JFIC’s Resilient Children

Hello, jFIC fans,

Some of the most engaging jFIC books are about resilient children overcoming terrible circumstances. Here are a few well-known titles:

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier

Sweep: A Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier

The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Turnaway Girls by Hayley Chewins

The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert

How to Catch a Bogle by Catherine Jinks

West of the Moon by Margi Preus

Withering-by-Sea by Judith Rossell

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

The Explorer by Katherine Rundell 

Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

How I Became a Ghost by Tim Tingle

Nightbooks by J. A. White

Happy reading!

Where there’s tea there’s hope.
-Arthur Wing Pinero