Here are 75 books chosen by the American Library Associaton & Children’s Book Council Joint Commitee to provide guidance to parents, caregivers, teachers, librarians, and others interested in discovering books for children who read at an advanced level and are seeking more challenging, but stll age-appropriate, books. The 75 Reading Beyond books are comprised of 25 in each of the three categories below: Grades K - 1 reading Grades 2-3 reading Grades 4-5 reading at 3rd Grade level at 5th Grade level at 7th Grade level • Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine, by Laurie • Amelia Lost: The Life and • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wallmark; Illustrated by April Chu Disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Wind, by William Kamkwamba (Creston Books, 2015) by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & and Bryan Mealer (Dial Books for • Ada Twist, Scientst, by Andrea Wade / Random House, 2011) Young Readers / Random House, Beaty; Illustrated by David Roberts • A Black Hole Is Not a Hole, by 2016) (Abrams, 2016) Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano; • Candy Bomber: The Story of • Anna Hibiscus, by Atnuke; Illustrated by Michael Carroll the Berlin Airlif’s “Chocolate Illustrated by Lauren Tobia (Kane (Charlesbridge, 2012) Pilot”, by Michael O. Tunnell Miller, 2007) • Cars on Mars: Roving the Red (Charlesbridge, 2010) • The Boy Who Loved Math: The Planet, by Alexandra Siy (Charles- • Earthrise: My Adventures as Improbable Life of Paul Erdos, by bridge, 2009) an Apollo 14 Astronaut, by Deborah Heiligman; Illustrated by • Dash, by Kirby Larson (Scholas- Edgar Mitchell and Ellen LeUyen Pham (Roaring Brook Press / tc, 2014) Mahoney (Chicago Review Press, Macmillan, 2013) • The Dreamer, by Pam Muñoz 2014) • Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Ryan; Illustrated by Peter Sís • Everland, by Wendy Spinale Mars: Space Poems and Paintngs, (Scholastc, 2010) (Scholastc, 2016) by Douglas Florian (Houghton • Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s • Falling Over Sideways, by Mifflin Harcourt, 2007) Library, by Chris Grabenstein Jordan Sonnenblick (Scholastc, • Detectve Gordon: The First Case, (Yearling Books / Random House, 2016) by Ulf Nilsson; Illustrated by Gite 2014) Spee (Gecko, 2015) For more ttles, turn page Grades K - 1 reading Grades 2-3 reading Grades 4-5 reading at 3rd Grade level at 5th Grade level at 7th Grade level • Echo Echo: Reverso Poems about • Flashback Four #1: The Lincoln Project, • Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl Greek Myths, by Marilyn Singer; by Dan Gutman (HarperCollins, 2016) at a Time, by Tanya Lee Stone (Wendy Illustrated by Josée Masse (Dial Books • Genius!: The Most Astonishing Lamb Books / Random House, 2016) for Young Readers / Penguin, 2016) Inventons of All Time, by Deborah • Gracefully Grayson, by Ami Polonsky • Eyewitness Explorer: Bug Hunter, by Kespert (Thames and Hudson, 2015) (Disney-Hyperion, 2014) DK (DK, 2015) • The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on • Hour of the Bees, by Lindsay Eagar • Frank and Lucky Get Schooled, by the True Story of Friendship Between a (Candlewick Press, 2016) Lynne Rae Perkins (Greenwillow Books / Boy and a Baseball Legend, by Sharon • The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three HarperCollins, 2016) Robinson (Scholastc, 2016) Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, by • How We are Smart, by W. Nikola-Lisa; • Mountain Dog, by Margarita Engle; Adam Gidwitz; Illustrated by Hatem Aly Illustrated by Sean Qualls (Lee and Low Illustrated by Aleksey and Olga Ivanov (Duton Children’s Books / Random House, Books, 2009) (Henry Holt Books for Young Readers / 2016) • I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Macmillan, 2013) • Legends, Icons & Rebels: Music that Her Mark, by Debbie Levy; Illustrated by • Natonal Geographic Book of Nature Changed the World, by Robbie Robertson, Elizabeth Baddeley (Simon & Schuster, Poetry: More than 200 Poems With et al. (Tundra Books, 2013) 2016) Photographs That Float, Zoom, and • The Lightning Queen, by Laura Resau • Juana & Lucas, by Juana Medina Bloom!, by J. Patrick Lewis; Photographs (Scholastc, 2015) (Candlewick Press, 2016) by Natonal Geographic (Natonal • Lincoln’s Grave Robbers, by Steve • Mathematckles!, by Betsy Franco; Geographic Society, 2015) Sheinkin (Scholastc, 2013) Illustrated by Steven Salerno (Margaret • Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, by • Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the K. McElderry Books / Simon & Schuster, Karen Foxlee (Random House Children’s Great Survivor B95, by Phillip Hoose (FSG 2003) Books, 2014) Books for Young Readers / Macmillan, • Mighty Jack, by Ben Hatke (First • The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of 2012) Second / Macmillan, 2016) Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very • One Last Word: Wisdom from the • A New Class (Star Wars Jedi Academy Interestng Boy, by Jeanne Birdsall (Knopf Harlem Renaissance, by Nikki Grimes #4), by Jarret J. Krosoczka (Scholastc, Books for Young Readers / Random (Bloomsbury USA, 2017) 2016) House, 2005) • Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 • Pugs of the Frozen North, by Philip • Random Body Parts: Gross Anatomy Extraordinary Black Souls, by Tonya Reeve; Illustrated by Sarah McIntyre Riddles in Verse, by Leslie Bulion; Bolden (Abrams, 2017) (Random House Books for Young Illustrated by Mike Lowery (Peachtree, • Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Readers, 2016) 2015) Revoluton, by Ji-li Jiang (HarperCollins, • Tiger Boy, by Mitali Perkins; Illustrated • Raymie Nightngale, by Kate DiCamillo 1997) by Jamie Hogan (Charlesbridge, 2015) (Candlewick Press, 2016) • The Ruins of Gorlan (The Ranger’s • Toys Go Out, by Emily Jenkins; • The Right Word: Roget and His Apprentce #1), by John Flanagan (Scholas- Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky (Yearling Thesaurus, by Jen Bryant; Illustrated by tc Inc., 2007) Books / Random House, 2008) Melissa Sweet (Eerdmans, 2014) • Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s • The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk, by • Save Me a Seat, by Sarah Weeks and Story, by Caren Stelson (Lerner / Carolrho- Jan Thornhill (Groundwood Books, 2016) Gita Varadarajan (Scholastc, 2016) da, 2016) • Tricky Vic, by Greg Pizzoli (Viking • Secret Coders, by Gene Luen Yang; • This Same Sky: A Collecton of Poems Books for Young Readers/ Penguin, Illustrated by Mike Holmes (First Second / from Around the World, by Naomi Shihab 2015) Macmillan, 2015) Nye (Simon & Schuster, 1992) • Trombone Shorty, by Troy Andrews; • Sisters Grimm, by Michael Buckley; • Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Mina- Illustrated by Bryan Collier (Abrams, Illustrated by Peter Ferguson (Abrams, moto Yoshitsune, by Pamela S. Turner; 2015) 2007) Illustrated by Gareth Hinds (Charlesbridge, • Twenty-Two Cents: Muhammad Yunus • A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd 2016) and the Village Bank, by Paula Yoo; (Scholastc, 2014) • Splendors and Glooms, by Laura Amy Illustrated by Jamel Akib (Lee and Low • Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White, Schlitz (Candlewick Press, 2012) Books, 2014) by Melissa Sweet (Houghton Mifflin • A Time to Dance, by Padma Venkatra- • Weekends with Max and His Dad, by Harcourt, 2016) man (Nancy Paulsen Books / Penguin, Linda Urban (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, • The Way Things Work Now, by David 2014) 2015) Macaulay (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, • The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices • Wet Cement: A Mix of Concrete 2016) from the Titanic, by Allan Wolf (Candle- Poems, by Bob Raczka (Roaring Brook • What Elephants Know, by Eric Diner- wick Press, 2013) Press / Macmillan, 2016) stein (Disney-Hyperion, 2016) • Unidentfied Suburban Object, by Mike • When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool • The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown (Litle, Jung (Scholastc, 2016) Herc and the Creaton of Hip Hop, by Brown and Co. Books for Young Readers, • We Will Not Be Silent, by Russell Laban Carrick Hill; Illustrated by Theo- 2016) Freedman (Clarion / Houghton Mifflin dore Taylor III (Roaring Brook Press / • Wonderstruck, by Brian Selznick Harcourt, 2016) Macmillan, 2013) (Scholastc, 2011) Go to CBCbooks.org for book descriptons writen by librarians.