Independent Reading List
Level
A
Books
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perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
Berenstain Bears in the House of Mirrors
Stan Berenstain
Cars
Gail Saunders Smith
Do You Want to Be My Friend?
Eric Carle
Dogs
Amy Levin
Going to Grandma’s Farm
Betsy Franco Feeney
I Like Bugs
Margaret Wise Brown
I See Bugs
Wiley Blevins
A Party
Anne Miranda
What Do Insects Do?
Pamela Chanko and Susan Canizares
Anno’s Counting Book
Mitsumasa Anno
Count and See
Tana Huban
Dig, Dig
Leslie Wood
Flowers
Karen Hoenecke
Growing Colors
Bruce McMillan
What Has Wheels
Karen Hoenecke
Look What I Can Do
Jose Aruega
In My Garden
Moria McLean
Independent Reading List
Level
B
Books
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Title
Beans
Best Friends
Dress Up
Fun with Hats
Get the Ball, Slim
Hats Around the World
Hide and Seek
Hoptoad
I Can Ski!
I Like Mess
I Love You Sun, I Love You Moon
I Won’t Share
Monkeys
Mothers
My Friend
No New Pants!
On Market Street
One, Two, Three – What Can You See?
Pick a Pet!
Silly Sally
The Bus for Us
Where’s the Cat?
Author
Gail Saunders-Smith
Marcia Leonard
Marcia Leonard
Lucy Malk
Marcia Leonard
Liza Charlesworth
Brenda Shannon Yee
Jane Yolen
Melanie Davis Jones
Marcia Leonard
Karen Pandell and Tomie dePaola
Hans Wilhelm
Pamela Chanko and Susan Canizares
Lola M. Schaefer
Judy Nayer
Marcia Leonard
Anita and Arnold Lobel
Mindy Menschell
Lucy Floyd
Betsy Franco-Feeney
Suzanne Bloom
Stella Bloom
Independent Reading List
Level
C
Books
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Title
A Rainbow of My Own
All Kinds of Kids
Baby Animals Learn
Bathtime for Biscuit
The Berenstain Bears’ Big Bear, Small Bear
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
The Big Box
City Cats, Country Cats
Fall Leaves
Get That Pest!
Gossie
Gossie and Gertie
Grandmothers
Grow a Pumpkin Pie!
Happy and Honey
I Went Walking
Love Me, Love You
Magic Matt and the Dinosaur
Moving Day
Mr. Rover Takes Over
Parents
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
Shadows
Tiny Goes to the Library
Touch Your Nose, Wiggle Your Toes
The Toymaker
What’s For Lunch?
What’s Going On?
When I Grow Up
Yo! Yes?
Author
Don Freeman
Christina Mia Gardeski
Pamela Chanko
Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Jan and Stan Berenstain
Bill Martin, Jr.
Virginia Clammer
Barbara Shook Hazen
Don L. Curry
Erin Douglas
Olivier Dunrea
Olivier Dunrea
Karen Pandell and Tomie dePaola
Jane E. Gerver
Laura Godwin
Sue Williams
Susan Heyboyer O’Keefe
Grace Maccarone
Jo S. Kittinger
Grace Maccarone
Gail Saunders-Smith
Bill Martin
Deanna Calvert
Cari Meister
Minday Menschell
Amy Hutchings
Eric Carle
Cynthia Benjamin
Jo S. Kittinger
Raschka
Independent Reading List
Level
D
Books
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perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Ah-Choo
Aunts
Ballerina Girl
Bears in the Night
Bears on Wheels
The Berenstain Bears Ride the Thunderbolt
Bunny, Bunny
The Chick and the Duckling
The Day We Met You
Don’t Wake the Baby!
Energy is Everywhere
Fast Draw Freddie
Feathers for Lunch
Feet
Frogs
How Many Ducks?
I Am Smart
I Had a Hippopotamus
I Love Fishing
I See a Bug
I’m Not Scared!
Lara Ladybug
Lunch
Max’s Birthday
The Mess
My Car
Pumpkin Heads
Rainy Day Pals
Sid & Sam
Six Silly Foxes
Snow Day!
Soup
Straight to the Pole
Surprise!
This Plane
What a Mess!
Author
Christine Taylor-Butler
Lola M. Schaefer
Kirsten Hall
Jan & Stan Berenstain
Jan and Stan Berenstain
Jan and Stan Berenstain
Kirsten Hall
Mirra Ginsberg
Phoebe Koehler
Wendy Cheyette Lewison
June Young
Bobbie Hamsa
Lois Ehlert
D. Rau
Gail Saunders-Smith
Cindy Chapman
Christine Taylor-Butler
Hector Viveros Lee
Bonnie Dobkin
Kirsten Hall
Hans Wilhelm
Christine Florie
Denise Fleming
Rosemary Wells
Patricia Jensen
Byron Barton
Wendell Minor
Robin Cruise
Nola Buck
Alex Moran
Patricia Lakin
Cathy Goldberg Fishman
Kevin O’Malley
Mary Packard
P. Collicult
Stephen Krensky
Independent Reading List
Level
E
Books
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perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Big Egg
Clouds
A Funny Man
Giants
I See, You Saw
We All Fall For Apples
Morris the Moose
My Brother, the Brat
My Dog Talks
Read to Your Bunny
Today is Monday
Paper Bag Princess
Who Am I?
Circus Fun
Dog and Cat
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Go Dog Go
The Foot Book
I Love Cats
Inside Outside, Upside Down
The Nose Book
Oh, No, Sherman!
Author
Molly Coxe
Meredith Costain
Patricia Jensen
Wendy Blaxland
Nurit Karlin
Emmi S. Herman
B. Wiseman
Kirsten Hall
Gail Herman
Mary Packard
McDonald, Megan
Eric Carle
Nancy Christensen
Margaret Hillert
Pauk Fehner
Betty Miles
Philip D. Eastman
Dr. Suess
Catherine Matthias
Stan & Jan Berenstain
Al Perkin
Betty Erickson
Independent Reading List
Level
F
Books
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sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
All Wrapped Up
Big Pig on a Dig
Biscuit
Biscuit Finds a Friend
A Bug, A Bear, and a Boy
Clifford and the Halloween Parade
Cookie’s Week
Drip Drop
Emma’s Pet
David Gets in Trouble
Five Ugly Monsters
Here are My Hands
Itch Itchy Chicken Pox
Later, Rover!
Mouse Makes Words
Pumpkin, Pumpkin
The New Baby
Splish, Splash!
Tiny’s Bath
Ted in Red Bed
The Ten Best Things About My Dad
The Ten Step Guide to Living With Your Monster
The Very Bad Day
We Eat Dinner in the Bathtub
The Witch Next Door
Who Will Be My Friends?
Wings on Things
Author
Thera S. Callahan
Phil Roxbee Cox
Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Alyssa Satin Capucilli
David McPhail
Norman Bridwell
Cindy Ward
Sarah Weeks
David McPhail
David Shannon
Ted Arnold
Bill Martin, Jr.
Grace Maccarone
Harriet Ziefert
Kathryn Heling
Jeanne Titherington
Mercer Mayer
Sarah Weeks
Cari Meister
Phil Roxbee Cox
Christine Loomis
Laura Numeroff
Mary Packard
Angela Shelf Medearis
Norman Bridwell
Sydney Hoff
Mark Tolon Browns
Independent Reading List
Level
G
Books
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sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Biscuit
Biscuit Finds a Friend
Boats
Boris Bad Enough
The Bookstore Ghost
Buzz Said the Bee
Cat and Dog
The Carrot Seed
The Great Race
How Do You Make a Bubble
Hungry Animals
I’m a Caterpillar
Just Enough
More Spaghetti I Say
My Friends
Nine Men Chase a Hen
No Mail for Mitchell
Sheep in Jeep
Shhhh!
Sue Likes Blue
Teddy Bears for Sale
That’s Not All
Three Cheers for Hippo
When You Were a Baby
Why Can’t I Fly?
Author
Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Alyssa Satin Capucilli
Anne Rockwell
Robert Kraus
Barbara Maitland
Wendy Lewison
Else H. Minarik
Ruth Krauss
David McPhail
William H. Hooks
Little Reader Series
Jean Marzollo
Lynn Salem and J. Steward
Rita Gelman
Trao Gomi
Barbara Gregorich
Catherine Siracusa
Nancy Shaw
Suzy Kline
Barbara Gregorich
Gail Herman
Start to Read Series
John Stadler
Ann Jonas
Rita Gelman
Independent Reading List
Level
H
Books
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perform to the best of their ability!
Title
A Bug, A Bear, and a Boy Go to School
A Girl, A Goat and a Goose
Danny and the Dinosaur Go To Camp
Just Me and My Dad
Just My Friend and Me
When the TV Broke
Big Red Barn
Curious George at the Beach
The Dinosaur who Lived in My Backyard
Clap Your Hands
Captain Cat
Goodnight Moon
I love Spiders
Mama, Do You Love Me?
Sammy the Seal
Put Me in the Zoo
Small Pig
You Can’t Smell A Flower
We Are Best Friends
My Mom Made Me Go To Camp
Hanna’s Butterfly
George Shrinks
Author
David McPhail
David McPhail
Syd Hoff
Mercer Mayer
Mercer Mayer
Harriet Ziefert
Margaret Wise Brown
Margaret Rey
B.G. Hennessy
L. Cauley
Syd Hoff
Margaret Wise Brown
John Parker
Barbara Joose
Syd Hoff
Robert Lopshire
Arnold Lobel
Joanna Cole
Aliki
Judy Delton
Marie Vinje
William Joyce
Independent Reading List
Level
I
Books
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perform to the best of their ability!
Title
A Friend for Dragon
Albert the Albatross
Are You My Mother?
Arthur and the School Pet
Arthur in a Pickle
Arthur Tricks the Tooth Fairy
Arthur’s Lost Puppy
Arthur’s Reading Race
Bike Lesson
Bones
Boss For a Day
Dinosaur Eggs
Disappearing Donuts
Dogs
Double Header
Dragon Gets By
Dragon’s Fat Cat
Dragon’s Halloween
Dragon’s Merry Christmas
Eek! Stories to Make You Shriek
Father Bear Comes Home
Flower Girl
Hide-And-Seek All Week
Just a Mess
Just Grandma and Me
Noisy Nora
Author
Dave Pilkey
Syd Hoff
Philip Eastman
Marc Brown
Marc Brown
Marc Brown
Marc Brown
Marc Brown
Stan and Jan Berenstain
Steve Krensky
Tomie dePaola
Jane O’Connor
Gail Herman
Pat Hutchins
Gail Herman
Dave Pilkey
Dave Pilkey
Dave Pilkey
Dave Pilkey
Jane O’Connor
Else Holmelund Minarik
Gail Herman
Tomie dePaola
Mercer Mayer
Mercer Mayer
Rosemary Wells
Snail City
T-Rex Is Missing
Jane O’Connor
Tomie dePaola
Independent Reading List
Level
J
Books
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perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Bear Shadow
Bear’s Bargain
The Best Nest
Camp Big Paw
Charlie Needs a Cloak
Clifford’s Loose Tooth
Curious George and the Ice Cream
Curious George Goes to a Costume Party
Curious George Plays Baseball
Danny and the Dinosaur
Days With Frog and Toad
The Fox Series
Froggy Series
Funny Bones
The Gingerbread Man
Goodbye House
Goodnight Baby Bear
The Grandma Mix-Up
Green Eggs and Ham
The Henry and Mudge Series
Last One In is a Rotten Egg
Little Bear Books
Moonbear’s Shadow
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Wish Come True Cat
Author
Frank Asch
Frank Asch
P.D. Eastman
Doug Cushman
Tommy dePaola
Norman Bridwell
Margret Rey
Margret Rey
H.A. Ray and Margret Rey
Syd Hoff
Arnold Lobel
Edward Marshall
Jonathan London
Allan and Janet Ahlberg
Jim Aylesworth
Frank Asch
Frank Asch
E. McCully
Dr. Suess
Cynthia Rylant
Leonard Kessler
Else H. Minarik
Frank Asch
Eric Carle
Ragnhild Scamell
Independent Reading List
Level
K
Books
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perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
Amanda Pig on Her Own
Jean Van Leeuwen
A Baby Sister for Frances
Lillian Hoban
A Bargain for Frances
Russell Hoban
Bear Hiccups
Marion Dane Bauer
Best Friends for Frances
Russell Hoban
The Best Way to Play
Bill Cosby
Days with Frog and Toad
Arnold Lobel
Fluffy’s Happy Halloween
Kate McMullan
Fluffy’s Lucky Day
Kate McMullan
Fluffy’s School Bus Adventure
Kate McMullan
Fluffy’s Spring Vacation
Kate McMullan
Frog and Toad Together
Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad All Year
Arnold Lobel
The Meanest Thing to Say
Bill Cosby
Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery
David Adler
Arthur Babysits
Marc Brown
Baseball Ballerina
Kathryn Cristaldi
Be Ready at Eight
Peggy Parich
Egg
Dick Logan
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Crockett Johnson
Independent Reading List
Level
L
Books
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perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
Cam Jansen Series
David Adler
The Dragons of Blueland
Ruth Stiles Gannett
Horrible Harry Series
Suzy Kline
Marvin Redpost Series:
Louis Sachar
Marvin Redpost: Alone in His Teacher’s House
Marvin Redpost: Class President
Marvin Redpost: A Magic Crystal
Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me?
Marvin Redpost: Grades 2-3
Kidnapped at Birth
A Flying Birthday Cake
Pee Wee Scouts Chapter Books
Judy Delton
Arthur Meets the President
Marc Brown
Haunted Bike
Gail Herman
Judy Moody
Megan McDonald
Paper Bag Princess
Robert Munsch
Pioneer Bear
Joan Sandin
Miss Nelson is Missing
Harry Allard
Big Al
Andrew Yoshi
Case of the Cool Itch Kid
Patricia Giff
Gorillas
Demuth
Is Your Mama a Llama?
Deborah Guarino
No Copycats Allowed!
Bonnie Graves
Independent Reading List
Level
M
Books
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sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
Fancy Feet
Patricia Giff
My Father’s Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett
The Beast in Ms. Rooney’s Room
Patricia Giff
Beast and the Halloween Horror
Patricia Giff
Magic Tree House Chapter Books
Mary Pope Osborne
Junie B. Jones Chapter Books
Barbara Park
The Mystery of the Dark Old House
Irene Schultz
The Littles Chapter Books
John Peterson
Dr. DeSoto
William Steig
Frecklejuice
Judy Blume
Flat Stanley
Jeff Brown
Helen Keller
Margaret davidson
Molly’s Pilgrim
Barbara Cohen
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Hans Christian Anderson
Favorite Greek Myths
Mary Pope Osborne
Fish Face
Patricia Giff
Five True Dog Stories
Margaret Davidson
George Washington’s Mother
Jean Fritz
Marvin Redpost
Louis Sachar
The Mitten
Jan Brett
Independent Reading List
Level
N
Books
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sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
Amber Brown Series
Paula Danziger
Case of Hermie Series
James Preller
The Chocolate Touch
Patrick Catling
Donavan’s Word Jar
Monalisa DeGross
Grandfather’s Journey
Allen Say
Hank the Cowdog Series
John Erickson
Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion
Suzy Kline
How to Be Cool in Third Grade
Betsy Duffey
Jake Drake Bully Buster
Andrew Clements
Jigsaw Jones Series
James Preller
Julian, Secret Agent
Ann Cameron
More Stories Huey Tells
Ann Cameron
Ruby’s Wish
Shirin Yim Bridges
Tall Tails Series
Dona Smith
The Lotus Seed
Sherry Garland
The Principal’s on the Roof
Ruth Levy
Who Was (Example: Who Was John F. Kennedy?)
Various Authors
Series
I, Amber Brown
Paula Danziger
The Magic Finger
Roald Dahl
Pirates Promise
Clyde Robert Bulla
Independent Reading List
Level
O
Books
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sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
A Pony for Keeps
A Pony in Trouble
Baseball Saved Us
Chocolate Fever
Class Clown
Class President
Gooney Bird Green
Hamster Hotel
Henry and Beezus
Henry and Ribsy
Herbie Jones series
No Dogs Allowed
Pocahontas and the Strangers
Pony to the Rescue
Ralph S. Mouse
Ramona and Her Father
Ramona and her Mother
Ramona the Brave
Ramona the Pest
Runaway Ralph
Socks
Stacey and the Mystery at the Mall
Boxcar Children Series
The Gold Threaded Dress
The Spray Paint Mystery
The Whingdingdilly
The Winning Pony
Under the Sunday Tree
Author
Jeanne Betancourt
Jeanne Betancourt
Ken Mochizuki
Robert Smith
Johanna Hurwitz
Johanna Hurwitz
Lois Lowry
Ben M. Baglio
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary
Suzy Kline
Jane Cutler
Clyde Robert Bulla
Jeanne Betancourt
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary
Ann Martin
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Carolyn Marsden
Angela Shelf Medearis
Bill Peet
Jeanne Betancourt
Eloise Greenfield
Independent Reading List
Level
P
Books
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sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
Pippi Longstocking
Astrid Lindgren
A Boy at War
Henry Mazer
Book of Black Heroes from A to Z
W. Hudson and V.W. Wesley
Dragon Quest
Jackie French Koller
Dragon Trouble
Jackie French Koller
Dragons and Kings
Jackie French Koller
Encyclopedia Brown Series
Donald and Rose Sobol
Eoin Colfer’s Legend of Crow’s Teeth
Eoin Colfer
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl
Meg’s Prairie Diary Series (Books 1, 2, and 3)
Kate McMullan
One Day in the Desert
Jean Craighead George
One Day in the Tropical Rainforest
Jean Craighead George
One Day in the Woods
Jean Craighead George
Polar Bear Patrol (Magic School Bus Chapter)
Judith B. Stamper
Riding Freedom
Pam Munoz Ryan
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Louis Sachar
Something Fishy at McDonald Hall
Gordon Korman
Stone Fox
John Reynolds Gardiner
The Dragonling
Jackie French Koller
The Legend of Spud Murphy
Eoin Colfer
The Twits
Roald Dahl
Time Warp Trio
Jon Scieszka
Independent Reading List
Level
Q
Books
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sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
Aliens Ate My Homework
Bruce Coville
American Girls (Series)
Various Authors
Anastasia Krupnik (Series)
Lois Lowry
The Best Halloween Ever
Barbara Robinson
Bunnicula (Series)
James Howe
Charlie Bone Series
Jenny Nimmo
Clementine
Sara Pennypacker
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Beverly Cleary
Fourth Grade Rats
Jerry Spinelli
Hank the Cowdog Series
John Erickson
Hatchet
Gary Paulson
The Homework Machine
Dan Gutman
If You Lived at the Time Of. . . Books
Various Authors
James and the Giant Peach
Judy Blume
Little House on the Prairie (series)
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Kate diCamillo
Soup
Robert Peck
There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom
Louis Sachar
A Dragon in the Family
Jackie French Koller
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Roald Dahl
Finding the Titanic
Robert D. Ballard
Independent Reading List
Level
R
Books
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sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
And Then What Happened Paul Revere
Jean Fritz
Because of Winn Dixie
Kate deCamillo
The Borrowers
Mary Norton
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web
E.B. White
Frindle
Andrew Clements
Inkheart Series
Cornelia Funke
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Bruce Coville
The Library Card
Jerry Spinelli
Matilda
Roald Dahl
The Midnight Fox
Betsy Byars
Nasty Stinky Sneakers
Eve Bunting
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
Judy Blume
The Report Card
Andrew Clements
Rules
Cynthia Lord
Sarah Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan
School Story
Andrew Clements
Stuart Little
E.B. White
The Borrowers
Mary Norton
The Trouble with Tuck
Theodore Taylor
The Witches
Roald Dahl
Independent Reading List
Level
S
Books
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sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
Boys Against Girls
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Poppy
Avi
Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Louis Sachar
My Teacher is an Alien
Bruce Coville
Animals Do the Strangest Things
Leonora Hornblow
Change the Locks
Simon French
Eleanor
Barbara Cooney
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg
Journey
Patricia MacLachlan
Little House on the Prarie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
My Life in Dog Years
Gary Paulsen
Matilda
Roald Dahl
On My Honor
Marion Dane Bauer
Sixth Grade Secrets
Louis Sachar
Time For Andrew
Mary Hahn
Trouble River
Betsy Byars
Tucket’s Gold
Gary Paulsen
The Witch of Fourth Street
Myron Levoy
Young Merlin Trilogy
Jane Yolen
Independent Reading List
Level
T
Books
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sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Children of the Lamp Series
Philip Kerr
Chronicles of Narnia Series
C.S. Lewis
The Fire Within
Chris d’Lacey
Gossamer
Lois Lowry
Jackie and Me
Honus and Me
Dan Gutman
Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh
Harry Potter Series
J.K. Rowling
Inkspell
Cornelia Funke
Joey Pigza Loses Control
Jack Gantos
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Jack Gantos
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Eleanor Coerr
Saving Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Tracker
Gary Paulsen
Woodsong
Gary Paulsen
The Black Stallion
Walter Farley
The Friends
Kazumi Yumoto
Going Solo
Roald Dahl
Independent Reading List
Level
U
Books
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sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
The Boy Who Saved Baseball
John Ritter
The BFG
Roald Dahl
The City of Ember
Jeanne DuPrau
Crash
Jerry Spinelli
Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine
Loser
Jerry Spinelli
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Room One
Andrew Clements
The Secret Garden
Francis Hodgson Burnett
Surviving the Applewhites
Stephanie Tolan
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbit
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
Wringer
Jerry Spinelli
Bad, Badder, Baddest
Cynthia Voigt
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Paula Danziger
The Egypt Game
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Julie of the Wolves
Jean Craighead George
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
Stealing Freedom
Lisa Carbone
The Wizard of Oz
Frank L. Baum
Independent Reading List
Level
V
Books
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sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
Esperanza Rising
Pam Munoz Ryan
Getting Near to Baby
Audrey Couloumbis
Harry Potter Series
J.K. Rowling
Heat
Mike Lupica
The Higher Power of Lucky
Susan Patron
Holes
Louis Sachar
Old Yeller
Fred Gipson
The Series of Unfortunate Events
Lemony Snicket
The Thief Lord
Cornelia Funke
The Wanderer
Sharon Creech
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
Anne of Green Gables
L.M. Montgomery
The Clutz in the Fifth Grade
Bill Wallace
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
The Music of the Doplphins
Karen Hesse
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O’Brien
A Wrinkle in Times
Madeleine L’Engle
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
The Underground Railroad
Raymond Bial
The Secret of Nimh
Robert C. Brien
Independent Reading List
Level
W
Books
These books will be great for you to read ALL BY YOURSELF! Reading is just like any
sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
A Blue Eyed Daisy
Cynthia Rylant
Coraline
Neil Gaiman
The Lost Garden
Laurence Yep
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
Miracle on 49th Street
Mike Lupica
The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
Mildred Taylor
Shiloh Season
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Wings
Jane Yolen
The Wish List
Eoin Colfer
The Witch of Blackbeard Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle
The Black Pearl
Scott O’Dell
Dicey’s Song
Cynthia Voigt
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Mark Twain
Clinton Cox
Maya Angelou: Greeting the Morning
Sarah E. King
Tiger Eyes
Judy Blume
Witches
Roald Dahl
Slam!
Walter Dean Myers
Independent Reading List
Level
X
Books
These books will be great for you to read ALL BY YOURSELF! Reading is just like any
sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
Artemis Fowl Series:
Eoin Colfer
The Arctic Incident
The Eternity Code
The Opal Deception
The Lost Colony
Call it Courage
Armstrong Sperry
The Egypt Game
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Gathering Blue
Lois Lowry
Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson
M.C. Higgins the Great
Virginia Hamilton
The Midwife’s Apprentice
Karen Cushman
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
Petey
Ben Mikaelson
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
The Devil’s Arithmetic
Laurence Yep
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The Rain Ghost
Garry Kilworth
Maura’s Angel
Lynne Reid Banks
Oddballs
William Sleator
A Place to Hide
Jayne Petit
Independent Reading List
Level
Y
Books
These books will be great for you to read ALL BY YOURSELF! Reading is just like any
sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Cheaper By the Dozen
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Jacob’s Rescue: A Holocaust Story
Malka Drucker
The Pushcart War
Jean Merrill
Redwall Series
Brian Jacques
The Same Stuff as Stars
Katherine Paterson
Call of the Wild
Jack London
The Day Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Shot
Jim Haskins
Instead of Three Wishes: Magical Short Stories
Megan Whalen Turner
White Fang
Jack London
One Fat Summer
Robert Lipsyte
The Moffats
Eleanor Estes
Jesse
Gary Soto
Children of the Dust Bowl
Jerry Stanley
Jackaroo
Cynthia Voigt
Bull Run
Paul Fleischman
The Boy Who Reversed Himself
William Sleator
Alida’s Song
Gary Paulsen
Independent Reading List
Level
Z
Books
These books will be great for you to read ALL BY YOURSELF! Reading is just like any
sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to
perform to the best of their ability!
Title
Author
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Bat 6
Virginia Euwer Wolf
Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse
Anna Sewell
The Circuit
Francisco Jimenez
Eight Tales of Terror
Edgar Allen Poe
Animal Farm
Jamaica Kincaid
Black Boy
Richard Wright
The Hobbit
Ruth Minsky Sender
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
The Pigman and Me
Paul Zindel
Flowers For Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Brian’s Song
William Blinn
To Be A Slave
Julius Lester
The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Token
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton
Treasure Island
Robert Lewis Stevenson
A Summer Life
Gary Soto
Forged by Fire
Sharon M. Draper