2023-2024 Book List

Book Lists

All books are available at the Alden School Library and the Duxbury Public Library.  Audio and eBook versions of titles are also available at the Duxbury Free Public Library and can be accessed here.  

Grade 3

• Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

• Freckle Juice by Judy Blume

• Tornado by Betsy Byars

• Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary

• The Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Sadako Coerr,

• Molly’s Pilgrim, by Barbara Cohen

• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

• My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

• Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kids by Megan McDonald

• Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner

• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

• CatStronauts: Mission Moon by Drew Brockington NEW!

Grade 4

• El Deafo by Cece Bell

• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain

• Soccer Duel by Matt Christopher

• Teacher’s Pet by Andrew Clements

• Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

• The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies

• Front Desk by Kelly Yang NEW!

• Sheep by Valerie Hobbs

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

• The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson

• There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Louis Sachar

Grade 5

• Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

• The New Kid by Jerry Craft NEW!

• Phineas L. MacGuire...Erupts!: The First Experiment by Frances O’Roark Dowell

• Blended by Sharon M. Draper

• The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman

• Fish in A Tree by Lynda Hunt Mullaly

• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

• Regarding the Fountain: A Tale, in Letters, of Liars and Leaks by Kate Klise

• Titanic: Book One - Unsinkable by Gordon Korman

• Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass

• The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park