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Reluctant readers, those students who don't enjoy reading and often don't read well, need books that offer them high-interest content at an easier reading level.

Titles listed below meet reluctant readers' needs for suspense and excitement, and range in readability from fourth to eighth grades.
 
Brian's Winter / Gary Paulsen
Call Me Francis Tucket / Gary Paulsen
Caught in the Act / Joan Lowery Nixon
Chocolate Fever / Robert Kimmel Smith
A Dangerous Promise / Joan Lowery Nixon
Driver's Ed / Caroline B. Cooney
A Family Apart / Joan Lowery Nixon
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / E.L. Konigsburg
In the Face of Danger / Joan Lowery Nixon
Ironman / Chris Crutcher
Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns / Mary Quattlebaum
Journey / Patricia MacLachlan
Keeping Secrets / Joan Lowery Nixon
Mr. Tucket / Gary Paulsen
The Orphan Train Adventures / Joan Lowery Nixon
The Outsiders / S.E. Hinton
A Place to Belong / Joan Lowery Nixon
The River / Gary Paulsen
Rumble Fish / S.E. Hinton
Search for the Shadowman / Joan Lowery Nixon
Seth and Samona / Joanne Hyppolite
The Sign of the Beaver / Elizabeth George Speare
Taming the Star Runner / S.E. Hinton
Tex / S.E. Hinton
That Was Then, This is Now / S.E. Hinton
The Tucket Adventures / Gary Paulsen
Tucket's Ride / Gary Paulsen
Vampire Bugs: Stories Conjured from the Past / Sharon Dennis Wyeth
The Voice on the Radio / Caroline B. Cooney
The War With Grandpa / Robert Kimmel Smith
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 / Christopher Paul Curtis
The World of Daughter McGuire / Sharon Dennis Wyeth
The Young Adult Novels of S.E. Hinton / S.E. Hinton
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