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[quote=Anonymous]My teenager was and still is a gifted little reader. At age 5 she was tested and was 6th grade or higher. Didn’t mean she could only read books at that level. It just meant she could read paragraphs and answer comprehension questions at that level.

The summer before kindergarten I remember checking out 100 books from the library and cycling through new ones about once a week. These were the magic treehouse type books at the 2nd grade level. She read some harder books but that really wasn’t important. I just let her lead. She read these books in one sitting and multiple a day. This did not stunt her development!

In kindergarten she transitioned to reading ~4th grade level books. Like Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, warriors. I think going to school made a big difference. Prior to that she was just in day care. I think a lot of books require some background knowledge about school dynamics. She just kind of devoured these types of books for a few years. In 5th grade she started reading YA and Adult novels.

Anyway, you shouldn’t stress about reading level. But here are some upper elementary level book i remember her reading in elementary school.

Keeper of the lost cities (Shannon Messenger)
Tuck everlasting (Natalie Babbitt) 
The wizard of earthsea (Ursula k Le Guin) 
Where the mountain meets the moon (grace lin)  
Watership Down (Richard Adams) 
Savvy (Ingrid law) 
Echo (Pam Munoz Ryan) 
The Golden compass (Phillip Pullman)  
The book of three (Lloyd Alexander) 
The great gilly Hopkins (Katherine Patterson) 
The Girl with Silver Eyes (Willo Davis Roberts) 
Pax (Sarah Pennypacker) 
The witch of blackbird pond (Elizabeth George Speare) 
Esperanza rising (Pam Munoz Ryan) 
The inquisitor’s Tale (Adam Gidwitz) 
Fuzzy mud (Louis sachar) 
The evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Jacqueline Kelly) 
How to eat Fried worms (Thomas Rockwell) 
Strawberry girl (Lois Lenski)
The magic garden (Gene Stratton-Porter) 
Ghost (Jason Reynolds) 
Dragon lance (Margaret Weiss) 
Peter and the starcatchers (Dave Barry)
The secret life of bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
One crazy summer (Rita Williams-Garcia)
Unbroken (Laura hillenbrand) 
Rocket boys (homer Hickman) 
Heart of samurai (Margi Preus) 
A thousand leagues under the sea (Jules verne)[/quote]

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