Guided Reading List: Juvenile Fiction and Juvenile Nonfiction X

This book list was created using Guided Reading Levels provided by Fountas & Pinnell, and children’s publishers such as ABDO Publishing, Capstone Press, Cavendish Square, Children’s Press, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Random House and Scholastic.

Updated September 20, 2025
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Eva Evergreen and the cursed witch /
Abe, Julie
Paper Book
In this thrilling sequel to Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch, Eva must put a stop to the violent Culling or risk the fate of Rivelle Realm forever--perfect for fans of Kiki's Delivery Service. From this day forward, we will believe in the...
The high king
Alexander, Lloyd
Paper Book
In this fifth and final chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in ultimate confrontation.
Blood City rollers
Anderson, V. P.
Paper Book
Skates on. Fangs out. Let's roll. This perfectly paranormal graphic novel about a 13-year-old ice skater who embraces the dark side and finds her light when she joins a vampire roller derby team is to die for. Ice-skater Mina is on a one-track path to Olympic gold and...
The curse of Eelgrass Bog /
Averling, Mary
Paper Book
Dark secrets and unnatural magic abound when a twelve-year-old girl ventures into a bog full of monsters to break a mysterious curse. Nothing about Kess Pedrock's life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family's Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for...
El deafo
Bell, Cece
Paper Book
The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor winning graphic novel memoir from Cece Bell   Starting at a new school is scary, especially with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf....
Al Capone does my shirts
Choldenko, Gennifer
Paper Book
The madman of Piney Woods /
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Paper Book
Bestselling Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis delivers a powerful companion to his multiple award-winning ELIJAH OF BUXTON.Benji and Red couldn't be more different. They aren't friends. They don't even live in the same town. But their fates are entwined. A chance meeting leads the boys...
Projekt 1065
Gratz, Alan
Paper Book
Award-winning, critically acclaimed author Alan Gratz (Prisoner B-3087) returns with another gripping World War II story, this time about a spy in the Hitler Youth. Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage. World War II is raging. Michael O'Shaunessey, originally from Ireland, now...
The Bellwoods Game /
Krampien, Celia,
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller! Perfect for fans of Doll Bones and Hocus Pocus, this "beautifully creepy" (Kirkus Reviews), highly illustrated middle grade novel follows a girl who hopes to fix her outcast status through a game in the haunted...
A work in progress /
Lerner, Jarrett
Paper Book
A young boy struggles with body image in this poignant and "perceptive" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) middle grade journey to self-acceptance told through prose, verse, and illustration. Will is the only round kid in a school full of thin ones. So he hides...in baggy...
Rocket science /
Lock, Deborah
Paper Book
Enter the lab of Professor X. Ploder as his assistant on a top-secret assignment: designing and testing a spy's pocket rocket. Then discover all about the science of rockets through practical experiments that you can try at home. Level 3 is for children able to read on their own. The stories are...
Bluecrowne :
Milford, Kate
Paper Book
Return to the world of the bestselling Greenglass House, where smugglers, magic, and pyrotechnics mix, in a new adventure from a New York Times best-selling, National Book Award-nominated, and Edgar Award-winning author. Lucy Bluecrowne is beginning a new life ashore with...
Before colors :
Pimentel, Annette Bay
Paper Book
Colors don't come out of nothing. They always start somewhere . . . With something . . . With someone.
The yearling /
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan,
Paper Book
An American classic--and Pulitzer Prize-winning story--that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet. No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family...
A break with charity : a story about the Salem witch trials
Rinaldi, Ann
Paper Book
Susanna desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage. What she doesn't realize is that the girls are about to set off a torrent of false accusations leading to the imprisonment and execution of countless innocent people. Susanna faces a painful choice. Should...
The map to everywhere
Ryan, Carrie.
Paper Book
Adventure, magic, and hilarity collide in New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ryan and John Parke Davis's first book in a fantastical series. To Master Thief Fin, an orphan from the murky pirate world of the Khaznot Quay, the Map is the key to finding his mother. To...
The eighth day /
Salerni, Dianne K.
Paper Book
Fans of Percy Jackson will devour this first book in Dianne K. Salerni's time-bending series that combines exciting magic and pulse-pounding suspense. In this riveting fantasy adventure, thirteen-year-old Jax Aubrey discovers a secret eighth day with roots tracing back to Arthurian...
The legend of Greyhallow /
Short, Summer Rachel
Paper Book
"[F]ans of The Lord of the Rings and portal fantasies will find much to enjoy" (Kirkus Reviews) in this fantastical middle grade adventure about two siblings who must close the door to a magical realm that inspired a popular movie franchise before their own world is conquered by emerging...
Zach's lie
Smith, Roland
Paper Book
Lies and secrets abound in this dark and suspenseful story about a boy who must run from his past but can't outrun the danger.   Zach Granger's whole identity is a lie--his name, his hometown, even his eye color. All because of one night that changed everything:...
Beneath
Smith, Roland.
Paper Book
A fast-paced, thrilling novel that introduces a pair of very different brothers, and the depths (literally) one will go to save the other.What waits Beneath?Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop. Coop is... different. He doesn't talk on the phone, doesn't use email, and doesn't...
A wish in the dark
Soontornvat, Christina
Ebook
A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice. All light in Chattana is created by one man - the Governor, who appeared after the Great Fire to bring peace and order to the city. For Pong, who was born...
The warden's daughter
Spinelli, Jerry
Paper Book
From Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli comes the story of a girl searching for happiness inside the walls of a prison. And don't miss the author's highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday! Cammie O'Reilly lives at the Hancock County Prison--not as a prisoner, she's the...
Maizy Chen's last chance /
Yee, Lisa
Paper Book
NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER . NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST . ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR YOUTH LITERATURE Twelve year-old Maizy discovers her family's Chinese restaurant is full of secrets in this irresistible novel that celebrates food, fortune, and family. NAMED...

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