50 books for an 11-year old...or anyone

I stumbled upon this website and thought it was interesting with suggestive children’s books. The article discussed how children often aren’t reading as much and any reading subject is fine. A school librarian gave this list to students last spring in hopes that they continue summer reading. You can also click on each book to get more information. How many of these books have your read?

http://www.abebooks.com/books/children-reading-lists-parents-teachers/50-books-children.shtm

50 Books Every Child Should Read

1. Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransome

2.The Eagle of the Ninth
by Rosemary Sutcliff

3.The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien

4.Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll

5.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl

6.The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson-Burnett

7.The Talking Parcel
by Gerald Durrell

8.War Horse
by Michael Morpurgo

9.The Beasts of Clawstone Castle
by Eva Ibbotson

10.Danny the Champion of the World
by Roald Dahl

11.Charlotte’s Web
by E.B. White
12.Artemis Fowl Series
by Eoin Colfer
13.The City of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau
14.Little House on the Prairie series
by Laura Ingalls Wilde
15.Coraline
by Neil Gaiman

16.The Machine Gunners
by Robert Westall
17.Because of Winn-Dixie
by Kate DiCamillo
18.Emil and the Detectives
by Erich Kästner
19.Inkheart
by Cornelia Funke
20.A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L’Engle
21.The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
22.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
23.Tom’s Midnight Garden
by Philippa Pearce
24.The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
25.The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
by Terry Pratchett
26.Magic series
by Edward Eager
27.Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
28.The Borrowers
by Mary Norton
29.Boy
by Roald Dahl
30.Holes
by Louis Sachar
31.The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
32.The Phoenix and the Carpet
by E. Nesbit
33.The Lantern Bearers
by Rosemary Sutcliff
34.The Silver Sword/Escape from Warsaw
by Ian Serraillier
35.Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
36.The Sheep-Pig
by Dick King-Smith
37.Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
38.The Dark Is Rising series
by Susan Cooper
39.The Mozart Question
by Michael Morpurgo
40.The Pendragon Adventure series
by D. J. MacHale
41.Percy Jackson & the Olympians series
by Rick Riordan
42.Silverwing
by Kenneth Oppel
43.The Spiderwick Chronicles
by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
44.Stig of the Dump
by Clive King
45.The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
by Alan Garner
46.The Chronicles of Narnia
by C.S. Lewis
47.His Dark Materials trilogy
by Philip Pullman
48.The Harry Potter Books
by J.K. Rowling
49.Leven Thumps series
by Obert Skye
50.A Series of Unfortunate Events series
by Lemony Snicket

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