A Reading List Based on Grade Level
- Thornhill Learning Center
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Reading is one of the most important skills and activities you can do. It brings out the best side of your brain and comes with tons of positives
Primary Years (Grades K–3)
Picture Books & Early Readers
The Day You Begin — Jacqueline Woodson
Last Stop on Market Street — Matt de la Peña
Ada Twist, Scientist — Andrea Beaty
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! — Mo Willems
A Sick Day for Amos McGee — Philip C. Stead
Early Chapter Books
Mercy Watson series — Kate DiCamillo
Ivy + Bean series — Annie Barrows
Henry and Mudge series — Cynthia Rylant
Magic Tree House series — Mary Pope Osborne
Judy Moody — Megan McDonald
Intermediate Years (Grades 4–8)
Middle Grade Fiction
Wonder — R.J. Palacio
Front Desk — Kelly Yang
The Wild Robot — Peter Brown
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series — Rick Riordan
Hatchet — Gary Paulsen
The War that Saved My Life — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Graphic Novels (great for reluctant readers)
New Kid — Jerry Craft
Smile — Raina Telgemeier
When Stars Are Scattered — Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed
Nonfiction & Memoirs
Who Was? biography series (variety of historical figures)
High School (Grades 9–12)
Modern YA & Contemporary Fiction
The Hate U Give — Angie Thomas
They Both Die at the End — Adam Silvera
One of Us Is Lying — Karen M. McManus
Clap When You Land — Elizabeth Acevedo
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Hunger Games — Suzanne Collins
Classics & Literary Fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
The Outsiders — S.E. Hinton
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