# Mark Twain Readers Award reading list

**29** 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 Million Ways Home](https://readinglist.school/book/a-million-ways-home) by Dianna Dorisi-Winget _(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)_
- [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) 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)_
- [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)_
- [Sounder](https://readinglist.school/book/sounder) by William H. Armstrong _(Grades 3–7)_
- [Stolen Children](https://readinglist.school/book/stolen-children) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The City of Ember](https://readinglist.school/book/the-city-of-ember) by Jeanne DuPrau _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Dollhouse Murders](https://readinglist.school/book/the-dollhouse-murders) by Betty Ren Wright _(Grades 4–7)_
- [The Girl in the Lake](https://readinglist.school/book/the-girl-in-the-lake) by India Hill Brown _(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 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)_
- [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)_
- [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)_
- [Wonder](https://readinglist.school/book/wonder) by R.J. Palacio _(790L · Grades 3–7)_

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