Essential Books for the Classroom Library
Kelly Gallagher (my hero) says that these are all of the books you absolutely HAVE to have in your classroom library. I have read/ my kids have read most of the books on this list, and LOVE them. If you want your kids to enjoy reading independently, get some of these books. Now!
(Check the levels first to make sure they are right for the grade you teach.)
(Check the levels first to make sure they are right for the grade you teach.)
Title Author
American Born Chinese Gene Luan Yang
Bottled Up Jaye Murray
Breaking Night Liz Murray
Bronx Masquerade Nikki Grimes
Bruiser Neil Shusterman
Cardboard Doug Tennapel
Chew on This Eric Schlosser
Cinder Marrisa Myer
Copper Sun Sharon Draper
Crank Ellen Hopkins
Divergent Veronica Roth
Eleanor & Park Rainbow Powell
Enclave Anne Aguirre
Everlost Neil Shusterman
Me, Earl, and the Dying Girl Jesse Andrews
Paper Towns John Green
Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky
Room Emma Donahue
Runner Carl Decker
The 5th Wave Rick Yuncey
The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie
The Battle of Jericho Sharon Draper
The Compound S.A. Bodeen
The Eleventh Plague Jeff Hirscaye
The Fault in Our Stars John Green
The Giver Lois Lowry
The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls
The Land Mildred Taylor
The Last Book in the Universe Rodman Philbrick
The Last Lecture Randy Pausch
The Maze Runner trilogy James Daschner
The Road Carmac McCarthy
Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelsen
Tyrell Coe Booth
Unwind Neil Shusterman
We Were Here Matt de la Pena
Wonder R.J. Palacio
Wonder (for elementary) R.J. Palacio
Wonderstruck Brian Selznick
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