Recommended Reading

ADVENTURE AND SURVIVAL
Avi                      The True Confesssions of Charlotte Doyle (5.3)
Campbell, Eric           The Place of Lion (5.9)
George, Jean Craighead   My Side of the Mountain (5.9)
George, Jean Craighead   The Talking Earth (5.2)
Hobbs, Will              Far North (5.3)
Konigsburg, E.L.         From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. 
                            Frankweiler (4.8)
Naylor, Phyllis          The Fear Place (5.0)
O'Dell, Scott            Island of the Blue Dolphins (6.4)
Paulsen, Gary            Brian's Hunt (5.9)
Paulsen, Gary            DogSong (5.9)
Paulsen, Gary            Hatchett (6.1)
Paulsen, Gary            River (5.5)
Sachar, Louis            Holes (6.0)
Taylor, Theodore         The Cay (5.3)
Yep, Laurence            Dragon's Gate (5.3)
Yolen, Jane              Odysseus in the Serpent Maze (5.0)

ANIMAL STORIES
Banks, Lynn Reid         I, Houdini (5.8)
Conly, Jane Leslie       RT, Margaret, and the Rats of Nimh (5.5)
Conly, Jane Leslie       Rasco and the Rats of Nimh (5.5)
Gipson, Fred             Old Yeller (5.8)
Kipling, Rudyard         The Jungle Book (5.0)
Kjelgaard, Jim           Big Red (5.8)
Kyelgaard, Jim           Irish Red (5.9)
Milne, A. A.             The House at Pooh Corner (5.1)
Morey, Walt              Gentle Ben (5.0)
Naylor, Phyllis          Shiloh (5.1)
O'Brien, Robert          Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (5.9)
White, E. B.             Stuart Little (5.0)

BIOGRAPHY
Adler, David             A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart (5.0)
Brown, Don               Mack Made Movies (5.4)
Bridges, Ruby            Through My Eyes:  The Autobiography of Ruby Bridges 
                           (5.9)
Crisfield, Deborah       The Travels of Ponce de Leon (5.5)
Fritz, Jean              The Double Life of Pocahontas (5.9)
Green, Michelle Y.       A Strong Right Arm:  The Story of Mamie "Peanut" 
                            Johnson (5.1)
Lasky, Kathryn           The Librarian Who Measured the Earth (5.8)
Paulsen, Gary            My Life in Dog Years (5.6)
Paulsen, Gary            Puppies, Dogs, and Blue NOrthers (6.0)
Pinkney, Andrea Davis    Duke Ellington (5.0)
Ringgold, Faith          If a Bus Could Talk (5.3)
Warren, Andrea           Orphan Train Rider:  One Boy's True Story (6.1)

DIFFERENT DRUMMERS
Lisle, Janet             Afternoon of the Elves (6.3)
Spinelli, Jerry          Maniac Magee (5.0)

FAMILY, FRIENDS, SCHOOL, AND GROWING UP
Byars, Betsy             Summer of the Swans (5.2)
Clements, Andres         Frindle (5.4)
Ehrlich, Gretel          A Blizzard Year (5.4)
Hahn, Mary               Following the Mystery Man (6.0)
Hannigan, Katherine      Ida B (5.3)
Hiassen, Carl            Hoot (5.2)
Klise, Kate              Regarding the Fountain (5.8)
Konigsburg, E. L.        The View from Saturday (6.8)
Patterson, Katherine     Bridge to Terabithia (7.0)
Ryan, Pam Munoz          Becoming Naomi Leon (5.4)
Rylant, Cynthia          Missing May (7.0)
Snyder, Zilpha           Libby on Wednesdays (6.0)
Van Leeuwen, Jean        Dear Mom, You Are Ruining My Life (6.0)
Voigt, Cynthia           Dicey's Song (5.5)
White, Ruth              Belle Prater's Boy (5.7)

FANTASY
Alexander, Lloyd         The Black Cauldron (5.2)
Alexander, Lloyd         The Book of Three (5.8)
Alexander, Lloyd         High King (6.0)
Alexander, Lloyd         The Illyrian Adventure (5.5)
Alexander, Lloyd         Westmark (5.3)
Babitt, Natalie          Tuck Everlasting (5.0)
Bellairs,John            The House with the Clock in its Walls (6.2)
Colfer, Eoin             Artemis Fowl:  TheEternity Code (5.0)
Colfer, Eoin             Artemis Folw:  The Arctic Incident (5.0)
Cooper, Susan            The Dark is Rising (6.2)
DuPrau, Jeanne           City of Ember (5.0)
Haddix, Margaret         Just Ella (5.5)
Hobbs, Will              Kokopelli's Flute (5.3)
Jacques, Brian           Redwall series (5.0-7.0)
Lewis, C. S.             Chronicles of Narnia--Books 1-7 (5.0-7.0)
McGraw, Eloise           The Moorchild (5.5)
Pearce, Philippa         Tom's Midnight Garden (5.0)
Selden, George           The Genie of Sutton Place (5.1)
Winthrop, Elizabeth      The Castle in the Attic (6.2)

HISTORICAL FICTION
Armstrong, Jennifer      Black-eyed Susn (5.1)
Avi                      Crispin:  the Corss of Lead (5.0)
Avi                      The Fighting Ground (5.5)
Avi                      Smuggler's Island (5.5)
Brink, Carol Ryrie       Caddie Woodlawn (5.6)
Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud, Not Buddy (5.0)
Cushman, Karen           Ballad of Lucy Whipple (5.3)
Edmonds, Walter          The Matchlock Gun (5.2)
Fleischman, Paul         Bull Run (5.5)
Fleischman, Sid          Jim Ugly (5.5)
Hesse, Karen             Out of the Dust (5.6)
Hilgartner, Beth         A Murder of Her Majesty (5.0)
Lasky, Kathryn           The Night JHourney (6.1)
Lisle, Janet Taylor      Art of Keeping Cool (5.0)
Lowry, Lois              Number the Start (5.0)
Morrow, Honore           On the Oregon (5.1)
Peck, Richard            A Long Way from Chicago (5.0)
Pinkney, Richard         Silent Thunder:  A Civil War History (5.4)
Reeder, Carolyn          Shades of Gray (5.8)
Reiss, Johanna           The Upstairs Room (5.4)
Snyder, Zilpha           Cat Running (5.6)
Taylor, Mildred          Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (5.7)
Yep, Laurence            The Starfisher (5.2)

HUMOR
Dickinson, Peter         Chuck and Danielle (5.0)
Fitzgerald, John         The Great Brain at the Academy (5.8)
Fitzgerald, John         The Great Brain is Back (5.0)
Fitzgerald, John         The Great Brain Does it Again (5.0)
Lowry, Lois              The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline (5.3)
Maguire, Gregory         Seven Spiders Spinning (5.5)
Manes, Stephen           Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (5.1)
Merrill, Jean            The Pushcart War (6.5)
Naylor, Phyllis          Beetles, Lightly Toasted (5.7)
Snicket, Lemony          The Bad Beginning (6.4)

IN OTHER LANDS
Creech, Sharon           Bloomability (5.2)
Fritz, Jean              Homesick, My Own Story (5.9)
Namioka, Lensey          Ties that Bind, Ties that Break (5.5)

MYSTERY AND THRILLERS
Avi                      Windcatcher (5.3)
Bellairs, John           The House with a Clock in its Walls (6.2)
Erickson, John           Hand the Cowdog series (4.0-6.0)
Hahn, Mary               The Dead Man in Indian Creek (5.9)
Nixon, Joan              Search for the Shadowman (6.5)
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley   The Egypt Game (5.5)
Wright, Betty Ren        The Dollhouse Murders (5.0)

SCIENCE FICTION
Christopher, John        The White Mountains (6.2)
Lowry, Lois              The Giver (5.7)