Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsAuthor: J.K. Rowling
Illustrator: Mary GrandPre
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Copyright: 2007
Summary: This is the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series. It is the ultimate fight between good (Harry and his friends) and evil (Lord Voldemort) to save the wizardng world. In this book Harry continues his search for horcuxes to defeat Lord Voldemort, while the rest of the wizarding world in under the control and Voldemort and his followers (the Death eaters).
Strengths: This book is packed full of adventure and keeps the reader on the edge of their seat till the very end of the story. It ends at a point where almost all of our questions have been answer, and the reader is left very satisfied. This books allows us all to use our imagination to know that the possibilities are endless.
Concerns: The only concern I have with this book is that there are quite amount of deaths and violence. It may not be suitable to students who are too young.
Age level: 4th-8th grade (and up!)
Classroom use: During individual reading time.
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Title: Winnie-The-Pooh 
Author: A. A. Milne
Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard
Publisher: E.D. Dutton
Copyright: 1926
Summary: This book consists of several short stories telling the various adventures and situations Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and all the other inhabitants of the 100 acre forest get into.
Strengths: This book is humorous and has an easy light-hearten flow to it.
Concerns: Many believe that it is too "cute" and "babyish"
Age Level: 3rd-5th grade
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Title: The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Became Real
Author: Margery Williams
Illustrator: Michael Hague
Publisher: Holt
Copyright: 1922
Summary: The Velveteen Rabbit, a stuffed toy, waits in the nursery for a child to call its own. The other toys also wait for the day the boy will pick them for a playmate. As time goes by, Rabbit grows weary and worries that it will never be chosen. The Skin Horse, the oldest toy in the nursery, becomes Rabbit's friend and tells it how toys are transformed — become real - through the love of human beings. Will Rabbit be chosen — will it become real?
Strengths: A story all children can relate to and believe in. The author uses great detail. It has also now been made into more of a picture book for young ages.
Age Level: k-4th grade
__________________________________________________________________________ Title: The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Bantam Books
Copyright: 1993
Summary: December is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve-year-old receives a life assignment determined by the Elders. Jonas watches his friend Fiona named Caretaker of the Old and his cheerful pal Asher labeled the Assistant Director of Recreation. But Jonas has been chosen for something special. When his selection leads him to an unnamed man — the man called only the Giver — he begins to sense the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection of his world.
Strengths: I loved this book because it causes the reader to think about the society they live in now and tries to get them to imagine what it would be like if everything were the same. I enjoyed that it was written from a child's point of view, which all students can relate to. It also is great since there is a sequel, it cuts of at a point where the reader is satified, yey still wanting more.
Age level: 12-18
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Title: A Wrinkle in Time
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Copyright: 1962
Summary: Everything is wrong in Meg Murray's life. In school, she's been dropped down to the lowest section of her grade. She's teased about her five-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, who everyone mistakenly thinks is dumb. Not to mention that Meg wears braces and glasses and has mouse-brown hair. Much will be better in her miserable life when her father gets back. But gets back from where? Meg's physicist father had been experimenting with the fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. One dark and stormy night, the family is visited by a disheveled heap of a woman named Mrs. Whatsit. Eccentric and brilliant, she will turn out to be the force who spurs on Meg, Charles Wallace, and their new friend, Calvin O'Keefe, to embark on a dangerous quest through space to find their father. In doing so, they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos. Before long, the trio discovers that Meg's and Charles Wallace's father is being held prisoner by evil forces on the planet of Camazotz, an eerie place where complete conformity is expected in exchange for personal freedom. There they engage in the fight of their lives against a giant disembodied brain named "It." And soon, Charles Wallace must be rescued, too.
Strengths: great adventure for boys and girls
Age Level: 9-12
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Author: A. A. Milne
Illustrator: Ernest H. Shepard
Publisher: E.D. Dutton
Copyright: 1926
Summary: This book consists of several short stories telling the various adventures and situations Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet and all the other inhabitants of the 100 acre forest get into.
Strengths: This book is humorous and has an easy light-hearten flow to it.
Concerns: Many believe that it is too "cute" and "babyish"
Age Level: 3rd-5th grade
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Title: The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Became Real
Author: Margery Williams
Illustrator: Michael Hague
Publisher: Holt
Copyright: 1922
Summary: The Velveteen Rabbit, a stuffed toy, waits in the nursery for a child to call its own. The other toys also wait for the day the boy will pick them for a playmate. As time goes by, Rabbit grows weary and worries that it will never be chosen. The Skin Horse, the oldest toy in the nursery, becomes Rabbit's friend and tells it how toys are transformed — become real - through the love of human beings. Will Rabbit be chosen — will it become real?
Strengths: A story all children can relate to and believe in. The author uses great detail. It has also now been made into more of a picture book for young ages.
Age Level: k-4th grade
__________________________________________________________________________ Title: The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Bantam Books
Copyright: 1993
Summary: December is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve-year-old receives a life assignment determined by the Elders. Jonas watches his friend Fiona named Caretaker of the Old and his cheerful pal Asher labeled the Assistant Director of Recreation. But Jonas has been chosen for something special. When his selection leads him to an unnamed man — the man called only the Giver — he begins to sense the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection of his world.
Strengths: I loved this book because it causes the reader to think about the society they live in now and tries to get them to imagine what it would be like if everything were the same. I enjoyed that it was written from a child's point of view, which all students can relate to. It also is great since there is a sequel, it cuts of at a point where the reader is satified, yey still wanting more.
Age level: 12-18
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Title: A Wrinkle in Time
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Copyright: 1962
Summary: Everything is wrong in Meg Murray's life. In school, she's been dropped down to the lowest section of her grade. She's teased about her five-year-old brother, Charles Wallace, who everyone mistakenly thinks is dumb. Not to mention that Meg wears braces and glasses and has mouse-brown hair. Much will be better in her miserable life when her father gets back. But gets back from where? Meg's physicist father had been experimenting with the fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. One dark and stormy night, the family is visited by a disheveled heap of a woman named Mrs. Whatsit. Eccentric and brilliant, she will turn out to be the force who spurs on Meg, Charles Wallace, and their new friend, Calvin O'Keefe, to embark on a dangerous quest through space to find their father. In doing so, they must travel behind the shadow of an evil power that is darkening the cosmos. Before long, the trio discovers that Meg's and Charles Wallace's father is being held prisoner by evil forces on the planet of Camazotz, an eerie place where complete conformity is expected in exchange for personal freedom. There they engage in the fight of their lives against a giant disembodied brain named "It." And soon, Charles Wallace must be rescued, too.
Strengths: great adventure for boys and girls
Age Level: 9-12
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