Recommended Books

Suggested Books List from St. Michael's College
(ED 241 - Children's Literacy with Valerie Bang-Jensen)

Superfudge - Judy Blume
Bloomability - Sharon Creech
The Giver - Lois Lowry
T
he Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
T
he Cay - Theodore Taylor
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Gregor the Overlander - Suzanne Collins
The Midwife's Apprentice - Karen Cushman
A Step from Heaven - An Na
Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech
Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko
Frindle - Andrew Clements
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher - Bruce Coville
Owl in Love - Patrice Kindl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Water Babies - Charles Kingsley
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Lorax - Dr. Seuss
The Great Gilly Hopkins - Katherine Paterson
Island of the Aunts - Eva Ibbotson
Ruby Holler - Sharon Creech
Sarah Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan
Silk Umbrellas - Carolyn Marsden

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