A "Girls List" because my sisters didn't think I gave Pride and Prejudice a fair shake. This list is from my sisters, Katie (age 15) and Grace (age 13).
This is a start of a list containing both Classics and some more contemporary books.
***** (5 Stars)
Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery (c.1800's, Canada) TJE, MW, MO,MCT
Animal Farm, George Orwell AP, TJE,MCT
Aurelia, Anne Osterland
The Autobiography of Ben Franklin, Ben Franklin MCT
Because of Winn Dixie NA*2001
Charlotte's Web, E.B. White MCT, GHg4-6,NA*1953
Common Sense, Thomas Paine (Revolutionary War) MCT, TJE
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court GHteen+
Elantris, Brandon Sanderson AP, TJE
Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine NA*1998
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, Patrick Henry MCT, TJE
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes (c.1775) AP,
MO,GHg4-6,NA*1944
The Little House on the Prairie Series, Wilder (c. 1860), MW,NA*1938/1942
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott MCT, GHg4-6
Miracle on 49th Street, Mike Lupica
Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers
Our Sacred Honor, Book 1 of Prelude to Glory Series (Revolutionary War), Ron Carter
Palace of Mirrors, Margaret Peterson Haddix
Percy Jackson Series, Rick Riordan
Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter
Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen
Princess Academy, Shannon Hale NA*2006
Royal Diaries:
The Running Dream
Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen
Song of the Sparrow
The Story of My Life, Helen Keller MCT,GHg4-6
Stuart Little, E.B. White
Tale of Two Cities
Two Princesses of Barrymore
Trianon
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame MCT,GHg4-6
**** (4 Stars)
Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Gray (c.1294) MW, MO,MCT,NA*1943
The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis AP, TJE, MO,MCT,GHg4-6
The Diary of Anne Frank (c.1929) MW,MCT
The Door in the Wall, Margueriate DeAngeli (c.1300/medieval) MW, MOa7-9,MCT,GHg4-6,NA*1950
Sara, Plain & Tall, Patricia MacLachlan (c.1800s) MW,MCT,GHg4-6,NA*1986
*** (3 Stars)
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell MCT,GHteen+,NA*1961
The Matchlock Gun, Walter D. Edmonds AP, MO,NA*1942
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens MCT
The Scarlet Pimpernel, (French Revolution)
** (2 Stars)
Two Princesses of Barrymore
* (1Star)
Smoky: the Cowhorse, Will James MO,GHteen+,NA*1922
My Sisters
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