U N I V E R S I T Y O F T O L E D ORocket Basketball Reading Program
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RECOMMENDED BOOK LIST:Grades 4-8
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Fiction Nonfiction Series Graphic Novel Award Winner
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The 13th Sign, Kristin O’Donnell Tubb
Almost Home, Joan Bauer
Hold Fast, Blue Balliet
Kizzy Ann Stamps, Jeri Watts
Odette’s Secrets, MaryAnn MacDonald
Dualed, Elise Chapman
Prodigy, Marie Lu
Home Front Girl, Joan Wehlen Morrison
They Call Me a Hero, Daniel Hernandez
The Fourth Stall Part III, Chris Rylander
Otherworld Chronicles: The Seven Swords, Nils Johnson-Shelton
The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket, John Boyne
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, Stephan Pastis
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, Tanya Lee Stone
The Split History of the Civil War, Stephanie Fitzgerald
Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale, Jim Murphy
In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America’s Bill of Rights, Russell Freedman
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Wonder, R.J. Palacio
Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
Wild River, P.J. Petersen
The Mysterious Howling, Maryrose Wood
A Nearer Moon, Melanie Crowder
Storm Runners, Roland Smith
Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California’s Farallon Islands, Katherine Roy
El Deafo, Cece Bell
Nightmares!, Jason Segel
Arcady’s Goal, Eugene Yelchin
The Fourteenth Goldfish, Jennifer L. Holm
Capture the Flag, Kate Messner
Zebrafish, Sharon Emerson
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
The Goose Girl, Shannon Hale
Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas, David Almond
The Giver, Lois Lowry
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
We Rode the Orphan Trains, Andrea Warren
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
When Objects Talk: Solving a Crime with Science, Mark Friedlander
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
With a Whoop and a Holler: A Bushel of Lore from Way down South, Nancy Van Laan
Nibbling on Einstein’s Brain: the Good, the Bad and the Bogus in Science, Diane Swanson
G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book, David Schwartz
When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead
Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs: An Expedition to Madagascar, Nic Bishop
Bodies from the Bog, James M. Deem
Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson
The False Prince, Jennifer A. Nielsen
The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving Their World and Ours, Jane Goodall
Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth, Sally M. Walker
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