# Mark Twain Readers Award reading list

**54** books referenced by 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 for grades 4-6, administered by the Missouri Association of School Librarians (MASL) since the early 1970s. Each year a committee selects about a dozen nominees; students across Missouri read from the list and vote for their favorite. Its decades-long winner list is read in Missouri classrooms and libraries statewide and features widely loved middle-grade reading such as Holes, Because of Winn-Dixie, The Lightning Thief, Wonder, Maniac Magee, Out of My Mind, and Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library.

**Framework type:** reading-program
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/curriculum/missouri-mark-twain-readers-award
**Primary source:** https://maslonline.org/ (maslonline.org/)
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## 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 3–8)_
- [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)_
- [Framed!](https://readinglist.school/book/framed) by James Ponti _(Grades 3–8)_
- [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)_
- [How to Stay Invisible](https://readinglist.school/book/how-to-stay-invisible) by Maggie C. Rudd _(Grades 2–8)_
- [It's a Mile from Here to Glory](https://readinglist.school/book/its-a-mile-from-here-to-glory) by Robert C. Lee _(Grades 4–6)_
- [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) 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)_
- [Sixth-Grade Sleepover](https://readinglist.school/book/sixth-grade-sleepover) by Eve Bunting _(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-on-saturday-night) by Sid Fleischman _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Ghosts of Mercy Manor](https://readinglist.school/book/the-ghosts-of-mercy-manor) by Betty Ren Wright _(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 Pinballs](https://readinglist.school/book/the-pinballs) by Betsy Cromer Byars _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Sea of Monsters](https://readinglist.school/book/the-sea-of-monsters) by Rick Riordan _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Secret Life of the Underwear Champ](https://readinglist.school/book/the-secret-life-of-the-underwear-champ) by Betty Miles _(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](https://readinglist.school/book/white-bird) by R.J. Palacio _(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 3–8)_

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