Guided Reading List: Juvenile Fiction and Juvenile Nonfiction U

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 24, 2025
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Guided Reading List: Juvenile Fiction and Juvenile Nonfiction U

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.

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Who Is Taylor Swift?: Deluxe Edition
Anderson, Kirsten
Paper Book
Learn how a young girl who once lived on a Christmas tree farm grew up to become one of the most celebrated musical artists of the twenty-first century in this deluxe addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series. This gorgeous deluxe edition hardcover biography...
Fall crafts across cultures :
Borgert-Spaniol, Megan,
Paper Book
Fall is a season of celebration! Join the fun with twelve festive crafts that celebrate holidays from around the world. Create yarn apples for the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah. Mix soothing slime to mark World Mental Health Day. It's always the season for crafting!
Spring crafts across cultures :
Borgert-Spaniol, Megan,
Paper Book
Spring is a season of celebration! Join the fun with twelve festive crafts that celebrate holidays from around the world. Create a colorful wall hanging for the Hindu holiday Holi. Plant a garden to commemorate Earth Day. It's always the season for crafting!
Abe Lincoln's hat
Brenner, Martha.
Paper Book
How do you remember things? President Abraham Lincoln used a special trick -- he placed reminders under his top hat! Read all about it and more in this leveled reader perfect for President's Day and for anyone looking to discover fun facts about one of our nation's greatest presidents! ...
Amelia Gray is almost okay /
Brody, Jessica
Paper Book
When you can choose to be anyone, how do you know who you really are? From the author of Better You Than Me and I Speak Boy comes another fun and relatable book about new experiences and how staying true to yourself is the best way to be okay. Twelve-year-old Amelia...
The Sisters Grimm.
Buckley, Michael,
Paper Book
With the winning combination of Nancy Drew meets Shrek, this first book in the new Sisters Grimm series will entertain with a hilarious mix of mysteries and fairy tale twists.In the tradition of Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events and The Spiderwick Chronicles comes a new humorous mystery...
The summer of the swans
Byars, Betsy Cromer.
CD
When her mentally retarded brother disappears, fourteen-year-old Sara launches a desperate search to find him & ends up discovering insights into herself & her broken family
The unfinished angel
Creech, Sharon
Paper Book
Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech crafts a truly endearing story, one that is imbued with happiness, wonder, and an appreciation for all the little things that make life big. A gem of a book. In the winding stone tower of the Casa Rosa, in a quiet little village in the Swiss Alps, lives...
The cat ate my gymsuit
Danziger, Paula
CD
A beloved author's story of a misunderstood teenager who stands up for what she believes is as powerful today as whenit was when first published more than thirty years ago.
The Hotel Balzaar /
DiCamillo, Kate
Paper Book
An instant New York Times bestseller! In a wise and magical follow-up to The Puppets of Spelhorst, Kate DiCamillo revisits the land of Norendy, where tales swirl within tales--and every moment is a story in the making. At the Hotel Balzaar, Marta...
The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane
DiCamillo, Kate
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller! A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline, honors the enduring power of love. Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane...
The puppets of Spelhorst /
DiCamillo, Kate
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller! "Kate DiCamillo's dazzling first title in the Norendy Tales trilogy is brimming with wit, whimsy, and heart as it follows five puppets fulfilling their thrilling shared destiny." - Shelf Awareness Shut up in a trunk...
The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane
DiCamillo, Kate
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller! A timeless tale by the incomparable Kate DiCamillo, complete with stunning full-color plates by Bagram Ibatoulline, honors the enduring power of love. Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane...
Mr. Lemoncello's fantabulous finale /
Grabenstein, Chris
Paper Book
THE CONCLUSION TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES WITH MORE THAN TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! Welcome back to what James Patterson calls "the coolest library in the world." Follow along and solve the clues in this interactive adventure to see if you have what it takes...
What was the Children's Blizzard of 1888?
Kort,̌ Steve
Paper Book
The terrifying true story of the deadly blizzard that unexpectedly slammed the Midwest, catching many young lives in its path-part of the New York Times bestselling What Was? series, featuring 16 pages of photos. On January 12, 1888, an unforseen blizzard broke out in the...
Savvy /
Law, Ingrid,
Paper Book
Thirteen is when a Beaumont's savvy hits-and with one brother who causes hurricanes and another who creates electricity, Mibs Beaumont is eager to see what she gets. But just before the big day, Poppa is in a terrible accident. And now all Mibs wants is a savvy that will save him. In fact, Mibs is...
The night librarian
Lincoln, Christopher
Paper Book
* NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Night at the Museum meets The Land of Stories in this thrilling new graphic novel adventure series in which two siblings, a mysterious Night Librarian, and a motley cast of book characters try to save the New York Public Library ...
Silverwing the Graphic Novel 1
Oppel, Kenneth/ Steininger, Christopher (ILT)
Paper Book
A small bat blown off course makes the perilous journey home with new friends in the adventurous middle grade odyssey from award-winning author Kenneth Oppel--this bestselling story is now available in graphic novel format! Shade the young silverwing bat may be the runt of his...
Crush : the theory, practice, and destructive properties of love
Paulsen, Gary.
Paper Book
Readers met the comical Kevin in Liar, Liar and Flat Broke.  Kevin gets serious about Tina Zabinski, the Most Beautiful Girl in the World. Finally, finally, he's worked up his courage--he's going to ask her out. Or will his trademark scheming get in his way?
The maze of bones
Riordan, Rick.
Paper Book
The first book in the #1 bestselling phenomenon sends readers around the world on the hunt for the 39 Clues!Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her decendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue."Grace is the last matriarch of the...
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