Ai Tong School Recommended Reading List Primary 3 and 4 No Title of book Author Have you read them? 1 The Perfect Hamburger Alexander McCall Smith 2 Being Me Alexandra Parsons 3 My Brother’s Ghost Allan Ahlberg 4 The Improbable Cat Allan Ahlberg 5 Frindle Andrew Clements The Laundry News 6 The Day My Butt Went Psycho! Andy Griffiths 7 When I Am Old With You Angela Johnson 8 The Village by the Sea Anita Desai 9 Adventures of Ulysses Anna Claybourne 10 Nina Fairy Ballerina: Show Time Anna Wilson 11 Flour Babies Anne Fine 12 Groosham Grange Anthony Horowitz 13 The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery 14 Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren 15 Junie B. First Grader Cheater pants Barbara Park 16 Prehistoric Life Barry Cox 17 The Summer of the Swans Betsy Byars 18 The Math Whiz Betsy Duffey 19 The World According to Humphrey Betty G. Birney 20 Journey to Jo’burg Beverley Naidoo 21 A Girl From Yamhill Beverly Cleary Henry Huggins Socks The Mouse and the Motorcycle Dear Mr. Henshaw 22 The Lost World Brenchley, Chaz 23 The Doughty Warriors: save the Bears Brenda Broster 24 The Hamsters of the Baskervilles Bruce Hale 25 7th Heaven Camp Camden 26 Anne Frank’s Story Carol Ann Lee 27 Dragon Keeper Carole Wilkinson 28 Star Power Someday, Some Way Catherine Hapka 29 The Land of Stories Series: Chris Colfer The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning The Land of Stories: Beyond the Kingdoms The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide 30 The Polar Express Chris Van Allsburg 31 One Child Christopher Cheng & Steven Woolman 32 A Letter To Mrs. Roosevelt CoCo De Young 33 The 39 Clues Series (Books 1-11) collaboration of authors 34 The Thief Lord Cornelia Funke 35 How to Train Your Dragon Series (Books 1-12) Cressida Cowell. 36 Dr Jekyill And Mr Hyde Crowther, Peter 37 Izzy The Indigo Fairy Daisy Meadows 38 Heaven Eyes David Almond 39 Skellig David Almond 40 The Legend Of Arthur King Dean Wilkinson Page 1 of 6 Ai Tong School Recommended Reading List Primary 3 and 4 No Title of book Author Have you read them? 41 Pure Dead Wicked Debi Gliori 42 Freedom Summer Deborah Wiles 43 Animal Friends Dick King-Smith 44 Encyclopedia Brown Series (Book 1-19) Donald J. Sobol 45 A Taste of Blackberries Doris Buchan Smith 46 The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World E. L. Konigsburg 47 Charlotte’s Web E.B. White 48 From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler E.L. Konigsburg 49 The Wandering Wombles Elisabeth Beresford 50 The Wombles: Go around the World Elisabeth Beresford 51 Ice Story: Shackleton's Lost Expedition Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. 52 A Little Piece of Ground Elizabeth Laird, Sonia Nimr 53 The Mystery Of The Mona Lisa Elizabeth Singer Hunt 54 Nathaniel Talking Eloise Greenfied 55 The Best Kept Secret Emily Rodda 56 The DANgers Englehart, Steve; Englehart, Terry 57 The Adventure Series Enid Blyton The Secret Seven Series The Famous Five Series Five Find-Outers Series Malory Towers Series St. Clare's Series The Naughtiest Girl Series The Faraway Tree Series The Wishing-Chair Series 58 Emil and the Detectives Erich Kästner 59 Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats 60 A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett 61 Best Friends Francine Pascal 62 The Garden of Empress Cassia Gabrielle Wang 63 Notes From a Liar & Her Dog Gennifer Choldenko 64 Strange & Amazing World: Discovery and Inventions Geoff Endacott 65 Think Again! Geraldine McCaughrean 66 The Boxcar Children series Gertrude Chandler Warner 67 Evening Meals Around the World Gill Munton 68 Ellie And The Secret Potion Gillian Shields 69 Book One : The Discovery, ‘Dive’ Gordon Korman 70 Cosmo And The Great Witch Escape Gwyneth Rees 71 Grandfather and I Helen Buckley 72 Scary Stories (for 10 year olds) Helen Paiba 73 The Midsummer Night’s Dream Helen Street 74 Tough Trivia for Kids Helene Hovanec 75 True Sea Stories Henry Brook 76 Saffy’s Angel Hilary McKay 77 The Adventures of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 78 The Invisibles Ian Whybrow 79 D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire 80 Rooverandom J.R.R. Tolkien Page 2 of 6 Ai Tong School Recommended Reading List Primary 3 and 4 No Title of book Author Have you read them? 81 Chicken Soup For The Pet Lovers’ Soul Jack Canfield 82 Chicken Soup for the Soul Christmas Treasury for Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, 83 What Would Joey Do? Jack Hantos 84 Bad Girls Jacqueline Wilson The Suitcase Kid Double Act Best Friends The Bed and Breakfast Star The Lottie Project 85 4B Goes Wild Jamie Gilson 86 Owl Moon Jane Yolen 87 Wishbone Janeen Brian 88 Forward Shakespeare Jean Little 89 Dr. Xargles’ Book of Earthlets: An Alien’s View Jeanne Willis 90 Midnight for Charlie Bone Jenny Nimmo 91 The Hundred Mile An Hour Dog Jeremy Strong Wanted the Hundred Mile an Hour Dog Beware, Killer Tomatoes There's a Pharoah in Our Bath! Do the Pharaoh Dinosaur PoxI I'm Telling You, They're Aliens! 92 Stargirl Jerry Spinelli 93 The Wooden Dragon Joan Aiken 94 The Sacred Hill Joan Yap 95 Eyes on the Goal John Coy 96 Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters John Steptoe 97 Time Warp Trio series: Jon Scieszka Knights of the Kitchen Table The Not-So-Jolly Roger The Good, the Bad and the Goofy, etc 98 Antarctica: Land of the Penguins Jonathan & Angela Scott 99 The Adventures of Milly-Molly-Mandy Joyce lankester Brisley 100 Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Judy Blume Superfudge Fudge-a-mania Double Fudge Freckle Juice Page 3 of 6 Ai Tong School Recommended Reading List Primary 3 and 4 No Title of book Author Have you read them? 101 Moon Silver Kathleen Duey 102 Health and Disease Kathy Elgin 103 The Super Science Book of Time Kay Davies & Wendy Oldfield 104 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 105 Martyn Pig Kevin Brooks 106 Professor Angelicus Visits The Big Blue Ball L.L.B. Ward 107 Heartland: After the Storm Lauren Brooke Heartland: Coming Home 108 Rag Coat Lauren Mills 109 Time to Fly Laurie hales Anderson 110 Ties that Bind, Ties that Break Lensey Namioka 111 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 112 A Special Friend Linda Chapman Mermaid Fire 113 The Gawdon and the Boy Lloyd Alexander 114 A Child’s Portrait of Shakespeare Lois Burdedtt Macbeth for kids The Tempest for Kids Twelfth Night for Kids 115 More Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School Louis Sachar 116 Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh 117 Two of a Kind Louise Gikaw 118 The Great Kapok Tree Lynne Cherry 119 The Indian in the Cupboard Lynne Reid Banks 120 Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window Madoglwa no Totto-chan 121 The Enchanted Horse Magdalen Nabb 122 The Dentist’s Promise Margaret Mahy 123 Among the Hidden Margaret Peterson Haddix 124 Stuck on Earth Marilyn Sadler 125 Against the Odds Marjolijn Hof 126 Akiko on the Planet Smoo Mark Crilley 127 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 128 Earth, Fire, Water, Air Mary Hoffman 129 The Borrowers Mary Norton 130 Earthquake In The Early Morning Mary Pope Osborne My Brother’s Keeper 131 Teacher’s Pest Max Dann 132 The Princess Diaries Vol. 1 Meg Cabot Princess in the Spotlight Vol. 2 Princess in Love Vol. 3 133 Hurry Home Candy Meindent De Jong 134 Camp Confidential, Natalie’s Secret Melissa J. Morgan 135 Birdbrain Amos Michael Delaney Page 4 of 6 Ai Tong School Recommended Reading List Primary 3 and 4 No Title of book Author Have you read them? 136 Friend or Foe Michael Morpurgo The Butterfly Lion 137 Tiger’s Tales Michaela Morgan 138 How to Drink from a Frog: and…. Micheal Cox 139 A String in the Harp Nancy Bond 140 Conservations Neil Nelson 141 Nic Bishop Animal Series Nic Bishop Scientist in the Field Series Penguin Day Chameleon, Chameleon Forest Explorer Backyard Detective 142 Ballet Shoes Noel Streatfield 143 Sarah Plain & Tall Patricia MacLachlan 144 Flossie and the Fox Patricia McKissack 145 Kids: A Story a Day from December 1st Through Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap 146 Bug Muldoon Paul Shipton 147 You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown Paula Danzinger 148 Behind Bars: A Panorama of Prisons Through the Ages Peter Kent 149 The Firework-Maker’s Daughter Philip Pullman 150 The Best-Ever Book of Pirates Philip Steele 151 Amazing Buildings Philip Wilkinson 152 The Little Gentleman Philippa Peatce 153 Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 154 Everything on a Waffle Poly Horvath 155 Zombie Makers : True Stories of Nature's Undead Rebecca L. Johnson 156 James and the Giant Peach: A Children’s Story Roald Dahl Matilda The Magic Finger Fantastic Mr Fox Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Danny, the Champion of the World The Enormous Crocodile The Twits George's Marvellous Medicine Revolting Rhymes The BFG Dirty Beasts The Witches The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Rhyme Stew The Minpins 157 The Friends Roas Guy 158 Crusaders Rob Lloyd jones 159 Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Robert C O'Brien 160 Chocolate Fever Robert Kimmel Smith Page 5 of 6 Ai Tong School Recommended Reading List Primary 3 and 4 No Title of book Author Have you read them? 161 Just-So Stories Rudyard Kipling 162 Madame pamplemousse and her Incredible Edibles Rupert Kingfisher 163 Many Luscious Lollypops: A Book About Adjectives Ruth Heller 164 My Father’s Dragon Ruth Stiles Gannett 165 Kids & Dogs: Teaching Them to Live, Play, and Ruth Weston, Dr Catriona Ross 166 The Lemonade Trick Scott Corbett 167 The Changeling Selma Lagerlof 168 I Am A Lovable Me – Affirmations for Children Sharon Penchina & Dr Suart Hoffman 169 Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein 170 The Water margin* Shi Nai’An 171 Over Sea, Under Stone Susan Cooper 172 The Higher Power of Lucky Susan Patron 173 Beany Goes to Camp Susan Wojciechowski 174 Princesses are People Too Susie Hoch Morgenstern 175 The Night Dance Suzanne Weyn 176 How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt Tamara Bower 177 The Little Girl at the Window Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 178 How to Eat Fried Worms Thomas Rockwell 179 It Could Have Been Worse Tim Warnes & A.H.Benjamin 180 Some of the Kinder Planets: Stories by Tim Wynne-Jones Tim Wynne-Jones 181 The Sleeping Giant Of Doll Tony Abbott 182 The Scandal Tony Bradman 183 The Patchwork Quilt Valerie Flowney 184 Princess Katie And The Dancing Broom Vivian French 185 Just the Two of Us Will Smith Page 6 of 6.