Banner In The Sky By James Ramsey Ullman
It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.
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Little Britches by Ralph Moody
A man’s character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn’t do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth.
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The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Stories wanted to be read, David’s mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.
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Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
But then a better thought occurred, and this was the one I carried away with me that day: If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
How many feelings can one heart hold?… Infinite, Luna thought. The way the universe is infinite. It is light and dark and endless motion; it is space and time, and space within space, and time within time. And she knew: there is no limit to what the heart can carry.
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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
There was once a boy named Milo who didn’t know what to do with himself–not just sometimes, but always.
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The Iron Trial (Magisterium #1) by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare
They all yelled in excitement. Tamara yelled because she was happy. Aaron yelled because he liked it when other people were happy, and Call yelled because he was sure they were going to die.
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Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
This is a classic Southern Coming of Age story that leaves book lovers feeling like they have already read it a hundred times. Yet they want to continue to read it again and again
