These are all books I’ve thoroughly enjoyed, in case you’re looking for something good to read:
Airborn trilogy by Kenneth Oppel
Airman by Eoin Colfer
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Blood on the River: James Town, 1607 by Elisa Carbone
Calvin and Hobbes comic strip by Bill Watterson
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Don’t Call Me Ishmael by Michael Gerard Bauer
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Falling Up by Shel Silverstein
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Good Enough by Paula Yoo
Half-Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer
Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
Holes by Louis Sachar
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’ Dell
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
Prisoner of Night and Fog series by Anne Blankman
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Runaway Ralph, and Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
The Mysterious Benedict Society trilogy by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
The World of Pooh by A. A. Milne
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity by Gary Paul Nabhan
Zebra Forest by Adina Rishe Gewirtz
Of course, there are many, MANY other books in the world, and MANY more that I could recommend, if I could just remember the names! I have always loved books, and I have always loved too many than I could ever remember. If you have any recommendations of your own, please comment!
P.S. In case you’re curious, here are the titles of the books in the header image of my blog (from left to right), which provided me with countless adventures growing up:
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Holes by Louis Sachar
Airman by Eoin Colfer
Five on a Treasure Island by Enid Blyton (first book in the Famous Five series)
Ramona and Her Father by Beverly Cleary
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The World of Pooh by A. A. Milne
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Writing Magic by Gail Carson Levine
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
Far North by Will Hobbs
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
Scientific Progress Goes “Boink” by Bill Watterson
642 Things to Write About by San Francisco Writers’ Grotto
Hey! Another really good book is Confessions of a Closet Catholic by Sarah Darer Littman!:)
ha ha.. I love the Frosting part… “wink wink”
Yes, you should read Robert Frost’s poetry 🙂 And Alicia, I just started reading CONFESSIONS OF A CLOSET CATHOLIC. It’s so funny!
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Hm, I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one when it comes to the Artemis Fowl books. I’ve been wondering on whheter I should try his book that’s based on the Hitchhiker’s series, but I’m not sure. I never finished the actual series and then I’m not sure if I really enjoyed reading them or if they were too silly for me.
I haven’t read THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, but I have heard a lot of good things about it, so I’m planning to read it soon. ARTEMIS FOWL is a bit of a different genre than the Hitchhiker books, though… fantasy vs. science fiction. Still, I love the way Eoin Colfer writes! Maybe you’ll like AND ANOTHER THING. I would give it a try.
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I have never been a big fan of Artemis Fowl, but knowing the cacrhater was based on Colfer’s brother made it easier to get through the seventh book. This has been popular in my library.
I didn’t know that Artemis Fowl was based on Eoin Colfer’s brother. That’s pretty interesting! I still haven’t read the seventh book, but I’m definitely planning on it! 🙂
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I think Khaled has a new book that just came out called “and the mountains echoed”. I haven’t read it yet, but I want to. It supposedly has great reviews.
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