Tom Sawyer By: Mark Twain Age Recommendation 7+ 4.2/5 Tom Sawyer is an incorrigible kid who is always getting himself in trouble. He also knows how to trick the other kids in the neighborhood into doing his chores, escaping punishment from his aunt and escaping his responsibilities. He makes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a […]
The Cay By: Theodore Taylor Age Recommendation 8+ 3.5/5 11-year-old Phillip Enright and his mother had just boarded a ship to Virginia, because it was unsafe to stay in Curacao with the German submarines surrounding the area. The ship gets torpedoed and Phillip is stranded at sea with an old black man named Timothy
The Seventeenth Swap By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw Age Recommendation 8+ 3.9/5 Eric Greene has a crippled young friend named Jimmy who wants a pair of red cowboy boots that are on sale with all his heart, but his Mother can not afford them. Eric then starts on a series of trades and swaps for
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Follow My Leader By: James B. Garfield Age Recommendation 8+ 4/5 Jimmy Carter was living a good life, but one day while he and his friends were playing baseball the day after the Fourth of July Art found a leftover firecracker which was illegal except on the Fourth of July. Jimmy tried to stop
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea By: Jules Verne Age Recommendation 10+ 4.7/5 Different ships are sighting a mysterious sea monster and based on the details the monster might be a gigantic narwhal. The U.S. government sends forth an expedition to find and kill the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist receives a
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Lord of the flies By: William Golding Age Recommendation 12+ 4.3/5 A plane from Britain full of evacuating school boys is shot down and crashes on a desert island. Piggy and Ralph, two of the school boys, find a conch shell and blow it to summon the other boys. Ralph is appointed leader and
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Rifles for Watie By: Harold Keith Age Recommendation 10+ 3.5/5 Jefferson David Bussey was living on a farm in Linn County, Kansas when Watie men came to raid his farm. His family put up a fight and the Watie men eventually took off when men from neighboring farms came to help, but they gave
Fablehaven By: Brandon Mull Age Recommendation 10+ 5/5 Fablehaven is a fantasy, 5 book series where fictional creatures are hidden from the human eye and look like normal things. They’re long novels that range from 300 to 550 pages. There is a lot of dark magic, witches, demons, and other things like that, but
The Chronicles of Narnia By: C. S. Lewis Age Recommendation 9+ 5/5 The Chronicles of Narnia Review The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis is a Christian-fiction series. It contains 7 books. The books go from the creation of Narnia to the destruction of Narnia. The chosen creatures of Narnia can talk and are
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The Redwall Series By: Brian Jacques Age Recommendation: 10-14 years 5/5 Summary This series is based on the character of Martin the Warrior. The novels were written between 1986 and 2011. The Author intertwines different characters and things that happen in different books. It is a little violent in some parts. Throughout the book there