My Book List From Elementary School

Summer break has just started for me,and it reminds me of my trips to Brookfield public library to join the summer reading program and to get rewards for reading. But finding a good book to read was really hard for me. Today, I want to share my book list with all  the elementary school kids, who are looking for good books for reading during this break. Hope you will find a book of your interest in this list of books written by 100 authors. 

Through this blog, I would like to pay a tribute to three famous children book authors, who died this year. Eric Carle (Died at 91) , Beverly Cleary (Died at 104), and Lois Ehlert (Died at 86), had written famous children books like The Hungry Caterpillar, The Ramona series, and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

1. Katherine Applegate

• Crenshaw (Ages 9+)
• The one and only Ivan (Ages 8+)
• The one and only Bob (Ages 8+)
• Home of the Brave (Ages 10+)

2. Dan Gutman

• My Weird School Series (22 books) (Ages 8+)

3. Cynthia Rylant

• Henry and Mudge series 
• Every Living Thing (Ages 9+)

4.  Jacqueline Woodson

• Each Kindness (Ages 7+)
• The Day You Begin (Ages 7+)
• Harbor Me (Ages 9+)
• The Other Side (Ages 8+)

5. Kate Dicamillo

• Because of WinnDixie (Ages 8+)
• The tale of Desparaux (Ages 8+)
• Mercy Watson Series (Ages 6+)
• La la la (Ages 4+)
• The Tiger Rising (Ages 8+)
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Ages 8+)

6. E.B White

• Charlotte’s Web (Ages 7+)
• Stuart Little  (Ages 7+)
• The Trumpeter Swan (Ages 7+)

7. Barbara Park

•   Junie B. Jones book series (Ages 7+)

8. Dav Pilkey

• Captain Underpants  (Ages 7+)
• Dog Man book series (Ages 7+)

9. Roald Dahl

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Ages 7+)
• Matilda (Ages 8+)
• The BFG (Ages 9+)
• James and the giant peach (Ages 7+)

10. Judy Blume

• Freckle Juice (Ages 7+)
• Tales of a fourth grade nothing (Ages 9+)
• Double Fudge  (Ages 10+)
• Are you there god? Its me Margaret  (Ages 11+)

11. Lois Lowry

• The Giver (Ages 10+)
• Number the stars (Ages 10+) 

12. Sara Weeks

• Pie (Ages 8+)
• Save me a seat (Ages 9+)

13. JK Rowling

• Harry Potter series (Ages 10+) (If ages below nine, must be read by adult)
• The Ickabog (Ages 10+)
• Fantastic Beasts and How to find them. (Ages 10+)

14. Pam Munoz Ryan

• Esperanza Rising (Ages 11+)
• Becoming Naomi Leon (Ages 11+)

15. Patricia Machalan

• Sarah Plain and Tall (Ages 8+)
• Caleb’s story (Ages 8+)
• More Perfect than the moon (Ages 8+)
• Skylark (Ages 8+)
• Grandfather’s Dance (Ages 8+)

16. Richard Atwater

• Mr Popper’s Penguins (Ages 8+)

17. Tomie De Paola

• Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs (Ages 6+)
• I’m still scared (Ages 8+)
• Strega Nona (Ages 4+)

18. Shel Silverstein

• The Giving tree (Ages 5+)

19. Dr Seuss

• Green Eggs and Ham (Ages 5+)
• The Cat in the Hat (Ages 5+)
• The Lorax (Ages 5+)

20. Marci Peschke

• Kylie Jean series (Ages 5+)

21. RJ Palacio

• Wonder (Ages 8+)
• Auggie and me (Ages 8+)
• 365 days of wonder (Ages 8+)
• White Bird (Ages 10+)

22. Lynda Mulally Hunt

• A fish in a tree (Ages 9+)

23. Peggy Parish

• Amelia Bedelia series (Ages 5+)

24. Ezra Jack Keats

• The Snowy Day (Ages 5+)

25. Laura Ingallis Wilder

• Little House in Brookfield (Ages 9+)
• Little House in a Prairie (Ages 9+)

26. Astrid Lindgren

• Pippi Longstocking series (Ages 8+)

27. Cynthia Lord

• Rules (Ages 9+)
• Because of the Rabbit (Ages 10+)

28. Madeline L’Engle

• A Wrinkle in Time (Ages 8+)

29. Barbara O’Connor

• Wish (Ages 10+)

30. Mo Willems

• The Duckling gets a cookie (Ages 4+)
• Piggy and Gerald series (Ages 4+)

31. Ann M Martin

• A Corner of the universe (Ages 9+)
• The Babysitters Club series (Ages 8+)
• Rain Reign (Ages 9+)

32. Raina Telgemeier

• Sisters (Ages 9+)
• Smile (Ages 9+)
• Ghosts (Ages 9+)
• Drama (Ages 9+)
• Guts (Ages 9+)

33. Katherine Paterson

•    A Bridge to Terabithia (Ages 10+)

34. Melissa De La Cruz

• The isle of the lost (Ages 10-11+)
• Return to the isle of the lost (Ages 10-11+)

35. Linda Sue Park

• A long Walk to water (Ages 11+)
• Prairie Lotus(Ages 10-11+) 

36. Jennifer L Holm

• The Fourteenth Goldfish (Ages 9+)

37. Hena Khan

• Amina’s Song (Ages 10-11+)
• Amina’s Voice (Ages 10-11+)
• More to the story(Ages 10+)

38. Aisha Saeed

             -Amal unbound (Ages 9+)

39. Adeline Yen Mah

-Chinese Cinderella (Ages 10+)

40. Peter Brown

           -The Wild Robot (Ages 9+)

41. Thanhha Lai

           -Inside Out and Back Again (Ages 10+)

42. Shannon Hale

• Real Friends (Ages 9+)
• Best Friends (Ages 9+)

43. Andrew Clements

• No Talking (Ages 9+)
• The Jacket (Ages 9+)

44. Jill Murphy

• The Worst Witch series (Ages 8+)

45. Jasmine Warga

• Other Words for Home (Ages 10+)
• The Shape of Thunder (Ages 10+)

46. Meg Medina

• Merci Suarez changes Gears (Ages 9-11+)

47. Matt De La Pena

• The last stop on market street (Ages 6+)

48. Frances Hodgson Burnett

• The Secret Garden (Ages 9+)

49. Jean Webster

-Daddy Long Legs (Ages 10+)

50. David Shannon

• No David! Book series (Ages 4+)

51. Eleanor Coerr

• Sadako and the thousand paper cranes (Ages 8+)

52. Cynthia Kadohata

• Kira Kira (Ages 12+)

53. Eleanor Estes

• The hundred dresses (Ages 7+)

54. Arnold Lobel

• Frog and Toad series (Ages 6+)

55. Eric Carle

-The very hungry caterpillar (Ages 5+)

– Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See? (Ages 4+)

56. Rita Williams-Garcia

• One Crazy Summer (Ages 9+)
• P.S Be eleven (Ages 9+)
• Gone crazy in Alabama (Ages 9+)

57. Stan and Jan Berenstain

• The berenstain bears series (Ages 5+)

58. Robert Munsch

• Love You Forever (Ages 5+)

59. Jerry Craft

• New Kid (Ages 10+)
• Class act (Ages 10+)

60. Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

• The War that Saved my Life (Ages 9+)
• The War I finally Won  (Ages 9+)

61. Victoria Kann

• Pinkalicious series (Ages 5+)

62. Padma Venkatraman

• The Bridge Home (Ages 10+)

63. Sharon Draper

            -Out of my mind (Ages 9+)

64. Veera Hiranandani

• The night Diary (Ages 9+)

65. Nidhi Chanani

• Pashmina (Ages 10+)

66. Gordan Korman

• Restarted (Ages 9+)

67. N.H Senzai

• Shooting Kabul (Ages 10+)

68. Jo Hoeslandt

-Star of fear, star of hope (Ages 8+)

69. Megan McDonald

• Judy Moody Book Series (Ages 7+)

70. Eth Clifford

-Help! I’m a Prisoner of  the library! (Ages 8+)

71. Kathryn Forbes

-Mama’s bank account (Ages 11+)

72. Ana Sewel

– Black beauty (Ages 9+)

73. L. Frank Baum

• The Wizard Of Oz (Ages 8+)

74. Peggy Parish

-Amelia Badelia series (Ages 6+)

75. Robert McCloskey

• Blueberry for Sal (Ages 6+)

76. Don Freeman

• Corduroy (Ages 3-5+)

77.  H. Rey 

• Curious George series  (Ages 4-5+)

78. Vera B Williams

• Chair For my Mother (Ages 6+)

79. Mercer Mayer

– Frog goes to dinner (Ages 7+)

80. Sharon bell Mathis 

• The Hundred penny box (Ages 8-9+)

81. CS Lewis

• The Narnia book series (Ages 9+)

82. Anne Frank

– Diary of a young girl (Ages 10+) (Must be mature enough to read)

83. Laurie Halse Anderson

-Fever 1793 (Ages 10+)

84. JR Toliken

• The Hobbit (Ages 10+)

85. Charles dickens

-David Copperfield (Ages 8-10+)

-Oliver Twist (Ages 9+)

86. Jeff brown

• Flat Stanley series (Ages 7+)

87. Laura mukenhoff

– If you give a mouse a cookie (Ages 5+)

88. John Reynolds Gardiner

• Stone Fox ( Ages 9+)

89. Daisy Meadow

• Rainbow Magic book series (Ages 7+)

90. Hellen Keller

• The story of my life (Ages 9+)

91.  Malala Yousafzai

• I am Malala (Ages 10+)

92. Mitali Perkins

• Forward Me, Back to You (Ages 11+) (Must be mature to read this)
• Rickshaw Girl (Ages 10+)
• You Bring the Distant Near (Ages 11+)

93. Gennifer chodenko

• Al Capone Series (Ages 10+)

94. Jen Wang

-Stargazing (Ages 10+)

95. Betty G 

• Humphrey book series (Ages 9+)

96. Erin Entrada Kelly

• Hello Universe (Ages 9+)
• Blackbird Fly (Ages 9+)
• The Land of The forgotten girls (Ages 9+)

97. Phillip Reynolds Nayler

• Shiloh (Ages 10+)

98. Pablo cartaya

• Marcus Vega does not speak Spanish (Ages 9+)
• The epic fail of Arturo Zamora (Ages 9+)

99. Beverly Cleary

-Ramona the Pest (Ages 5+)

100. Judith Viorst

• The Lulu series (Ages 6+)

Happy Summer Reading!