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SuperPages.com Super Summer Fun Book List
Reading for 9-12 year olds
As a children's book author and illustrator, I visit many schools teaching creative writing and sharing my work with the students. I often eat lunch with the kids and inevitably we talk about our favorite books. They want to know what books I read when I was their age. I am eager to hear about the books they have discovered by themselves, or read because of a friend's recommendation. A question I often hear is, "Do you know a book that is fun to read?"
There are multitudes of reading lists available which have been put together by librarians, teachers, reading specialists, and children's literature academics. This year, when I visited schools, I asked the kids to name the books they found so interesting and entertaining that they couldn't stop reading. I have compiled their recommendations for a special SuperPages.com Super Summer Fun Book List. Some of the books are humorous, some are great adventure stories. None of them are the "B" word-boring.
Books that are Funny or Amusing
Anything by Polly Horvath, especially:
No More Cornflakes
When the Circus Came to Town
Trolls
Everything on a Waffle
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Centerburg Tales by Robert McKlosky
Homer Price by Robert McKlosky
Henry Reed Inc. by Keith Roberston
Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson
My Guy by Sarah Weeks
Preacher's Boy by Katherine Paterson
The Twits by Roahl Dal
Great Adventure Books
Anything by Mildred Taylor especially:
Hear My Cry
The Land
Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Roll of Thunder
The Road to Memphis
Bandit's Moon by Sid Fleischman
Dave at Night by Gail Carson Levine
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
The Iron Ring by Lloyd Alexander
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
The Million Dollar Shot by Dan Gutman
Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman
Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise
Seaward by Susan Cooper
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Walking Up a Rainbow by Theodore Taylor
You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman by Claudia Mills
Recommended Series:
The Sammy Keyes Mysteries by Wendelin Van Draanen
Books That Make You Feel Good
Because of Win-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Cassie Bineger by Patrica McLachlan
It's Like This Cat by Emily Cheney Neville
Jo's Boys by Louisa MayAlcott
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
Mary Poppins by P.L.Travers
Mary Poppins Comes Back by P.L.Treavers
The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
Rascal by Sterling North
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett
Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
© 2004 Mary Brigid Barrett
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