Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh:
Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis:
Four adventurous
siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door
and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by
the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of
the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change . . . and a great sacrifice.
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren:
Pippi is an irrepressible, irreverent, and irrefutably delightful girl who lives alone (with a monkey) in her wacky house, Villa Villekulla. When she's not dancing with the burglars who were just trying to rob her house, she's attempting to learn the "pluttification" tables at school; fighting Adolf, the strongest man in the world at the circus; or playing tag with police officers. Pippi's high-spirited, good-natured hijinks cause as much trouble as fun, but a more generous child you won't find anywhere.
