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All About Dinosaurs by Roy Chapman Andrews

This fantastic dinosaur book by one of the century's most famous paleontologists includes a first-hand account of the discovery of dinosaur eggs for the first time in Mongolia in the 1920s. Old, but still really good.
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Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

I've always identified with this story of a girl's religious, social, and personal struggles through a confusing pre-puberty year.
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Ghost Town Treasure by Clyde Robert Bulla

When two friends come to visit a boy who lives in a fading ghost town, they use the clues in an old diary to try to find the treasure that will save the town.
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The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth

A chicken on a New Hampshire farm lays a rather unusual egg. When a dinosaur hatches out of this enormous egg, its young owner must cope with all the problems it causes, and find a way to keep his huge pet alive.
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Trixie Belden books by Julie Campbell

I was never a Nancy Drew fan. My mystery heroine was Trixie Belden, the tomboy sleuth. My aunt gave me The Red Trailer Mystery for Christmas one year, and I kept reading. Trixie, along with her brothers and her friends, gets into the worst scrapes, but she always manages to solve the mystery.
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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

My first exposure to this classic was a slightly simplified version from the "To Read Aloud" series. Although as an adult I am more skeptical of Alice's dream adventures, as a child I found them delightful.
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Ramona Series by Beverly Cleary

I liked most of Cleary's books about Henry Huggins, but Ramona has a true place in my heart. I prefer the early Ramona books, but this mischievous little girl's adventures are always a treat.

Ramona the Pest - Ramona loves being in kindergarten, and especially her teacher, but trouble is always just around the corner when Ramona's around. This is my favorite in the series.
Ramona the Brave - Ramona's in first grade, with a new bedroom to call her very own. But is she brave enough to stay in it all by herself?
Ramona and Her Father - When Ramona's father loses his job, Ramona goes into overdrive trying to make her family happy again.
Ramona and Her Mother - Now that Ramona's mom works, Ramona begins to wonder if her mother will ever have time for her--especially when her mom seems to love her sister best.
Ramona Quimby, age 8 - Ramona must cope with both a new school and the pressures at her day care.
Ramona Forever - When Ramona's aunt plans a whirlwind wedding, Ramona-the-bridesmaid is in the thick of it. But something else may change her life forever.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

Not as cheerful as the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", these books are still funny. I prefer the insane outer space antics of the Great Glass Elevator.
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A Gift of Magicby Lois Duncan

Of the mysterious gifts bequeathed by their dying grandmother, Nancy's is the most unusual: ESP. Now she must find a way both to keep her powers hidden, and use them for good instead of evil.
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Follow My Leader by James B. Garfield

When an accident leaves Jimmy blind, he must learn to cope with his disability and eventually forgive the boy who caused the accident. It is finally his seeing-eye-dog, Leader, who makes it possible for him to go on boldly with his life.
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My Side of the Mountain by Jean George

A boy runs away from his family's crowded New York City apartment to their ancestral property in the Catskills, and learns to live off the land.
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King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry

A mute Moroccan boy saves the life of a colt born with the marks of both great good and great misfortune. Horse and boy suffer mostly misfortune in a long odyssey that takes them across Europe, until the horse finally fulfills the promise of his birth and becomes the founder of a great line of Arabians.
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A Stranger Came Ashore by Mollie Hunter

A boy of the Scottish Shetland coast must find a way to save his sister from the magical wiles of a mysterious man who came to their home, apparently ship-wrecked in a storm. For the stranger is not what he seems.
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The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye

A delightful fairy-tale-turned-on-its-ear. A good but rather cantankerous old fairy gives a newborn princess the gift of being ordinary.
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Escape to Witch Mountain by Alexander Key

Very different from the Disney film (which I also love.) An orphaned brother and sister with mysterious powers must flee from the harsh inner city, aided by a young priest. Pursued, they travel to the mountains, where they hope to find the secret of their lost past and their own alien people.

The Forgotten Door by Alexander Key

When Jon falls through an old forgotten door, a bump on the head takes away his memory of his homeworld, leaving him in a strange place called Earth, where people sometimes lie and steal--ideas completely foreign to him. But there are good people in this place as well, and they must find a way to protect Jon, solve his mysteries, and send him home.
If you like Key's books, try "The People" stories by Zenna Henderson.
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A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door,
and A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L'Engle

A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorites. In it we meet the delightful Murray family, and Meg must tesser across the universe to save her father, who was lost in a tesseract experiment. In the not-quite-as-good A Wind in the Door, Charles Wallace's life is in danger from a threat that can only be fought at a mitochondrial level. And in the sometimes confusing A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace must travel back in time to avert a world-wide disaster in the present.
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The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

I found these books in the hunger for fantasy stories produced by reading Tolkien. This excellent series "grows up" from its simple, delightful beginnings in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to the deeply philosophical The Last Battle. Some have criticized the partly allegorical elements of the story, but I found them meaningful.
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Mine for Keeps by Jean Little

A girl with cerebral palsy comes home for good from her special school. In learning to cope with her new situation, she finds that she alone can help an immigrant boy with a less-visible, but equally-crippling disability.
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The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

A delightful fairy tale from the nineteenth century's master of fantasy, a man whose works influenced Tolkien. The miner boy Curdie must find a way to save the Princess from the wicked Goblins who want to kidnap her.
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The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill

A delightful "history" of the Pushcart War, and how the pushcarts pushed the BIG trucks off the streets of New York. The dates are now "slightly dated", but the story is still excellent fun.
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Winnie the Pooh and
The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne

Always a delight, the stories of Christopher Robin's stuffed-animal friends are enjoyable and meaningful even to adults. Also give Milne's children's poetry a try in When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six.
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The Borrowers by Mary Norton

"Human beans" are for Borrowers: the little people who live in our houses, borrowing what they need from the Big People. Now the Borrower girl Arietty has become friends with a human boy, and her whole family is endangered by the resulting discovery.
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All About Volcanos and Earthquakes by Frederick H. Pough

A volcano is born in a Mexican cornfield. What causes volcanoes and earthquakes? Find out in this still-excellent book from the old "All About" series.
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How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

When two boys make a bet, one of them must eat 30 worms in 30 days, fried, baked or raw! Not as gross as it sounds, this story is a lot of fun.
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Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

Different from the Disney movie (which I DIDN'T like.) A girl wakes up one morning to find that she is in her mother's body. In this funny tale, Annabelle learns the challenges of adulthood, and finds a whole new "her" when she finally returns to her own body.
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The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

A dated but delightful story about four orphan children who learn to make do for themselves in an old boxcar. Warner went on to write a mystery series based on this book, although this story itself is not really a "mystery."
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Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

The first book that ever made me cry. The story of how a true friend (even if she is a spider) saves a young pig's life.

The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White

When a Trumpter Swan is born mute, he must find his own unique way in the world with the help of a human boy.
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The Lion's Paw by Robb White

A sister and brother escape from a Florida orphanage and join another boy in his race to protect his precious sailboat and find the one seashell, the "Lion's Paw", his own missing father intended to find.

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