Recommended reading during holiday break and beyond
Jennifer Carriger
Reading and Learning Specialist
MMS Reading and Learning Specialist Jennifer Carriger is making a list and checking it twice, sharing books that are exciting and nice!
Books make a great gift and provide endless opportunities for students to stay engaged and entertained during the holiday break and beyond. Here’s a wonderful list of reading recommendations for upper elementary (fourth through sixth year) students from Jennifer. Visit the Kanawha County Public Library or your local bookstore and let the literary adventures begin!
The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls: Claire Legrand
Raspberry Pi User’s Manual: Gareth Halfacre
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing: Judy Blume
Warriors: The New Prophecy (series): Erin Hunter
Summer at Foresaken Lake: Michael D. Beil
Girl’s Best Friend: Leslie Margolis
Nancy Drew (series): Carolyn Keene
My Very Un Fairytale Life: Anna Staniszewski
I, Funny: James Patterson
The Giver: Lois Lowry
The Three Questions: John Muth
Stone Soup: Marcia Brown
The Fault in Our Stars: John Green
Origami Yoda: Tom Angleberger
Darth Vader Strikes Back: Tom Angleberger
The Land of Stories (series): Chris Colfer
Geronimo Stilton (series): Geronimo Stilton
The Mysterious Benedict Society: Trenton Lee Stewart
Wonder: R. J. Palacio
Magic Tree House: Mary Pope Osborne
Bad Kitty for President: Nick Bruel
Bone (series): Jeff Smith
Tin-Tin (series): Herge
The Stolen Painting: Harper Paris
Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson
Freddy Goes to Florida: Walter R. Brooks
A Tangle of Knots: Lisa Graff
The Graveyard Book: Neil Gaiman
Chomp and Hoot: Carl Hiaasan
Bloomability: Sharon Creech
The Fingertips of Duncan: Meg Wolitzer Dorfman
A to Z Mysteries (series): Ron Roy
A Thunderous Whisper: Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Horton Halfpott: Tom Angelberger
Percy Jackson (series): Rick Riordan
The Kicks: Alex Morgan
The Land of Stories (series): Chris Colfer
Big Nate (series): Lincoln Pierce
Magic Tree House (series): Mary Pope Osborne
Wonderstruck: Brian Selznick
Harry Potter (series): J.K. Rowling
Smile: Raina Telgemeier
Drama: Raina Telgemeier
Moon Over Manifest: Clare Vanderpool
Dork Diaries: Rachel Renee Russell
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Jeff Kinney
Fog Magic: Julia Sauer
Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Inside Out and Back Again: Lanhha Lai
The Talking Earth: Jean Craighead George
The Mysterious Case of the Albright Academy: Diane Stanley
