Reading+Rocks



Check out this list of my favorite books that I have categorized by genre. Look for these books in the CRMS media center, in the 100 Book Challenge bins, or on the bookshelves in our classroom.

The __Hatchet__ Series (Paulsen) __Zach's Lie__ (Smith) __Jake's Run__ (Smith) __Alabama Moon__ (Key) __My Side of the Mountain__ (George) __The Young Man and the Sea__ (Philbrick)
 * ADVENTURE**

__Shiloh__ __Vet Volunteers__ (Anderson) __White Fang__, __Call of the Wild__ (London) __My Friend Flicka__- Mary O’Hara __Misty of Chincoteague__¬- Marguerite Henry __No More Dead Dogs__- Gordon Korman __Julie of the Wolves__ (O'Dell)
 * ANIMALS/PETS**

__B____eastly__ (Flinn) __The Twilight Series__ (Meyer) __A Wrinkle in Time__ (L'Engle) __If I Stay__ (Forman) __The Graveyard Book__ (Gaiman) __Feed__- M.T. Anderson __The Barcode Tattoo__- Suzanne Weyn __The Hunger Games__-Suzanne Collins __Ender’s Game__- Orson Scott Card __Compound__ (Bodeen) __Life as We Knew It__ (Pfeffer) __In the Forest of the Night__ (Atwater-Rhodes)
 * FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION**

__F____ever 1793__ (Anderson) __Chained__ (Anderson) __Eyes of the Emperor__ (Salisbury __My Brother Sam is Dead__ __All the Broken Pieces__ (Burg) __Flygirl__ (Smith) __The Boy Who Dared__ (Bartoletti) __Al Capone Does My Shirts__ (Choldenko) __Coal Black Horse__ (Olmstead) __Catherine, Called Birdie__ (Cushman) __Code Talker__ (Bruchac) __Out of the Dust__ (Hesse)
 * HISTORICAL FICTION**

__Peak__ (Smith) __Heat__ and anything else by Lupica __Maniac Magee__ (Spinelli) __Cinderella in Cleats__ (Sims) __Soul Surfer__ (Hamilton) __Hoops__ (Myers) __Throw Like a Girl__ (Finch) __Baseball Great__ (Green) __Black Star, Bright Dawn__ (O'Dell)
 * SPORTS**

The Lightning Thief- Rick Riordan Hatchet- Gary Paulsen Peeps- Scott Westerfeld Gregor the Overlander- Homecoming- Cynthia Voigt Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants- Ann Brashares The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod- Alex Rider- Anthony Horowitz A Series of Unfortunate Events- Lemony Snicket Maximum Ride- James Patterson Eragon- Christopher Paolini The His Dark Materials Trilogy- Philip Pullman The Uglies Trilogy- Scott Westerfeld Twilight- Stephenie Meyer Cirque du Freak- Darren Shan
 * SERIES**

__R____ed Kayak__ (Cummings) __Tangerine__ (Bloor) __The Mailbox__ (Shafer) __The Face on the Milk Carton__ and anything else by Cooney __Elsewhere__- Zevin __Wait 'Til Helen Comes__ and anything else by Hahn __A Northern Light__ (Donnelly) __Code Orange__ (Cooney) __Coraline__ (Gaiman)
 * MYSTERY/HORROR/THRILLER**

__The Percy Jackson Series__
 * MYTHOLOGY**

__B____ronx Masquerade__ (Grimes) __Peace, Locomotion__ (Woodson) __All the Broken Pieces__ (Burg) __Shark Girl__ (Bingham) Anything by Silverstein
 * POETRY**

__Waiting for Normal__ (Conners) __Twisted__ (Anderson) __Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie__ (Sonnenblick) __After Ever After__ (Sonnenblick, Sequel to __Drums, Girls, Dangerous Pie__) __Jacob Have I Loved__- Katerine Patterson __First Part Last__- Angela Johnson __The Watsons Go to Birmingham__- Christopher Paul Curtis __Miracle’s Boys__- Jacqueline Woodson __A Ring of Perfect Light__- Madeline L’Engle __The Breadwinner__- Deborah Ellis __Stargirl__- Spinelli
 * REALISTIC FICTION**