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Book TreesThese books have been organized by Laura Berquist into different categories and age groups: Fantasy, Animal

Stories, Romantic Fiction, Interesting Moral Tales, Family Stories, Adventure Stories, Mystery Novels, and Comedy. The original books listed as “types” were used in the Mother of Divine Grace Summer Book Clubs. The idea in these Book Trees is to supply students who liked those titles with similar titles that they might also like. For that reason, within each category, the books are grouped with similar books, so if a student enjoys a particular book, additional titles are recommended. For example, in the Fantasy category, a student who enjoyed Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques or Dragonspell by Donita K. Paul will see that The Book of Three series by Lloyd Alexander is recommended, along with other similar books. You can find many of the recommended books on the Mother of Divine Grace bookstore website https://books.modg.org/literature and you can view them by category too (i.e. “Adventure”) https://books.modg.org/literature/adventure. Mother of Divine Grace School hopes to encourage a love of reading through these trees!

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Fantasy: If you like Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques and DragonSpell by Donita K. Paul, you will probably like:

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Book of Three

Martin the Warrior

DragonSpell

The Hobbit

C. S. Lewis (Ages 8 +) Series: Narnian Chronicles

Lloyd Alexander (Ages 9 +)Series: The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, The High King

Brian Jacques (Ages 10 +)Whole series: 22 books

Donita K. Paul (Ages 10 +) Series: DragonQuest, DragonKnight, DragonFire, DragonLight

J. R. R. Tolkien (Ages 11 +) Series: The Lord of the Rings

Five Children and It

Mary Poppins

Puck of Pook’s Hill

E. Nesbit (Ages 10 +) Series

P. L. Travers (Ages 10 +) Series

Rudyard Kipling (Ages 10 +)

A Wizard of Earthsea

Watership Down

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Ender’s Game

Ursula K. Le Guin (Ages 12 +) Series: Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore are recommended

Richard Adams (Ages 13 +)

Lewis Carroll (Ages 12 +)

Orson Scott Card (Ages 13 +) This is a series but I can’t recommend other titles since I have not read them.

Fantasy for Older ReadersFantasy with FamiliesFantasy Adventure

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Realistic Animal Stories: If you like Rascal by Sterling North, Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry, and All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot, you will probably like:

Animal Stories for Older ReadersAnimal Stories for Established ReadersAnimal Stories for Young Readers

The Incredible Journey

Old Yeller

Rascal

Justin Morgan Had a Horse

Brighty of the Grand Canyon

Misty of Chincoteague

King of the Wind

My Side of the Mountain

Gentle Ben

Caps for Sale

Billy and Blaze

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

E. Slobodkina (Ages 4 +)

C. W. Anderson (Ages 5 +) Series

Alice Dalgliesh (Ages 6 +)

Richard Atwater (Ages 8 +)

All Creatures Great and Small James Herriot (Ages 12 +) Series

Sheila Burnford (Ages 8 +)

Fred Gipson (Ages 8 +)

Sterling North (Ages 8 +)

Marguerite Henry (Ages 9 +)




Jean George (Ages 10 +)

Walt Morey (Ages 11 +)


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Animal Stories for Established ReadersAnimal Historical Stories for Established ReadersAnimal Stories for Young Readers

Talking Animal Stories

Cricket in Times Square

Charlotte’s Web

Stuart Little

The Trumpet of the Swan

Olga Da Polga

Rabbit Hill

George Seldon (Ages 6 +)

E. B. White (Ages 7 +)



Michael Bond (Ages 7 +)

Robert McCloskey (Ages 7 +)

Robert O’Brien (Ages 8 +)

Kenneth Grahame (Ages 8 +)

Walter Brooks (Ages 9 +) Series

Brian Jacques (Ages 10 +) Whole series, 22 books

Hugh Lofting (Ages 10 +) Series

Kenneth Grahame (Ages 10 +)


Ben and Me

Mr. Revere and I

Robert Lawson (Ages 8 +)

Robert Lawson (Ages 8 +)

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

The Reluctant Dragon

Freddy Goes to Florida

Martin the Warrior

The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle

The Wind in the Willows

The Jungle Book


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Romantic Fiction: If you like They Loved to Laugh by Kathryn Worth and A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter, you will probably like:

Romantic Fiction for Established and Older Readers

Anne of Green Gables

Emily of New Moon

Jane of Lantern Hill

The Rose Round

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Eight Cousins

L. M. Montgomery (Ages 10 +)Series

L. M. Montgomery (Ages 12 +) Series

L. M. Montgomery (Ages 12 +)

Meriol Trevor (Ages 12 +)

Louisa May Alcott (Ages 12 +)

Louisa May Alcott (Ages 12 +) Sequel: Rose in Bloom

They Loved to Laugh

Freckles

A Girl of the Limberlost

The Blue Castle

Daddy-Long-Legs

Dear Enemy

Persuasion

Kathryn Worth (Ages 12 +)

Gene Stratton-Porter (Ages 12 +)

Gene Stratton-Porter (Ages 12 +)

L. M. Montgomery (Ages 13 +)

Jean Webster (Ages 13 +)

Jean Webster (Ages 13 +)

Jane Austen (Ages 13 +) All Jane Austen books


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Romantic Fiction (cont.)

Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera (Ages 13 +)

O. Henry (The Retrieved Reformation, Madame Bo-Peep, Of the Ranches, The Last Leaf, etc. [The Selected Stories of O’Henry])

Elizabeth von Arnim (Ages 15 +)

Baroness Orczy (Ages 15 +)

Charlotte Brontë (Ages 15 +)

Charlotte Brontë (Ages 15 +)

The Awakening of Miss Prim: A Novel

The Gift of the Magi

The Enchanted April

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Jane Eyre

Shirley

Romantic Fiction for Older Readers


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The Lost Prince

Tom Playfair

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Roller Skates

Frances Hodgson Burnett (Ages 9 +)

Fr. Francis Finn (Ages 9 +) Series: Percy Wynn, Harry Dee, Claude Lightfoot, etc.)

Alice Caldwell Hegan (Ages 10 +)

Ruth Sawyer (Ages 10 +)

Interesting Moral Tales: If you like Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter, you will probably like:

The Hundred Dresses

King of the Shattered Glass

The Weight of a Mass

The Legend of the Bluebonnet

The Clown of God

The Night of Las Posadas

The Family Under the Bridge

Strawberry Girl

A Tree for Peter

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Understood Betsy

Heidi

Pollyanna

The Secret Garden

A Little Princess

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

Moral Tales for Slightly Older ReadersMoral Tales for Established ReadersMoral Tales for Young Readers

Eleanor Estes (Ages 7 +)

Susan Bellavance (Ages 7 +)

Josephine Nobisso (Ages 7 +)

Tomie de Paola (Ages 7 +)



Natalie Savage Carlson (Ages 8 +) Lois Lenski (Ages 9 +) Series

Kate Seredy (Ages 9 +)

Kate Douglas Wiggin (Ages 9 +)

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Ages 9 +)

Johanna Spyri (Ages 9 +)

Eleanor H. Porter (Ages 9 +)




Margaret Sidney (Ages 10 +)


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Family Stories: If you like The Moffats by Eleanor Estes and The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright, you will probably like:

Family Stories for Established ReadersFamily Stories for Young Readers

All of a Kind Family

Little House in the Big Woods

Betsy Tacy Series

Caddie Woodlawn

Family Grandstand

Family Sabbatical

Miracles on Maple Hill

Blue Willow

Sydney Taylor (Ages 8 +)

Laura Ingalls Wilder (Ages 8 +) Series

Maud Hart Lovelace (Ages 8 +) The earlier books are especially good; the highschool books, not so much.)

Carol Ryrie Brink (Ages 8 +) Sequel: Caddie Woodlawn’s Family

Carol Ryrie Brink (Ages 8 +)


Virginia Sorenson (Ages 8 +)

Doris Gates (Ages 8 +)

The Treasure Seekers

Thimble Summer

Homer Price

The Moffats

The Mitchells: Five for Victory

The Saturdays

The Good Master

The Singing Tree

A Christmas Carol

E. Nesbit (Ages 10 +) Series: The Wouldbegoods, The New Treasure Seekers

Elizabeth Enright (Ages 8 +)

Robert McClosky (Ages 9 +)

Eleanor Estes (Ages 9 +) Series

Hilda van Stockum (Ages 9 +) Series

Elizabeth Enright (Ages 9 +)Series: Then There Were Five, The Four Story Mistake, Spiderweb for Two



Charles Dickens (Ages 11 +)


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Arthur Ransome (Ages 9 +) Series

Frederick Marryat (Ages 9 +)

Eric Kelly (Ages 9 +)

Ethel Brill (Ages 10 +) Clare Huchet Bishop (Ages 10 +)

Roger Lancyln Green (Ages 10 +)

Elizabeth George Speare (Ages 10 +)

Hilda van Stockum (Ages 10 +)

Jean Lee Latham (Ages 10 +)


Mark Twain (Ages 10 +)

Swallows and Amazons

The Children of the New Forest

The Trumpeter of Krakow

Madeleine Takes Command

Twenty and Ten

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Bronze Bow

The Winged Watchman

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

The Chestry Oak

The Prince and the Pauper

Adventure: If you like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken, and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, you will probably like:

Adventure for Established ReadersAdventure for Younger Established ReadersAdventure for Young Readers

The Matchlock Gun

A Lion to Guard Us

The Sword in the Tree

Sarah, Plain and Tall

The Courage of Sarah Noble

Walter Edmonds (Ages 7 +) Clyde Robert Bulla (Ages 8 +)

Clyde Robert Bulla (Ages 8 +)

Patricia MacLachlan (Ages 8 +)

Alice Dalgliesh (Ages 8 +)

The Twenty-One Balloons

Snow Treasure

The Island of the Blue Dolphins

Baby Island

William Pène du Bois (Ages 8 +)

Marie McSwigan (Ages 8 +)

Scott O’Dell (Ages 8 +)



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Adventure (cont.)

Adventure for Established Readers

Milton Lomask (Ages 10 +)

Helen Homan (Ages 10 +)

Blanche Jennings Thompson (Ages 10 +)

Louis de Wohl (Ages 10 +)

Helen Homan (Ages 10 +)

Walter Diethelm (Ages 10 +)

Milton Lomask (Ages 10 +)

Francis X. Connolly (Ages 10 +)

Cross Among the Tomahawks

Francis and Clare, Saints of Assisi

St. Elizabeth’s Three Crowns

St. Joan, The Girl Soldier

St. Anthony and the Christ Child

St. Pius X: The Farm Boy Who Became Pope

St. Thomas Aquinas and the Preaching Beggars

Saint Philip of the Joyous Heart

Simon Brute and the Western Adventure

The Door in the Wall

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

The Crystal Snowstorm

Around the World in 80 Days

The Lost World

Calico Captive

Elizabeth Bartelme (Ages 10 +)

Marguerite de Angeli (Ages 11 +)


Baroness Orczy (Ages 15 +)

Joan Aiken (Ages 10 +) Series: Black Hearts in Battersea, Nightbirds on Nantucket, etc.

Meriol Trevor (Ages 10 +) Series

Jules Verne (Ages 11 +)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Ages 11 +)



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Adventure for Established Readers

The White Stag

Treasure Island

If All the Swords in England

Beorn the Proud

Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal

Rolf and the Viking Bow

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Robinson Crusoe

Mysterious Island

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Kim

The Boy Knight of Reims


Robert Louis Stevenson (Ages 11 +)

Barbara Willard (Ages 11 +)

Madeleine Polland (Ages 11 +)

Robert Reilly (Ages 11 +)

Allen French (Ages 11 +)

Roger Lancelyn Green (Ages 12 +)

Daniel Defoe (Ages 12 +)





Eloise Lownsbery (Ages 12 +)

Adventure (cont.)

Jackaroo

The Quiet Light

The Shadow of His Wings

Lay Siege to Heaven

Cynthia Voigt (Ages 12 +)


Fr. Gereon Goldmann (Ages 13 +)


Adventure for Older Readers


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Mystery Novels: If you like The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner and The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, you will probably like:

Mystery Novels for Older Established Readers

Mystery Novels for Established Readers

Mystery Novels for Young Readers

The Boxcar Children Gertrude Chandler Warner (Ages 8 +)

Encyclopedia Brown

Gone-Away Lake

The Famous Five Collection

Alvin Fernald Foreign Trader

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

The Railway Children

Detectives in Togas

Mystery of the Roman Ransom

The Ides of April

Donald Sobol (Ages 8 +) Series

Elizabeth Enright (Ages 8 +) Followed by Return to Gone-Away

Enid Blyton (Ages 9 +) Series

Clifford Hicks (Ages 9 +) Series

E. L. Konigsburg (Ages 9 +)

E. Nesbit (Ages 10 +)

Henry Winterfeld (Ages 11 +)

Henry Winterfeld (Ages 11 +)

Mary Ray (Ages 11 +)

Reb and the Redcoats

Enemy Brothers

Moon over Manifest

Constance Savery (Ages 11 +)

Constance Savery (Ages 11 +)

Clare Vanderpool (Ages 13 +)

Mystery Novels for Older Readers

Sherlock Holmes

Father Brown

The Moonstone

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Ages 13 +)

G. K. Chesterton (Ages 13 +)

Wilkie Collins (Ages 13 +)


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Comedy: If you like Laughing Gas by P. G. Wodehouse, you will probably like:

Laughing Gas

Quick Service

Mike and Psmith

Uneasy Money

A Gentleman of Leisure

Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf

My Man Jeeves

Three Men in a Boat

P. G. Wodehouse (Ages 13 +)

P. G. Wodehouse (Ages 13 +) P. G. Wodehouse (Ages 13 +)





Jerome K. Jerome (Ages 13 +)

Comedy for Older Readers


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