Val's Recommended Book List

Young Adult Fiction

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Bridge To Terebithia by Katherine Paterson

The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman

The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pierce

A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L'Engle

The Secret Garden by Francis Hodges Burnett

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O'Dell

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Fiction

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Christy by Catherine Marshall

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Last Sin-Eater by Francine Rivers

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Adult Non-fiction

Passion and Purity by Elizabeth Elliott

Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Religious Fiction

And the Shofar Blew by Francine Rivers

Leota's Garden by Francine Rivers

The Stirring by Robert Moeller

This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti

The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Unspeakable by Francine Rivers

The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson

Biographical Fiction

Roots by Alex Haley

All Things Bold and Beautiful by James Herriot

The Water is Wide by Pat Conroy

Hunger of Memory by Richard Rodriguez

36 Children by Herbert Kohl

Death Be Not Proud by John Guinther