Lower School Reading List

Literary Fiction

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Modern Abridged Edition)
• The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill
• Boys Without Names by Kashmira Sheth
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• Wonder by R. J. Palacio
• The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
• The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
• The Grand Plan to Fix Everything by Uma Krishnaswami
• The Head of the Saint by Socorro Acioli
• Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
• Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
• The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• The Wild Book by Juan Villoro
• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
• The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
• Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
• The Secret of the Peregrine Stone by K. S. Jones
• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
• The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
• Born Behind Bars by Padma Venkatraman
• My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville
• Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi
• The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh by Supriya Kelkar

Non-Fiction

• The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps by Jeanette Winter
• Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children’s Books by Michelle Markel
• The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant
• The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau by Dan Yaccarino
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
• The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse by Patricia MacLachlan
• The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield
• The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever by H. Joseph Hopkins
• On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne
• Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret
• The Queen of Water by Laura Resau and María Virginia Farinango

Authors

• Kate DiCamillo
• Roald Dahl
• Peg Kehret
• Bruce Coville
• Louis Sachar