Recommended Reading List

Reading can...

by Melissa, Megan & Hana

• increase your vocabulary

• increase your knowledge

• help you become a better speller

• help you become a better writer

• help you become a better thinker

• open your imagination

• open your mind to new places, people & ideas

• help you understand things better

• give you something to do when you don't have anything else to do

Recommended Reading List

This list was complied by 

Ms. Moore, Stout's Librarian

Many of these authors have written several books,
so if you enjoy one, look for more by the same author.

Fiction

• The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• The BFG by Roald Dahl
• It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World by Paula Danziger
• Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan
• One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
• When Zachary Beaver Came To Town by Kimberly Holt
• Call of the Wild by Jack London
• The Bridge of Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
• Holes by Lois Sacher
• Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
• The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright

Historical Fiction

• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
• Catherine, called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• Sounder by W. Armstrong
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Del
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare

Fantasy/Science Fiction

• Animorphs series by Katherine Applegate
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Redwall series by Brian Jacques
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
• The Hobbitt and Fellowship of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Harry Potter series

Biography

• Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? P.&F. McKissack
• Woodsong by Gary Paulson
• Any sports biography about your favorite players