Reading List

3rd to 5th graders (*denotes a Caldecott Award Winner)

• Because of Winn Dixie
• Big House*
• The Borrowers
• Caddie Woodlawn
• Dear Mr. Henshaw
• Each Little Bird that Sings*
• Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs*
• Farmer Boy
• The Forging of the Blade*
• Ghost Fever/Mal de Fantasma*
• The Ghost of Fossil Glen
• The Giant Rat of Sumatra or Pirates Galore*
• Good Dog*
• How Much is a Million
• The Hundred Penny Box
• If You Decide to go to the Moon
• In Your Face: The Facts About your Features*
• Island of the Blue Dolphins
• The Lightning Thief*
• The Magician's Boy*
• Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers
• Mosquito Bite*
• The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog
• Penderwinks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy*
• Project Mulberry*
• A Single Shard
• Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story*
• So B. It: A Novel*
• The SOS File*
• Soup
• Sure as Sunrise: Stories of Bruh Rabbit & His Walkin' Talkin' Friends*
• Surviving Antartica: Reality TV 2083*
• The Toughest Cowboy*
• The View from Saturday
• Wildfire*

Teens

• Prom by Laurie Haise Anderson
• Girls in Pants: the Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
• Playing in Traffic by Gail Giles
• The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg
• 47 by Walter Mosley
• Eldest by Christopher Paolini
• Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers: More Mad, Marvy Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison
• Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood by Benjamin Alire Saenz
• Midnighters: Secret Hour by Scott Westerfield

For more information on resources, information and events for children and teens you can visit the Houston Public Library website at www.houstonlibrary.org/youth.