25 Beloved Books for Kids Ages 8-12
Today I’m going to share a list of chapter books for older kids. This is a great selection of books. We’ve now read every book on this list (and then some!!). Many of them we read aloud together. I loved Hatchet so much that I read this aloud with LD and then read it again to DD just this year. Sometimes its fun to share the excitement together.
Our family also just read through the Wrinkle in Time Time Quartet. The kids loved that. And of course, we read the Chronicles of Narnia a year or two ago and that was a huge hit. But, to be honest, I could probably rave about every book on this list! 🙂
You can print this list out by clicking the picture or link below. It also has the list of books for ages 4-8 that I shared a couple of weeks ago.
25 Beloved Books for 8-12 Year Olds (In no particular order) These are affiliate links.
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
- Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
- The BFG by Roald Dahl
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
- Little House in the Big Woods and Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Frindle by Andrew Clements
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
- The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
- The Boxcar Children Books 1-4 by Gertrude Chandler Warner
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