Red Is Easiest and Green Is Hardest

Reading List (September 2014 version)

Red is easiest and Green is hardest

I= Important (deals with important ideas or themes)

F= Favourites (especially recommended by Mrs. J.)

R / O / Y / G / I / F / Title / Author / pg
X / X / A is for Aarrgh / Brooke / 256
X / A Long Way From Chicago / Peck / 148
X / X / Absolutely Normal Chaos / Creech / 240
X / X / X / X / Across the Jame Bay Bridge / Lawson
X / X / X / After Hamelin / Richardson / 227
X / X / X / X / After Peaches / Mulder / 106
X / X / Airborn / Oppel
X / X / X / Al Capone Does My Shirts / Choldenko / 240
X / Alone in the Ice World / Easley / 127
X / X / X / X / Always Ask for a Transfer / Kasper / 124
X / X / X / Among the Hidden & sequels / Haddix / 152
X / X / X / Amulet: The Stonekeeper / Kibuishi
X / Anne of Green Gables / Montgomery / 429
X / X / X / Anything But Typical / Baskin / 195
X / X / X / X / (The) Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker / DeFelice / 146
x / Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl) / Colfer
X / X / Artemis Fowl & sequels / Colfer
X / X / Art of Keeping Cool / Taylor / 207
x / Atlantis Complex (Artemis Fowl) / Colfer
X / X / X / X / Awake and Dreaming / Pearson / 240
X / X / X / X / X / Babe / King-Smith / 118
X / X / Babe & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure / Gutman / 161
X / X / Baby Project / Ellis / 144
X / X / Baby Sitting is a Dangerous Job / Roberts / 192
X / X / X / (The) Bad Beginning & sequels / Snicket
X / X / X / X / (The) Barn / Avi / 106
X / X / (The) Battle of the Labyrinth / Riordan
X / X / (A) Bear Named Trouble / Bauer / 120
X / X / X / X / X / X / Because of Winn-Dixie / DiCamillo / 182
X / X / (The) Beloved Dearly / Cooney / 183
X / Between Heaven and Earth / Walters
X / Beyond the Western Sea: Book One / Avi
X / X / X / X / X / (The) BFG (Big Friendly Giant) / Dahl / 224
X / X / X / Black and White / Walters
X / X / X / X / Bless This House / Carter
X / Bloomability / Creech / 273
X / X / X / X / Blubber / Blume / 152
X / (The) Book Without Words / Avi / 200
X / X / X / Born To Run / Morpurgo / 240
X / X / (The) Boxes / Sleator / 189
X / X / (A) Boy No More / Mazer / 144
X / X / (The) Boy Who Saved Baseball / Ritter / 224
X / X / X / Breadwinner & sequels / Ellis / 170
X / Brian’s Winter (sequel to Hatchet) / Paulsen / 144
X / X / X / X / Bridge to Terabithia / Paterson / 128
X / X / X / X / Bud, Not Buddy / Curtis / 243
X / X / X / Buffalo Hunt (Our Canadian Girl) / Taylor / 104
X / X / Bully Boys / Walters / 240
X / X / X / X / X / Bunnicula & sequels / Howe / 112
X / X / X / Cabin Fever / Kinney
X / X / X / Caged Eagles / Walters
X / Call it Courage / Sperry / 128
X / X / X / Camp X (& sequels Camp 30 & Fools’ Gold) / Walters / 232
X / X / Cartoonist / Byars / 119
X / X / (The) Case of the Golden Boy / Wilson
X / X / Catherine, Called Birdy / Cushman / 224
X / X / X / Catwings / LeGuin / 40
X / X / X / X / Celery Stalks at Midnight sequel to Bunnicula / Howe / 128
X / X / X / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Dahl / 155
X / X / X / X / X / Charlotte’s Web / White / 192
X / X / Chocolate Fever / Smith / 93
X / X / X / Chronicles of Narnia series / Lewis
X / (A) Circle of Silver / Trottier / 216
X / X / X / (The) City of Ember (& sequels) / DuPrau / 270
X / Claim to Fame / Haddix
X / X / Clementine / Pennypacker / 135
X / X / Code Red at the Supermall / Wilson
X / X / Cold Midnight in Vieux Quebec / Wilson
X / X / Coraline / Gaiman / 162
X / X / Corner of the Universe / Martin / 191
X / X / X / X / Crash / Spinelli / 176
X / Crispin and the Cross of Lead / Avi / 272
X / Crispin at the Edge of the World / Avi
X / X / X / Danny, the Champion of the World / Dahl / 196
X / X / X / X / Dark Spring (Our Canadian Girl) / Stinson / 75
X / X / Darking / Oppel
X / X / X / X / DaWild, DaCrazy Davinci Time Warp Trio / Scieszka
X / X / X / X / X / Dear Mr. Henshaw / Cleary / 160
X / X / Deltora Quest: Forests of Silence / Rodda
X / X / X / X / Dexter the Tough / Haddix / 141
X / X / X / (The) Diamond of Darkhold (4th book of Ember) / DuPrau / 285
X / X / Diamonds in the Rough / Walters
X / X / Diary of a Wimpy Kid (& sequels) / Kinney / 215
X / X / X / X / Disaster at the Bridge / Lawson
X / X / X / Dog House Blues / Pearce / 150
X / X / Dog Lost / Lee
X / X / X / Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes / Sachar
X / X / X / X / X / (A) Dog’s Life / Martin / 182
X / X / Dogsong / Paulsen / 177
X / X / X / (The) Dollhouse Murders / Wright
X / X / X / X / Don’t Tell Anyone / Kehret / 144
X / X / Double Identity / Haddix / 218
X / X / X / X / Dragon Rider (big font) / Funke / 523
X / X / Dust / Slade
X / X / X / Eagle Song / Bruchac
X / X / X / (The) Ear, The Eye, and the Arm / Farmer / 301
X / X / Eggs / Spinelli / 220
X / X / X / X / Egypt Game / Snyder / 215
X / X / Eldest / Paolini
X / X / Elijah of Buxton / Curtis / 341
X / X / X / Elixir / Walters
X / X / X / X / Extra Credit / Clements
X / X / Ella Enchanted / Levine / 232
X / X / (The) Emily Carr Mystery / Wilson
X / X / Encyclopedia Brown Tracks Them Down / Sobol
X / X / Eragon & sequels / Paolini / 754
X / X / X / Ereth’s Birthday sequel to Poppy / Avi
X / X / Escape from Big Muddy / Wilson
X / Etermnity Code (Artemis Fowl) / Colfer
X / Ever / Levine / 244
X / Everything on a Waffle / Horvath / 178
X / (The) Falls / Walters
X / X / Fantastic Mr. Fox / Dahl / 81
X / Far North / Hobbs
X / X / Firewing (sequel to Silverwing & Sunwing) / Oppel
X / X / Fire Within / D’Lacey / 340
X / X / (The) Firework-Maker’s Daughter / Pullman
X / X / X / Flipped / Van Draanen / 212
X / X / Flush / Hiassen
X / X / X / Flying Solo / Fletcher
X / X / Framed / Korman
X / X / X / Freak the Mighty / Philbrick
X / X / Freckle Juice / Blume
X / X / Freedom Crossing / Clark / 148
X / X / X / X / Frindle / Clements / 105
X / X / Fudge series (Fudge-a-Mania, Superfudge, Double Fudge) / Blume
X / X / X / Full Court Press / Walters
X / (The) Gammage Cup / Kendall
X / X / X / Gathering Blue / Lowry
X / X / X / X / X / Gentle Ben / Morey
X / X / X / X / George’s Marvellous Medicine / Dahl / 89
X / X / (The) Ghost of Lunenburg Manor / Wilson
X / X / X / (The) Giver / Lowry / 179
X / Glue Fingers / Christopher
X / X / X / (The) Golden Compass & sequels / Pullman / 351
X / X / X / (The) Gnome’s Eye / Kerz / 210
X / X / X / X / (The) Good Dog / Avi / 243
X / X / X / Good-bye Marianne / Watts / 104
X / X / Gramma War / Butcher / 168
X / X / X / X / X / X / Granny Torrelli Makes Soup / Creech / 141
X / X / X / X / (The) Great Gilly Hopkins / Paterson / 148
X / X / (The) Green Gables Detective / Wilson
X / X / Half-Moon Investigations / Colfer
X / X / Hamish X & Cheese Pirates & sequels / Cullen
X / Hannah and the Salish Sea / Shaw / 272
X / X / X / Harry Potter series / Rowling
X / X / Hatchet (& sequels Brian’s Winter & The River) / Paulsen / 195
X / X / X / Hate That Cat / Creech
X / X / Heartbeat / Creech / 180
X / X / X / X / X / X / Helen Keller / Sullivan / 121
X / X / Henry and the Paper Route / Cleary
X / X / (The) Hideout / Kehret / 151
X / X / X / X / Hobo Jungle / Harris
X / X / X / X / (The) Hoboken Chicken Emergency / Pinkwater
X / X / X / Holes / Sachar / 233
X / X / X / X / Home Free / Kacer
X / X / X / (The) Homework Machine & sequel / Gutman
X / X / X / Hoot / Hiaasen / 292
X / X / X / House of Scorpion / Farmer / 380
X / X / X / X / How Can a Brilliant Detective Shine in the Dark / Bailey / 198
X / X / X / X / How Come the Best Clues are in the Garbage? / Bailey
X / X / How to Eat Fried Worms / Rockwell
X / X / X / X / X / Howliday Inn / Howe / 195
X / X / X / I Am David / Holm / 159
X / X / (The) Ice Diamond Quest / Wilson
X / X / I’ve Got An Idea / Walters
X / X / X / Icefire (big font) / D’Lacey / 421
Ignatius MacFarland: Frequenaut! / Feig
X / X / Inkheart / Funke / 534
X / X / X / Inuk Mountie Adventure / Wilson / 144
X / X / X / Invisible Lines / Amato / 319
X / X / X / Iqbal / D’Adamo / 120
X / X / X / Irish Chain / Haworth-Attard / 213
X / X / X / X / Irish Penny / McKay
X / X / X / X / X / (The) Jacket / Clements / 89
X / X / X / Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang / Richler / 87
X / X / Jacob’s Little Giant / Smucker / 100
X / X / X / Jason’s Gold / Hobbs / 221
X / X / Janey’s Girl / Friesen
X / X / X / James & The Giant Peach / Dahl / 119
X / X / X / X / Janitor’s Boy / Clements / 160
X / X / X / Jennifer Murdley’s Toad / Coville
X / X / X / Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher / Coville
X / X / X / Jip, His Story / Paterson
X / X / X / X / Joey Pizza Swallowed the Key / Gantos / 154
X / X / X / Joey Pizza Loses Control / Gantos / 154
X / X / Judy Moody Gets Famous / McDonald / 126
X / X / Judy Moody Goes To College / McDonald
X / X / X / Judy Moody Saves the World / McDonald
X / X / X / Julie of the Wolves / George
X / X / X / Just Ella / Haddix / 218
X / X / X / Kesuke’s Kingdom / Morpurgo / 162
X / X / X / X / X / X / Kid in the Red Jacket / Park / 113
X / X / X / Kidnapped in the Yukon / Woodward / 126
X / X / X / Kimchi & Calamari / Kent / 220
X / X / Kira-Kira / Kadohata / 244
X / X / X / Kneeknock Rise / Babbitt / 118
X / X / X / X / Knights of the Kitchen Table Time Warp Trio / Scieszka / 55
X / X / X / X / X / Landry News / Clements / 130
X / X / X / X / (The) Last Holiday Concert / Clements / 166
x / Last Guardian (Artemis Fowl) / Colfer
X / X / (The) Last Olympian / Riordan
X / X / Lawn Boy / Paulsen / 88
Lemonade War / Davies / 173
X / X / X / (The) Library Card / Spinelli
X / X / Lightning Thief / Riordan / 375
X / X / X / (The) Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe / Lewis / 186
X / X / Listening for Lions / Whelen / 199
X / X / X / (The) Little Prince / Saint-Exupery
X / X / X / Long Shot / Walters
X / Long Way From Chicago / Peck / 148
X / X / X / Loser / Spinelli / 218
X / Lost Colony (Artemis Fowl) / Colfer
X / X / Lost Hero / Riordan
X / Lost in the Barrens / Mowat / 244
X / X / Love, Stargirl (sequel to Stargirl) / Spinelli / 274
X / X / X / X / X / X / Love That Dog / Creech / 86
X / X / X / X / X / Lunch Money / Clements
X / X / X / Maniac Magee / Spinelli / 184
X / X / X / Matilda / Dahl / 240
X / X / Matilda Bone / Cushman / 167
X / X / Maze of Bone (39 Clues) / Riordan
X / X / Men of Stone / Friesen / 216
X / X / Midnight Fox / Byars
X / X / Midwife’s Apprentice / Cushman / 122
X / X / X / A Mighty Big Imagining / Kositsky
X / X / X / X / X / Mick Harte was Here / Park / 89
X / X / X / Milkweed / Spinelli
X / X / X / Million Dollar Kick / Gutman
X / X / X / X / Million Dollar Shot / Gutman
X / X / Million Dollar Strike / Gutman / 176
X / X / X / Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane / DiCamilo / 198
X / X / X / X / Missing May / Rylant / 89
X / X / X / Mockingbird / Erskine / 235
X / X / (The) Money Pit Mystery / Walters
X / X / X / (The) Monster’s Ring / Coville
X / X / X / X / X / Moses, Me, and Murder / Walsh / 128
X / X / (The) Most Beautiful Place in the World / Cameron
X / X / X / (The) Mouse & Motorcycle & sequels / Cleary / 158
X / X / X / X / (A) Mouse Called Wolf / King-Smith / 98
X / Mr. Popper’s Penguins / Atwater
X / X / Mr. Potter’s Pet / King-Smith
X / X / X / Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of Nihm / O’Brien / 249
X / X / X / Mud City sequel to Parvana’s Journey / Ellis / 162
X / X / Mudshark / Paulsen / 83
X / Muggie Maggie / Cleary / 70
X / X / Murder at Midnight / Avi
X / X / Murder at the Winter Games Screech Owl / MacGregor / 128
X / X / Murder on the Canadian / Wilson
X / X / X / (The) Music of the Dolphins / Hesse / 94
X / X / X / My Best Sleepover Party / Tukienicz / 121
x / x / x / x / My Name is Parvana / Ellis / 198
X / (The) Mysterious Benedict Society / Stewart / 485
X / X / X / X / X / Naomi’s Road / Kogawa / 115
X / X / X / Narnia (series) / Lewis
X / X / Nasty, Stinky Sneakers / Bunting
X / X / Never Mind / Avi
X / X / X / (The) Night They Stole the Stanley Cup / MacGregor / 113
X / X / X / X / X / No Talking / Clements
X / X / Nose For Adventure sequel to Nose from Jupiter / Scrimger / 176
X / X / X / X / Nose From Jupiter & sequels / Scrimger / 156
X / X / Noses Are Red sequel to Nose from Jupiter / Scrimger / 203
X / X / X / X / (The) Not-So-Jolly-Roger Time Warp Trio / Scieszka / 57
X / X / X / Not This Time / Korman
X / X / Nothing Wrong with a Three Legged Dog / McNamee / 134
X / X / X / X / X / Number the Stars / Lowry / 137
X / X / X / Off Season / Walters
X / X / X / (The) Old Brown Suitcase / Boraks-Nemetz / 148
X / X / X / X / On My Honor / Bauer / 90
X / X / X / X / X / (The) One and Only Ivan / Applegate / 303
X / Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl) / Colfer
X / X / X / X / Open Your Doors / Kacer
X / X / X / The Other Side of Truth / Naidoo / 248
X / X / X / Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great / Blume / 118
X / X / X / X / X / Our Canadian Girl series / Various authors
X / X / X / Out of My Mind / Draper / 295
X / Out of the Blue / Ellis / 120
X / Outsiders / Hinton / 180
X / X / X / Owls in the Family / Mowat / 107
X / X / X / Parvana’s Journey (sequel to Breadwinner) / Ellis
X / X / X / People of Sparks (sequel to City of Ember) / DuPrau
X / X / Perloo the Bold / Avi / 223
X / X / Pinballs / Byars
X / X / X / X / A Place for Owls (non-fiction) / McKeever
X / X / X / X / Poppy & sequels / Avi
X / X / Power of Un / Etchemendy / 144
X / X / X / Princess Academy / Hale / 314
X / X / X / (The) Prophet of Yonwood (3rd book of Ember) / DuPrau / 289
X / X / X / Radio Fifth Grade / Korman / 179
X / X / X / Ragweed (sequel to Poppy) / Avi / 178
X / X / X / Ralph S. Mouse sequel to Mouse and Motorcycle / Cleary / 160
X / X / Ramona and Her Father / Cleary / 186
X / X / Ramona Forever / Cleary
X / X / Ramona’s World / Cleary / 192
X / Rascal / North / 189
X / X / Rats of Nihm (also called Mrs. Frisby and….) / O’Brien
X / Red Pyramid / Riordan
X / X / Remember Me / Watts / 174
X / X / X / X / X / Report Card / Clements / 173
X / X / X / Ricky / Walters / 217
X / X / X / Ring of Tall Trees / Dowd / 126
X / (The) River (sequel to Hatchet) / Paulsen
X / X / X / Road Trip / Walters / 171
X / X / X / X / X / Room One / Clements
X / X / Royal Ransom / Walters
X / X / X / Rules / Lord / 200
X / X / Run / Walters / 192
X / X / Runaway Ralph / Cleary
X / X / X / Running Out of Time / Haddix / 184
X / X / Sammy Keyes & the Hotel Thief / Van Draanen / 163
X / X / Save Macdonald Hall / Korman
X / X / X / X / Saving Shiloh sequel to Shiloh & Shiloh Season / Naylor / 137
X / X / Scat / Hiassen
X / X / Schernoff Discoveries / Paulsen
X / X / X / X / School Story / Clements / 196
X / Schooled / Korman / 208
X / X / Screech owls series (Night They Stole the Stanley Cup, Secret of Deep Woods, Murder at the Winter Games) / MacGregor
X / X / X / Sea of Monsters sequel to Lighting Thief / Riordan
X / X / Secret School / Avi
X / X / X / (The) Secret World of Og / Berton
X / (The) Seer of Shadows / Avi
X / X / X / Series of Unfortunate Events / Snicket
X / X / X / Seven Spiders Spinning / Maguire / 132
X / X / X / X / Shabash / Walsh
x / x / x / X / X / Shadow / Morpurgo / 179
X / X / Shell Shocked (Camp X series sequel) / Walters
X / X / X / X / Shiloh & sequels / Naylor / 137
X / X / X / X / Shiloh Season / Naylor
X / X / x / x / Shooting Kabul / Senzai
X / X / Silverwing & sequels / Oppel / 270
X / Skellig / Almond / 182
X / X / X / Skinnybones / Park / 111
X / Skull of Truth / Coville / 195
X / X / Skybreaker / Oppel
X / X / X / X / Skylar / Cuffe-Perez / 138
X / (A) Single Shard / Park / 152
X / X / Small Steps / Sachar
Smiles to Go / Spinelli / 248
X / X / X / X / Someday Angeline / Sachar / 154
X / X / x / Something About George / Graff / 224
X / X / X / Sounder / Armstrong
X / Special Edward / Walters
X / X / X / X / Spider Boy / Fletcher / 183
X / Starclimber / Oppel
X / X / Stargirl / Spinelli / 186
X / Stars / Walters
X / X / Starshine & the Fanged Vampire Spider / Schwartz
X / X / X / Stay / Lowry / 128
X / X / Stink & the World’s Super-Stinky Sneakers / MacDonald
x / X / X / Stolen Children / Skrypuch / 150
X / X / X / Stolen Children / Kehret / 165
X / X / X / Stone Fox / Gardiner
X / X / Storybox / Hughes
X / X / X / Strider / Cleary / 147
X / X / X / X / Summer of Gold / Lawson
X / X / X / X / Summer of the Spotted Owl / Jackson / 180
X / X / X / X / X / Summer Reading is Killing Me time warp trio / Scieszka
X / X / Sunwing (sequel to Silverwing) / Oppel
X / X / X / Superfudge / Cleary / 178
X / Surviving the Applewhites / Tolan
X / X / X / X / Swindle / Korman / 251
X / X / X / Tale of Despereaux / DiCamillo / 267
X / X / X / X / Taste of Blackberries / Smith
X / X / (The) Terrible Trins / King-Smith
X / X / Terror in Winnipeg / Walters
X / X / X / X / There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom / Sachar / 195
X / X / X / X / There’s an Owl in the Shower / George
X / X / 39 Clues: Maze of Bones / Riordan
X / X / Thief Lord / Funke / 349
X / X / Things Hoped For / Clements
X / X / Things Not Seen / Clements / 167
X / X / Things That Are / Clements
X / X / X / X / This Means War / Spencer / 139
X / X / X / X / Three Good Deeds / Vande Velde / 147
X / X / X / X / X / Three on Three / Walters
X / X / (The Tiffin) / Narsimhan / 183
x / x / Throne of Fire / Riordan
X / X / Tiger Rising / DiCamilo / 116
X / Tiger Town / Walters
X / Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl) / Colfer
X / X / X / Touching Spirit Bear / Mikaelsen / 241
X / X / (The) Town that Floated Away / Birdsell
X / X / X / X / Three Cups of Tea / Mortenson
X / X / Trapped in Ice / Walters
X / X / X / Triple Threat / Walters
Trouble with Tuck / Taylor / 128
X / (The) True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle / Avi
X / X / X / Truth About Rats (and Dogs) / Pearce / 153
X / X / Tuck Everlasting / Babbitt
X / X / X / X / X / Tut, Tut time warp trio series / Scieszka
X / Twenty-One Balloons / Du Bois
X / X / X / X / X / 2095 time warp trio series / Scieszka
X / X / X / (The) Twits / Dahl
X / X / X / Ugly Truth / Kinney
X / X / Underdog / Walters
X / X / X / X / Under the Blood-Red Sun / Salisbury / 244
X / X / X / Underground to Canada / Smucker
X / United We Stand / Walters
X / X / Vancouver Nightmare / Wilson
X / Visions / Walters
X / X / X / Voyageur / Walters
X / X / X / Walk Two Moons / Creech / 280
X / X / Wanderer / Creech / 305
X / X / X / War of the Eagles / Walters / 224
X / X / X / X / X / X / War with Grandpa / Smith / 140
X / X / We All Fall Down / Walters
X / X / Week in the Woods / Clements / 189
X / X / X / Welcome to the Club / Godfrey
X / X / Westing Game / Raskin / 212
X / X / X / What’s a Daring Detective Doing in the Doghouse? / Bailey / 185
X / X / Whales on Stilts / Anderson / 188
X / X / X / X / When the Soldiers were Gone / Propp
X / X / X / White Jade Tiger / Lawson / 164
X / X / X / X / (The) Whipping Boy / Fleischman
X / X / Who’s Got Gertie? / Bailey / 174
X / X / X / Wonder / Palacio / 416
x / x / Words in the Dust / Reedy
X / X / X / (The) Witches / Dahl / 183
X / X / (The) Wrap-up List / Arntson / 240
X / X / X / Wringer / Spinelli / 229
X / X / X / (A) Wrinkle in Time / L’Engle / 198
X / X / You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown / Danziger
X / X / X / X / X / Your Mother Was a Neanderthal time warp trio / Scieszka
X / X / X / Zoobreak / Korman / `

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