Young
Viking
Book List
Literature recommended for the
accelerated reader
2022 Young Viking Books
Black Brother, Black Brother A Place to Hang the Moon By: Jewel Parker Rhodes By: Kate Albus
The Canyon’s Edge Root Magic By: Dusti Bowling By: Eden Royce
Don’t Check Out This Book Scritch Scratch By: Kate Klise By: Lindsay Currie
Hide and Seeker Shoe Wars By: Daka Herman By: Liz Pichon
History Smashers – Pearl Harbor The Silver Arrow By: Kate Messner By: Lev Grossman
The List of Things That Will Not Stargazing Change By: Jen Wang By: Rebecca Stead Tune It Out Magic’s Most Wanted By: Jamie Sumner By: Taylor Whitesides When Life Gives You Lemons, Maya and the Rising Dark Make Peach Pie By: Rena Barron By: Erin Downing
The Million Dollar Race When Stars are Scattered By: Matthew Ross Smith By: Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed The Mysterious Dissappeance of Aidan S. (as told to his brother) A Wish in the Dark By: David Levinthan By: Christina Soontornvat
2021 Young Viking Books
Sweeping up the Heart I, Cosmo By: Kevin Henkes By: Carlie Sorosiak
This was our Pact Words on Fire By: Ryan Andrews By: Jennifer Nielson
A Wolf Called Wander Mananaland By: Rosanne Parry By: Pam Munoz Ryan
Nightbooks Roll With It By: J.A. White By: Jamie Sumner
Extraordinary Birds A Galaxy of Sea Stars By: Sandy McGinnis By: Jeanne Ferruolo
Astro-Nuts: The Plant Planet The Boy who Grew Dragons By: Jon Scieszka By: Andy Shepard
Too Young to Escape Brightstorm By: Ho Van By: Vashti Hardy
Greystone Secrets: The Cog Strangers By: Greg Van Eekhout By: Margaret Peterson Haddix Winterborne Home Wings of Olympus By: Ally Carter By: K. George
The Elephant Thief By: Jane Kerr
2020 Young Viking Books
Bob Explorer Academy: The Nebula By: Wendy Mass Secret By: Trudi Trueit Night Diary By: Veera Hiranandani Click By: Kayla Miller Capsized: The Forgotten Story of the SS Eastland Disaster Lifeboat 12 By: Patricia Sutton By: Susan Hood
The Doughnut Fix The Unteachables By: Jessie Janowitz By: Gordon Korman
The Inkling Insignificant Events in the Life of By: Kenneth Oppel a Cactus By: Dusti Bowling Soof By: Sarah Weeks 42 is Not Just a Number By: Doreen Rappaport The Season of Styx Malone By: Kekla Magoon The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise The Miscalculations of Lightening By: Dan Gemeinhart Girl By: Stacy McAnulty Genevive’s War By: Patricia Reilly Giff Aru Shah and the End of Time By: Roshani Chokshi Saving Winslow By: Sharon Creech Chester and Gus By: Cammie McGovern Small Spaces By: Katherine Arden 2019 Young Viking Books The Explorer By: Katherine Rundell The Boy on the Wooden Box By: Leon Meyson The Peculiar Incident on Shady Street Restart By: Lindsey Currie By: Gordon Korman Macy McMaillian and the Rainbow Dead Possums are Fair Game Goddess By: Taryn Souders By: Sharri Green
Beyond the Bright Sea Podkin One Ear By: Lauren Wolk By: Kieran Larwood
The Real McCoys Family Game Night and Other By: Matthew Swanson Catastrophes By: Mary Lambert At the Bottom of the World By: Bill Nye Ben Frankin’s in my Bathroom! By: Candice Fleming One Good Thing about America By: Ruth Freeman Otherwise known as Possum By: Maria Laso Horizon By: Scott Westerfield Me and Marvin Gardens By: A.S. King A Boy Called Bat By: Alana Arnold The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle Vanderbeekers of 141st Street By: Leslie Connor By: Karina Yan Glaser Strongheart By: Candice Fleming 2018 Young Viking Books
Save Me a Seat The Ethan I Was Before By: Sarah Weeks and Gita By: Ali Standish Varadarjan The Bicycle Spy Confessions of an Imaginary By: Yona Zeldis McDonough Friend By: Michelle Cuabas Gertie’s Leap to Greatness By: Kate Beasley Ghost By: Jason Reynolds Matchstick Castle By: Keir Graff Garvey’s Choice By: Nikki Grimes Wish By: Barbara O’Connor Full of Beans By: Jennifer Holms Scar Island By: Dan Demeinenhart Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story By: Nora Baskin Projekt 1065 By: Alan Gratz Terrible Typhoid Mary By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti Real Friends By: Shannon Hale Dara Palmer’s Major Drama By: Emma Shevah The False Prince By: Jennifer Nielson Fortune Falls By: Jenny Goebel Going Wild By: Lisa McMann
2017 Young Viking Books
Adventures with Waffles My Near Death Adventures By: Maria Park By: Alison DeCamp
The Boys in the Boat (Jr. Version) A Night Divided By: Daniel Brown By: Jennifer Nielsen
Crenshaw Odd, Weird & Little By: Katherine Applegate By: Patrick Jennings
Ellie’s Story: A Dog’s Purpose Pax By: Bruce W. Cameron By: Sars Pennypacker
Flashback Four the Lincoln Project The Seventh Most Important By: Dan Gutman Thing By: Shelley Pearsall Fuzzy Mud By: Louis Sachar Soar By: Joan Bauer A Handful of Stars By: Cynthia Lord The Tale of Rescue By: Michael Rosen Just Like Me By: Nancy J. Cavanaugh Wake Up Missing By: Kate Messner Lawless By: Jeffrey Salane The War that Saved my Life By: Kimberly Bradley Milo Speck: Accidental Agent By: Lori Urban The Way to Stay in Destiny By: Augusta Scattergood
2016 Young Viking Books
A Snicker of Magic Masterminds By: Natalie Lloyd By: Gordon Korman
Athlete vs. Mathlete Rain Reign By: W.C. Mack By: Ann M. Martin
Better to Wish Say it Ain’t So By: Ann M. Martin By: Josh Berk
Echo: A Novel Stella by Starlight By: Pam Munoz Ryan By: Sharon Draper
Fish in a Tree Story Thieves By: Lynda Hunt By: James Riley
Future Flash Surrounded by Sharks By: Kita Murdock By: Michael Northrop
Honey The Fourteen Goldfish By: Sarah Weeks By: Jennifer Holm
I Represent Sean Rosen The Great Trouble By: Jeff Baron By: Deborah Hopkinson
Loot Upside Down in the Middle of By: Jude Watson Nowhere By: Julie Lamana Lucky Strike By: Bobbie Pyron What We Found in the Sofa and How it Saved the World By: Henry Clar
2015 Young Viking Books
About Average Doll Bones By: Andrew Clements By: Holly Black
Adventures of a South Pole Pig Hypnotists By: Chris Kurtz By: Gordon Korman
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers The Lion Who Stole my Arm By: Steve Sheinkin By: Nicola Davies
One Dog and his Boy Tua and the Elephant By: Eva Ibbotson By: R.P. Harris
Serafina’s Promise The Short Seller By: Ann Burg By: Elissa Brent Weissman
Sky Jumpers The Secret Tree By: Peggy Eddelman By: Natalie Standiford
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Half a Chance Library By: Cynthia Lord By: Chris Grabenstein Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to What the Moon Said Not Reading By: Gayle Rosengren By: Tommy Greenwald
Red Thread Sister Winter Sky By: Carol Peacock By: Patricia Reilly Giff
Hero Starbounders By: Mike Lupica By: Adam Epstein
2014 Young Viking Books
Animals Welcome The Fourth Stall By: Peg Kehret By: Chris Rylander
Anything but Typical Hidden By: Nora Baskin By: Helen Frost
The Bad Apple How to Beat the Bully without By: T.R. Burns Really Trying By: Scott Starky Bliss By: Kathryn Littlewood Ice Island By: Sherry Shahan Candy Bomber By: Michael Tunnell Liar & Spy By: Rebecca Stead The Candy Smash By: Jacqueline Davies The One and Only Ivan By: Katherine Applegate The Case of the Mistaken Identity By: Mac Barnett The Second Life of Abigail Walker By: Frances O’Roark Dowell City of Orphans By: Avi The Seventh Level By: Jody Feldman Fake Mustache By: Angelberger Three Times Lucky By: Shelia Turnage
2013 Young Viking Books
Amelia Lost: The Life and Secrets if Sea: A Novel Disappearance of Amelia Earhart By: Richard Peck By: Candace Fleming Seeing Cinderella The Candymakers By: Jenny Lundquist By: Wendy Mass Tuesdays at the Castle Champ By: Jessica Day George By: Marcia Jones The Unwanteds Freaky Fast Frankie Joe By: Lia McMann By: Lutricia Clifton Wild Life Ghosts of the Titanic By: Cynthia DelFelice By: Julie Lawson Wild River Glory Be By: P. Petersen By: Augusta Scattergood The Willoughbys Lights on the Nile By: Lois Lowry By: Donna Jo Napoli Wonder Melonhead By: R.J. Palacio By: Katy Kelly World War II: An Interactive One for the Murphys History Adventure By: Lynda Hunt By: Elizabeth Raum
Popular Clone You’ll Like it Here (Everybody By: M. E. Castle Does) By: Ruth White
2012 Young Viking Books
A Long Walk to Water Orphan Trains: An Interactive By: Linda Sue Park History Adventure By: Elizabeth Raum Abby Carnerlia’s One & Only Magical Power Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman By: David Pogue By: Ben Winters
Christan the Lion Strange Case of Origami Yoda By: Ruth Knowles By: Tom Angelberger
Crunch The Fantastic Secret of Owen By: Leslie Conner Jester By: Barbara O’Connor Fizzy Whiz Kid By: Maiya Williams The Fast and the Furriest By: Andy Behrens Ghost Dog Secrets By: Peg Kehret The Name of this Book is Secret By: Pseudonymous Bosch Mission Unstoppable By: Dan Gutman The Shadows By: Jacqueline West My Life as a Book By: Janet Tashjian The Shark Attacks of 1916 By: Lauren Tarshis NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society Turtle in Paradise By: Michael Buckley By: Jennifer Holm
Nightmare at the Bookfair We the Children By: Dan Gutman By: Andrew Clements
2011 Young Viking Books
Captain Nobody In Memory of Gorfman T. Frog By: Dean Pitchford By: Gail Donovan
Closed for the Season The Mostly True Adventures of By: Mary Downing Hahn Homer P. Figg By: W. Rodman Philbrick Cosmic By Frank Boyce Cottrell The Night Fairy By: Laura Amy Schlitz Dewey the Library Cat: A True Story Out of my Mind By: Vicki Myron By: Sharon Draper
Eager Powerless By: Helen Fox By: Matthew Cody
Eleven The Red Pyramid By: Patricia Reilly Giff By: Rick Riordan
The Genie Scheme Runaway Twin By: Kimberly Jones By: Peg Kehret
Lucky: Maris, Mantle, and my Best Signal Summer Ever By: Cynthia DeFelice By: Wes Tooke Sixty Eight Rooms The Magic Half By: Marianne Malone By: Annie Barrows Woods Runner Mahtab’s Story By: Gary Paulsen By: Libby Gleeson
2010 Young Viking Books
All the Lovely Bad Ones 11 Birthdays By: Mary Downing Hahn By: Wendy Mass
Becca at Sea Lost and Found By: Deirdre F. Baker By: Andrew Clements
Dying to Meet You Masterpiece By: Kate Klise By: Elise Broach
Firegirl The Rising Star of Rusty Nail By: Tony Abbott By: Lesley M.M. Blume
First Light Schooled By: Rebecca Stead By: Gordon Korman
Found Sent By: Margaret Peterson Haddix By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Give Me Shelter Stolen By: Tony Bradman By: Vivian Vande Velde
Ibby’s Magic Weekend Swindle By: Heather Dyer By: Gordon Korman
Kenny and the Dragon Three Cups of Tea By: Tony DiTerlizzi By: Sarah L. Thompson
Knucklehead The White Giraffe By: Jon Scieszka By: Lauren St. John
2009 Young Viking Books Marooned: The Strange but True Attack of the Turtle Adventures of Alexander Selkirk, By: Drew Carlson the Real Robinson Crusoe By: Robert Kraske A Bear Named Trouble By: Marion Dane Bauer Paint the Wind By: Pam Munoz Ryan Edward’s Eyes By: Patricia MacLachlan Regular Guy By: Sarah Weeks Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat The Seven Wonders of By: Lynne Jonell Sassafras Spring By: Betty Birney Escaping the Giant Wave By: Peg Kehret The Puzzling World of Winston Breen Ghost’s Grave By: Eric Berlin By: Peg Kehret The Tail of Emily Windsnap Jack Plank Tells Tales By: Liz Kessler By: Natalie Babbit Where I Live Kensuke’s Kingdon By: Eileen Spinelli By: Michael Morpurgo Witch Catcher Lowji Discovers America By: Mary Downing Hahn By: Candace Fleming