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I am making a list for my library and had a question: which books do you think children/teenagers MUST read while growing up? It doesn't matter which genre or if they're for younger or older kids. 

submitted by Elizabeth, age 14, Germany
(April 23, 2014 - 1:01 pm)

back to the Blab about Books

Wow! Thank you so much! These are some great books that you guys have recommended; I bet the library will love them. :) 

submitted by Elizabeth, age 14, Germany
(April 27, 2014 - 3:15 am)

Ohh, this is hard:)

1. Tuck Everlasting

2. Little House

3. Penderwicks

4. Jeremy Fink and the meaning of Life

5. Bomb (really good non-fiction- like a true spy novel) 

6. Magicians Elephant and/or Winn Dixie

7. Hugo Cabret

8. Little Princess

9. Little Lord Fauntleroy or Pollyanna (depending which glad game you want:)

10. LIttle Women

11. Anne of Green Gables

12. Harry Potter

13. Mysterious Benedict Society

submitted by Abigail A., age 13, VT
(May 2, 2014 - 11:34 am)

These are some of the most influential books I have read:

-When You Reach Me... Rebecca Stead

-Wonder... RJ Palacio

-Harry Potter (all 7 books)... JK Rowling

-The Hunger Games... Suzanne Collins

-The Fault in Our Stars... John Green

-Peace Like a River... Leif Enger

-The Book Thief... Markus Zusak

-The Old Man and the Sea.... Hemingway

-The Mysterious Benedict Society... Trenton Lee Stewart 

-The Tiger Rising... Kate Dicamillo

-Because of Winn-Dixie... Kate Dicamillo 

submitted by Livv S., age 12, Lancaster, PA
(May 3, 2014 - 10:41 am)

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate- Jaqueline Kelly. such a good book!!!!

submitted by Esther W., age 11, NY
(April 26, 2015 - 7:27 pm)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (YA)

As much Calvin and Hobbes as physically possible, drawn by Bill Watterson.

Going Bovine and Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. (YA)

The Bloody Jack Adventures by L. A. Meyer (YA)

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (Some call it YA, but I don't really think so.)

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

Harriet the Spy by Louis Fitzhugh

All of a Kind Family and subsequent sequels by Sydney Taylor

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (YA)

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (YA)

And some authors who are too amazing to live on this planet:

Beverly Cleary

Roald Dahl

Edward Eager

Dianna Wynne Jones

Astrid Lindgren (who, besides writing Pippi Longstocking also wrote The Brother's Lionheart, which is an absolutely amazing book that everyone should read and yet no one has read.)

Daniel Pinkwater (can sometimes be considered YA.  He wrote a book called Young Adult Novel, which is not his best work, but anyway, figuring him out comes with experience.)

Shel Silverstein (poetry)

Rainbow Rowell (YA)

E. B. White

John Green (YA)

 

 

submitted by Gollum
(May 4, 2014 - 9:56 am)

Anything by Kate DiCamillo

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

The Mysterious Benedict Society  

Harry Potter

Quidditch Through the Ages

Kids letters to Harry Potter from around the world

 
Alice in Wonderland

Anne of Green Gables

The Penderwicks

The Tales of Tumtum and Nutmeg

All of a Kind Family

 

 

submitted by Dandelion , age 11, NY
(September 1, 2015 - 4:01 pm)

The Montmorency books, without a question! By Eleanor Updale. Not really for young kids. Kinda mystery\drama. It's about this London theif who has a dual identity as a rich gentleman and the gentleman's evil assistant Scarper, who uses the London sewer systems for theiving purposes. 

Add a vain doctor, an ugly and simpering lover, a plain-spoken tailor, and a secret agent mission to the mix, and you've got a perfect book! 

submitted by Abigail S., age 11, Nose in a Book
(September 2, 2015 - 4:41 pm)

Hi! I loved ALL the books that you guys were recommending! I have some of my own. And I'm a little older so the books might be a little bit more mature...

-The Selection series (Kiera Cass)

-The Honest Truth (Dan Gemeinhart)

-13 Reasons Why (Jay Asher)

-The Scarlet Trilogy (A.C. Gaughen)

-Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus (A lot of you mentioned this series!!!) (Rick Riordan)

-The Crossover (Poetry form book) (Kwame Alexander)

-The School of Good and Evil trilogy (Soman Chainani)

-Shatter Me trilogy (Tahereh Mafi)

-Chains (Laurie Halse Anderson)

-My Friend the Enemy (Dan Smith)

-The Name of the Star series (Maureen Johnson)

-Dorothy Must Die (Danielle Paige)


I hope that wasn’t too much… Happy reading!!!

submitted by Alexis A. , age 13, New York
(September 2, 2015 - 8:36 pm)

Those of you who know me will know what I will say next...

Peter Pan is a must-read.

I've heard in responce to this:

"That is a little kids story!" And

"It is sooo boring! Couldn't get past the first chapter!"

I think that whether you are a 5-year-old and listening to it, only half understanding it, for the story, or a 9-year-old, intrigued by pirates and adventures, or a 13 year old like me reading it for the amazing writing, and discovering all the clever, hidden things in the story: Peter Pan is a forever book.  

submitted by Rose bud
(September 3, 2015 - 9:39 am)

Hmmmmmm...

I've read plenty of good books, but I'd say my top 5 are...

1 The Selection series

2 Harry Potter

3 Ruby Redfort

4 Percy Jackson

5 every single book written by Lauren Child.

submitted by Lucy, age 11, Here
(September 7, 2015 - 8:21 pm)
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