Here is the ISD 728 Top 75 Book List! We use these books in our annual Book Bowl competition, where teams of students compete to answer questions about these books. This list changes slightly from year to year, as new books are published or discovered. The books on this list are all kid-recommended and approved!
Click on each book cover, to learn more about the story .
A Dog Called Homeless
Among the Hidden
Arnie the Doughnut: Bowling Alley Bandit
Because of Mr. Terupt
Because of Winn-Dixie
Bud, Not Buddy
CatStronauts: Mission Moon
Charlotte’s Web
City Spies
Creepy Carrots
Deep and Dark and Dangerous
Don’t Trust Fish
Escaping the Giant Wave
Finally
Fishing Frenzy
Flush
Football Genius
Four Eyes
Franny K. Stein
Front Desk
Ghost
Ground Zero
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Hatchet
Holes
Hummingbird
I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
Investigators
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Memoirs of a Goldfish
Miss Nelson is Missing
My Side of the Mountain
Number the Stars
Old School
Out of My Mind
Pie
Pizza and Taco: Who’s the Best?
Please Write In This Book
Ranger’s Apprentice: Ruins of Gorlan
Restart
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
Shiloh
Sidekicks
Smile
Something Like Home
Stormbreaker
Sunny Side Up
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
The Bad Guys
The Best of Iggy
The Bad Seed
The Boxcar Children
The Canyon’s Edge
The City of Ember
The Day the Crayons Quit
The Doughnut Fix
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Last Kids on Earth
The Lightning Thief
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Losers Club
The Million Dollar Shot
The One and Only Ivan
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
The Trouble with Heroes
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
The War that Saved my Life
The Wild Robot
Tornado
We Don’t Eat Our Classmates
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wings of Fire
Wonder