Lit Circle Themes Grades 3 – 6 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 Read more articles Previous PostLit Circle Themes Middle School (Grades 6-9) Next Post#Gearpicks Middle Grade Novels 2018
