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BOOKS FOR YOUR CHILD'S
READING ENJOYMENT
Illustration by Mary Englebreit
Mary Engelbreit Ink 1985
Here are some recommended reading titles which may help your child, or you choose an
appropriate book that they will find exciting, enjoyable, or fun to read.
Grades 3/4
Adler, David: Cam Jansen/Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds
Adler, Susan: Meet Samantha: An American Girl
Base, Graeme: The Eleventh Hour
Berenstein, Stan: Berenstein Bears and the New Girl in Town
Blos, Joan: A Gathering of Days: A New England
Girl’s Journal
Blume, Judy: Double Fudge
Blume, Judy: Superfudge
Cameron, Ann: The Stories Julian Tells
Catling, Patrick: The
Chocolate Touch
Cleary, Beverly: Ramona’s World
Cleary, Beverly: Muggie Maggie
Cole, Joanna: Gator Girls
Cole, Joanna: The Magic School Bus in the Time of Dinosaurs
Coville, Bruce: The
Dragons Slayers
Coville, Bruce:
Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher
Creech, Sharon: Ruby Holler
Dadey, Debbie: Bailey
School Kids Series
Danziger, Paula: I, Amber Brown
Danziger, Bruce: Amber Brown is not a Crayon
Freedman, Russell: Confucius: The Golden Rule
Greenberg, Jan: Action Jackson
Haywood, Carolyn: "B" is for Betsy
Hurwitz, Joanna: "E" is for Elisa
Hurwitz, Joanna: Class Clown
King-Smith: Babe the Gallant Pig
Kline, Suzy: Horrible Harry and the Green Slime
Macdonald, Betty: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
MacLauchlan, Patricia: Sarah Plain and Tall
Manes, James: Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
Marshall, James: Rats on the Range and Other Stories
Munro, Roxie: The Inside-Outside Book of Libraries
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds: Shiloh
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds: Bernie Magruder Mysteries
Reid Banks, Lynne: The Indian in the Cupboard
Rockwell, Thomas: How to Eat Fried Worms
Sachar, Louis: Wayside School is Falling Down
Scieszka, Jon: Sam Samurai (and others in the
Time Warp Trio series)
Scieszka, Jon: Tut, Tut
Smith Robert: Chocolate Fever
Sobol, Donald: Encyclopedia Brown
Spinelli, Jerry: Fourth Grade Rats
Spinelli, Jerry: Crash
Warner, Gerturde: The Woodshed Mystery
Wright, Betty Ren: The Ghost Comes Calling
Wright, Betty Ren: The Ghost of Popcorn Hill
Woodson, Jacqueline: The Other Side
Grades 5-6
Armstrong, William: Sounder
Ash, Russell: Incredible Comparisons
Blume, Judy: Are You There, God, It's Me Margaret
Byars, Judy: Bingo Brown and the Language of Love
Clements, Andrew: Frindl
Clements, Andrew:
The School Story
Cooper, Susan: The Boggart
Conrad, Pam: My Daniel
Coville, Bruce: Jennifer Murdley's Toad (0r any Magic Shop
Book)
Coville, Bruce: Into the Land of the Unicorns
Creech, Sharon: Walk Two Moons
Creech, Sharon: Love That Dog
Creech, Sharon: Absolutely Normal Class
Curtis, Christopher: The Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1963
Curtis, Christopher: Bud, Not Buddy
DiCamillo, Kate: Because of Winn Dixie
Fitzhugh, Louise: Harriet the Spy
Fleischman, Sid: The Abracadabra Kid
Fleischman, Sid: The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story
Jaques, Brian: The Outcast Redwall (And other Redwall
Series Books)
James, Mary: Shoebag
Korman, Gordon: No More Dead Dogs
L'Engle, Madeline: Troubling Star
Levine, Gail: Ella Enchanted
Lewis, C.S: Chronicles of Narnia
Lowry, Lois: Anastasia Ask Your Analyst
Medearis, Angela: Haunts: Five Hair-Raising Tales
Mikaelsen, Ben: Touching Spirit Bear
Milne, A.A.: The World of Christopher Robin
Naylor, Phyllis: The Agony of Alice
Nayloir, Phyllis: Fear Place
Odell, Scott: The Black Pearl (Or other Scott Odell Books)
Park, Linda Sue: Kite Fighters
Peck, Robert: Soup 1776
Rawls, Wilson: Summer of the Monkeys
Sachar, Louis: Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger
Sachar, Louis: Holes
Spinellu, Jerry: Manic Magee
Spinelli, Jerry: Wringer
Sutcliffe, Rosemary: The Wanderings of Odysseus: The Story of the
Odyssey
White, Ruth: Belle Prater's Boy
A great place to find out more about books is the San Diego Public Library.
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