Realistic Fiction

    Holes by Louis Sachar

    Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech

   Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech               

    Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor

    Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

    Hatchet by Gary Paulson



Historical Fiction

    Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

    Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

    Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

    Yellow Star by Jennifer Rozines Roy

    The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare



Classics

    Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

    Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

    Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

    Sounder by William H. Armstrong

    Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks



Poetry

    Cars on Mars (and 50 other poems for children) by J.D. Landis

    anything by Shel Silverstein

    anything by Jack Prelutsky

    The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle

    Hey You! C'mere! A Poetry Slam by Elizabeth Swados

    Nose Pickin': and 50 Other Ways to Tickle Your Brain! by Colonel Alonzo Fugate



Fantasy

    The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

    The Girl Who Owned A City by O.T. Nelson

    The Borrowers by Mary Norton

    Matilda by Roald Dahl

    The BFG by Roald Dahl

    Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar



Mysteries

    The "Trixie Belden" series

    The "Among the Hidden" series by Haddox.   

    The "Series of Unfortunate Events" series by Lemony Snicket

    The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by by Julie Andrews Edwards



Other Great Reads

    Marty Kelley’s books

    The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson

    Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World...One Child at a Time

                - The Young Reader’s Edition by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin





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"The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't read at all."

                                                                               ~ Mark Twain


"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."

                                                                               ~ Walt Disney


"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

                            ~ Frederick Douglass


“Never judge a book by its movie.”  ~J.W. Eagan


"The things I want to know are in books.

My best friend is the man who'll get me

a book I [haven't] read."

                                            ~ Abraham Lincoln


“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

                                    ~ Joseph Addison 



"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go."

                                                                                    ~ Dr. Seuss


"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

                                                                                 ~ Groucho Marx



“Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

                                                                                         ~ Jim Bishop


“I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.”

                                                                ~ Scott Corbett


“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

                                                               ~ James Russell Lowell 


“TV.  If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine  the fun they'll have with twenty-six.  Open your child's imagination.  Open a book.”

                                                               ~Author Unknown