Is your child too old for chapter books but not quite ready for the classics? Do you long for the days when you could just look at the age range right on the cover and know if it was appropriate? Valley Parent and Columbus Public Library to the rescue! Here’s a great list of librarian-recommended books for kids transitioning out of Beginner Readers that will help keep them excited about reading this summer.

The Trouble with Tuck by Taylor Theodore
Angus and Sadie by Cynthia Voight
Carlota by Scott O’Dell
Ghosts I Have Been by Richard Peck
Chocolate Fever by Robert Smith
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Anastasia by Lois Lowry
Holes by Louis Sachar
Monkey Island by Paula Fox
Bingo Brown, Gypsy Lover by Betsy Byars
Hatchet by Gary Paulson
Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Lord
Nothing but the Truth by Avi
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Camp of the Angel by Aileen Arrington
Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo
Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell

Series and collections:
Geronimo Stilton series
Boxcar Children series
Lizzie McGuire series
Harry Potter series
Thoroughbred series
Magic Tree House series
Junie B. Jones series
Little House on the Prairie series
Lemony Snickett books
Captain Underpants books
Charlie Bone books