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Florida's Reading List
Grades K-3
. Ocean Hide and Seek, Jennifer Evans Kramer
. Sort it Out!, Barbara Mariconda
. Henry the Impatient Heron, Donna Love
. Where Should Turtle Be?, Susan Ring
. Little Skink’s Tail, Janet Halfmann
. The Earth and I, Frank Asch
. Buffy the Burrowing Owl, Betty Gilbert
. ‘Twas the Day Before Zoo Day, Catherine Ipcizade
. Deep in the Swamp, Donna Bateman
. Dino-Dinners, Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom
. The Perfect Nest, Catherine Friend
. Polar Slumber, Dennis Rockhill
. River Beds: Sleeping in the World’s Rivers, Gail Langer Karwoski
. The Adventures of Max and Pinky, Best Buds, Maxwell Eaton
. Hot City, Barbara Joosse
. Leaf Jumpers, Carole Gerber
. Buster, Denise Fleming
. Actual Size, Steve Jenkins
. Daddy & I, Eloise Greenfield
. No, David!, David Shannon
. A Day in the Life of Murphy, Alice Provensen
. My Name is Yoon, Helen Recorvits
. Diary of a Worm, Doreen Cronin
. The Everything Book, Denise Fleming
. Wemberly Worried, Kevin Henkes
. Aunt Flossie’s Hats, Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
. Miss Nelson Is Missing!, Harry Allard
. You Can’t Get into More Trouble than Gator Pervis!, Sarah Owens Hammock
. When Donkeys Fly, Ginger Hodge
. Mommy, There’s a Giraffe in my Room, Angela Lane
Grades 4-5
Animals in the House: A History of Pets and People, Sheila Keenan
The Book Club Kit, Patti Kelley Criswell
Crazy Cars, Matt Doeden
Dare to Dream!, Carl Sommer
Riddle-iculous Math, Joan Holub
Do Not Open: An Encyclopedia of the World’s Best-Kept Secrets, John Farndon
Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter, Mary Alice Monroe
Every Minute on Earth: Fun Facts That Happen Every 60 Seconds, Steve Murrie and Matthew Murrie
Extreme Pets!, Jane Harrington
See What You Can Be: Explore Careers That Could Be for You!, Diane Heiman and Liz Suneby
Because of Winn Dixie, Kate DiCamillo
The Courage of Sarah Noble, Alice Dalgliesh
Crossing Jordan, Adrian Fogelin
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume
Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
Dog Diaries: Secret Writings of the WOOF Society, Betsy Byars, Betsy Duffey, and Laurie Myers
Space Race, Sylvia Waugh
Life Under Ice, Mary M. Cerullo
Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell
Shiloh, Phyllis Naylor
Grades 6-8
50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Recycle, Earthworks group
John James Audubon: The Making of an American, Richard Rhodes
Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation, Tammy Horn
The Life Cycle of Everyday Stuff, Mike Reeske and Shirley Watt Ireton
Planet Earth, Kathleen Reilly
Earth-Friendly Crafts for Kids: 50 Awesome Things to Make with Recycled
Stuff, Heather Smith
Forever Forest, Kristin Joy-Pratt Serafini
Wangari’s Tree of Peace, Jeanette Winter
A Life in the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts, Pamela S. Turner
When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature’s Balance in Yellowstone, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Old Yeller, Fred Gipson
Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan
Hattie, Big Sky, Kirby Larson
The Young Man and the Sea, Rodman Philbrick
Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Artemis Fowl: the Arctic Incident, Eoin Colfer
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi
The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and Her Famous Brothers, Richard Maurer
Carver, a Life in Poems, Marilyn Nelson
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever,
Epidemic of 1793, Jim Murphy
Magnificent Voyage: An American Adventurer on Captain James Cook’s
Final Expedition, Laurie Lawlor
The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11
Astronaut Michael Collins, Bea Uusma Schyffert
Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammed Ali, Charles R. Smith
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, Laura Amy Schlitz
The Wednesday Wars, Gary D. Schmidt
The Anybodies, N.E. Bode
The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
Fire From the Rock, Sharon Draper
Diamonds in the Shadow, Carolyn Cooney
Separate Fountains, Patti Wilson Byars
The Surrender Tree: Poem’s of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom, Margarita Engle
The Graveyard Book, Dave McKean
Savvy, Ingrid Law
Newt's World: Beginnings, Susan Womble
Grades 9-12
The Real Question, Adrian Fogelin
The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, Michael Grunwald
Solomon, Marilyn B. Shaw
Losing It All to Sprawl, Bill Belleville
The Yearling, Marjorie K. Rawlings
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success, Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Sharon Draper
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
Money Hungry, Sharon Flake
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft, Thor Heyerdahl
Monster, Walter Dean Myers
Taken, Edward Bloor
Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S, Cynthia Barnett
Florida Then & Now, Bruce Hunt
Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place, Sudye Cauthen
Looking for the New Deal, Elna C. Green
Breaking Point, Alex Flinn
Flush, Carl Hiaasen
Night, Elie Wiesel
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Separate Fountains, Patti Wilson Byars
Whispers from the Bay, John Tkac
Everglades: an Ecosystem Facing Choices and Challenges, Anne Ake
Imaginary Enemy, Julie Gonzalez
The First Hollywood Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking, Shawn Bean
The New Deal in South Florida, John Stuart and John Stack, Eds.
Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators: More Stories about Real Florida, Jeff Klinkenberg
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
The Everglades, River of Grass, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas
A Land Remembered, Patrick D. Smith
You may also find more selections for High School readers at www.justreadflorida.com under the Student Section – For Teens, by Teens recommended reading.
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