Recommended Reading

Read!  Read!  Read!  This is just a sampling of grade-level books that I recommend to my 
students (and their parents).

City of Ember (Books of Ember) by Jeanne DuPrau
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1) by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Peter and the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson
Worth by A. LaFaye
Journey by Patricia MacLachlan
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan
The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
No Passengers Beyond This Point by Gennifer Choldenko
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The House of Scorpions by Nancy Farmer