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Great Children's Books
Nothing is the same at Green Gables after the Cuthberts adopt red-haired and hot tempered Anne Shirley. Her lively imagination and knack for making comical errors make life interesting for all in Avonlea. Was it providence or a mistake that brought her to Mathew and Marilla?
Set in Galilee in the time of Jesus, this story tells of a young Jewish rebel who is won over to the gentle teachings of Jesus. "A dramatic, deeply felt narrative whose characters and message will long be remembered".--Booklist. Newberry Medal Book.
Bud Not Buddy Author: Christopher Paul Curtis (hardcopy) ISBN: 0385323069 It's 1936 in Flint, Michigan. Ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but he's on a mission. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: posters of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression! Bud's got an idea that those posters will lead to his father. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him.
When John Jagamarra was five, he was taken away from his mother and home in an Australian aboriginal camp. John was half-white, and the law said he had to be educated in a mission school to learn the ways of white people. But John never forgot his real home - or his mother, who dared to trick the men from the welfare department by darkening him with a burnt stick to hide his light skin. A poignant tale of painful separation, abiding love, and enduring memory.
The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
One of the most popular and exciting adventure stories is now being reissued with vibrant, realistic paintings by a highly acclaimed artist and an introduction by award-winning author, Gary Paulsen. First published in 1903, this striking reissue is as relevant today as it was when it was first published.
Nathaniel Bowditch's dream of attending Harvard ended when his father apprenticed him to a chandlery after his mother died. Was Nathaniel destined to be a bookkeeper all his life, or could he find a better way to use his skills in mathematics?
The comic, sometimes tragic side of life in the city is brought into vivid relief as Chester Cricket and his friends struggle to bring success to their human friends' nearly bankkrupt newsstand.
The year is 1926, and an orphan named Dave is sent to live in the Hebrew Home for Boys in New York's Upper West Side. Desperately unhappy, he sneaks out at night and welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance, where he discovers the power of friendship.
Ella
Enchanted Placed under the spell of a blundering fairy, Ella has no choice but to go through life obeying each and every order--no matter what the consequences may be. "If you commanded me to cut off my own head, I'd have to do it." Or does she?
Getting
Near a Baby Although thirteen-year-old Willa Jo and her Aunt Patty seem to be constantly at odds, staying with her and Uncle Hob helps Willa Jo and her younger sister come to terms with the death of their family's baby.
Jonus has been chosen for an honor rarely given in his perfect community where there are no choices, no fear, no pain. Jonus will receive the truth; and nothing will ever be the same again.
On one level, this is the story of how Corrie Ten Boom and her family joined the Dutch resistance helping Jews escape the savage death camps of Nazi Germany. In this, the world's dark night, Corrie discovered a profound comfort which she has shared with millions: No pit is so deep that the love of God is not deeper still.
"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy campers. But when Stanley realizes that the boys may not just be digging to build character--that in fact the warden is seeking something specific--the plot gets as thick as the irony.
In this fifth and final chronicle of Prydain the forces of good and evil meet in ultimate confrontation.
Jane, an abused and misunderstood child, is sent away to a boarding school where she matures to womanhood. Later, as a governess, Jane finds herself totally unprepared for the mysteries of Thornefield Hall...
An accident forces Johnny to leave his old life as a silversmith apprentice and find a new way on his own ...
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s...
Though reared as a Lenni Lenape Indian, fifteen-year-old True Son, once called John Camera Butler, was ordered back to the white man. Where did he belong now--and where could he go?
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff. (paperback) ISBN: 0440414539 In the summer of 1944, 10-year-old Lily Mollahan grows increasingly irritated with the war overseas and its threat closer to home: "Was that all anyone thought about--news and the war?" Staying with her grandmother in Rockaway while her father heads for France and fighting, Lily becomes increasingly intrigued by another child, a Hungarian refugee. "Albert could really be a Nazi spy," she fantasizes. Imagination is one thing, lying another, and as her vacation draws on, the young heroine's tales become more dangerous than charming.
What begins as a simple game of hide-and-seek quickly turns into the adventure of a lifetime when Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy walk through the wardrobe and into the land of Narnia. There they find a cold, snow-covered land frozen into eternal winter by the evil White Witch ...
What happens when Joey and his sister, Mary Alice -- two city slickers from Chicago -- make their annual summer visits to Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town?
A 14th-century English girl so poor that she's nameless and burrows in a dung heap for warmth on frozen nights. By the novel's end, she's bathed, named herself, delivered calves and babies, and found a place in the world.
Tired of big-city life, Sam Gribley runs away to the Catskill Mountains to forge a life of his own. A year later, his younger sister Alice joins him. Alone in the mountains, Sam and Alice face great danger - with only the land, their courage, and each other to rely on.
10-year-old Annemarie Johannesen, whose family harbors her best friend, Ellen Rosen, on the eve of the round-up of the Jews during World War II and helps smuggles Ellen's family out of the country.
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
In first-person free-verse poems fourteen-year-old Billie Jo Kelby relates her Depression-era experiences in the Oklahoma panhandle. Billie Jo's aborted escape from the dust bowl almost gets lost in a procession of bleak events, instead of serving as the book's climax. Yet her voice, nearly every word informed by longing, provides an immediacy that expressively depicts both a grim historical era and one family's healing.
Order Some of These Great Children's Classics
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Anne of Green Gables
(paperback) 
The Bronze Bow
(paperback) 
The Burnt Stick 
Caddie Woodlawn
(paperback) 
Call of the Wild
(paperback) 
Carry on Mr. Bowditch
(paperback) 
Cricket in Times Square 
Dave at Night 
The Giver
(paperback) 
The Hiding Place
(paperback) 
Holes
The High King 
Jayne Eyre 
Johnny Tremain 
Julie of the Wolves 
To Kill A Mockingbird 
The Light In the Forest 
Lily's
Crossing
The Lion, Witch and
The Wardrobe 
A Long Way from Chicago 
The
Midwife's Apprentice 
My Side of the Mountain 
Number
the Stars 
Our Only May Amelia 
Out of the Dust