Younger Readers (grades 1- 2)

26 Fairmount Avenue (series) – Tomi dePaola

Beany (series) - Susan Wojciechowski 

Esio Trot - Roald Dahl

Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl

Gadget War - Betsy Duffey

Golly Sisters (series) – Betsy Byars

Gooney Bird Greene (series)– Lois Lowry

Jake Drake (series) - Andrew Clements

The Legend of Spud Murphy – Eoin Colfer

Mercy Watson (series)– Kate diCamillo 

My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett

Raising Sweetness – Diane Stanley

Many picture story books are great read alouds for a single sitting.

Middle Readers (grades 3- 4)

Afternoon of the Elves – Janet Lisle

Babe, the Gallant Pig – Dick King-Smith

Because of Winn-Dixie – Kate diCamillo

Becoming Naomi Leon - Pam Munos Ryan

BFG –Roald Dahl

Borrowers (series) – Mary Norton

Bridge to Terrabithia – Katherine Paterson

Bud not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis

Bunnicula  (series) – James Howe

Cody Unplugged - Betsy Duffey

Dear Mr. Henshaw – Beverly Cleary

Esperanza Rising- Pam Munos Ryan

Frindle - Andrew Clements

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson – Bette Bao Lord

Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell

Jim Ugly – Sid Fleischman

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key – Jack Gantos

Lilly’s Crossing – Patricia Reilly Giff

Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S.Lewis

Love That Dog – Sharon Creech 

Max Malone Makes a Million (series)- Charlotte Herman

Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate diCamillo

Mouse Woman and the Mischief Makers – Christie Harris

Mr. Popper's Penguins - Richard Atwater Edwards

My Side of the Mountain - Jean Craighead George 

Number the Stars- Lois Lowry

Our Only May Amelia – Jennifer Holm

Penderwicks - Jeanne Birdsall

Poppy (series) – Avi

Ruby Holler - Sharon Creech

School Mouse - Dick King-Smith

Seven Spiders Spinning –Gregory Maguire

Shiloh (series) – Phyllis Naylor

Soup (series) - Robert Newton Peck 

Summer of the Swans – Betsy Byars

Tale of Despereaux - Kate diCamillo

Three Terrible Trins – Dick King-Smith 

Twenty and Ten - Claire Bishop

Watsons go to Birmingham – Christopher Paul Curtis

Weslandia – Paul Fleischman

Whipping Boy - Sid Fleischman 

Whittington - Alan Armstrong 

Older Readers   (grades 4- 5)

Al Capone Does my Shirts – Gennifer  Choldenko 

All Alone in the Universe – Lynne Rae Perkins

Bell Prater’s Boy – Ruth White

Boggart - Susan Cooper 

Egypt Game - Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup - Sharon Creech 

Great Gilly Hopkins – Katherine Paterson

Gregor the Overlander – Suzanne Collins 

Faith and the Electric Dogs - Patrick Jennings

Hatchet – Gary Paulsen

Journey to the River Sea - Eva Ibbotson

Julie of the Wolves – Jean Craighead George

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy – Gary Schmidt

Long Way from Chicago - Richard Peck

Lyddie – Katherine Patterson

Maniac Magee – Jerry Spinelli

Missing May - Cynthia Rylant

Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg

My Life in Dog Years - Gary Paulsen 

On My Honor - Marion Bauer

Once Upon a Marigold – Jean Ferris

Penderwicks - Jeanne Birdsall 

Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

Running Out of Time - Margaret Peterson Haddix 

Save Queen of Sheba - Louise Moeri

Skellig – David Almond

Summer of the Monkeys - Wilson Rawls

Toad Rage - Morris Gleitzman.  (Australian colloquialisms)

Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbit

Walk Two Moons – Creech   

Westing Game – Ellen Raskin

Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken