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Title/Author Boy/Girl: If "boy" is listed first, the book is probably more interesting for boys. Grade Level: 1st-2nd, 3rd-4th, etc. Genre: Adventure, fantasy, mystery, humor, etc... Summary: Brief synopsis RATING:
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A Classic!
Delicious
Tasty 
Not So Good 
A Bad Egg 373+ books
(and counting!)
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AUTHORS M-Z
| ANN MARTIN | |
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Annabelle Doll is 8 years old--and has been for over 100 years. 45 years earlier, Auntie Sarah disappeared from the dollhouse without a trace. Restless Annabelle becomes more curious about her aunt's fate. And when she discovers Auntie Sarah's old diary, she is determined to rescue her lost aunt. Clever story. Amazing pencil illustrations! |
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The adventures of the Doll People continue when Annabelle and her friend, Tiffany, do battle with the Meanest Doll in the World. |
| BETTY MCDONALD | |
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is the widow of a pirate, lives in an upside down house, and is such an expert on kids that parents call on her wisdom to cure their kids when they start misbehaving. From the Won't-Pick-Up-Toys cure, to the Never-Want-to-Go-to-Bedders cure, she has the answers! |
| M.I. MCALLISTER & OMAR RAYYAN | |
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If you enjoy reading the Redwall Books by Brian Jacques (reviewed above) then you may enjoy these books. Heroic animal warriors, a misty castle, an orphaned squirrel, battles, intrigue escapes and more - underscored by the presence of the allegorical "Heart" Creator of All (ala Aslan). |
| ROBERT MCKLOSKEY | |
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Welcome to Centerburg - where you can win a 100 dollars by eating the most doughnuts; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and a pet skunk. This wry look at small-town America has kept readers in stitches for generations! A Boomtownian adventure if there ever was one! |
| A. A. MILNE | |
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Christopher Robin, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, Owl, sad Eeyore and Pooh, the silly old bear. Need I say more? |
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The reader is introduced to Tigger, where "bouncing is what tiggers do best!" |
| MARY NORTON | |
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Pod, Homily, and daughter Arrietty of the tiny Clock family outfit their under-the-kitchen-floor home with the tidbits and trinkets they've "borrowed" from "human beans." The first book begins with the Borrowers being driven from their home, then into the field, onto the water and into the sky, helped along the way by other Borrowers and friendly humans. There's a reason these books are classics. READ THEM! |
| PHILIP PULLMAN | |
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"I was a rat!" claims the boy in a tattered page's uniform who appears at the door of a kindly shoemaker and his washerwoman wife. Soon it appears he may have been. Only the love of his adoptive parents can save Roger from prison! |
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Remenisant of a Grimm's fairy tale, this is a scary legend about Karl, the apprentice clockmaker, and his failure to create a unique animated figure for the town clock. Add an unfinished fable by the author, Fritz , and the mysterious Dr. Kalmenius and you end up with a frightening but clever ghost story. |
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A scarecrow, brought to life by a freak lightning strike, and an orphan boy, Jack, embark on a quest to reclaim Spring Valley from the corrupt Buffaloni family. They overcome bandits, battles, and disaster, with the help of the talking birds and a secret letter hidden next to the Scarecrow's heart. Funny! |
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A book with firework's in it? What could be better than that? Lila, the firework-maker's daughter, dreams of becoming a master like her father, but she must ascend Mt. Merapi and ovecome Razvani the Fire-Fiend to gain the secret of fireworks. |
| ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY | |
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First published in 1943, the year before Saint-Exupery died, this morality fable has lost none of its charm or emotional power. The Little Prince falls to earth from his planet and meets a downed pilot in the desert, where he asks him, of all things, to draw a sheep. The encounter changes the heart of the pilot - just as it will change yours. You MUST read this book! |
| BRIAN SELZNICK | |
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When I saw this book in the bookstore, I didn't care how much it cost. I had to buy it. Told in sparse words and sumptuous pencil drawings (more than two hundred), 12-year-old orphan Hugo lives in the walls of a Paris train station at the turn of the 20th century, where he tends to the clocks and filches what he needs to survive. Hugo's deceased father, a clockmaker, worked in a museum where he discovered an automaton: a human-like figure seated at a desk, pen in hand, as if ready to deliver a message. What is the message? Who built the clockwork machine? Part history, part mystery, part adventure, part moral tale, it doesn't get much better than this! |
| MARGERY SHARP | |
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Once you read the first book about brave Bernard and Miss Bianca and how they are sent out by the Prisoner's Aid Society to save a poet from prison, you'll be hooked and want to read the entire series. Charming and full of adventure. |
| DONALD SOBOL | |
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A Civil War sword, missing roller skates, a trapeze artist's inheritance, a ghost who whistles, eight stuffed penguins... Is there any case Encyclopedia Brown can't solve? He's the fifth-grade mastermind behind Idaville's police force, "a complete library walking around in sneakers" who'll solve any case for 25 cetns. Each book has the answers to all the mysteries in the back so readers can see if they can crack the case! |
| J.R.R. TOLKIEN | |
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As the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, it is the best place to start if you plan on reading the entire series. The book explains the origin of the One Ring and its recovery by Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit as he travels from his comfortable hobbit-hole in the Shire in the company of Gandalf and 13 dwarves. After winning the Ring away from the creature Gollum, he uses it to overcome the dragon Smaug and is caught up on the resulting battle for control of the dragon's hoard. |
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What else can I add to what has already been said about one of the greatest fantasy/adventure series ever written? Elves, dwarves, wizards, battles, escapes, romance, dispair and triumph, Tolkien's far-ranging epic is ultimately about the power of loyalty, love, friendship and faith and its ability to defeat man's lust for power. NOT for younger children. |
| MARK TWAIN | |
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Pranks, adventures, and fun as Tom tricks his friends into whitewashing a fence—to the adventure with Becky Thatcher in Bat Cave as they try and escape Injun Joe. Excitement and humor from the first page to the last. |
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Huckleberry Finn is the neglected son of the town drunk. A spinster woman tries to `civilize' him, which means bathing and, going to school! (ugh) Huck decides to run away and takes one of the household slaves with him a runaway named Jim. They ride down the Mississippi River on a raft and sail into the annals of literature. |
| E.B. WHITE | |
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An affectionate pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. Wilbur is devastated when he learns of a pig's destiny-to be eaten. Determined to save her friend, Charlotte spins a web that reads "Some Pig," convincing the farmer and surrounding community that Wilbur is no ordinary animal and should be saved. |
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Stuart Little, the adopted mouse child of the Little family, leaves home and is caught in one adventure after another from racing sailboats to the unseen horrors of substitute teaching. This is a story of leaving home for the first time, of growing up, and ultimately of discovering oneself. |
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