Great Books

 

                               2-3 grade level:

 

Author                                                 Title

 

Michael Bond                                      A Bear Called Paddington

Oliver Butterworth                              The Enormous Egg

                                                            The Narrow Passage

Clyde Robert Bulla                              A Lion to Guard Us

Ruth Chew                                          The Witch books (easy and fun to read)

Beverly Cleary                                    The Ramona books

                                                            The Henry books

                                                            The Beezus books

                                                            The Mouse and the Motorcycle

                                                            Ralph S. Mouse

                                                            Ribsy

                                                            Strider

Eth Clifford                                         Help! IÕm a Prisoner in the Library + others

Bruce Coville                                      The Monster Ring

                                                            Jeremy Thatcher, the Dragon Hatcher + others

Roald Dahl                                          Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

                                                            Danny, Champion of the World

                                                            The BFG

                                                            The Magic Finger

                                                            Matilda

                                                            The Twits

                                                            James and the Giant Peach + others

Russell Erickson                                 The Warton books

Sid Fleishman                                     The Ghost on Saturday Night + others

                                                            Humbug Mountain (a little harder book)

Ruth Gannett                                       The Dragon books

John R. Gardiner                                 Stone Fox

Richard Kennedy                                 Inside My Feet: The Story of a Giant + others

Ann McGovern                                   If You Sailed on the Mayflower

Alice P. Miller                                     The Heart of Camp Whippoorwill + others

Peggy Parish                                        Amelia Bedelia books

John Peterson                                      The LittlesÕ books

Donald J. Sobol                                   The Encyclopedia Brown books

Shel Silverstein                                    Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back + others

Jay Williams                                        The Danny Dunn books

Matt Christopher                                 Catch That Pass!

                                                            Catcher with a Glass Arm

                                                            The Fox Steals Home

                                                            Ice Magic + others

 

                           4-6 grade level:

 

Author                                                 Title

 

Julie Angell                                           In Summertime ItÕs Tuffy + others

Natalie Babbitt                                     Tuck Everlasting

                                                            The Search for Delicious

Patricia Beatty                                     Lupita Manana          

Judy Blume                                         Blubber

                                                            Freckle Juice

                                                            Fudge-A-Mania

                                                            Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great

                                                            The Pain and the Great One

                                                            Superfudge

                                                            Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Bertrand Brinley                                 The Mad ScientistsÕ Club

Betsy Byars                                         The Pinballs

                                                            The Midnight Fox

                                                            After the Goat Man

                                                            The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown

                                                            The Summer of the Swans

                                                            Trouble River + many others

Ellen Conford                                      Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood

                                                            And This is Laura + others

Jane Louise Curry                               Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Time

Paula Danzinger                                  The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Thomas J. Dygard                               Winning Kicker + many other sports stories

Walter Farley                                      The Black Stallion books

John Fitzgerald                                    The Great Brain books

Louise Fitzhugh                                   Harriet The Spy books

Jamie Gilson                                        Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub

                                                            Fourth Grade Goes Wild

                                                            Help.  My Name is Scrambled Eggs

Betsy Hayes                                         The Against Taffy Sinclair Club

Deborah & James Howe                      Bunnicula

                                                            The Howliday Inn

                                                            The Celery Stalks at Midnight + others

Norton Juster                                       The Phantom Tollbooth

Norma Klein                                        Mom, the Wolf Man and Me

Elaine Konigsburg                               From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.

                                                                        Frankweiler

                                                            Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth

                                                            William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth

Gordon Korman                                  The Macdonald Hall books

                                                            No Coins, Please + others

Astrid Lindgren                                   All the Pippi Longstocking books

M. Masters                                          Can  You Solve the Mystery? Series

Betty Miles                                          The Secret Life of the Underwear Champ

Marvin Miller &

     Nancy K. Robinson                        The T.A.C.K. books

Robert Newman                                  All the Case books (great mysteries)

Robert OÕBrien                                    Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

                                                            The Silver Crown

Jane OÕConnor                                    Yours Till Niagara Falls, Abby

Catherine Paterson                              The Great Gilly Hopkins

Robert Newton Peck                           The Soup books

Susan Beth Pfeffer                              What Do You Do When Your Mouth

                                                                        WonÕt Open?

Lynn Reid-Banks                                The Indian in the Cupboard (and sequels)

Thomas Rockwell                               How to Eat Fried Worms

Barbara Robinson                               The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

                                                            The Best School Year Ever

Gail Rock                                            The House Without a Christmas Tree

Marilyn Sachs                                     The Amy and Laura adventures

Shel Silverstein                                   Where the Sidewalk Ends

                                                            Light in the Attic

Doris B. Smith                                    The Taste of Blackberries

William Steig                                      The Real Thief

                                                            AbelÕs Island

E.B. White                                           Stuart Little