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Mr. Ken Stamatis from Arkansas Literacy Lab has developed a list of age appropriate reading materials for students to improve their skills. Listed below are books that Mr. Stamatis recommends for student reading. You may find more information on these books at Townsend Press. |
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TITLE |
AUTHOR |
GRADE LEVEL |
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39 Clues #1 |
Rick Riordan |
5-8 |
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A Friendship for Today |
Patricia C McKissick |
5-8 |
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Absolutely Maybe |
Lisa Yee |
9-12 |
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Antsy Does Time |
Neil Shustermann |
5-12 |
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Carlos is Gonna Get It |
Kevin Emerson |
5-8 |
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Chains |
Laurie Halse Anderson |
5-12 |
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Chasing Lincolns Killer |
James L. Swanson |
5-8 |
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Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites |
Heather Brewer |
9-12 |
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Dangerous Days of Daniel X |
James Patterson |
9-12 |
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Death by Bikini |
Linda Gerber |
5-8 |
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Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks |
E. Lockhart |
9-12 |
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Do Hard Things |
Alex Harris |
9-12 |
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Dodger and Me |
Jordan Sonnenblick |
5-8 |
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Dracula |
Stoker/Mucci/Caldwell |
5-8 |
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Every Soul a Star |
Wendy Mass |
5-8 |
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Found |
Margaret P. Haddix |
5-8 |
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Gym Candy |
Cark Deuker |
9-12 |
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Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
5-12 |
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In Defiance of Hitler |
Carl K. McClafferty |
5-8 |
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In Mozart’s Shadow: His Sister’s Story |
Carolyn Meyer |
5-12 |
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Into the Volcano |
Don A. Wood |
5-8 |
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IQ |
Roland Smith |
5-8 |
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Leap of Faith |
Kim Brubaker-Bradley |
5-8 |
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Manhunt |
James L. Swanson |
9-12 |
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My One Hundred Adventures |
Polly Horvath |
5-8 |
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Nation |
Terry Pratchett |
9-12 |
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Peeled |
Joan Bauer |
5-12 |
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Revenge of the Cheerleaders |
Janette Rallison |
5-12 |
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Sassy: Little Sister is Not My Name |
Sharon Draper |
5-8 |
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Savvy |
Ingrid Law |
5-12 |
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SCAT |
Carl Hiaasen |
5-8 |
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Science Fair |
Barry/Pearson |
5-8 |
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Skeleton Creek |
Patrick Carmen |
5-8 |
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Smiles to Go |
Jerry Spinelli |
5-8 |
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Stolen Children |
Peg Kehret |
5-8 |
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Tales from Outer Suburbia |
Shaun Tan |
9-12 |
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The Alchemyst |
Michael Scott |
5-12 |
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The Big Splash |
Jack D. Ferraiolo |
5-8 |
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The Compound |
S.A. Bodeen |
5-8 |
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The door of No Return |
Sarah Mussi |
9-12 |
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The Dreadful Revenge of Earnest Gallen |
James Collier |
9-12 |
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The Help |
Kathryn Stockett |
9-12 |
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The Juvie Three |
Gordan Korman |
9-12 |
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The Lab |
Jack Heath |
5-8 |
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The Magic Thief |
Sarah Prineas |
5-8 |
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The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg |
Rodman Philbrick |
5-8 |
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The Night Tourist |
Katherine Marsh |
9-12 |
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The Order of Odd Fish |
James Kennedy |
9-12 |
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The Postcard |
Tony Abbott |
9-12 |
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The Season |
Sarah MacLean |
9-12 |
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The Underneath |
Kathi Appelt |
5-8 |
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This I Believe |
Allison & Gediman |
9-12 |
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Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West |
Sid Fleischman |
5-12 |
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Watersteps |
A. Lafaye |
5-8 |
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We Are so Crashing Your Bar Mitzvah |
Fiona Rosenbloom |
5-8 |
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What I Saw and How I Lied |
Judy Blundell |
9-12 |
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World War Z |
Max Brooks |
9-12 |