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Saint Paul's Lutheran School Kingsville, MD Mr. Skip Osbourn
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With the multitude of books to choose from, it is at times difficult to know just what books to choose. There are many great books in the library, book store, and in book orders. However, not all books are great books. Following, you will find a list of quality books. While this list certainly does not include every good book, it’s a great place to begin when you start selecting books to read.
NEWBERY AWARD WINNERS
Walk Two Moons, Creech The Summer of the Swans, Byars Dear Mr. Henshaw, Cleary King of the Wind, Henry And Now Miguel, Krumgold A Wrinkle in Time, L’Engle Shiloh, Naylor
It’s Like This, Cat, Neville Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, O’Brien Island of the Blue Dolphins, O’Dell Bridge to Terabithia, Paterson The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Speare Shadow of a Bull, Wojciechowsk A Year Down Yonder, Peck A Single Shard, Park
HISTORICAL FICTION
Sing Down the Moon, O’Dell Charley Skedaddle, Beatty Red Cap, Wisler Sign of the Beaver, Speare Soldier’s Heart, Paulslen A Girl Named Disaster, Farmer The Midwife’s Apprentice, Cushman The Thief, Turner Orphan Train Series, Nixon Anne of Green Gables series, Montgomery The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi
ADVENTURE
Windcatcher, Avi Trouble River, Byars My Side of the Mountain, George The Black Pearl, O’Dell The Maze, Will Hobbs Dogsong, Paulsen Hatchet, Paulsen Slake’s Limbo, Holman Canyons, Paulslen Pacific Crossing, Soto The Fear Place, Naylor
ANIMAL
Rascal, North Misty series, Henry Strider, Cleary Summer of the Monkeys, Rawls Gentle Ben, Morey Dixie & Bandit, Morris Nothing Wrong with a Three-Legged Dog, McNamee
FANTASY
Wrinkle in Time series, L’Engle Chronicles of Narnia series, Lewis Roald Dahl books The Phantom Tollbooth, Juster Back to the Titanic, Gormley
SOME ADDITIONAL TITLES TO CONSIDER Al Capone Does My Shirts, Choldenko Alone in the Ice World, Easley Babe and Me,Gutman The Battle for the Castle, Winthrop Belle Prater’s Boy, White Blizzard’s Wake, Naylor Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor, Mazer The Boy Who Saved Baseball, Ritter Brian’s Winter, Paulsen Bud, Not Buddy, Curtis Catherine, Called Birdy, Cushman Crazy Lady, Conley Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Avi Dicey’s Song, Voight Dragon’s Gate,Yep Eagle Strike,
Horowitz The Edge of the Sword, Tingle The El Dorado Adventure, Alexander Esperanza Rising, Ryan The Face on the Milk Carton, Cooney Fortune’s Journey, Coville Girl of Kosovo, Mead The High King, Lloyd Hindenburg 1937, Dokey Hope Was Here, Bauer The Last Dog on Earth, Ehrenhaft Or Give Me Death,Rinaldi Outcast; Dragon Secrets ,Golden and Sniegoski Private Captain; A Story of Gettysburg, Crisp Ransom of Mercy, Cooney The Riddle of Penncroft Farm, Jensen Running Out of Time, Haddix The Secret of the Ruby Ring, MacGrory The Slave Dancer, Fox Spy High; Mission One, Butcher Stealing Freedom, Carbone Stowaway, Hesse Surviving the Applewhites,Tolan The Thief Lord,Funke Under the Blood-Red Sun, Salisbury Wild Man Island, Hobbs When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Kerr The Whipping Boy, Fleischman Zach’s Lie, Smith
DON’T FORGET THE CLASSICS
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain Heidi, Spyri Little Women, Alcott Old Yeller, Gipson Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Wiggin Red Badge of Courage, Crane The Secret Garden, Burnett The Silver Skates, Dodge The Time Machine, Wells Treasure Island, Stevenson The Yearling, Rawlings
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