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Celebrate "Read Across America" With These 25 Classic Books

I've got to get back to reading the classics!

Elisa Nuñez-Rodriguez
Mar 01, 2018
Florida State University
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Celebrate "Read Across America" With These 25 Classic Books
Elisa Nuñez-Rodriguez

For some, March 2nd is any other day. For avid readers, it's a day to celebrate reading! It all started back in 1997 when a group within the National Education Association (NEA) decided that there should be a day to celebrate reading, and thus Read Across America was born in 1998, and it was chosen to be celebrated on none other than Dr. Suess's birthday!

So to help celebrate a worldwide day of reading, schools and libraries encourage children to read their favorite book and to share with others the joy that comes with reading.

The proper way to ring in the 21st anniversary of Read Across America would be to shed some light on the books that built my own foundation of education and the true passion for reading. Here are my absolute favorite books that I've ever read, from childhood to adulthood.

1. "Go Dog, Go!" by P.D. Eastman

2. "Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now?" by Dr. Suess

3. "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

4. "Miss Nelson is Missing" by Harry Allard


5. "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" by Judi Barrett

6. "Blanca Nieves y Los Siete Enanitos" by Walt Disney

7. "Grandfather's Journey" by Allen Say


8. "The Stranger" by Chris Van Allsburg


9. "The Anybodies" by N.E. Bode


10. "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen


11. "Adventures of the Bailey School Kids" by Debbie Dadey


12. "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis


13. "Eleven (The Winnie Years)" by Lauren Myracle


14. "The Kingdom Keepers" by Ridley Pearson


15. "The Name of this Book is Secret" by Pseudonymous Bosch


16. "The Lost Boy" by Dave Pelzer


17. "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury


18. "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton


19. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini


20. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde


21. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson


22. "The Columbus Affair" by Steve Berry

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