- General Recommendations
- Staff-Created List
Family Reads
Great read a loud books for every member of the family
StaffLibrary Staff
Daviess County Public Library
20 items
- Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. AR Level: 7.3, AR Points: 17
- When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. AR Level: 3.6, AR Points: 4
- 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. AR Level: 5.6, AR Points: 3
- A fourth grade boy tries to deal with his very active brother. AR Level: 3.3, AR Points: 3
- A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling. AR Level: 5.1, AR Points: 3
- Sisters Mary Rose and Jo-Beth Onetree spend an adventurous night trapped inside the public library during a terrible blizzard. AR Level: 4.0, AR Points: 2
- Child genius, Matilda, applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security. AR Level: 5.0, AR Points: 6
- Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie. AR Level: 3.9, AR Points: 3
- When the Pye family's puppy, Ginger, disappears on Thanksgiving Day, the children are convinced that he has been abducted by a stranger in a yellow hat. AR Level: 6.0, AR Points: 9
- Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire. AR Level: 4.2, AR Points: 2
- A bored young boy, Milo, drives his small electric car through a toy tollbooth and finds himself in the Land Beyond. A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom. AR Level:…
- Claudia and her brother run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she sees a statue so beautiful, she must identify its sculptor. To find out, she must visit the statue's former owner, the elderly Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. AR…
- Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. AR Level: 5.7, AR…
- When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay. AR Level: 3.4, AR Points: 1
- When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. AR Level: 4.4, AR…
- Curious to see if people on the other side of the globe walk upside down, Robert, Anthea, Cyril, and Jane start digging a hole to Australia, but before they get too far they find a Sand-fairy called a Psammead; he grants wishes, but the…
- A Black family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand. AR Level: 5.7, AR Points: 10
- The story of Wilbur, the pig, smallest of the litter, who is raised by the farmer's daughter, and who finds a friend in Charlotte, the spider. AR Level: 4.4, AR Points: 5
- A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or…
You've viewed 20 of 20 items