Classics for Older Children


Author
Birdsall, Jeanne
Call Number
J F BIRDSALL
Summary
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
Author
Blume, Judy
Call Number
J F BLUME
Summary
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.
Author
Bond, Michael
Call Number
J F BOND
Summary
The story of a little bear found by Mr. and Mrs. Brown at Paddington station that becomes one of the family.
Author
Boston, L.M.
Call Number
J F BOSTON
Summary
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
Author
Burnett, Frances H.
Call Number
J F BURNETT
Summary
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Author
Carroll, Lewis
Call Number
J F CARROLL
Summary
A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.
Author
Cleary, Beverly
Call Number
J F CLEARY
Summary
Beezus' biggest problem is her 4-year-old sister Ramona. Even though Beezus knows sisters are supposed to love each other, with a sister like Ramona, it seems impossible.
Author
Collodi, Carlo
Call Number
J F COLLODI
Summary
Presents the adventures of Pinocchio, a mischievous wooden puppet, who wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
Author
Cooper, Susan
Call Number
J F COOPER
Summary
Three children on vacation in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest that entraps them in the eternal battle between the forces of the Light and the Dark.
Author
Curtis, Christopher P.
Call Number
J F CURTIS
Summary
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
Author
Dahl, Roald
Call Number
J F DAHL
Summary
A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.
Author
DiCamillo, Kate
Call Number
J F DICAMILLO
Summary
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
Author
Erdrich, Louise
Call Number
J F ERDRICH
Summary
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
Author
Farmer, Nancy
Call Number
J F FARMER
Summary
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
Author
Gardiner, John Reynolds
Call Number
J F GARDINER
Summary
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters. (1985 Beehive Book Award winner)
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