PRIMARY 3 (80 recommended titles)
1. Totto-Chan- The Little Girl at the Window-Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
2. Charlotte’s Web-E.B.White (an excellent children’s book)
3. The Chronicles of Narnia-C.S. Lewis (6 books in this collection)
4. The Magic Finger -Roald Dahl (The Twits)
5. The Little Prince-Antoine De Saint-Exupery
6. Mr Majeika and The Music Teacher-Humphrey Carpenter
7. Ramona the Brave/Ramona the Pest-Beverly Cleary
8. The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
9. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
10. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Age 13 ¾, Sue Townsend
11. My Life with the Chimpanzees, Jane Goodall
12. Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney
13. Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan
14. My Weird School #1: Miss Daisy is Crazy, Dan Gutman
15. The Borrowers, Mary Norton
16. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
17. The Hardy Boys Starter Set, Franklin W. Dixon
18. Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
19. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
20. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
21. Jane and the Dragon, Martin Baynton
22. Princess Smartypants, Babette Cole
23. Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney
24. Christina Katerina and the Time She Quit the Family, Patricia Lee Gauch
25. Millie Cooper, Take a Chance, Charlotte Herman
26. Amazing Grace, Caroline Binch and Mary Hoffman
27. Teacher’s Pet, Johanna Hurwitz
28. The Paper Bag Princess, Robert Munsch
29. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
30. My Brother Oscar Thinks He Knows It All, Linda Wagner Tyler
31. Willie’s Not the Hugging Kind, Joyce Durham Barrett
32. No Good in Art, Miriam Cohen
33. Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat, Patricia Reilly Giff
34. Class Clown, Johanna Hurwitz
35. Max, Rachael Isadora
36. Toad Food and Measle Soup, Christine McDonnell
37. Perfect Percy, Bonnie Pryor
38. I’m Not a Crybaby, Norma Simon
39. Tough Eddie, Elizabeth Winthrop
40. Crow Boy, Taro Yashima
PRIMARY 3 (80 recommended titles)
41. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin
42. Wonder, R.J. Palacio
43. Isaiah Dunn is My Hero, Kelly J. Baptist
44. Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, Marcus Emerson
45. Any Day with You, Mae Respicio
46. Wishtree, Applegate
47. Refugee, Alan Gratz
48. Power Forward, Hena Khan
49. Wish, Barbara O’Connor
50. The Land of Stories, Chris Colfer
51. Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo
52. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
53. Holes, Louis Sachar
54. Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech
55. Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
56. Inside Out and Back Again, Thanhha Lai
57. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
58. Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
59. The War That Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
60. One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams-Garcia
61. Wayside School Series, Louis Sachar
62. Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts
63. Rain Reign, Ann M. Martin
64. Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
65. Three Times Lucky, Sheila Turnage
66. Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper
67. Rules, Cynthia Lord
68. A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park
69. Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIHM, Robert C O’Brien
70. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
71. The Wednesday Wars, Gary D. Schmidt
72. Frindle, Andrew Clements
73. The Tyrant’s Tomb, Rick Riordan
74. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Margorian
75. The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
76. Kay’s Anatomy, Adam Kay
77. Nation, Terry Pratchett
78. The Secret Dragon, Ed Clarke
79. The Unadoptables, Hana Tooke, Ayesha L. Rubio
80. Death Sets Sail, Robin Stevens
