Book Recommendations - Great Reads!
Post date: Sep 5, 2017 1:35:16 AM
Many of my favorite books are not on this list because we will be reading them in class or I will be reading them to YOU!!! I will continue to add books to this list...
DISABILITY:
Out of My Mind - Sharon Draper
Fish in a Tree
Mockingbird
Rules - Cynthia Lord
REALISTIC FICTION:
Larger Than Life Lara
All Shook Up - Shelley Pearsall (all of Shelley Pearsall books)
All the Above - Shelley Pearsall
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Because of Winn-Dixie - Kate DiCamillo
Wonder
Auggie and Me - (needs to be read after Wonder)
The One and Only Ivan - Katherine Applegate
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
One for the Murphy's - Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Ellie's Story, Shelby's Story, Toby's Story, Molly's Story - W. Bruce Cameron (These are all stories told from a different dog's point of view)
Wish - O'Connor
HISTORICAL FICTION:
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
Yellow Star - Jennifer Roy
Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Boyne
The Watson's Go to Birmingham 1963 - Christopher Paul Curtis
I Survived...books - Lauren Tarshis
Running Out of Time - Margaret Peterson Haddix
SCIENCE FICTION:
Among the Hidden - Margaret Peterson Haddix (great series)
SPORTS:
Jake Maddox books
Mike Lupica books
Matt Christopher books
FANTASY:
The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
Harry Potter books- J.K. Rowling
MY Someday List:
Restart - Yeah! I read it. Loved it!
Books I recently read:
Brian's Winter (to be read after Hatchet)
The Goldfish Boy - realistic fiction - two thumbs up!!
A non-fiction book about Puerto Rico - I want to visit the Roberto Clemente baseball stadium there and take my kids to see the forts.
All the Above - realistic fiction but about a real school in inner city Cleveland and how they wanted to break the Guinness Book of World Records for building the largest tetrahedron!
The War that Saved My Life - historical fiction
Falling Out of Time - science fiction (Margaret Peterson Haddix - This should be read after Running out of Time.)