Some book ideas!
Currently the list below contains books which are recommended for 9 year olds and for 12 year olds.
| Surname | First Name | Book |
Age
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| Aiken | Joan Delano | A Necklace of Raindrops |
9
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| Baum | Lyman Frank | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
9
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| Blume | Judy | Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great |
9
|
| Bond | Michael | A Bear called Paddington |
9
|
| Burnford | Sheila | The Incredible Journey |
9
|
| Byars | Betsy | The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown |
9
|
| Cary | Peter | The Big Bazoohley |
9
|
| Cleary | Beverly | Ramona and her Father |
9
|
| Crompton | Richmal | Just William |
9
|
| Daigliesh | Alice | The Courage of Sarah Noble |
9
|
| Dejong | Meindert | The Singing Hill |
9
|
| Fast | Howard | Tony and the Wonderful Door |
9
|
| Faulkner | William | The Wishing Tree |
9
|
| Gates | Doris | Blue Willow |
9
|
| George | Jean Craighead | My Side of the Mountain |
9
|
| Grahame | Kenneth | The Wind in the Willows |
9
|
| Hawthorne | Nathaniel | A Wonderbook for Girls and Boys |
9
|
| Inkpen | Mick | Wonderful Earth |
9
|
| Irving | Washington | Rip Van Winkle |
9
|
| Jarrell | Randall | The Bat Poet |
9
|
| Jarrell | Randall | The Animal Family |
9
|
| Jarrell | Randall | Fly by Night |
9
|
| Kastner | Erich | Emil and the Detectives |
9
|
| King-Smith | Dick | The Sheep-Pig |
9
|
| Kingsley | Charles | The Heroes of Greek Fairy Tales for my Children |
9
|
| Kingsley | Charles | The Water Babies |
9
|
| Kipling | Rudyard | The Jungle Book |
9
|
| Lear | Edward | The Book of Nonsense |
9
|
| Lofting | Hugh | The Story of Doctor Dolittle |
9
|
| Lofting | Hugh | The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle |
9
|
| Lofting | Hugh | Doctor Dolittle's Post Office |
9
|
| Lofting | Hugh | Doctor Dolittle's Circus |
9
|
| Lofting | Hugh | Doctor Dolittles's Caravan |
9
|
| Lofting | Hugh | Doctor Dolittle's Garden |
9
|
| Lofting | Hugh | Doctor Dolittle in the Moon |
9
|
| MacDonald | George | The Princess and the Goblin |
9
|
| MacLachlan | Patricia | Sarah, Plain and Tall |
9
|
| McLachalin | Patricia | Skylark |
9
|
| Mark | Jan | Nothing to be Afraid Of |
9
|
| Milne | Alan Alexander | Winnie the Pooh |
9
|
| Milne | Alan Alexander | The House at Pooh Corner |
9
|
| Nesbit | Edith | The Story of the Treasure Seekers |
9
|
| Norton | Mary | The Magic Bed-Knob |
9
|
| Ruskin | John | King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers |
9
|
| Sampson | Derek | Grup and the Hairy Mammoth |
9
|
| Sampson | Derek | Grup and the Mammoth Again |
9
|
| Selden | George | The Cricket in Times Square |
9
|
| Silverstein | Shel | Lafcadio, The Lion who Shot Back |
9
|
| Sobol | Donald J | EB Solves them All |
9
|
| Spyri | Johanna | Heidi |
9
|
| Steig | William | Dominic |
9
|
| Steig | William | Abel's Island |
9
|
| Storr | Catherine | Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf |
9
|
| Storr | Catherine | Polly and the Wolf Again |
9
|
| Tillieux | Maurice | Gil Jourdan |
9
|
| Travers | Pamela Lyndon | Mary Poppins |
9
|
| Uderzo | Albert | Asterix |
9
|
| Wilde | Oscar | The Canterville Ghost |
9
|
| Wilde | Oscar | The Happy Prince |
9
|
| Adams | Richard | Watership Down |
12
|
| Alexander | Lloyd | The Book of Three |
12
|
| Alexander | Lloyd | The Black Cauldron |
12
|
| Alexander | Lloyd | The Castle of Llyr |
12
|
| Alexander | Lloyd | Taran Wanderer |
12
|
| Alexander | Lloyd | The High King |
12
|
| Anderson | Hans Christian | Fairy Tales |
12
|
| Angeli | Marguerite de | The Door in the Wall |
12
|
| Babbitt | Natalie | Tuck Everlasting |
12
|
| Barrie | James M | Peter Pan and Wendy |
12
|
| Blyton | Enid | The Island of Adventure |
12
|
| Blyton | Enid | The Mystery of Burnt Cottage |
12
|
| Blyton | Enid | The Twins at St Clares |
12
|
| Bodker | Cecil | Leoparden |
12
|
| Buchan | John | The Magic Walking Stick |
12
|
| Burnett | Frances Eliza Hodgson | Little Lord Fauntleroy |
12
|
| Burnett | Frances Eliza Hodgson | The Secret Garden |
12
|
| Burnett | Frances Eliza Hodgson | A Little Princess |
12
|
| Byars | Betsy | The Summer of the Swans |
12
|
| Carroll | Lewis | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
12
|
| Carroll | Lewis | Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There |
12
|
| Carter | Peter | The Sentinels |
12
|
| Christie | Agatha | Ten Little Indians |
12
|
| Christopher | John | The White Mountains |
12
|
| Christopher | John | The City of Gold and Lead |
12
|
| Christopher | John | The Pool of Fire |
12
|
| Cleary | Beverly | Dear Mr. Henshaw |
12
|
| Curwood | James Oliver | Kazan the Wolf-Dog |
12
|
| Curwood | James Oliver | Nomads of the North |
12
|
| Dahl | Roald | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
12
|
| Dahl | Roald | Danny, the Champion of the World |
12
|
| Defoe | Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
12
|
| Dejong | Meindert | Along came a Dog |
12
|
| Dickens | Charles | A Christmas Carol |
12
|
| DuBois | William Pene | The Twenty-One Balloons |
12
|
| Durrell | Gerald | The Talking Parcel |
12
|
| Eckert | Allan W | The Crossbreed |
12
|
| Evans | Richard Paul | The Christmas Box |
12
|
| Farjeon | Eleanor | The Silver Curlew |
12
|
| Farjeon | Eleanor | The Little Bookworm |
12
|
| Fine | Anne | The Granny Project |
12
|
| Fine | Anne | The Tulip Touch |
12
|
| Fon Eisen | anthony | The Prince of Omeya |
12
|
| Foster | Harold | Prince Vaillant |
12
|
| Fox | Paula | The Slave Dancer Premio Newbery |
12
|
| Fox | Paula | One-Eyed Cat |
12
|
| George | Jean Craighead | Julie of the Wolves |
12
|
| Green | Roger L | King Arthur and his Knights |
12
|
| Grimm | Brothers | Fairy Tales |
12
|
| Gripe | Maria | Hugo and Josefine |
12
|
| Hamilton | Virginia | Cousins |
12
|
| Hamilton | Virginia | Plain City |
12
|
| Hardy | Thomas | Our Exploits at West Poley |
12
|
| Haugen | Tormod | Zeppelin |
12
|
| Hemingway | Ernest | The Old Man and the Sea |
12
|
| Henry | Marguerite | Misty of Chincoteague |
12
|
| Henry | O | The Gift of the Magi |
12
|
| Hodgman Porter | Eleanor | Pollyanna |
12
|
| Hunter | Mollie | The Stronghold |
12
|
| Jerome | Jerome K | Three Men in a Boat |
12
|
| Jiang | Jili | Red Scarf Girl |
12
|
| Johns | William Earle | Biggles |
12
|
| Juster | Norton | The Phantom Tollbooth |
12
|
| Kerr | Judith | When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit |
12
|
| Kipling | Rudyard | Captain's Courageous |
12
|
| Kipling | Rudyard | Just So Stories |
12
|
| Lamb | Charles & Mary | Tales from Shakespeare |
12
|
| Lasky | Kathryn | The Night Journey |
12
|
| Lewis | Clive Staples | Seven Narnia Chronicles |
12
|
| Lewis | Clive Staples | The Magicians Nephew |
12
|
| Lewis | Clive Staples | The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe |
12
|
| Lewis | Clive Staples | Prince Caspian, The Return to Narnia |
12
|
| Lewis | Clive Staples | The Voyage of the Dawn |
12
|
| Lewis | Clive Staples | The Silver Chair |
12
|
| Lewis | Clive Staples | The Last Battle |
12
|
| Lewis | Elizabeth Foreman | Yung Fu of the Upper Yangtzee |
12
|
| Lewis | Elizabeth Foreman | To Beat a Tiger One Needs a Brother's Help |
12
|
| Lindsay | Norman Alfred Williams | The Magic Pudding |
12
|
| Lively | Penelope | The Ghost of Thomas Kempe |
12
|
| Lively | Penelope | The House in Norham Gardens |
12
|
| London | Jack | The Call of the Wild |
12
|
| London | Jack | White Fang |
12
|
| Mahy | Margaret | The Haunting |
12
|
| McEwan | Ian | The Daydreamer |
12
|
| Montgomery | Lucy Maud | Anne of Green Gables |
12
|
| North | Sterling | Rascal |
12
|
| Norton | Mary | Are all Giants Dead? |
12
|
| Norton | Mary | The Borrowers |
12
|
| Norton | Mary | The Borrowers Afield |
12
|
| Norton | Mary | The Borrowers Afloat |
12
|
| Norton | Mary | The Borrowers Aloft |
12
|
| Norton | Mary | The Borrowers Avenged |
12
|
| O'Brien | Robert C | Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh |
12
|
| O'Dell | Scott | Island of the Blue Dolphins |
12
|
| Orlev | Uri | The Island on Bird Street |
12
|
| Orwell | George | Animal Farm |
12
|
| Paterson | Katherine | The Sign of the Chrysanthemum |
12
|
| Paterson | Katherine | Bridge to Terabithia |
12
|
| Paterson | Katherine | The Great Gilly Hopkins |
12
|
| Paulsen | Gary | Hatchet |
12
|
| Pearce | Philippa | Tom's Midnight Garden |
12
|
| Pyle | Howard | The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
12
|
| Ransome | Arthur | Swallows and Amazons |
12
|
| Raspe | Rudolf Erich | Singular Travels etc of Baron Munchausen |
12
|
| Rawlings | Marjorie Kinnan | The Yearling |
12
|
| Rowlings | Joanne K | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone |
12
|
| Rowlings | Joanne K | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
12
|
| Rowlings | Joanne K | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
12
|
| Rowlings | Joanne K | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
12
|
| Sandoz | Mari | The Horse Catcher |
12
|
| Sandoz | Mari | Winter Thunder |
12
|
| Schultz | Charles | Peanuts / Snoopy |
12
|
| Sewell | Anna | Black Beauty |
12
|
| Speare | Elizabeth George | The Sign of the Beaver |
12
|
| Sperry | Armstrong | Call it Courage |
12
|
| Stevenson | Robert Louis | Treasure Island |
12
|
| Stevenson | Robert Louis | The Black Arrow |
12
|
| Tarkington | Booth | Penrod and Sam |
12
|
| Tolkien | John Ronald Revel | The Hobbit |
12
|
| Tolkien | John Ronald Revel | The Lord of the Rings |
12
|
| Twain | Mark | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
12
|
| Twain | Mark | The Prince and the Pauper |
12
|
| Watterson | Bill | Calvin and Hobbs |
12
|
| White | Elwyn Brooks | Charlotte's Web |
12
|
| White | Elwyn Brooks | The Trumpet of the Swan |
12
|
| Wilder | Laura Ingalls | The Little House in the Big Woods |
12
|
| Wilder | Laura Ingalls | Little House on the Prairie |
12
|
| Wilder | Laura Ingalls | On the Banks of Plum Creek |
12
|
| Wilder | Laura Ingalls | By the Shores of Silver Lake |
12
|
| Wilder | Laura Ingalls | The Long Winter |
12
|
| Wilder | Laura Ingalls | The Little Town on the Prairie |
12
|
| Wilder | Laura Ingalls | Farmer Boy |
12
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| Wouk | Herman | The City Boy |
12
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| Wyss | Johann David & Johann Rudolf | Swiss Family Robinson |