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Chapter books perfect for reading aloud that are likley to be enjoyed by all ages. Most are for children ages 6-12.
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The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart - Little, Brown & Company
Format: Paperback
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"Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities?"When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enroll to take a series of mysterious, mind-bending tests. (And you, dear reader, can test your wits right alongside them.) But in the end just four very... |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1; The Bad Beginning
Lemony Snicket - HarperCollins
Format: Library Binding
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It's a good thing that Violet Baudelaire has a real knack for inventing things. When misery comes to call, the right invention at the right time can mean everything. It's also fortunate that her brother, Klaus, has read lots of books and knows many important things, like how to tell an alligator... |
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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
Kate DiCamillo - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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The beloved author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE enlightens us with a tale of adventure, despair, love, and soup.Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness... |
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Charlotte's Web
E B White
Format: Book
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Since its publication in 1952, Charlotte's Web has become one of America's best-loved children's books. For fifty years, this timeless story of the pig named Wilbur and the wise spider named Charloette who saved him has continued to warm the hearts of readers everywhere. Now this
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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy
Jeanne Birdsall - Knopf Books for Young Readers; 1St Edition edition
Format: Book
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April 25, 2019
With over one million copies sold, this series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager. This summer the Penderwick... |
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The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling
Maryrose Wood - Balzer + Bray; First Edition, First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no ordinary children Alexander, age ten or thereabouts, keeps his siblings in line with gentle nips Cassiopeia, perhaps four or five, has a bark that is usually worse than her bite and Beowulf, age somewhere-in-the-middle,... |
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James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story
Roald Dahl - Viking Penguin
Format: Paperback
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When James stumbles and drops the bag containing "tiny magical green things", he watches helplessly as all his lovely magic wriggles away into the earth underneath an old peach tree. Sadly he resigns himself to continued misery with his two wicked aunts . . . but then amazing... |
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Matilda
Roald Dahl - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG!Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress.... |
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
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Don't miss one of America's top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS's The Great American Read.A mass-market paperback edition of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, book two in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition features cover art by C |
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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialization in The American Magazine (November 1910 - August 1911) . When Mary Lennox, the unloved, contrary and spoiled ten-year-old, is found alone in the deserted house after |
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The Family Under the Bridge
Natalie Sav Carlson - Scholastic Inc; 1st edition
Format: Book
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An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and children and a job for himself.
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Mr. Popper's Penguins
Richard Atwater - Little
Format: Print book
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A classic of American humor, the adventures of a house painter and his brood of high-stepping penguins have delighted children for generations. "Here is a book to read aloud in groups of all ages. There is not an extra or misplaced word in the whole story."--The Horn Book. Newbery... |
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library
Chris Grabenstein - Random House
Format: Print book
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory meets A Night in the Museum in this action-packed New York Times Bestseller from Chris Grabenstein, coauthor of I Funny, Treasure Hunters and other bestselling series with James Patterson!Kyle Keeley is the class clown... |
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