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For the youngest set: Picture Books

—Almost all fairy tales and folk tales are public domain, but beware—these are not Disneyfied—

• Andersen’s Fairy Tales - by Hans Christian Anderson
• A Book of Myths - by Jean Lang
• The Blue Fairy Book - by Andrew Lang
• The Velveteen Rabbit - by Margery Williams

Middle Grade (ages 8–12)

—Age-appropriate but some language may be old-fashioned/didactic or contain words considered offensive today—

• Peter Pan - by J.M. Barrie (fantasy)
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - by Frank L. Baum (fantasy)
• Little Women - by Louisa May Alcott (realistic fiction)
• The Secret Garden - by Frances Hodgson Burnett (realistic fiction)
• The Wind in the Willows - by Kenneth Grahame (animal adventure)
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - by Lewis Carroll (fantasy)
• The Jungle Book - by Rudyard Kipling (animal adventure)
• The Story of Dr. Doolittle - by Hugh Lofting (animal adventure)
• Anne of Green Gables - * by Lucy Maude Montgomery (realistic fiction) *these start as MG but get YA as the series goes on
• The Five Children and It - by E. Nesbit (fantasy)
• Black Beauty - by Anna Sewell (animal adventure)

• Heidi

• by Johanna Spyri (realistic fiction)

Young Adult (ages 12–16)

—No warnings. These kids are old enough to figure it out—

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (spooky)
• Treasure Island - by Robert Louis Stevenson (classic adventure, difficult language)
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin - by Harriet Beecher Stowe (violent historical novel, but important message about slavery)
• The Hound of Baskervilles - , Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (mystery)
• Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - by Jules Verne (sci-fi)
• War of the Worlds - by H.G. Wells (sci-fi)
• Frankenstein - by Mary Shelley (spooky)
• Dracula by Bram Stoker (spooky)

Các cuốn sách khác

• The Magic Treehouse
• Midnight Library: Thư viện nửa đêm của H. G. Wells
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
• The Old Man and the Sea: Truyện ông già và biển cả có lẽ bạn đã từng đọc
• The Little Prince: Truyện Hoàng tử bé nhưng là bản Tiếng Anh
• The Boy and the Fox, the mole, and the Horse
• The Artemis Fowl series: Viết bởi Eoin Colfer
• The Scarlet Letter
• Hobbit
• Alice in Wonderland
• Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow