Suggested Books Realistic Fiction
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
The Wanderer, Creech Loser, Spinelli Tangerine, Bloor Seedfolks, Fleischman One Fat Summer, Lipsyte Schooled, Korman So B. It, Weeks When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, Holt Hush, Woodson Joey Pigza(Series), Gantos Hank Zipzer(Series), Winkler and Oliver Esperanza Rising, Ryan Pictures of Hollis Woods, Giff Double Dutch, Draper No More Dead Dogs, Gorman Flipped, Draanen A Dog’s Purpose, Cameron the higher power of lucky, Patron The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Selznick
Hunger Games (Series), Collins Eragon, Paolini The Thief, Turner Gregor the Overlander, Collins Redwall (Series), Jacques Wrinkle in Time, L’Engle Tale of Despereaux, DiCamillo Inkheart(Series), Funke Skeleton Man, Bruchac The Golden Compass, Pullman In the Forest of the Night, AtwaterRhodes Pendragon(Series), MacHale Percy Jackson (Series), Riordan Twilight (Series), Meyers Artemis Fowl (Series), Colfer Loch, Zindel Among the Hidden (Series), Haddix Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment, Patterson The Graveyard Book, Gaiman
Sports Heat, Lupica Travel Team, Lupica Babe and Me, Gutman Shoeless Joe and Me, Gutman The Moves Make the Man, Brooks Sliding into Home, Hillestad Butler Million Dollar Kick, Gutman
Humor The Teacher’s Funeral, Peck Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Kinney My Teacher is an Alien, Corville The Strange Case of the Origami Yoda, Angleberger
Action/Adventure/Mystery
Nonfiction
The Alex Rider Series, Horowitz Hatchet, Paulsen Any series by Gordan Korman: Island, Dive, or Everest Iceberg Hermit, Roth Peak, Smith Touching Spirit Bear, Mikaelsen The Empty Mirror, Collier Down the Rabbit Hole, Abrahams Code Orange, Cooney Wolf Rider, Avi Last Shot (Series), Feinstein Skeleton Creek, Carman
Phineas Gage, Fleishman Left for Dead, Nelson The Orphan Train Rider, Warren The Boys War, Murphy The Greatest Muhammad Ali, Myers Revenge of the Whale, Philbrick Red Scarf Girl, Jiang Life Under Ice, Cerullo&Curtsinger Escape from Slavery, The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words, Douglass Portraits of African American Heroes, Bolden and Pitcairn Red, White, Blue, and Uncle Who?, Bateman and O’Brien Shipwrecked!, Blumberg Turtle Rescue, Hickman 6 Million Paper Clips, Schroeder & Schroeder-Hildebrand Freedom Walkers, Freedman With Courage and Cloth, Bausum Profiles in Courage, J. F. Kennedy A Night to Remember, Lord Marley: A Dog Like no Other, Grogan The Longest Game, Krasner Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, Swanson Forbidden Schoolhouse: The True and Dramatic Story of Prudence Crandall and Her Students, Jurmain Boy, Dahl The Heart of a Champion, Kwan Lost on a Mountain in Maine, Fendler and Egan Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, Pollan
Historical Fiction My Last Skirt, Durrant Here Today, Martin Al Capone Does My Shirts, Choldenko The Watsons Go to Birmingham, Curtis True North, Lasky Crispin, Avi Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam, Kadohata The Thieves of Ostia, Lawrence Fever 1793, Anderson No Promises in the Wind, Hunt Dragonwings, Yep
Classics The Prince & the Pauper, Twain Treasure Island, Stevenson Dracula, Stoker Frankenstein, Shelley Watership Down, Adams The Sword in the Stone, T.H.White
Suggested Authors Lloyd Alexander
Madeline L’Engle
Isaac Asimov
Jack London
Avi
Mike Lupica
Joseph Bruchac
Patricia MacLachlan
Matt Christopher
Harry Mazer
Beverly Cleary
Walter Dean Myers
James Collier
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Caroline Cooney
Joan Lowery Nixon
Susan Cooper
Scott O’Dell
Sharon Creech
James Paterson
Karen Cushman
Katherine Paterson
Lois Duncan
Gary Paulsen
Caroline Fisher
Rodman Philbrick
Paula Fox
Ann Rinaldi
Jack Gantos
Cynthia Rylant
Jean Craighead George
Louis Sachar
Laurie Halse Anderson
Jerry Spinelli
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Mildred Taylor
Virginia Hamtilon
Cynthia Voigt
Karen Hesse
Bill Wallace
Will Hobbs
Jane Yolen
Anthony Horowitz
Laurence Yep
Gordon Korman
Paul Zindel
Kathryn Lasky
Additional Online Resources * The International Reading Association’s current and past Children’s, Young Adult’s and Teacher’s Choice booklists http://www.reading.org/Resources/Booklists.aspx * American Library Association www.ala.org (try searching: Yalsa Award, Printz Award, Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Book Awards, and Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award)
