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Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
Moby-Dick is a classic novel published in 1851 by American author Herman Melville. Originally misunderstood by contemporary audiences and critics, Moby-Dick is now often referred to as "The Great American Novel" and is considered one of the...
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How to Eat Fried Worms
How to Eat Fried Worms is the title of a children's book written by Thomas Rockwell, first published in 1973. It was later turned into a CBS Storybreak episode in the mid-1980s, and a movie of the same name in 2006. Because the novel's content--the...
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Outcast of Redwall
Outcast of Redwall is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1995. It is the eighth book in the Redwall series.
While ferret Swartt Sixclaw and his arch enemy Sunflash the Mace plot to slay one another, a young creature is banished from the...
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Mossflower
Mossflower is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1988. It is the second book published in the Redwall series, though the third chronologically.
Mossflower tells the story of Martin the Warrior, who finds himself trespassing on the land...
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Redwall
Redwall is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques. Originally published in 1986, it is the first book of the Redwall series. The book was illustrated by Gary Chalk, with the British cover illustration by Pete Lyon and the American cover by Troy Howell....
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Wolf-Speaker
Wolf-Speaker is a fantasy novel by Tamora Pierce, the second in a series of four books, The Immortals.
This book details the journey of Veralidaine Sarrasri as she learns more about her wild magic and her journey to Dunlath to help the wolves, only...
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Jumanji
Jumanji is the title of a 1981 children's illustrated short story written and illustrated by the American author Chris Van Allsburg. It was made into a 1995 film of the same name. Both the book and the movie are about a magical board game that...
The Tailor of Gloucester
The Tailor of Gloucester is a children's novel by Beatrix Potter that was first published in October 1903. The story tells of a group of mice helping a tailor finish his work in time for Christmas. It is traditionally read to children on Christmas...
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Salamandastron
Salamandastron is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1992. It is the fifth book in the Redwall series.
Ferahgo the Assassin, a terrible weasel warlord, and his son Klitch lead their army of Corpsemakers to Salamandastron, to take over...
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children's novels about...
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The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the...
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High Rhulain
High Rhulain is a children's fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 2005. It is the eighteenth book in the Redwall series.
When young Tiria Wildlough receives a vision and riddle from the legendary Martin the Warrior, she sets out with...
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Dragonsong
Dragonsong is a novel written by Anne McCaffrey in 1976. It is the first in the Harper Hall Trilogy. The other two novels are Dragonsinger and Dragondrums.
Dragonsong was one of the books cited when McCaffrey's "lifetime contribution in writing for...
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Black Beauty
Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell living just long enough (five...
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The Dark Portal
The Dark Portal is the first book in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis (first published in 1989). It was a runner-up for the 1989 Smarties Book Prize.
In the sewers of Deptford there lurks a dark presence that fills the tunnels with fear:...
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The Long Patrol
The Long Patrol is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1997. It is the tenth book in the Redwall series.
As young Tammo dreams of joining the Long Patrol, the legendary army of fighting hares that serves the Lady Cregga Rose-Eyes , Ruler...
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Make Way For Ducklings
Make Way for Ducklings is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. First published in 1941, the book tells the story of a pair of mallard ducks who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston...
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Dragon Keeper
For the book by Robin Hobb, see The Dragon Keeper.
Dragonkeeper is a fantasy novel by Carole Wilkinson. There are three books within the Dragonkeeper series; the sequel to Dragonkeeper being Garden of the Purple Dragon, first published in 2005 and...
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The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit (1974) is a young adult novel written by Paula Danziger.
The story follows Marcy Lewis, a smart girl but an overweight thirteen-year-old freshman who dreads her future acne problems. She has a verbally abusive father and it...
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The Taggerung
The Taggerung is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 2001. It is the fourteenth book in the Redwall series. The title of the American edition was Taggerung, omitting the word The.
Sawney Rath, the leader of a vermin clan (Juska), believes...
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Runaway Ralph
Runaway Ralph is the second in a children's novel trilogy written by Beverly Cleary, first published in 1970.
Ralph the mouse lived in a hotel where he had had previous experiences with other characters in the series. He has a motorcycle, and he had...
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Summer of the Swans
Summer of the Swans is a novel by Betsy Byars that won the Newbery Medal in 1971 about fourteen-year-old Sara Godfrey's search for her missing, mentally retarded brother Charlie. Summer of the Swans was filmed as Sara's Summer of the Swans for an...
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Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods is the third book in the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins.
Warmblood now a bloodborne death
Will rob your body of its breath,
Mark your skin, and seal your fate.
The Underland becomes a plate.
Turn and...
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Miss Hickory
Miss Hickory is a 1946 novel by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1947.
The protagonist is Miss Hickory, a doll made from a forked twig from an apple tree and a hickory nut for her...
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The Legend of Luke
The Legend of Luke is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1999. It is the twelfth book in the Redwall series.
A New York Times bestseller, The Legend of Luke is about Martin the Warrior's search for what happened to his father, Luke. The...
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Martin the Warrior
Martin the Warrior is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1993. It is the sixth book in the Redwall series.
Badrang the Tyrant has his eyes set on ruling over his own empire and will do anything to make sure that his ultimate fantasy is...
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary and published in 1965.
The story features a mouse named Ralph who lives in a somewhat run-down inn in a mountain resort area in California with many other mice from his...
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Mariel of Redwall
Mariel of Redwall is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1991. It is the fourth book in the Redwall series.
When a young mousemaid loses her memory in a shipwreck, she takes the name "Storm Gullwhacker" after a successful encounter with a...
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Dogsbody
Dogsbody is a 1975 children's novel by Diana Wynne Jones.
In a galaxy far, far away, Sirius the Dog Star is falsely convicted of the murder of a fellow luminary. Due to his exalted status, however, he is offered a deal. He is sentenced to spend one...
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Marlfox
Marlfox is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1998. It is the eleventh book in the Redwall series. Marlfoxes are an unusual breed of anthropomorphic foxes, which serve as the main antagonists in the book.
When the treasure hungry...
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Where the Red Fern Grows is a children's novel written by American author Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhound hunting dogs. This book is a popular choice for early middle school reading classes, with a reading level...
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The Trumpet of the Swan
The Trumpet of the Swan is a children's novel by E.B. White published in 1970. It tells the story of Louis, a Trumpeter Swan born without a voice and trying to overcome it by learning to play a trumpet, always trying to impress a beautiful pen named...
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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle was the second of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books to be published, coming out in 1922. It is nearly four times longer than its predecessor and the writing style is pitched at a more mature audience. The scope of...
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Never Cry Wolf
Never Cry Wolf is a book by Canadian author Farley Mowat, first published in 1963 by McClelland and Stewart. It was adapted into a moderately successful movie of the same name in 1983. It has been credited for dramatically changing the public image...
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Airborn
Airborn is a 2004 young adult novel by Kenneth Oppel. The book has been honored by several awards including winning Canada's Governor General's Award. Airborn is set in a time where the primary form of air transportation are airships. Voice radio...
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Gregor and the Marks of Secret
Gregor and the Marks of Secret is the fourth book in the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. It picks up soon after the end of Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods.
Gregor's mother is still recovering from the Plague in the\ Underland...
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Time Stops for No Mouse
Time Stops for No Mouse is a children's fiction mystery book written by Michael Hoeye. The book was first published by Speak, a division of Penguin Putnam. The 250-page book was originally published in 1999, and was a finalist for the Book Sense ...
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943). The story follows Peter Rabbit, a mischievous and disobedient young rabbit, as he ventures into the garden of Mr. McGregor....
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Mattimeo
Mattimeo is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1989. It is the third book in the Redwall series.
All his life, the worst thing young Mattimeo had to fear was a stern lecture from his father Matthias, but all that changes when Slagar the...
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...And Now Miguel
...And Now Miguel is a novel by Joseph Krumgold that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1954. It deals with the life of Miguel Chavez, a 12-year-old Hispanic-American shepherd from New Mexico. It is also the...
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The Bellmaker
The Bellmaker is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1994. It is the seventh book in the Redwall series.
When the land is threatened by the evil Foxwolf Urgan Nagru, his mate Silvamord and their horde of savage grey rats, Mariel...
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Loamhedge
Loamhedge is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 2003. It is the sixteenth book in the Redwall series.
In the book, young haremaid Martha Braebuck has been chair-bound since Dibbun-hood and no beast has any idea why. Martin the Warrior's...
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The Lost World
The Lost World is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton and published in 1995 by Knopf. A paperback edition (ISBN 0-345-40288-X) followed in 1996. It is a sequel to his earlier novel Jurassic Park.
Like Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of...
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The Pearls of Lutra
The Pearls of Lutra is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1996. It is the ninth book in the Redwall series. The American edition of the novel was published simply as Pearls of Lutra.
When Ublaz Mad-Eyes sets out on a mission to steal...
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Julie of the Wolves
Julie of the Wolves is a children's novel by Jean Craighead George, published in 1972, about a young Yupik girl experiencing the changes forced upon her culture from outside. There are two sequels, Julie and Julie's Wolf Pack.
In 1970, Jean...
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Island of the Blue Dolphins is an American children's novel written by Scott O'Dell. The novel was published in 1960, winning the Newbery Medal in 1961, and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1963.
The novel is based on the true story of Juana...
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Firewing
Firewing is a children's book written by the Canadian author, Kenneth Oppel. It is the third book in the series including two others: Silverwing, and Sunwing.
The novel begins with the introduction of Griffin Silverwing, the son of Shade and Marina....
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Lord Brocktree
Lord Brocktree is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 2000. It is the thirteenth book in the Redwall series to be published. It is also the earliest chronological installment in the Redwall series.
The book focuses on a badger, Lord...
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Rakkety Tam
Rakkety Tam is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 2004. It is the seventeenth book in the Redwall series.
When Gulo the Savage and his army of vermin sweep across the land, it's up to Rakkety Tam MacBurl and his friend Wild Doogy Plumm...
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Gregor the Overlander
Gregor the Overlander is the first book of the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. It was published in 2003, and met with critical acclaim, including Kirkus Reviews Editors' Choice and New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing...
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White Fang
White Fang is the title of a novel by American author Jack London. The novel was first serialized in The Outing Magazine in May to October 1906. It is the story of a wild wolfdog's journey toward becoming civilized in Yukon Territory, Canada, during...
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is a 1971 children's book by Robert C. O'Brien. Illustrated by Zena Bernstein, it won the 1972 Newbery Medal. A film adaptation, The Secret of NIMH, was released in 1982.
The novel relates the plight of a widowed...
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King of the Wind
King of the Wind is a novel by Marguerite Henry that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1949. It was made into a 1990 movie.
The novel is a fictionalised biography of the Godolphin Arabian, an ancestor of the...
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Doctor Dolittle in the Moon
Doctor Dolittle in the Moon (1928) was intended to be the last of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, and differs considerably in tone from its predecessors; the stripped down narrative does not have room for any of the sub-plots and tales...
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The Tale of Despereaux
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread is a 2003 Newbery Medal winning children's fantasy book written by Kate DiCamillo. It tells the story of a mouse, named Despereaux, on a quest to rescue...
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Triss
Triss is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 2002. It is the fifteenth book in the Redwall series.
Three slaves, Triss, a squirrelmaid, Shogg, an otter, and Welfo, a hogmaid, escape from Riftgard, the stronghold of a white ferret brood....
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The Lost City of Faar
The Lost City of Faar is the second book in the Pendragon series by D. J. MacHale. Imagine a world covered entirely by water. People live on immense, floating cities and grow food on the sea floor. It's an idyllic world until Saint Dane unleashes a...
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Stuart Little
Published in 1945, Stuart Little was E. B. White's first children's story. It is the tale of a young New Yorker named Stuart Little who had the "shy, pleasant manner of a mouse" and in fact, is an actual mouse.
In 2005 a hardbound edition of the...
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Noisy Nora
Noisy Nora is a children's book written by Rosemary Wells. This mouse later appeared in the Timothy Goes to School series.
The original illustrations were re-done by the author, stating "The original illustrations I did were not as good as the story...
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Why Paint Cats
Why Paint Cats is a comedy book written by New Zealand author Burton Silver and illustrator Heather Busch. The book describes the practice of "cat painting" in art and history (that is, decorating cats with paint, as distinguished from painting...
