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Children's Recommendations - Family Read Aloud

Children's - Family Read Aloud

Charlotte's web
ISBN: 0060282983
Title: Charlotte's web by E.B. White - Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him
Author: White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.
Stuart Little
ISBN: 0060263962
Title: Stuart Little by E. B. White - Follows the adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden
Author: White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.
The BFG
ISBN: 0374304696
Title: The BFG by Roald Dahl - Snatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants
Author: Dahl, Roald.
The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
ISBN: 9780062658760
Title: The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe by C.S. Lewis - Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch
Author: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.
The wild robot
ISBN: 9780316381994
Title: The wild robot by Peter Brown - Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment
Author: Brown, Peter, 1979- author, illustrator.
Fortunately, the milk
ISBN: 9780062224071
Title: Fortunately, the milk by Neil Gaiman - While picking up milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space
Author: Gaiman, Neil.
Tales of a fourth grade nothing
ISBN: 0525469311
Title: Tales of a fourth grade nothing by Judy Blume - Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem
Author: Blume, Judy.
The cricket in Times Square
ISBN: 0374316503
Title: The cricket in Times Square by George Selden - The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat
Author: Selden, George, 1929-
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ISBN: 9780763650070
Title: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo - Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie
Author: DiCamillo, Kate.
The one and only Ivan
ISBN: 9780061992278
Title: The one and only Ivan by Katherine Applegate - When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life
Author: Applegate, Katherine, author.
Bud, not Buddy
ISBN: 0385323069
Title: Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis - Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father
Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Little house in the big woods
ISBN: 9780060264307
Title: Little house in the big woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder - A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions
Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.
Book cover for The birchbark house by Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 0786822414
Title: The birchbark house by Louise Erdrich - Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847
Author: Erdrich, Louise.
Heidi
ISBN: 9781402726019
Title: Heidi by Johanna Spyri - Heidi, a Swiss orphan, is heartbroken when she must leave her home and grandfather to go to school and care for a sick girl named Clara in the city
Author: Spyri, Johanna, 1827-1901.
The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
ISBN: 9780544876392
Title: The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser - Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind
Author: Glaser, Karina Yan, author.
The Penderwicks
ISBN: 0375831436
Title: The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy by Jeanne Birdsall - While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters share adventures with a local boy
Author: Birdsall, Jeanne.
Winnie-the-Pooh
ISBN: 9780593320044
Title: Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne - The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday
Author: Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956, author.