The Roar of the Crowd by Bill Wallace
Sacagawea by Barbara Wittman
Sierra by Diane Siebert
The Solar System by Gregory Vogt
Soup by Robert Peck
Superfudge by Judy Blume
The Supreme Court by Patricia Quiri
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Technical Foul by Bill Wallace
The Telephone by Marc Nobleman
There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom by Louis Sachar
There’s an Owl in the Shower by Jean C. George
The Toilet Paper Tigers by Gordon Korman
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Whose Side Are You on? by Emily Moore
You Be the Jury by Marvin Miller
Guided Reading Level R
Absolutely True Story: How I Visited Yellowstone Park… by Willo Roberts
Ace: the Very Important Pig by Dick King-Smith
Adventures of Spider: West African Folktales by Joyce Arkhurst
After the Goat Man by Betsy Byars
Asteroids by Gregory Vogt
Attack on Pearl Harbor by Tom McGowen
Babe Ruth by Guernsey Van Riper
Backward Bird Dog by Bill Wallace
Black Gold by Marguerite Henry
Born to Trot by Marguerite Henry
The Boston Tea Party by Conrad Stein
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida
Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen
The Bully of Barkham Street by Mary Stolz
The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol R. Brink
The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
The Central Pacific Railroad by Clark Evans
The Challenger Disaster by Tim McNeese
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Children of Christmas by Cynthia Rylant
The Choctaw by Rachel Koestler-Grack
Close to Home: A Story of the Polio Epidemic by Lydia Weaver
The Computer by Gayle Worland
The Dark-Thirty by Patricia McKissack
Deserts by Neil Morris
Devil’s Bridge by Cynthia DeFelice
A Dog Called Kitty by Bill Wallace
A Dog on Barkham Street by Mary Stolz
Dominic by William Steig
The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
The Family under the Bridge by Natalie Carlson
Fig Pudding by Ralph Fletcher
Finding the Titanic by Robert Ballard
Fire in the Sky by Candice Ransom
Flight by Robert Burleigh
Flying Solo by Ralph Fletcher
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
Freedom Crossing by Margaret Clark
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Gentle Annie: the True Story of a Civil War Nurse by Mary Shura
The Girl-Son by Anne Neuberger
Great Black Heroes by Wade Hudson
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
Harry Houdini: Master of Magic by Robert Kraske
Hatchet by Brian Paulsen
Have You Seen Hyacinth Macaw? by Patricia Giff
Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs by Jamie Gilson
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Hydroelectric Power by Josepha Sherman
If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution by Moore
Iggie’s House by Judy Blume
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne R. Banks
The Inuit by Rachel Koestler-Grack
The Iroquois by Rachel Koestler-Grack
The Island by Gary Paulsen
Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E.L.Konigsburg
Just Call Me Stupid by Tom Birdseye
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
The Landry News by Andrew Clements
Leonardo da Vinci by Barbara Witteman
The Library Card by Jerry Spinelli
A Long Way To Go: a Story of Women’s Right to Vote by Zibby O’Neal
Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler
Louis Pasteur by Kremena Spengler
Love You, Soldier by Amy Hest
Mary Cassatt by B. A. Hoena
Math Wiz by Betsy Duffey
Meet Calliope Day by Charles Haddad
Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. by James de Kay
Megan’s Island by Willo Roberts
Michelangelo by Shelly Sateren
Midnight Fox by Betsy Byars
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia McKissack
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
The Monster’s Ring by Bruce Coville
Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki
Nasty, Stinky Sneakers by Eve Bunting
The Navajo by Therese DeAngelis
No More Magic by Avi
The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz
Norway by Elaine Landau
The One Hundredth Thing about Caroline by Lois Lowry
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great by Judy Blume
Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer Holm
Phoebe and the General by Judith Griffin (Alternate title: Phoebe the Spy)
Picasso by Shelly Sateren
Pigs Might Fly by Dick King-Smith
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
Pioneer Girl: the Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder by William Anderson
The Pony Express by Peter Anderson
The Radio by Gail Worland
The River by Gary Paulsen
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Saudi Arabia by Wende Fazio
Shiloh by Phyllis R. Naylor
Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
The Space Race by Tim McNeese
Spider Boy by Ralph Fletcher
Staying Nine by Pam Conrad
Stray by Dick King-Smith
Strider by Beverly Cleary
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Sun and Spoon by Kevin Henkes
The Television by Marc Nobleman
This Place Is Wet: The Brazilian Rain Forest by Vicki Cobb
Thurgood Marshall by Karen Gibson
Tomorrow’s Wizard by Patricia MacLachlan
The Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
Tutankhamen’s Gift by Robert Sabuda
Voting and Elections by Patricia Murphy
Who’s That Stepping on Plymouth Rock? by Jean Fritz
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Women Explorers of the Mountains by Jetty Kahn
Women Explorers of the Oceans by Jetty Kahn
Zeely by Virginia Hamilton
Guided Reading Level S
Abel’s Island by William Steig
Afternoon of the Elves by Janet T. Lisle
Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves by Peter and Connie Roop
Ajeemah and His Son by James Berry
All Alone in the Universe by Lynne R. Perkins
The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal by Cheryl Harness
Amelia Earhart by Beatrice Gormley
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere by Jean Fritz
Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad by Pamela Edwards
Beautiful Land by Nancy Antle
Ben and Me by Robert Lawson
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Boys against Girls by Phyllis R. Naylor
Brave Irene by William Steig
Brigham Young by Cory Gunderson
Caleb’s Choice by G. Clifton Wisler
Calico Captive by Elizabeth G. Speare
The Cartoonist by Betsy Byars
The Cherokee by Therese DeAngelis
Children of the Longhouse by Joseph Bruchac
The Civil War by Kerry Graves
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
The Cybil War by Betsy Byars
The Day It Rained Forever: the Story of the Johnstown Flood by Virginia Gross
The Dollhouse Murders by Betty R. Wright
Dorothea Dix: Social Reformer by Barbara Witteman
Eleanor by Barbara Cooney
The Flying Flea, Callie, and Me by Carol and Bill Wallace
Fossil Fuel Power by Josepha Sherman
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Geothermal Power by Josepha Sherman
The Good Master by Kate Seredy
The Grand Escape by Phyllis R. Naylor
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs
How Many Days to America? by Eve Bunting
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Betty B. Lord
Ireland by Kay M. Olson
Journey by Patricia MacLachlan
Journey to Jo’burg: a South African Story by Beverley Naidoo
The Letter, the Witch and the Ring by John Bellairs
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
Lily’s Crossing by Patricia R. Giff
Lon Po Po by Ed Young
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Matisse by Ellen Strum
Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid by Walter D. Myers
Mexico by Gina DeAngelis
Mississippi Bridge by Mildred Taylor
Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
Mr. President by George Sullivan
My Teacher Is an Alien by Bruce Coville
The Ojibwa by Therese DeAngelis
On My Honor by Marion Bauer
One-Eyed Cat by Paula Fox
The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
Poppy by Avi
Poppy and Rye by Avi
The Pueblo by Mary Englar
Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers by Gary Paulsen
Red Means Good Fortune: a Story of San Francisco’s Chinatown by Barbara Goldin
Rembrandt by Xavier Niz
The Revolutionary War by Anne Todd
The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements
Sixth Grade Secrets by Louis Sachar
Smoky, the Cow Horse by Will James
Solar Power by Josepha Sherman
Sounder by William Armstrong
The Spanish-American War by Kerry Graves
Sugaring Time by Kathryn Lasky
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
Taking Care of Terrific by Lois Lowry
Taking Sides by Gary Soto
Time for Andrew: a Ghost Story by Mary D. Hahn
The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill
Trouble River by Betsy Byars
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Tucket’s Gold by Gary Paulsen
The Van Gogh Café by Cynthia Rylant
The Voyage of the Frog by Gary Paulsen
The War with Grandpa by Robert K. Smith
What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
Where Do You Think You’re Going, Christopher Columbus? by Jean Fritz
The Witch of Fourth Street, and Other Stories by Myron Levoy
Guided Reading Level T
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
Blubber by Judy Blume
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown by Betsy Byars
The Children of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
Cleopatra by Diane Stanley
Cut from the Same Cloth by Robert San Souci
Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz
Earthquakes by Seymour Simon
The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key
Galaxies by Seymour Simon
George Washington’s Socks by Elvira Woodruff
The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow by Ann Turner
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
The Great Brain by John Dennis Fitzgerald
Guests by Michael Dorris
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
Leon’s Story by Leon Tillage
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Lizard Music by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Lost Star by Patricia Lauber
The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
The Man Who Was Poe by Avi
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
More Adventures of the Great Brain by John Fitzgerald
My Brother Louis Measures Worms by Barbara Robinson
Nobel Prize Winners by Carlotta Hacker
A Picture of Freedom by Patricia McKissack
A Rat’s Tale by Tor Seidler
The Return of the Great Brain by John Fitzgerald
Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell
Something Upstairs by Avi
Sounder by William Armstrong
Standing in the Light by Mary Pope Osborne
They Shall Be Heard by Kate Connell
A Time Apart by Diane Stanley
Tom, Babette and Simon by Avi
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber
The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman
The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
Guided Reading Level U
Bad Girls by Cynthia Voigt
Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia by Margaret Cousins
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Birds of Prey by Snead Collard
Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken
The Boggart by Susan Cooper
The Boggart and the Monster by Susan Cooper
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty
Crash by Jerry Spinelli
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli
The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp by Richard Peck
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The Fledgling by Jane Langton
Freedom Train by Dorothy Sterling
A Gathering of Days by Joan Blos
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
An Indian Winter by Russell Freedman
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Merlin and the Dragons by Jane Yolen
Mr. Revere and I by Robert Lawson
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Night Journeys by Avi
Nothing But the Truth by Avi
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
P.S. Longer Letter Later by Paula Danziger
The Perilous Road by William O. Steele
Ragweed by Avi
The Real Thief by William Steig
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner by Walter Dean Myers
Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks
The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbitt
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
Some of the Kinder Planets by Tim Wynne-Jones
Stay! Keeper’s Story by Lois Lowry
The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
War Comes to Willy Freeman by James Lincoln Collier
When Justice Failed: The Fred Korematsu Story by Steven Chin
Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush? By Jerry Spinelli
The Winged Cat by Deborah Lattimore
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
Guided Reading Level V
Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Anna Is Still Here by Ida Vos
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellen byJean Fritz
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
Belle Prater’s Boy by Ruth White
Bloomability by Sharon Creech
Blue Willow by Doris Gates
By the Great Horn Spoon! By Sid Fleischman
Calico Bush by Rachel Field
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
The City of Gold and Lead by John Christopher
The Dark Stairs by Betsy Byars
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
Dogsong by Gary Paulsen
Drylongso by Virginia Hamilton
The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Holes by Louis Sachar
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
Journey Outside by Mary Q. Steele
Lincoln: a Photobiography by Russell Freedman
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O’Brien
Nightbirds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Pleasing the Ghost by Sharon Creech
The Pool of Fire by John Christopher
Rascal by Sterling North
So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Watkins
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? By Patricia McKissack
Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene Du Bois
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The White Mountains by John Christopher
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Yolonda’s Genius by Carol Fenner
Guided Reading Level W
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Jane Gray
The Arkadians by Lloyd Alexander
The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell
The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Colibri by Ann Cameron
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Crispin by Avi
Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowlling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen
Parvana’s Journey by Deborah Ellis
The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
A Ring of Endless Light by Madeleine L’Engle
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred Taylor
Running out of Time by Margaret Haddix
Sarny by Gary Paulsen
The Skin I’m in by Sharon Flake
A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? By Jean Fritz
Guided Reading Level X
An Acceptable Time by Madeleine L’Engle
April Morning by Howard Fast
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt by Jean Fritz
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz
Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
The Grey King by Susan Cooper
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Homesick, My Own Story by Jean Fritz
Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt
Peter Pan by James M. Barrie
Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor
Letters from a Slave Girl by Mary E. Lyons
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
Make Way for Sam Houston by Jean Fritz
Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
Over Sea, under Stone by Susan Cooper
The Road to Memphis by Mildred Taylor
Sarah Bishop by Scott O’Dell
Seaward by Susan Cooper
Traitor, the Case of Benedict Arnold by Jean Fritz
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic
Please be aware that the above books are not arranged by appropriate interest level, but simply by reading level. If you need specific guidance, please consult a children’s librarian. Please use your discretion when assisting children in choosing age, grade and interest appropriate books as not all books may be suitable for every child.
- Adapted from Marian McKenzie, Friends School Haverford Librarian
31 May 2006 ; revised November 2007
List of Springfield Public Libraries Locations
(Please call your local library for their hours of operation before your visit.)
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Central Library
220 State St.
263-6828
Reference x213
Children's x201
Circulation x239
TTY 263-6835
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Brightwood
359 Plainfield St.
263-6805
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East Forest Park
122/124 Island Pond Rd.
263-6836
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East Springfield
21 Osborne Ter.
263-6840
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Forest Park
380 Belmont Ave.
263-6843
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Indian Orchard
44 Oak St.
263-6846
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Liberty
773 Liberty St.
263-6849
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Mason Square
765 State St.
263-6853
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Pine Point
204 Boston Rd.
263-6855
Read/Write/Now
263-6839
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Sixteen Acres
1187 Parker St.
263-6858
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