Books we enjoyed as kids (And other great books)

Picture Books (Pre-school & up)

Elementary (1st – 6th)

Intermediate (4th – 9th)

Advanced (9th grade & up)

History books for older readers

 

Picture Books (Pre-school & up)
	Anderson, C.W.		Billy and Blaze
	Anderson, C.W.		Blaze and the Lost Quarry
	Bemelmans, Ludwig		Madeline, Madeline’s Rescue
	Benchley, Nathaniel		Sam the Minuteman
	Benchley, Nathaniel		George the Drummer Boy
	Beskow, Elsa		Pelle’s New Suit
	Brenner, Barbara		Wagon Wheels
	Burton, Virginia Lee		Katie and the Big Snow
	Burton, Virginia Lee		Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
	Carle, Eric		The Very Quiet Cricket
	Carle, Eric		The Very Hungry Caterpillar
	Carle, Eric		The Grouchy Ladybug
	Carle, Eric		The Mixed-Up Chameleon
	Carle, Eric		The Very Busy Spider
	Caudill, Rebecca		A Pocketful of Cricket
	Cohen, Barbara		Molly’s Pilgrim
	Cooney, Barbara		Chanticleer and the Fox
	Cooney, Barbara		Miss Rumphius
	Curren, Polly		The Army of Two
	de Paola, Tomie		“Charlie Needs A Cloak”
	Day, Alexandra		Good Dog, Carl (wordless book)
	Duvoisin, Roger		Petunia (wordless book)
	Duvoisin, Roger		Petunia, Beware! (wordless book)
	Ets, Marie Hall		Play With Me
	Fatio, Louise / R. Duvoisin		The Happy Lion & series
	Flack, Marjorie		The Story About Ping
	Flack, Marjorie		Wait for William
	Fluornoy, Valerie		The Patchwork Quilt
	Freeman, Don		Corduroy
	Freeman, Don		Fly High Fly Low
	Fulton, Ginger Adair		When I’m a Daddy (Moody Press)
	Fulton, Ginger Adair		When I’m a Mommy (Moody Press)
	Gackenbach, Dick		Claude and Pepper
	Gag, Wanda		Millions of Cats
	Galdone, Paul		The Little Red Hen
	Graham, Margaret Bloy		Be Nice to Spiders
	Green, Norma		The Hole in the Dike
	Grossman, Bill		Donna O’Neeshuck Was Chased by Some Cows
	Gunn, Robin Jones		Mrs. Rosey-Posey and the Chocolate Cherry Treat
	Hader, Berta & Elmer		Little Appaloosa
	Hall, Donald		Ox-Cart Man
	Hallinan, P.K.		I’m Thankful Each Day
	Hallinan, P.K.		My Very Best Rainy Day
	Herriot, James		Moses the Kitten
	Herriot, James		The Market Square Dog
	Herriot, James		James Herriot’s Treasury for Children
	Hest, Amy / P.J. Lynch		When Jessie Came Across the Sea
	Hoban, Russel & Lillian		The Frances series
	Hughes, Shirley		Dogger
	Hughes, Shirley		Alfie Gets in First
	Hughes, Shirley		Alfie’s Feet
	Hornblow, Leonora & Arthur		Animals do the Strangest Things
	Hornblow, Leonora & Arthur		Birds Do the Strangest Things
	Hornblow, Leonora & Arthur		Fish Do the Strangest Things
	Hornblow, Leonora & Arthur		Insects do the Strangest Things
	Hutchins, Pat		Good Night, Owl
	Hutchins, Pat		Rosie’s Walk
	Jonas, Ann		Round Trip
	Lakin, Patricia		Dad and Me in the Morning
	Langstaff, John		Over in the Meadow
	Leaf, Munro		The Story of Ferdinand
	Lewis, Thomas P.		Hill of Fire
	Lindbergh, Reeve		The Midnight Farm
	Lobel, Arnold		Frog and Toad Are Friends (& series)
	McBratney / Jeram		Guess How Much I Love You
	McCloskey, Robert		Blueberries for Sal
	McCloskey, Robert		Lentil
	McCloskey, Robert		Make Way for Ducklings
	McCloskey, Robert		One Morning in Maine
	McCully, Emily Arnold		Mirette on the High Wire
	McGinley, P.		The Horse Who Lived Upstairs
	McGovern, Ann		Too Much Noise
	McKissack, Patricia		Flossie & the Fox
	McPhail, David		Farm Morning
	McPhail, David		Lost!
	Minarik, Else Holmelund		Little Bear
	Nordqvist, Sven		Pancake Pie
	Numeroff, Laura Joffe		If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
	Ormerod, Jan		To Baby With Love
	Parish, Peggy		Amelia Bedilia
	Parish, Peggy		Amelia Bedelia Helps Out
	Peet, Bill		Buford the Little Bighorn
	Peet, Bill		Capybopy
	Peet, Bill		Chester the Worldly Pig
	Peet, Bill		Hubert’s Hair-Raising Adventure
	Peet, Bill		Huge Harold
	Peet, Bill		Kermit the Hermit
	Peet, Bill		Merle, the High-Flying Squirrel
	Peet, Bill		The Spooky Tail of Prewitt Peacock
	Piper, Watty		The Little Engine that Could
	Polacco, Patricia		Thank You, Mr. Falker
	Polacco, Patricia		Thunder Cake
	Roop, Peter & Connie		Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (biography of Abbie Burgess)
	Roop, Peter & Connie (editors)		Pilgrim Voices
	Selsam, Millicent		Plenty of Fish
	Schertle, Alice		Down the Road
	Slobadkina, Esphyr		Caps For Sale
	Seuss, Dr.		Bartholomew and the Ooblek
	Seuss, Dr.		Green Eggs and Ham
	Seuss, Dr.		Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who
	Surany, Anico		The Covered Bridge
	Swift, Hildegarde & Lynn Ward		The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge
	Thurber, James		Many Moons
	Titus, Eve		Anatole
	Titus, Eve		Anatole and the Cat
	Titus, Eve		Anatole and the Thirty Thieves
	Titus, Eve		Anatole Over Paris
	Titus, Eve		Anatole and the Piano
	Thorson, Charles		Keeko (1947, Follett Publishing Company, Chicago)
	Turkle, Brinton		Thy Friend, Obadiah
	Turkle, Brinton		The Sky Dog
	Ward, Lynd		The Biggest Bear Ever
	Wilhelm, Hans		I’ll Always Love You
	Williams, Vera B.		Three Days on the River in a Red Canoe
	Wolff, Ferida		Seven Loaves of Bread
	Wright, Courtni C. / Gershom Griffin		Journey to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad
	Yashima, Taro		Crow Boy
	Yolen, Jane		Owl Moon
Elementary Readers (1st – 6th grade)
	Anderson, C.W.		Billy and Blaze
	Anderson, C.W.		Blaze and the Mountain Lion
	Anderson, C.W.		Blaze and the Lost Quarry
	Anderson, C.W.		Blaze and Thunderbolt
	Anderson, C.W.		A Filly for Joan
	Arnold, Elliott		Brave Jimmy Stone
	Atwater, Richard & Florence		Mr. Popper’s Penguins
	Blyton, Enid		Five Fall Into Adventure & series
	Blyton, Enid		The Secret Seven mystery series
	Brown, Drollene P.		Sybil Rides for Independence
	Buff, Mary & Conrad		The Apple and the Arrow (The Legend of William Tell)
	Bulla, Clyde Robert		A Lion to Guard Us
	Bulla, Clyde Robert		Ghost Town Treasure
	Bulla, Clyde Robert		Pocahontas and the Strangers
	Bulla, Clyde Robert		Star of Wild Horse Canyon
	Butterworth, Oliver		The Enormous Egg
	Butterworth, Oliver		The Trouble with Jenny’s Ear
	Cavenah, Frances		Jenny Lind and Her Listening Cat
	Cavenah, Frances		Marta and the Nazis / Marta finds the Golden Door
	Clark, Margaret Goff		Freedom Crossing
	Cleary, Beverly		The Mouse and the Motorcycle
	Dalgliesh, Alice		The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
	Dalgliesh, Alice		The Courage of Sarah Noble
	Devine, Bob		Uncle Bob’s Animal Stories
	du Bois, William Pène		The Twenty-One Balloons
	Edmonds, Walter D.		The Matchlock Gun
	Estes, Eleanor		The Hundred Dresses
	Forbes, Esther		Johnny Tremain
	Fritz, Jean		And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
	Fritz, Jean		Around the World in a Hundred Years
	Fritz, Jean		George Washington’s Breakfast
	Fritz, Jean		Stonewall
	Fritz, Jean		Where Do You Think You’re Going, Christopher Columbus?
	Fritz, Jean		Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?
	Gardiner, John Reynolds		Stone Fox
	Gates, Doris		Blue Willow
	Grahame, Kenneth		The Wind in the Willows
	Hamori, Lazslo		Dangerous Journey
	Harnden, Ruth		Trapped in the Ice / Golly and the Gulls
	Henry, Marguerite		Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin
	Henry, Marguerite		Misty of Chincoteague
	Henry, Marguerite		Stormy, Misty’s Foal
	Henry, Marguerite		Brighty of the Grand Canyon
	Henry, Marguerite		Justin Morgan Had a Horse
	Henry, Marguerite		King of the Wind
	Hicks, Clifford B.		Alvin’s Secret Code
	Hicks, Clifford B.		Alvin’s Swap Shop
	Hicks, Clifford B.		Alvin Fernald, Master of a Thousand Disguises
	Hicks, Clifford B.		Alvin Fernald, TV Anchorman
	Hicks, Clifford B.		Alvin Fernald, Mayor for a Day
	Hicks, Clifford B.		The Wacky World of Alvin Fernald
	Kästner, Erich		Emil and the Detectives
	Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie		The Canada Geese Quilt
	Kjelgaard, Jim		Big Red
	Kjelgaard, Jim		Irish Red
	Kjelgaard, Jim		Outlaw Red
	Kjelgaard, Jim		Wild Trek
	Lawson, Robert		Rabbit Hill
	Lindgren, Astrid		The Bill Bergson series
	Lindgren, Astrid		The Children of Noisy Village
	Lofting, Hugh		The Story of Dr. Dolittle
	MacGregor		The Miss Pickerell Series
	McCloskey, Robert		Homer Price
	McCloskey, Robert		Centerburg Tales
	McGovern, Ann		If You Sailed on the Mayflower
	McGovern, Ann		If You Lived with the Sioux Indians
	Mills, Lauren A.		The Rag Coat
	Morey, Walt		Gentle Ben
	Mowat, Farley		Owls in the Family
	Parish, Peggy		Key to the Treasure
	Reit, Seymour		Guns for General Washington (true story)
	Reit, Seymour		Race Against Death (true story)
	Schlein, Miriam		The Year of the Panda
	Seldan, George		The Cricket in Times Square
	Sharp, Margery		The Rescuers series: The Rescuers, Miss Bianca, The Turret, & more
	Sidney, Margaret		Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
	Simon, Seymore		The Einstein Anderson series
	Simon, Seymore		Dozens of non-fiction science books
	Smith, Dodie		The 101 Dalmations
	Sobol, Donald J.		Secret Agents Four
	Sobol, Donald J.		The Encyclopedia Brown series
	Sobol, Donald J.		Lock, Stock, and Barrel (character sketches from the American Revolution)
	Sobol, Donald J.		The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
	Stevenson, Robert Louis		A Child’s Garden of Verses
	Titus, Eve		Basil of Baker Street & series
	Warner, Gertrude Chandler		The Boxcar Children & the Alden family mystery series
	White, E.B.		Charlotte’s Web
	Wilder, Laura Ingalls		Little House on the Prarie & series
	Williams & Abrashkin		The Danny Dunn series
	Worline, Bonnie Bess		The Children who Stayed Alone / Sod House Adventure
Intermediate Readers (3rd – 9th grade):
	Alcott, Louisa May		Little Women, Little Men, etc.
	Bagnold, Enid		National Velvet
	Brick, John		Yankees on the Run
	Brink, Carol Ryrie		Caddie Woodlawn
	Brinley, Bertrand R.		The Mad Scientists’ Club
	Burnford, Sheila		The Incredible Journey
	Church, Richard		Five Boys in a Cave / The Cave
	DeAngeli, Marguerite		The Door in the Wall
	DeJong, Meindert		The House of Sixty Fathers
	DeJong, Meindert		The Wheel on the School
	Emery, Anne		A Spy in Old West Point
	Fall, Thomas		Wild Boy
	Fecher, Constance		Tom Hawke / The Link Boys
	Fleischman, Sid		By the Great Horn Spoon ! Bullwhip Griffin
	Fleischman, Sid		The Whipping Boy
	Fleming, Ian		Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
	Futrelle, Jacques		The Thinking Machine
	Gage, Wilson & Glen Rounds		Big Blue Island
	George, Jean Craighead		Julie of the Wolves
	George, Jean Craighead		My Side of the Mountain
	Gibson, Fred		Old Yeller (But we don’t recommend any of Fred Gibson’s other books)
	Gray, Elizabeth Janet		Adam of the Road
	Hunt, Irene		Across Five Aprils
	Juster, Norton		The Phantom Tollbooth
	Keith, Harold		Rifles for Watie
	Kingman, Lee		The Saturday Gang
	Latham, Jean Lee		Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
	Latham, Jean Lee		Drake: The Man They Called A Pirate
	Liggett, Thomas		Pigeon, Fly Home!
	Lindgren, Astrid		Bill Bergson, Master Detective
	Lindgren, Astrid		Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue
	Lindgren, Astrid		Rasmus and the Vagabond
	Lowry, Lois		Number the Stars
	MacLachlan, Patricia		Sarah, Plain and Tall
	McSwigan, Marie		Snow Treasure
	Meadowcroft, Enid LaMonte		By Secret Railway
	Meigs, Cornelia		Invincible Louisa
	Meigs, Cornelia		Wild Geese Flying
	Meyer, Franklyn E.		Me and Caleb, Me and Caleb Again
	Miers, Earl Schenk		Pirate Chase
	Milne, A.A.		Winnie the Pooh & series
	Montgomery, L.M.		Anne of Green Gables
	Moody, Ralph		Little Britches, Man of the Family, The Fields of Home, The Home Ranch, Mary Emma & Company, Shaking the Nickel Bush, The Dry Divide, A Horse of a Different Color
	Morrow, Honore		Seven Alone / On to Oregon
	Mowat, Farley		Lost in the Barrens / Two Against the North
	Nordhoff, Charles Bernard		The Pearl Lagoon
	North, Sterling		Rascal
	Norton, Mary		The Borrowers
	Peattie, Donald Culross		Lives of Destiny
	Petry, Ann		Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
	Reiss, Johanna		The Upstairs Room
	Robertson, Keith		The Crow and the Castle
	Robertson, Keith		Henry Reed’s Journey; Henry Reed, Inc.
	Robertson, Keith		Henry Reed’s Babysitting Service
	Robertson, Keith		The Money Machine
	Robertson, Keith		The Year of the Jeep
	Robertson, Keith		Three Stuffed Owls
	Salton, Felix		Bambi
	Serraillier, Ian		Escape from Warsaw / The Silver Sword
	Sewell, Anna		Black Beauty
	Sorensen, Virginia		Miracles on Maple Hill
	Speare, Elizabeth George		The Sign of the Beaver
	Spencer, Philip		Day of Glory: The Guns at Lexington and Concord
	Spyri, Johanna		Heidi
	Stephens, C.A.		Stories from the Old Squire’s Farm
	Stephens, Peter John		The Perrely Plight
	Sterling, Dorothy		Secret of the Old Post Box
	Sullivan, George		Great Escapes of World War II
	Taylor, Mildred		Mississippi Bridge
	Taylor, Mildred		Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
	Taylor, Theodore		The Cay
	Terhune, Albert Payson		Lad: A Dog
	Van Leeuwen, Jean		Bound for Oregon
	Wibberley, Leonard		John Treegate’s Musket
	Wibberley, Leonard		Sea Captain from Salem
	Wibberley, Leonard		Leopard’s Prey
	Wibberley, Leonard		Flint’s Island (a sequel to Treasure Island)
	Wyss, Johann David		The Swiss Family Robinson
	Yates, Elizabeth		Amos Fortune: Free Man
Advanced Reading (9th grade & up)
	Brother Andrew		God’s Smuggler
	Armstrong, William H.		Sounder
	Austin, Jane		Pride and Prejudice
	The Bible		The Recovery Version or the New American Standard Bible
	Benchley, Nathaniel		Bright Candles
	Bunyan, John		Pilgrim’s Progress
	Conrad, Joseph		Typhoon
	Cooper, James Fenimore		The Deerslayer
	Cooper, James Fenimore		The Last of the Mohicans
	Crane, Stephen		The Red Badge of Courage
	Curie, Eve		Madame Curie
	Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.		Two Years Before the Mast
	Defoe, Daniel		Robinson Crusoe
	DeKruif, Paul Henry		Men Against Death (nonfiction)
	DeKruif, Paul Henry		Microbe Hunters (nonfiction)
	Dickens, Charles		A Tale of Two Cities
	Dickens, Charles		David Copperfield
	Dickens, Charles		Oliver Twist
	Douglass, Frederick		Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Autobiography, 1845)
	Eckert, Allan W.		Incident at Hawk’s Hill
	Forester, C.S.		The Man in the Yellow Raft
	Frank, Anne		Diary of a Young Girl
	Futrelle, Jacques		The Thinking Machine
	Gilbreth, Frank		Cheaper by the Dozen
	Hautzig, Esther Rudomin		The Endless Steppe (autobiography)
	Herriot, James		All Things Bright and Beautiful
	Herriot, James		All Creatures Great and Small
	Herriot, James		All Things Wise and Wonderful
	Herriot, James		The Lord God Made Them All
	Herriot, James		Every Living Thing
	Heyerdahl, Thor		Kon-Tiki for Young People
	Hugo, Victor		Les Miserables
	Kipling, Rudyard		Captains Courageous
	Lee, Harper		To Kill a Mockingbird
	London, Jack		Call of the Wild
	Melville, Herman		Moby-Dick
	Mowat, Farley		The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
	Nordhoff, Charles Bernard & James Norman Hall		Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn’s Island
	Nordhoff, Charles Bernard & James Norman Hall		The Hurricane
	Orczy, Baroness Emmuska		The Scarlet Pimpernel
	Pease, Howard		Long Wharf, Black Tanker, Thunderbold House
	Potok, Chaim		The Chosen
	Pyle, Howard		The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
	Sandburg, Carl		Lincoln: The Prairie Years
	Shakespeare, William		Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear
	Shakespeare, William		Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew
	Stevenson, Robert Louis		Kidnapped
	Steer, Roger		George Müller: Delighted in God
	Stevenson, Robert Louis		Treasure Island
	Tarkington, Booth		Penrod
	Ten-Boom, Corey		The Hiding Place
	Twain, Mark		The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
	Twain, Mark		The Prince and the Pauper
	Verne, Jules		Around the World in Eighty Days
	Verne, Jules		Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
	Washington, Booker Taliaferro		Up From Slavery
History books for older readers
	Collins & Lapierre		Freedom at midnight
	Collins & Lapierre		Is Paris burning?
	Collins & Lapierre		O Jerusalem!
	Franklin, Benjamin		The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
	Steven, Stewart		The Spymasters of Israel

 

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