This document provides reading recommendations for different genres including exciting adventure and fantasy stories, funny stories, stories that touch your heart, graphic novels, and fascinating nonfiction. It lists over 50 book titles across these categories for students in grades 5 and up. It encourages visiting the school library online or a librarian's blog for more reading suggestions.

1. Reading is Great!!
Favorite Reading Suggestions, level S-W
Berkeley School Libraries, Fall 2014
Exciting Adventure and Fantasy
Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer
Dreamwood, by Heather Mackey
Doll Bones, by Holly Black
The Expeditioners, by S.S. Taylor
The False Prince, by Jennifer Nielsen
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Heart of a Samurai, by Margi Preus
Jinx, by Sage Blackwood
The Luck Uglies, by Paul Durham
The Mark of the Dragonfly, by Jaleigh Johnson
The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier
Peak, by Roland Smith
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, by Jonathan
Auxier
The Real Boy, by Anne Ursu
Search for WondLa, by Tony DiTerlizzi
Zombie Baseball Beatdown, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Funny Stories
The 26-Story Treehouse, by Andy Griffiths
The Adventures of Nanny Piggins, by R.A. Spratt
Better Nate than Ever, by Tim Federle
Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to NOT Reading, by
Tommy Greenwald
Dead End in Norvelt, by Jack Gantos
Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf, by Jennifer
Holm
My Life as a Book, by Janet Tashjian
The Odd Squad: Bully bait, by Michael Fry
Timmy Failure: We Meet Again, by Stephan Pastis
Nuts to You, by Lynne Rae Perkins
Zorgamazoo, by Robert Paul Weston
Visit your school library online!
library.berkeleyschools.net
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* Especially for 5th grade

2. Stories that Touch Your Heart
Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson
The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander
Counting by 7s, by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Dash, by Kirby Larson
The Fourteenth Goldfish, by Jennifer Holm
Ghetto Cowboy, by Greg Neri
Kinda Like Brothers, by Coe Booth
One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia
One for the Murphys, by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
P.S. Be Eleven, by Rita Williams-Garcia
Return to Sender, by Julia Alvarez
Serafina’s Promise, by Ann E. Burg
Graphic Novels We Love!
The Stonekeeper (Amulet series), by Kazu Kibuishi
Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity, by Dave Roman
Big Bad Ironclad! (Hazardous Tales series), by
Nathan Hale
Drama, by Raina Telgemeier
El Deafo, by Cece Bell
Hera:The goddess and her glory (Olympians
series), by George O’Connor
Sisters, by Raina Telgemeier
Zita the Spacegirl, by Ben Hatke
Fascinating Nonfiction
The Animal Book: A collection of the fastest, fiercest,
toughest, cleverest, shyest--and most surprising--
animals, by Steve Jenkins
Almost Astronauts: 13 women who dared to dream, by
Tanya Lee Stone
Bomb: The race to build and steal the world’s most
dangerous weapon, by Steve Sheinkin
Can We Save the Tiger?, by Martin Jenkins
Courage Has No Color, by Tanya Lee Stone
Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the dawn of
liberty, by Tonya Bolden
The Frog Scientist, by Pamela S. Turner
Josephine: The dazzling life of Josephine Baker, by
Patricia Hruby Powell
Marching for Freedom, by Elizabeth Partridge
Treasury of Egyptian Mythology, by Donna Jo Napoli
Find more recommendations at
Mary Ann Scheuer’s website
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