Some Great Reads for 3-5
Adventure
Any book by Rick Riordan
Attack of the Bandit Cats by Geronimo Stilton
The Golden Book of Death by Michael Dahl
Guardians of Ga’Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky
Hatchet by Gary Paulson
Inkfoot by Michael Dahl
The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne
Return to the Library of Doom by Michael Dahl
Toy Dance Party, Toys Go Out, and Toys Come
Home by Emily Jenkins
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice
Animal Books
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa by Erica Silverman
Zlateh the Goat by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Mole and Shrew are Two by Jackie Koller
Poppleton in Winter by Cynthia Rylant
Fantasy
Bella the Bunny Fairy by Daisy Meadows
Candy Shop War by Brandon Mull
Fablehaven by Brandon Mull
How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell
Miss Smith’s Incredible Storybook by Michael
Garland
Penny the Pony Fairy by Daisy Meadows
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Tales from the Odyssey series by Mary Pope Osborne
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Graphic Novel
Bone series by Jeff Smith
Silent Movie by Avi
Spiderman: Fashion Victims
Historical Fiction
The Birchbark House Louise Erdrich
Day of the Blizzard by Marietta Moskin
Did Castles Have Bathrooms? By Ann Kerns
A Land Remembered by Patrick Smith
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! by Kathryn
Lasky
Poetry
The Echoing Green by William Blake
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
A Bird Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickinson
Fog by Carl Sandburg
Words Free As Confetti by Pat Mora
Humor
Weird School Dayz series by Dan Gutman
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney
Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey
Lunch Walks Among Us by Jim Benton
Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster by Debra Frasier
Aliens Ate My Homework Bruce Coville
Andy Russell – Not Wanted by the Police by David Adler
Alvin Ho Allergic to Girls, School, and other Scary
Things by Lenore Look
Mystery
All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn
The Ghost of Fossil Glen by Cynthia DeFelice
The Omen and the Ghost by John Townsend
39 Clues series by various authors
Tales of Horror Zombies by Jim Pipe
Non-fiction
Boys’ Book of Adventure by Steve Martin
Girls’ Book: How to be the Best at Everything by
Juliana Foster
The Kid's Guide to Money: Earning It, Saving It,
Spending It, Growing It, Sharing It by Steve Otfinoski
Horses by Seymour Simon
Realistic Fiction:
Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls series by Meg Cabot
Bear named Trouble by Marion Dane Bauer Bud, Not
Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
Eleven Birthdays by Wendy Mass
Everything for a Dog by Ann M. Martin
Go Girl Series by Chrissie Perry
M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
No Talking by Andrew Clements
The Raft by Jim LaMarche
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom
Angleberger
SciFi:
Franny K. Stein series by Jim Benton
The Last Apprentice Series by Joseph Delaney
Sports
Any book by Matt Christopher
Speed Receiver by Jake Maddox