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
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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
The Reading Café 