Lit Circle Themes Grades 3 - 6

Family & Friendship

The Lemonade War – Jacqueline Davies

Year of the Rat – Grace Lin

The Year of Billy Miller – Kevin Henkes

Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson

Travels with My Family - Marie-Louise Gay

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing – Judy Blume

Jack Strong Takes a Stand - Tommy Greenwald

Wish – Barbara O’Conner

Nest – Esther Ehrlich

The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher - Dana Alison Levy

My Funny Family - Chris Higgins

Books about Animals or featuring Animal Characters

Pax – Sara Pennypacker

The One and Only Ivan – Katherine Applegate

Silverwing – Kenneth Oppel

Stone Fox – John Reynolds Gardiner

A Boy Called Bat – Elana K. Arnold

Nuts to You – Lynne Rae Perkins

A Handful of Stars – Cynthia Lord

Crenshaw – Katherine Applegate

8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel ÷ 1 Dog = Chaos - Vivian Vande Velde

Appleblossom the Possum - Holly Goldberg Sloan

Rain Reign - Ann M. Martin

Magic & Fantasy

Baker's Magic - Diane Zahler

My Father’s Dragon – Ruth Stiles Gannett

Waiting for the Magic – Patricia MacLachlan

Jack: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk - Liesl Shurtliff

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster - Jonathan Auxier

Nightingale’s Nest -Nikki Loftin

Toys Go Out – Emily Jenkins

The Boundless – Kenneth Oppel (also Canadian History)

Wishtree – Katherine Applegate

A Snicker of Magic – Natalie Llyod

All the Answers – Kate Messner

Survival

Tikta'liktak: An Inuit-Eskimo Legend - James A. Houston

The Hatchet – Gary Paulsen

Lost in the Backyard - Alison Hughes

The Cay – Theodore Taylor

The Wild Robot – Peter Brown

Beyond the Bright Sea - Lauren Wolk

School

Ms. Bixby's Last Day - John David Anderson

Frindle – Andrew Clements

Fourth Grade Rats – Jerry Spinelli

Armstrong & Charlie - Steven B. Frank (also friendship)

Wonder – R.J. Palicio

Lola Levine is Not Mean - Monica Brown

Short – Holly Goldberg Sloan

The New Kid: The Carver Chronicles - Karen English

Jane, the Fox and Me – Fanny Britt

Fatty Legs – Christy Jordan Fenton

8 Class Pets + 1 Squirrel ÷ 1 Dog = Chaos – Vivian Vande Velde

Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things - Lenore Look

Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters - Rachel Vail

Save Me a Seat – Sarah Weeks