In No Particular Order: 

Mature Reader Audience:

  • Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (Spanish version if possible)
  • Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Spanish version if possible)
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • Invisible


 Independent Reader Audience

  • The Outsiders by S.E.Hinton
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding 
  • Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • Land of Stories (series) by Chris Colfer
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
  • **Invisible by Eloy Moreno (Spanish if possible, **Serious topics and effects of bullying are addressed in this book. I suggest for adult to pre-read and decide if appropriate.)
  • Both Can Be True by Jules Machias
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Out of my Mind by Sharon M. Draper


Novice Reader Audience

  • Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae
  • Kitten's First Moon by Kevin Henkes
  • The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg 
  • The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
  • Stick Man by Julia Donaldson
  • Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
  • A Squash and a Squeeze by Julia Donaldson
  • Tabby McTat by Julia Donaldson
  • ANY BOOK BY JULIA DONALDSON