# Ferris

**Author:** Kate DiCamillo
**Grade range:** Grades 3–6
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 2024
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781536231052`
**ISBN-10:** `1536231053`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/ferris
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Over one eventful summer, Ferris Wilkey contends with a ghost only her grandmother can see, an uncle painting a mural in the basement, and a little sister determined to become an outlaw — learning that every good story is a love story. Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo's warm grades 3-6 family novel was a 2024 bestseller.

## Themes

- family
- humor
- growing up

## Where this book is assigned

### Battle of the Books (state reading programs)

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · North Carolina — [source: NCSLMA Elementary Battle of the Books 2025-2026 (Grades 3-5)](https://school.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?lid=14871)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · North Carolina — [source: NCSLMA Elementary Battle of the Books 2025-2026 (Grades 3-5)](https://school.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?lid=14871)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · North Carolina — [source: NCSLMA Elementary Battle of the Books 2025-2026 (Grades 3-5)](https://school.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?lid=14871)

### Great Lakes Great Books Award (Michigan Reading Association)

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Michigan — [source: Michigan Reading Association — Great Lakes Great Books Award (student-choice, grade-band shortlists; annual, since 1989). Winner/honor/nominee rolls Grades 4-5, 6-8, 9-12.](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Michigan — [source: Michigan Reading Association — Great Lakes Great Books Award (student-choice, grade-band shortlists; annual, since 1989). Winner/honor/nominee rolls Grades 4-5, 6-8, 9-12.](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Michigan — [source: Michigan Reading Association — Great Lakes Great Books Award (student-choice, grade-band shortlists; annual, since 1989). Winner/honor/nominee rolls Grades 4-5, 6-8, 9-12.](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Michigan — [source: Michigan Reading Association — Great Lakes Great Books Award (student-choice, grade-band shortlists; annual, since 1989). Winner/honor/nominee rolls Grades 4-5, 6-8, 9-12.](https://michiganreading.org/Great-Lakes-Great-Books)

### Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Oklahoma — [source: 2026 Children's Sequoyah Book Award Master List (Oklahoma Library Association)](https://www.oklibs.org/page/Childrens_Sequoyah_Masterlist_2026)

### Volunteer State Book Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Tennessee — [source: Volunteer State Book Award 2025-2026 Intermediate Division (Grades 3-5), Tennessee Library Association / TASL](https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-state-book-award/home)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Tennessee — [source: Volunteer State Book Award 2025-2026 Intermediate Division (Grades 3-5), Tennessee Library Association / TASL](https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-state-book-award/home)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Tennessee — [source: Volunteer State Book Award 2025-2026 Intermediate Division (Grades 3-5), Tennessee Library Association / TASL](https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-state-book-award/home)

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