Reading Olympics for Children

For middle, junior, and senior high school reading lists, go to Reading Olympics for Teens.

Learn more about the Reading Olympics program.

Elementary Reading List

• Artemis Fowl/Colfer
• Best School Year Ever/ Robinson
• Big Wave/Buck
• Boggart/Cooper
• Chomp/Hiaasen
• Dogs on Duty/Patent
• Eggs/Spinelli
• Francie/English
• George Washington’s Socks/ Woodruff
• Ghost Cadet/ Alphin
• Gold-Threaded Dress, The/Marsden
• Hate That Cat/ Creech
• Henry’s Freedom Box/Levine
• I Got a “D” in Salami/ Winkler
• Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher/ Coville
• Kickoff!/ Barber
• Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle/ Nivola
• Lightning Thief, The/ Riordan
• Maniac Magee/ Spinelli
• Music of Dolphins, The/ Hesse
• Once on This Island/ Whelan
• One and Only Ivan, The/ Applegate
• Phantom Tollbooth, The/ Juster
• Pie/ Weeks
• Qwerty Stevens, Back in Time/ Gutman
• Ragweed/ Avi
• Report Card, The/ Clements
• Rowan of Rin/ Rodda
• Secret Platform 13/ Ibbotson
• Seeing Stone, The/ DiTerlizzi
• Snow Treasure/McSwigan
• Song of Trees/ Taylor
• Tale of Despereaux/ Di Camillo
• There’s An Owl in the Shower/ George
• Those Rebels, John and Tom/ Kerley
• View From Saturday/ Konigsburg
• Vision of Beauty: The Story of  Sarah Breedlove Walker/ Lasky
• Wait Till Helen Comes/Hahn
• War With Grandpa, The/ Smith
• Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963/ Curtis
• Weather/Simon
• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town/ Holt
• Winners Take All/ Bowen
• Yolonda’s Genius/ Fenner
• Zita the Spacegirl/Hatke