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Top Ten Book Lists for Teens

_Each year the American Library Association creates Top 10 lists for teen readers. Here are two of the selections from the 2012 fiction and nonfiction lists for reluctant readers. Check out the entire list, and all other lists, here.

Get Hooked on a Series

_Getting hooked on a series is a sure way to develop skill as a reader. Here are some favorites at each grade level/reading level. Titles are listed from easiest to more challenging under each grade level. Guided Reading levels are in parentheses.
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Audio Book Resource for SPS Students

If you have an M3P player, a world of free book downloads from OneClickDigital is open to you! Find on the SPS student resource page, or here! Book files are available for 10 day checkout.


6th Grade Genre Recommendations June '12

SCIENCE FICTION
I Am Number Four / Lore
Michael Vey / Evans
Gone / Grant
Alex Rider / Horowitz
The Uglies / Westerfelf
City of Ember / Dupraw
Incarceron / Fisher
The Hunger Games / Collins

FANTASY
Tale of Desperaux / DiCamillo
Percy Jackson & Olympians / Riordan
Elsewhere / Zevin
Gregor Overlander series / Collins
The Shiver Series / Stiefvater
Lord of the Rings / Tolkien
Inkheart / Funke
The Hobbit / Tolkien
Eragon / Paolini
Cordyon & the Island of Monsters / Druitt
The Warrior series / Hunter
Pendragon / Avelli



REALISTIC FICTION
Lord of the Flies / Golding
Penderwicks / Birdsall
Troy High / Norris
Burned / Hopkins
Blue is for Nightmares /
Stolarz

HISTORICAL FICTION
Under the Blood Red Sun / Salisbury
The Invention of Hugo Cabret / Selznik
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K-1st Grade (F-I)
Biscuit the Dog / Rylant
Elephant & Piggie / Willems
Fly Guy / Arnold
Dragon / Pilkey
The Littles / Peterson


3rd Grade (M-P)
Ivy & Bean / Barrows
Flat Stanley / Brown
Magic Treehouse / Pope Osborne
Marvin Redpost / Sachar
Junie B. Jones / Park
A-Z Mysteries / Roy
Amber Brown / Danziger
My Father's Dragon / Gannett
Zack Files / Greenburg
Black Lagoon Mysteries / Thaler
Geronimo Stilton / Stilton
Boxcar Children / Warner
Ramona / Cleary
Clementine / Pennypacker
Akimbo / Smith
Dragon Slayers' Academy / Coville
Time Warp Trio / Scieszka
Captain Underpants / Pilkey
If you live/traveled… series (Scholastic)

5th Grade (U-V)
39 Clues series / various authors
Princess Diaries series / Cabot
Julie of the Wolves series / George
Warriors series / Hunter
Falcondance series / Atwater
Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series / Brewer (YA)
Gregor the Overlander series/ Collins
Dragon Rider series / Funke
Inkheart series / Funke
Guardians of Ga’Hoole series / Lasky
Circle of Magic series / Pierce
Cirque du Freak series / Shan (YA)
Series of Unfortunate Events Series

6th Grade (W)
Who is Carrie? trilogy / Collier
The League series / Kenyon (YA)
Seventh Tower series / Nix
Land of Promise series / Nixon
Harry Potter series / Rowling

2nd Grade (J-L)
Henry & Mudge / Rylant
Mercy Watson / DiCamillo
Young Cam Jensen / Adler
Stink / McDonald
Judy Moody / McDonald
Ricky Ricotta / Pilkey

4th Grade (Q-T)
All about … (wildlife) / Arnosky
Animal Ark series / Baglio
Chronicles / DiTerlizzi
Ghosthunters series / Funke
Chet Gecko, Private Eye / Hale
Bunnicula series /Howe
Amulet series / Kibuishi
Dragonquest series / Koller
Island trilogy / Korman
Alvin Ho series / Look
Anastasia series / Lowry
Dragon Slayers’ academy / McMullen
Goosebumps / Stine
I Survived … series / Tarshis
Who was … (famous person) /various
You Wouldn’t Want … (R+) / various
Kidnapped series / Korman
Hatchet series / Paulsen
Big Nate series / Peirce
Vampire Kisses Series / Schreiber
A Day in the Life of … (history) series
My Teacher series / Coville
Emily Windsnap series / Kessler
The Doll People series / Martin
The Borrowers series / Norton
Dear America series / various
Ink trilogy / Funk
Joey Pigza series / Gantos
Julie of the Wolves trilogy / George
Princess Academy series / Hale
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series / Kinney
Chronicles of Narnia series / Lewis
Charlie Bone series / Nimmo
Storm Runners series / Smith
Sammy Keyes series / VanDraanen


7th Grade (X-Y)
Artemis Fowl series / Colfer
Dark is Rising series / Cooper
Clique series / Harrison (YA)
Alex Rider series / Horowitz
Pendragon series / MacHale
Ender's Game series / Card
All-American Girl series / Cabot
Inheritance series / Paolini
Leviathan Trilogy / Westerfield

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