Read Aloud Favorites

Fiction
ELEMENTARY
Each Little Bird That Sings, by Deborah Wiles
The Sixth Grade Nickname Game, by Gordon Korman
THe SOS File, by Betsy Byars
The Word Eater, by Mary Amato

INTERMEDIATE
The Beasties, by William Sleator
The Underneath, by Kathi Appelt
The Schwa Was Here, by Neal Shusterman
Seedfolks, by Paul Fleischman
The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan

Memoirs
ELEMENTARY
Guts, by Gary Paulsen
Knots in My Yo-Yo String, by Jerry Spinelli
The Tarantula in My Purse, by Jean Craighead George

INTERMEDIATE
My Life in Dog Years, by Gary Paulsen
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio, by Peg Kehret
How Angel Peterson Got His Name, by Gary Paulsen

Source: Miller, D. (2009). The book whisperer. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.