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Creative Teaching Ideas for 50+ Books

Fun, hands-on ways to engage and inspire ages 7-12

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A SINGLE SHARD

by Linda Sue Park (2001)

A WRINKLE IN TIME

by Madeleine L'Engle (1962)

ADAM OF THE ROAD

by Elizabeth Janet Gray (1942)

ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND

by Lewis Carroll (1865)

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

by James Herriot (1972)

ALL-OF-A-KIND FAMILY

by Sydney Taylor (1951)

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

by L.M. Montgomery (1908)

AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS

by Jules Verne (1872)

BLACK BEAUTY

by Anna Sewell (1877)

BLUE WILLOW

by Doris Gates (1940)

CADDIE WOODLAWN

by Carol Ryrie Brink (1935)

CARRY ON, MR. BOWDITCH

by Jean Lee Latham (1955)

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

by Roald Dahl (1964)

CHARLOTTE'S WEB

by E.B. White (1952)

DRAGONWINGS

by Laurence Yep (1975)

FAREWELL TO MANZANAR

by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1973)

FOLLOW MY LEADER

by James B. Garfield (1957)

FREEDOM TRAIN: THE STORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN

by Dorothy Sterling (1954)

FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER

by E.L. Konigsburg (1967)

HEIDI

by Johanna Spyri (1880)

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS

by Scott O’Dell (1960)

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH

by Roald Dahl (1961)

JOHNNY TREMAIN

by Esther Forbes (1943)

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

by Jules Verne (1864)

LITTLE HOUSE IN THE BIG WOODS

by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932)

LITTLE WOMEN

by Louisa May Alcott (1868)

MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE

by Marguerite Henry (1947)

MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH

by Robert C. O'Brien

MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN

by Jean Craighead George (1959)

ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY

by Mildred D. Taylor (1976)

STUART LITTLE

by E.B. White (1945)

SUMMER OF THE MONKEYS

by Wilson Rawls (1976)

SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

by Arthur Ransome (1930)

THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO

by Carlo Collodi (1883)

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

by Mark Twain (1876)

COMING SOON

THE BIG WAVE

by Pearl S. Buck (1948)

THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE

by Louise Erdrich (1999)

THE BORROWERS

by Mary Norton (1952)

COMING SOON

THE CIRCUIT

by Francisco Jiménez (1997)

THE GOLDEN GOBLET

by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (1961)

THE GOOD MASTER

by Kate Seredy (1935)

COMING SOON

THE HOBBIT

by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)

THE HOUSE OF SIXTY FATHERS

by Meindert DeJong (1956)

THE INCREDIBLE JOURNEY

by Sheila Burnford (1961)

THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE

by C.S. Lewis (1950)

THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH

by Norton Juster (1961)

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN

by E. Nesbit (1906)

THE SECRET GARDEN

by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

THE TEMPEST

by William Shakespeare (1611)

THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN

by E.B. White (1970)

THE TRUMPETER OF KRAKOW

by Eric P. Kelly (1928)

THE WHEEL ON THE SCHOOL

by Meindert DeJong (1954)

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

by Kenneth Grahame (1908)

THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND

by Elizabeth George Speare (1958)

THE WONDERFUL FLIGHT TO THE MUSHROOM PLANET

by Eleanor Cameron (1954)

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ

by L. Frank Baum (1900)

TREASURE ISLAND

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)

TUCK EVERLASTING

by Natalie Babbitt (1975)

WONDER

by R.J. Palacio (2012)

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