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