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Check Out This Reading List!

Here is a list of books I've compiled for you! Some are new, some are old, some are just right!

 

1. The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

2. Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

3. Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

4. One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

5. Michael Vey, Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans

6. Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman

7. Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

8. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

9. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

10. See You in the Cosmos, Carl Sagan by Jack Cheng

11. Marrying Malcolm Murgatroyd by Mame Farrell

12. Wenny Has Wings by Janet Lee Carey

13. The Last Dog on Earth by Daniel Ehrenhaft

14. Space Case by Stuart Gibbs

15. Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland

16. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

17. Hoot by Carl Hiaason

18. Barbaro, America's Horse by Shelley Fraser Mickle

19. Dear Hank Williams by Kimberly Willis Holt

20. Unstoppable by Tim Green

21. The Whydah by Martin W. Sandler

22. Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges 

23. Lost in Outer Space: The Incredible Journey of Apollo 13 by Tod Olson

24. Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine & a Miracle Book by Brian Dennis

25. Ghost Dog Secrets by Peg Kehret

26. Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret

27. I Survived the Joplin Tornado by Lauren Tarshis

28. Zach’s Lie by Roland Smith

29. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

30. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

31. The One and Only Ivan by K.A. Applegate

32. Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla by K.A. Applegate

33. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

34. We Are the Ship, the Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson

35. Ice Story, Shackleton's Lost Expedition by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

36. The Finest Hours: the True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Casey Sherman

37. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

38. When Marian Sang by Brian Selznick and Pam Muñoz Ryan

39. Nightsong by Ari Berk

40. Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

41. Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo

42. Blended by Sharon Draper

43. Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

44. Chasing the Falconers by Gordon Korman

45. Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty

46. The Unwanteds by Lisa McMann

47. If I Forget, You Remember by Carol Lynch Williams

48. Wonder by RJ Palacio

49. Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park

50. Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

51. War Horse by Michael Morpurgo

52. Crandall's Castle by Betty Ren Wright

53. Pack of Dorks by Beth Vrabel

54. Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson White

55. Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

56. Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

57. Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

58. Webster, Tale of an Outlaw by Ellen Emerson White

59. Beneath by Roland Smith

60. The Underdogs by Mike Lupica

61. Took by Mary Downing Hahn

62. The Girl in the Locked Room by Mary Downing Hahn

63. Restart by Gordon Korman

64. Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

65. The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony