When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Stead
Age: 10+
Interests: mystery, time travel, friendship, school, romance, puzzles
When You Reach Me
10 May 2018 Leave a comment
in Books, books 10+ Tags: friendship, mystery, puzzles, romance, school, time travel
Dear Mr. Henshaw
06 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in Books, books 8+, Uncategorized Tags: diary, divorce/separation, family, loneliness, new kid, school, single parent, writers
Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Beverly Cleary
illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky
Age: 8+
Interests: being the new kid, school problems, divorced parents, single parent, loneliness, writing
Harriet the Spy
28 Jun 2017 3 Comments
in Books, books 10+, Classics Tags: adolescence, bad behavior, bullying, city life, friendship, New York, school, writers
Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh
Age: 10+
Interests: middle school, writing, adolescence, friendship, bullying, city life, New York, bad behaviour
The View from Saturday
02 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in Books, books 9+ Tags: bookworms, bullying, cooperation, friendship, puzzles, school, teachers
The View from Saturday
by E. L. Konigsburg
Age: 9+
Interests: school, teachers, friendship, academic competitions
The Otterbury Incident
19 Sep 2013 Leave a comment
in Books, books 10+ Tags: action, adventure, bad behavior, crime, detective, England, money, mystery, school, violence
The Otterbury Incident
by C. Day Lewis
illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
Age: 10+
Interests: mystery, crime, kid detectives, England, action, some violence, school, bad behaviour, money
Boy: Tales of Childhood
01 Oct 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 9+ Tags: autobiography, boarding school, England, family history, nonfiction, school
by Roald Dahl
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984
160 pp.
Age: 9+
Interests: biography, history, nonfiction, British boarding schools, family history
Next: Going Solo (the sequel to this book), also War Boy: A Country Childhood by Michael Foreman
Related Posts: A Roald Dahl Reading List
The Hundred Dresses
23 Dec 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: artists, bullies, bullying, class, fashion, friendship, school, teasing
by Eleanor Estes
illustrated by Louis Slobodkin
Harcourt Brace & Company, 1944
80 pp., 7 chapters
Age: 7 +
Interests: school politics, teasing & bullying, peer pressure, friendship, fashion, art
Also by this author: Ginger Pye, The Moffats, The Witch Family
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
21 Oct 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+ Tags: bad behavior, family, moods, school, siblings
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
by Judith Viorst
illustrated by Ray Cruz
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972
28 pp.
Age: 5 +
Interests: school, family, siblings, bad days, bad behaviour, moods
Other ‘Alexander’ books: Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday; Alexander, Who Is Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move
Top 5: Books About School
07 Sep 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+, books 5+ Tags: school
In honour of the First Day of School this week, here are some great books about life in the classroom.
1. Miss Nelson is Missing!, by Harry Allard – Age: 4 +
A very funny story about the most feared substitute teacher ever – Miss Viola Swamp! Sequels include Miss Nelson is Back, and Miss Nelson Has a Field Day. (This title on amazon.)
2. Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, by Kevin Henkes – Age: 5 +
Lilly has a dispute with her adored teacher over a distracting plastic purse. (This title on amazon.)
3. Ramona the Pest, by Beverly Cleary – chapter book – Age: 5 +
A chapter book about a rambunctious girl’s first adventures and misadventures in kindergarten. (This title on amazon.)
4. Math Curse, by Lane Smith – picture book – Age: 5 +
By the author and illustrator who brought you The Stinky Cheese Man, this is all about math anxiety, or seeing the world as an endless series of perplexing number problems. As a picture book, it would certainly entertain the kindergarten crowd, but older kids will ‘get’ more of the math concepts and jokes. (This title on amazon.)
5. Matilda, by Roald Dahl – chapter book – Age: 6 +
Precocious reader Matilda starts school and helps her favourite teacher battle the villainous principal. A darker tale of school life, with truly despicable adults and some violent scenes. In other words, typical Dahl. (This title on amazon.)
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