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Suggested Reading Lists
Boys
Third Grade

Because of Winn Dixie by Kate Camillo
Beware the Mare by Jessie Haas
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
Little Bo by Julie Edward
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingal Wilder
Mei Fuh by Edith Schaeffer
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
My Father's Dragon by Ruth S. Gannett
Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLauchlan
Sing a Song of Popcorm: Every Child's Book of Poems
selected by Beatrice de Regniers and others

Any Title from:
The American Girl Collection
Example: Meet Felicity
Astrokids series by Robert Elmer
Example: Wired Wonder Woof
Three Cousins Detective Club series by Elspeth Campbell Murphy
Example: The Mystery of the White Elephant
A Young Mandie Mystery series by Lois Gladys Leppard
Example: The Mystery at Miss Abigail's

Read any nonfiction title about a subject of personal interest.

The books listed above are suggested by Westminster AcademyŽ for third grade recreational reading. You may use this resource as a guide for choosing good literature. It is highly recommended that parents and children continue to read aloud on a regular basis.



Girl and Mouse
Fourth Grade

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (any version)
The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Caddie Woodlawn by Carole Ryrie Brink
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
The Cricket in Times Square by George Seldon
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
The Door in the Wall by Marguerile deAngeli
Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret
Lassie-Come-Home by Eric Knight
The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds
The Night Flyers by Elizabeth McDavid Jones
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Poppy by AVI
Ramona's World by Beverly Cleary
Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Star in the Storm by Joan Hiatt Harlow
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate D. Camillo
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
White Water by J. P. Peterson

Any Title from:
The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogel series by Bill Myers
Example: My Life as a Smashed Burrito
The Mandie series by Lois Gladys Leppard
Example: The Secret Tunnel
Sports Mystery series by Sigmund Brouwer
Example: Maverick Mania

Read any nonfiction title about a subject of personal interest.

The books listed above are suggested by Westminster AcademyŽ for fourth grade recreational reading. You may use this resource as a guide for choosing good literature. It is highly recommended that parents and children continue to read aloud on a regular basis.



Girls Reading
Fifth Grade

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Louis carroll
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maude Montgomery
At the Back of the North Wind by George Macdonald
The Bark of the Bog Owl by Jonathan Rogers
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickins
Christy (Young Adult Edition) by Catherine Marshall
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite DeAngeli
Faraway Summer by Johanna Hurwitz
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweller by E. L. Koningsburg
Gulliver's Travels by jonathan Swift
Holes by Louis Sachar
Honus and Me by Dan Gutman
Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O'Dell
Kavik: the Wolf Dog by Walt Morey
Mrs. Fisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
Selected by Jack Prelutsky
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Sky Memories by Pat Brisson
Spirit Horse by Ned Ackerman
The Swiss Family Robinson by William Kingston
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie babbitt
A Way Through the Sea by Robert Elmer
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Any Title from:
Chip Hilton Sports series by Coach Clair Bee
Example: Touchdown Pass
Elsie Dinsmore: A Life of Faith series by Martha Finley
Example: Elsie's Endless Wait

Read any nonfiction title about a subject of personal interest.

The books listed above are suggested by Westminster AcademyŽ for fifth grade recreational reading. You may use this resource as a guide for choosing good literature. It is highly recommended that parents and children continue to read aloud on a regular basis.