First Chapter Books are for the child who has moved beyond easy
readers but is not yet ready for full-length chapter books. These
books:
- use a simple vocabulary and sentence structure
- are usually illustrated but there is not a picture on each
page
- have short chapters that usually stand on their own, giving
the reader clear breaks
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- Cam Jansen a series by David A. Adler
- The Case of the Elevator Duck by Polly Berrien Berends
- Night of the Living Gerbil or other books by Elizabeth
Levy
- Third-Grade Detectives a series by George Edward Stanley
- New Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley a series by
Judy Katschke
- Jigsaw Jones a series by James Preller
- A to Z Mysteries a series by Ron Roy
- Capital Mysteries a series by Ron Roy
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- The Apple and the Arrow by Mary Buff
- Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
- The Schoolchildren's Blizzard by Marty Rhodes Figley
- Anna All Year Round and Anna on the Farm by
Mary Downing Hahn
- Prairie Skies a series by Deborah Hopkinson
- The American Girls Collection a series by various authors
- Sarah, Plain and Tall and sequels by Patricia MacLachlan
- Rescue on the Outer Banks by Candice F. Ransom
- Kate
Shelley and the Midnight Express by Margaret K. Wetterer
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- Amber Brown is Not a Crayon and other Amber Brown books by Paula Danziger
- Zero Grandparents and other Jackson Friends books by Michelle Edwards
- The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
- It's Test Day, Tiger Turcotte by Pansie Hart Flood
- Russell and Elisa books by Johanna Hurwitz
- Horrible Harry and Song Lee books by Suzy Kline
- Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
- Good Grief, Third Grade and others by Colleen O'Shaughnessy
McKenna
- 7 x 9 = Trouble! by Claudia Mills
- Marvin Redpost a series by Louis Sachar
- The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids a series by
Debbie Dadey
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- Pony Pals a series by Jeanne Betancourt
- The Cats of Cuckoo Square: Two Stories by Adele Geras
- Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig by Dick King-Smith
- Three Terrible Trins by Dick King-Smith
- Rats on the Roof and Other Stories and Rats on the
Range and Other Stories by James Marshall
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- The Stories Julian Tells or others by Ann Cameron
- Soccer Cats a series by Matt Christopher
- Ramona books by Beverly Cleary
- Donavan's Word Jar by Monalisa DeGross
- A Crazy Mixed? Up Spanglish Day and other Get Ready
for Gabí! books by Marisa Montes
- Owen Foote books by Stephanie Greene
- Pinky and Rex books by James Howe
- The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
- Judy Moody books by Megan McDonald
- Miami Gets It Straight and other Miami books by Pat McKissack
- Tippy Lemmey by Pat McKissack
- Junie B. Jones a series by Barbara Park
- Solo Girl by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Go Fish by Mary Stolz
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- The Cooking Book by Jane Bull
- 26 Fairmount Avenue books by Tomie De Paola
- Lizards, Frogs, and Polliwogs: Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian
- Let's Go Rock Collecting by Roma Gans
- Giggle Fit a series by various authors
- Soccer by Mike Kennedy
- Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest
Woman by Kathleen Krull
- Outside and Inside Big Cats and other Outside and Inside
books by Sandra Markle
- Dinosaur Babies by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
- Terrible Tyrannosaurs by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
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- Secrets of Droon a series by Tony Abbott
- Unicorn's Secret a series by Kathleen Duey
- My Father's Dragon books by Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Magic Tree House a series by Mary Pope Osborne
- Werewolf Club a series by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
- My Robot Buddy by Alfred Slote
- Aliens for Breakfast and others by Jonathan Etra and
Stephanie Spinner
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These titles are a sampling of the Library' s collection.
Please ask a librarian for help in locating these or other first
chapter books.
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Prince
George's County Memorial Library System