Children's Read Aloud Chapter Books

Alvin Ho : Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things (Alvin Ho series; book 1) - Lenore Look

Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/08/2008
ISBN-13: 9780375839146
ISBN-10: 0375839143

Frightened by everything out in the world and so completely quiet at school, Asian-American second-grader Alvin Ho becomes a force to be reckoned with at home when he transforms himself into the loud, talented, and fearless Firecracker Man!.

Clementine (Clementine series; book 1) - Sara Pennypacker

Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2006
ISBN-13: 9780786838820
ISBN-10: 0786838825

Armed with attitude, individuality, and a penchant for disaster, Clementine, a wonderfully wacky girl who is the inventor of the world's first pair of bologna glasses, makes her first appearance in this hilarious chapter book.

Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl

Publisher: Puffin Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9780142414545
ISBN-10: 0142414549

Three farmers, each one meaner than the other, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family.

The Field Guide (Spiderwick Chronicles; book 1) - Tony DiTerlizzi

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9780689859366
ISBN-10: 0689859368

When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.

First Chapter

Flat Stanley (Flat Stanley series; book 1) - Jeff Brown

Publisher: Harper & Row
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/01/1964
ISBN-13: 9780060206819
ISBN-10: 0060206810

Meet Stanley Lambchop. He's an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem. He's four feet tall, about a foot wide... oh, and half an inch thick. At first being flat is fine. But it's not always easy being different, and soon Stanley wishes he could be just like everybody else. Will he ever be normal again?

Gooney Bird Greene (Gooney Bird series; book 1) - Lois Lowry

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/30/2002
ISBN-13: 9780618238484
ISBN-10: 0618238484

A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.

First Chapter

Homer Price (companion Centerburg Tales) - Robert McCloskey

Publisher: The Viking Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/1943
ISBN-13: 9780670377299
ISBN-10: 0670377295

Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and pet skunk.

Jack Plank tells tales - Natalie Babbitt

Publisher: Scholastic
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9780545004961
ISBN-10: 0545004969

Jack Plank, a pirate who is no good at being a pirate, searches the town of Saltwash for another profession, but manages to find something wrong with every suggested job. By the author of Tuck Everlasting.

Judy Moody (Judy Moody series; book 1) - Megan McDonald

Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2000
ISBN-13: 9780763606855
ISBN-10: 0763606855

Unhappy with her new surroundings at school, thirdgrader Judy feels removed from the happenings of her class, yet when her teacher assigns a project that is right up her alley, Judy becomes very interested and is soon deeply involved with her new class.

First Chapter Table of Contents

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo

Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/14/2006
ISBN-13: 9780763625894
ISBN-10: 0763625892

Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.

First Chapter

The Moffats - Eleanor Estes

Publisher: Harcourt
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2001
ISBN-13: 9780152025359
ISBN-10: 0152025359

Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little (Moxy Maxwell series; book 1) - Peggy Elizabeth Gifford

Publisher: Schwartz & Wade Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/08/2007
ISBN-13: 9780375839153
ISBN-10: 0375839151

With summer coming to an end, about-to-be-fourth-grader Moxy Maxwell does a hundred different things to avoid reading her assigned summer reading book.

The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Ralph S. Mouse series; book 1) - Beverly Cleary and Louis Darling

Publisher: Avon Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/01/1990
ISBN-13: 9780380709243
ISBN-10: 0380709244

A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling.

Table of Contents

Ruby Lu, Brave and True (sequel Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything) - Lenore Look

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/24/2004
ISBN-13: 9780689849077
ISBN-10: 0689849079

"Almost-eight-year-old" Ruby Lu spends time with her baby brother, goes to Chinese school, performs magic tricks and learns to drive, and has adventures with both old and new friends.

First Chapter

Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs - Betty G. Birney

Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/21/2005
ISBN-13: 9780689871368
ISBN-10: 0689871368

Living in his boring town, Eben McAllister begrudgingly accepts his father’s challenge to locate the Seven Wonders in Sassafras in order to win the prize of a family trip to Colorado and, in the process, discovers the magic that lies within his community that he had never taken notice of before.

First Chapter

Stink : The Incredible Shrinking Kid (Stink series; book 1) - Megan McDonald

Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/30/2005
ISBN-13: 9780763620257
ISBN-10: 0763620254

The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school.

First Chapter

The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo

Publisher: Candlewick Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/01/2003
ISBN-13: 9780763617226
ISBN-10: 0763617229

The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.

First Chapter

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Fudge series; book 1) - Judy Blume

Publisher: Dutton
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/01/1972
ISBN-13: 9780525407201
ISBN-10: 0525407200

Fourth grader Peter Hatcher has a terrible problem-- his little brother Fudge! The first in a very funny five book series.

The Willoughbys - Lois Lowry

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/31/2008
ISBN-13: 9780618979745
ISBN-10: 0618979743

The four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.

First Chapter

The World According to Humphrey - Betty G. Birney

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/01/2004
ISBN-13: 9780399241987
ISBN-10: 0399241981

Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping his classmates and teacher.