Book Recommendations

Thank you to the FPG Media Center for sharing some recommendations!  Grade K-1 are first, alphabetical by author.  For grades 3-5 scroll down to get leveled book suggestions!

Kindergarten and First Grade Suggestions

(Author) Title

(ADLER) “Bones” series
(ALTER) Disappearing Desmond
(ARNOLD) Super Fly Guy!
(ASHER) Too Many Frogs
(ASTON) An Egg is Quiet
(BAGERT)Shout! Little Poems that Roar
(BAKER) On the Go With Mr. and Mrs. Green
(BARTON) Shark vs. Train
(BEAUMONT) Move Over, Rover!
(BEST) Sally Jean, the Bicycle Queen
(BROWNE) Me and You
(CARLE) any Eric Carle book
(CAZET) “Minnie and Moo” series
(CHACONAS) Cork and Fuzz stories
(CLARKE) Gilbert the Great
(COREY) “First Graders from Mars” series
(CUMPIANO) Quinito’s Neighborhood
(CUNNANE) For You are a Kenyan Child
(CURTIS) Big Words for Little People
(ELYA) No More, Por Favor
(Feldmen) Billy & Milly, Short & Silly
(FRANCO) Bees, Snails & Peacock Tails
(FRASER) “I.Q.” series
(FREEMAN) “Corduroy” chapter books
(FUCILE) Let’s Do Nothing
(GORBACHEV) Christopher Counting
(GRAHAM) How to Heal a Broken Wing
(HILLS) Duck and Goose
(HIMMELMAN) Katie Loves the Kittens
(HOBAN) “Francis” series
(HOBBIE) Toot and Puddle
(HOPKINS) Goldie Socks and the Three Libearians
(JAMES) “Baby Brains” stories
(JENKINS) I See A Kookaburra
(JOHNSTON) “Alien & Possum” series
(KELLER) Birdy’s Smile Book
(KELLEY) Twelve Terrible Things
(KIRK) The Library Mouse
(KRENSKY) “Lionel” series
(LESTER) “Tacky, the Penguin” series
(LESTER) Hooray for Wodney Wat
(LEWIS) Hooray for Harry
(LOBEL) “Frog & Toad” books (UNDERWOOD) Balloon for Isabel
(MARSHALL) “George & Martha” series
(O’NEILL) The Recess Queen
(PALATINI) Sweet Tooth
(PINKNEY) The Lion & the Mouse Wild Side of School
(PITZER) Not Afraid of Dogs
(RYLANT) “Mr. Putter & Tabby” series
(SATTLER) Sylvie
(SAYRE) One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab
(SCHACHNER) “Skippy Jon Jones” series
(SCHERTLE) Little Blue Truck
(SEEGER) “Dog and Bear” stories
(SHANNON) Good Boy Fergus
(SHARMAT)”Nate the Great” series
(SLATER) Baby Shoes
(STANLEY) Goldie and the Three Bears
(STEINBERG) Thesaurus Rex
(STEVENS) Epposumondus stories
(STEVENS) Help Me, Mr. Mutt!
(TEAGUE) LaRue Across America
(THOMAS) Here Comes Big, Mean Dust Bunny
(VAN PATTER) Farley Found It
(WIESNER) Art and Max
(WILLEMS) We Are In a Book!
(WILSON) Sakes Alive a Cattle Drive
(ZION) Harry the Dirty Dog

Grades 2-5 Suggestions Based on “Just Right” Levels

If Your “Just Right” book level is (K,L or M)

You should also check out……..

1. Aliens for Breakfast – by Jonathan Etra
2. Amelia Bedelia series – by Peggy Parrish
3. Arthur Chapter Books – by Marc Brown
4. BeastQuest series – by Adam Blade
5. Cam Jansen mysteries – by David A. Adler
6. Capital Mysteries – by Ron Roy
7. Fancy Nancy series – by Jane O’Connor
8. Flat Stanley (book 1) – by Jeff Brown
9. Freckle Juice – by Judy Blume
10. Ghostville Elementary series – by Marcia Thorton Jones
11. Horrible Harry – by Suzy Kline
12. Ivy and Bean series – by Annie Barrows
13. Junie B. Jones series – by Barbara Park
14. Judy Moody series – by Megan McDonald
15. Katie Kazoo series – by Nancy E. Krulik
16. Magic Tree House series – by Mary Pope Osborne
17. Marvin Redpost series – by Louis Sachar
18. Matt Christopher Sports series – by Matt Christopher
19. My Rotten School series – by R.L Stine
20. My Weird School series – by Dan Gutman
21. Nate the Great series – by Marjorie Sharmat
22. Rainbow Magic series – by Daisy Meadows
23. Ready Freddy series – by Abby Klein
24. Ricky Ricotta’s Giant Robot series – by Dav Pilkey
25. Stink series – by Megan McDonald
26. The Baily School Kids series – by Marcia Thornton Jones
27. The Black Lagoon chapter book series – by Mike Thaler
28. The Puppy Place series – by Ellen Miles

If Your “Just Right” Book level is (N,O,P or Q)

You should also check out……

1. More Ramona series – by Beverly Cleary
2. The Amber Brown series – by Paula Danziger
3. A-Z mysteries – by Ron Roy
4. The Chet Ghecko mysteries – by Bruce Hale
5. Nancy Drew and Clue Crew series – by Carolyn Keene
6. The Jigsaw Jones mysteries – by James Preller
7. The Julian tales – by Ann Cameron
8. Donovan’s Word Jar – by Monalisa DeGross
9. Captain Underpants series – by Dav Pilkey
10. Riding Freedom – by Pam Munoz Ryan
11. The Geronimo Stilton series – by Geronimo Stilton
12. The Magic Finger – by Ronald Dahl
13. Gooney Bird Greene – by Lois Lowry
14. The Goosebumps series – by R.L. Stine
15. The Mallory series – by Laurie Friedman
16. The Year of Miss Agnes – by Kirkpatrick Hill
17. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series – by Betty MacDonald
18. Chocolate Fever – by Robert Kimmel Smith
19. Pippi Longstockings series – by Astrid Lindgren
20. Ruby Lu, the Brave and True – by Lenore Look
21. The Best School Year Ever and others – by Barbara Robinson
22. The World According to Humphrey series – by Betty G. Birney
23. The Wish – by Gail Caron Levine
24. David Mortimer Baxter series – by Karen Tayleur
25. Stone Fox – by John Reynolds Gardiner
26. The Chocolate Touch – by Patrick Catling
27. The Dragonslayer’s Academy series – by Kate McMullen

If Your “Just Right” Book level is (R,S or T)

You should check out….

1. Frindle – by Andrew Clements
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – by Roald Dahl
3. The Landry News – by Andrew Clements
4. Otherwise Known as Shelia the Great – by Judy Blume
5. Our Only May Amelia – by Jennifer L. Holm
6. Stuart Little – by E.B. White
7. A Friendship for Today – by Patricia McKissack
8. Rules – by Cynthia Lord
9. Hatchet – by Gary Paulsen
10. The 39 Clues series – by various authors
11. How to Eat Fried Worms – by Thomas Rockwell
12. Araminta Spookie series – by Angie Sage
13. Hatching Magic – by Ann Downer
14. When You Reach Me – by Rebecca Stead
15. Every Soul a Star – by Wendy Mass
16. Charlotte’s Webb – by E.B. White
17. The Spiderwick Chronicles – by H. Black and T. DiTerlizzi
18. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series – by Jeff Kinney
19. Sisters Grimm series – by Michael Buckley

1. The Wright Three and The Caulder Game – by Blue Baillet
2. Chasing Vermeer – by Blue Baillet
3. Joey Pigza Swallowed a Key series – by Jack Gantos
4. Penny From Heaven – by Jennifer L. Holm
5. Chicken Boy – by Frances O’Roark Dowell
6. Sammy Keyes series – by Wendelin Van Draanen
7. Shredderman series – by Wendelin Van Draanen
8. Here be Monsters – by Alan Snow
9. A Week in the Woods – by Andrew Clements
10. Poppy – by Avi
11. The Penderwicks series – by Jeanne Birdsall
12. Al Capone Does My Shirts – by Gennifer Choldenko
13. Bud, Not Buddy – by Christopher Paul Curtis
14. Matilda – by Roald Dahl
15. Morning Girl – by Michael Dorris
16. Harriet the Spy – by Louise Fitzhugh
17. Time Stops for No Mouse – by Michael Hoeye
18. From the Mixed Up Files of…..  - by E.L Konigsburg
19. Children of the Lamp series – by Phillip Kerr
20. You Wish – by Jason Lethcoe
21. Indigo’s Star – by Hilary McKay
22. Rowan series – by Emily Rodda
23. Here Lies the Librarian – by Richard Peck
24. Olivia Kidney series – by Ellen Potter
25. Three Good Deeds – by Vivian Vande Velde
26. Each Little Bird that Sings – by Deborah Wiles
27. Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time – by Lisa Yee
28. Pendragon series – by D.J MacHale

If Your “Just Right” Book level is (U,V or W)

You should also check out….

1. The Castle Corona – by Sharon Creech
2. The Breadwinner – by Deborah Ellis
3. Harry Potter series – by J.K. Rowling
4. The Secret Language of Girls – by Frances O’Roark Dowell
5. The Great Gilly Hopkins – by Katherine Paterson
6. Flipped – by Wendelin Van Draanen
7. A Long Way From Chicago – by Richard Peck
8. A Year Down Yonder – by Richard Peck
9. Julie of the Wolves – by Jean Craighead George
10. Where I’d Like to Be – by Frances O’Roark Dowell
11. Yolonda’s Genius – by Carol Fenner
12. Everything on a Waffle – by Polly Horvath
13. A View From Saturday – by E.L Konigsburg
14. Ella Enchanted – by Gail Carson Levine
15. A Wrinkle in Time – by Madeleine L’Engle
16. Heat and others – by Mike Lupica
17. Silverwing – by Kenneth Oppel
18. A Single Shard – by Barbara Park
19. Eragon series – by Christopher Paolini
20. Septimus Heap series – by Angie Sage
21. Maniac McGee – by Jerry Spinelli
22. Loser – by Jerry Spinnelli
23. Locomotion – by Jacqueline Woodson
24. Thief Lord – by Cornelia Funke
25. Crispin – by Avi
26. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – by Avi
27. Walk Two Moons – by Sharon Creech
28. The BFG – by Roald Dahl
29. The Watsons Go to Birmingham – by Christopher Paul Curtis
30. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry – by Mildred D. Taylor
31. The Mysterious Benedict Society series – by Trenton Lee Stewart
32. Shiloh – by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
33. Freak the Mighty – by Rodman Philbreck
34. Coraline – by Neil Gaiman
35. The City of Ember series – by Jeanne DrPrau
36. Series of Unfortunate Events – by Lemony Snicket
37. The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless by Ahmet Zappa
38. Bernie MaGruder and the Bats in the Belfy – by Phillis Reynolds Naylor
39. Flush – by Carl Hiaasen
40. Animorphs series – by K.A. Applegate
41. Belle Prater’s Boy – by Ruth White
42. The Search for Belle Prater – by Ruth White
43. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh – by Robert O’Brian
44. Tangerine – by Edward Bloor
45. Room One:  A Mystery or Two – by Andrew Clements
46. Hoot – by Carl Hiaasen
47. Music of Dolphins – by Karen Hesse
48. Shakespeare’s Secret – by Ellen Broach
49. Dog Song – by Gary Paulsen
50. How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found – by Sara Nickerson
51. Hattie Big Sky – by Kirby Larson
52. Belle Teal – by Ann M. Martin
53. Olive’s Ocean – by Kevin Henkes
54. Pictures of Hollis Woods – by Patricia Reilly Giff
55. Crash – by Jerry Spinelli
56. Here Today – by Ann M. Martin
57. The Higher Power of Lucky – by Susan Patron
58. Esperanza Rising – by Pam Munoz Ryan

If Your “Just Right” Book level is (X,Y or Z)

You should also check out…

1. Kira-Kira – by Cynthia Kadohata
2. Artemis Fowl series – by Eoin Colfer
3. Catherine Called Birdy – by Katherine Cushman
4. Dicey’s Song – by Cynthia Voigt
5. Out of the Dust – by Karen Hesse
6. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life – by Wendy Mass
7. Dovey Coe – by Frances O’Roark Dowell
8. Replay – by Sharon Creech
9. Endymion Spring – by Matthew Skelton
10. A Corner of the Universe – by Ann M. Martin
11. Becoming Naomi Leon – by Pam Munoz Ryan
12. My Brother Sam is Dead – by James Lincoln Collier
13. When Zachary Beaver Came to Town – by Kimberly Willis Holt
14. The Giver – by Lois Lowry
15. Among the Hidden series – by Margaret Peterson Haddix
16. Bat-6 – by Virginia Euwer Wolff
17. The Land – by Mildred D. Taylor
18. Johnny Tremain – by Esther Forbes
19. Red Scarf Girl – by Ji-li Jiang
20. Peter and the Star Catchers series – by Dave Barry
21. Phillip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon, Maybe – by Bette Greene
22. Percy Jackson and the Olympians series – by Rick Riordan
23. A Wrinkle in Time – By Madeleine L’Engle
24. Phantom Toll Booth – By Norton Juster
25. Redwall series – By Brian Jacques
26. Criss Cross – By Lynne Rae Perkins
27. Gathering Blue – By Lois Lowry
28. Ranger’s Apprentice series – by John Flanagan
29. Fairest – by Gail Carson Levine
30. Gilda Joyce: Physic Investigator series – by Jennifer Allison
31. Clockwork – by Phillip Pullman
32. Dear Dumb Diary series – by Jim Benton
33. The Red Pyramid – by Rick Riordan
34. The Egypt Game – by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
35. Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards – by Katelan Janke
36. Arthur Trilogy – by Kevin Crossley-Holland
37. Lionboy series – by Zizou Corder
38. Anacaona, Golden Flower – by Edwidge Danticat
39. Where the Red Fern Grows – by Wilson Rawls
40. A House of Tailors – by Patricia Reilly Giff
41. The Circuit: Stories from the life of a migrant child – by Francisco Jimenez
42. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm – by Nancy Farmer
43. Call it Courage – by Armstrong Sperry
44. The Dark is Rising series – by Susan Cooper
45. Fever, 1793 – by Laurie Halse Anderson
46. The Midwife’s Apprentice – by Karen Kushman
47. Travel Team – by Mike Lupica
48. Milkweed – by Jerry Spinelli
49. Land of Elyon series – by Patrick Carman
50. Peak – by Roland Smith