UPPER ELEMENTARY LEVEL BOOKLIST FICTION BOOKLIST § The Incredible Journey § Arabian Nights (Sheila Burnford) § Watership Down (Richard Adams) § The Midnight Fox (Betsy Byars) § Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds § The Summer of the Swans (Joy Adamson) (Betsy Byars) § Aesop’s Fables § The Wonderful Flight to the § Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Mushroom Planet (Eleanor Cameron) § The King’s Shadow (Elizabeth Alder) § Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) § The Book of Three (Lloyd Alexander) § “The Hunting of the Snark” § Waterless Mountain (Lewis Carroll) (Laura Adams Armer) § Behind the Attic Wall (Sylvia Cassidy) § Sounder (William H. Armstrong) § Secret of the Andes (Ann Nolan Clark) § Fantastic Voyage (Isaac Asimov) § Dear Mr. Henshaw (Beverly Cleary) § The True Confessions of Charlotte § Sadako and the Thousand Paper Doyle (Avi) Cranes (Eleanor Coerr) § The Search for Delicious § Thank You, Jackie Robinson (Natalie Babbitt) (Barbara Cohen) § Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt) § My Brother Sam is Dead § Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Christopher & James Lincoln Collier) (Richard Bach) § Pinocchio (Carlo Collodi,) § Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie) § The Dark is Rising (Susan Cooper) § The Indian in the Cupboard § Walk Two Moons (Sharon Creech) (Lynne Reid Banks) § Bud, Not Buddy § The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Christopher Paul Curtis) (L. Frank Baum) § The Midwife’s Apprentice § The Little Grey Men (B.B.) (Karen Cushman) § Stories and Poems for Extremely § Danny, Champion of the World Intelligent Children of All Ages (Roald Dahl) (Harold Bloom, ed.) § Matilda (Roald Dahl) § A Gathering of Days (Joan W. Blos) § The Witches (Roald Dahl) § I, Juan de Pareja (Elizabeth Borton de § The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Trevino) and Six More (Roald Dahl) § Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury) § The Courage of Sarah Noble § Something Wicked This Way Comes (Alice Dalgliesh) (Ray Bradbury) § D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths § The Wish Giver (Bill Brittain) (Edgar and Ingri D’Aulaire) § Caddy Woodlawn (Carol R. Brynk) § D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths § Little Lord Fauntleroy (Edgar and Ingri D’Aulaire) (Frances Hodgson Burnett) § The Door in the Wall (M. DeAngeli) § A Little Princess § Hurry Home, Candy (Miendert DeJong) (Frances Hodgson Burnett) § The Wheel on the School § The Secret Garden (Miendert DeJong) (Frances Hodgson Burnett) § The Tale of Despereaux (Kate DiCamillo) UPPER ELEMENTARY LEVEL BOOKLIST § A Christmas Carol* (Charles Dickens) § King Solomon’s Mines § Great Expectations* (Charles Dickens) (H. Rider Haggard) § Oliver Twist* (Charles Dickens) § The Oxford Book of Story Poems § Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (Harrison and Stuart-Clark, eds.) (Mary Mapes Dodge) § The Dark Frigate (Charles B. Hawes) § Hound of the Baskervilles* § King of the Wind: The Story of the (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Godolphin Arabian (Marguerite Henry) § The 21 Balloons (William P. duBois) § Misty of Chicoteague § Incident at Hawk’s Hill (Allan W. Eckert) (Marguerite Henry) § The Number Devil § All Creatures Great and Small (Hans Magnus Enzensberger) (James Herriot) § American Indian Myths and Legends § Out of the Dust (Karen Hesse) (Erdoes and Ortiz) § Stowaway (Karen Hesse) § The Birchbark House (Louise Erdrich) § The Nutcracker and the Mouse King § The Adventures of Ulysses (E.T.A. Hoffman) (Bernard Evslin) § Paddle to the Sea (Holling C. Holling) § The Trojan War (Bernard Evslin) § North to Freedom (Anne Holm) § The Black Stallion (Walter Farley) § Everything on a Waffle (Polly Horvath) § A Girl Named Disaster (Nancy Farmer) § The Trolls (Polly Horvath) § Understood Betsy § The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights (Dorothy Canfield Fisher) (Ted Hughes) § The Great Brain (John D. Fitzgerald) § The Phantom Tollbooth § The Whipping Boy (Sid Fleischman) (Norton Juster) § Johnny Tremain (Esther Forbes) § The Trumpeter of Krakow (Eric Kelly) § The Slave Dancer (Paula Fox) § Children of the Lamp (P.B. Kerr) § The Christmas Mystery § Rifles for Watie (Harold Keith) (Jostein Gaarder) § The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling) § The Solitaire Mystery (Jostein Gaarder) § Just-So Stories (Rudyard Kipling) § My Side of the Mountain § Kim (Rudyard Kipling) (Jean C. George) § Puck of Pook’s Hill (Rudyard Kipling) § Julie of the Wolves (Jean C. George) § From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil § My Grandmother’s Stories: A E. Frankweiler (E.L. Konigsberg) Collection of Jewish Folktales § The View from Saturday (Adele Geras) (E.L. Konigsberg) § Cheaper by the Dozen § Onion John (Joseph Krumgold) (Frank B. Gilpreth) § A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle) § Old Yeller (Fred Gipson) § Tales from Shakespeare § The Princess Bride (William Goldman) (Charles and Mary Lamb) § The Reluctant Dragon § The Fledgling (Jane Langton) (Kenneth Grahame) § Carry on, Mr. Bowditch § The Wind in the Willows (Jean Lee Latham) (Kenneth Grahame) § Ben and Me (Robert Lawson) § The Adventures of Robin Hood § The Tales of Uncle Remus (Roger Lancelyn Green) (retold by Julius Lester) UPPER ELEMENTARY LEVEL BOOKLIST § The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe § An American Plague: The True and (C.S. Lewis) Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever § Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren) Epidemic of 1793 (Jim Murphy) § Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting) § Florence Nightingale (Jeannette Nolan) § The Call of the Wild (Jack London) § The Story of Clara Barton § White Fang (Jack London) (Jeannette Nolan) § In the Year of the Boar and Jackie § Harriett Tubman: Conductor of the Robinson (Bette Bao Lord) Underground Railway (Ann Petry) § Anastasia (Lois Lowry) § Leonardo DaVinci (Diane Stanley) § The Giver (Lois Lowry) § Michelangelo (Diane Stanley) § Number the Stars (Lois Lowry) § Good Queen Bess (Diane Stanley) § The One Hundredth Thing About § Peter the Great (Diane Stanley) Caroline (Lois Lowry) § The Story of Mankind § The Golden Key and Other Stories (Hendrik van Loon) (George MacDonald) § Childhood of Famous Americans § The Princess and the Goblin series (George MacDonald) § Creative Minds Biography series § The Little Prince § National Geographic Magazine [check (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) for content first] NONFICTION BOOKLIST * = very challenging books (most originally § I’m Nobody! Who Are You? [biography written for adults) that older children might of Emily Dickinson] (Edna Barth) attempt with some guidance; these might § E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s also make excellent read-alouds. Most Famous Equation* (David Bodanis) § Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc (Polly Brooks) § Brother Eagle, Sister Sky (Chief Seattle) § Boy (Roald Dahl) § Flying Solo (Roald Dahl) § Pocahontas (Edgar D’Aulaire) § The Story of My Life (Helen Keller) § Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jamison (Lois Lenski) § A Night to Remember [Titanic] (Walter Lord) § Looking Back: A Book of Memories (Lois Lowry) § Euclid’s Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace* (Leonard Mlodinow) .