Garibaldi Annex Home Learners Program

Welcome to my Recommended Reading Page!

Here you will find a reading list of books I recommend. I have compiled this list from a combination of my personal favorites, books recommended by teacher and librarian colleagues, and a selection of books recommended by the American Library Association and the Newbery Award winners list. My personal favorites are marked with an asterisk*. Check back often as I update the list regularly.

Please post your book comments, questions and reviews!

Happy Reading!

Primary

Brown, Peter: The Curious Garden.

Dahl, Roald: Danny, Champion of the World*
James and the Giant Peach*
The BFG*
The Giraffe, Pelly and Me*
George’s Marvelous Medicine*
Matilda

Hatkoff, Craig and Isabella: Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship*

Juster, Norton:   The Phantom Tollbooth*

Lobel, Arnold:  Frog and Toad are Friends
Frog and Toad Together
Frog and Toad All Year
Mouse Tales
Owl at Home

DiCamillo, Kate:   Because of Winn-Dixie*
The Tale of Despereaux*
Mercy Watson to the Rescue

Morpurgo, Michael: Kensuke’s Kingdom*

Mortenson, Greg:   Listen To The Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg and “Three Cups of Tea.”*

Sendak, Maurice: Where the Wild Things Are*

Intermediate

Babbit, Natalie:   Tuck Everlasting*

Barbery, Muriel: The Elegance of the Hedgehog*

Black, Holly:   A Modern Tale of Faerie

Cushman, Karen:   Catherine, called Birdy*
Matilda Bone
The Midwife’s Apprentice

D’Adamo, Francesco:   Iqbal*

Defoe, Daniel:   Robinson Crusoe*

Frank, Anne:   Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl*

Funke, Cornelia:   Inkheart
The Thief Lord*

Johnston, Julie:   Adam and Eve and Pinch Me*

Laird, Elizabeth:   A Little Piece of Ground*

Lawson, Julie:   White Jade Tiger*

Lewis, C.S.:   The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Meyer, Stephanie: Twilight

Paterson, Katherine:  Bridge to Terabithia*

Pearson, Kit: Awake and Dreaming

Pierce, Tamora: Trickster’s Choice

Sachar, Louis: Holes*

Spinelli, Jerry:  Loser*
Milkweed*
Stargirl*

Trease, Geoffrey: Word to Caesar*