# Vermont Golden Dome Book Award reading list

**52** books referenced by Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, a reading-program curriculum framework spanning applicable K-12 grade levels.

The Golden Dome Book Award is Vermont's statewide children's-choice book award, established in 1957 — one of the oldest readers'-choice awards in the United States. Known from 1957 to 2020 as the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award and renamed the Golden Dome Book Award in 2020, it has Vermont students in grades 4-8 read each year's nominees and vote for their favorite. Its winner lists are read in Vermont classrooms and libraries statewide and include widely loved titles such as The Incredible Journey, Rascal, Hatchet, Number the Stars, Maniac Magee, Shiloh, Holes, Bud Not Buddy, The Tale of Despereaux, The Hunger Games, Wonder and El Deafo.

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## Vermont Golden Dome Book Award reading list

- [11 Birthdays](https://readinglist.school/book/11-birthdays) by Wendy Mass _(Grades 3–5)_
- [A Bundle of Sticks](https://readinglist.school/book/a-bundle-of-sticks) by Pat Mauser McCord _(Grades 4–6)_
- [A Smart Kid Like You](https://readinglist.school/book/a-smart-kid-like-you) by Stella Pevsner _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Because of Winn-Dixie](https://readinglist.school/book/because-of-winn-dixie) by Kate DiCamillo _(610L · Grades 3–5)_
- [Bones on Black Spruce Mountain](https://readinglist.school/book/bones-on-black-spruce-mountain) by David Budbill _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Bud, Not Buddy](https://readinglist.school/book/bud-not-buddy) by Christopher Paul Curtis _(950L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Bunnicula](https://readinglist.school/book/bunnicula) by Deborah Howe _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Catch a Killer](https://readinglist.school/book/catch-a-killer) by George A. Woods _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Dear Mr. Henshaw](https://readinglist.school/book/dear-mr-henshaw) by Beverly Cleary _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Diary of a Wimpy Kid](https://readinglist.school/book/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid) by Jeff Kinney _(950L · Grades 3–7)_
- [El Deafo](https://readinglist.school/book/el-deafo) by Cece Bell _(420L · Grades 4–6)_
- [Ella Enchanted](https://readinglist.school/book/ella-enchanted) by Gail Carson Levine _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library](https://readinglist.school/book/escape-from-mr-lemoncellos-library) by Chris Grabenstein _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Fifteen](https://readinglist.school/book/fifteen) by Beverly Cleary _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Flush](https://readinglist.school/book/flush) by Carl Hiaasen _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Hatchet](https://readinglist.school/book/hatchet) by Gary Paulsen _(1020L · Grades 5–8)_
- [Henry and Ribsy](https://readinglist.school/book/ribsy) by Beverly Cleary _(Grades 3–6)_
- [Holes](https://readinglist.school/book/holes) by Louis Sachar _(660L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Jennifer Murdley's Toad](https://readinglist.school/book/jennifer-murdleys-toad) by Bruce Coville _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Kavik the Wolf Dog](https://readinglist.school/book/kavik-the-wolf-dog) by Walt Morey _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Kid Power](https://readinglist.school/book/kid-power) by Susan Beth Pfeffer _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Loser](https://readinglist.school/book/loser) by Jerry Spinelli _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Love That Dog](https://readinglist.school/book/love-that-dog) by Sharon Creech _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Maniac Magee](https://readinglist.school/book/maniac-magee) by Jerry Spinelli _(820L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Mick Harte Was Here](https://readinglist.school/book/mick-harte-was-here) by Barbara Park _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Number the Stars](https://readinglist.school/book/number-the-stars) by Lois Lowry _(670L · Grades 4–7)_
- [Projekt 1065](https://readinglist.school/book/projekt-1065) by Alan Gratz _(Grades 5–9)_
- [Rascal](https://readinglist.school/book/rascal) by Sterling North _(Grades 5–8)_
- [Refugee](https://readinglist.school/book/refugee) by Alan Gratz _(800L · Grades 5–9)_
- [Rules](https://readinglist.school/book/rules) by Cynthia Lord _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Shiloh](https://readinglist.school/book/shiloh) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _(890L · Grades 3–6)_
- [Small Spaces](https://readinglist.school/book/small-spaces) by Katherine Arden _(Grades 3–5)_
- [Small Steps](https://readinglist.school/book/small-steps-the-year-i-got-polio) by Peg Kehret _(Grades 4–10)_
- [Smile](https://readinglist.school/book/smile) by Raina Telgemeier _(410L · Grades 4–8)_
- [The Boggart and the Monster](https://readinglist.school/book/the-boggart) by Susan Cooper _(Grades 4–8)_
- [The Castle in the Attic (35th Anniversary Edition)](https://readinglist.school/book/the-castle-in-the-attic) by Elizabeth Winthrop _(Grades 4–8)_
- [The City Under the Back Steps](https://readinglist.school/book/city-under-the-back-steps) by Evelyn Sibley Lampman _(Grades 4–8)_
- [The Hand-Me-Down Kid](https://readinglist.school/book/the-hand-me-down-kid) by Francine Pascal _(Grades 4–8)_
- [The Hunger Games](https://readinglist.school/book/the-hunger-games) by Suzanne Collins _(810L · Grades 6–9)_
- [The Incredible Journey](https://readinglist.school/book/the-incredible-journey) by Burnford Sheila _(Grades 4–7)_
- [The Old Willis Place](https://readinglist.school/book/the-old-willis-place) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 3–6)_
- [The Running Dream](https://readinglist.school/book/the-running-dream) by Wendelin Van Draanen _(Grades 7–12)_
- [The Tale of Despereaux](https://readinglist.school/book/the-tale-of-despereaux) by Kate DiCamillo _(670L · Grades 3–6)_
- [The Terrible Two](https://readinglist.school/book/the-terrible-two) by Mac Barnett _(Grades 3–5)_
- [The Toothpaste Millionaire](https://readinglist.school/book/the-toothpaste-millionaire) by Jean Merrill _(Grades 4–8)_
- [The War with Grandpa](https://readinglist.school/book/the-war-with-grandpa) by Robert Kimmel Smith _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Tiger Eyes](https://readinglist.school/book/tiger-eyes) by Judy Blume _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Time for Andrew](https://readinglist.school/book/time-for-andrew) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 4–6)_
- [Wait Till Helen Comes](https://readinglist.school/book/wait-till-helen-comes) by Mary Downing Hahn _(Grades 4–7)_
- [Where It Stops, Nobody Knows](https://readinglist.school/book/where-it-stops-nobody-knows) by Amy Ehrlich _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Wilderness](https://readinglist.school/book/two-in-the-wilderness) by David Thompson _(Grades 4–8)_
- [Wonder](https://readinglist.school/book/wonder) by R.J. Palacio _(790L · Grades 3–7)_

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