Odyssey Charter School Read Aloud Program Book List #1 6th grade and up 1. Adam Canfield of The Slash by Michael Winerip 34. Maniac MaGee by Jerry Spinelli 2. Baseball in April by Gary Soto 35. Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques 3. The Friendship by Mildred Taylor 36. Mimi by John Newman 4. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer 37. The Moon Over High Street by Natalie Babbitt 5. Purple Deaths: The Mysterious Flue of 1918 by 38. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier David Getz 39. My Daniel by Pam Conrad 6. The Rifle by Gary Paulsen 40. North to Freedom by Annie Holm 7. Soup by Robert Newton Peck 41. NothinG But the Truth: A Documentary Novel by 8. Stone Fox by John R. Gardiner Avi 9. A Taste of Blackberries by Doris B. Smith 42. NothinG to Fear by Jackie French Kollier 10. The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar and Six 43. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry More by Roald Dahl 44. Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle 11. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 45. The Pinballs by Betsy Byars 12. Bridge at Terabithia by Katherine Patterson 46. PlaGue Year by Stephanie Tolan 13. Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Church 47. The Rebounder by Thomas Dygard 14. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink 48. The Rifle by Gary Paulsen 15. The Call of the Wild by Jack London 49. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor 16. Captain Grey by Ava 50. The Ruby in the Smoke (series) by Philip Pullman 17. The Case of the Baker Street Irregularity 51. Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer 18. The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau 52. Sarah Bishop by Scott O’Dell 19. City of Orphans by Avi 53. Scorpions by Waler Dean Myers 20. Close to Famous by Joan Bauer 54. Slake’s Limbo by Felice Holman 21. A Family Apart by Joan Lowery NiXon 55. Snow Bound by Harry Mazer 22. Freak the MiGhty by Rodman Philbrick 56. Sour Land by William H. Armstrong 23. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. 57. Stormbreaker (series) by Anthony Horowitz Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg 58. Tangerine by Edward Bloor 24. Guys Read: Thrillers edited by Joh Scieszja 59. Thank You, Jackie Robinson by Barbara Cohen 25. Hatchet (series) by Gary Paulsen 60. Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer by John Grisham 26. Holes by Louis Sachar 61. Thunder Cave by Roland Smith 27. Incident at Hawk’s Hill by Allan Eckert 62. The War of Jenkin’s Ear by Michael Morpurgo 28. Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson 63. When the Whistle Blows by Fran Cannon Slayton 29. KinGdom by the Sea by Robert Westall 64. The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill 30. Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight Britain 31. Lawn Boy by Gary Paulson 65. WoodsonG by Gary Paulsen 32. Loser by Jerry Spinelli 66. Word by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen 33. Lupita Manana by Patricia Beatty List compiled from The Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease (1985) updated 11/2014 .