Want to encourage your students to read for leisure and get more out of their reading? Every month we’ll choose one book
from each of three reading lists compiled by the Texas Library Association
and provide printable questions you can use with students for reflection or discussion. We’ll also link you to the Texas
Library Association’s selections for preschool through grade 2.
| Grades 3-5 |
| Atherton: The House of Power by Patrick Carman;
Questions |
| Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little Buffalo and Someone Called Plastic by Emily Jenkins;
Questions |
| Crossing Bok Chitto by Tim Tingle;
Questions |
| Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen;
Questions |
| Way Down Deep by Ruth White;
Questions |
| The Thing About Georgie by Lisa Graff;
Questions |
| How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O’Connor;
Questions |
| The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 by Laurence Yep;
Questions |
| Chicken Boy by Frances O’Roark Dowell;
Questions |
Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Obert Skye;
Questions
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| Grades 6-8 |
| Breathe: A Ghost Story by Cliff McNish;
Questions |
| The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt;
Questions |
| The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney by Suzanne Harper;
Questions |
| Peak by Roland Smith;
Questions |
| Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff by Jennifer Holm;
Questions |
| Chance Fortune and the Outlaws by Shane Berryhill;
Questions |
| What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau;
Questions |
| Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies by Jill Wolfson;
Questions |
| Born to Rock by Gordon Korman;
Questions |
Heat by Mike Lupica;
Questions
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| High School |
| The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty;
Questions |
| Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin;
Questions |
| Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson;
Questions |
| Enter Three Witches by Caroline B. Cooney;
Questions |
| The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield;
Questions |
| Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin;
Questions |
| Tamar by Mal Peet;
Questions |
| Tallulah Falls by Christine Fletcher;
Questions |
| Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial by Ronald Kidd;
Questions |
| Just Listen by Sarah Dessen;
Questions |
