Eastside STREAM Academy Recommended Reading Lists

Kindergarten Scholars

 Swashby and the Sea by Seth Ferry  Out the Door by Christy Hale  Love is Powerful by Heather Dean Brewer  A Busy Creature’s Day Eating by Mo Williams  Thank You, Omu! By Oge Mora  Saturday by Oge Mora  All Are Welcome by Alexander Penfold  Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion by Alex T. Smith  Fern and Otto: A Story About Two Best Friends by Stephanie Graegin  We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

1st Grade Scholars  When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree by Jamie L.B. Deenihan  When Grandpa Gives You a Toolbox by Jamie L.B. Deenihan  The Camping Trip by Jennifer K. Mann  The Ocean Calls: A Haenyeo Mermaid Story by Tina Cho  The Princess and the Pit Stop by Tom Angliberger  The Field by Baptiste Paul  You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith  Dear Dragon: A Pen Pal by Josh Funk  It Came in the Mail by Ben Clanton  Julian Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love  Julian at the Wedding by Jessica Love

2nd Grade Scholars  My Papi has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero  If You Come to Earth by Sophie Blackall  Your Name is a Song by Jamilah Thompson Bigelow  Norman: One Amazing Goldfish by Kelly Bennett  Khalil and Mr. Hagerty and the Backyard Treasures by Tricia Springstubb  Ten Ways to Hear Snow by Cathy Camper  Giraffe Problems by Jory John  The Patchwork Bik by Maxine Beneba Clarke  Fruit Bowl by Mark Hoffman  Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise by David Ezra  Jack (Not Jackie) by Erica Silverman  I’m New Here by Anne Sibley O’Brien  Someone New by Anne Sibley O’Brien

3rd Grade Scholars  Pages & Co. Series by Anna James  Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl  The Unicorn Rescue Society Series by Adam Gidwiz  Cam Jansen Series by David A. Adler  Planet Omar Series by Zanib Mian  The Fantastic Frame Series by Lin Oliver  Clean Getaway by Nic Stone  Confessions of a Dork Lord by Mike Johnston  The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster  Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume  A Dyamonde Daniel Book Series by Nikki Grimes  The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez  The Witches of Benevento Series by John Bemelmans Marciano  The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail by Richard Peek  The Zach and Zoe Mysteries Series by Mike Lupica  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

4th Grade Scholars  Matilda by Roald Dahl  Weird Little Robots by Carolyn Crimi  Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi  The Smartest Kid in the Universe by Chris Grabenstein  We’re Not From Here by Geoff Rodkey  Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina  Clean Getaway by Nic Stone  Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine  Savvy by Ingrid Law  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll  The Wild Robot by Peter Brown  George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl  The Witches by Roald Dahl  Little House on Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder  The Magnificent Lizzie Brown and the Ghost Ship by Vicki Lockwood  Real Friends by Shannon Hale  Liberty Porter, First Daughter by Julia DeVillers  The Girl with the Glass Bird by Esme Kerr  Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee

5th Grade Scholars  I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle  The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate  Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren  Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum  Narnia series by CS Lewis  The Tapper Twins by Geoff Rodkey  The Water and the Wild by KE Ormsbee  The Indian and the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks  Smile by Raina Telgemeier  Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan  Wonder by R.J  Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick  I Am Malala (Young Reader’s Edition) by Malala Yousafzai  Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli  Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson  The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

6th Grade Scholars  When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead  Small Spaces by Katherine Arden  The Call of The Wild by Jack London  Hole by Louis Sachar  Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech  Black Beauty by Anna Sewell  Space Case by Stuart Gibbs  My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George  Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper  Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume  The Secret Garden by Frances Hodson Burnett  The Dark Rising by Susan Cooper  Princess Academy by Shannon Hale  Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell  The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden  I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This by Jacqueline Woodson  Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein  Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson  Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson  Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson  Ghost by Jason Reynolds

7th Grade Scholars  New Kid by Jerry Craft  A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata  The Giver by Lois Lowry  Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt  The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin  The Wednesday Wars by Gary D Schmidt  Watership Down by Richard Adams  The Crossover by Kwame Alexander  Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Makaelsen  The Book Thief by Markus Zusak  The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill  Snow White by Matt Phelan  Trials of Apollo by Rick Riodan  Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls  Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt  The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer  Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer  The Pigman by Paul Zindel  Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen  The Girl with the Ghost Machine by Lauren DeStefano  Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

8th Grade Scholars  The Boys Who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose  The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas  The One and Future King by TH White  My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell  Animal Farm by George Orwell  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain  Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank  The Serpent King by Jeff Zenter  The Hate you Give by Angie Thomas  Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin  2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke  Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad  Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor  Life of Pi by Yann Martel  I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai  Twilight by Stephanie Meyer  Nimona by Noelle Stevenson  The Other Side of Truth by Beverly Naidoo  Parrot in the Oven by Victor Martinez  Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly  Frankenstein by Mary Shelley  Mosquitoland by David Arnold  The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey  Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien