# Rhode Island Children's Book Award reading list

**47** books referenced by Rhode Island Children's Book Award, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The Rhode Island Children's Book Award (RICBA) is Rhode Island's statewide children's-choice book award for grades 3-5, coordinated by the Rhode Island Office of Library & Information Services (OLIS) with the RI Library Association, the RI State Council of the International Reading Association, and the RI Educational Media Association since 1990. Each year a committee selects about twenty nominees; students across Rhode Island read from the list and vote for their favorite. Its nominee lists are read in Rhode Island classrooms and libraries statewide and feature widely loved middle-grade reading such as Clean Getaway, The List of Things That Will Not Change, From the Desk of Zoe Washington, A Rover's Story, and The Guardian Test.

**Framework type:** reading-program
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**Primary source:** https://olis.ri.gov/programs-and-support/reading-programs/rhode-island-childrens-book-award (olis.ri.gov/programs-and-support/reading-programs/rhode-island-childrens-book-award)
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## Rhode Island Children's Book Award reading list

- [A Rover's Story](https://readinglist.school/book/a-rovers-story) by Jasmine Warga _(Grades 4–5)_
- [Allergic](https://readinglist.school/book/allergic) by Megan Wagner Lloyd _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos](https://readinglist.school/book/call-me-roberto) by Nathalie Alonso _(Grades 2–5)_
- [Clementine](https://readinglist.school/book/clementine) by Sara Pennypacker _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Deep and Dark and Dangerous](https://readinglist.school/book/deep-and-dark-and-dangerous) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 4–6)_
- [El Deafo](https://readinglist.school/book/el-deafo) by Cece Bell _(420L · Grades 4–6)_
- [Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library](https://readinglist.school/book/escape-from-mr-lemoncellos-library) by Chris Grabenstein _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Frindle](https://readinglist.school/book/frindle) by Andrew Clements _(830L · Grades 3–7)_
- [Front Desk](https://readinglist.school/book/front-desk) by Kelly Yang _(640L · Grades 3–7)_
- [Gooney Bird Greene](https://readinglist.school/book/gooney-bird-greene) by Lois Lowry _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Invisible Isabel](https://readinglist.school/book/invisible-isabel) by Sally J. Pla _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Legendarios: Wrath of the Rain God](https://readinglist.school/book/legendarios-wrath-of-the-rain-god) by Karla Arenas Valenti _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All](https://readinglist.school/book/magnolia-wu-unfolds-it-all) by Chanel Miller _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Maniac Magee](https://readinglist.school/book/maniac-magee) by Jerry Spinelli _(820L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Max and the Midknights](https://readinglist.school/book/max-and-the-midknights) by Lincoln Peirce _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Mick Harte Was Here](https://readinglist.school/book/mick-harte-was-here) by Barbara Park _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Never Smile at a Monkey](https://readinglist.school/book/never-smile-at-a-monkey) by Steve Jenkins _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Pie in the Sky](https://readinglist.school/book/pie-in-the-sky) by Remy Lai _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Sergeant Reckless: The True Story of the Little Horse Who Became a Hero](https://readinglist.school/book/sergeant-reckless-the-true-story-of-the-little-horse-who-became-a-hero) by Patricia McCormick _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Sidekicks](https://readinglist.school/book/sidekicks) by Dan Santat _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Sisters](https://readinglist.school/book/sisters) by Raina Telgemeier _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Skeleton Man](https://readinglist.school/book/skeleton-man) by Joseph Bruchac _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Something Like Home](https://readinglist.school/book/something-like-home) by Andrea Beatriz Arango _(Grades 6–8)_
- [Something Upstairs](https://readinglist.school/book/something-upstairs) by Avi _(Grades 6–8)_
- [Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid](https://readinglist.school/book/stink-the-incredible-shrinking-kid) by Megan McDonald _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Swim Team](https://readinglist.school/book/swim-team) by Johnnie Christmas _(Grades 3–7)_
- [Thank You, Mr. Falker](https://readinglist.school/book/thank-you-mr-falker) by Patricia Polacco _(Grades 3–5)_
- [The Adventures of Captain Underpants](https://readinglist.school/book/the-adventures-of-captain-underpants) by Dav Pilkey _(720L · Grades 2–5)_
- [The Babe and I](https://readinglist.school/book/the-babe-and-i) by David A. Adler _(Grades 3–5)_
- [The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name](https://readinglist.school/book/the-boy-who-tried-to-shrink-his-name) by Sandhya Parappukkaran _(Grades 3–5)_
- [The Boy at the Back of the Class](https://readinglist.school/book/the-boy-at-the-back-of-the-class) by Onjali Q. Raúf _(Grades 3–6)_
- [The Guardian Test (Legends of Lotus Island #1)](https://readinglist.school/book/the-guardian-test) by Christina Soontornvat _(Grades 2–5)_
- [The Houdini Box](https://readinglist.school/book/the-houdini-box) by Brian Selznick _(Grades 3–6)_
- [The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read](https://readinglist.school/book/the-oldest-student-how-mary-walker-learned-to-read) by Rita Lorraine Hubbard _(Grades 3–6)_
- [The People's Painter](https://readinglist.school/book/the-peoples-painter) by Cynthia Levinson _(Grades 2–5)_
- [The Season of Styx Malone](https://readinglist.school/book/the-season-of-styx-malone) by Kekla Magoon _(510L · Grades 3–7)_
- [The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales](https://readinglist.school/book/the-stinky-cheese-man-and-other-fairly-stupid-tales) by Jon Scieszka _(Grades 4–8)_
- [The Stonekeeper: A Graphic Novel (Amulet #1)](https://readinglist.school/book/amulet-the-stonekeeper) by Kazu Kibuishi _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Strange Case of Origami Yoda](https://readinglist.school/book/the-strange-case-of-origami-yoda) by Tom Angleberger _(Grades 4–6)_
- [The Sweetest Fig](https://readinglist.school/book/the-sweetest-fig) by Chris Van Allsburg _(Grades 3–8)_
- [The Tale of Despereaux](https://readinglist.school/book/the-tale-of-despereaux) by Kate DiCamillo _(670L · Grades 3–6)_
- [The World According to Humphrey](https://readinglist.school/book/the-world-according-to-humphrey) by Betty G. Birney _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Unspeakable](https://readinglist.school/book/unspeakable-the-tulsa-race-massacre) by Carole Boston Weatherford _(Grades 3–7)_
- [Weslandia](https://readinglist.school/book/weslandia) by Paul Fleischman _(Grades 3–8)_
- [Wildfire](https://readinglist.school/book/wildfire) by Rodman Philbrick _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Wish](https://readinglist.school/book/wish) by Barbara O'Connor _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Wonder](https://readinglist.school/book/wonder) by R.J. Palacio _(790L · Grades 3–7)_

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