Lit Circle Themes Grades 3 – 6

August 15, 2018

Family & Friendship

The Lemonade War – Jacqueline Davies

Year of the Rat – Grace Lin

The Year of Billy Miller – Kevin Henkes

Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson

Travels with My Family – Marie-Louise Gay

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing – Judy Blume

Jack Strong Takes a Stand – Tommy Greenwald

Wish – Barbara O’Conner

Nest – Esther Ehrlich

The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher – Dana Alison Levy

My Funny Family – Chris Higgins

Books about Animals or featuring Animal Characters

Pax – Sara Pennypacker

The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate

Silverwing – Kenneth Oppel

Stone Fox – John Reynolds Gardiner

A Boy Called Bat – Elana K. Arnold

Nuts to You – Lynne Rae Perkins

A Handful of Stars – Cynthia Lord

Crenshaw – Katherine Applegate

8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel ÷ 1 Dog = Chaos – Vivian Vande Velde

Appleblossom the Possum – Holly Goldberg Sloan

Rain Reign – Ann M. Martin

Magic & Fantasy

Baker’s Magic – Diane Zahler

My Father’s Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett

Waiting for the Magic – Patricia MacLachlan

Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk – Liesl Shurtliff

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster – Jonathan Auxier

Nightingale’s Nest -Nikki Loftin

Toys Go Out – Emily Jenkins

The Boundless – Kenneth Oppel (also Canadian History)

Wishtree – Katherine Applegate

A Snicker of Magic – Natalie Llyod

All the Answers – Kate Messner

Survival

Tikta’liktak: An Inuit-Eskimo Legend – James A. Houston

The Hatchet – Gary Paulsen

Lost in the Backyard – Alison Hughes

The Cay – Theodore Taylor

The Wild Robot – Peter Brown

Beyond the Bright Sea – Lauren Wolk

School

Ms. Bixby’s Last Day – John David Anderson

Frindle – Andrew Clements

Fourth Grade Rats – Jerry Spinelli

Armstrong & Charlie – Steven B. Frank (also friendship)

Wonder – R.J. Palicio

Lola Levine is Not Mean – Monica Brown

Short – Holly Goldberg Sloan

The New Kid: The Carver Chronicles – Karen English

Jane, the Fox and Me – Fanny Britt

Fatty Legs – Christy Jordan Fenton

8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel ÷ 1 Dog = Chaos – Vivian Vande Velde

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things – Lenore Look

Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters – Rachel Vail

Save Me a Seat – Sarah Weeks

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