Book List

I am having the 11 year old girls in my ward come over for an activity to talk about reading! I put together a book list to give each of them and thought I would share! I have read most of them, but I haven't read them all. However, they all came highly recommended by people I know and love! Some are for younger readers, others are for more mature readers, so just make sure they are age appropriate for your readers!

Dragon Slippers
Ella Enchanted
Bella at Midnight
Princess Academy
Goose Girl
Young Merlin Series
Calico Captive
Behind the Attic Wall
Matilda
Invincible Louisa
Harry Potter Series
The Star of Kazan
Shadow Spinner
The Tale of Despereaux
Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Skylark (The Sarah Plain and Tall series)
Bat 6
Because of Winn Dixie
Shiloh series
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
The Silk Dress and others by Author Anne Rinaldi
The Witch of blackbird pond and others by Author Elizabeth George Speare
Fablehaven series
Dragon Keepers series
Magyk (Septimus Heaps) series
Disney After Dark and Disney at Dawn (Series)
Narnia series
Mistmantle series
Fire within series
Found
The giver
Dragon rider
Deep and dark and dangerous
Charly
My name is sally little song
The Man Who Was Poe
The Thief Lord
Seekers the quest begins (new series)
The old Willis place
Where the old fern grows
The stranger next door
The Westing Game
Jeremy fink and the meaning of life
Escape From Saigon(non-fiction)
American Girl Series
Charlotte's Web
The Tale of Emily Windsnap series
Harry Potter series
Secrets of Droon series
Two Princesses of Bamarre
Fairest
Peter and the Starcatchers series
Lightning Thief Series
Ranger's Apprentice
Great Brain and Soup books
The Secret Garden
My Side of the Mountain (series)
The Little Princess
Serpent Tide Series
Ida B
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Girl of the Limberlost
Freckles
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Little Women (and the sequels)
Trixie Belden Series
The Black Cauldron books
Peppermints in the Parlor
Anne of Green Gables series
Emily series (same author as Anne of Green Gables)
Emily’s Runaway Imagination
Pollyanna
Little Women Series
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Summer of the Monkeys
Listening for Lions
Nancy Drew series
The Face on the Milk Carton
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Number the Stars
The Phantom Tollbooth
Airborne
Chasing Vermeer series
The Wizard of Oz series
The Candyshop War
The View from Saturday
The Sisters Grimm series
Inkheart
A Wrinkle in Time
Little Britches
Tuck Everlasting
The Thirteenth Reality
Charlotte's Web
Stuart Little
Treasure Island
Once Upon a Marigold
Gregor the Overlander series
Pippi Longstockings
Matilda Bones
The Cay
The Indian in the Cupboard series
Yellow Star
Jip, His Story
The Midwifes Apprentice
The Rangers Apprentice Series
Julie of the Wolves
The Devil’s Arithmetic
The Lady Grace Mysteries

Series for boys

I think it's so fun to find a series that will hook boy readers! (Girl readers will like them too, I'm just always on the lookout for series I think my boys will enjoy now or down the road)
Some of my recent favorites are:
Gregor the Overlander Series:

Rangers Apprentice Series

The Percy Jackson & the Olympians Series
(see the Lightning Thief review written by Emily!)

The Pendragon Series: I've only read the first two so far, but I enjoyed them. They are probably better for teenagers because at least in the first one, the boy kisses a girl. EWW!

Deltora Quest Series: I'm suggesting these because my oldest really liked them, but I must admit, I only read the first one.

Fablehaven

Written by Brandon Mull
My family has loved these books. My Husband and I have read them, and our 3rd grader has read them each 3 times! I'm highlighting this series because the 4th book is coming out in April!
A breif review from Amazon:
Kendra and Seth Sorenson are the grandchildren of the caretakers of Fablehaven preserve, one of the few places left on earth where magical creatures can live on in an increasingly skeptical world. The trouble is, not all magical creatures are nice. In fact, some of them are downright evil. All the worst ones have been locked away in a magical prison, and if they ever get out, the world as we know it is basically over.

Mull creates a world where the stakes are high, danger is real, and almost everyone is under suspicion. His book has an endless parade of fascinating magical creatures, each with their own habits and personality. Fablehaven 3 contains Mull's best paced plot so far, with lots of adventures (including a visit to a preserve on a reservation in Arizona), an intense action climax, and an ending that leaves the reader eager for the next book.











I also really enjoyed Mull's book, The Candy Shop War!

2 year old favorites

My two year old loves to read the same stories over and over. After a few weeks he'll try a new one...this is the stack he is currently bringing to me every day to read before his nap!

Dragon Slippers

By Written by Jessica Day George (a Utah author!!)

Many stories tell of damsels in distress, who are rescued from the clutches of fire-breathing dragons by knights in shining armor, and swept off to live happily ever after.

Fortunately, this is not one of those stories.

From the book's website: http://www.dragonslippers.net/
True, when Creel’s aunt suggests sacrificing her to the local dragon, it is with the hope that the knight will marry Creel and that everyone (aunt and family included) will benefit handsomely. Yet it’s Creel who talks her way out of the dragon’s clutches. And it’s Creel who walks for days on end to seek her fortune in the king’s city with only a bit of embroidery thread and a strange pair of slippers in her possession.

But even Creel could not have guessed the outcome of this tale. For in a country on the verge of war, Creel unknowingly possesses not just any pair of shoes, but a tool that could be used to save her kingdom…or destroy it.

Dragon Slippers is the thrilling debut novel by Jessica Day George. Full of dragons, humor, adventure, alchemy, dogs, evil princesses and some wicked cool shoes, it will delight anyone who enjoys a ripping good book.

I just finished this book and loved it! I'm putting the sequel on hold right now!