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Read-Aloud Chapter Books
The following are suggestions for read-aloud chapter books. Clicking on a book title will take you to the library catalog, where you can request the book or learn more information about it. Want even more reading suggestions? Ask a librarian.
| Location | Title/Author | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|
| J & Pbk / Atw | Mr. Popper's Penguins Atwater, Richard | The unexpected delivery of a large crate containing an Antarctic penguin changes the life and fortunes of Mr. Popper, a house painter obsessed by dreams of the Polar regions. |
| J / Bab | The Search for Delicious Babbitt, Natalie | The Prime Minister is compiling a dictionary and when no one at court can agree on the meaning of delicious, the King sends his twelve-year-old messenger to poll the country. |
| J / Bar | Ivy and Bean Barrows, Annie | When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected. (series) |
| J & Pbk / Bau | The Wizard of Oz Baum, L. Frank | After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas. (series) |
| J & Pbk / Bir | The Penderwicks Birdsall, Jeanne | While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother. |
| J / Bon | A Bear Called Paddington Bond, Michael | A very small bear found by Mr. and Mrs. Brown at Paddington station becomes one of the family. (series) |
| J Pbk / Bur | The Incredible Journey Burnford, Sheila | A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family. |
| J & Pbk / Car | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis | A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters. |
| J / Cle | Beezus and Ramona Cleary, Beverly | Beezus' biggest problem is her 4-year-old sister Ramona. Even though Beezus knows sisters are supposed to love each other, with a sister like Ramona, it seems impossible. (series) |
| J / Dah | James and the Giant Peach Dahl, Roald | James escapes from his fearful aunts by rolling away inside a giant peach. |
| J & Pbk / Dic | The Tale of Despereaux DiCamillo, Kate | The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. |
| J & Pbk / Gan | My Father's Dragon Gannett, Ruth Stiles | A young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island. (series) |
| J & Pbk / Gra | The Wind in the Willows Grahame, Kenneth | The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger. |
| J & Pbk / Ibb | The Secret of Platform 13 Ibbotson, Eva | Odge Gribble, a young hag, accompanies wizard, a fey, and an ogre on their mission through a magical tunnel from their Island to London to rescue a prince who had been stolen as an infant. |
| J / Jen | Toys Go Out Jenkins, Emily | Six stories relate the adventures of three best friends, who happen to be toys. |
| J & Pbk / Jus | The Phantom Tollbooth Juster, Norton | A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom. |
| J & Pbk / Lew | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Lewis, C.S. | Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. (series) |
| J / Mac | Mrs. Piggle Wiggle MacDonald, Betty | From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis. (series) |
| J / Mcc | Homer Price McCloskey, Robert | Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage. |
| J / Mil | Winnie the Pooh Milne, A.A. | The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday. (series) |
| J / Nor | The Borrowers Norton, Mary | Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock. (series) |
| J / Pen | Clementine Pennypacker, Sara | While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building. |
| J & Pbk / Whi | Stuart Little White, E.B. | The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden. |
