Pocket for, Corduroy+
Funke, Cornelia - The Princess Knight
Henkes, Kevin - Kitten' s First Full Moon+ (Caldecott Award)
Joose, Barbara - Mama, Do You Love Me?
Juster, Norton - The Hello, Goodbye Window (Caldecott Award)
Kasza, Kieko - My Lucky Day
Keats, Ezra Jack - Whistle for Willie+
Kraus, Robert - Leo the Late Bloomer
Lawrence, John - This Little Chick
Lester, Helen - Hooway for Wodney Wat
London, Jonathan - Crunch Munch
Long, Melinda - How I Became a Pirate
Markes, Julie - Shhh! Everyboby' s Sleeping
Martin, Jr., Bill - Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?
Massie, Diane Redfield - The Baby Beebee Bird
McBratney, Sam - You' re All My Favorites
McCarty, Peter - Hondo & Fabian (Caldecott Honor)
Murphy, Mary - I Kissed the Baby
Rathman, Peggy - The Day the Babies Crawled Away
Rohmann, Eric-My Friend Rabbit (Caldecott Award)
Rosen, Michael - We' re Going on a Bear Hunt
Sendak, Maurice - Where the Wild Things Are+ (Caldecott Award)
Slobodkina, Esphyr - Caps for Sale+
Simont, Marc - The Stray Dog
Taback, Simms - Simms Taback' s Big Book of Words
Wells, Rosemary - My Kindergarten
Wiesner, David - The Three Pigs (Caldecott Award)
Willems, Mo - Leonardo the Terrible Monster
Wilson, Karma - Bear Wants More
Wood, Audrey - The Napping House
Yolen, Jane - How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food
Zion, Gene - Harry the Dirty Dog
Folktales and Poetry
Brown, Marcia - Stone Soup: an Old Tale
dePaola, Tomie - Strega Nona, an Old Tale
Ehrlich, Amy - Cinderella
Hort, Lenny - Seals on the Bus
LaMarche, Jim - The Elves and the Shoemaker
MacDonald, Margaret Read - The Squeaky Door
Salley, Coleen - Why Epossumondas Has No Hair on His Tail
Sierra, Judy - Tasty Baby Belly Buttons
Sneed, Brad - Aesop' s Fables
So, Meilo - Gobble, Gobble, Slip Slop: A Tail of a Very Greedy Cat
Taback, Simms - Kibitzers and Fools: Tales My Zayda Told Me
Zelinsky, Paul O. - Rapunzel (Caldecott Award)
Early Beginning Readers
Arnold, Ted - Hi! Fly Guy
Capucilli, Alyssa - Biscuit (Series)
Cazet, Denys - Minnie and Moo+ (Series)
Eastman, P.D. - Big Dog& Little Dog
Godwin, Laura - Happy and Honey
Gorbachev, Valeri - Whose Hat Is It?
Labatt, Mary - Sam Goes to School
Martin, David - Monkey Trouble
Meister, Cari - My Pony Jack
Rylant, Cynthia - Mr. Putter and Tabby Make a Wish
Multicultural Stories
Chocolate, Deborah - Kente Colors
Isadora, Rachel - Peekaboo Morning
Lee, Spike - Please, Puppy Please
Look, Lenore - Henry' s First-Moon Birthday
Park, Linda Sue - Bee-Bim Bop!
Pinkney, Brian - Max Found Two Sticks
Stuve-Bodeen, Stephanie - Elizabeti' s School
Torres, Leyla - Liliana' s Grandmothers
Young, Ed - Beyond the Great Mountains
Easy Non-Fiction
Arnosky, Jim - Wild Ponies
Bang, Molly - My Light
Demarest, Chris L. - Firefighters A to Z
Ehlert, Lois - Waiting for Wings
Godwin, Sam - From Little Acorns&
High, Linda Oatman - Under New York
Jenkins, Steve - Actual Size
Kerley, Barbara - A Cool Drink of Water
Olson, K.C. - Construction Countdown
Wallace, Nancy Elizabeth - A Taste of Honey
+=available on audiotape
Suggestions for Grades 1 and 2
The way we love ice cream is the way we should love reading. Norma Fox Mazer
Your Stamford Public School teachers and librarians and your Ferguson Library librarians have selected the following list of books for your summer reading. Your librarians can help you find other books, as well, so that you will come to love reading even more than you love ice cream. Have a delicious summer.
Favorite Picture Books
Allard, Harry - Miss Nelson is Missing *+
Brown, Marc - Arthur' s Chicken Pox*+
Clement, Rod - Just Another Ordinary Day*
Cole, Brock - Buttons+
Daly, Niki - Once Upon a Time
English, Karen - Hot Day on Abbott Avenue
French, Jackie - Diary of a Wombat
Gerstein, Mordecai - The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Caldecott Award)
Grey, Mini - Traction Man Is Here!
Hoberman, Mary Ann - You Read to Me, I' ll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together
Hopkinson, Deborah - Apples to Oregon
Hurst, Carol - Rocks in His Head*
Isaacs, Anne - Swamp Angel +
Long, Melinda - How I Became a Pirate
Muth, John - Zen Shorts
Perry, Elizabeth - Think Cool Thoughts
Rathmann, Peggy - Officer Buckle and Gloria*+ (Caldecott Award)
Ryan, Pam Munoz - Mice and Beans
Steig, William - The Amazing Bone^+
Stevens, Janet - The Great Fuzz Frenzy
Wood, Audrey - Heckedy Peg* +
Beginning Readers
Baker, Barbara - Digby and Kate 1, 2, 3
Baker, Keith - Meet Mr. and Mrs. Green
Bauer, Marion Dane - Turtle Dreams
Bonsall, Crosby Newell - And I Mean It, Stanley*+
Brenner, Barbara - Wagon Wheels*
Cazet, Denys - The Octopus
Corey, Shana - First Graders from Mars^ (series)
Cushman, Doug - Inspector Hopper
Danziger, Paula - Second Grade Rules Amber Brown
Dicamillo, Kate - Mercy Watson to the Rescue
Delacre, Lulu - Rafi and Rosi
Graham, Bob - Tales from the Waterhole
Horowitz, Ruth - Breakout at the Bug Lab
Howe, James - Pinky and Rex (series)^+
Kessler, Leonard - Last One In Is a Rotten Egg^
Laurence, Daniel - Captain and Matey Set Sail*
Little, Jean - Emma' s Strange Pet
Livingstone, Star - Harley
Mills, Claudia - Gus and Grandpa and the Piano Lesson
Minarik, Else Holmelund - Little Bear (series)*+
Nelson, Vaunda - Ready? Set. Raymond!*
O' Connor, Jane - Molly the Brave and Me*
Rylant, Cynthia - Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas
Sathre Vivian - Leroy Potts Meets the McCrooks ^
Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman - Nate the Great*+ (series)
Smith, Janice Lee - Wizard and Wart*
Thomas, Shelley Moore - Get Well, Good Knight
Van Leeuwen, Jean - Amanda Pig (series)
Wiseman, Bernard - Morris the Moose*
Nonfiction
Aliki - Ah! Music
Andrews-Goebel, Nancy - The Pot that Juan Built*
Arnold, Katya - Elephants can paint too!
Berger, Melvin - Spinning Spiders
Brown, Don - Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein
Chandra, Deborah - George Washington' s Teeth
Christian, Peggy - If You Find a Rock*
Cole, Joanna - Hungry, Hungry Sharks ^
Cowley, Joy - Red-Eyed Tree Frog*
Dillon, Leo and Diane - Rap a Tap Tap: Here' s Bojangles - Think of That!*
Gerstein, Elaine - Ice Cream Cones for Sale
Giovanni, Nikki - Rosa
Iorio, Nicole - Bears!
Jenkins, Steve & Page - What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (Caldecott Honor)
Kerley, Barbara - The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins (Caldecott Honor)
Rappaport, Doreen - Martin' s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr+ (Caldecott Honor)
Rockwell, Anne - Our Stars*
Ryan, Pam Munoz - When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson, the Voice of a Century*
Schwartz, David M. - Millions to Measure^
Winchester, Elizabeth - Bees!
Tokuda, Wendy - Humphrey the Lost Whale ^
Folktales
Aardema, Verna - Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People' s Ears*
Brown, Marcia - Stone Soup*+
Bruchac, Joseph - First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story *
Bryan, Ashley - Beautiful Blackbird +
Casanova, Mary - The Hunter: A Chinese Folktale
Demi - The Hungry Coat: A Tale from Turkey
dePaola, Tomie - Finn McCoul: The Giant of Knockmanyhill
Diakitbe, Baba Wagube - The Hatseller and the Monkeys
Hamilton, Virginia - Bruh Rabbit and the Tar Baby Girl
Kimmel, Eric A. - Cactus Soup
Martin, Francesca - Clever Tortoise: A Traditional African Tale
McDermott, Gerald - Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti*+
Musgrove, Margaret - The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth
Osborne, Mary Pope - Kate and the Beanstalk
Paye, Won-Ldy - Head, Body, Legs: A Story from Liberia*
Schwartz, Alvin - In a Dark, Dark Room: and Other Scary Stories*
Sierra, Judy - The Gift of the Crocodile
Wiley, Margaret - Clever Beatrice
Zelinsky, Paul - Rumpelstiltskin
Multicultural Stories
Bernier-Grand, Carmen T. - Juan Bobo: Four Folktales from Puerto Rico*
Bruchac, Joseph - Crazy Horse' s Vision
Cheng, Andrea - Grandfather Counts
Collier, Bryan - Uptown
English, Karen - Nadia' s Hands
Fleming, Candace - Boxes for Katje
Garza, Carmen Lomas - Magic Windows/Ventanas Magicas
Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald - Virgie Goes to School With Us Boys
Kajikawa, Kimiko - Yoshi' s Feast
Madrigal, Antonio Hernandez - Erandi' s Braids
Mora, Pat - Doña Flor: A Tall Tale about a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart
Pak, Soyung - Dear Juno
Parker, Toni Trent - Sienna' s Scrapbook
Porte, Barbara Ann - Ma Jiang and the Orange Ants
Recorvits, Helen - My Name is Yoon
Rosa Casanova, Sylvia - Mama Provi and the Pot of Rice
Soto, Gary - Chato' s Kitchen* +
Tarbescu, Edith - Annushka' s Voyage
Van Laan, Nancy - Mama Rocks, Papa Sings
Wells, Rosemary - Yoko
Poetry
Ebensen, Barbara Juster - Swing Around the Sun
Florian, Douglas - Bow Wow Meow Meow
George, Kristine O' Connell - Little Dog and Duncan*
Gottfried, Maya - Good Dog
Hopkins, Lee Bennett - Yummy! Eating Through a Day*
Kam, Mak - My Chinatown: One Year in Poems*
Katz, Bobbi - A Rumpus of Rhymes
Lee, Dennis - Alligator Pie
Lillegard, Dee - Wake Up House! Rooms Full of Poems
Polacco, Patricia - Babushka' s Mother Goose
Prelutsky, Jack - Scranimals*
Shields, Carol Diggory - Lunch Money and Other Poems About School
Sidman, Joyce - Song of the Water Boatman: & other pond poems
Silverstein, Shel - Where the Sidewalk Ends+
Singer, Marilyn - Creature Carnival
Unobagha, Uzo - Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa and Other Talking Drum Rhymes
Early Chapter Books
Adler, David A. - Cam Jansen*+ (series)
Blume, Judy - The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo*+
Conford, Ellen - Jenny Archer* (series)
Dagliesh, Alice - The Bears on Hemlock Mountain+ ^
Elliot, David - Cool Crazy Crickets
Giff, Patricia Reilly - Polk Street Stories+ (series)
Kline, Suzy - Horrible Harry in Room 2B*+ (series)
Levy, Elizabeth - Something Queer in the Cafeteria+
Marzollo, Jean - Soccer Sam*
Park, Barbara - Junie B. Jones*+ (series)
Pilkey, Dav - Ricky Ricotta (series)
Sachar, Louis - Marvin Redpost+ (series)
Swan, Sara - Three Stories You Can Read to Your Cat
Williams, Suzanne - Edwin and Emily
Feel free to read other books on your level by the many wonderful authors on the lists above, and here are some other favorite authors:
Crosby Newell Bonsall
Marc Brown
Nancy Carlson
Russell Hoban
Leonard Kessler
Elizabeth Levy
Robert Quackenbush
Dr. Seuss
*=on grade level, according to the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP)
+=available on audiotape
^=above Grade 2 level, according to the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP)
Suggestions for Grades 3 and 4
There never was a writer that wasn' t first a reader& You don' t decide to write when you' re a teenager. If you' re going to write, you' ve already been at it for years& I do give children a recipe: Read a lot and write a lot and read a lot and write a lot and keep it up all your life. Mary Stolz
We hope you will follow Mary Stolz' s advice to read a lot and write a lot and read a lot and write a lot this summer, not only so that you will be an excellent writer but so that you will be an excellent reader, as well. Enjoy the books selected by your teachers and librarians or others that the librarian helps you find.
Biography
Greenfield, Eloise - Rosa Parks*
Delano, Marie Ferguson - Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein
Haugen Hayley - Daniel Handler: The Real Lemony Snicket
Macy, Sue - Bulls-eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley
McCully, Emily Arnold - Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor
Ransome, Lesa - Satchel Paige
Schanzer, Rosalyn - How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning
Schyffert, Bea Uusma - The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon :The Story of Apollo Astronaut Michael Collins
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Cameron, Eleanor - The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet*
Dahl, Roald - The BFG*
DiCamillo, Kate - The Tale of Despereaux+ (Newbery Award)
Eager, Edward - Half-Magic +
Gannett, Ruth Stiles - My Father' s Dragon*+
Martin, Ann M. - The Doll People +
Paton Walsh, Jill - The Green Book*
Pinkwater, Daniel - Fat Men From Space*
Rylant, Cynthia - Gooseberry Park*
Selden,George - A Cricket in Times Square*+ (Newbery Honor)
Siedler, Tor - A Rat' s Tale*+
Sleator, William - Into the Dream ^
Spinner, Stephanie - Aliens for Dinner
Wynne-Jones, Tim - Ned Mouse Breaks Away
Fiction
Arnold, Marsha - The Bravest of Us All
Blume, Judy - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing*+
Bunting, Eve - Smoky Night* (Caldecott Award)
Cameron, Ann - Gloria' s Way
Clements, Andrew - Frindle*+
DeClements, Barthe - The Fourth Grade Wizards*
De Paola, Tomie - On My Way*
DiCamillo, Kate - Because of Winn-Dixie+ (Newbery Honor)
DiCamillo, Kate - Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane+
Erdrich, Louise - The Birchbark House
Fritz, Jean - The Cabin Faced West*
Greenwald, Sheila - Give Us A Great Big Smile, Rosy Cole*
Guest, Elissa Haden - Iris and Walter
Hermes, Patricia - A Perfect Place: Joshua' s Oregon Trail Diary
Hesse, Karen - Just Juice*
Holm, Jennifer - Babymouse: Queen of the World
Kerrin, Jessica Scott - Martin Bridge: Ready for Takeoff
King-Smith, Dick - The Golden Goose
Klise, Kate - Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks*
Lawson, Robert - Ben and Me*+
Lowry, Lois - Gooney Bird Greene*
Martin, Ann M. - Belle Teal
Mathis, Sharon Bell - Running Girl: The Diary of Ebonee Rose*
McCloskey, Robert - Homer Price*
McDonald, Megan - Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid+
Myers, Walter Dean - Me, Mop and the Moondance Kid
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds - The Grand Escape*
Pinkwater, Daniel - The Artsy Smartsy Club
Platt, Richard - Egyptian Diary: The Journal of Nakht
Rockwell, Thomas - How to Eat Fried Worms*+
Rodgers, Mary - Freaky Friday *+
Sachar, Louis - Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger*+
Smith, Doris Buchanan - A Taste of Blackberries*+
Smith, Robert Kimmel - Chocolate Fever *+
Steig, William - Dominic, or Abel' s Island +
Stolz, Mary - A Dog on Barkham Street*
Wallace, Bill - Goosed!*
Wiles, Deborah - Love, Ruby Lavender
Yolen, Jane - The Ballad of the Pirate Queens
Folktales, Non-Fiction, and Poetry
Cowles, Rose - The Amazing International Space Station
Curlee, Lynn - Ballpark
Facklam, Margery - What Does the Crow Know: The Mysteries of Animal Intelligence
Florian, Douglas - Mammalabilia or other titles
Grimes, Nikki - Shoe Magic
Grimm, Jacob - Twelve Dancing Princesses*
Herrera, Juan Felipe - Calling the Doves/El Canto de las Palomas
Hopkins, Lee B. - Side by Side: Poems to Read Together
Igus, Toyomi - I See the Rhythm: A Story of African American Music
Jeffrey, Laura - Horses: How to Choose and Care for a Horse
Kentley, Eric - Story of the Titanic
Lyon, George Ella - Mother to Tigers
McCully, Emily Arnold - Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor
McDonough, Yona - Sisters in Strength: American Women Who Made a Difference
Pinkney, Jerry - Aesop' s Fables
Prelutsky, Jack - Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme
Ray, Rachel - Cooking Rocks!
St. George, Judith - So You Want to Be President? (Caldecott Award)
St. George, Judith - The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence
San Souci, Robert - The Talking Eggs*
Schwartz, Alvin - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark*+
Shange, Ntozake - Ellington Was Not a Street+
Simon, Seymour - Sharks*
Steptoe, John - Mufaro' s Beautiful Daughters (Caldecott Honor)
Sunami, Kitoba - How the Fisherman Tricked the Genie
Willard, Nancy - Beauty and the Beast*
Winter, Jeanette - Librarian of Basra
Multicultural Stories
Cheng, Andrea - Shanghai Messenger
Flournoy, Valerie - The Patchwork Quilt
Hamanaka, Sheila - Grandparents Song
Lord, Bette Bao - In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson*+
Marsden, Carolyn - The Gold-Threaded Dress*
McCully, Emily Arnold - Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun' s Kung Fu
McKissack, Patricia - Abby Takes a Stand
Russell, Barbara - The Remembering Stone
Soto, Gary - The Skirt or The Pool Party*+
Taylor, Mildred - The Friendship*
Taylor, Sydney - All-Of-A-Kind Family*+
Mysteries
Avi - Who Stole the Wizard of Oz?*
Bauer, Marion - The Blue Ghost
Cushman, Doug - Mystery at the Club Sandwich
Hale, Bruce - This Gum for Hire*
Marshall, James - A Summer in the South
Medearis, Angela Shelf - The Spray Paint Mystery*
Stilton, Geronimo - Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye
Yolen, Jane - The Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History
Series Fiction
Adler, David - Cam Jansen series*+
Cleary, Beverly - Henry Huggins and Ramona series*+
Danziger, Paula - Amber Brown series*+
Greene, Stephanie - Owen Foote series
Baer, Marion - Blue Ghost series
Howe, James - Tales from the House of Bunnicula series
Kline, Suzy - Herbie Jones series*
LeGuin, Ursula-Catwings series
McDonald, Megan - Judy Moody series+
McKenna, Colleen - Third Grade series
Scieszka, Jon - Time Warp Trio series +
Sobol, Donald J. - Encyclopedia Brown series*
Warner, Gertrude Chandler - Boxcar Children series+ *
Wilder, Laura Ingalls - Little House series*
Winkler, Henry - Hank Zipzer series
More favorite authors:
Bellairs, John
Blume, Judy
Christopher, Matt
Coville, Bruce
Hurwitz, Johanna
Dahl, Roald
Paterson, Katherine
Paulsen, Gary
*=on grade level, according to the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP)
^=above grade 3 & 4 level, according to the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP)
+=available on audiotape/compact disc
The person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person who cannot read them. Mark Twain
Your teachers and librarians, along with the librarians at the Ferguson Library, have selected many good books for you to read this summer. The librarians will help you choose other books, too, so that you will have the many advantages that reading brings.
Biography
Adoff, Arnold - Malcolm X*
Carle, Eric - Flora & Tiger: 19 Very Short Stories From My Life
Cox, Clinton - Houdini: Master of Illusion
Delano, Marfé Ferguson - Genius: a Photobiography of Albert Einstein
Freedman, Russell - Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery*+
Glover, Savion - Savion!: My Life in Tap
Greenberg, Jan - Frank O. Gehry: Outside In
Macy, Sue - Bull' s-Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley
Reiss, Johanna - The Upstairs Room*+ (Newbery Honor)
Schyffert, Bea Uusma - The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: the Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Alcock, Vivian - The Monster Garden*
Alexander, Lloyd - The Book of Three*+ (Prydain series)
Babbitt, Natalie - The Search for Delicious*+
Brittain, Bill - Shape-Changer*
Collins, Suzanne - Gregor the Overlander+
Cooper, Susan - The Boggart*+
Coville, Bruce - The Monsters of Morley Manor*
Dahl, Roald - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*+
Duane, Diane - So You Want to Be a Wizard?*+
DuPrau, Jeanne - The City of Ember+
Elliott, David - The Transmogrification of Roscoe Wizzle+
Gliori, Debi - Pure Dead Magic+
Ibbotson, Eva - The Secret of Platform 13+
Levine, Gail Carson - Ella Enchanted*+ (Newbery Honor)
Martin, Ann M. - The Doll People+
Mayne, William - Hob and the Goblins
Peck, Richard - The Great Interactive Dream Machine
Siedler, Tor - The Wainscott Weasel*
Wrede, Patricia - Dealing with Dragons*+
Fiction
Avi - S.O.R. Losers*+
Bauer, Joan - Squashed*+
Beatty, Patricia - Turn Homeward, Hannalee*
Bellairs, John - Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn*
Birdsall, Jeanne - The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy
Blume, Judy - Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great*+
Bruchac, Joseph - Skeleton Man+
Choldenko, Gennifer - Notes From a Liar and Her Dog+
Creech, Sharon - Love That Dog
Cushman, Karen - The Ballad of Lucy Whipple*+
Danziger, Paula - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit*
DeClements, Barthe - Nothing' s Fair in Fifth Grade*+
Fitzhugh, Louise - Harriet the Spy*+
Giff, Patricia Reilly - Pictures of Hollis Woods*+ (Newbery Honor)
Gutman, Dan - The Babe and Me*+
Holm, Jennifer L. - Boston Jane: An Adventure+
Horvath, Polly - The Trolls+
Ibbotson, Eva - Journey to the River Sea*+
Konigsburg, E.L. - The View From Saturday*+ (Newbery Award)
Korman, Gordon - No More Dead Dogs*+
McKissack, Pat - The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural* (Newbery Honor)
Martin, Ann M. - The Doll People+
Perkins, Lynne Rae - All Alone in the Universe+
Robertson, Keith - Henry Reed, Inc.*
Schirippa, Steven R. - Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family
Scieszka, Jon - Math Curse*
Voigt, Cynthia - Bad Girls*
Wallace, Bill - The Biggest Klutz in Fifth Grade*
White, E.B. - The Trumpet of the Swan*+
White, Ruth - Belle Prater' s Boy*+ (Newbery Honor)
Folktales, Non-Fiction, and Poetry
Armstrong, Jennifer - Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: the Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance*
Ballard, Robert - Exploring the Titanic*
Bolden, Tonya - Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl
Igus, Toyomi - I see the rhythm: a story of African American Music
Hamilton, Virginia - Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales*
Hastings, Selina - Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady*
Hurston, Zora Neale, collect. - Lies and Other Tall Tales
Jackson, Donna - The Bone Detectives*
Janeczko, Paul B., ed. - A Poke in the I
Longfellow, Henry W. - The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (ill. by Christopher Bing)
Montgomery, Sy - Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon*
Philip, Neil, sel. - Horse Hooves and Chicken Feet: Mexican Folktales
Prelutsky, Jack, sel. - Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme
Schwartz, Alvin - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark*+
Turner, Pamela S. - Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes
Willard, Nancy - Beauty and the Beast
Multicultural Stories
Codell, Esmé Raji - Sahara Special+
Creech, Sharon - Granny Torrelli Makes Soup+
Curtis, Christopher Paul - Bud, Not Buddy+ (Newbery Award)
Dorris, Michael - Sees Behind Trees*+
Erdrich, Louise - The Birchbark House+
Fenner, Carol - Yolonda' s Genius*+ (Newbery Honor)
Hamilton, Virginia - Cousins*
Johnston, Tony - Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio
Levoy, Myron - Alan and Naomi*
O' Dell, Scott - Sing Down the Moon*+ (Newbery Honor)
Park, Linda Sue - A Single Shard*+ (Newbery Award)
Platt, Richard - Egyptian Diary: The Journal of Nakht
Ryan, Pam Muñoz - Becoming Naomi León+
Yep, Laurence - The Magic Paintbrush
Mysteries
Balliett, Blue - Chasing Vermeer+
Byars, Betsy - Disappearing Acts
Hale, Bruce - The Mystery of Mr. Nice+
Howe, James - Dew Drop Dead ^
Kehret, Peg - Cat Burglar on the Prowl*
Klise, Kate - Trial by Journal
Newman, Robert - The Case of the Baker Street Irregular*
Pullman, Philip - Clockwork: or All Wound Up
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley -The Egypt Game*+ (Newbery Honor)
Stanley, Diane - The Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine
Wallace, Bill - Trapped in Death Cave ^
Wright, Betty Ren - The Dollhouse Murders*+
Series Fiction
Erickson, John R. - Hank the Cowdog series*+
Fitzgerald, John D. - The Great Brain series*+
Lowry, Lois - Anastasia series*+
Montgomery, L.M. - Anne of Green Gables series*
Snicket, Lemony - A Series of Unfortunate Events+
Van Draanen, Wendelin - Sammy Keyes series+
Feel free to read other books on your level by the many wonderful authors on the lists above, and here are some other favorite authors: