Jane Yolen
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101 Great Children’s Books to Share with Your Kids
If you’re trying to get your children more interested in reading, there are tons of fun books out there that can be of assistance. The following is a list of 101 children’s books, and most of these stories are appropriate for middle grade readers (ages 9 to 12). Some are popular and some are lesser known. Some are old classics, and some are more recent additions to the library. Some are sad, some are funny, some are dramatic, and some are adventurous. All of them can help your kids flex their imagination muscles (and keep them busy during long car trips, too).
101 Enjoyable Children’s Stories:
1. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
2. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
3. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
4. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
5. Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater
6. My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
7. Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
8. Little House on the Prarie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
9. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
10. The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
11. Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
12. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
13. Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
14. The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
15. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
16. The Case Of Stolen Time – The Misadventures Of Inspector Moustachio by Wayne Madsen
17. James and the Giant Peach: A Children’s Story by Roald Dahl
18. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
19. Matilda by Roald Dahl
20. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
21. Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
22. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
23. Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
24. The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
25. The Adventures of Nicki in Wolf Creek by PJ Duval
26. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien
27. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
28. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
29. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
30. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
31. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
32. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
33. The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
34. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
35. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
36. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
37. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
38. Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
39. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
40. The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, Book 1) — Carolyn Keene
41. Stuart Little by E. B. White
42. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
43. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
44. The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
45. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
46. The BFG by Roald Dahl
47. The Giver by Lois Lowry
48. Never Mind! : A Twin Novel. by Avi and Rachel Vail
49. Masterpiece by Elise Broach
50. Never Mind! : A Twin Novel by Gennifer Choldenko
51. The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
52. The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
53. The Borrowers by Mary Norton
54. Erik the Viking by Terry Jones
55. The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
56. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
57. Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
58. Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
59. The Bamboozlers by Michael de Guzman
60. Being Teddy Roosevelt by Claudia Mills
61. Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
62. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
63. The Cottonmouth Club by Lance Marcum
64. Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
65. Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
66. The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke
67. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
68. Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
69. Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard
70. Gentle Ben by Walt Morey
71. Lad, a Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
72. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
73. Scat by Carl Hiaasen
74. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
75. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
76. A Walk in Wolf Wood by Mary Stewart
77. Alia Waking by Laura Williams McCaffrey
78. The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
79. Close Encounters of A Third-World Kind by Jennifer J. Stewart
80. Dust from Old Bones by Sandra Forrester
81. The Floating Circus by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
82. A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida
83. Ethan, Suspended by Pamela Ehrenberg
84. Shape-Changer by Bill Brittain
85. The White Mountains by John Christopher
86. Aliens Ate My Homework by Bruce Coville
87. Max and Me and the Time Machine by Gery Greer
88. The Invisible Day by Marthe Jocelyn
89. The Nose from Jupiter by Richard Scrimger
90. Help! I’m Trapped in an Alien’s Body by Todd Strasser
91. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
92. The Boggart by Susan Cooper
93. A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears by Jules Feiffer
94. Islands in the Sky by Tanith Lee
95. The Wish in the Bottle by Morna Macleod
96. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
97. Song of the Gargoyle by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
98. A Hidden Magic by Vivian Vande Velde
99. Dragon of the Lost Sea by Laurence Yep
100. The Wizard’s Map by Jane Yolen
101. Tria And The Great Star Rescue by Rebecca Kraft Rector
About the Author
The author is a reader, writer, blogger, and lover of fantasy and science fiction. If you’re looking for something to read right now, check out her children’s short stories, which feature a pair of goblin brothers who use only their wits to get out of trouble (and they sure spend a lot of time in trouble!).
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I need help with my book report. Briar Rose by Jane Yolen?
Does anyone know the conflict, rising action, climax and resolution is???
The book is “Briar Rose”, by Jane Yolen.
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen is a heart-wrenching story of Sleeping Beauty intertwined with the horrors of World War II. The novel contains all the elements of the classic Sleeping Beauty: the castle, thorns, princess, and a tale of death and awakening from eternal sleep. Yolen compared a story that fictitiously occurred during World War II with Sleeping Beauty, which allowed one of the main characters, Gitl Mandelstein, to indirectly tell her horrifying experiences during the war.
The story beings with Gitl, or Gemma (as she is referred to by her granddaughters), in a nursing home. Her granddaughters Silvia, Shauna, and Becca went to visit her, for she was on her deathbed. She began telling them the story of Sleeping Beauty, a story which she had told them throughout their childhood, although this time was different. She told her grandchildren that she was in fact Briar Rose. Gemma did not go into detail, but made her granddaughter Becca promise to discover everything about her past. This is shown in the following quote: “’Promise me you will find the castle. Promise me you will find the prince. Promise me you will find the maker of the spells‘” (Yolen 20). Soon after, Gitl died.
Throughout Briar Rose Yolen depicts Becca’s struggles to uncover the truth about her Gemma’s connection to Sleeping Beauty. She had so many unanswered questions. Was her Gemma a princess? Did she live in a castle? Who was her prince? The only thing Gitl had left behind was a small box of papers with very few answers. Becca did end up finding all her answers from a man named Josef, who had actually known and interacted with Gitl.
After a trip to Poland to speak with Josef, Becca figured out that the fairy tale her grandmother told was in fact a tale of horror. The castle Gitl described to her grandchildren was in fact an extermination camp, Chelmno. The thicket of thorns which surrounded the castle in which the princess slept represented the barbed wire that surrounded the camp.
Gitl was thought to have been dead, and therefore her body was discarded. Some refugees, which included Josef, had escaped from various extermination camps. They discovered the horrifying pit full of bodies in an attempt to rescue other refugees held in Chelmno, and saw one body slightly moving. That was Gitl Mandelstein. They brought her out of the pit, and Josef administered CPR. That “kiss of life” awoke Gitl, and she had no memories; only that she had been awakened by a kiss, another comparison to Sleeping Beauty.
Briar Rose is a novel with a very dark theme. It is set mainly in the present, but the author often uses the flashback technique to show past events that are of extreme importance to the novel. A quote that depicts the dark theme of the novel is: “’Five thousand corpses?’ Josef murmured, still not believing” (Yolen 149). That quote is also an example of the flashback technique. Josef was recalling a horrifying experience during World War II.
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