The king's ministers
set up an academy on the mountain, and every teenage
girl must attend and learn how to become a princess.
Princess Academy
by Shannon Hale (2006 Newbery Award Honor Book)
The
convicts we have are the kind the other prisons
don't want.
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer
Choldenko
What a beautiful place!"
said Violet. "Henry!" cried Jessie.
"Let's live here!"
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler
Warner
For the first time in his
life he got up every morning with something
to look forward to. Leslie was more than his
friend. She was his other, more exciting self
– his way to Terabithia and all the
worlds beyond.
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine
Paterson
Her face and hands and legs
and neck, in fact the skin all over her body,
as well as her great big mop of curly hair,
had turned a brilliant, purplish-blue, the
color of blueberry juice!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
Almost all spiders are rather
nice-looking. I'm not as flashy as some, but
I'll do.
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
When the plane crashes,
Brian is the sole survivor. Right now I'm
all I've got. I have to do something.
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Another roar of mean laughter
went up from her followers as an ogre with
a pair of shears came forward and squatted
down by Aslan's head.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C.S. Lewis
Once upon a time, sixty
years ago, a little girl lived in the Big
Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house
made of logs.
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura
Ingalls Wilder
She was a gigantic holy
terror, a fierce tyrannical monster who frightened
the life out of the pupils and teachers alike.
Matilda by Roald Dahl
“How brave are you,
little Annemarie?” he asked suddenly.
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
With the land to hold them
together, nothing can tear the Logans apart.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred
D. Taylor
I will come by train. I
will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and
tall. Tell them I sing.
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia
MacLachlan
It was supposed to be only
one story high, with thirty classrooms all
in a row. Instead it is thirty stories high,
with one classroom on each story. The builder
said he was very sorry.
Sideways Stories From Wayside School
by Louis Sachar
Whether he's throwing a
temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing mashed
potatoes on the walls at Hamburger Heaven,
or scribbling all over Peter's homework, Fudge
is never far from trouble.
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by
Judy Blume
Doomed to – or blessed
with – eternal life after drinking from
a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about
trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably
as they can.
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Birmingham was like an oven.
That first night I couldn't sleep at all,
me and By had to share a bed and we both were
sweating like two pigs.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
“Wild nighs are my glory,”
the unearthly stranger told them. “I
just got caught in a downdraft and blown off
course. Let me sit down a moment, and then
I'll be on my way.”
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
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