KidSpace
Search the Catalog  

Entire Catalog Kids/Teens Only

Book Planet If you Like...Booklists - a guide to the good stuff
The Lists

Ages 9-12

20th Century Classics

Find these books and more online at http://catalog.coolcat.org

A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
Anne of Green Gables
by L.M. Montgomery
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. Lexile 970
Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself. Lexile Level: 700
Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh
Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge.
Series -
Harriet the Spy
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
by Beverly Cleary
The further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona enters the third grade.
Series -
Ramona Quimby
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
by Judy Blume
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.
The Black Cauldron
by Lloyd Alexander
Taran, Assistant Pig-Keeper of Prydain, faces even more dangers as he seeks the magical Black Cauldron, the chief implement of the evil powers of Arawn, lord of the Land of Death.
The Borrowers
by Mary Norton
Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock.
Series -
The Borrowers
The Doll in the Garden
by Mary Downing Hahn
After Ashley and Kristi find an antique doll buried in old Miss Cooper's garden, they discover that they can enter a ghostly turn-of-the-century world by going through a hole in the hedge.
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers and finds a cure for his boredom.
The Sword in the Stone
by T.H. White
A retelling of the Arthurian legend.
Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbitt
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
Updated 04/20/2013
Contact Us | Library Home | Serious Stuff
© Springfield-Greene County Library District
Bookmark and Share