These books will be great for you to read ALL BY YOURSELF! Reading is just like any sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to perform to the best of their ability!
Title
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Author
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The Boy Who Saved Baseball
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John Ritter
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The BFG
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Roald Dahl
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The City of Ember
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Jeanne DuPrau
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Crash
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Jerry Spinelli
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Ella Enchanted
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Gail Carson Levine
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Loser
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Jerry Spinelli
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Number the Stars
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Lois Lowry
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Room One
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Andrew Clements
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The Secret Garden
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Francis Hodgson Burnett
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Surviving the Applewhites
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Stephanie Tolan
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Tuck Everlasting
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Natalie Babbit
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
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Christopher Paul Curtis
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Wringer
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Jerry Spinelli
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Bad, Badder, Baddest
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Cynthia Voigt
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The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
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Paula Danziger
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The Egypt Game
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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Julie of the Wolves
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Jean Craighead George
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My Side of the Mountain
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Jean Craighead George
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Stealing Freedom
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Lisa Carbone
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The Wizard of Oz
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Frank L. Baum
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Independent Reading List
Level V Books
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These books will be great for you to read ALL BY YOURSELF! Reading is just like any sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to perform to the best of their ability!
Title
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Author
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Esperanza Rising
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Pam Munoz Ryan
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Getting Near to Baby
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Audrey Couloumbis
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Harry Potter Series
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J.K. Rowling
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Heat
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Mike Lupica
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The Higher Power of Lucky
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Susan Patron
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Holes
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Louis Sachar
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Old Yeller
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Fred Gipson
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The Series of Unfortunate Events
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Lemony Snicket
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The Thief Lord
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Cornelia Funke
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The Wanderer
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Sharon Creech
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The Westing Game
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Ellen Raskin
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Anne of Green Gables
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L.M. Montgomery
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The Clutz in the Fifth Grade
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Bill Wallace
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Maniac Magee
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Jerry Spinelli
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The Music of the Doplphins
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Karen Hesse
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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Robert C. O’Brien
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A Wrinkle in Times
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Madeleine L’Engle
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Walk Two Moons
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Sharon Creech
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The Underground Railroad
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Raymond Bial
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The Secret of Nimh
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Robert C. Brien
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Independent Reading List
Level W Books
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These books will be great for you to read ALL BY YOURSELF! Reading is just like any sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to perform to the best of their ability!
Title
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Author
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A Blue Eyed Daisy
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Cynthia Rylant
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Coraline
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Neil Gaiman
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The Lost Garden
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Laurence Yep
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Maniac Magee
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Jerry Spinelli
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Miracle on 49th Street
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Mike Lupica
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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Norton Juster
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Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
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Mildred Taylor
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Shiloh Season
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Wings
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Jane Yolen
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The Wish List
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Eoin Colfer
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The Witch of Blackbeard Pond
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Elizabeth George Speare
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A Wrinkle in Time
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Madeleine L’Engle
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The Black Pearl
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Scott O’Dell
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Dicey’s Song
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Cynthia Voigt
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Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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C.S. Lewis
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Mark Twain
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Clinton Cox
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Maya Angelou: Greeting the Morning
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Sarah E. King
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Tiger Eyes
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Judy Blume
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Witches
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Roald Dahl
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Slam!
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Walter Dean Myers
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Independent Reading List
Level X Books
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These books will be great for you to read ALL BY YOURSELF! Reading is just like any sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to perform to the best of their ability!
Title
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Author
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Artemis Fowl Series:
The Arctic Incident
The Eternity Code
The Opal Deception
The Lost Colony
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Eoin Colfer
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Call it Courage
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Armstrong Sperry
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The Egypt Game
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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Gathering Blue
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Lois Lowry
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Jacob Have I Loved
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Katherine Paterson
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M.C. Higgins the Great
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Virginia Hamilton
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The Midwife’s Apprentice
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Karen Cushman
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Out of the Dust
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Karen Hesse
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Petey
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Ben Mikaelson
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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Wilson Rawls
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The Devil’s Arithmetic
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Laurence Yep
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Tuck Everlasting
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Natalie Babbitt
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The Yearling
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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The Rain Ghost
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Garry Kilworth
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Maura’s Angel
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Lynne Reid Banks
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Oddballs
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William Sleator
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A Place to Hide
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Jayne Petit
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Independent Reading List
Level Y Books
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These books will be great for you to read ALL BY YOURSELF! Reading is just like any sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to perform to the best of their ability!
Title
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Author
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Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
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Anne Frank
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Cheaper By the Dozen
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Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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Jacob’s Rescue: A Holocaust Story
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Malka Drucker
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The Pushcart War
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Jean Merrill
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Redwall Series
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Brian Jacques
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The Same Stuff as Stars
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Katherine Paterson
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Call of the Wild
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Jack London
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The Day Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Shot
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Jim Haskins
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Instead of Three Wishes: Magical Short Stories
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Megan Whalen Turner
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White Fang
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Jack London
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One Fat Summer
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Robert Lipsyte
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The Moffats
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Eleanor Estes
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Jesse
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Gary Soto
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Children of the Dust Bowl
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Jerry Stanley
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Jackaroo
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Cynthia Voigt
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Bull Run
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Paul Fleischman
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The Boy Who Reversed Himself
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William Sleator
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Alida’s Song
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Gary Paulsen
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Independent Reading List
Level Z Books
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These books will be great for you to read ALL BY YOURSELF! Reading is just like any sport. You need to practice to get better, and your reading “muscles” need training to perform to the best of their ability!
Title
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Author
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Mark Twain
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Bat 6
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Virginia Euwer Wolf
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Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse
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Anna Sewell
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The Circuit
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Francisco Jimenez
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Eight Tales of Terror
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Animal Farm
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Jamaica Kincaid
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Black Boy
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Richard Wright
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The Hobbit
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Ruth Minsky Sender
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The Pearl
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John Steinbeck
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The Pigman and Me
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Paul Zindel
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Flowers For Algernon
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Daniel Keyes
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Brian’s Song
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William Blinn
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To Be A Slave
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Julius Lester
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The Lord of the Rings
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J. R. R. Token
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Of Mice and Men
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John Steinbeck
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The Outsiders
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S. E. Hinton
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Treasure Island
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Robert Lewis Stevenson
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A Summer Life
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Gary Soto
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Forged by Fire
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Sharon M. Draper
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