Ideas for SNAPS

Our Relief Society is joining with a program, SNAPS, that serves foster children in our area.  One aspect of this service includes collecting donations of books, especially for teen girls.  The book club wanted to take a trip down Memory Lane and come up with a list of our favorite books from high school.  When we met to compile the list of recommendations, we went above and beyond.  This list includes books of interest to boys and girls, ages 8-18, and some that a younger children would like to have read to them.  Hopefully you'll find a use for this list, even if you're not donating a book.   By the way, it's in no particular order other than jumbled.  We'd love to hear what selections you'd add to the list.  Let us know.
(* of special interest to boys)

The Chronicles of Narnia-C.S.Lewis
Alice in Wonderland-Carroll
Little Women-Alcott
Invincible Louisa-Meigs
Adeline Falling Star-Osborne
Stargirl-Spinelli
Thank You Lucky Stars-Donofrio
Ann of Green Gables-L.M.Montgomery
The Goose Girl or The Princess Academy-Hale
Walk Two Moons-Creech
Absolutely Normal Chaos-Creech
Love That Dog-Creech
Shiloh-Naylor*
The Boxcar Children-Warner
The Witch of Blackbird Pond or The Bronze Bow-Speare
Johnny Tremain-Forbes*
The Little Prince-St. Exubery
The Watsons Go To Birmingham-Curtis*
Elijah of Buxton-Curtis*
Charlotte's Web-White
Summer of the Trumpeter Swan-White
Swiss Family Robinson-Wyss*
Captains Courageous-Kipling*
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle-Avi
Holes-Sachar*
There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom-Sachar*
The BFG or Matilda-Dahl
Harry Potter Series-Rowling*
Airborne-Opell*
Fablehaven-Mull*
A Year Down Yonder or A Long Way From Chicago-Peck
Season of Giving or The Teacher's Funeral-Peck
The Secret Lives of Bees-Kidd
All Creatures Great and Small-Herriot
Jane Eyre-Bronte
My Antonia-Cather
Bridge to Terabithia-Paterson
Farewell to Manzanar-Houston
Pride and Prejudice-Austen
The Good Earth-Buck
Farenheit 451-Bradbury
Gone With the Wind-Mitchell
Rebecca-DuMaurier
The Moonstone or The Woman in White-Collins
April Morning-Fast*
Diary of a Young Girl-Anne Frank
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittmann-Gaines
The Miracle Worker-Gibson
Good-bye Mr. Chips or The Lost Horizon-Hilton
To Kill a Mocking Bird-Lee
Evangeline-Longfellow
Romeo and Juliet-Shakespeare
Christy-Marshall
Seventeenth Summer-Daly
The human Comedy-Saroyan*
Johnny Tremain-Forbes*
The Hiding Place-Tenboom
Dicey's Song-Voigt
Robinson Crusoe-Defoe*
The Call of the Wild-London*
The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers-Dumas*
Kon-Tiki-Heyerdahl*
Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn-Twain*
When the Legends Die-Borland*
Treasure Island-Stevenson*
Profiles in Courage-Kennedy*
A Separate Peace-Knowles*



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