Extended Day Independent Reads

Nate the Great (series)
By: Marjorie Sharmat

Amelia Bedelia (series)
By: Peggy Parish

All Aboard (book sets)
By: Various authors

Non-fiction works
By: Dorling Kindersley

Where the Sidewalk Ends (poetry)
By: Shel Silverstein

Harry the Dirty Dog
By: Gene Zion

George and Martha
By: James Marshall

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type
By: Doreen Cronin

Flotsam
(wordless, with great potential for creating new stories)
By: David Wiesner

Cars and Trucks and Things that Go
By: Richard Scarry

Little Lit: Strange Stories for Strange Kids
By: Art Spiegelman



Lower Elementary Independent Reads

Half Magic
By: Edward Eager

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
By: Kate DiCamillo

Sideways Stories from Wayside School
By: Louis Sachar

The Borrowers
By: Mary Norton

The Chocolate Touch
By: Patrick Ske Catling

The Tale of Despereaux
By: Kate DiCamillo

The Mouse and the Motorcycle
By: Beverly Cleary

Everything on a Waffle
By: Polly Horvath

Frecklejuice
By: Judy Blume

Lewis and Clark and Me
By: Laurie Myers

Ramona (series)
By: Beverly Cleary

Cam Jansen (series)
By: David Adler

The Boxcar Children (series)
By: Gertrude Warner



Upper Elementary Independent Reads

Peter and the Starcatchers
By: Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

By the Great Horn Spoon
By: Sid Fleischman

The Van Gogh Café
By: Cynthia Rylant

Ida B.
By: Katherine Hannigan

Whales on Stilts
By: M.T. Anderson and Kurt Cyrus

The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs
By: Betty G. Birney

The Penderwicks
By: Jeanne Birdsall

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
By: Avi

Running Out of Time
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Sisters Grimm (series)
By: Michael Buckley and Peter Ferguson

Redwall (series)
By: Brian Jacques

Chew on This (non-fiction)
By: Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson

The Dangerous Book for Boys (non-fiction)
By: Conn and Hal Iggulden




** Summaries and reviews can be found at www.amazon.com or www.powells.com