The Borrowers, by Mary Norton, Beth Krush, and Joe Krush
The Clock family lives under the kitchen floor, borrowing everything they need from the Big People above. But when fourteen year old Arrietty is seen by a Big Person, their very different worlds come together.
Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman
Karen Cushman's whip-smart medieval maiden is one of our favorite heroines.
Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White
A perennial classic.
Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery
Orphaned Anne Shirley is accidentally sent to live with the Cuthberts, but ends up becoming a part of the family.
This Newbery honor award winner confronts issues of race, disability, and belief among young people during the 1970s.
Five year old Heidi learns to love life in the mountains when she is sent to live with her reclusive grandfather in the Alps.
Travel from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean in this beautifully illustrated book. We like Holling's Seabird as well.
Finding a tollbooth in his bedroom is just the start of Milo's fabulous adventures through the Kingdom of Wisdom. While on a quest to restore the princesses Rhyme and Reason to the throne, he jumps to Conclusions, gets lost in the Doldrums, meets a Spelling Bee, and more.
A re-imagined fairy tale in which Rapunzel is more wild western hero than damsel in distress.
Thurber's whimsical tale has a new introduction by Neil Gaiman!
This Coretta Scott King Award winning novel follows
three generations of African American women.
After drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family becomes immortal. A simple but harrowing tale about love in many forms.
Lofting's books about the adventures of a doctor who can talk to animals are lots of fun.
"Racial duplicity threatens an idyllic African American community in the
turn-of-the-century South in a dazzling debut inspired by the early life
of Zora Neale Hurston."
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