Novel Recommendations by Grade

- * novel in the TLA library

- ** a set of 6 or more is available if a teacher wanted to have a reading group/class

Grade 2-3

● Canadian Flyer Adventure series by Frieda Wishinsky*

● The Magic Treehouse series by Mary Pope Osborne*
● Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel*
● Nate the Great series by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat*
● The Ramona Quimby series by Beverly Cleary*
● The Henry Huggins series by Beverly Cleary*
● The House on Walenska Street by Charlotte Herman*
● The Littles by John Peterson*
● The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla*
● The Paint Brush Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla*
● Keep the Lights Burning Abbie by Peter Roop*
● Tornado by Betsy Byars*
● Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes*

Grade 4-5
● Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat**
● The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden**
● Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary*
● Listening for Crickets by David Gifaldi
● Charlotte's Web by E.B. White*
● Ice Island by Sherry Shahan
● Frindle by Andrew Clements*
● Loser’s Club by Andrew Clements**
● A Whale in Paris by Daniel Presley**
● The Front Desk by Kelley Yang**
● Kenny and the Dragon by Tony deTerrlizi**
● Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo**
● Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater**
● The BFG/The Witches/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/anything by Rohald Dahl*
● Fudge Books: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume*
● Children of the Longhouse by Joseph Bruchac*
● Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry*
● Number the Stars by Lois Lowry*
● The Borrowers by Mary Naroton*

Grade 5-6
● Dear Canada series*
 ● A Blinding Light by Julie Lawson
● Chase by Linwood Barclay
● Clutch by Heather Camlot
● Sled Dog School by Terry Lynn Johnson
● The Theory of Hummingbirds by Michelle Kadarusman
● Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
● The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis**
● Underground to Canada by Barbara Smucker*
● Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper*
● Holes by Louis Sachar**
● Wonder by R.J. Palacio*
● Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen**
● Love That dog by Sharon Creech (poetry)*
● The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe/anything by C.S. Lewis*
● My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George*
● Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling*
● Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton*
● The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich*
● Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls**
● Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo*
● A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle**
● Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez*
● Loot by Jude Watson**
● Pirates of Pompeii by Caroline Lawrence**
● A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park*
● Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry*
● A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer*
● Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis*
● Boy Overboard by Morris Gleitzman**
● Heart of a Champion by Ellen Swartz*
● Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor*

Grade 7-8
● The Giver by Lois Lowry**
● The Winnowing by Vikki Vansickle
● Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens*
● The Yearling by Marjorie Kinan Rawlings*
● A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith*
● Little Women by Louisa May Alcott*
● Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson*
● The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien*
● The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (could also be gr 5-6)*
● The Call of The Wild by Jack London**
 ● Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
● Hatchet by Gary Paulsen**
● The Winter People by Joseph Bruchac*
● Mara Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw**
● The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw**
● Master Cornhill by Eloise Jarvis McGraw*
● A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park*
● The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare**
● Katherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman*
● Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli*

Grade 8-9
● The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton**
● To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee**
● Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes**
● The Agony of Bun O'Keefe by Heather Smith
● Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain*
● My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell*
● Anne Frank : Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank*
● The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien*
● White Fang by Jack London
● The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne*
● Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury*
● I Am Canada series*
● I Am Canada : Storm the Fortress - The Siege of Quebec by Maxine Trotter**
● Sophie’s Rebellion by Beverly Boissery**
● The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer*