Top 25 Books for Boys ages 9 to 12 and Up
By Heather Idoni
Updated Thursday, April 24, 2008
Still working on this list!
- Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
- Twenty and Ten (AKA The Secret Cave) by Claire Huchet Bishop
- Escape from Warsaw (AKA The Silver Sword) by Ian Serraillier
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
- Winter Danger by William O. Steele (and MANY others by him)
- Battle Lanterns by Merrit Parmelee Allen (and MANY others)
- Gentle Ben and Kavik the Wolf Dog by Walt Morey (and others)
- Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard (and all his other animal stories!)
- We Were There at Gettysburg (and other "We Were There" titles)
- Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat
- Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry (and others by him)
- The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum
- Paddle-to-the-Sea and others by Holling C. Holling
- Mrs. Frisbe and the Rats of NIMH (but not the others in this series)
- More to come!