Independent Reading Levels

Fiction Book Recommendations

M/N

• Magic Tree House series

• Judy Moody Series

• Stink series

• Ivy and Bean series

• Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo

• The Littles by John Lawerence Petterson

• Flat Stanley series

• My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

O/P

• Clementine series

• Geronimo Stilton series

• Boxcar Children series

• Ramona series

• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

• The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

• Henry Huggins  by Beverly Cleary

• Mrs. Piggle Wiggle by Betty MacDonald

• Rise of the Earth Dragon series

• Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

• Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

• Knights of the Kitchen Table by Jon Scieszka

• Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz

• Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater

Q/R/S

Fourth Grade Band!!!!!!!!!

• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

• The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi

• El Deafo by Cece Bell

• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo

• Fourth Grade Rats by Jerry Spinelli

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

• Frindle by Andrew Clements

• Rules by Cynthia Lord

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

• Big Nate series

• The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop

• The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

• The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

• Otherwise Known as Shiela the Great #2 by Judy Blume

• Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr

• Wishtree by Katherine Applegate

• Matilda by Roald Dahl

• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

• Smile by Raina Telegemier

• The Last Kids on Earth by Max Brallier

• The Borrowers by Mary Norton

• The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson

T/U/V

• The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

• Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

• Wonder by R.J. Palacio

• The BFG by Roald Dahl

• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

• The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

• Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone #1 by J.K. Rowling

• Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

• Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

• A Year Down Yonder  by Richard Peck

• Restart by Gordon Korman

• Out of My Mind  by Sharon M. Draper

• The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Z)