Monday, September 19, 2011

Books for Young Readers

A while back, I asked friends to give me a list of the books their children have loved to read. Here's a compilation of their recommendations. I haven't read all of them, but many of them are absolute favorites.

Good luck!

A Boat to Nowhere
A Wrinkle in Time 
Al Capone Does My Shirts
All-of-a-Kind Family
Amber Brown is Feeling Blue
Because of Winn-Dixie
Beezus and Ramona
Breaking Through 
Call it Courage
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 
Charlotte's Web 
Chronicles of Narnia series
Dying to Meet You
Ella Enchanted 
Emily Windsnap series
Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret Pitch
Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective
Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues Encyclopedia Brown Gets His Man 
Fairy books by Daisy Meadows
Fever 1793
Freak the Mighty 
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 
Harriet the Spy 
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 
Hattie Big Sky 
How to Eat Fried Worms
Indian in the Cupboard
Inkheart 
Inkspell 
Island of the Blue Dophins
James and the Giant Peach 
Knights of the Round Table
Little Women 
Misty of Chincoteague
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Mysterious Benedict Society
Nancy Drew Clew Crew books
Number the Stars 
Old Yeller Oliver Twist
Percy Jackson
Peter and the Starcatchers 
Rainbow Magic fairy books by Daisy Meadows
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 
Ramona the Pest 
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 
Saddle Club books
Seedfolks Shiloh 
Sister's Grimm Summer of the monkeys
Summer Reading Is Killing Me! 
Superfudge
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 
The City of Ember 
The Enormous Crocodile 
The Fairy Painting The Ghost,
The White House and Me
The Hunchback of Notre Dame 
The Indian in the Cupboard 
The Invention of Hugo Cabret 
The Penderwicks
The Princess Tales
Treasure Island
Tuck Everlasting 
Where the Red Fern Grows