master list for grades 3 to 5
The Great American Dust Bowl by Don Brown Jacket art c by Don Brown Used by Permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin by Jen Bryant Knopf
Boy on the Porch by Sharon Creech HarperCollins
Locomotive by Brian Floca Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Gingersnap by Patricia Reilly Giff Wendy Lamb Books
Words with Wings by Nikki Grimes Wordsong
Mary Walker Wears the Pants : The True Story of the Doctor, Reformer, and Civil War Hero by Cheryl Harness Jacket art c by Carlo Molinari Albert Whitman
White Fur Flying by Patricia MacLachlan Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes Little, Brown & Co.
Parrots over Puerto Rico by Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore Lee & Low
Gone Fishing: A Novel in Verse by Tamera Wissinger Jacket art c by Matthew Cordell Used by permisison of Houghton Mifflin
master lists for grades 6 to 8
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathy Appelt Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Hold Fast by Blue Balliett Scholastic Press
Doll Bones by Holly Black Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle- maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty by Russell Freedman Used by permission of Holiday House
Beholding Bee by Kimberly Newton Fusco Alfred A. Knopf
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein Random House Children’s Books
The Mad Potter: George Ohr, Eccentric Genius by Jan Greenburg and Sandra Jordan Roaring Brook Press A Neil Porter Book
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson Knopf
Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan Dial Books for Young Readers
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America’s First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone Reproduced by permission of Candlewick Press Somerville, MA
Girl from Felony Bay by J.E. Thompson Walden Pond Press
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake Knopf
The Real Boy by Anne Ursu Walden Pond Press
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool Delacorte Press