Reading Olympics for Children

Reading Olympics for Children

For middle, junior, and senior high school reading lists, go to Reading Olympics for Teens.

Learn more about the Reading Olympics program.

2024 Elementary Reading List

  • A Rover’s Story / Jasmine Warga
  • A Whole New Ballgame / Phil Bildner
  • All That Trash /Meghan McCarthy
  • Aru Shah and the End of Time / Roshani Choksho
  • Because of You, John Lewis / Andrea Davis Pinkney
  • Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom, 1 / Matthew Swanson
  • Bridge to Terabithia / Katherine Paterson
  • Click’d / Tamara Ireland-Stone
  • Dazzle Ships / Chris Barton
  • Dragons in a Bag / Zetta Elliott
  • El Deafo / Cece Bell
  • From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / E.L. Konigsburg
  • Front Desk / Kelly Yang
  • Hatchet / Gary Paulsen
  • Louisiana’s Way Home / Kate DiCamillo
  • Maizy Chen’s Last Chance / Lisa Yee
  • No Talking / Andrew Clements
  • One Crazy Summer / Rita Garcia
  • Rain Reign / Ann M. Marvin
  • Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes / Eleanor Coerr
  • Saving Winslow / Sharon Creech
  • The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones / Rick Riordan
  • The Collector / K.R. Alexander
  • The First Rule of Punk / Celia C. Perez
  • Unplugged / Gordon Korman