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Independent Reading Book List
ADVENTURE
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
The Maze by Will Hobbs
Montmorency by Eleanor Updale
River Thunder by Will Hobbs
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY
Ben Franklin's Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman's Life by Candace Fleming
Bones Rock!: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Paleontologist by Peter Larson
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Teamby Wayne Coffey
Delicious: The Art and Life of Wayne Thiebaud by Susan Goldman Rubin
The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal by Vicki Constantine Croke
The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams by Darcy Frey
The Lost Pet Chronicles: Adventures of A K-9 Cop Turned Pet Detective
by Kathy Albrecht
On the Field with…Mia Hamm by Matt Christopher
The Tarantula Scientist (Scientists in the Field series) by Sy Montgomery, Illustrated by Nic Bishop
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History by Phillip M Hoose
Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic
FANTASY
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series) by Rick Riordan
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles series) by Rick Riordan
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Tentacles by Roland Smith
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
Witch and Wizard by James Patterson
Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
FICTION
11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass
Crazy Lady! by Jane Leslie Conly
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Journey of the Sparrows by Fran Leeper Buss
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Man Who Was Poe by Avi
Nothing but the Truth, A Documentary Novel by Avi
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
HISTORICAL FICTION
April Morning by Howard Fast
Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky
Elephant Run by Roland Smith
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Forge by Laure Halse Anderson
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Paul Curtis
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
MYSTERY/SUSPENSE
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Last Shot by John Feinstein
Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
The Stranger Next Doorby Peg Kehret
The Trouble with Lemons by Daniel Hayes
The Undertaker’s Gone Bananas by Paul Zindel
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
MYTHS/LEGENDS
Pandora Gets Jealousby Carolyn Hennesy
REALISTIC FICTION
A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin
Firegirl by Tony Abbott
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Heat by Mike Lupica
Homecoming by Cynthia Voight
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Travel Team by Mike Lupica
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
SCIENCE FICTION
The Adventures of Maximum Ride (series) by James Patterson
The Duplicate by William Sleator
The Hunger Games (Hunger Games series) by Suzanne Collins
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Messenger by Lois Lowry
Myst, The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller, Robin Miller, David Wingrove
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead