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 Great Reads

 for lower primary students

 

Series to Keep You Reading

 

 

 

  The Captain Underpants series

by Dav Pilkey

 

Book 1:

The Adventures of Captain Underpants: an epic novel

 

 
  The Rainbow Fairy books
by Daisy Meadows
 
For example,

 

The Mr. Midnight series

by James Lee

(a local Singaporean author)

 

Book 1:

Madman’s Mansion.

 

 

The Geronimo Stilton

mysteries

by Geronimo Stilton

 

Book 1:

Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye.

 

The A-Z Mysteries

by Ron Roy

 

Book 1:

The Absent Author

 

 

Seriously Silly Stories

by Laurence Anholt

 

For example,

Eco-Wolf and the Three Pigs and Snow White and the Seven Aliens

 

Cam Jansen Mysteries

by David Adler

 

Book 1:

Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds

 

The Zack Files

by Dan Greenburg

 

starring Zack Greenburg,

who has some

very strange experiences

 

Book 1:

Great-Grandpa’s in the Litter Box

 

 

Jack Russell, Dog Detective

  by Darrel Odgers

 

Book 1:

Dog Den Mystery.

 

The Magic Tree House,

by Mary Pope Osborne

 

a series of time travel adventures around the world

 

Book 1:

Dinosaurs Before Dark

 

 

The Dragon Slayers’ Academy

  by Kate McMullan

 

the story of young Wiglaf’s interesting education during the Middle Ages

 

Book 1:

The New Kid at School

 

Far-Flung Adventures

by Paul Stewart &

Chris Riddell

 

with Fergus Crane, Corby Flood, and Hugo Pepper

 

 

Zac Power

by H.I. Larry

 

an ordinary kid who goes on extraordinary missions

 

Book 1:

Poison Island

 

 Jack Stalwart

by Elizabeth Singer Hunt

 

a series about a young secret agent

 

Book 1:

The Puzzle of the Missing Panda

 

 Shredderman

by Wendelin Van Draanen

 

alias Nolan Byrd, who outsmarts his enemies

 

Book 1:

Secret Identity

 

Akimbo

 

 

an African boy fiercely devoted to saving animals

 

Book 1:

Akimbo and the Elephants.

 

Bunnicula

by Deborah & James Howe

 

  Who ever heard of a vegetarian vampire rabbit?

 

  (First of several)

 

     

 

Characters Not-To-Be-Missed

 

 

 

Horrid Henry

by Francesca Simon

 

Is he a boy – or a monster? (First of many)

 

See also the Horrible Harry series by Suzy Kline

 

 

Tashi

by Anna & Barbara Fienberg

 

who tells such fantastic stories in Tashi and Tashi and the Giants, etc.

 

Could they be true?

 

The Time Warp Trio

by Jon Scieszka

 

three boys who accidentally fall into a different time period every time they open “the Book”

 

Book 1:

Knights of the Kitchen Table

 

Judy Moody

by Megan McDonald

 

A girl with all kinds of moods – bad moods, good moods, and even back-to-school moods

 

See also her brother,

Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid

(First of several)

 

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

 

 the famous Swedish tomboy with a monkey and a horse for companions

 

(First of several)

 

 

 

Mr. Majeika

by Humphrey Carpenter

 

A teacher with magical powers

 

(First of many)

 

Fudge

the worst kind of younger brother

 

introduced in

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

 

by Judy Blume

 

(First of several)

 

Ramona Quimby

a little sister who eventually grows up

 

Book 1:

Beezus and Ramona

 

by Beverly Cleary

 

 

Junie B. Jones

and her funny experiences

in kindergarten

and first grade

 

Book 1:

Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus

 

by Barbara Park

 

 

The Worst Witch,

also known as Mildred Hubble, a young witch with a knack for always doing the wrong thing

 

 by Jill Murphy

 

(First of several)

 

 

Ivy + Bean

 

by Annie Barrows

 

the tale of two friends, seven-year-old Bean and her neighbor, Ivy

 

(First of several)

 

Utterly Me, Clarice Bean

by Lauren Child

 

A beginning novel about the popular character who first appeared in the picture book Clarice Bean, That’s Me

 

(First of several)

 

 

You’re a Bad Man, Mr. Gum

by Andy Stanton

 

Mr. Gum, a very odd man who hates children, animals, fun and corn on the cob

 

(First of several)

 

 

Amber Brown is Not a Crayon

by Paula Danziger

 

describes her year in 3rd  grade, followed by

Amber Brown Goes Fourth and others

 

 

The Paw Thing

by Paul Jennings

 

about an unusual cat called Singenpoo

 

(First of several)

 

 

Booklet to download:

UWCSEA Lower Primary Reading booklet June15.pdf

 

 

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Last updated 16 June 2008

 

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