Series Books for Boys and Girls, Beginning Chapter Books, and Old Favorites

 

Have You Seen These Boys? (series)

Akimbo and the Lions – McCall Smith
Cody Unplugged – Duffey
Freaky Joe Club  – McMahon
Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion – Kline
Henry and Beezus – Cleary
Jackson Jones and the Puddle of Thorns – Quattlebaum
Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth? – Sachar
Martin Bridge Blazing Ahead –Kerrin
Melvin Beederman, Superhero – Trine
Owen Foote, Super Spy – Greene
Phineas L. MacGuire Erupts – Dowell
Robert and the Weird and Wacky Facts - Seuling
Shredderman, Secret Identity – Van Draanen
Stink: the Incredible Shrinking Kid – McDonald
Hank Zipzer: Niagara Fall or Does It?– Winkler

 

Meet the new girls! (series)

Agnes Parker: Girl in Progress – O’Dell
Amber Brown is not a Crayon - Danziger
Clarice Bean: Guess Who’s Babysitting - Child
(Only) Emma - Warner
Gooney Bird Greene - Lowry
(Five Lost Aunts of) Harriet Bean -
 McCall Smith
Ivy and Bean - Barrows
Judy Moody - McDonald
Julep O’Toole: Confessions of a Middle Child
Trueit
Lucy Rose: Here’s the Thing About Me - Kelly
Mallory on the Move - Friedman
Piper Reed: Navy Brat - Holt
Willimena Rules! How to Lose Your Class Pet - Wesley
Winnie: Dancing on her own - Jacobsen

 

Beginning Chapter Book Series

Annabel the Actress - Conford
A to Z Mysteries -  Royal
Bailey School Kids - Dadey
Bella Baxter series - Mason
Cam Jansen and Young Cam Jansen – Adler
Capital Mysteries - Roayl
Cobblestreet Cousins - Rylant
Dragon Slayers Academy - McMullen
Gus and Grandpa – Mills *
Henry and Mudge- Rylant *
High-Rise Private Eyes – Rylant *
Hopscotch Hill School – Tripp*
Horrible Harry - Kline
Ike and Mem - Jennings
Jigsaw Jones Mysteries - Preller
Junie B. Jones – Park
The Kids of the Polk Street School – Giff
Lighthouse Family - Rylant
Magic Treehouse - Osborne
Marvin Redpost - Sachar
Nate the Great – Sharmat *
Secrets of Droon - Abbott
Starvation Lake - Whelan
Third Grade Detectives - Stanley
Unicorn’s Secret – Duey
Willimena Rules - Wesley
Zack Files – Greenburg

 

* = Easy Reader

 

Old Favorites for Sharing with your children

Mr. Popper’s Penguins - Richard Atwater
Ramona, Henry Huggins - Beverly Cleary
Half Magic  - Edward Eager
The Moffats   - Eleanor Estes
Betsy and Eddie   - Carolyn Haywood
Babe the Gallant Pig - Dick Kingsmith
Diamond in the Window  -  Jane Langton
Chronicles of Narnia  - C.S. Lewis
Dr. Doolittle - Hugh Lofting
Betsy Tacy    - Maud Hart Lovelace
Homer Price - Robert McCloskey
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle – Betty MacDonald
The Borrowers  - Mary Norton
All-of-a-Kind Family - Sydney Taylor
Mary Poppins – P.L. Travers
Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

Your Favorite Children's Books--results of Friends of the Peace Dale Library Survey, Summer 2007:

 

Most Votes

 

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

 

Many Votes

 

Babymouse by Jennifer L. Holm

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

The Cam Jansen series by David Adler

The Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

The Clifford series by Norman Bridwell

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

The Henry and Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant

The Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Parks

The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

 

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