For Reading Out Loud!

 

These books can be found in J Fiction.

Suggested listening levels follow each title.

 

Adventure Stories

Author                                   Title   

Aiken                         The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (4-6)

Alexander                  Westmark (5-8)

Cooper                       Over Sea, Under Stone (4-7)

Fleischman                By the Great Horn Spoon (3-5)

George                       My Side of the Mountain (4-6)

Kehret                        The  Secret Journey (3-5)

McSwigan                  Snow Treasure (4-7)

Morpurgo                  Kensuke’s Kingdom (4-8)

O’Dell                        Island of the Blue Dolphins (4-6)

Stevenson                  Treasure Island (5-8)

 

Animal Stories

Author                       Title

Avi                              Poppy (3-5)                                                  

Bond                           A Bear Called Paddington (K-4)

Dahl                            Fantastic Mr. Fox (K-4)

Dicamillo                   Tale of Despereaux (3-6)

Grahame                    The Wind in the Willows (2-8)

King-Smith                Three Terrible Trins (K-3); Harriet’s Hare (1-4)

Mowat                        Owls in the Family (3-6)

O’Brien                      Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (3-6)

Selden                        The Cricket in Times Square (K-4)

Steig                           Abel’s Island (4-8)

 

Families

Author                       Title

Babbitt                       Tuck Everlasting (3-8)

Dicamillo                   Because of Winn Dixie (3-6)

Enright                       The Saturdays (4-6)

Estes                           The Moffats (1-4)

Fitzgerald                  The Great Brain (2-5)

Lowry                        Anastasia Again (5-8)

Mason                        Quigley’s at Large (2-4)

Norton                       The Borrowers (3-6)

Sidney                        Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (3-6)

Taylor                        All-of-a-Kind Family (K-3)

 

Historical Fiction

Author                       Title

Brink                          Caddie Woodlawn (3-6)

Clemens                     The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (4-8)

Dalgleish                   The Courage of Sarah Noble (2-5)

Hunt                           Across Five Aprils (5-8)

Lawson                      Ben and Me (2-4)

McCaughrean           Stop the Train (5-8)

McLachlan                 Sarah, Plain and Tall (2-5)

Speare                        The Witch of Blackbird Pond (5-8)

Taylor                        Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (4-6)

 

Humorous Stories

Author                       Title

Atwater                      Mr. Popper’s Penguins (K-3)

Clements                   Frindle (4-6)

Fleischman                Humbug Mountain (3-7)

Gantos                        Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Hiaasen                      Hoot (4-8)

Howe                         Bunnicula (2-6)

Merrill                        The Pushcart War (3-7)

Peck                            Soup (3-5); A Long Way From Chicago

Robertson                  Henry Reed Inc (5-7)

Rockwell                   How to Eat Fried Worms (3-6)

Rodgers                     Freaky Friday (3-8)

 

Mysteries

Author                                   Title

Bellairs                       The House with a Clock in its Walls (5-8)

Brooks                        Freddy the Detective (2-6)

Konigsberg               From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (4-6)

Masterman-Smith     Treasure Trap (4-7)

Newman                    The Baker Street Irregulars  (3-6)

Roberts                      The Minden Curse (4-6)

Snyder                        The Egypt Game (4-7)

VanLeeuwen            Great Googlestein Museum Mystery (2-4)

 

Fantasy Stories

Author                       Title

Adams                       Watership Down (5-8)

Christopher               The White Mountains (4-6)

Cooper                       Over Sea, Under Stone (4-6)

Coville                       Jeremy Thatcher, dragon hatcher; Jennifer Murdley’s Toad (3-6)

Dahl                            Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (3-6); The BFG (3-5)

Funke                         Inkheart (4-8)

Hunter                       A Stranger Came Ashore (4-7)

Kennemore               Circle of Doom (3-6)

LeGuin                       The Wizard of Earthsea ( 6-8)

L’Engle                      A Wrinkle in Time (3-8)

Lewis                         The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (3-8)                

 

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SW 8/2004

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