Books to love…
First chapter books:
Adler, Cam Jansen mystery series
Averill, Jenny and the Cat Club
Bulla, A Lion to Guard Us (and other Bulla historical fiction)
Cameron, The Stories Julian Tells
Cohen, Molly’s Pilgrim
Cole, Gator Girls series
Conford, Jenny Archer
Erickson, A Toad for Tuesday series
Gage, My Stars, It’s Mrs. Gaddy!
Gannett, My Father’s Dragon series
Greer, Let Me Off This Spaceship
Hest, Nannies for Hire,
Kline, Horrible Harry series
Song Lee series
Landon, Meg Mackintosh mystery series
Marshall, Rats on the Roof
Sachar, Marvin Redpost series
Wittman, Stepbrother Sabotage
The next step:
Caseley, Hurricane Harry series
Cleary, Henry Huggins series
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Ramona series
Clement, Frindle
Clifford, Help, I’m a Prisoner in the Library series
Cresswell, Meet Posy Bates series
Dahl, James and the Giant Peach
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dalgliesh, The Courage of Sarah Noble
Danziger, Amber Brown series
Delton, Kitty series
Angel series
Gardiner, Stone Fox
Greene, Isabelle, the Itch
The next step:
Greene, Owen Foote series
Griffith, Caitlin’s Holiday
Hurwitz, anything by Joanna Hurwitz
King-Smith, The School Mouse
The Invisible Dog
Kline, Herbie Jones series
Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
MacLachlan, Sarah Plain and Tall series
Mcdonald, Judy Moody and Stink series
Park, The Kid in the Red Jacket
Robinson, Veronica series
Rockwell, How to Eat Fried Worms
Sachar, Sideways Stories From Wayside School
Smith, The Kid Next Door and Other Headaches
Sobol, Encyclopedia Brown series
Soneklar, Bug Boy
Williams, Mitzi and the Terrible Tyrannosaurous Rex series
Wojciechowski, Beany series
Most Challenging:
Aiken, Night Birds on Nantucket
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Avi, Poppy
Babbitt, The Search for Delicious
Baum, The Wizard of Oz
Brink, Caddie Woodlawn
Brittain, The Devil’s Donkey
Burnford, The Incredible Journey
Butterworth, The Enormous Egg
Coatsworth, Pure Magic
DiCamillo, Because of Winn Dixie
Dubois, The Twenty-One Balloons
Eager, Half Magic
Enright, The Saturdays
Estes, The Hundred Dresses
Fenner, Yolanda’s Genius
Fisher, Understood Betsy
Fitzhugh, Harriet The Spy
Henry, Misty of Chincoteague series
Horvath, The Trolls
Konigsburg, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Levine, Ella Enchanted
Lewis, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Lisle, The Gold Dust Letter series
The Dancing Cats of Applesap
Lord, In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy series
Lowry, Anastasia Krupnik series
Sam Krupnik series
Number the Stars
MacDonald, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
McEwan, The Day Dreamer
Peck, Soup series
Seldon, A Cricket in Times Square
Steig, Abel’s Island
White, Stuart Little
Wilder, The Little House series
Winthrop, The Castle in the Attic series