In 6th grade, my reading arts teacher held a writing contest. We were to create our own ghost stories and she showed us how to make our own faux hardback novels using cardboard (from a cereal box if memory serves me correctly) and contact paper.
I won by writing a story about a girl and a ghost. Or was it about a girl who was a ghost? I don't remember the details but I do remember some of the words I had used that I had found in the dictionary in my attempt to impress my teacher.
What was my prize? I got to choose any book from the Scholastic Book Order that periodically was sent home. I choose a Babysitter's Club book. Remember those?
Here is a list of recommended books for children ages 9-12:
Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little by E.B. White
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux by Kate Dicamillo
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Black Beauty by Anna Sewall
The Giver and Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub by Jamie Gilson
My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craigheade George
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Jacob Have I Loved and The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Bunnicula by Deborah Howe
Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Secret Garden and A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
The Whipping Boy by Peter Sis
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Rescuers by Margery Scharp
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Friday, March 26, 2010
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9 comments:
So many of these I remember from childhood. Some I have only seen the movies. But they are all great stories.
About the only thing I get to read these days are tutorials and blog posts.Thank God for the blog posts.LOL Happy Friday Follow!
I will never be able to get my children to read Charlotte's Web. They watched the movie when they were like 5 years old and SOBBED hysterically that she died. Scarred them for life and they refused to ever watch it again!
I made a book like that, too, when I was in school!
This list is perfect. I've got a fourth grader who loves to read. She's already read a few of these on the list! Thanks!
I remember that book From the Mixed Up Files SO fondly!!!! I just loved that!
Come to think of it-blog posts are also one of the few things I get to read to.
I have read many of these books. I think my all time favorite is The Railway Children. They have made this one onto a movie to. I want to try to find it.
Excellent wonderful list - I recognize most of them, have read many of them, and they are all classics (even the few modern books included). There are a few I haven't heard of that I want to look up now.
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I do remember those books and they also made it into a movie!
I remember reading some of those books, brings back memories.
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