Books We Love!

Books for Reading Aloud that our Family Recommends

(These books are presented generally in order from books for early elementary students to books for older teens. This list is very limited. There are so many great read-aloud books. These are a few of our family’s favorites.)

Cynthia Rylant Books

• Poppleton Series
• Mr. Putter and Tabby Series
• Henry and Mudge Series

My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (Three novel series)

Beverly Cleary Books

• The Ramona Quimby Series
• Henry Huggins Series
• Ralph S. Mouse Series

Winnie the Pooh Books by A.A. Milne

Beatrix Potter Books beginning with The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Series by L. Frank Baum

Roald Dahl Books beginning with Fantastic Mr. Fox

Babe by Dick King-Smith

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright

Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishman

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Pollyanna by Elenor H. Porter

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

E. Nesbit books including Five Children and It and The Book of Dragons

Edgar Eager Books including Half Magic

The Borrower’s Series by Mary Norton

The Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Penderwicks Series by Jeanne Birdsall

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Natalie Babbitt books including 

• The Search for Delicious
• Tuck Everlasting
• Jack Plank Tells Tales

Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen

The Little Prince by Antonine de Saint-Exupery

Anne of Green Gables Series by Lucy Maud Montgomery

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Neverending Story by Michael Ende

Avi books for teens like Nothing but the Truth

Katherine Patterson Books 

• Tuck Everlasting
• Bridge to Terebithia
• The Master Puppeteer

Gary Paulsen Books beginning with Hatchet

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

Books by Jules Verne beginning with Around the World in 80 Days

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Books by Charles Dickens like Oliver Twist

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R. Tolkien

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave by Frederick Douglass