In the final episode of our season on Juvenile and YA Fiction, the entire CenterForLit crew gathers to reminisce about how they got hooked on reading as children. We also discuss how to go about guiding young readers through the current environment of juvenile and YA literature.

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• American Adventure Stories for Boys

  
  



• Forever Island by Patrick D. Smith

  
  



• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  
  



• A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

  
  



• John Paul Jones by Vincent Brown

  
  



• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

  
  



• The Cat of Bubastes by G.A. Henty

  
  



• Eragon by Christopher Paolini

  
  



• Mara: Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

  
  



• Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne

  
  



• The Box Car Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

  
  



• The Borrowers by Mary Norton

  
  



• The Littles by John Peterson

  
  



• The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem

  
  



• Stuart Little by E.B. White

  
  



• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

  
  



• Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

  
  



• The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

  
  

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