Looking for suggestions on good grade school-middle school books.
Looking for suggestions on good grade school-middle school books.
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Looking for suggestions on good grade school-middle school books.
My son is almost 9. The How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell, Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series by Jeff Kinney, and The Encyclopedia Brown series are all favorites of his. Also, I found “Junior Classics” at Michael’s. They’re more kid-friendly versions of classic books. My son loved Treasure Island and Call of the Wild.
My daughter (6) loves The Owl Diaries series by Rebecca Elliott, and the Peg Plus Cat books are really great.
Percy Jackson series is good. As well as any Cornelia Funke book or anything by Diana Wynne Jones. Only problem with Jones is only howl’s Moving Castle is still being published. All her other books you have to get second hand or from the library or the ebook.
Series of unfortunate events
Wings of Fire is a great series for this age group; I think there are 10 or 11 books in the series now. The False Prince trilogy by Jennifer Nielsen is wonderful.
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau and Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.
My 6th grade girls liked this one.
Whatever they want?
I was reading Star Trek novels in fifth grade. Read Jurassic park around the same time too. ??♂️
Probably not the best guy to ask lol.
There is such a wealth of great new lit for tweens. Impossible to make recommendations w/out knowing interests and preferences. But anything by the amazing multiple award winning Kwame Alexander is sure to be a hit especially with boy reluctant readers. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18263725-the-crossover?ac=1&from_search=true
The Gaither Sisters series is wonderful for tween girls. One Crazy Summer is #1 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6609764-one-crazy-summer
For younger tweens, 5th & 6th grade, The Mo & Dale Mysteries by Sheila Trunage are great fun. Three Times Lucky is #1 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11737313-three-times-lucky
Sure Signs of Crazy is an unforgettable coming of age story that 7th/8th grade, and mature 6th grade girls, love. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131070-sure-signs-of-crazy
The Jackaby series by William Ritter is a good creepy mystery series for 7th/8th graders. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20312462-jackaby
Jordan Sonnenblick is another sure hit author. Drums Girls and Dangerous Pie, and its sequel After Ever After, are superb coming of age stories for boys. Girls love both books as well. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318404.Drums_Girls_Dangerous_Pie
By far the most popular series with my 7th & 8th graders is the Last Survivors series by Susan Beth Pfeffer. First 2 books are parallel stories so they don’t have to be read in order. Nail biting suspense. Girls always pick Life As We New It as their favorite. Boys choose The Dead And the Gone. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2169506.The_Dead_and_the_Gone
I second this! I ended up
buying two sets of these for my (7th grade) classroom library bc the kids read these like crazy!
The Alex Rider series for young tweens by Anthony Horowitz is a silly fun action packed quick read especially popular with reluctant readers. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136782.Stormbreaker
The Fourth Stall and other Chris Rylander titles. A mom once told me that Lightning Thief and all by Rick Riordan got her son READING.
The I Q series by Roland Smith is another fun and funny action packed series popular with reluctant readers. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3599149-independence-hall
For super reluctant boy readers How They Croaked, by Georgia Bragg, is a sure hit. Hilariously funny true stories of gruesome deaths. Surprisingly informative as well. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9111463-how-they-croaked?ac=1&from_search=true
Jerry Spinelli–Crash, etc. Gary Paulsen–Harris and Me, etc.
Why is that little wave hand appearing? What am I doing?
My 6th grade students insisted I read this series. I really liked it. The first one is Wolf Brother.
Anything by Judy Blume, Tales of a fourth grade nothing, Diary of a Wimpy kid.
Middle School:
House of the Scorpion (and it has a sequel-can’t remember the name)
Life as We Knew It-(is a series) by Susan Pfeffer
I Will Always Write Back Non fiction
Among the Hidden series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
A Year Down Yonder and A Long Way from Chicago
Monster-Walter Dean Myers
House Arrest- KA Holt
my school is using this book for our summer reading One School One Book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22875069-i-will-always-write-back?ac=1&from_search=true
I love this book!!!! I read this aloud to a small group of my students this year and there were parts of the book where we were all a little teary eyed!!
The School For Good And Evil…..4 book series. My daughter loved it.
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series
The Mysterious Benedict Society Series!
http://www.mysteriousbenedictsociety.com/