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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,456,664 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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4.43 avg rating — 4,512,402 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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4.58 avg rating — 4,863,504 ratings
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 3,451,381 ratings
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 1,366,520 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
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4.57 avg rating — 4,209,048 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,807,994 ratings
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 2,817,969 ratings
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,160,503 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,300,509 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
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4.58 avg rating — 3,668,597 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.33 avg rating — 1,117,527 ratings
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,288,686 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,469,861 ratings
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Ella Enchanted (Ella Enchanted, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 424,281 ratings
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Charlotte’s Web
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4.21 avg rating — 2,052,403 ratings
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The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
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4.55 avg rating — 1,153,223 ratings
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.20 avg rating — 307,459 ratings
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Number the Stars
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4.20 avg rating — 622,769 ratings
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Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,945,482 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,950,999 ratings
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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4.06 avg rating — 610,772 ratings
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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4.03 avg rating — 160,544 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,910,465 ratings
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Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes (Peter Nimble, #1)
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4.12 avg rating — 12,575 ratings
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Bridge to Terabithia
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4.06 avg rating — 591,648 ratings
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The Tale of Despereaux
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4.08 avg rating — 214,284 ratings
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Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
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4.03 avg rating — 374,394 ratings
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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3.88 avg rating — 350,417 ratings
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A Little Princess
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4.23 avg rating — 330,919 ratings
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Black Beauty
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 298,953 ratings
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The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 299,663 ratings
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Tuck Everlasting
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3.91 avg rating — 296,327 ratings
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Because of Winn-Dixie
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4.10 avg rating — 279,941 ratings
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Maniac Magee
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3.90 avg rating — 128,577 ratings
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Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 1,198,237 ratings
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Aster Wood and the Lost Maps of Almara (Aster Wood, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 511 ratings
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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4.17 avg rating — 185,499 ratings
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Treasure Island
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3.85 avg rating — 542,104 ratings
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The Ghost of Lizard's Rock (Cow Pie Gang, #1)
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4.67 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Walk Two Moons
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 173,735 ratings
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The Mysterious Benedict Society (The Mysterious Benedict Society, #1)
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4.20 avg rating — 175,665 ratings
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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3.99 avg rating — 438,572 ratings
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My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 85,538 ratings
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Dragon Rider
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 85,696 ratings
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
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3.95 avg rating — 256,378 ratings
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The Forbidden Vial (Alessia in Atlantis, #1)
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4.21 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Indian in the Cupboard (The Indian in the Cupboard, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 109,381 ratings
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Amaranth
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4.02 avg rating — 62 ratings
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The Three Privileges
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4.38 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Rocky Road (Team Canteen #1)
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4.86 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The Magician’s Nephew
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4.05 avg rating — 609,486 ratings
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Cabin Fever (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #6)
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4.23 avg rating — 134,526 ratings
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,021,614 ratings
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Harriet the Spy
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3.95 avg rating — 100,802 ratings
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The Book of Three (The Chronicles of Prydain, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 83,463 ratings
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The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 262,674 ratings
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Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
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4.01 avg rating — 11,497 ratings
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The Dark Is Rising (The Dark is Rising, #2)
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4.04 avg rating — 61,014 ratings
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Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 562,435 ratings
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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4.30 avg rating — 514,316 ratings
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No Talking
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3.98 avg rating — 20,137 ratings
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Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
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3.98 avg rating — 486,325 ratings
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A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet, #2)
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3.98 avg rating — 132,502 ratings
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Catherine, Called Birdy
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3.74 avg rating — 43,341 ratings
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Love That Dog (Jack, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 48,346 ratings
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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 450,057 ratings
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How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 57,763 ratings
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The Crystal of Yggdrasil (Aki and the Spheres of Time, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Mary Poppins
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4.01 avg rating — 141,103 ratings
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I Can Cook " Cake Baking"
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4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Bellmaker (Redwall, #7)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24,619 ratings
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Poppy
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3.98 avg rating — 10,621 ratings
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The Wishing Spell (The Land of Stories, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 160,368 ratings
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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4.39 avg rating — 122,510 ratings
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (The Wolves Chronicles, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 22,461 ratings
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Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 209,649 ratings
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Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 122,156 ratings
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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4.16 avg rating — 219,520 ratings
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Running Out of Time (Out of Time #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 28,697 ratings
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Mammoth Trouble (Noah Zarc #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Treasure at Lure Lake
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4.37 avg rating — 75 ratings
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
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4.09 avg rating — 508,912 ratings
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The Absolutely Amazing Adventures of Agent Auggie Spinoza
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3.85 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Redwall (Redwall, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 129,464 ratings
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The Merchant of Death (Pendragon, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 52,476 ratings
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Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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4.05 avg rating — 82,986 ratings
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The School Story
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3.99 avg rating — 12,350 ratings
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The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
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3.91 avg rating — 393,557 ratings
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Found (The Missing, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 41,973 ratings
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Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark is Rising, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 56,543 ratings
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,620,760 ratings
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National Velvet
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4.10 avg rating — 25,984 ratings
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The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 23,136 ratings
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The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
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3.96 avg rating — 331,851 ratings
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Nathaniel's 1st Adventure (Cosmic Aviators, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Spin the Golden Light Bulb (1) (The Crimson Five)
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4.22 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Dewey Fairchild, Parent Problem Solver (Dewey Fairchild, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Door to the Lost
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 385 ratings
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Rage Has A Hold On Sammy
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4.79 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Harry Potter series are amazing, but since reading them when they first came out almost 15 years ago, I have discovered other series for young readers that are equally amazing. some of them are named here, Rick Riordan and Gail Carson Levine for example, but others that I've found include Charlie Fletcher and the Stone Heart series also read and brought to life by Jim Dale who did the Harry Potter series; any of the Gary Paulsen Hatchet series! I have a reluctant 10-year old reader and these excellent stories really bolster his vocabulary and grasp of intelligent plots and characters, although he's not reading them himself. To by quite honest, I enjoy these YA reads just about as much as any "adult" reads that I've encountered in past years!
Harry Potter is universal...but I don't think an eleven year old will fully understand books 3-7 because that's when the story hits a whole new level and the plot becomes really intricate and detailed. There are some great books on this list though.
I'm not sure i'd recommend Hotel by Arhtur Hailey for an eight year old... it's a bit mature for that age.
Rea wrote: "I'm not sure i'd recommend Hotel by Arhtur Hailey for an eight year old... it's a bit mature for that age."
I would NOT recommend A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for this age range. Wonderful book but not for elven year old
