Award Winners | Texas Reading Lists | Reading List by grade level 
Books Like | Topics of Interest | RRISD Accelerated Reading Lists 
Characters & Books in a Series | Books by Topics from A-Z 

The Reading Lists below are a good resource to find quality books for children. Our Online Catalog's Children's Catalog allows you to look up books from the lists and check the call number and availability.

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Award Winners   

Find the best of children's literature with these state and national award programs.  

• Caldecott Award
• Coretta Scott King Award
• Michael L. Printz Award
• National Book Award
• Newbery Award Books
• Pura Belpré Award Books
• Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

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Texas Reading Lists

There are several annual lists chosen by librarians in Texas that are recommended for various age levels.

Texas 2 x 2 : Ages 2 through grade 2
Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees (current)
Past Bluebonnet Award winners: For grades 3 through 6
Lone Star: Sixth through eighth grade
Tayshas List  Tayshas: High school

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 Reading List by age and grade level

Find books according to age level or check out the books library staff selected for their reading programs. The reading list is arranged by ages:

• Reading Lists for Young Toddlers
• Birth to Age 3
• Age 3 to Age 6
• Beginning Readers
• Grade 1
• Grade 2
• Grade 3
• Good Reads for Advanced Readers Grades K-3
• Grade 4
• Grade 5
• Grade 6

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Books Like: Find Similar Books to Your Favorite's

If you like Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
If you like Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
If you like Holes by Louis Sachar
If you like Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
If you like the 39 clues series
If you like the Chronicles of Narnia
If you like the Warriors series by Erin Hunter

Topics of Interest
Adoption
Concepts, Alphabet books
Concepts, Counting books
Concepts, Opposites
Earth Day
Fractured Fairy Tales, Chapter Books
Fractured Fairy Tales, Picture Books
New Baby
Politics, Presidents and Elections
Princess Books, Disney Princessess
Princess Books, Picture Books for Kindergarten and up
Princess Books, Picture Books for Preschool and up
Superheroes
Superheroes: Superman, Spiderman, Batman and more
Racing
Scary Stories for Preschoolers
Scary Stories for Grades 1 and 2
Scary Stories for Grades 3-6

Being Sick Classics Death Funny Stories for Juniors

Funny Stories for Young Children Sex Role Safety Starting School

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RRISD Accelerated Reading Lists

• Blackland Prairie Elementary: You can search it by title, author, or AR reading level.
• Cactus Ranch Elementary: You can search it by title, author, or AR reading level.
• Deepwood Elementary: You can search it by title, author, or AR reading level.  
• Fern Bluff Elementary: It is sorted by both title and book level.
• Great Oaks Elementary: You can search it by title, author, or AR reading level.
• Old Town Elementary
• Voigt Elementary  

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Characters & Books in a Series

Find all the books in the Library featuring your favorite characters:

A-Z Mysteries Alex Rider Alice Amber Brown   American Girl Anne of Green Gables Artemis Fowl Bessledorf Hotel Betsy-Tacy Boys vs. Girls Boxcar Children Captain Underpants Chet Gecko Chronicles of Narnia Dark is Rising Dear America Dragon Ball Encyclopedia Brown Freddy the Pig Series for Young Children The Fudge Books by Judy Blume

Goosebumps Great Brain Half Magic Hank the cowdog Hardy boys Harry Potter Henry Huggins Henty Adventures His Dark Materials History mysteries I was a Sixth Grade Alien Joey Pigza Judy Moody Junie B. Jones Left Behind (for kids) Lemony Snicket Little House Lord of the Rings Lost Years of Merlin

Magic Tree House Matt Christopher Sports My America My Name is America Mysteries in our National Parks Nancy Drew Oz Poppy Princess Diaries Protector of the Small Prydain Chronicles Ramona Quimby Redwall Royal Diaries Sammy Keyes  Song of the Lioness Quartet The Spiderwick Chronicles Squire's Tales Time Warp Trio Wayside School Wrinkle in Time Young Heroes Young Wizards

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Books by Topics from A-Z  

Find books for kids on any topic under one of these categories in our Online Catalog.

Pre-K Concepts Animals Arts and Crafts Countries Current Events Fairy Tales and Folk Tales  Famous People History

Holidays Human Body and Health Jokes and Comics Kid's Problems Machines Multicultural

Nature Religion and Mythology Scary Stuff   Science Sports and Games United States

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