15+ Best-Selling Chapter Books for Under $10
Challenge your students to think more critically and expand their knowledge with these top titles.
As a teacher, you want your students to be able to choose chapter books that pique their interests and help them build a love for reading. However, building your classroom library with chapter books can sometimes be an expensive and daunting task.
Luckily, there are plenty of best-selling chapter books you can find at a great price — including these top titles under $10. In addition, the books on this list highlight important lessons in history and social-emotional learning topics (for more on that, here are 99 books under $7 that build character).
Stock up on these bargain chapter books for independent reading or for assigning book reports your students will enjoy working on. Or for more great chapter books that students love, check out the ultimate I Survived Series book list and essential Alan Gratz books your classroom library needs.
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It's a special week at Treetop Elementary because it's time to choose a class president! Eva is excited because she loves to make choices and vote for things! Who will win the big vote to become president of the class?
Bub has a new hobby: BASKETBALL! He's so good, Bella convinces him to become a doggie basketball coach. Bub loves playing, but he isn't sure how he feels about being in the spotlight. Can Bub's friends help him balance being a SPORTS STAR with staying true to himself?
An evil magic turned Kwame's friend Fifi into a green flame. It also stole the two most powerful calabashes, and now the world is falling apart! Kwame and his friends Esi and Papa-Kow must travel to the Magic Mountain, where the green flame is trying to combine the two calabashes to make one all-powerful calabash. Can they save Fifi and stop the green flame before it's too late?
The Disaster Squad is ready to save the day in this action-packed early chapter book series perfect for fans of the Magic Tree House series, or for kids who aren't quite ready to read I Survived!
Hardcover Book
The Captain Underpants Double-Crunchy Book o' Fun: Color Edition (From the Creator of Dog Man)
The Captain Underpants Double-Crunchy Book o' Fun is a selection of stories, comics, puzzles, jokes, Flip-O-Ramas, and other fun stuff from The Captain Underpants Extra-Crunchy Book o' Fun and The All New Captain Underpants Extra-Crunchy Book o' Fun 2, now in full color!
Hardcover Book
Cat Kid Comic Club: Influencers: A Graphic Novel (Cat Kid Comic Club #5): From the Creator of Dog Man
The Cat Kid Comic Club is in crisis! After learning that one of their comics will be published, the baby frogs are filled with anxiety and doubt. How will they get their creative groove back? Will Naomi or Melvin emerge as a leader? Will Flippy convince them to finally straighten up and fly right?
To stop the Shadow Dragon from covering the whole world in a sky-shadow, the Dragon Masters must seek out a Light Dragon. So Drake and Darma travel to find a Light Dragon named Lysa. Lysa's Dragon Master, Rune, who is deaf, explains that the Dragon Masters will need a Star Flute in order to summon a Star Dragon and stop the Shadow Dragon. But the flute is hidden within a dangerous labyrinth! Will they be able to make it out of the tricky maze?
Paperback Book
Cat on the Run in Cat of Death! (Cat on the Run #1) - From the Creator of The Bad Guys
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad Guys comes another hilarious illustrated series starring a pampered cat who is way tougher than anyone realizes.
Paperback Book
Clementine Fox and the Great Island Adventure: A Graphic Novel (Clementine Fox #1)
Clementine is supposed to be on her way to school... but why not head out for a day of adventure and exploration instead? She recruits her friends Nubbins Squirrel and Penelope Rabbit and goes to the beach, where Jesse Otter is preparing to take a giant Turtle to the mysterious local island. Clementine's great-aunt Marnie lives there -- away from any math tutors or tests -- so Clementine and her friends hitch a ride to the island as stowaways. What could go wrong?
Jarell has accepted his destiny as the savior of Ulfrika. But a powerful god will stop at nothing to banish Jarell from the kingdom forever...
In this hilariously illustrated series, Big Bad Wolf has had enough. He enlists fellow bad guys Shark, Snake, and Piranha to join him in his ill-fated effort to cross over to the good side!
When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club - a chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they each love to do - she has no idea how much the club will change everything.
Perfect for fans of WICKED, WITCHLINGS, and THE WIZARD OF OZ, this magical series returns with magical adventures, friendship feuds, and a whole lot more.
Paperback Book
I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (Special Edition: I Survived #1)
This special edition features a new letter from the author and 80 pages of full-color bonus content, including a tour of the Titanic's first-class decks; historical photos of the ship and passengers; the story of the cutthroat race to find the Titanic wreckage; and a timeline of the technology that helped us uncover it. Perfect for readers new to the series as well as I Survived fans!
All Avery wants is her own room-her own space to be alone and make art. So she's furious when Theo, her grumpy older brother, gets his own room instead, and her wild baby brother, Max, moves into the room she already shares with her clinging sister Pearl! Avery hatches a plan to finally get her own room, all while trying to get Max to sleep at night, navigating changes in her friendships, and working on an art entry for the fair. And when Avery finds out that her family might move across the country, things get even more complicated.
Plum and her friends are traveling to the misty Bokati Island. There they will study with the mysterious Guardian Master Em, who is the keeper of the ancient forest there. The field trip comes just in time for Plum, who still can"t figure out why she"s so different from the other Novices on Lotus Island.
The hugely popular, genre-bending tales of Greg Heffley, a new kind of hilarious, conflicted anti-hero whose observations on life are hysterically funny-and more than a bit profound.
When a stray dog comes her way, eleven-year Charlie risks everything to give Wishbone the forever home she doesn"t have.
With Grace's burgeoning powers, the team must get to Paris and stop Daijiang's plan. But their new ally, Dr. Kim, may not be all she appears, and Daijiang has formidable allies of his own: a strangely familiar accomplice and a terrifying, powerful dragon that could threaten all of Paris.
Mia Tang is living the dream: attending journalism camp at the San Francisco Tribune! But when her story ideas keep getting shot down, she"ll have to work with her friends
to get back on top. The beloved New York Times bestselling Front Desk series continues, with all the heart and energy that Mia brings to everything she does!
Peril has been loyal to Queen Scarlet, who used her fatal firescales to kill countless dragons in the SkyWing arena. Now, Peril is loyal to Clay, the only dragonet who has ever been her friend. So when Scarlet threatens Jade Mountain Academy, Peril sets off to find her former queen, stop her, and save the day, no matter what it takes.
Chase Ambrose has a lot to learn, and that includes remembering who he is. As the eighth grade football star recovers from amnesia, his former reputation for bullying complicates his second chance.
Separated by continents and decades, the harrowing escape stories of Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud intertwine.
Separated by hundreds of miles, Akira, Owen, and Natalie each struggle to survive against seemingly insurmountable odds. What ultimately connects the three kids is both surprising and hopeful: a commitment to changing the world, however and wherever they can.