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March is Reading Month Grades 4-6

March is Reading Month Suggestions from the Shelves of the Library of Michigan

Age Group: Grades 4-6

Don’t forget the upper elementary students! Lure them in by reading selections from these longer books.

Bad hair day / Jim Benton.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2019.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PZ7.B447547 Bad 2019

Best family ever / Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2019]
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PZ7.K6117 Be 2019

Betty before X / Ilyasah Shabazz ; with Renée Watson.
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PZ7.1.S47 Bet 2018

Bucking the Sarge / Christopher Paul Curtis.
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, [2004], ©2004.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PZ7.C94137 Bw 2004

Bud, not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis.
New York : Delacorte Press, 1999.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PS8555.U78 B83 1999

The colored car / Jean Alicia Elster.
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2013.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PS3605.L77 C6 2013

The enemy : Detroit 1954 / Sara Holbrook.
Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, [2017]
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PS3558.O347745 E54 2017

The house with a clock in its walls / John Bellairs ; pictures by Edward Gorey.
New York, New York : Puffin Books, 2018.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PS3552.E53 H68 2018

Knucklehead : tall tales & mostly true stories about growing up Scieszka / Jon Scieszka.
New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2008.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PS3569.C5748 Z46 2008

Mr. Chickee's funny money / Christopher Paul Curtis.
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2005.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PZ7.C94137 Mr 2005

Mr. Chickee's messy mission / Christopher Paul Curtis.
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, [2007], ©2007.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PZ7.C94137 Mrg 2007

Okay for now / by Gary D. Schmidt.
New York : Clarion Books, 2011.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PZ7.S3527 Ok 2011

Pay attention, Carter Jones / Gary D. Schmidt.
New York, New York : Clarion Books, [2019]
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PZ7.S3527 Pay 2019

The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 / a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis.
New York : Bantam Doubleday Bell Books for Young Readers, 1997, ©1995.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PS8555.U78 W37 1997

Who's Jim Hines? / Jean Alicia Elster.
Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2008.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PZ7.E529 Wh 2008

Willow Run / Patricia Reilly Giff.
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, [2005], ©2005.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PS3545.I342 W55 2005

X : a novel / Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon.
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015.
LIB OF MICH MICHIGAN 2N PS3619.H275 X24 2016