# Missouri Mark Twain Readers Award reading list

**46** books referenced by Missouri Mark Twain Readers Award, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The Mark Twain Readers Award is Missouri's statewide children's-choice book award, established in 1972 and administered by the Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL). Named for Missouri's own Mark Twain, it is the grades-4-6 division of MASL's reader-award program: Missouri students read each cycle's fiction nominees and vote for their favorite. Its winner lists are read in Missouri classrooms and libraries statewide and include widely loved titles such as Sounder, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Maniac Magee, Shiloh, Holes, Because of Winn-Dixie, The Lightning Thief, Out of My Mind, Wonder and The War That Saved My Life.

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**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/curriculum/missouri-mark-twain-award
**Primary source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain_Award (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain_Award)
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## Missouri Mark Twain Readers Award reading list

- [A Bundle of Sticks](https://readinglist.school/book/a-bundle-of-sticks) by Pat Mauser McCord _(Grades 4–6)_
- [A Million Ways Home](https://readinglist.school/book/a-million-ways-home) by Dianna Dorisi-Winget _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Abduction](https://readinglist.school/book/abduction) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 3–6)_
- [All about Sam](https://readinglist.school/book/all-about-sam) by Lois Lowry _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Baby-sitting is a Dangerous Job](https://readinglist.school/book/baby-sitting-is-a-dangerous-job) by Willo Davis Roberts _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Because of Winn-Dixie](https://readinglist.school/book/because-of-winn-dixie) by Kate DiCamillo _(610L · Grades 3–5)_
- [Blended](https://readinglist.school/book/blended) by Sharon M. Draper _(610L · Grades 3–7)_
- [Deep and Dark and Dangerous](https://readinglist.school/book/deep-and-dark-and-dangerous) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Dork in Disguise](https://readinglist.school/book/dork-in-disguise) by Carol Gorman _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library](https://readinglist.school/book/escape-from-mr-lemoncellos-library) by Chris Grabenstein _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Holes](https://readinglist.school/book/holes) by Louis Sachar _(660L · Grades 4–7)_
- [How to Eat Fried Worms](https://readinglist.school/book/how-to-eat-fried-worms) by Thomas Rockwell _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Maniac Magee](https://readinglist.school/book/maniac-magee) by Jerry Spinelli _(820L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Millionaires for the Month](https://readinglist.school/book/millionaires-for-the-month) by Stacy McAnulty _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH](https://readinglist.school/book/mrs-frisby-and-the-rats-of-nimh) by Robert C. O'Brien _(790L · Grades 4–6)_
- [One for Sorrow](https://readinglist.school/book/one-for-sorrow-a-ghost-story) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Out of My Mind](https://readinglist.school/book/out-of-my-mind) by Sharon M. Draper _(700L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Ramona the Brave](https://readinglist.school/book/ramona-the-brave) by Beverly Cleary _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Runaway Twin](https://readinglist.school/book/runaway-twin) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Saving Shiloh](https://readinglist.school/book/saving-shiloh) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Shiloh](https://readinglist.school/book/shiloh) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(890L · Grades 3–6)_
- [Six Feet Below Zero](https://readinglist.school/book/six-feet-below-zero) by Ena Jones _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Small Steps](https://readinglist.school/book/small-steps-the-year-i-got-polio) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Sounder](https://readinglist.school/book/sounder) by William H. Armstrong _(Grades 3–7)_
- [Soup for President](https://readinglist.school/book/soup-for-president) by Robert Newton Peck _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Stolen Children](https://readinglist.school/book/stolen-children) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Boy who Saw Bigfoot](https://readinglist.school/book/the-boy-who-saw-bigfoot) by Marian Templeton Place _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The City of Ember](https://readinglist.school/book/the-city-of-ember) by Jeanne DuPrau _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Doll in the Garden](https://readinglist.school/book/the-doll-in-the-garden-a-ghost-story) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Dollhouse Murders](https://readinglist.school/book/the-dollhouse-murders) by Betty Ren Wright _(Grades 4–7)_
- [The Ghost on Saturday Night](https://readinglist.school/book/the-ghost-of-saturday-night) by Sid Fleischman _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Girl in the Lake](https://readinglist.school/book/the-girl-in-the-lake) by India Hill Brown _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Girl with the Silver Eyes](https://readinglist.school/book/the-girl-with-the-silver-eyes) by Willo Davis Roberts _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)](https://readinglist.school/book/the-lightning-thief) by Rick Riordan _(740L · Grades 4–7)_
- [The Man Who Loved Clowns](https://readinglist.school/book/the-man-who-loved-clowns) by June Rae Wood _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Sea of Monsters](https://readinglist.school/book/the-sea-of-monsters) by Rick Riordan _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Unwanteds](https://readinglist.school/book/the-unwanteds) by Lisa McMann _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The War That Saved My Life](https://readinglist.school/book/the-war-that-saved-my-life) by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley _(580L · Grades 4–7)_
- [The War with Grandpa](https://readinglist.school/book/the-war-with-grandpa) by Robert Kimmel Smith _(Grades 4–7)_
- [There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom](https://readinglist.school/book/theres-a-boy-in-the-girls-bathroom) by Louis Sachar _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Time for Andrew](https://readinglist.school/book/time-for-andrew) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Titanic Crossing](https://readinglist.school/book/titanic-crossing) by Barbara Williams _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Wenny Has Wings](https://readinglist.school/book/wenny-has-wings) by Janet Lee Carey _(Grades 4–6)_
- [White Bird: A Wonder Story (A Graphic Novel)](https://readinglist.school/book/white-bird-a-wonder-story) by R. J. Palacio _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Wonder](https://readinglist.school/book/wonder) by R.J. Palacio _(790L · Grades 3–7)_
- [Zach's Lie](https://readinglist.school/book/zachs-lie) by Roland Smith _(Grades 4–6)_

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