And the Beat Goes On.....

Here are our top 100 Book Choices for the next stage in reading, the thicker chapter book.

Middles

1. Homer price-McCloskey*
   
2. Silversheene King of Sled Dogs-Hawkes*
3. Mary Poppins-Travers*
   
4. Incredible Journey-Burnford*
5. Old Yeller-Gibson
   
6. Place of the Lions-Campbell*
7. Great Quarterback Switch-Christopher*
   
8. Detectives in Togas-Winterfeld*
   
9. Little Pear-Lattimore*
10. My Side of the Mountains-George*
11. Lassie-Knight*
    
12. Gone Away Lake-Enright*
13. Mouse & the Motorcycle-Cleary*
14. The Moffats-Estes*
15. Half Magic-Eager*
    
16. The Dog Who Wouldn't Be-Mowat*
17. My Fathers Dragon-Gannett*
18. Trolley Car Family-Clymer*
19. Penderwicks-Birdsall*
20. Old Mother West Wind-Burgess*
21. Stone Fox-Gardiner*
    
22. Wonder Book- Hawthorne*
23. The Defender-Kalashnikoff*
    
24. Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH-O'Brien*
    
25. The Hardy Boys-Dixon*
26. Tale of Despereaux-Dicamillo*
    
27. Superfudge-Blume*
28. Adam of the Road-Gray*
29. Ragweed-Avi*
30. At the Back of the North Wind-MacDonald*
31. Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates-Dodge*
32. Black Ships Before Troy-Sutcliff*
33. The Enormous Egg-Butterworth
    
34. Wishbones Classic-Mattern*
    
35. Absolutely Lucy-Cooper*
    
36. Black Stallion-Farley*
37. The Wolfling-North*
    
38. Black Beauty-Sewell*
39. Ribsy-Cleary*
40. Book of Three-Alexander*
41. Rabbit Hill-Lawson*
    
42. Borrowers-Norton*
43. I Freddy-Reiche*
    
44. Brighty of the Grand Canyon-Henry
45. Where the Red Fern Grows-Rawls*
46. Bronze Bow-Speare*
47. Wharton & the Castaways-Erickson
48. Trailblazers-Jackson
49. Henry Reed Inc.-Robertson*
    
50. Charlotte's Web-White*
51. Twenty One Balloons-DuBois*
52. Cheaper by the Dozen-Gillberth*
53. Mr Poppers Penguins-Atwater*
    
54. Trumpet of the Swan-White*
55. The Good Dog-Avi*
    
56. Swallows and the Amazons-Ransome
57. Cricket in Time Square-Seldon*
58. Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow-French
59. Rangers Apprentice-Flanagan*
60. Staurt Little-White*
61. Door in the Wall-de Angeli*
62. Story of Dr. Dolittle-Lofting
63. Star in the Storm-Harlow*
    
64. Smokey the Cowhorse-James*
65. Toby Tyler-Otis*
    
66. King of Squaw Mountain-Borland*
67. Kavik the Wolf Dog-Morey*
    
68. Fantastic Mr. Fox-Dahl*
69. A Family of Foxes-dillon*
70. Silver Chief-OBrien*
71. The Midnight Fox-Byars*
72. Five Children & It-Nesbit*
73. Never Cry wolf-Mowat*
74. Sign of the Beaver-Speare*
75. Tiger on the Mountain-Arora*
76. Five Little Peppers & how They Grew-Sidney*
77. Whittington-Armstrong*
78. Shadrack-deJong
79. Coyote Summer-Wallace*
    
80. Follow My Leader-Garfield*
81. Freddy the Pig-Brooks*
    
82. Boxcar Children-Warner*
    
83. The Haymeadow-Paulson*
84. Gentle Ben-Morey
85. Farmer Boy-Wilder
    
86. Rescuers-Sharp
87. Peter Pan-Barrie
    
88. Ginger Pie-Estes
89. Pinocchio-Collodi
    
90. Rascal-North
91. Sugar Creek Gang-Hutches
    
92. Downriver-Hobbs
93. Seven Sleepers-Morris
    
94. Brady-Fritz
95. The Samuari's tale-Haugaard
    
96. White Serpent Castle-Namioka
    
97. Lad, A Dog-Terhune
    
98. Eragon-Paolini
99. Shiloh-Naylor
    
100. Phantom Tollbooth-Juster