Read-alouds for Dads & Daughters

These books are recommeded as read-alouds for dads to share
with daughters in 4th Grade & up

Fiction
Alexander	The Illyrian Adventure
Blos	A Gathering of Days
Cushman	Catherine, Called Birdy
Dahl	The BFG
Farmer	The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
Fenner	Yolonda's Genius
Haddix	Running Out of Time
Hesse	Letters From Rifka
Kaye	The Ordinary Princess
Lord	In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Paterson	Lyddie
Peck	A Year Down Yonder
Pierce	Wild Magic: The Immortals
Pullman	The Ruby in the Smoke
Raskin	The Westing Game
Smith	Wren to the Rescue
Van Draanen	Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
Wrede	Dealing With Dragons
Non-Fiction
Armstrong J 919.8904	Spirit of Endurance
Bishop J 573.7	The Secrets of Animal Flight
Bortz J 620	Catastrophe! Great Engineering Failure and Success
Dash J 681.1109	The Longitude Prize
Deem J 393.3	Bodies from the Bog
Fleischman J 362.1974	Phineas Gage
Jackson J 363.28	The Wildlife Detectives
Kasoff J 796.3576	Baseball Just for Kids
Kovacs J 591.77	Beneath Blue Waters
Llewellyn J 611.71	The Big Book of Bones
Macaulay J 726.6	Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction
Markle J 597.3	Outside and Inside Sharks
Montgomery J 597.96	The Snake Scientist
Murphy J 977.311	The Great Fire
Scott J 523	Close Encounters: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope
Scott J 796.3342	The Thinking Kid's Guide to Successful Soccer
Smith J 599.676	In the Forest with Elephants
Tanaka J 567.9	Graveyards of the Dinosaurs
Warren J 567.9	Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie

 

Booklist compiled by Allison Parham
Santa Clara County Library
Children's Librarians
2005