Contents

• Books to Read and to be Read
• Books for Reluctant and Developing Readers

Books to Read and To Be Read

Here is a list of books that I read to my class in the past and that children enjoyed as well as books that I personally recommend.

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
• Black and Blue Magic by Zilpha Keatley Snider
• Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snider
• Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
• Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
• The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
• My Father’s Dragon Series by Ruth Stiles Gannett
• Out of My Mind by Sharon M Draper
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo
• Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
• Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
• Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
• The BFG by Roald Dahl
• Heidi by Johanna Louise Spyri
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• You are Special by Max Lucado
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
• Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Tiki Tiki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
• Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog by Pamela Turner
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Books for Reluctant and Developing Readers

The following books have been recommended for reluctant and developing readers by The Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists (5th Edition).

• A Pizza the Size of the Sun (poem) by Jack Prelutsky
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
• Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson
• Basketball’s Best: Five True Stories by Andrew Gutelle
• Blubber by Julie Blume
• Crash by Jerry Spinelli
• December by Eve Bunting
• Driver’s Ed by Caroline B. Cooney
• Forever Amber Brown by Paula Danziger
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X by Bruce Coville
• Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnel
• Mistakes that Worked by Charlotte Jones
• Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan
• Secrets of the Shopping Mall by Richard Peck