A select list of my favorite books for young readers, as a child, and now.

Middle Grade Fiction

• A Year Down Yonder
• Fair Weather
• Because of Winn-Dixie
• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
• A Wrinkle in Time
• How to Eat Fried Worms
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
• Are You there, God? It's Me, Margaret
• The Legend of Zoey, by Candie Moonshower 
• The Time Machine
• Blubber

Young Adult

• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Chocolate War
• Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
• Remembering the Good Times

Picture Books

• Stranger in the Woods
• Lost in the Woods
• The Snow Bear
• The Magic Hat
• Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Goodnight Moon
• Estelle Takes a Bath
• Flat Stanley