I was originally apprehensive about this title for my kids because I can’t read scary stories for adults, and hello, Neil Gaiman. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, who achieves an appropriately tense story for younger readers. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, one of my own childhood favs, and a new hardcover release is coming out May 3
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The School for Good and Evil series by S. Here’s some titles they have both liked over their preteen years: I have a 10yo boy and 13yo girl, so officially she’s a teenager but she doesn’t like a lot of YA genre because boys are still gross (OK with me!). Montgomery, Ray Bradbury short stories, Jane Eyre, The Borrowers, Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman, The Marriage of Megotta by Edith Pargeter (it’s out of print, but worth finding - Pargeter is Ellis Peters, who wrote the wonderful Brother Cadfael mysteries), White Fang, The Face on the Milk Carton … I could go on and on! (Also, wow, that’s a really eclectic list.) Katherine Paterson’s books, the Bunnicula series by James Howe, anything by Roald Dahl, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, the Emily books by L.M. Dealing With Dragons by Patricia Wrede is a very funny, very feminist princess book.
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper is a wonderful high fantasy/Arthurian series.
When I was young, Scott O’Dell’s book Black Star, Bright Dawn was one of my favorites, too. We’ve listened to several of these books, and my kindergartener (and my husband) absolutely adored Island of the Blue Dolphins. Love this list! And a big sigh for Noel Streatfeild - I love the Shoe books.
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