 | City of the Beasts by Isabel Allende
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 #1
This one ranks near the top of the list of books that made me want to go to the land of the story.
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 | The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) by Lemony Snicket
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $0.01 #2
Lemony Snicket is a considerate author for simultaneously telling a good story and explaining his vocabulary words to you. He is also a very good accordion player with funny socks. Jill and I saw him in California. If you like this book, don't worry, there are 12 more.
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 | Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time ( The Young Reader's Edition) by Greg Mortenson
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.57 #3
This is a very famous and inspiring book that has been re-written from the author's children's perspective to inspire children too.
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 | The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.31 #4
Someone told me about this story and the description does indeed look fun and interesting.
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 | Top Secret by John Reynolds Gardiner
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 #5
A boy invents human photsynthesis to win his class's science fair. When I read this as a kid I always thought things like this should really happen.
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 | Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.00 #6
A book about a boy by the man who wrote about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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 | The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.68 #7
And a book about a girl by the man who wrote about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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 | Judy Blume's Fudge Box Set by Judy Blume
Buy new: $17.51 / Used from: $11.99 #8
I couldn't pick the best book by Judy Blume, so I recommend this box set, that includes many of the good ones, but not all of them.
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 | Holes by Louis Sachar
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $5.97 #9
This is one of Jill's favorites.
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 | Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Buy used from: $7.83 #10
There's a very very good reason everyone loves these books. It's the books!
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 | A Pebble for Your Pocket by Thich Nhat Hanh
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $14.06 And one to grow on.
This author is a very wise monk. He taught me to plant in your mind only the seeds you want to grow, and to feed them to make them big and strong.
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