Students:  International Reading Association 2010 Reading List

Each year, the International Reading Association asks seven regional teams of teachers and librarians to choose the best children's trade books based on classroom and library try-outs with children.

 

Primary Readers (Grades K-2, ages 5-8):

* Bird, Butterfly, Eel by James Prosek (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
* Finding Lincoln by Ann Malaspina (Morton Grove)
* How Many Baby Pandas? by Sandra Markle (Walker Books for Young Readers)
* Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg and Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (Dial)
* Marsupials by Nic Bishop (Scholastic)
* One World, One Day by Barbara Kerley (National Geographic Children'sBooks)
* Peace Week in Miss Fox's Class by Eileen Spinelli (Morton Grove)
* The Plot Chickens by Mary Jane Auch (Holiday House)
* What's the Difference Between a Butterfly and a Moth? by Robin Koontz (Picture Window)
* A Whiff of Pine, a Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems by Deborah Ruddell (Margaret McElderry)

Intermediate Readers (Grades 3-5, ages 8-11):

* Ashley Bryan: Words to My Life's Song by Ashley Bryan (Atheneum)
* Big George: How a Shy Boy Became President Washington by Anne Rockwell (Harcourt)
* Crow Call by Lois Lowry (Scholastic)
* 14 Cows for America by Carmen Agra Deedy with Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah (Peachtree)
* How to Get Rich on the Oregon Trail: My Adventures Among Cows, Crooks and Heroes on the Road to Fame and Fortune by William Reed (National Geographic Children's Books)
* Neo Leo: The Ageless Ideas of Leonardo da Vinci by Gene Barretta (Henry Holt)
* Operation Redwood by Terrell French (Amulet Books)
* Punctuation Celebration by Elsa Knight Bruno (Henry Holt)
* Where Else in the Wild? More Camouflaged Creatures Concealed... and Revealed by David Schwartz and Yael Schy (Tricycle Press)
* Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)

Advanced Readers (Grades 6-8, ages 11-14):

* After Ghandi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance by Anne Sibley O'Brien and Perry Edmond O'Brien (Charlesbridge)
* Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone (Candlewick)
* Before Columbus: The America of 1491 by Charles Mann (Atheneum)
* The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson (Clarion)
* Denied, Detained, Deported: The Dark Side of American Immigration by Ann Bausum (National Geographic Children's Books)
* The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (Henry Holt)
* January's Sparrow by Patricia Polacco (Philomel)
* Kaleidoscope Eyes by Jen Bryant (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
* Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking Juvenile)
* Under Siege! Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg by Andrea Warren (Melanie Kroupa Books)