age 11

author: Carol Ryrie Brink rating: asin: 1416940286 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 USD

At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother's childhood, the adventures of Caddie and her brothers are still exciting over 60 years later.

author: Edward Eager rating: asin: 0152020683 binding: Paperback list price: $6.00 USD amazon price: $6.00 USD

Edward Eager has been delighting young readers for more than 40 years with stories that mix magic and reality. Half Magic, the most popular of his tales about four children who encounter magical coins, time-travel herb gardens, and other unlikely devices, is a warm, funny, original adventure. The title refers to a coin that the children find. Through a comical series of coincidences, they discover that the coin is magic. Well, it's not totally magic--it's only (you guessed it) half magic. That means there's a certain logic to the wishes one must make to generate a desired outcome.

author: Gunhild Sehlin rating: asin: 0863150640 binding: Paperback list price: $12.23 USD amazon price: $12.23

The stubborn, dirty little donkey is of no use to anyone in Nazareth, but he becomes a quick and willing helper under Mary's care. Here is an engaging alternative to the traditional Christmas story. It can be read to children aged 6-8, or children from 8-10 can read to themselves. (Ages 6-10)

rating: asin: 055345532X binding: Audio CD list price: $30.00 USD amazon price: $21.90 USD

Although he lacks a voice in the traditional "Ko-hoh!" sense, trumpeter swan Louis learns to speak to the world with a trumpet stolen from a music store by his father. With the support of an unusual boy named Sam, who helps Louis learn how to read and write, the swan has some rather unswanlike adventures and ultimately wins the love--and the freedom--of a beautiful swan named Serena. For over 30 years, E.B. White's masterpiece has captured the fancy of countless readers.

author: Beverly Cleary rating: asin: 0807210285 binding: Audio Cassette list price: $18.00 USD amazon price: $18.00

From the moment Howie Kemp's mysterious "rich" Uncle Hobart arrives from Saudi Arabia, everything around Ramona Quimby seems to be changing. Howie and his sister, Willa Jean, talk only about Uncle Hobart. Ramona's mother and Aunt Bea seem to be keeping secrets. Life for Ramona, now a grown-up third-grader is full of beginnings and discoveries and surprises–one very big surprise and one very small, but just as special!

author: Beverly Cleary rating: asin: 038070952X binding: Paperback list price: $5.99 USD amazon price: $5.99 USD

At 7 and a half, with working parents and a sister at "a difficult age," Ramona Quimby tries hard to do her part to keep family peace. Usually, however, she ends up behind every uproarious incident in the house. Whether she's dying herself blue, watching while her young neighbor flings Kleenex around the house, or wearing her soft new pajamas to school one day (under her clothes, of course), Ramona's life is never dull. Through it all, she is struggling for a place in her mother's heart, worried that she might be unlovable. Not a chance.

author: Beverly Cleary rating: asin: 0380709120 binding: Paperback list price: $5.99 USD amazon price: $5.99 USD

Nothing ever happens to Henry Huggins. Nothing, that is, until a stray dog named Ribsy comes into his life. Pretty soon, Henry and Ribsy are wreaking havoc on the city bus, getting a ride in a police car with sirens wailing, and winning a prize at the dog show. Thanks to their joint shenanigans, Henry finds himself covered in green paint one day, and later accidentally colors Ribsy's fur pale pink. One week, Henry catches earthworms for his fisherman neighbor to raise money for a borrowed ball Ribsy helped him lose. One football costs a lot of earthworms--1,395, to be exact.

author: J. H. Sweet rating: asin: 1402208723 binding: Paperback list price: $6.99 USD amazon price: $6.99 USD

Inside you is the power to do anythingMeet Beth, who's just discovered something incredible she is a fairy, a marigold fairy, to be exact.But Beth must learn to be a fairy during an emergency! The Feather of Hope has been lost and Beth must enlist the aid of her dog, Peanut, in a daring mission to rescue it from a house occupied by dangerous gremlins. And if Beth, her new fairy friends and Peanut can't get the Feather back, all hope will be lost forever.

author: Bruce Robertson rating: asin: 089236372X binding: Hardcover list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $13.57 USD

Paris in the 1400s. A young girl named Marguerite delights in assisting her father, Jacques, in his craft: illuminating manuscripts for the nobility of France. His current commission is a splendid book of hours for his patron, Lady Isabelle, but will he be able to finish it in time for Lady Isabelle's name day?

author: Arlene Williams rating: asin: 0960544445 binding: Paperback list price: $12.95 USD amazon price: $12.95

A collection of twelve original fairy tales with a gentle, sensitive flavor. There are no wicked witches threatening to cook and eat small children, no big, bad wolves devouring your grandma. You will find instead, stories in which good things happen to characters who work at making their lives and relationships better--with and without magic.