Books and PDF Activity Sheets Available in Waterford Reading Academy

These books and their accompanying PDF activity sheets include student experiences that address Reading Literature (RL) or Reading Informational Text (RI), Foundational Skills, Language, Writing, and Speaking & Listening standards and skills.  

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Grade

Title

Author

3

The One and Only Ivan

Katherine Applegate

3

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Patricia MacLachlan

3

Ella Enchanted

Gail Carson Levine

3

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

3

Coraline

Neil Gaiman

3

Ruby Holler

Sharon Creech

3

Satch & Me

Dan Gutman

3

Matilda

Roald Dahl

3

Hope Solo: My Story (Young Readers' Edition)

Hope Solo

3

Lights, Camera, Cook!

Charise Mericle Harper

3

Lemons

Melissa Savage

3

The Magnificent Mya Tibbs #1: Spirit Week Showdown

Crystal Allen

3

Dragons and Marshmallows

Asia Citro

3

A True Home

Kallie George

3

Charlotte's Web

E. B. White

3

Amelia Bedelia Means Business

Herman Parish

3

The Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo

3

Upchuck and the Rotten Willy

Bill Wallace

3

Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo

3

Cam Jansen Mysteries # 1: The Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds

David A. Adler and Susanna Natti

3

Freckle Juice

Judy Blume

3

Stuart Little

E.B. White

3

Junie B., First Grader Boo...and I Mean It

Barbara Park

3

A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #4: Sleepy Hollow Sleepover

Ron Roy

3

Sun & Spoon

Kevin Henkes

3

Stone Fox

John Reynolds Gardiner and Greg Hargreaves

3

The Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room

Patricia Reilly Giff

3

The Wish Giver

Bill Brittain and Andrew Glass

3

Betsy-Tacy

Maud Hart Lovelace and Lois Lenski

3

Fly Away

Patricia MacLachlan

3

Andrew Lost 1: On the Dog

J. C. Greenburg

3

Magic Tree House #1: Dinosaurs Before Dark

Mary Pope Osborne

3

Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man

Donald J. Sobol

3

Mostly Ghostly: Little Camp of Horrors

R. L. Stine

3

Skellig

David Almond

3

Marvin Redpost #1: Kidnapped at Birth?

Louis Sachar

3

Magic Tree House Fact Tracker: Dinosaurs

Will Osborne and Mary Pope Osborne

3

The World According to Humphrey

Betty G. Birney

3

At the Mountain's Base

Traci Sorell

3

The Grizzly Mother

Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson)

3

Thunder Boy Jr.

Sherman Alexie

3

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

Kevin Noble Maillard and Juana Martinez-Neal

3

The Rough-Face Girl

Rafe Martin and David Shannon

3

Kunu's Basket: A Story from Indian Island

Lee DeCora Francis

Grade

Title

Author

4

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl

4

Wonder

R.J. Palacio

4

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

4

Hoot

Carl Hiaasen

4

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

4

Eight Keys

Suzanne LaFleur

4

One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue

Takayuki Ishii

4

When You Reach Me

Rebecca Stead

4

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

4

The Sweetest Sound

Sherri Winston

4

Ugly Cat & Pablo

Isabel Quintero

4

The Ark Plan

Laura Martin

4

I Love You, Michael Collins

Lauren Baratz-Logsted

4

Podkin One-Ear

Kieran Larwood

4

The Sign of the Beaver

Elizabeth George Speare

4

The Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1: The Field Guide

Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi

4

Extra Innings

Tiki Barber and Ronde Barber and Paul Mantell

4

Tuck Everlasting

Natalie Babbitt

4

Esperanza Rising

Pam Muñoz Ryan

4

Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder

4

Absolutely Almost

Lisa Graff

4

The War That Saved My Life

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsburg

4

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

Grace Lin

4

I Can Make This Promise

Christine Day

4

Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness Into Light

Tim Tingle

4

Navajo Long Walk

Nancy Armstrong

4

Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story

S.D. Nelson

Grade

Title

Author

5

One Crazy Summer

Rita Williams-Garcia

5

Holes

Louis Sachar

5

Inside Out and Back Again

Thanhha Lai

5

The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)

Lemony Snicket

5

Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli

5

Al Capone Does My Shirts: A Tale from Alcatraz

Gennifer Choldenko

5

Sounder

William H. Armstrong

5

The City of Ember

Jeanne DuPrau

5

How Writers Work

Ralph Fletcher

5

Overboard!

Terry Lynn Johnson

5

Home Sweet Motel

Chris Grabenstein

5

The Doublecross: And Other Skills I Learned as a Superspy

Jackson Pearce

5

Wish

Barbara O’Connor

5

The Great Treehouse War

Lisa Graff

5

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

5

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book #1

Jeff Kinney

5

Harry Potter #1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J.K. Rowling

5

The Lost Hero

Rick Riordan

5

The Crossover

Kwame Alexander

5

Kane Chronicles #1: The Red Pyramid

Rick Riordan 

5

Indian No More

Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell

5

Thanku: Poems of Gratitude

Miranda Paul (editor)

5

The Sockeye Mother

Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson)

5

Makoons (Birchbark House #5)

Louise Erdrich

5

Chickadee (Birchbark House #4)

Louise Erdrich

5

The Game of Silence (Birchbark House #2)

Louise Erdrich

5

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O'Dell

5

The Porcupine Year (Birchbark House #3)

Louise Erdrich

5

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

Grade

Title

Author

6

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

6

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

6

Touching Spirit Bear

Ben Mikaelsen

6

The Ruins of Gorlan: The Ranger's Apprentice

John Flanagan

6

The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl

Yan Ma

6

Hattie Big Sky

Kirby Larson

6

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

William Kamkwamba

6

The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin

6

Surrender the Key

D.J. MacHale

6

The Girl Who Could Not Dream

Sarah Beth Durst

6

The Firefly Code

Megan Frazer Blakemore

6

First Rule of Punk

Celia C. Pérez

6

The Eureka Key

Sarah Thomson

6

Short

Holly Goldberg Sloan

6

Out of My Mind

Sharon M. Draper

6

My Name is Not Easy

Debby Dahl Edwardson

6

On This Long Journey: The Journal of Jesse Smoke

Joseph Bruchac

6

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

Joseph Bruchac

6

Fatty Legs: A True Story

Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton


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