NEW Great Readers Book List April 2026 Updated.xlsx

	A	B	C	D	E
1	Title	Author	Points	Good for 3rd Grade	Lexile

2	Abel's Island	Steig, William	2		920
3	About the B'Nai Bagels	Konigsburg, Elaine	2		700
4	Absent Author, The (A to Z Mysteries #1)	Roy, Ron	1	Yes	510
5	Across Five Aprils	Hunt, Irene	3		1,100
6	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (original version)	Carroll, Lewis	3		880
7	Amos Fortune, Free Man	Yates, Elizabeth	2		1090
8	Anastasia Again	Lowry, Lois	2	Yes	700
9	And Now Miguel	Krumgold, Joseph	3		780
10	And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?	Fritz, Jean	1	Yes	830
11	Anne of Green Gables	Montgomery, Lucy	3		710
12	Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret	Blume, Judy	2		570
13	Baby	MacLachlan, Patricia	2		670
14	Bad Beginning, The (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)	Snicket, Lemony	2	Yes	1010
15	Banner in the Sky	Ullman, James R.	2		680
16	Barn	Avi	1		670
17	Baseball Fever	Hurwitz, Joanna	1	Yes	760
18	Battle for the Castle, The	Winthrop, Elizabeth	2	Yes	700
19	Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days	Manes, Stephen	1	Yes	720
20	Bear Called Paddington, A	Bond, Michael	1	Yes	750
21	Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room, The	Giff, Patricia Reilly	1	Yes	530
22	Because of Mr. Terupt	Buyea, Rob	3		560
23	Because of Winn Dixie	DiCamillo, Kate	2	Yes	670
24	Behind the Bedroom Wall	Williams, Laura	2		660
25	Belle Prater's Boy	White, Ruth	3		760
26	Ben and Me	Lawson, Robert	1	Yes	1010
27	Best Enemies	Leverich, Kathleen	1	Yes	610
28	Big Red	Kjelgaard, Jim	2		910
29	Billion for Boris, A	Rodgers, Mary	2		680
30	Black Beauty	Sewell, Anna	3		760
31	Black Pearl, The	O'Dell, Scott	2		980
32	Black Stallion, The	Farley, Walter	3		680
33	Blubber	Blume, Judy	1	Yes	610
34	Blue Willow	Gates, Doris	1		960
35	Borrowers, The	Norton, Mary	3		780
36	Boxcar Children, The	Warner, Gertrude Chandler	1	Yes	580
37	Brian's Winter	Paulsen, Gary	2		1140
38	Bridge to Terabithia	Paterson, Katherine	3		810
39	Bud, Not Buddy	Curtis, Christopher Paul	3		950
40	Bull Run	Fleischman, Paul	3		810
41	Bunnicula	Howe, James/Deborah	2	Yes	700
42	By the Dawn's Early Light	Kroll, Steven	1	Yes	930
43	Caddie Woodlawn	Brink, Carol Ryrie	2		890
44	Calico Bush	Field, Rachel	2		1060
45	Call It Courage	Sperry, Armstrong	2		630
46	Canada Geese Quilt, The	Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie	1	Yes	680
47	Candymakers, The #1	Mass, Wendy	4		740
48	Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?	Fritz, Jean	1	Yes	860
49	Captain Awesome to the Rescue! (Book 1)	Kirby, Stan	1	Yes	650
50	Castle in the Attic, The	Winthrop, Elizabeth	2	Yes	750
51	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Dahl, Roald	2	Yes	810
52	Charlotte's Web	White, E.B.	2	Yes	680
53	Chucaro	Kalnay, Francis	2		780
54	City of Gold and Lead, The	Christopher, John	3		920
55	Class Trip From the Black Lagoon #1	Thaler, Mike	1	Yes	660
56	Crenshaw	Applegate, Katherine	2		540
57	Cricket in Times Square, The	Selden, George	2	Yes	780
58	Crispin: The Cross of Lead	Avi	3		780
59	Danny, Champion of the World	Dahl, Roald	2	Yes	770
60	Day No Pigs Would Die, A	Peck, Robert	2		690
61	Dear Mr. Henshaw	Cleary, Beverly	1		910
62	December Secrets	Giff, Patricia Reilly	1	Yes	480
63	Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The (Book 1)	Kinney, Jeff	1	Yes	950
64	Dog Man (Book 1)	Pilkey, Dav	1	Yes	390
65	Doll People, The (Book 1)	Martin, Ann M.	3		630
66	Door in the Wall, The	DeAngeli, Marguerite	3		920
67	Dragonwings	Yep, Lawrence	3		870
68	Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, The	Farmer, Nancy	3		660
69	Eighteenth (18th) Emergency, The	Byars, Betsy	2		750
70	11 (Eleven) Birthdays	Mass, Wendy	2		650
71	Elijah of Buxton	Curtis, Christopher Paul	3		980
72	Ella Enchanted	Levine, Gail Carson	3		670
73	Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of Pablo's Nose	Sobol, Donald	1	Yes	580
74	Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library	Grabenstein, Chris	3		720
75	Everything on a Waffle	Horvath, Polly	2		950
76	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Dahl, Roald	1	Yes	600
77	Fat Men From Space	Pinkwater, Daniel	1	Yes	810
78	Fellowship of the Rings (part one of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy)	Tolkien, J.R.R.	4		860
79	Figgs and Phantoms	Raskin, Ellen	3		780
80	First Four Years, The	Wilder, Laura Ingalls	1	Yes	1030
81	Flat Stanley: His Original Adventure	Brown, Jeff	1	Yes	550
82	Flora and Ulysses	DiCamillo, Kate	3		520
83	Forgotten Door, The	Key, Alexander	2		720
84	Freckle Juice	Blume, Judy	1	Yes	570
85	Freedom Crossing	Clark, Margaret Goff	2		720
86	Frindle	Clements, Andrew	1	Yes	830
87	From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler	Konigsburg, Elaine	2		700
88	Gathering of Days, A	Blos, Joan	2		960
89	Ginger Pye	Estes, Eleanor	2		990
90	Girl Named Disaster, A	Farmer, Nancy	3		730
91	Gracie Under the Waves	Park, Linda Sue	3		731
92	Great Gilly Hopkins, The	Paterson, Katherine	2		800
93	Hang Tough, Paul Mather	Slote, Alfred	2		580
94	Hans Brinker/The Silver Skates (original version)	Dodge, Mary Mapes	2		960
95	Hank Zipzer #1- Niagara Falls, or Does It?	Winkler, Henry and Lin Oliver	2		610
96	Harriet the Spy	Fitzhugh, Louise	2		760
97	Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	Rowling, J.K.	3		880
98	Hatchet	Paulsen, Gary	2		1020
99	Heidi (original version)	Spyri, Johanna	3		500
100	Henry Huggins	Cleary, Beverly	1	Yes	670