Read-alouds for Dads & Sons

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

Fiction
Alexander	Westmark
Avi	Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts
Cooper	The Boggart
Curtis	Bud, Not Buddy
Fleischman	The Whipping Boy
Haddix	Among the Hidden
Hobbs	Bearstone
Hoobler	The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
Horowitz	Stormbreaker
Jones	Archer's Goon
LeGuin	A Wizard of Earthsea
Morpugo	Waiting for Anya
Myers	Climb or Die
Paterson	Jip: His Story
Paterson	The Master Puppeteer
Scieszka	The Not-So-Jolly-Roger
Turner	The Thief
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

 

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