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101 Great Children’s Books to Share with Your Kids

If you’re trying to get your children more interested in reading, there are tons of fun books out there that can be of assistance.  The following is a list of 101 children’s books, and most of these stories are appropriate for middle grade readers (ages 9 to 12).  Some are popular and some are lesser known.  Some are old classics, and some are more recent additions to the library.  Some are sad, some are funny, some are dramatic, and some are adventurous.  All of them can help your kids flex their imagination muscles (and keep them busy during long car trips, too).      

101 Enjoyable Children’s Stories:

1. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 
2. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
3. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis 
4. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein 
5. Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater 
6. My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
7. Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 
8. Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder 
9. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 
10. The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner 
11. Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
12. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
13. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
14. The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks 
15. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell 
16. The Case Of Stolen Time – The Misadventures Of Inspector Moustachio by Wayne Madsen
17. James and the Giant Peach: A Children’s Story by Roald Dahl
18. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
19. Matilda by Roald Dahl
20. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
21. Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner 
22. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry 
23. Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
24. The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
25. The Adventures of Nicki in Wolf Creek by PJ Duval
26. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien 
27. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 
28. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl 
29. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle 
30. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume 
31. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
32. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
33. The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
34. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
35. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt 
36. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery 
37. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson 
38. Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar 
39. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh 
40. The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, Book 1) — Carolyn Keene
41. Stuart Little by E. B. White
42. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
43. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare 
44. The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
45. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
46. The BFG by Roald Dahl 
47. The Giver by Lois Lowry
48. Never Mind! : A Twin Novel. by Avi and Rachel Vail
49. Masterpiece by Elise Broach
50. Never Mind! : A Twin Novel by Gennifer Choldenko
51. The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
52. The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
53. The Borrowers by Mary Norton
54. Erik the Viking by Terry Jones
55. The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
56. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
57. Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
58. Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
59. The Bamboozlers by Michael de Guzman
60. Being Teddy Roosevelt by Claudia Mills
61. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
62. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
63. The Cottonmouth Club by Lance Marcum
64. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
65. Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
66. The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke
67. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
68. Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
69. Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard
70. Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
71. Lad, a Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
72. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
73. Scat by Carl Hiaasen
74. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
75. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
76. A Walk in Wolf Wood by Mary Stewart
77. Alia Waking by Laura Williams McCaffrey
78. The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
79. Close Encounters of A Third-World Kind by Jennifer J. Stewart
80. Dust from Old Bones by Sandra Forrester
81. The Floating Circus by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
82. A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida
83. Ethan, Suspended by Pamela Ehrenberg
84. Shape-Changer by Bill Brittain
85. The White Mountains by John Christopher
86. Aliens Ate My Homework by Bruce Coville
87. Max and Me and the Time Machine by Gery Greer
88. The Invisible Day by Marthe Jocelyn
89. The Nose from Jupiter by Richard Scrimger
90. Help! I’m Trapped in an Alien’s Body by Todd Strasser
91. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
92. The Boggart by Susan Cooper
93. A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears by Jules Feiffer
94. Islands in the Sky by Tanith Lee
95. The Wish in the Bottle by Morna Macleod
96. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
97. Song of the Gargoyle by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
98. A Hidden Magic by Vivian Vande Velde
99. Dragon of the Lost Sea by Laurence Yep
100. The Wizard’s Map by Jane Yolen
101. Tria And The Great Star Rescue by Rebecca Kraft Rector

About the Author

The author is a reader, writer, blogger, and lover of fantasy and science fiction. If you’re looking for something to read right now, check out her children’s short stories, which feature a pair of goblin brothers who use only their wits to get out of trouble (and they sure spend a lot of time in trouble!).

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