Reading is Great!! Favorite Reading Suggestions, level S-W

Berkeley School Libraries, Fall 2014  

Exciting Adventure and Fantasy

Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer

Dreamwood, by Heather Mackey

Doll Bones, by Holly Black

The Expeditioners, by S.S. Taylor

The False Prince, by Jennifer Nielsen

The Giver, by Lois Lowry

Heart of a Samurai, by Margi Preus

Jinx, by Sage Blackwood

The Luck Uglies, by Paul Durham

The Mark of the Dragonfly, by Jaleigh Johnson

The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier

Peak, by Roland Smith

Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, by Jonathan Auxier

The Real Boy, by Anne Ursu

Search for WondLa, by Tony DiTerlizzi

Zombie Baseball Beatdown, by Paolo Bacigalupi

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Funny Stories

The 26-Story Treehouse, by Andy Griffiths

The Adventures of Nanny Piggins, by R.A. Spratt

Better Nate than Ever, by Tim Federle

Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to NOT Reading, by Tommy Greenwald

Dead End in Norvelt, by Jack Gantos

Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf, by Jennifer Holm

My Life as a Book, by Janet Tashjian

The Odd Squad: Bully bait, by Michael Fry

Timmy Failure: We Meet Again, by Stephan Pastis

Nuts to You, by Lynne Rae Perkins

Zorgamazoo, by Robert Paul Weston

* Especially for 5th grade

Stories that Touch Your Heart

Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander

Counting by 7s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Dash, by Kirby Larson

The Fourteenth Goldfish, by Jennifer Holm

Ghetto Cowboy, by Greg Neri

Kinda Like Brothers, by Coe Booth

One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia

One for the Murphys, by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

P.S. Be Eleven, by Rita Williams-Garcia

Return to Sender, by Julia Alvarez

Serafina’s Promise, by Ann E. Burg

Graphic Novels We Love!

The Stonekeeper (Amulet series), by Kazu Kibuishi

Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity, by Dave Roman

Big Bad Ironclad! (Hazardous Tales series), by Nathan Hale

Drama, by Raina Telgemeier

El Deafo, by Cece Bell

Hera:The goddess and her glory (Olympians series), by George O’Connor

Sisters, by Raina Telgemeier

Zita the Spacegirl, by Ben Hatke

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Fascinating Nonfiction

The Animal Book: A collection of the fastest, fiercest, toughest, cleverest, shyest--and most surprising--animals, by Steve Jenkins

Almost Astronauts: 13 women who dared to dream, by Tanya Lee Stone

Bomb: The race to build and steal the world’s most dangerous weapon, by Steve Sheinkin

Can We Save the Tiger?, by Martin Jenkins

Courage Has No Color, by Tanya Lee Stone

Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the dawn of liberty, by Tonya Bolden

The Frog Scientist, by Pamela S. Turner

Josephine: The dazzling life of Josephine Baker, by Patricia Hruby Powell

Marching for Freedom, by Elizabeth Partridge

Treasury of Egyptian Mythology, by Donna Jo Napoli