Simple Chapter Books
*The Boxcar Children (series) (Gertrude Chandler Warner)The Happy Hollisters (series) (Jerry West)The Bobbsey Twins (series) (Laura Lee Hope)The Hardy Boys (series) (Franklin W. Dixon)Trixie Belden (series) (Julie Campbell)Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (series) (Betty MacDonald)Encyclopedia Brown (series) (Donald Sobol) Secret Agents FourTwenty and Ten (Claire Huchet Bishop)*Homer Price (Robert McCloskey) Centerburg TalesKnee-Knock Rise (Natalie Babbitt)(Astrid Lindgren) Pippi Longstocking Pippi Goes on Board Pippi in the South Seas The Children of Noisy VillageThe Family Under the Bidge (Natalie Savage Carlson)The Door in the Wall (Marguerite de Angeli)(Beverly Cleary) *Emily’s Runaway Imagination The Mouse and the Motorcycle (series) Henry Huggins (series) *(William Steig) (short and illustrated, but advanced vocabulary!) Abel’s Island Dominic The Real ThiefOwls in the Family (Farley Mowat)Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Richard and Florence Atwater)The Toothpaste Millionaire (Jean Merrill)Little Pear (Eleanor Frances Lattimore)Hank the Cowdog (series) (John R. Erickson)Ben and Me (Robert Lawson)(Clyde Robert Bulla) (range from very easy to more difficult…) The Sword in the Tree The Chalk Box Kid The Paint Brush Kid The Secret Valley A Lion to Guard Us Viking Adventure Riding the Pony Express
Squanto: Friend of the Pilgrims