For Gifted 8 year old

  • Aiken mysteries
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel by Lewis Carroll
  • Among the Betrayed by Margaret Peterson Haddix
  • Among the Hidden,
  • Among the Imposter
  • Asimov's Lucky Starr series.
  • Beauty and the Beast,
  • C.S. Lewis works
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory books by Roald Dahl
  • Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
  • Chronicles of Narnia series by CS Lewis
  • Cinderella.
  • Diana Wynn Jones,
  • Dick Francis,
  • Donna Napoli
  • Dorothy Gilman's Mrs. Pollifax books,
  • E. B. White's _Stuart Little_ & _Charlotte's Web_.
  • E.L. Konigsberg, such as _From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E.Frankweiler_,
  • Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
  • George MacDonald - The light princess
  • Jane Yolen books
  • Joan Aiken's series that begins with _The Wolves of Willoughby Chase_, _Black Hearts in Battersea_
  • John Christopher's Tripod trilogy,
  • Lloyd Alexander (short but many)
  • Madeline L'Engle titles
  • Mary Tannen's Wizard children of Finn
  • Matilda
  • Maud Hart Lovelace about Betsy, Tacy, & Tib.
  • Miss Bianca_, by Margery Sharp,
  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
  • Patricia Wrede, the "Dealing with Dragons" series.
  • Paul Zindel
  • Phillip Pullman,
  • Poppy and Rye"by Avi, "
  • Pyle - The King Arthur books
  • Rapunzel,
  • Redwall Series by Brian Jacques
  • Robin McKinley also has some that are loosely based on fairy tales or legends -- very well written fantasy,
  • Running Out of Time,
  • Shannara series by Terry Brooks
  • Susan Cooper's series that begins with _Over Sea, Under Stone_ and includes two Newbery winners among the five books.
  • T. H. White's _Sword in the Stone_,
  • The Akiko series by Mark Crilley
  • The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
  • The Borrowers_ and its sequels by Mary Norton, _
  • The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop
  • The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis
  • The Ear, the eye and the arm by Farmer
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • The Golden Compass and others by Pullman,
  • The Hobbit by Tolkein.
  • The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
  • The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw
  • The Phantom Tollbooth by Juster
  • The Red Wall books by Brian Jacques,
  • The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.
  • The Wizard of Oz series by L. Frank Baum
  • Ursula LeGuin,
  • Virginia Hamilton's books - The people could fly;  her collections of stories about creation, women
  • Zilpha Keatley Snyder,
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