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Ms.Favale
Please choose books from this list to fulfill your reading requirements for
Independent Reading. Please choose books you have not read. You must ask
permission if you want to read a book that is not on this list.
Independent Reading Book List
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ADVENTURE
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Montmorency by Eleanor Updale
River Thunder by Will Hobbs
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY
Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life
by Candace Fleming
Bones Rock!: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Paleontologist by Peter
Larson
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980
U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey
Delicious: The Art and Life of Wayne Thiebaud by Susan Goldman Rubin
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton
Jackson
The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American
Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal by Vicki Constantine
Croke
The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams by Darcy Frey
The Lost Pet Chronicles: Adventures of A K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective by
Kathy Albrecht
On the Field with…Mia Hamm by Matt Christopher
The Tarantula Scientist (Scientists in the Field series) by Sy Montgomery,
Illustrated by Nic Bishop
Three Cups of Tea (young readers edition) by Greg Mortenson and David
Oliver Relin
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History by Phillip M Hoose
Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic
FANTASY
 The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
 The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
 Eragon by Christopher Paolini
 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
 Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
 Miss Peregine’s Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
 Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series) by Rick Riordan
 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
 The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles series) by Rick Riordan
 Redwall by Brian Jacques
 Tentacles by Roland Smith
 The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
 Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
 Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
 Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
FICTION
 11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
 Crazy Lady! by Jane Leslie Conly
 Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
 Journey of the Sparrows by Fran Leeper Buss
 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
 The Man Who Was Poe by Avi
 Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
 Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver
 Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
HISTORICAL FICTION
 April Morning by Howard Fast
 Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky
 Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
 Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
 Forge by Laure Halse Anderson (sequel to Chains)
 Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
 Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
 The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
 Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
 One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia
 Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
 Shadow by Michael Morpurgo
 The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
 The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Paul Curtis
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo
 Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
 Last Shot by John Feinstein
 Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
 The Stranger Next Door by Peg Kehret
 The Trouble with Lemons by Daniel Hayes
 The Undertaker’s Gone Bananas by Paul Zindel
 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
MYTHS/LEGENDS
 Pandora Gets Jealous. by Carolyn Hennesy
REALISTIC FICTION
 A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin
 Firegirl by Tony Abbott
 Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
 Heat by Mike Lupica
 Homecoming by Cynthia Voight
 The Pigman by Paul Zindel
 Tangerine by Edward Bloor
 Travel Team by Mike Lupica
 The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
SCIENCE FICTION
 The Adventures of Maximum Ride (series) by James Patterson
 The Duplicate by William Sleator
 Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
 The Messenger by Lois Lowry
 Myst, The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller, Robin Miller, David Wingrove
 When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
FOR AUTHOR STUDY:
 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
 The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
 The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
 The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
 Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury