BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9 TO 11 YEAR OLDS

A Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Frindle by Andrew Clements

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

Heartbeat by Sharon Creech

Hoot  by Carl Hiassen

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

The Moominvalley books by Tove Jannson

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Peter and the Starcatchers by Ridley Pierson and Dave Barry

Prophecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor

Regarding the Fountain by Kate Klise

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson

The Bagpiper's Ghost by Jane Yolen

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews

The Little House on the House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

The Pictish Child by Jane Yolen

The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

The Wizard's Map  by Jane Yolen

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher