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Your local library has tons and tons of terrific books. It might be hard to walk in and
find something at first, but don't worry. Librarians are helpful people, so don't
hesitate to ask for help. BlackDog has a few suggestions below to help get you started.
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A Few Good Books to Read This Summer
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Grades K - 4
- Alphabetics - by MacDonald
- Amazing Bone - by Steig
- Andy and the Lion - by Daugherty
- Ape in a Cape: An Alphabet of Odd Animals - by Eichenberg
- Big Snow - by Hader
- Bill Peet: An Autobiography - by Peet
- Blueberries for Sal - by McCloskey
- Boy of the Three-Year Nap - by Snyder
- Bremen-Town Musicians - by Grimm
- Castle - by Macaulay
- Chair for My Mother - by Williams
- Crow Boy - by Yashima
- Desert is Theirs - by Baylor
- Dick Whittington's Cat - by Brown
- Duffy and the Devil - by Zemach
- Egg Tree - by Milhous
- Emperor and the Kite - by Yolen
- Fables - by Lobel
- Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song - by Spier
- Freight Train - by Crews
- Frog and Toad Are Friends - by Lobel
- Funny Little Woman - by Mosel
- Girl Who Loved Wild Horses - by Goble
- Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher - by Bang
- Happy Day - by Krauss
- Hawk, I'm Your Brother - by Baylor
- Hey, Al - by Yorinks & Egielski
- If All the Seas Were One Sea - by Domanska
- In the Night Kitchen - by Sendak
- In the Small, Small Pond - by Fleming
- Journey Cake Ho! - by Sawyer
- Just Me - by Ets
- Little Island - by MacDonald
- Madeline - by Bemelmans
- Many Moons - by Thurber
- May I Bring a Friend? - by De Regniers
- One Fine Day - by Hogrogian
- One Morning in Maine - by McClosky
- Play With Me - by Ets
- Peppe the Lamplighter - by Bartone
- Relatives Came - by Rylant
- Sam, Bangs & Moonshine - by Ness
- Stone Soup - by Brown
- Tar Beach - by Ringgold
- Tree is Nice - by Uldry
- Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears - by Aardema
- Working Cotton - by Williams
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Grades 3 - 9
- Across Five Aprils - by Hunt
- Adam of the Road - by Gray
- Along Came a Dog - by DeJong
- Banner in the Sky - by Ullman
- Black Cauldron - by Alexander
- Blue Willow - by Gates
- Caddie Woodlawn - by Brink
- Call It Courage - by Sperry
- Chucaro, Wild Pony of the Pampa - by Kalnay
- Dark Frigate - by Hawes
- Doctor De Soto - by Steig
- Dragonwings - by Yep
- Egypt Game - by Snyder
- Ella Enchanged - by Levine
- Figgs and Phantoms - by Rylant
- Fog Magic - by Sauer
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - by Konigsburg
- Ginger Pye - by Estes
- Girl Named Disaster - by Farmer
- Giver - by Lowry
- Hatchet - by Paulsen
- Hero and the Crown - by McKinley
- Hundred Penny Box - by Mathis
- Incident at Hawk's Hill - by Eckert
- Invincible Louisa - by Meigs
- Jazz Man - by Weik
- Journey Outside - by Steele
- Julie of the Wolves - by George
- King of the Wind - by Henry
- Kneeknock Rise - by Babbitt
- Light at Tern Rock - by Sauer
- Lily's Crossing - by Giff
- Long Winter - by Wilder
- Maniac Magee - by Spinelli
- Moonchild - by McGraw
- Mountain Valor - by Houston
- Noonday Friends - by Stolz
- Old Yeller - by Gipson
- Onion John - by Krumgold
- Out of the Dust - by Hesse
- Perilous Road - by Steele
- Planet of Junior Brown - by Hamilton
- Rabbit Hill - by Lawson
- Ring of Endless Night - by L'Engle
- Roller Skates - by Sawyer
- Seabird - by Holling
- Shadow of a Bull - by Wojciechowska
- Solitary Blue - by Voight
- These Happy Golden Years - by Wilder
- True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - by Avi
- Upstairs Room - by Reiss
- Walk Two Moons - by Creech
- What Hearts - by Brooks
- What Jamie Saw - by Corman
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Read the Classics
A very fun thing to do: Set a goal to read all the classic books. Your
goal can be to read them all, or to read five or ten, or however
many you can. Here's a list to help you get started.
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- Around the World in Eighty Days
- The Call of the Wild
- Captains Courageous
- Kidnapped
- The Last of the Mohicans
- Little Women
- Oliver Twist
- Tales of Mystery and Terror
- The Time Machine
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Black Beauty
- David Copperfield
- Great Expectations
- Moby Dick
- Swiss Family Robinson
- The Three Musketeers
- Treasure Island
- The Wind in the Willows
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- A Tale of Two Cities
- The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Heidi
- Huckleberry Finn
- The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty
- The Prince and the Pauper
- Robin Hood
- Anne of Green Gables
- Frankenstein
- Gulliver's Travels
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The Invisible Man
- The Jungle Book
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- The Secret Garden
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