His unusual power lands him in an elite school for the magically gifted. Inkeart 3 book series. Great book series for kids. Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians 4 book series. On his 13th birthday Alcatraz receives a bag of sand from his long lost parents, and on the next day his grandfather arrives to tell him why the sand is important and how it will help him defeat the evil librarians, who have taken over society. Great book series for Grades Spirit Animals 8 book series. In the world of Erdas, each 11 year old child must discover if he or she has a spirit animal, a bond between human and beast that brings great power.
Four children and their animals must work together to save the world. Pegasus 5 book series. When Emily meets a pegasus who has crashed during a storm, she is thrust into a battle between Roman gods and stone warriors. She ends up on a quest to save Mount Olympus.
Magyk 7 book series. Septimus Heap disappears the night he is born, and his father brings home an abandoned baby girl on the very same day. The heaps raise the girl as their own, but who is she really, and whatever happened to Septimus? Kingdom Keepers 7 book series. Thanks to new technology, five teens are transformed into holograms to direct people through Walt Disney World. When it turns out that Disney villains are threatening the park, the teens must figure out how to save The Magic Kingdom.
The Chronicles of Narnia 7 book series. Four bored children stumble through an old wardrobe into a magical land in the midst of an eternal winter. Can they save the friends they make their from the witch who rules the land? Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5 book series. Soon Percy finds out who he really is and sets out on a quest to the Underworld to prevent a war between the gods. One of the more popular book series for kids to come out in the past 20 years. This timeless fantasy series begins when Taran, a lowly pig keeper, has a run in with a sinister horned rider. Among the Hidden 7 book series.
In a future where only 2 children are allowed, third child Luke spends his life hidden in an attic, until one day he discovers he may not be the only one in his situation. Is he willing to defy the government for a different kind of life? Hatchet 5 book series. Princess Academy 2 book series. And the biggest battle of all is about to arrive. Anne of Green Gables 7 book series.
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Precocious orphan Anne ends up with elder brother and sister Marilla and Matthew by mistake, but they decide to keep her anyway. This classic kids book series has been enjoyed by generations of children! Stranded 3 book series. Far World 3 book series. The two friends must work together to defeat the Dark Circle and save Farworld.
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A Wrinkle in Time 5 book series. She travels through space and time with the help of her little brother Charles Wallace and new friend Calvin to try to save her father. Peter and the Starcatchers 5 book series. This fast paced pirate adventure tells the story before the story of Peter Pan, filling in all the questions you never knew you had: Lots of swashbuckling action, humor, and a great story.
The Mysterious Benedict Society 3 book series. Children respond to an ad in the newspaper to take mind-bending tests; the few who pass are sent on a mysterious mission. Expect riddles, villains, and adventures. Holes 2 book series. Cole is unjustly sent to a youth detention center, where the warden makes the boys spend their days digging holes in the desert. Warriors 6 book series. He finds it when he joins the ThunderClan, a group of warrior cats.
The ThunderClan is in danger from a rival clan, and Rusty renamed Firepaw must do what he can to help his new family. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place 5 book series. The incorrigible children in this book were found roaming the woods on Ashton place they actually were raised by wolves! But what else is lurking on the edge of the estate? All the Bellairs mysteries are deliciously creepy adventures set in places like haunted castles or mansions with secret passageways, and feature evil wizards, mummies, and more.
Dragon Slippers 3 book series. But the slippers are more than they seem, and it may be up to Creel to save the entire kingdom. Tripods 3 book series. Huge three legged machines control the earth and nearly everyone on it. And you can find even more books for kids here: Very well writen, very good illustrations like stamped.
Please give Diana Wynne Jones a try. Her books are excellent. The Chrestomanci series 7 books is about an eccentric enchanter; a kind of Minister of Magic. I love the chronicles of Narnia. They are very fin and enjoyable to read,I highly recommend them!
The Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull is perfect for this age group. A brother and sister go to visit their grandparents and discover that they are the caretakers of a nature preserve for magical creatures, both good and evil. They discover that someone is trying to loose the evil creatures and take over the world. Can they work together to keep the evil from overtaking the good? The Land of Stories series is great for this age and I believe struggling readers though the books are large will love them enough to read themselves if a parent reads the first 3 chapters to them.
I want to thank you for these posts. My 4th grade son is a voracious reader, and your list has helped me so much to keep up with his reading habits.
May I link to your page from my blog, http: The plots are riveting, and the addition of time travel is appealing to this grade level. Thanks for this great list! My 4th grade son has learned so much about mythology Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Norse and just loved all those books. Check out the database at this website. It is the collection of books curated by the AFrican American girl in search of 1, books about black girls. You can check the books based on reading level, and more. My third grade loves the Frog Princess series.
And in the present day, precocious fifteen year-old Lily struggles, despite her willfulness, to find a place for herself amongst the small town attitudes of Burning Hills, Oregon. Emily Strelow's mesmerizing debut stitches together a sprawling saga of the feral Northwest across farmlands and deserts and generations: Written with grace, grit, and an acute knowledge of how the past insists upon itself, The Wild Birds is a radiant and human story about the shelters we find and make along our crooked paths home.
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Showing of 31 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. The Wild Birds carefully weaves together the stories of lovers and families across more than a century's time to create a heart-tracing, thought-provoking novel. Young mother Alice and her teenage daughter Lily can't seem to find a common language, while more than a hundred years earlier, young Olive is orphaned and disguises herself as a boy to go work on a dangerous, remote lighthouse island.
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In this exciting new series, bestselling author Margaret Peterson Haddix brings an element of suspense that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. History is broken, and three kids must travel back in time to set it right! Recruited by the Hystorians, a secret society that dates back to Aristotle, the kids learn that history has gone disastrously off course. Spain, , where a sailor named Christopher Columbus is about to be thrown overboard in a deadly mutiny! What if a beautiful vintage dress could take you back in time?
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Almost everybody who has grown up in Chicago knows about the Thorne Rooms. Each of the 68 rooms is designed in the style of a different historic period, and every detail is perfect, from the knobs on the doors to the candles in the candlesticks. Some might even say, the rooms are magic. What if you discovered that others had done so before you? And that someone had left something important behind? The boy-girl friendship depicted was also very nice. Jack and his little sister Annie are just two regular kids from Frog Creek, Pennsylvania. Then they discover a mysterious tree house packed with all sorts of books…and their lives are never the same!
Soon they are traveling through time and space in the magic tree house and having amazing adventures. Disappointed that they have not landed in their beloved New York City, they wonder why they were brought to Massachusetts to meet a young girl named Clara Barton. Perhaps Clara has a message for the twins?
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Well the CIA, naturally. But also corporate agents 5, 29, and , plus two international superspies — one of whom happens to be a chimpanzee. They all want Dr. This six-book series centers around two 23rd century goofballs, Tuna and Herby, who travel back in time to study TJ Finkelstein for their history project. TJ will someday become a great leader who demonstrates honesty, integrity, thoughtfulness, self-sacrifice, respect for others—all traits she hones and grasps through her adventures in this series. Max Quick is a pickpocket, a vagabond, an orphan, and a thief.
Even so, nothing about him seems particularly special. Suddenly, nearly everyone in the world is frozen in time—except for Max. Now Max must journey across America to find the source of the Time-stop. Together, as they search for the cause of this disaster, Max and his companions encounter ancient mysteries, magic books, and clues to the riddle of stopped time.
And the closer Max gets to the answers, the more it seems that his own true identity is not what he once believed. Racing against a clock that no longer ticks, Max must embrace his past to save his future—and the world—from being altered forever. In the first book, everyone in the series freezes in place except Max and a few other kids. Everyone can also run super fast and has the power of a superhero. There he meets Samuel Maverick, a soon to be victim of the Boston Massacre. Andy experiences the horrible event and is almost killed. He discovers that lighting the unused portion of the stick brings him back to his New Hampshire home in the present.
Andy and his best friend Roger Stanley tempt fate to light a different stick for another time travel adventure. In the midst of the smoke, Miranda Roberts barges in, and Andy drops the stick. All three transport back to Antebellum Georgia where Andy and Miranda are the children of a plantation owner.
Roger, who is black, is a slave. Without the stick, they are hopelessly trapped. A storm is brewing in ancient Egypt, and chaos threatens the peace. Fast forward to the modern world where twelve-year-old, JJ visits a museum for a day packed full of boredom. Join them as they search for a mystical amulet, known as the Golden Scarab, which has the power to save the day.
All the while, a gang of cranky beasts called Uberdiles half-man half-crocodile will stop at nothing to crush them before they can find the amulet. Life in is simple for tomboy Beverly, moody Maxine, high-spirited Judy, studious Mary, and artistic Ann. But after a class assignment to predict life in the future, they wake up the next morning in a future they could never have imagined, having time-traveled into a parallel universe over fifty years into the future.
With only each other to trust, they must work together and find their way home to , but the more they discover about the future, will they even want to go back? Hannah finds nothing adventurous about the seventh grade—until she meets her new Texas history teacher, Mr. Barrington, who brings in a mysterious trunk and assigns an unusual project: While seeking inspiration among the historical artifacts contained in the trunk, Hannah, her brother Nick, and her friend Jackie are suddenly thrown back through time, finding themselves at an old Spanish mission in San Antonio.
Suddenly, the kids are catapulted thousands of miles and almost seventy years to England during World War Two. They fall into a world of stinging nettles, dragon ladies, bomb blasts, ugly underwear, stinky sandwiches, painful punishments, and non-absorbing toilet paper. Canadian Flyer Adventures by Frieda Wishinsky. Adventure beckons, and Emily and Matt are happy to follow. Until, that is, they meet up with honest-to-goodness pirates! One day the world around Owen shifts oddly: Time flows backwards, and the world and family he knew disappear.
Time can only be set right when the Resisters vanquish their ancient enemies, the Harsh. Unless they are stopped, everything Owen knows will vanish as if it has never been…And Owen discovers he has a terrifying role to play in this battle: When the Kings move from L. He and his friends loved to create amateur films … but the tiny town of Pinedale is the last place a movie buff and future filmmaker wants to land. But he, David, and Toria are captivated by the many rooms in the old Victorian fixer-upper they moved into—as well as the heavy woods surrounding the house.
Sounds come from the wrong directions. Prints of giant, bare feet appear in the dust. And when David tries to hide in the linen closet, he winds up in locker at his new school. Then the really weird stuff kicks in: I read the first novel in this series. The Fire Thief hilariously reimagines the myth of Prometheus, the Greek demigod who stole fire from the gods and gave it to the human race. There, he befriends a young orphan, actor, and petty criminal named Jim.
When Jim runs into trouble with the law, Prometheus is torn — if he uses his powers to get his friend out of trouble, he will betray his hiding place to the gods. Terry Deary masterfully interweaves two plots, with action jumping at a whirlwind pace from Mount Olympus to the seedy taverns and elegant mansions of Victorian Eden City. Packed with puns, wisecracks, and sarcastic footnotes, The Fire Thief turns Greek mythology into a laughing matter. Six young friends become Time Soldiers when they stumble onto a secret time portal, leading them to an ancient world of dinosaurs and danger.
The Time Soldiers fight to survive, escape the T. Ned Banks is miserable.