From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
(gr. 4-6)
A girl and her brother run away from home in the suburbs and live for a time in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. What made them run away and will they decide to go home?
J Fic
L'Engle, Madeline
A Wrinkle in Time
(gr. 4-7)
A teenage girl, her friend, and her brilliant but silent little brother set out to find their father who has disappeared through a "tesseract" or a wrinkle in time.
J Fic
Lewis, C. S.
Chronicles of Narnia (series)
(gr. 4-8)
In this high-fantasy series, a family of children fights the battle between good and evil when they step through the back of a old closet into another world.
J Fic
Lindgren, Astrid
Pippi Longstocking
(gr. 3-6)
What would life be like if, like Pippi, you could do, wear, eat and live any way you wanted to, without any adult interference?
J Fic
McCloskey, Robert
Homer Price
(gr. 3-6)
An inventive boy and his many adventures, the most famous of which is his disastrous turn at operating his uncle's donut machine.
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Merrill, Jan
The Pushcart War
(gr. 4-6)
Can the people who sell goods from carts in the streets of a big city stand up to powerful forces trying to push them out of business?
J Fic
Norton , Mary
The Borrowers
(gr. 4-7)
Tiny people, borrow things like postage stamps and thimbles to furnish their home, beneath the floorboards of humans' homes."
J Fic
O'Brien, Robert C.
Mrs. Frisby &the Rats of NIMH
(gr. 4-7)
The adventures of some very smart rats who have escaped from their training at the National Institute of Mental Health.
J Fic
O'Dell, Scott
The Island of the Blue Dolphins
(gr. 5-8)
A young Indian girl learns to survive alone on an island off the coast of California.
J Fic
Paterson, Katherine
Bridge to Terabithia
(gr. 4-6)
A boy and a girl, at first very competitive, become great friends and share their worlds until tragedy strikes.
