50 Books You Should Read by Age 12

Our family has looked through multiple lists like this on the web, so we wanted to make one of our own.  Here is the Kline & Manning Family’s 50 Books You Should Read Before You Are 12 (presented in no particular order).

A Wrinkle in Time


Where the Wild Things Are
 

The One and Only Ivan


The Lemony Snicket series


Charlotte’s Web


The Hobbit


The Lorax


Wonder


The Harry Potter series


The Runaway Bunny


The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore


The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe


The Fantastic Mr. Fox


The Giving Tree


The Story of Ferdinand


The Day the Crayons Quit


Grandpa Green

Love You, Forever

The Polar Express


Holes


The Monster at the End of This Book


Bud Not Buddy


I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark


The Percy Jackson series
 

Circus Mirandus


Black Stallion


Penguin Problems


The Guardians of Childhood Series


The Boy Who Loved Math


What to Do with an Idea


Echo


Land of Stories


Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy


How to Train Your Dragon series


The Mixed Up Files of Basil E Frankweiler


Flora & Ulysses


Bridge to Terabithia


Green Eggs and Ham


A Sick Day for Amos McGee


Corduroy


The Golden Compass


One


What Do People Do All Day

The Cay

 

The Trumpet of the Swan


The Grouchy Ladybug
 

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH


Llama Llama Red Pajama


Knuffle Bunny series

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy