"So Many Books,
So Little Time"
2009 Reading List
by Ken Stamatis

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.

TITLE

AUTHOR

GRADE LEVEL

39 Clues #1

Rick Riordan

5-8

A Friendship for Today

Patricia C McKissick

5-8

Absolutely Maybe

Lisa Yee

9-12

Antsy Does Time

Neil Shustermann

5-12

Carlos is Gonna Get It

Kevin Emerson

5-8

Chains

Laurie Halse Anderson

5-12

Chasing Lincolns Killer

James L. Swanson

5-8

Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites

Heather Brewer

9-12

Dangerous Days of Daniel X

James Patterson

9-12

Death by Bikini

Linda Gerber

5-8

Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

E. Lockhart

9-12

Do Hard Things

Alex Harris

9-12

Dodger and Me

Jordan Sonnenblick

5-8

Dracula

Stoker/Mucci/Caldwell

5-8

Every Soul a Star

Wendy Mass

5-8

Found

Margaret P. Haddix

5-8

Gym Candy

Cark Deuker

9-12

Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

5-12

In Defiance of Hitler

Carl K. McClafferty

5-8

In Mozart’s Shadow: His Sister’s Story

Carolyn Meyer

5-12

Into the Volcano

Don A. Wood

5-8

IQ

Roland Smith

5-8

Leap of Faith

Kim Brubaker-Bradley

5-8

Manhunt

James L. Swanson

9-12

My One Hundred Adventures

Polly Horvath

5-8

Nation

Terry Pratchett

9-12

Peeled

Joan Bauer

5-12

Revenge of the Cheerleaders

Janette Rallison

5-12

Sassy: Little Sister is Not My Name

Sharon Draper

5-8

Savvy

Ingrid Law

5-12

SCAT

Carl Hiaasen

5-8

Science Fair

Barry/Pearson

5-8

Skeleton Creek

Patrick Carmen

5-8

Smiles to Go

Jerry Spinelli

5-8

Stolen Children

Peg Kehret

5-8

Tales from Outer Suburbia

Shaun Tan

9-12

The Alchemyst

Michael Scott

5-12

The Big Splash

Jack D. Ferraiolo

5-8

The Compound

S.A. Bodeen

5-8

The door of No Return

Sarah Mussi

9-12

The Dreadful Revenge of Earnest Gallen

James Collier

9-12

The Help

Kathryn Stockett

9-12

The Juvie Three

Gordan Korman

9-12

The Lab

Jack Heath

5-8

The Magic Thief

Sarah Prineas

5-8

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

Rodman Philbrick

5-8

The Night Tourist

Katherine Marsh

9-12

The Order of Odd Fish

James Kennedy

9-12

The Postcard

Tony Abbott

9-12

The Season

Sarah MacLean

9-12

The Underneath

Kathi Appelt

5-8

This I Believe

Allison & Gediman

9-12

Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West

Sid Fleischman

5-12

Watersteps

A. Lafaye

5-8

We Are so Crashing Your Bar Mitzvah

Fiona Rosenbloom

5-8

What I Saw and How I Lied

Judy Blundell

9-12

World War Z

Max Brooks

9-12