Introduce your child to unforgettable characters who will always have a special place in their heart. These books all come highly recommended by the Viewtale review team. Grab them for your young readers today.
Harriet the Spy By Louise Fitzhugh
Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she's written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together?
James and the Giant Peach By Roald Dahl
When poor James Henry Trotter loses his parents in a horrible rhinoceros accident, he is forced to live with his two wicked aunts, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. After three years, he becomes "the saddest and loneliest boy you could find." Then one day, a wizened older man in a dark-green suit gives James a bag of magic crystals that promise to reverse his misery forever. When James accidentally spills the crystals on his aunts' withered peach tree, he sets the adventure in motion. From the old tree, a single peach grows, and grows, and grows some more until finally James climbs inside the giant fruit and rolls away from his despicable aunts to a whole new life. James befriends an assortment of hilarious characters, including Grasshopper, Earthworm, Miss Spider, and Centipede, each with their song to sing.
Elijah of Buxton By Christopher Paul Curtis
It's 1860, and eleven-year-old Elijah is a first-generation freeborn child. His Canadian town of Buxton, located just across the border from Detroit, serves as a haven for runaway slaves and their children, where Blacks can live free and govern themselves away from the horrors of pre-emancipation America. Elijah sets off for Detroit in pursuit when the town's corrupt preacher steals money from a citizen who's been saving to buy his family's freedom. He encounters a group of captured runaway slaves; unable to keep them all, he escapes with the youngest--a baby--and returns Buxton a hero.
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