RECOMMENDED READING A few words about these recommendations. They are a starting point, not a finish line! Feel free to dip into the grade above, or the grade below.
Parents: the best and most supportive thing we can do for our children's literacy beside reading aloud to them is take them to the public library and let them choose books, without judgement, by the pile. Like finding shells on the beach, they will make their own magical and unusual discoveries across genres and grade levels, and gain confidence in their ability to select materials.
Library card information
All Stone students are expected to have a Chicago Public Library card.
Enter your zip code in the Chicago Public Library Locator to find the branch nearest you!
If you have never had a Chicago Public Library card, please click here!
The Northtown Branch Public Library is the closest to our school. Oh, my goodness, I wonder if you could find a nicer public children's librarian than "Miss Amy"Amionovitch! How lucky we are to have her in our community!
Here are a few series and authors to get your started:
James Dean, Pete the Cat series
Mo Willems, "Elephant and Piggie" series
Ludwig Bemelmans "Madeline" series
Frank Remkiewicz, "Froggy" series
Tedd Arnold, "Fly Guy" series
Laura Numeroff, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" series
Peggy Parish, "Amelia Bedelia" series
Books by Richard Scarry
Also, highly recommend the "All Aboard Reading" and "I Can Read" series by multiple authors.
Any Caldecott award winners!
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor by Patricia Valdez
Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back by Shel Silverstein
My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Stick Dog series by Tom Watson
Dragonbreath series by Ursula Vernon
Dogman series by Dav Pilkey
Unwitting Wisdsom: An Anthology of Aesop's Fables by Helen Ward
The Horrible Harry series by Suzy Kline
Geronimo Stilton series
Going into 3rd grade:13 Story Treehouse series by Andy Griffiths
All Stations! Distress! The Day the Titanic Sank by Don Brown
The Dragonbreath series by Ursula Vernon
Earthling! by Mike Fearing
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Zoey and Sassafras series by Asia Citro
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Fortune's Magic Farm by Suzanne Selfors
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black
Nic Bishop * Matthew Cordell* Roald Dahl * Tomie DePaola * Kristine O'Connell George * Jenni Holm * Kevin Henkes * Steve Jenkins * Suzy Kline * Arnold Lobel * James Marshall * Megan McDonald * Yuyi Morales * Mary Pope Osborne * Bill Peet * Jack Prelutsky * Dav Pilkey * Patrica Polacco * Amy Krouse Rosenthal * Judith Schachner * Jon Scieszka * Maurice Sendak * William Steig * Meilo So * Greg Tang * Jane Yolen * Vera Williams
Going into 4th grade:Frenemies in the Family by Kathleen Krull
Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow
How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor
Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer
Justin Case: Shells, Smells and the Horrible Flip-Flops of Doom by Rachel Vail
Warriors series by Erin Hunter
The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo
Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George
The Year of the Book by Andrea Cheng
Going into 5th grade:Any Newbery Award winners!
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
D'aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
Wings of Fire series by Tui Sutherland
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms by Lissa Evans
The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs
The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
May B. by Caroline Starr Rose
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
A few fun authors for grades 3 -5: Aliki * Katherine Applegate * Avi * Don Brown * Beverly Cleary * Andrew Clements * Nicola Davies * Mordicai Gerstein * Jamie Gilson * Dan Gutman * Erin Hunter * Eva Ibbotson * Dick King-Smith * Gail Carson Levine * Lee Bennett Hopkins * Kate Klise * Grace Lin * Jim Murphy * Jack Prelutsky * Rick Riordan * Brian Selznick * Seymour Simon
Going into 6th grade:Any Sibert award-winners!
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
A Drowned Maiden's Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz
The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen
The Book of Boy by by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Maniac Magee by Gary Paulsen
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures that May or May Not Exist by Kelly Milner Halls
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger
Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer
The Year Money Grew on Trees by Aaron Hawkins
Going into 7th grade:The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
Breakout by Kate Messner
Divergent by Veronica Roth
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The True Adventures of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Truth As Told By Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
We've Got a Job by Cynthia Levinson
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Going into 8th grade:
Any Printz Award winners!The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
A Court of Thorn of Roses by Sarah J. Maas
The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time by Marc Haddon
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Eventown by Corey Ann Haydu
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
One of Us in Lying by Karen M. McManus
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
They Call Me Guero by David Bowles
What It Is by Lynda J. Barry
Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture by Chelsea Cain
A few fun authors for middle school: Elizabeth Acevedo * John David Anderson * Laurie Halse Anderson * Susan Campbell Bartoletti * Chris Crutcher * Christopher Paul Curtis * Jack Gantos * Margaret Peterson Haddix * Diana Wynne Jones * Wendy Mass *Walter Dean Myers * Garth Nix * Linda Sue Park * Lincoln Pierce * Jason Reynolds * Jordan Sonnenblick * Jerry Spinelli * Lisa Yee
Don't forget: magazines, audio books, family read-alouds, comic books, cookbooks...these are all real reading experiences, too!
More book and author recommendations at The PlanetEsme Plan, and at Kidsreads.com. You can also visit Teachingbooks.net to visit author/illustrator websites, and "meet" the real people behind the books we read!
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