Must-reads

           

born to read ( and learn)

To be continued...

New readers

 `I wish`    Bel Moonet
 The Sheep-Pig Dick King-Smith
 Noah`s Brother   Dick King-Smith
 Sam- the wee fat dog  Ann McDonagh Bengtsson
 Big Sir B and the Monster Maid
 The Monster Crisp Guzzler Malorie Blackman



A  Dog for Life L.S. Matthews
Pirate Detective   Sam Hawkins
The Worst Witch Jill Murphy
 How to write Really Badly Anne Fine
Lily Dragon  Mary Ellis
 Olga  da Polga stories  Michael Bond
 The upside-down Mice Roald Dahl
My Naughty Little Sister  series






Classics

` Five Children and It `   Helen Cresswell
   Moomins series by Tore Jansson
Farthing Wood series by Colin Dann
A Cat Affair by Derek Tangye
 Mary Poppins P.L Travers

Anne of Green Gables Series L.M.Montgomery
Watership Down by Richard Adams

Frances Hodgson Burnett

 Little Princess
The Secret Garden 
Little Lord Fauntleroy  
The Making of a Marchioness 
Esmeralda ( free Kindle edition)
The lost Prince (free Kindle edition)
 The Shuttle (free Kindle edition)

Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst"(free Kindle edition)

 The White People  (free Kindle edition)
The closed Room ( free on Kindle)

Sara Crewe: or, What happened at Miss Minchin's boarding school  (free on Kindle)

Theo A Sprightly Love Story   (free on Kindle)

 My Robin ( free on Kindle)

 Eleonore Hodgman (Porter)

  Polyanna 

Polyanna Grows up  (free on kindle)

 Dawn ( free on Kindle)

Across the Years ( free on Kindle)

Miss Billy (free on Kindle)

 Mary Marie ( free on Kindle)

The Turn on The Tide (free)

 Tangled Threads -free

 The Road of Understanding free

The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch free

 Oh! Money! Money! free

Susan Coolidge

What Katy Did (free on Kindle)

What Katy Did Next (free Kindle edition)

 What Katy Did at School  (free on Kindle)

  Clover  (free on Kindle)

Enid Blyton`books
cherry tree farm
nine cousins
 famouse five
 secret seven
 mystery books


 Martin Rides The Moor Vian Smith
 The Empty Cottage by Brian Read
 James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl
Mystery at Winklesea Helen Cresswell
 The Arctic Fox by Mary Ellis
 Tales from the End Cottage  Eileen Bell
 Jock`s Island  by Elizabeth Coatsworth
  Laura Ingalls Wilder
      On the Banks of Plum Creek
      Little House in the Big Woods
      Little House on the Prairie
     Little Town on the Prairie
Old Town in the Green Groves: Laura Ingalss Wilder's Lost Little House (Little House (HarperTrophy)) by Cynthia Rylant (1 Jan 2007)
Going to Town: Adapted from the Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (My First Little House Books) by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Renee Graef

  By Louisa M. Alcott
Little Women( free on Kindle)
Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott (free on kindle)
 Little Men (free on Kindle)
 Jo`s Boys  (free on Kindle)
 Jack and Jill (free on Kindle)
 Eight Cusins ( free on Kindle)
 Rose in Bloom ( free on Kindle)
 May Flowers 
 The Candy Country
  Marjorie`s three gifts
Silver Pitchers and Independence  
 The Spinning Wheel stories
 Aunt Jo`s Scrap-Bag: an old-fashioned Thanksgiving
 Work : a story of experience
Mountain- Laurel and Maidenhair  
 Pauline`s Passion and Punishment
The abbot`s Ghoast or..
 Lulu`s Library
Comic Tragedies Written by Jo
 Mysterious Key and what it opened



  Nesbit

 Railway children
 Five Children and It ( free on Kindle)
 The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet
The Enchanted Castle
 The Story of the Amulet
The House of Arden
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 The Vine-Clad Hill  Mabel Esther Allan
The Key of Rose Cottage   Margaret Baker
 Devon Venture  Catherine Bell
 Ballet for Laura    Linda Blake
 The House by the Sea Hilda Boden
 Windmill Hill  Wyn Brocklebank
All Because of Gina Elsie Gambrell
 The Harveys See it Through Phyllis Gegan
 A Mystery for Ninepence Phyllis Gegan
 Dancing Star  Gladys Malvern

Little Town in the Ozarks   Roger McBride

Little Town at the Crossroads (Little House the Caroline Years) by Maria D. Wilkes 

Sarah, Plain and Tall  by Patricia MacLachlan
 Sea star
The Boxcar Children Gertrude Chandler Warner
The  Thanksgiving on Thursday  Mary Pope Osborn
So Far from Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl
Moby-Dick Herman Melville
The Clue in the Crumbling Wall (Nancy Drew Mysteries
Phantom of Pine Hill (Nancy Drew mystery stories / Carolyn Keene)
The Bobbsey Twins' Visit to the Great West

 Babysitters
 Tom Sayer detective
   Pinky Pie- Eleanor Estes


 Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

 The Buccaneers

 Jerry West  at Mystery Mountain

 The Story of Scotland Yard
 Heroines of The Early West
 william penn quaker hero
 Captain Cook Explorers
 Joan of Arc
 The Crusades

 The Emerald City of Oz  Frank Baum
 The Phantom of Walkaway Hill Edward Penton

 Doctor Dolittle Circus Hugh Lifting

Hilda Annersley: Headmistress 

Lesley Green

 One End Street

The Family from One End Street (Puffin Modern Classics) by Eve Garnett (3 Jun 2010)

Jo of the Chalet School  "Elinor M. Brent-Dyer"

  Chalet school   Caroline German


 Jane Shaw
Susan at School
Susan Muddles Through
 Susan`s Trying Term
No Trouble for Susan

 Noel Streatfeild
Children of Primrose lane
Party Frock  Doreen Swinburne
 Jean Tours a Hospital
Jean s.r.n.
Jean Becomes a Nurse Yvonne Trewin
 If it Hadn`t Been for Frances Parner




 Thursday`s Child  Noel Streatfeild


Horsey books
 Christine Pullein-Thompson`s books
Diana Pullein-Thompson`s stories
 Monica Edwards
Black Beauty Anna Sewell
The Christmas Pony  Sylvia Green
 Ponies on the Heather Frances Murrey
Pony Pals series Jeanne Betancourt
 Horse and Pony Stories K.M. Peyton
 Flambards K.M. Peyton
 Jill`s series by Ruby Ferguson




Lucy Daniels
 Animal Ark
 Jess series


 

   Spiritual
Joan`s Crusade  by Eleen Heming
 the story of Grace Darling -the Heroine who inspired Generations by Helen Cresswell


 Poetry

 Heard it in the Playground  Allan Ahlberg