BOCES GT: Recommended Reading

Some of My Best Friends Are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers Judith Wynn Halsted 

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/ (click on gifted books on the left side of the page) 

Nothing But The Truth: A Documentary Novel, Avi 

Emily, Bedard, M 

Sara Crewe, Francis Hodgson Burnett 

Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis 

Matilda, Ronald Dahl 

Great Brain,The, John D. Fitzgerald 

Harriet the Spy, Harriet the Spy 

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, Mem Fox 

The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane, Russell Freedman 

My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics), Jean Craighead George 

The Planet of Junior Brown, Virginia Hamilton 

Amazing Grace, Mary Hoffman 

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Koniqsburg 

The View from Saturday, E.L. Koniqsburg 

Wilma Unlimited:
How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
, Kathleen Krull 

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle 

Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine 

Frederick, Leo Lionni 

The Giver, Lois Lowry 

The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt, Patricia Maclachlan 

Snowflake Bentley (Caldecott Medal Book), Jacqueline Briggs Martin 

Rosa Parks: My Story, Rosa Parks and Jim Haskins 

Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson 

Come Sing, Jimmy Jo, Katherine Paterson 

Jacob Have I Loved, Pam Stuart 

Brian's Winter, Gary Paulsen 

The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin 

Henry Cisneros, Mexican-American mayor, Naurice Roberts 

Eggbert: The Slightly Cracked Egg, Tom Ross 

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, Donald J. Sobol 

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, William Steig

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