Help your child succeed in school by encouraging reading at home. The following list of Authors and Titles are age-appropriate for intermediate grade (grades 3 to 5) children (as suggested by the Baltimore City Public School System District Web Site).
Author(s) - Title
Aardena, Verna - Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears
Ackerman, Karen - Song and Dance Man
Adamson, Joy - Born Free
Adler, David - Child of the Warsaw Ghetto
Andrews, Jane - Very Last First Time
Babbitt, Natalie - Tuck Everlasting
Baker, Olaf - Where the Buffaloes Begin
Banks, Lynne Reid - The Indian in the Cupboard
Baylor, Byrd - Hawk, I'm Your Brother
Bishop, Claire - Twenty and Ten
Blume, Judy - Tale of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Bond, Michael - A Bear Called Paddington
Bontemps, Arna - Lonesome Boy
Bottieri, Bob - Kid Made: Easily Made Sets for Action Toys
Brink, Carol R. - Caddie Woodlawn
Bulla, Clyde Robert - Shoe Shine Girl
Bunting, Eve - Hideout
Burnett, Frances - The Secret Garden
Byars, Betsy-The Summer Of The Swans
Cameron, Ann - The Stories Julian Tells
Campbell, Barabra - Taking Care of Yoki
Cherry, Lynne - A River Ran Wild
Churchill, E. Richard - How to make Optical Illusion Tricks and Toys
Clark, Ann Nolan - Secret of the Andes
Clark, Mary Higgins - Freedom Crossing
Cleary, Beverly - Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Cleaver, Elizabeth - Loon's Necklace
Clement, Claude - Painter and the Wild
Clifton, Lucille - Lucky Stone
Conaway, Judith - Detective Tricks You Can Do
Coerr, Eleanor - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Creech, Sharon - Walk Two Moons
Dahl, Roald - James and the Giant Peach
Dalgliesh, Alice - The Courage of Sarah Noble
Davis, Granger - Draw Science Fiction
De Clements, Barthe - Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade
Dixon, Ann - How Raven brought Light to People
Estes, Eleanor - Ginger Pye
Farley, Walter - The Black Stallion
Fitzgerald, John D. - The Great Brain
Fitzhugh, Louise - Harriet the Spy
Fleischman, Sid - The Whipping Boy
Flournoy, Valerie - Patchwork Quilt
Fox, Paula - The Slave Dancer
Fritz, Jean - And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
Fritz, Jean - Homesick: My Own Story
Gardiner, John R. - Stone Fox
Garland, Sherry - The Lotus Seed
George, Jean C. - Julie of the Wolves
Geras, Adele - My Grandmother's Stories: A Collection Of Jewish Folk Tales
Giff, Patricia - The Beast In Ms. Rooney's Room
Giovanni, Nikki - Spin a Soft Black Song
Goble, Paul - Beyond the Ridge
Graham, Kenneth - The Wind in the Willows
Greene, Bette - Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe
Greenfield, Eloise - Grandma's Joy
Grenwood, Barbara - Pioneer Crafts
Griffin, Judith - Berry Phoebe The Spy
Hall, Donald - The Ox-Cart Man
Hess, Karen - Sable
Hamilton, Virginia - The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Hansen, Joyce - Gift Giver
Henry, Marguerite - Misty of Chincoteague
Hill, Kirkpatrick - Winter Camp
Holm, Anne - North to Freedom
Houston, James - Akavak
Howe, Deborah & James Humphrey, Margo - Bunnicula The River that Gave Gifts
Hurwitz, Johanna - Class President
Huynh, Quang Nhuong - Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy In Vietnam
Juster, Norton - The Phantom Tollbooth
Kellog, Steven - The Island of the Skog
Kelly, Eric - The Trumpeter of Krakow
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie - Canada Geese Quilt
Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Book
Knapp, Toni - Six Bridges of Humphrey The Whale
Konigsburg, E.L. - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Krumgold, Joseph - And Now Miguel
Lasky, Kathryn - The Night Journey
Lawson, Robert - Ben and Me
Lee, Stan & Buscems, John - How to Draw Comics The Marvel Way
L'Engle, Madeline - A Wrinkle in Time
Lester, Julius - How Many Spots does a Leopard Have?
Lewin, Hugh - Jafta
Lewis, C.S. - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Lobel, Anita - Potatoes, Potatoes
Lord, Bette - Bao In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Lowry, Lois - Number the Stars
Lyons, Mary E. - Stitching Stars: The Story Quilts of Harriet Powers
MacLachlan, Patricia - Sarah, Plain and Tall
Martin, Ann M. - Yours Truly, Shirley
Martin, Rafe - The Rough-Face Girl
Mathis, Sharon Bell - The Hundred Penny Box
McKissack, Patricia - Nette Jo's Friend
Mendez, Phil - The Black Snowman
Meyer, Carolyn - White Lilacs
Milne, A.A. - Winnie the Pooh
Mitchell, Margaree - Uncle Jed's Barber Shop
Mohr, Nicholasa - Felita
Morey, Walt - Gentle Ben
Morris, Campbell - Best Paper Aircraft
Myers, Walter Dean - Me, Mop, and the Moondance Kid
Naylor, Phyllis R. - Shilo
Ness, Evaline - Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine
Norton, Mary - The Borrowers
O'Brien, Robert C. - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
Park, Ruth - Playing Beatie Bow
Paterson, Katherine - The Bridge to Terabithia
Patterson, Lillie - Frederick Douglass and The Fight for Freedom
Peck, Richard - A Long Way from Chicago
Polacco, Patricia - Pink and Say
Politi, Leo - Song of the Swallows
Quackenbush, Robert - Arthur Ashe and His Match with History
Rattigan, James Kim - Dumpling Soup
Reeder, Carolyn - Shades of Grey
Reiss, Johanna - Upstairs Room
Ringgold, Faith - Dinner at Aunt Connie's House
Rodanas, Kristina - Dragonfly's Tale
Rockwell, Thomas - How to eat Fried Worms
Ryland, Cynthia - Missing May
Sachar, Louis - Holes
San Souci, Robert - Faithful Friend
Sattler, Helen Roney - The Earliest Americans
Say, Allen - Bicycle Man
Schlein, Miriam - Year of the Panda
Selden, George - Cricket In Times Square
Sewell, Anna - Black Beauty
Speare, Elizabeth - Sign of the Beaver
Silverstein, Shel - Where the Sidewalk Ends
Smith, Robert - Chocolate Fever
Sobol, Donald J. - Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Sorensen, Virginia - Miracles on Maple Hill
Soto, Gary - The Skirt
Sperry, Armstrong - Call it Courage
Spinelli, Jerry - Maniac Magee
Steele, William O. - The Perilous Road
Steig, William - Abel's Island
Steinbeck, John - Red Pony
Steptoe, John - Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
Sterling, Dorothy - Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
Stolz, Mary - Storm in the Night
Tagore, Rabindranath - Paper Boats
Tallarico, Tony - I Can Draw Planes and Ships
Taylor, Mildred - Friendship and the Gold Cadillac
Thomas, Joyce Carol - I Have Heard af a Land
Uchida, Yoshiko - Jar of Dreams
Van Allsburg, Chris - Jumanji
Voigt, Cynthia - Homecoming
Walker, Alice - Finding the Green Stone
Walter, Mildred Pitts - T.V.'s One-Man Band
Warner, Gertrude - Boxcar Children
Weitzman, David - My Backyard History Book
Wheatley, Nadia - My Place
White, E.B. - Charlotte's Web
Wilder, Laura I. - Little House Series
Williams, Sherley - Working Cotton
Winter, Jeanette - Follow the Drinking Gourd
Woodruff, Elvira - George Washington's Socks
Yep, Laurence - Rainbow Dance
Ziefert, Harrie - A New Coat for Anna
