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Book Suggestions and Book Trailers Great Books

Check out these great books for you to enjoy!

 

Action/Adventure

*Divergent by Veronica Roth

*Blood Red Road by Moira Young

*Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Holes by Louis Sachar

Leepike Ridge by N. D. Wilson

*The Hunger Games by Suzanne Colins

Fantasy

Jeremy Thatcher Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville

Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan

Molly Moon series by Georgia Byng

Savvy by Ingrid Law

Graphic Novels

Bone series by Jeff Smith

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series by Jeff Kinney

Magic Pickle series by Scott Morse

Historical Fiction

Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone

*Al Capone Does My Shirts by Genniger Choldenko

The Watson's Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christoper Paul Curtis

Mystery and Suspense

Kidnapped series by Gordon Korman

On the Run series by Gordon Korman

*39 Clues Series by various authors

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

*The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman

The Ghost in the Machine by Patrick Carman

Non-fiction

*Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

Realistic Fiction

Dear Dumb Diary series by Jim Benton

Rules by Cynthia Lord

Frindle by Andrew Clements

*Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

Science Fiction

*My Rotten Life: Nathan Abercrombie Accidental Zombie by David Lubar

*Maze Runner by James Dashner

Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams

Found by Margaret Petterson Haddix

City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

Sports

Heat by Mike Lupica

The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter

 

*Books marked with an asterisk represent my FAVORITES! I also have these books available in our classroom library.

 

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