recommended reading for ages 7-10


Loving to Learn

Pamela Espeland, Elizabeth Verdick | 2005
written for ages 7-10 | highly recommended
Build skills and excite interests that will stay with a child for life.


Unspoken: a Story from the Underground Railroad

Henry Cole | 2012
written for ages 7-10 | highly recommended
A story from the Civil War.


The Silver Nutmeg

Palmer Brown | 2012
written for ages 7-10 | recommended
Some books beg to be read aloud.


David Adler |
written for ages 7-10 | highly recommended
Three titles from a mystery series for beginner readers.


Time Stops For No Mouse

Michael Hoeye | 2007
written for ages 7-10 | recommended
Hermux is a watchmaker living a quiet existence.


Lawn Mower Magic, Mostly Monty, The Rascally Reality of Rosie B., Sadie and Ratz

written for ages 7-10 | recommended
Parents of avid young readers often ask me for new titles of basic chapter books.


The Gold Cadillac and Mississippi Bridge

Mildred D. Taylor |
written for ages 7-10 | recommended
Mildred Talyor has written several books based on her family's history.


Stone Fox

John Reynolds Gardiner | 1992
written for ages 7-10 | highly recommended
Ten-year-old Willy is determined to care for his ailing grandfather.


First Farm in the Valley: Anna's Story

Anne Pellowski | 2008
written for ages 7-10 | recommended
A lovely story about a warm family of Polish immigrants.


The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn

Robert Burleigh | 2011
written for ages 7-10 | recommended
What happens if a well known character decides to tell his author's story?


Great Grandfather's House

Rumer Godden | 1993
written for ages 7-10 | recommended
Keiko is a spoiled little girl.


The Cat's Pajamas

Wallace Edwards | 2010
written for ages 7-10 | recommended
A delightful book of idioms.


Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night

Joyce Sidman (illustrator, Rich Allen) | 2010
written for ages 7-10 | highly recommended
This delightful book of poems is a "must have" for classrooms and librairies.


My Father's Dragon, Elmer and the Dragon, The Dragons of Blueland

Ruth Stiles Gannett | 1997
written for ages 7-10 | highly recommended
I never knew that dragons ate tangerine skins.


The Boy in the Garden

Allen Say | 2010
written for ages 7-10 | recommended
Sometimes the best distraction a child has is his own imagination.


A Penny for a Hundred

Ethel Pochocki | 2005
written for ages 7-10 | recommended
In wartime, even enemies can build friendships.


The Boy Who Climbed Into the Moon

David Almond | 2010
written for ages 7-10 | recommended
Every child has silly ideas, but very few meet people who turn them into reality.


Anna Maria's Gift

Janice Shefelman | 2010
written for ages 7-10 | recommended
A young girl suffers loss and learns forgiveness.


The Drinking Gourd

F.N. Monjo | 1983
written for ages 7-10 | highly recommended
This easy reader tells the story of the Underground Railroad through the eyes of a young boy.


Dear Olly

Michael Morpurgo | 2001
written for ages 7-10 | recommended
Intelligent and talented 18 year old Matt travels to Africa to help war-injured children, leaving his widowed mother and younger sister Olly behind. They, in turn, wait for his letters.

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