Children

Recommended Reading

School Stories

• Please Write in this Book by Mary Amato
• Dustin Grubbs, One-Man Show by John J. Bank
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
• anything written by Andrew Clements
• The Top 10 Ways to Ruin the First Day of 5th Grade by Ken Derby
• Nikki & Deja by Karen English 
• Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue by Jack Gantos
• A Midsummer's Night Dork by Carol Gorman
• Dork in Disguise by Carol Gorman
• The Girl With 500 Middle Names by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Herbie Jones (series) by Suzy Kline
• Raymond and Graham Rule the School by Mike Knudson
• The Chicken Doesn’t Skate by Gordon Korman
• The Year of the Rat by Grace Lin
• Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowery
• Larger-Than-Life Lara by Dandi Daley Mackall
• Boys are Dogs by Leslie Margolis
• Amelia (series) by Marissa Moss
• Live from the 5th Grade by Colleen O’Shaughnessy McKenna
• Agnes Parker…(series) by Kathleen O’Dell
• Sixth-Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me by Lisa Papademetrion
• How Do You Spell Geek? By Julie Anne Peters
• Along Came Spider by James Preller
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
• Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree by Lauren Tarshis
• Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee
• Benny and the No-Good Teacher by Cheryl Zach
• Don't Bug Me! by Pam Zollman
• Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar
• Only Emma by Sally Warner
• H.I.V.E. Higher-Institute-of-Villainous-Education by Mark Walden
• How to Lose Your Class Pet by Valerie Wilson Wesley
• Hank Zipper (series) by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver