UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO Rocket Basketball Reading Program Book List Key: RECOMMENDED BOOK LIST: Grades 4-8 Recommended Booklist: Fiction Nonfiction Series Graphic Novel Award Winner (Title, Author) F NF S GN F F F F F S F F S NF GN F F F F S GN F F F S F F 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 F S NF NF F S F S F F F NF NF NF NF F F F F F 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 F S F F S NF NF F S F S NF NF NF F NF NF F F S NF NF