Top 10 Children’s Chapter Books
Charlotte’s Web: This is truly a gem of a
children’s book. Beautifully woven, it touches on some major themes
(dealing with grief/loss, the wonders of friendship) and does so
gracefully. It begins with a little runt of a pig who is destined
to be killed because he is so small. When the farmer’s daughter
(Fern) finds out, she pleads with her dad to let him live. He
agrees, and the pig is named Wilbur. When he is sold to a barn a
ways away Fern is sad, but still visits him. In the wake of this
major life change, Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte. The
story that follows is a touching one about the incredible
friendship between Charlotte and Wilbur, and the impact one very
small being can make.
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone:Although they
weren’t written terribly long ago, the Harry Potter books have
quickly become classics. The Sorcerer’s Stone is the one that
started it all. Although they weren’t written terribly long ago,
the Harry Potter books have quickly become classics. The Sorcerer’s
Stone is the one that started it all, and is possibly one of the
best in the series (a matter of opinion of course.) In it, a young
boy (Harry Potter) is forced to live with his dreadful Uncle Vernon
and Aunt Petunia and their bully of a son, Dudley. One day, around
the time of his eleventh birthday, a letter comes, addressed to
Harry, to inform him that he is a wizard, and has been accepted to
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. What unfolds next is
the story of all of Harrry’s adventures in his first year at
school, and the start of a classic battle between good versus
evil.
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A Wrinkle In Time: This is a simply
fascinating chapter book for children to dig into. It is about the
Murray family, namely Meg Murray and young Charles Wallace, who go
on adventure through time and space (traveling through something
called a tesseract) to find their father. He had vanished
mysteriously whilst working on a project that dealt with none other
than what they are using to get around-tesseracts. Joined by the
strange Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and their friend Calvin
O’Keefe, they set out to bring back Mr. Murray back home, and
vanquish the evil Black Thing, which is threatening earth, along
the way.
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: I
think that the Chronicles of Narnia is one of the best series of
chapter books for both young readers and adults. I grew up reading
them, and I still don’t hesitate to grab one off the shelf and plop
down with it and a nice cup of tea.
In the first book in the series, The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe, we are introduced to three youngsters, Peter (the eldest)
then Susan, Edmund, and young Lucy, who are being sent to stay with
a professor to safely wait out the war. In the big house, Lucy
finds a wardrobe which takes her into the wonderful world of
Narnia. When she convinces her siblings to come with her, they find
themselves in the midst of another war against a cruel ruler called
The White Witch. With the help of Aslan, they work together to save
Narnia from a terrible fate.
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The Phantom Tollbooth: One day, a bored
young boy named Milo unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth, which
he decides to drive through in his toy car. The tollbooth then
takes him to the Kingdom of Wisdom, where he embarks upon many
adventures, including a quest to save the princesses, Princess
Rhyme and Princess Reason. This book is full of puns, and an
incredible amount of hilarious idioms (i.e. Milo literally jumps to
the Island of Conclusions) that will entertain just about anyone
who reads it.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A very
poor young boy named Charlie lives with his mother and two sets of
Grandparents in ramshackle house in a town where Willy Wonka’s
mysterious Chocolate Factory towers above everything. No one ever
comes out of the factory, and nobody ever goes in, and yet it is
still churning out tons of incredible delicious treats. One day it
is announced that in five chocolate bars there will be a golden
ticket-which will gain the lucky holder entry into Wonka’s factory.
Filled with a cast of eccentric characters and magnificent
inventions to marvel at, it is a read that won’t fail to
delight.
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Holes: Stanley Yelnats is a boy with
terrible luck, due to a curse that was placed on his
great-great-Grandfather. He is sent to Camp Green Lake, a
correctional facility, when he is accused of a crime he did not
commit. At Camp Green Lake, under the watch of the vicious warden,
the boys are forced to dig holes in the dirt under the hot burning
sun all day. It soon becomes apparent that the warden is looking
for something, and as the book progresses three different stories
intertwine to figure out what the warden wants, and why she wants
it so badly.
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The Giver: 11 year old Jonas lives in a
strict futuristic society. The society has eliminated all pain,
fear, war and hatred, and as a result has also lost passion, the
ability to love deeply, and connections within families. Nobody
makes any choices-otherwise they will be “released” aka killed-and
there are strict rules as to how everything runs. At the age of 12,
everyone is assigned a job based on their abilities. Jonas is
assigned the highly honored position of Receiver of Memories. A
wise old man called The Giver passes memories of the society onto
Jonas-including those before the Sameness. Once Jonas sees how
devoid his world is compared to what it used to be, Jonas becomes
determined to make things right.
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler: Claudia Kincaid lives a
comfortable life in suburbia, but she hates it. She feels that her
parents do not appreciate her enough. She wants to run away-to
somewhere beautiful and elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and invites along her younger brother Jamie. Living
in the museum they get wrapped up in a mystery surrounding a statue
that was possibly made by Michelangelo. On their quest to find out
more about the statue, Claudia meets the extraordinary Mrs. Basil
E. Frankweiler –the woman who sold the statue to the museum- and
discovers more about not just the statue, but about herself as
well.
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The Secret Garden: Mary Lennox is a rude,
self-centered, affectionate little girl. She is all these things
because she was unwanted by her parents, and raised mostly by
servants that just tried to spoil her to keep her out of the way.
When cholera kills her parents and the servants in the manor, she
is sent to live with her Uncle on a lonely moor. There she
discovers a secret garden, and within it, a young crippled boy who
has been confined there for years. Through Mary’s intense
characterization we are pulled into a charming children’s chapter
book that is at once simple and full of depth.
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11-21
The Hobbit: A fairly dense book geared
towards somewhat ‘older’ readers, The Hobbit is more than deserving
of its place on this list. In it, a Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins is
grudgingly forced out of The Shire and into an adventure, set in
place by the wizard Gandolf. This is dreadful for Bilbo, because
Hobbits are known for staying at home and enjoying peace and quiet.
But there’s a little spark in Bilbo, and it turns out he has spunk
that sets him apart from other Hobbits, which make him perfect for
the adventure. This prequel to The Lord of The Rings trilogy will
forever be marked as one of the most cherished chapter books in
history.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Huck
is a poor illiterate boy who suffers at the hands of his brutal
father. When he decides to flee he is joined a runaway slave named
Jim, who is trying to escape even worse brutalities than an abusive
father. Together they travel down the Mississippi and face some of
the most difficult trials in the human condition-prejudice of age,
race and class set against morals, hope, and courage. Their journey
is what makes up one of the greatest American novels of all
time-and although surrounded by controversy-it is still greatly
celebrated today.
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Anne of Green Gables: Anne Shirley is a
young orphan girl who is being sent to middle-aged unmarried
siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. Although they wanted a boy
to help them out around the farm, Anne is bright, imaginative, and
energetic. The book tells the story of how she makes her way with
the Cuthbert’s, and goes on to follow her as she sails through
school and onto a scholarship, with plenty of hardship and
friendship found along the way.
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The Mysterious Benedict Society: When a
strange ad calling for gifted children appears in the paper, dozens
apply. They are made to go through a series of physically and
mentally challenging tasks that only the brightest and most
resourceful children will be able to get through. As our heroes
face ever increasingly more difficult tasks they must turn to each
other for support, but with their new found friendship at stake
will they be able to pass the most important test of all?
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The Tale of Despereaux: Despereaux
Tillings is a small mouse with a large task-to rescue a beautiful
human princess. This book is divided into four different sections
(called books) that tell the story from different viewpoints. Book
I covers Despereaux’s background and origins, while Book II is told
from the point of Roscuro-an evil rat with a shadowed past. Book
III is told by Miggery Sow, a servant girl who is sold by her
father for a handful of cigarettes, a red tablecloth, and a hen.
All of the books are set years apart, building to conclude Book
IV.
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The Velveteen Rabbit: I have
exceptionally fond memories of getting this book read to me as a
child. It is a lovely tale, albeit somewhat sad, about a young boy
and his Velveteen Rabbit whom he gets when his china dog is
replaced. The other more expensive toys scorn the Velveteen Rabbit,
fancying themselves to be real while he is not. The Rabbit finds
out that a toy can only become real if its owner truly loves it.
The boy takes the Velveteen Rabbit with him everywhere, until he
becomes deathly ill with scarlet fever. When he is well enough to
travel he is sent to the seaside on doctors’ orders until he is all
better, and all his toys are to be burned to disinfect the nursery.
He is given a new rabbit, and forgets all about his old one that
now sits near a bonfire. But even in the most dire of situations,
as the Velveteen Rabbit finds out, there are still happy endings to
be had.
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Hatchet: Brian Robeson is 13 years old
when his plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness-the pilot dead
after a heart attack. He has nothing to survive off of as the plane
landed in the lake-nothing but a hatchet. A series of unfortunate
events unfold one after the other as Brian does his best to survive
with his meager supplies and somewhat poor survival skills.
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The Little Prince: Narrated by an
airplane pilot whose plane has just crashed in the Sahara Desert,
The Little Prince is a unique story that opens our eyes to the
wonders of the world around us. While stranded, a young boy (the
little prince) approaches the pilot and asks him to draw a sheep.
The pilot obliges, and the two become fast friends. The little
prince is from a far off planet that he took great care of, until
he fell in love with a rose. When she broke his heart, he left to
explore the other planets. He encounters the narrow-minded world of
adults, and is disturbed and amused at how preoccupied with work
they seem. Together, the pilot and the little prince learn much
about what makes life important and fulfilling.
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Because of Winn-Dixie: A young girl,
India Opal Buloni, moves to a trailer park in Florida with her
preacher father. Lonely, she explores the Winn-Dixie supermarket,
where she meets a scruffy, scrappy dog getting into all kinds of
mischief. She claims it as her own to save it from the pound, and
names it Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, India meets all sorts
of characters, and figures out quite a bit about herself, and her
life, in the process.
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Alice in Wonderland: A beloved children’s
chapter book well before it became a movie; Alice in Wonderland is
just as captivating on paper as it is on a screen. The book begins
with Alice sitting on riverbank one warm, lazy, day, when she see’s
something strange-a white rabbit in a waistcoat who dashes by,
pauses to look at his pocket watch, and then dashes off down a
rabbit hole. Insatiably curious, Alice follows him. She comes upon
a great hallway filled with doors, and once she figures out how to
get through, she embarks upon a series of wacky, absurd adventures
that are both humorous, and slightly frightening.
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21-30
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: It
is Harry’s fourth year at Hogwarts, and it is time for the
tri-wizard tournament. It is a competition in which three students
from different schools (Bobaton, Durmstrang, and Hogwarts) that are
of age undertake three incredibly difficult tasks. It seems like
for once, things are going smoothly for Harry-until his name comes
out of the goblet of fire as the fourth champion.
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret: In this
intense, captivating children’s book, an orphan boy named Hugo
Cabret secretly maintains a clock at a Paris railroad station. His
father had been killed in a fire while repairing an automaton- a
complex robot designed to look and write like a human. Hugo
salvages the parts and steals machinery in attempt to finish it. He
is convinced that, when it is done, it will write him a message
from his father. When he crosses paths with another orphan,
Isabelle, whose god father Hugo has been stealing parts from,
things become even more complex. It is a beautiful story of
redemption and reconciling with painful pasts.
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane:Edward Tulane is a
china rabbit, who lives a vain life with a little girl who loves
him dearly. An unfortunate twist of fate takes this away from
Edward when he tumbles over the side of an ocean liner. After 297
days in the oceans depths, he is pulled out by a fisherman. He is
then forced to undergo a series of life changes as he passes from
one person to the next, bringing him farther from home, and more
importantly, farther from the selfish rabbit he once was.
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Tuck Everlasting: The Tuck family has
either a terrible curse upon them, or they are blessed, for they
have eternal life. They will never age and they will never die
because they drank from the fountain of youth. When a young girl,
Winnie Foster, finds out their secret, the Tucks try to explain to
her why living forever is not as good as it may seem. While they
try and keep their secret hidden, a stranger soon begins following
Winnie about, wanting to market and sell the waters from the
fountain of youth.
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Bridge to Terabithia: Jess Aaron’s is a
young boy plagued by insecurity-until he meets Leslie, his new
neighbor and fast friend. Together they invent the world of
Teribithia, where they go to escape the outside world. Jess slowly
becomes more secure in his identity as he continues to travel to
Teribithia with Leslie. Their friendship is not limited there
though-they see each other at school, and spend holidays together.
When tragedy hits, Jess’s whole world is turned upside down. He
feels like sinking back into the old Jess-the one he thought he’d
outgrown. A lovely tale of friendship, and the trials of growing
up, this is a book that many young readers will be able to take
something away from.
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Where The Red Fern Grows: Billy Colman
wants, more than anything, a coonhound pup. When he is lucky enough
to get two, he couldn’t be happier. He roams the Ozarks with his
dogs, trying to ‘tree’ an elusive raccoon. They quickly become one
of the finest hunting teams around, and win the gold cup in the
coon-hunt contest. Where there is happiness though, there is also
sadness. This book does a wonderful job of balancing these two
emotions that come together to make this an unforgettable
read.
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Winnie the Pooh: Christopher Robin loves
his stuffed bear-Pooh. The two of them, plus a cast of colorful
characters, go on all sorts of adventures in the 100 Acre Woods.
There are two chapter books about Pooh, and both were written by
the author for his son. They capture the essence of a playful child
and the incredible powers of their imaginations.
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James and the Giant Peach: James Henry
Trotter is a four year old boy who lives a peaceful life with his
mother and father in a cozy home. Unfortunately, their idealistic
lifestyle does not last terribly long. On a shopping trip to
London, Jame’s mother and father are both swallowed by an escaped
Rhinoceros. He is then sent to live in a ramshackle house with his
wicked aunts-Spiker and Sponge-who abuse him for the next 3 years.
When an old man finds James crying, he hands him a sack of green
crocodile tongues that James accidentally spills on a tree.
Consequently, it is a peach tree, upon which a massive peach grows.
Befriending a random group of insects that were also transformed by
the tongues, James sets out on the adventure of a life time to
rescue his parents.
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Artemis Fowl: Artemis Fowl II is a
criminal mastermind-who also happens to be a 12 year old boy. After
years of research, he believes he has confirmed the existence of
fairies. He sets out on a journey to Vietnam to track down the
Fairy Holy Book-and takes a fairy for ransom along the way. When he
demands an enormous ransom for her, the repercussions are much more
intense then imagined.
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Island of the Blue Dolphins: Karana is
young when the Aleuts attack her village and tribe, killing her
father and many others. When the new chief of the tribe heads out
for a new land, he sends a ship back for his people. When it is
about to set sail and Karana’s brother is still not on the ship,
she jumps off and swims to the island. When her brother is killed,
Karana is left to survive on her own-which she did, for 18 years.
The book is based off of a true story that took place in the
1800s.
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31 to 40
The Golden Compass: The Golden Compass is
the first book in Phillip Pullmans His Dark Materials trilogy. It
takes place in a universe parallel to our own and follows the story
of a girl named Lyra as she sets out from her home in Oxford and
journeys north with her daemon (an external form of a person’s
soul) to find her missing friend and her imprisoned father, who was
experimenting with a mysterious substance called ‘Dust.’
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The Bad Beginning: The first book in
Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events is truly a terrible
beginning. The three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny,
are sent to live with their wicked uncle (Count Olaf) after their
parents are killed in a fire. Things only go from bad to worse
then, with Olaf after the family fortune, and don’t get better.
It’s only thanks to their wit and perseverance that they are able
to escape the cunning and evil Olaf-or so they think.
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Number The Stars: A rather intense
children’s chapter book, Number The Stars takes place in Denmark in
1943, in the third year of the Nazi occupation in Denmark. It is
told from the point of view of a 10 year old girl, Annemarie
Johansen, as she struggles to deal with the cruelty that is taking
place all around her. While she herself is not Jewish, her best
friend Ellen is, and Annemaries family does their best to protect
her. When they are forced to flee, everyone’s world is turned
upside down.
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Harriet the Spy: Harriet is a young girl
who has a habit of spying and eavesdropping. She regularly takes
walks along her “spy route” and writes down everything she hears
and thinks about people in a notebook. Consequently, she writes
some nasty things, and when her classmates find the notebook and
read it, they decide to take revenge.
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Maniac Magee: Jeffery Magee’s parents are
killed in a trolley when a drunk driver hits them. When is only 3
years old he is sent to live with his strict Christian Aunt Dot and
Uncle Dan, who are always fighting, even over him. When Jeffery is
old enough, he runs away and finds himself 200 miles away in a town
that is divided based off of race and color. He earns the nickname
Maniac and quickly becomes a legend thanks to his incredible
physical feats, and his apparent ignorance of racial
boundaries.
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Coraline: When Coraline moves into a new
flat with her parent’s, she quickly finds it’s not the most
thrilling place-until she discovers a locked door to the drawing
room. When it’s opened, she finds nothing but bricks. Despite the
warning of her somewhat crazy neighbors, she tries the door again.
This time, she is able to pass through and enter another world-the
same as her own, except with a terrifying “Other Mother” who
kidnaps Coralines real parent’s and tries to force Coraline to stay
with her. With the help of a mysterious cat who she saw back in the
‘real’ world, Coraline must free herself from the clutches of the
evil “Other Mother” and rescue her parents.
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The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson is 12
years old when he finds out that he is a Half-Blood. That is, half
god, half human. He is sent to Camp Half-Blood, and learns that his
father is Poseidon, brother to Zeus. When Zeus’s master bolt (the
thing that allows him to create lightning) is stolen, he accuses
Poseidon and says if he does not return it he will declare war.
Percy, aided by two trusty companions, set off to travel from coast
to coast in an attempt to get the master bolt back and facing all
manner of adventures along the way.
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Mrs.
Frisby is a widowed field mouse, whose youngest son Timothy has
fallen very ill. The farmer is about to plow the field, but Mrs.
Frisbee is afraid that Timothy will not survive the move to their
summer home. A wise owl tells her to seek out the rats that live in
the rosebush near her. She discovers that they have human-level
intelligence, after being experimented on in a lab called NIHM.
Together they come up with a way to try and move Timothy before the
plow reaches them.
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Black Beauty: A totally classic chapter
book, it is told from the first person point of view of a
stunningly beautiful horse named Black Beauty. His life begins
carefree and happy, until he falls and scars his knees. The wealthy
people who owned him get rid of him, as he is no longer presentable
in their eyes. The rest of the book tells about the many owners
that he is passed to, some cruel and some kind. It has a strong
emphasis on kindness to both man and beast.
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Julie of the Wolves: Miyax is a 13 year
old Alaskan Native girl. She is living with her aunt when her
father goes missing on a hunting trip. Being bound to marry a man
she despises, she heads off in search of her father, and while
looking for him becomes lost in the Alaskan wilderness. She
befriends a pack of wolves, which help her to survive. But with
worse weather coming on, Miyax knows she must try to find true
shelter-with people-soon, even though she has yet to find her
father.
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Ella Enchanted: Ella is cursed from the
time she is born, when a fairy named Lucinda gives her the “gift”
of being obedient. From then on, she must always do what she is
told. This is, of course, horrible, and it only gets worse when her
mother dies. Her father, who is rarely home, remarries a dreadful
woman with two despicable daughters. When they find out about
Ella’s secret, she is tormented constantly. Toss in a prince who
falls in love with her, a boarding school full of strict teachers,
and a band of trolls that want to eat her, and you have the makings
of a very interesting children’s book.
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Shiloh: A young boy, Marty, discovers a
dog wandering the hills near his home in West Virginia. He names
him Shiloh, and becomes quite attached to him. When it is
discovered that his real owner is a man named Judd Travers, Marty
begs his father to let him keep Shiloh, as Travers is known for
being abusive to his dogs. He is forced to return Shiloh to his
original owner. When Shiloh finds his way back to Marty, the boy
hides him and attempt to keep him safe from his awful owner.
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The Graveyard Book: It begins with a man
named Jack, just as he is done murdering all the members of a
family, except for the toddler upstairs. Unbeknownst to him, the
toddler has climbed out of his crib to explore, and finds himself a
way out of the house, and into a nearby graveyard, where he is
given the name Nobody and raised by ghosts. Jack continues to hunt
him, and eventually Nobody must stand up to the murderer of his
family.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Tom is a
clever and mischievous boy with a knack for getting into trouble.
One night he and his friend, Huck, sneak off to the graveyard to
find a “cure” for warts. While they are there, they accidentally
become witnesses to a murder committed by a man named Injun Joe.
Joe, not knowing the boys saw him, accuses another man of the
murder. Tom must then face his guilt, or else see an innocent man
be convicted of a crime he did not commit.
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Matilda: Matilda is an undeniably sweet
and bright little girl who is, unfortunately, adopted by rather
grouchy parents, who also happen to have a bratty son that is to
become her brother. Eventually, her parents send her to a school
with a cruel principal, deemed “The Trunchbull.” Thankfully, there
is a kind teacher there who takes Matilda under her wing. Matilda
randomly starts to develop telekinetic powers, and slowly begins to
master them in an effort to drive The Trunchbull away from the
school. The whole story makes for a totally well-loved children’s
story.
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Little House on the Prairie: Taking place
from 1869-1870, Little House on the Prairie focus’s on the life of
the Ingall’s family as they go through the trials and tribulations
of moving from their old home in the Big Woods to a new home on-you
guessed it- the prairie. There they must face illness and dangers
such as they hadn’t encountered before, and are eventually forced
to leave the land.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows: This is the final installment in
the Harry Potter series. It brings together Harry, and pretty much
every other character that we have met over the years at Hogwarts,
in a final battle against Lord Voldemort. Before he can destroy his
enemy though, Harry must first track down the rest of the Horcruxes
that contain a part of Voldemorts soul.
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Little Women: Following the lives of the
four March girls, Little Women begins as the two youngest, Meg and
Jo, are entering adolescence. It follows them over the 15 years of
their lives where they must face the fact that they are no longer
rich after their father’s fortune was lost- indeed they live in
near poverty. Each of them dreams of a ‘castle’ that they will have
in the end, but wind up with very different futures then what they
expected.
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Wonderstruck: There are two different
stories in this book-making it longer even then The Invention of
Hugo Cabret. First, there is the story of Ben, a deaf boy who goes
on a mission to find his father after his mother is killed. Ben’s
story is told entirely in text. The other story is of a girl named
Rose, who is also deaf, whose story is told entirely in pictures.
Eventually, the two stories beautifully wind together for a lovely
ending.
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The Lost Hero: Preceded by Percy Jackson
and the Olympians, The Lost Hero is the first book in the series
The Heroes of Olympus. Whereas Percy Jackson focused solely on
Greek mythology, The heroes of Olympus series incorporates Roman
mythology as well. The Lost Hero opens with a boy name Jason who
wakes up on a school bus with a girl named Piper, who claims to be
his girlfriend, and a boy named Leo who claims to be his best
friend. Jason has hardly any memory, and does not recognize either
of them. The book goes on to reveal that each one of them is really
a demi-god, and are taken to Camp Half-Blood where they delve into
their pasts in attempts to control their present.
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