2016

For Students Entering Grades 3-5

A house without books is like a room without windows. ~ Heinrich Mann
Assorted Authors
Abbott, Tony
Ada, Alma Flor
Adler, David

*Who Was ... and Who is ... Biographies (series)

The Secrets of Droon (series)

Armstrong, Alan
Avi

Dancing Home
*Americas Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle
Cam Jansen (mystery series)
*Orangutan Tongs
The Boy that Swam with Piranhas
Prairie Evers
Frostborn (Thrones & Bones series)
*Easter Island: Giant Stone Statues Tell of a Rich and
Tragic Past
Crenshaw
The One and Only Ivan
Racing the Moon
Sophias War: A Tale of the Revolution

Babbitt, Natalie
Bancks, Tristan
Barasch, Lynne
Barrows. Annie
Bartoletti, Susan
Bauer, Marion Dane
Beha, Eileen
Bell, Cece
Benton, Jim

Ouch!
My Life & Other Stuff I Made Up
Radio Rescue
Ivy and Bean: No News is Good News
*Growing Up in Coal Country
Little Dog, Lost
Tango: The Tale of an Island Dog
*El Deafo
Nobodys Perfect. Im as Close as It Gets (Dear Dumb

Birney, Betty
Blacklock, Dyan
Blackwood, Sage
Bone, Ian
Borden, Louise

Humphreys World of Pets (series)

*The Roman Army
Jinx
Fast Forward: A Dangerous Secret
*The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True
Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey
The Name of this Book is Secret
*Olivias Birds Saving the Gulf
The Unforgotten Coat
The War that Saved my Life
*How They Croaked
The Wild Robot
Bad Kitty vs. Uncle Murray
*A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
Uncharted Waters

Agee, Jon
Almond, David
Airgood, Ellen
Anders, Lou
Arnold, Caroline
Applegate, Katherine

Bosch, Pseudonymous
Bouler, Olivia
Boyce, Frank Cottrell
Bradley, Kimberly
Bragg, Georgia
Brown, Peter
Bruel, Nick
Bryant, Jen
Bulion, Leslie

Diary series)

Byars, Betsy

The Cat Diaries: Secret Writings of the Meow Society

Carlson-Voiles, Polly
Cate, Annette LeBlanc
Catling, Patrick Skene
Cerullo, Mary

Summer of the Wolves

*Look Up! Bird Watching in Your Own Backyard
The Chocolate Touch
*City Fish, Country Fish
*Giant Squid
A Call for a New Alphabet
Book Scavenger
*George Washingtons Teeth
*Gravity
Al Capone Shines My Shoes
Play Ball (Little League series)
About Average
*Words Set Me Free: The Story of Young Frederick Douglass
Fenway & Hattie
Mimmy and Sophie All Around the Town
The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell
The Atlantis Complex (fantasy series)
*Airborne: A Photobiography of Wilbur & Orville
Wright
Gregor the Overlander (fantasy series)
The Last Newspaper Boy in America
*Cowboys and Coffin Makers
*Hanging Off Jeffersons Nose
Ghost in the Big Brass Bed
Horse Stories
The Great Unexpected
Heartbeat
Elijah of Buxton
Will Sparrows Road

Chaikin, Andrew
Chambliss Bertman, Jennifer
Chandra, Deborah
Chin, Jason
Choldenko, Gennifer
Christopher, Matt
Clements, Andrew
Cline-Ransome, Lesa
Coe, Victoria
Cohen, Miriam
Colfer, Chris
Colfer, Eoin
Collins, Mary
Collins, Suzanne
Corbett, Sue
Coulter, Laurie
Coury, Tina Nichols
Coville, Bruce
Crebbin, June (ed.)
Creech, Sharon
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Cushman, Karen
Dady, Debbie
Dalgliesh, Alice
Danziger, Paula
Dashner, James
Davidson, Margaret
Davis, Eleanor
Davis, Tony
DeFelice, Cynthia
Denenberg, Barry
Deutsch, Stacia
DiCamillo, Kate
DiTerlizzi, Tony
Dodson, Emma
Dubosarsky, Ursula
Durand, Hallie

The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids (series)

The Courage of Sarah Noble
Snail Mail No More
A Mutiny in Time (Infinity Ring series)
*The Story of Benjamin Franklin, Amazing American
The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook
Roland Wright: Future Knight
The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
Atticus of Rome, 30 B.C.
Betsy Rosss Star (Blast to the Past series)
Best Friends Forever
Bink and Gollie (series)
Mercy Watson: Something Wonky this Way Comes
The Spiderwicke Chronicles (series)
Hooey Higgins and the Shark
The Word Snoop
Dessert First

Edgers, Geoff
Edwards, Roberta
Edwards, Wallace
Enright, Elizabeth
Eyre, Lindsay

*Who Were the Beatles? (series)

*Flight of the Butterflies
*Monkey Business

Farmer, Nancy
Farris, Christine King
Feiffer, Kate
Ferris, Jeri

French, Vivian
Fritz, Jean

The Sea of Trolls

*My Brother Martin
The Problem with the Puddles
*Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story About
Sojourner Truth
The Dunderheads Behind Bars
*Amelia Lost
The Slave Dancer
Muncle Trogg
*Mathematickles
*Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass
*Give Me Liberty
*Growing Frogs
*You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?

Funke, Cornelia
Furlong, Monica

Ghost Knight
Colman

Gantos, Jack
Gardiner, John
Gay, Marie-Louise
Gemeinhart, Dan
Gerstein, Mordicai
Gherman, Beverly
Giblin, James
Giff, Patricia Reilly
Gifford, Peggy
Gilson, Jamie
Golio, Gary
Grabenstein, Chris
Graff, Lisa
Graham, Ian

Dead End in Norvelt

Stone Fox
On the Road Again!
Some Kind of Courage
The Old Country
*Norman Rockwell
*Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero
House of Tailors
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little
Do Bananas Chew Gum?
*Spirit Seeker
Escape From Mr. Lemoncellos Library
The Thing About Georgie
*You Wouldnt Want to Be a WWII Pilot: Air Battles You
Might Not Survive
The Oodlethunks: Oona Finds an Egg
The Treasure Bird
Bunny Double, Were in Trouble
Ted and Me (Baseball Card Adventures series)

Fleischman, Paul
Fleming, Candace
Fox, Paula
Foxley, Janet
Franco, Betsy
Freedman, Russell

Griffin, Adele
Griffin, Peni
Gutman, Dan
Haas, Jessie
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Halls, Kelly Milner
Hannigan, Katherine
Hanson, Mary

Gone Away Lake

The Best Friend Battle

(Historical Biographies series)

Birthday Pony
Found (Missing series)
*Mysteries of the Mummy Kids
True (. . . Sort Of)
How to Save Your Tail

Hopper, Nancy
Horvath, Polly
Howard, J.J.
Hulme, John
Hunt, Lynda Mullaly

Otto and the Flying Twins: The First Book of the Karmidee
*Strong Stuff: Herakles and His Labors
*Tua and the Elephant
*Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights
Legends of Zita the Space Girl
Me and Jack
*Blue Potatoes, Orange Tomatoes: How to Grow
a Rainbow Garden
*Asteroid Impact
The Year of Billy Miller
*City Chickens
The Cats in Krasinski Square
Letters to Leo
Chomp
The Puppy Sister
How to Die of Embarrassment Every Day
The Journey Home
Pagoo
The Fourteenth Goldfish
Sunny Side Up
Mister and Me
*Anastasia Romanov : the last Grand Duchess (series)
*The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving
Woman Changed a City Forever
Cassandra - Live at Carnegie Hall
My One Hundred Adventures
Sit, Stay, Love
The Glitch in Sleep
Fish in a Tree

Ignatow, Amy
Ives, Dive

The Popularity Papers

Scrib

Jenkins, Emily
Jenkins, Steve
Jennings, Richard
Johnston, Tony
Jonath, Leslie
Jonell, Lynne
Jones, Diana Wynne

Invisible Inkling
*The Beetle Book
Ghost Town
Bone By Bone By Bone
Postmark Paris: A Story in Stamps
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
Stopping for a Spell

Kamkwamba, William
Katz, Alan
Kay, Verla
Kehret, Peg

*The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

*Uh-Oh!
*Civil War Drummer Boy

Haptie, Charlotte
Harris, John
Harris, R.P.
Haskins, Jim
Hatke, Ben
Haworth, Danette
Heller, Ruth
Henderson, Douglas
Henkes, Kevin
Heppermann, Christine
Hesse, Karen
Hest, Amy
Hiaasen, Carl
Hinton, S.E.
Hodgman, Ann
Holland, Isabelle
Holling, Holling Clancy
Holm, Jennifer L.
Holt, Kimberly Willis
Hood, Ann
Hopkins, H. Joseph

Kelly, Katy
Kelly, Jacqueline
Kent, Rose
Kids Can Press

The Richest Kids in Town

*Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
Lucy Rose: Heres the Thing About Me
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Rocky Road
*Fantastic Feats and Failures

Kimmel, Eric
Kirby, Matthew
Kirwan, Anne
Kline, Suzy
Klise, Kate
Kops, Deborah
Korman, Gordon
Krull, Kathleen
Kurzweil, A.
Kurtz, Chris
Lai, Thanhha
Laidlaw, Rob
Lamana, Julie
Laverdunt, Damien
Lechner, John
Lee, Ingrid
L'Engle, Madeleine
Lester, Alison
Lewis, J. Patrick
Lin, Grace
Lloyd, Natalie
Look, Lenore
Lord, Bette
Lopez, Diana
Lord, Cynthia
Luddy, Karen
Lunn, Janet
MacBride, Roger Lea
MacDonald, Fiona
MacLachlan, Patricia
Marino, Nan
Marrin, Albert
Marsh, Katherine
Martin, Ann
May, Kila
McDonald, Megan
McGowan, Keith
McKay, Hilary
McMullan, Kate
Meloy, Colin
Messner, Kate
Miller, Deborah
Mills, Claudia

Website of the Warped Wizard

The Clockwork Three
Jahanara: Princess of Princesses (Royal Diaries series)
Horrible Harry and the Goog (series)
The Show Must Go On! (Three-Ring Rascals series)
*The Great Molasses Flood
The Hyptonists
*Big Wig
*Lives of the Pirates
*Potato Chip Science
The Adventures of a South Pole Pig
Inside Out and Back Again
*No Shelter Here
Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
*Small and Tall Tales of Extinct Animals
Sticky Burr
Cat Found
A Wrinkle in Time (fantasy series)
Are We there Yet?: A Journey Around Australia
*Edgar Alan Poes Pie
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
The Key to Extraordinary
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural
Disasters
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Confetti Girl
Half a Chance
Spelldown
The Root Cellar
Little House on Rocky Ridge (series)
You Wouldnt Want to Be a Slave in Ancient Greece (series)
More Perfect Than the Moon
Hiding Out at the Pancake Palace
Years of Dust
The Door by the Staircase
Rain Reign
Mika: My New Life (series)
Judy Moody Declares Independence (series)
The Witchs Guide to Cooking with Children
Binny in Secret
Lulu and the Duck in the Park
Dragon Slayers Academy (series)
Myth-o-mania (series)
Under Wildwood (series)
Danger in Ancient Rome (Ranger in Time series)
Marty McGuire Has Too Many Pets!
*Survival at 120 Above
*Passage to Freedom

Muntean, Michaela
Murphy, Jim
Murphy, Jill
Murphy, Sally
Myers, Walter Dean

The Case of the Poisoned Pig

*Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil
War Hero
Beyonders (series)
Fablehaven (series)
*Stay: The True Story of Ten Dogs
*The Great Fire
Dear Hound
Pearl Verses the World
*Antarctica: Journeys to the South Pole

Nash, Scott
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Nelson, Marilyn
Nelson, Peter
Nelson, Suzanne
Nesbitt, Kenn
Nivola, Claire A.
Nix, Garth
Nolan, Lucy
Northrop, Michael
Nye, Naomi Shibab

The High-Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate

Faith, Hope and Ivy June
*Carver: A Life in Poems
Herberts Wormhole
Cake Pop Crush
*My Hippo Has the Hiccups
*Life in the Ocean
The Keys to the Kingdom
Down Girl and Sit
Tombquest (series)
*Is This Forever, or What?

Ocean, Davy
Obed, Ellen Bryan
Ogilvy, Ian
Oliver, Lauren
Orr, Wendy
Osborne, Linda Barrett
Osborne, Mary Pope

Shark School: Deep Sea Disaster (series)

Twelve Kinds of Ice
Measle and the Wrathmonk
The Spindlers
Mokie and Bik Go to Sea
*Miles to Go For Freedom
Stallion by Starlight (Magic Tree House series)

Palacio, R.J.

Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories

Wonder
Haunted House
Key to the Treasure
The Kite Fighters
*Fooled You! Fakes and Hoaxes Through the Years
Timmy Failure: Sanitized for Your Protection
*Dogs on Duty
Day of the Pelican
Treasure Hunters
Masters of Disaster
The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail
Pax
*Chill
Bluffton: My Summers with Buster
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina
*Who Was Mark Twain?
*Bats: Strange and Wonderful
*Ice

Montgomery, Lewis B.
Moss Marissa
Mull, Brandon

Parish, Peggy
Park, Linda Sue
Pascoe, Elaine
Pastis, Stephan
Patent, Dorothy Henshaw
Paterson, Katherine
Patterson, James
Paulsen, Gary
Peck, Richard
Pennypacker, Sara
Peterkin, Allan
Phelan, Matt
Philbrick, W.R.
Prince, April Jones
Pringle, Laurence

Pulver, Robin
Pyle, Howard

*Happy Endings: A Story About Suffixes

Ramsey, Calvin
Raven, Margot Reis

*Ruth and the Green Book

*Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot: A True Story of the

Ray, Delia
Reeve, Philip
Reisfeld, Randy
Reiss, Johanna
Reynolds, Aaron
Rinaldi, Ann
Rocklin, Joanne
Rondina, Catherine
Rose, Caroline Starr
Rosenstock, Barb
Roth, Susan
Roy, Ron
Rusch, Elizabeth
Ryan, Pam Munoz
Sachar, Louis
St. George, Judith
Say, Allen
Schanzer, Rosalyn
Schlitz, Laura Amy
Schmidt, Gary
Schoenberg, Jane
Schwartz, Alvin
Scieszka, Jon
Segel, Jason
Selfors, Suzanne
Selsam, Millicent
Shulevitz, Uri
Sidman, Joyce
Silverstein, Shel
Simon, Seymour
Sis, Peter
Smith, Charles
Sovern, Megan Jean
Spiegelman, Nadja
Spinelli, Eileen
Spinelli, Jerry
Springer, Nancy
Stanley, Diane
Stanley, George E.

Otto of the Silver Hand

Berlin Airlift and the Candy that Fell From the Sky
Ghost Girl: A Blue Ridge Mountain Story
No Such Thing as Dragons
What the Dog Said
*The Journey Back
Joey Fly Private Eye in Creepy Crawly Crime
Leigh Anns Civil War
The Five Lives or Our Cat Zook
*Dont Touch That Toad and Other Strange Things Adults
Tell You
May B.: A Novel
*The Camping Trip that Changed America
*Parrots Over Puerto Rico
Turkey Trouble on the National Mall (series)
*The Mighty Mars Rovers
Echo
Dogs Dont Tell Jokes
*Youre On Your Way, Teddy Roosevelt
*Drawing from Memory
*What Darwin Saw
Splendors and Gloom
Okay for Now
Stuey Lewis Against All Odds
*The Cats Elbow and Other Secret Languages
Spaceheadz (series)
Nightmares!
Smells Like a Dog
*Big Tracks, Little Tracks: Following Animal Prints
*The Travels of Benjamin Tudela: Through Three
Continents in the Twelfth Century
*Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night
*Ubiquitous: Celebrating Natures Survivors
*Every Thing On It
*Seymour Simons Extreme Earth Records
*The Tree of Life
*Black Jack
The Meaning of Maggie
Zig and Wikki in Something Ate My Homework
The Dancing Pancake
Picklemania
The Case of the Gypsy Good-Bye
*Michelangelo
The Mystery of the Stolen Statue

Stilton, Geronimo
Stone, Phoebe
Stone, Tonya Lee
Stroud, Jonathan
Sturtevant, Katherine

The Emerald Atlas

Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie
Barnaby Grimes: Return of the Emerald Skull
The Immortals (Edge Chronicles series)
Thea Stilton and the Ghost of the Shipwreck (series)
The Romeo and Juliet Code
*Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
Heroes of the Valley
At the Sign of the Star

Tarshis, Lauren
Tashjain, Janet
Tougas, Shelley
Tresselt, Alvin
Turnage, Sheila
Turner, Amber McRee

Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree

My Life as a Book
*Little Rock Girl 1957
*The Gift of the Tree
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing
Sway

Urban, Linda

The Center of Everything

Vail, Rachel
Van Allsburg, Chris

Justin Case (series)

Probuditi!
*Queen of the Falls
*Cabin on Trouble Creek
Robot Dreams
Paperboy
*Brothers at Bat
Young Fredle
The Castaways

Stephens, John
Sternberg, Julie
Stewart, Paul

Van Leeuwen, Jean

Varon, Sara
Vawter, Vince
Vernick, Audrey
Voigt, Cynthia
Vollmar, Rob
Wadsworth, Ginger
Ward, Matthew
Watson, Tom
Weaver, Janice

*First Girl Scout: The Life of Juliette Gordon Low

Weeks, Sarah
Wight, Eric
Williams-Garcia, Rita
Winget, Dianna
Winkler, Henry
Woelfle, Gretchen
Wrede, Patricia

The Fantastic Family Whipple

Stick Dog Tries to Take the Donuts (series)
*Harry Houdini: The Legend of the Worlds Greatest Escape
Artist
Save Me a Seat
Frankie Pickle and the Closet of Doom
One Crazy Summer
A Million Ways Home
Zero to Hero (Ghost Buddy series)
*Write On, Mercy!
Dealing with Dragons (fantasy series)

Yee, Lisa
Yelchin, Eugene
Yolen, Jane
Young, Karen Romano

Bobby the Brave (Sometimes)

Breaking Stalins Nose
*Bug Off!
Doodlebug

Zahler, Diane
Zappa, Shannon Muldoon

Bakers Magic
Pipers Perfect Dream (series)

* Denotes nonfiction, including biographies and poetry