 | The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 This was first read to me in first grade -- full of clever puns, a modern fable against boredom!
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 | Anno's Math Games by Mitsumasa Anno
Buy used from: $6.26 Anno's books are deceptively simple, but introduce complex concepts in a fun way.
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 | Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 A companion to the Sideways Stories, this is not your everyday math! (but is fun!)
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 | Wayside School Boxed Set: Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, Wayside School is Falling Down, Sideway Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Buy new: $12.22 / Used from: $9.08 These are the stories which go with the Sideways Arithmetic.
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 | Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $2.71 Not one from my childhood but definitely a geeky kid's book!
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 | Brown Paper School book: Book of Think: Or How to Solve a Problem Twice Your Size (A Brown Paper School Book) by Marilyn Burns
Buy used from: $0.01 Thinking about thinking, and how to think more thoughtfully.
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 | Brown Paper School book: I Hate Mathematics! (Brown Paper School Books) by Linda Allison
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 Maybe best for geeks who don't know they're geeks yet?
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 | A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones
Buy used from: $1.25 Time travel and paradoxes (and if you like this one, go on to the Chrestomanci series)
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 | A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy used from: $0.01 Complicated, but enjoyable as a read-aloud or read alone a little older.
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 | From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Art geeking as two siblings play sleuth in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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 | Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch by Nancy Willard
Buy used from: $28.98 Art geeking for younger readers!
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 | A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers by Nancy Willard
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $0.01 Literary geeking for younger readers! (I like Nancy Willard.)
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 | Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $5.84 History and social issues combine in this one, but be careful, it's a tearjerker.
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 | Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein
Buy new: $13.67 / Used from: $0.60 Every good geek kid needs an appreciation of the language.
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