Book Nerd Suggestions

books from your Childhood

Do you remember any of these childhood favorites? 

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Bunnicula by James Howe (non-human character)

Charlotte’s Web by EB White (non-human character)

The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by JK Rowling

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks (non-human character)

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (non-human character)

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis (non-human character)

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Mary Poppins by PL Travers

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Jester

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (originally published in Swedish)

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary

Redwall by Brian Jacques (non-human character)

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (poetry)

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle