Adventure books for children
Adventure books for children with titles by Brian Selznick, Chris Colfer, Michael Ende, Kate DiCamillo, Christopher Paolini, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jean Craighead George, Avi, Robert C. O’Brien, and Scott O’Dell.
Genres
Children’s book lists sorted by fiction genres to help teachers, school librarians and parents pick suitable reading books for students.
Adventure books for teens
Adventure books for teens with books by Suzanne Collins, Sarah J. Maas, Veronica Roth, Marie Lu, Ruta Sepetys, Jason Reynolds, Brandon Sanderson, Jack London, Mark Twain, and Gary Paulsen.
Folk tales for children
Folk tales for children with books by Rudyard Kipling, Tomie dePaola, Grace Lin, Jon Klassen, Angela McAllister, and Donna Barba Higuera, Mary-Joan Gerson, Carla Gloembe and Gerald McDermott.
Bedtime stories for children
Bedtime stories for children with books by Eric Carle, Beatrix Potter, Margaret Wise Brown, Astrid Lindgren, Julia Donaldson, Sandra Boynton, Anna Dewdney, Doreen Cronin, Yuyi Morales, and Jory John.
Humorous books for children
Humorous books for children with titles by Dav Pilkey, Aaron Blabey, Judy Blume, Jory John, Suzanne Lang, Andy Griffiths, James Burkes, Laurie Keller, Abby Hanlon and Kenn Nesbitt.
Read-aloud stories for children
Read-aloud stories for children with titles by Mo Willems, Sandra Boynton, Ezra Jack Keats, Mac Barnett, Kate DiCamillo, Katherine Applegate, E. B. White, Andrew Clements, Gordon Korman, R. J. Palacio, Chris Grabenstein, Peter Brown and George Selden.
Poetry books for children
Poetry books for children with titles by Emily Dickinson, Shel Silverstein, Roald Dahl, Sharon Creech, Nikki Grimes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joy Harjo, Kwame Alexander, and Marilyn Singer.
Mystery stories for children and teens
Mystery stories for children and teens with titles by Eoin Colfer, Chris Grabenstein, Rebecca Stead, E. L. Konigsburg, Ellen Raskin, Stuart Gibbs, Karen M. McManus, Tiffany D. Jackson, Angeline Boulley, and Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé.
Book series for elementary aged children
Book series for elementary aged children with titles by Dav Pilkey, Mary Pope Osborne, Aaron Blabey, Barbara Park, Saadia Faruqi, Annie Barrows, Shannon Hale, and Dean Hale, Doreen Cronin, and Chris Colfer.
Book series for high schoolers
Book series for high schoolers with titles by Veronica Roth, Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Holly Jackson, Alice Oseman, Tomi Adeyemi, Jenny Han, Marissa Meyer, Stephanie Garber, and Neal Shusterman.
Book series for middle schoolers
Book series for middle schoolers with titles by J. K. Rowling, Jeff Kinney, Beverly Cleary, Kazu Kibuishi, Jason Reynolds, Katherine Applegate, Cressida Cowell, Tui T. Sutherland, Trenton Lee Stewart, and Shannon Messenger.
Realistic fiction for children and teens
Realistic fiction for children and teens with titles by R. J. Palacio, Andrew Clements, Jason Reynolds, Erin Entrada Kelly, Nic Stone, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Ali Hazelwood.
Graphic novels for teens
Graphic novels for teens with titles by Alice Oseman, Mariko Tamaki, Jillian Tamaki, Lois Lowry, Molly Knox Ostertag, James Tynion IV, Brian K. Vaughan, George Takei, Dan Santat, and Gareth Hinds.
Graphic novels for children
Graphic novels for children with titles by Dav Pilkey, Kazu Kibuishi, Rick Riordan, Mary Pope Osborne, Erin Hunter, Noelle Stevenson, Victoria Jamieson, Jen Wang, Jerry Craft, and Kwame Alexander.
Horror Novels for Teens
Horror fiction for teens with titles by Michael Grant, Stephenie Meyer, Vera Brosgol, Ransom Riggs, Bram Stoker, Ryan La Sala, Ellie Marney, Kat Ellis, Kiersten White, Gretchen McNeil and more.
Science fiction books for children and teens
Science fiction books for children and teens with titles by Mac Barnett, Madeleine L’Engle, Louis Sachar, Donna Barba Higuera, Ernest Cline, Suzanne Collins, Amie Kaufman, James Dashner, Veronica Roth and Orson Scott Card.
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