• Charlotte’s Web by E.B White

This is a great classic book about friendship and loyalty. A girl named Fern adopts a pig who learns the greatest lesson of friendship when he meets Charlotte, a nice grey spider, who teaches Wilbur that friends will do anything for each other. If you really love books about animals and friendship, you should read this book.

• Frindle by Andrew Clements

You should read this book if you like books with adventure and creativity. This creative and award-winning book is about Nicholas “Nick” Allen as he comes up with the idea of inventing a new word. Read the book as Nicholas goes through his journey of spreading his new word through the school and working to add a word to the dictionary.

• The Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling

This is a simply amazing series that deserves to be read a million times. It is the battle of good and evil and how even the smallest person can make a difference with the help of friendship. Follow Harry Potter as he and his friends use wits, creativity, and friendship to thwart evil. This is a great series if you love witty, fun, and magical new vocabulary.

• The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S Lewis

If you love books full of magic and talking creatures, this is the book for you! This classic book can be read many different ways depending on how you read it from religious to just fun and full of magic. The book shows the strength of family and the importance of believing as Peter, Edmund, Susan, and Lucy Pevensie go to a magical world called Narnia which is currently at the mercy of the evil White Witch and find out they are destined to rule.

• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

This is definitely the book you need to read if you love books about friendship and a connection between an animal and a human. India Opal recently moved to a new town when she meets a dog in a grocery store. She names him Winn-Dixie after the local store and Winn-Dixie leads her to meet new people and new friends around town.

• The Secret Zoo by Bryan Chick

This a wild and surprising book that begins a series that follows Noah, Megan, and their friends Ella and Richie. In this book, Megan has disappeared leaving Noah to find her in the Clarksville City Zoo when he finds himself in a secret world where the animals go at night that has taken his sister.

• Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

This Newbery Award book is about determination, obedience, and love. The book follows Ella who is blessed (or cursed) with the gift of obedience which forces her to always follow orders no matter what they are and whoever gives them. Ella is determined to break the curse that brings her on a journey to meet new friends and love.

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

This start of a series is a great book for any age. This is a book about Greg Heffley as he goes into middle school filled with new experiences. This is a book of humor and filled with pictures as Greg goes through Halloween running his own Haunted House, visiting a Haunted House, and hiding from older teenagers in his grandmother’s house. Full of laughs and pictures, anyone could read this book.

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: the Last Straw by Jeff Kinney

Greg Heffley’s father has witnessed his son being different than most teenagers. Frank Heffley is determined to make his son exercise and act like he wants a teenager to act. He ends up signing Greg up for all kinds of things to make Greg ‘man up’. For anyone looking for a bit of humor, this is the book for you.

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff Kinney

It is near Christmas and Greg Heffley is snowed inside with his family. Greg does many new things from discovering his new favorite game and shoveling snow to earn money, to scratching up his dad’s new car and trying to run a restaurant. This is a great book for anyone looking for an easy book full of humor.