Looking for a good book that your child will like? This book list, compiled by a children’s librarian with 15 years experience, aims to provide you with a quick list of kid-friendly books that the children ask for and check out time and time again.
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Great Fantasy Titles for 3rd-5th Grades
A Taste for Red by Lewis Harris
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Eleven Birthdays by Wendy Mass
Sisters Grimm: Fairy-tale Detectives by Michael Buckley
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
The Kingdom Keepers by Ridley Pearson
The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler
Summer Reading is Killing Me! Scieszka
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The New Kid at School (Dragonslayer’s Academy) by K.H. McMullan
Powerless by Matthew Cody
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Zack Files by Dan Greenburg
Freaky Monday by Mary Rodgers and Heather Hatch
Missing Magic by Emma Laybourn
Andrew Lost by J.C. Greenburg
Nightmare at the Book Fair by Dan Gutman
Kenny & the Dragon by Tony DiTerlizzi
The Monster’s Ring by Bruce Coville
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
City of Ember -DuPrau
Half Magic Edward Eager
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
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