The Magicians Elephant Kate DiCamillo Ages 7-10 When a fortuneteller’s tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that he needs to ask: Does his sister still live? And if…
The List of Things That Will Not Change Rebecca Stead Ages 8-12 After her parents’ divorce, Bea’s life became different in many ways. But she can always look back at the list she keeps in her green notebook to remember…
The Indian in the Cupboard Series Books 1-5 Lynne Reid Banks Ages 8-10 The Indian in the Cupboard is the first of five gripping books about Omri and his plastic North American Indian – Little Bull – who comes alive…
The Kane Chronicles Trilogy Rick Riordan Ages 9+ Since their mother’s death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist,…
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling Ages 8-12 On a warm evening in the Seeonee hills, a family of wolves finds someone at the threshold of their cave–a human child, who knows nothing of the world of men. Adopted by Father…
The Happy Hollisters Series Books 1-33 Helen S. Hamilton Each one of the Hollister children – Pete (age 12), Pam (10), Ricky (7), Holly (6) and Sue (4) – plays an important role in finding clues, along with their parents,…
The Great Wheel Robert Lawson Ages 10-12 “Your fortune lies to the west. Keep your face to the sunset . . . and one day you’ll ride the greatest wheel in all the world.” When Aunt Honora reads this fortune…
The Great Gilly Hopkins Katherine Paterson Ages 9-11 Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she’s hated them all. She has a reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable, and that’s the…
The Ghost’s Grave Peg Kehret Ages 10+ What Josh thought would be the dullest summer of his life, spent with his eccentric great-aunt, turns chilling when he meets the ghost of a coal miner killed in a mine explosion. Willie…
The Gammage Cup Carol Kendall Ages 8-12 Carol Kendall’s witty, epic tales about the race of people called the Minnipins are now available as Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classics. Now a new generation of readers can thrill to the adventures of the…