Top Chapter Books to Read as a School

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The best affiliate books for unproblematic kids - This amazing list includes selections for early readers through teens. Every parent and teacher will find skilful and appropriate books here, all curated by a sometime teacher and homeschool mom who included a summary of each volume.

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It is worth noting that Grace loves a particular series of fairy books, but I hate them.Hate them. The text is dull and not well written. Information technology's the book form of candy, empty words without any redeeming intellectual value.

At that place are probably books in your children's lives that are the aforementioned fashion.

Why not feed their little brains with good literature instead of junk books?

Only like I limit the junk food in Grace's belly, I limit the junk books in her brain. I'll loosen upwards a fiddling when she'south onetime enough to read her own books, but as long every bit I'm doing the reading, nosotros are reading the good stuff.

If I am going to accept the time to read to Gracie (and I practice, every single day), I desire to hear her a book that is stimulating. I desire a story that draws me in and makes me want to read just 1 more than chapter! I want it to aggrandize what Gracie knows - either in experiences or feelings or understanding of the world. I desire a story with layers  - something she may come back to again as an older child or even an adult.

There is no junk food here. (There's also no junk food on my list of101 Moving picture Books to Read or Hear Before You Grow Upwards.)

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I've read almost every 1 of these books, either in my ain childhood or recently. There are a few I haven't read but I included to round out the list to 101. I noted where that was the instance, and I included them but at the recommendation of someone I respect (nigh oftentimes our favorite public librarian).

One more than note - Not all of these are appropriate for a 5-twelvemonth-one-time. Utilize your own skillful judgement to know what your kiddo is ready for.

1. Run across Kirsten and other American Girl books - Grace and I read Meet Kirsten because Kirsten is very like to the people who lived in Walnut Grove, Minnesota (where Mary and Laura lived for a few years). She'due south in the same time menstruation and aforementioned general location, so Grace was instantly interested in the books. The serial includes lots of different girls in lots of different time periods. If they're all as well washed as Kirsten, nosotros'll be reading this series for months.
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn past Marker Twain - Y'all know Huck Finn, right? It'southward the story of a xiii-year-quondam boy who isn't entirely literate but goes on an gamble with a runaway slave. It'southward an amazing story that everyone should read at least one time. (Notation: This one is definitely all-time for older kids. There is a proficient deal of controversy surrounding this book's use of a certain racial slur, but I recollect it's fodder for a frank word about how people have been treated in the past. There are some really enlightening reviews focused on race on Amazon if y'all want to read more nearly that.)
3. The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Light-green - Stealing from the rich, giving to the poor, yous know the story. This isn't a Disney story; it's real literature rich with take a chance.
4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain - This is a classic, correct? Tom is a mischievous boy who gets into all kinds of scrapes. Boys and girls will both love the story.
5. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - Forget what politically correct adults recall about this story and read information technology for what it is - a silly story from the dreams of a petty girl. As is always the example, the book is so much better than any picture show version ever fabricated.
6. Amos Fortune, Costless Man past Elizabeth Yates - This is a book for older kids, near Amos Fortune, the son of an Africa rex, and his journeying through slavery and out the other side. It's excellent, triumphant.
7. Anne of Dark-green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery - Beloved, sweet Anne. Red-headed Anne Shirley was as much a role of my childhood as Laura Ingalls Wilder. I loved her stories. I yet love her stories. I however have the boxed set of these books in my basement, waiting for Grace to be big plenty to listen to them.
8. A Comport Called Paddington by Michael Bond - "They're similar a vintage slice of life in London as seen through the eyes of a bear from darkest Peru." (Recommendation from Cathy at Nurture Store.) I also love the blurb on the back of this book: Mr. and Mrs. Brownish first met Paddington--a about endearing bear from Darkest Republic of peru--on a railway platform in London. A sign hanging around his neck said, "Delight await after this behave. Thank you" So that is only what they did.
9. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo - I haven't read this 1, because it was written after I was in middle schoolhouse. Winn-Dixie is a large ugly dog who helps a very lonely little girl in need of a friend.
10. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - Blackness Beauty is a horse in turn of the century England. His story includes adventures aplenty, but its real value comes from its middle. Even preschool kids will understand the kindnesses and cruelties portrayed through the situations in this book.
11. The Borrowers by Mary Norton - My boss told me that this was i of her favorite books when she was a child, and she read information technology to her kids. It's a serial of books about a wee family who lives in the floor of a house.
12. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson -"This was the first book to e'er make me cry. Information technology's a heartwarming but sad story about etching out your refuge both physically and emotionally abroad from bullies and the harsh realities of being a kid. It's almost friendship and standing upwards for what is right as much as information technology'southward near loss." (Recommendation & review from Allie at No Time for Wink Cards)
13. Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah Howe - I oasis't read this one, just our librarian loves it. The story is about a dog and a true cat and a vampire bunny named Bunnicula. According to the reviews on Amazon, it's really funny.
14. Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn was more tomboy than Laura Ingalls Wilder, e'er finding adventure in places she shouldn't have been to brainstorm with. Based on the author's grandmother, Caddie Woodlawn is a story I loved every bit a fiddling girl.
15. Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing plant by Roald Dahl - This was the very first chapter book I read aloud to Gracie. Information technology is so good! She loved that there was a movie accommodation (the quondam Gene Wilder 1, not the new i, which I've heard is not advisable for little kids), and she loved that we found Willy Wanka processed at the grocery store. We finished this 1 in less than a week.
16. The Castle in the Cranium by Elizabeth Winthrop - A 10-yr-old boy finds a magical castle in the attic. I haven't read this one, but it reminds me of the Indian in the Cupboard which appears below.
17. Charlotte'south Web by EB White - I retrieve weeping at the end of this book. Information technology was the first time that I experienced such strong emotions from a book. There's a really nice animated movie of Charlotte's Web, too, but the volume is the best version.
18. Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth and Elizabeth Gilbreth Carey - I bet you know the Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt move based on this volume. The volume, however, is the real life, express joy out loud funny story of the Gilbreth family who lived in the very early 1900'southward.
19. The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden - This is a really prissy story virtually a petty boy and a scattering of animals (including a cricket, plainly). It's great for little kids because there's goose egg traumatic or scary, just a rich and elaborate iteration of the Land Mouse, City Mouse folk tale.
20. Christy by Catherine Marshall - I retrieve reading this story to my little sister. It's well-nigh a 19-year-old girl who leaves home to become a teacher in a (comparatively) primitive town in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. This one is probably all-time for older kids; it's almost 600 pages.
21. Clementine by Sara Pennypacker - I oasis't read this ane, merely it's on our list afterward Mary and Laura. I tin't expect to dive into the story of a third grade girl who seems similar Fancy Nancy's older, misunderstood cousin. Information technology's besides the beginning of a series.
22. The Consummate Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh past AA Milne - I read this to Grace when I was pregnant with Allie, so I estimate I read it to both of them. I love Pooh Acquit's overly simplistic view of the globe. Even little kids volition be able to come across his foibles and observe condolement in his friendship with Christopher Robin. You'll see some parallels with Disney movies and stories, just the original is (as you might take known) much richer.
23. Dearest Mr. Henshaw past Beverly Cleary - This is a collection of messages written past a footling boy to his favorite writer over a menses of iv years. His parents divorce, he moves to a new school, he gets picked on all the time, and he learns to deal with his confusing life through writing.
24. The Door in the Wall past Marguerite De Angeli - This is a Newberry Medal winner about a teenage boy who becomes crippled and learns at that place's more to him than his torso. Information technology'due south probably best for older kids considering the story develops slowly and includes a lot of language that littles won't understand.
25. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine - Repeat it with me: There is a movie based on this book, but the book is so much better. It'south essentially a Cinderella story, but a marvelously rich version.
26. Encyclopedia Brown, Male child Detective past Donald Sobol - This was my first mystery book experience. I could never figure out the whodunnit, only I really liked reading the stories and being surprised at the end.
27. The Terminate of the Beginning: Beingness the Adventures of a Modest Snail (and an Even Smaller Pismire) by Avi - I haven't read this one, but I really adore the author, Avi. Every Avi book I've ever read has gripped me from the get-go page to the very last, and the reviews of this on Amazon expect really dandy. It's a modern legend nigh the meaning of life.
28. Freckle Juice past Judy Blume - Everyone has read this, right? Information technology's an elementary school classic about a little boy who wants to accept freckles and thinks he can get them from freckle juice. I chuckle just thinking virtually information technology. Even the littlest of preschoolers will get the jokes and relish this one.
29. Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel - This book is required reading for every single early on reader always . It was one of the first books I e'er read, and I bought information technology for Grace earlier she could fifty-fifty sit down up. Frog and Toad are different and love each other completely. The book is really five curt stories, and it'due south the get-go in a serial of four books. You'll read them all, I'k certain.
30. From the Mixed-upward Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg - I read this when I was in the quaternary grade. I notwithstanding think the aging picnic tabular array where I sat at recess and read. (I call back I merely gave myself away every bit a giant anti social nerd, didn't I?) Information technology's the story of two kids who run abroad from dwelling house and alive, undetected, in the Metropolitan Museum of Fine art for a whole calendar week.
31. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Periodical past Joan W. Blos - I love journal-style books. This one is about a 13-yr-old girl in 19th century New England. When her female parent dies, she has to larn to have care of her house and her family.
32. Ginger Pye past Eleanor Estes - This is a book well-nigh a picayune boy and his very smart dog. Everything is great until the dog is stolen!
33. Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry - Gooney Bird Greene is the new girl in school (as I was over and over and over again), and she loves to tell stories. You'll really similar her stories, too.
34. Grimm's Fairy Tales - Read through this one a lilliputian ahead of your kiddo as you may decide to drop some stories. These can go a little gruesome by today's standards, but most are still appropriate for the early simple set.
35. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fizthugh - Oh, Harriet. Harriet is an 11-yr-old aspiring author who documents her brutally honest observations in her secret notebook. And then a classmate finds information technology and reads the whole thing out loud. Can y'all experience the trauma?
36. Hatchet past Gary Paulsen - I thought I would hate this book, but I had to read it for a literacy festival when I was in the 7th grade. It'south about a 13-twelvemonth-old boy who's on his way to see his dad in a tiny airplane when the plane crashes. He's lost all by himself in the Canadian wilderness.
37. Heidi by Johanna Sypri - Heidi is a 5-year-old orphan sent to live with her grandpa in the mountains. But then she's sent abroad again, to exist the playmate of a little girl in town. The remainder of the story is about how she tries to go back to her grandad.
38. Holes by Lois Sachar - A teenage male child gets sent to a detention camp (through no fault of his own, of class), and he discovers mystery and intrigue.
39. How to Eat Fried Worms past Thomas Rockwell - As the title might suggest, this is about a boy who eats worms (on a bet). I recollect reading it as a child, and I loved it.
40. The Hundred Dresses by Elenor Estes - This story was written in the forties, merely it is equally true for today every bit ever. A bullied girl tells the class that she has a hundred dresses - even though she wears the same threadbare one to school every day. Her family eventually moves away (because of the torment), and the remainder of the kids are left to deal with their own behavior. This is a actually powerful story.
41. Isle of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell - As a kid, I was a sucker for a stranded kid who survives on her own story. This is one of those, about a 12-year-onetime girl on a Pacific Isle.
42. The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks - My gramps died when I was 12, and this was one of the terminal stories I shared with him. He loved the Former Due west, cowboys and Indians. I'm not sure if I'll be able to read information technology to Grace because it makes me more than a little teary to even recollect about it. Information technology is a really wonderful story.
43. James and the Behemothic Peach by Roald Dahl - Nosotros haven't read this yet, simply I loved it when I was in elementary school. I haven't seen the movie, but I'grand certain the volume is better. James lives with his crazy aunts who don't understand him and gets mixed up with magic, mystery, and adventure.
44. James Herriot's Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales past the Author of All Creatures Dandy and Pocket-sized by James Herriot - Grace loves these stories about animals. This book isn't a chapter volume and so much as a series of brusque stories from the author'due south real life veterinarian practise in the countryside of England.
45. The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones - This is a shorter version of the Bible. Every story leads to the coming of Jesus. I never thought about the stories in this way. Grace loves it, and it makes me think, too.
46. Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes - Pride leads to a fall. This is a story virtually a teen (I recollect) who suffers a crippling injury. Information technology's set in the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. Too, information technology's probably best for older kids, maybe ten+.
47. Julie of the Wolves past Jean Craighead George - My mom loved this story, me non so much. It's a lost in the wilderness survival story most an Eskimo girl (teen?) who'southward accepted into a pack of wolves.
48. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling - Yous know the Disney movie, right? This is the British book version, which is (of course) infinitely better.
49. Merely And so Stories past Rudyard Kipling - This isn't so much a affiliate book as a volume of unconnected short stories. Grace loves these because they're about animals. I read them on my own when I was in fourth grade (not sure why, but I retrieve reading it on the playground), but I've been reading them to Grace since she was three.
50. King Arthur and his Knights of the Circular Table by Roger Lancelyn Greene - Y'all know this story already. Sword in the stone, Male monarch Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Merlin the magician. This particular version is rewritten a bit to exist appropriate for kids.
51. The Terminal of the Really Great Whangdoodles past Julie Andrews Edwards - I'd heard this one was really good, so I ordered it from the library. We're only on chapter ii, but I've loved it so far, and closing it each night is a struggle. It's written by that Julie Andrews. You know, Mary Poppins and Sound of Music. {Update - Grace says this is her favoritest book ever, all the same, two years later on we kickoff read information technology.}
52. A Serial of Unfortunate Events past Lemony Snicket - I've never read this serial of books, but they're highly recommended by our librarian. She says they're a lot like the early Harry Potter stories.
53. Trivial Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody - This is an autobiographical story of a 9-year-quondam boy whose family unit leaves New England to have over a Colorado ranch.
54. The Piffling House on the Prairie series past Laura Ingalls Wilder - If you've been a Feels Like Home reader for any length of fourth dimension, you are well familiar with our Mary and Laura obsession. We've been reading this series since January. Nosotros've finished the original 9-book serial and moved on to On the Style Home, a memoir Laura wrote near moving from South Dakota to Missouri with Almanzo.
55. A Footling Princess by Frances Hodgeson Burnett - This is another of Grace'due south favorite stories right now. It's a classic, nigh a little girl whose rich father sends her to a fancy boarding school. When he dies, the mean headmistress basically enslaves her.
56. The Littles by John Peterson - A family unit of tiny people lives in the walls of a regular family. Forget the creepiness and go with the story. Of grade, problems arise and the Littles have to figure out a way to solve them.
57. Magic Tree Firm by Mary Pope Osborne - This is the commencement of a ginormous series. 2 little kids (in Frog Creek, Pennsylvania!) notice a magic tree house and have adventures all through time and space. These are awesome for younger kids, maybe kindergarten through 2nd or third form.
58. Mary Poppins by Dr. P. 50. Travers - Is there a volume in all the world that'due south not amend than its movie accommodation? I think the movie adaptation of Mary Poppins is positively splendid, but the book is fifty-fifty improve.
59. Matilda by Roald Dahl - Matilda is a five and a half year old genius whose parents are idiots and whose school principal is a bully. She prevails, as y'all might have imagined. Your kids will love her.
60. Miss Hickory past Carolyn Sherwin Bailey - My boss loved this 1 as a kid. It's about a doll made from sticks and a hickory nut, left all alone to survive the winter. She finds that she'south non alone at all when neighbors come to her aid.
61. Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry - Horses aren't my affair, but we all four loved this book. It's a story about a boy who loves a wild horse.
62. The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary - Every single man existence in America should have read this story as a kid. It'south ubiquitous. Grace was introduced to Ralph S. Mouse through a Scholastic book on DVD thing that she got for Christmas, and she loved him. The book is side by side on our list.
63. Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater - For u.s.a., the Jim Carrey movie came before the book. Grace adored that motion-picture show, and the book simply made the story better. On the other hand, delight don't gauge this awesome and classic story by Jim Carrey. It's so much better than that.
64. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh past Robert C. O'Brien - Oh, how I wanted this book to never end! An innocent family unit of field mice (one sickly) are saved by highly intelligent rats who've broken out of the National Institute of Mental Health. There are sequels to prolong the wonder of talking mice and their clever rat cousins. I might take to get become this from the library because writing about it makes me want to read it all over over again.
65. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald - Everyone loves Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves anybody right dorsum. She lives in an upside down house, her backyard is full of buried treasure, and everything she does is fantastic! I devoured this in a couple of days when I was in almost fourth grade.
66. My Side of the Mount by Jean Craighead George - Sam runs away from habitation - for real - and lives in a tree in the mountains. I told you, a lot of survival stories.
67. Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene - This is actually a series of books written over almost 100 years. One-time or new, the books are virtually a little girl who solves mysteries. I could never figure them out, but I loved the suspense.
68. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry - A 10-twelvemonth-one-time girl describes life as her family tries to save their all-time friends - a Jewish family - by smuggling them out of Nazi-controlled Denmark.
69. Out of My Mind past Sharon Draper - The principal graphic symbol of this story has cerebral palsy. She tin't walk or talk, but she is brilliant and wants to share her mind with the world. Fascinating and excellent. All-time for older kids, perhaps fifth grade and up.
70. Owls in the Family by Farley Mowatt - "Owls in the family is a Canadian classic. It's all about boys and their pets but in this case the pets aren't every bit run of the mill as you lot may accept at your business firm. Mowatt brings the Owls to life every bit characters in their own right and his masterful storytelling is both exciting and timeless. Fantastic , wholesome volume for the whole family." (Recommendation & review from Allie at No Time for Flash Cards)
71. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie - Y'all know the story. The book, however, is a real treasure. I promise that you will enjoy it as much as your kids - and it's as adept for a 5-year-erstwhile equally for an 11-yr-one-time.
72. The Phantom Tollbooth past Norton Juster - When I read this in the fifth grade, I really appreciated the main character who was bored, bored, bored with life. And and so a magic tollbooth showed upward in his bedroom and things started to happen. Yahoo!
73. Pippi Longstocking past Astrid Lingren - I don't recollect whether I read this as a child or not (I probably did), merely hither's what Amazon says virtually it: Tommy and his sis Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to practise, a equus caballus that lives on her porch, and a flair for the outrageous that seems to pb to one adventure subsequently another!
74. Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter - Take you ever heard someone called a Pollyanna? It means to exist excessively cheerful or optimistic. The term comes from this volume, about a little daughter sent to live with her mean aunt.
75. Poppy (Tales from Dimwood Wood) by Avi - The last time I looked for Poppy, information technology had gone out of print, but it's dorsum! Information technology's about a very little mouse who has to get on a dangerous chance to save her family unit. It's so expert on many levels, and it has peachy suspense and activity. And you know how I feel about a strong female heroine. AND at that place are several sequels, which I know you volition read because you won't desire your time with Poppy to come to an terminate.
76. The Princess and the Goblin past George MacDonald - Princess, castle, pauper boy, evil goblins who try to take over everything. Sounds classic, right? This book, written in 1872, inspired JRR Tolkien, Madeline 50'Engle, and Lewis Carroll.
77. Ramona and Her Father past Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby was my character of choice for well-nigh all of second grade. I couldn't get enough of her and her family unit. This is the first in a series of at least eight books.
78. Robinson Crusoe past Daniel Defoe - This 1 is best for older kids. It'south a exciting story, though, of a shipwrecked kid who lives for 28 years on his own. This story was written in 1790, but kids today will similar it anyhow. You can go abridged and unabridged versions.
79. The Root Cellar by Janet Lunn - "A young daughter is sent to live on a farm with relatives she barely knows and discovers that their root cellar holds more than than vegetables for winter. This time traveling book had me on the edge of my seat and searching for non-fiction sources about history, besides. Not only is this book about history, it's also about finding a place where you fit in and friends who understand you." (Recommendation & review from Allie at No Time for Wink Cards)
80. Sadako and the Chiliad Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr - Oh, the tears. There's no way I could read this i out loud. Grace would say, "Stop reading, Mom. Yous're crying as well much, and I can't understand the words." Not that she's said it before or annihilation. {ahem} {when Jack died in On the Shores of Silver Lake} {and other times also}
81. Sarah, Plain and Tall past Patricia MacLachlin - I remember devouring this book as a kid, maybe fourth or fifth course? It was earlier the Glenn Close movie came out (which is as well excellent, similar in a lot of ways to Piffling Firm on the Prairie), because I remember watching the movie with my mom and comparing. Set on the prairie in 1910, the story is nearly Sarah (who describes herself as plain and tall), a woman who answers a newspaper ad to become a widower's new wife and mother to his 2 kids. The story of how they learn to be a family is tender and emotional (just in a really practiced way). Even little kids will appreciate the story, and it is an crawly history lesson most turn of the century life in the midwest.
82. The Clandestine Garden past Frances Hodgson Burnett - I'll be honest. I take never liked The Cloak-and-dagger Garden. The story is uncomplicated and classic. A crippled and sickly little daughter's family unit dies, leaving her all lonely, to be shipped off to an uncle in another country. She finds a undercover garden within the walls of his home, and she is determined to explore it.
83. Shiloh past Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - I've never read this one, but our librarian recommended it for upper elementary kids. What would you do if y'all found an abused puppy? Return it to a life of beatings? Proceed it? Tell your parents? That's the story.
84. Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar - This is a strange book nearly a strange schoolhouse total of strange kids who do strange things. I loved it when I was little (partly because of all the things they did that you simply can't practise.
85. The Story of Doctor Dolittle past Hugh Lofting - You lot know the gist. A peculiar man tin talk to animals and has all kinds of ridiculous adventures. Anybody loves it.
86. Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski - I read this story about a little girl whose family moves to Florida to start a strawberry plantation as a child. They suffer hardships, violence, and danger. It'southward about existent life, non a fairy tale.
87. Stuart Lilliputian by East.B. White - Stuart Trivial is a mouse who is office of a human family. When his friend, a bird, goes missing, he goes out looking for her and finds a great take a chance.
88. Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls - In Oklahoma at the turn of the century, a 14-year-former male child and his grandpa try again and over again to trap a bunch of monkeys that accept escaped from a carnival, to earn the reward money.
89. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss - Written in 1812 well-nigh a family who gets shipwrecked on an desert isle, this is a must-read among must-reads. It is not to be missed, seriously.
90. Tales of a Quaternary Class Null by Judy Blume - This is the showtime of v archetype books well-nigh a male child named Peter and his annoying little siblings.
91. There's a Male child in the Girls' Bath past Louis Sachar - Imagine you're the kind of child who lies and cheats and picks fights. Imagine that you're the nearly hated child in school. How would it feel if an adult took an interest in you and believed y'all could modify? Could her support make you a better person?
92. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - Originally published in 1883, this is the original pirate tale. Information technology'due south a violent story total of questionable decisions and colorful characters. Cardinal to the story is a treasure hunt, and you'll love the activity and suspense. Probably all-time for older kids.
93. The Trolley Automobile Family unit by Elenor Clymer - This seems to be out of print, merely I retrieve information technology's available used and may be at your local library. I read The Trolley Car Family as a kid, and I call back it'south merely smashing. It'southward about a family who survives despite bleak circumstances.
94. The Trumpet of the Swan by Eastward.B. White - This story is well-nigh a mute young swan who learns to communicate using a trumpet his begetter stole for him. Information technology's about overcoming challenges, beingness yourself, backbone, honesty, and beloved.
95. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi - When I was in seventh grade, I holed upward in the schoolhouse nurse'south role with this book. I don't remember why (was I ill or did I just desire to read?), only I remember beingness absolutely and totally immersed in the story. Charlotte Doyle is a teenage girl, unexpectedly the merely passenger on a transatlantic voyage in 1832. She seeks counsel in the ship's captain, only to be betrayed and tried for murder. Information technology'south an unusual tale of murder and mystery. I highly recommend it.
96. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt - If you could live forever, would you? The Tuck family unit drank from an eternal spring and now "enjoys" the blessing of eternal life. A footling daughter runs away from home to alive with them, and she contemplates drinking from the leap. Because it deals with issues of life and death, Tuck Everlasting is best for older kids.
97. The Whipping Male child past Sid Fleischman - There's no way that Grace is prepare for this one nevertheless, but it's a really keen story that won a Newberry Medal in 1987. The main characters are Prince Deviling and Jemmy, his whipping boy - an orphan who takes the prince'southward beatings when the latter misbehaves. Jemmy plans to run away, and Prince Brat comes with him. Trouble finds them, and they attempt to make their way back to the castle.
98. The Current of air in the Willows past Kenneth Grahame - Written in 1908, these are the enchanting adventures of Mole, Mr. Toad, Badger, and Ratty. They're lovely specially for the very young.
99. The Witches by Roald Dahl - This is a favorite from my babyhood! Three witches hate children and turn a little boy into a mouse. This was made into a skillful pic starring Angelica Huston.
100. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare - In 1687, Kit is forced to exit Barbados to live with a Puritan aunt and uncle in Connecticut. Drastic to fit in with her new family unit but terribly homesick, Kit befriends an erstwhile woman who's a suspected witch.
101. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - This was published in 1900, the first in a series of 14 books. It's the original Wizard of Oz, the volume nearly which the picture show was made.

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