"Willa's Pix"
Willa Havisham, star of the (so far) 7 "Willa books" is an avid reader, journal keeper, community-rent payer,and candy eater, who wants to be an author someday. In each novel she talks about the books she is currently reading and shares a "Willa's Pix" list of favorites. Many fans have found new treasures here. Perhaps you will, too. Enjoy!
Willa's Pix, Book 1, The Wedding Planner's Daughter:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Matilda, Roald Dahl
The Member of the Wedding, Carson McCullers
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
And the works of Emily Dickinson, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and William Shakespeare.
"Willa's Pix 2," The Cupid Chronicles:
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
A Day No Pigs Would Die, Robert Newton Peck
The Education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Giver, Lois Lowry
The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton
Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
"Willa's Pix 3," Willa by Heart:
A Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Our Town, Thornton Wilder
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
"Willa's Summer Skinny-Punch Pix, " Book 4, Forget Me Not:
Bronx Masquerade, Nikki Grimes
Edward's Eyes, Patricia MacLachlan
Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan
Green Angel, Alice Hoffman
The Hundred Dresses, Eleanor Estes
Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson
Love That Dog, Sharon Creech
Missing May, Cynthia Rylant
True Believer, Virginia Euwer Wolff
The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleishman
"Willa's Summer Skinny-Punch Pix List #2," Book 5, Wish I Might:
Feathers, Jacqueline Woodson
42 Miles, Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
The Pearl, John Steinbeck
Skellig, David Almond
Song of the Trees, Mildred D. Taylor
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Three Cups of Tea (Young Readers Edition), Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
Yellow Star, Jennifer Roy
"Willa's Summer Skinny-Punch Pix List #3, Book 6, From Willa With Love
Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
Everything on a Waffle, Polly Horvath
The Fire-Eaters, David Almond
Firegirl, Tony Abbott
The Golden Book on Writing, David Lambuth
Hope Was Here, Joan Bauer
Kira-Kira, Cynthia Kadohata
Make Lemonade, Virginia Euwer Wolff
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
***NEW: WILLA'S PIX LIST, Book 7, ROAR LIKE A GIRL
The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
Boy Meets Boy, David Levithan
Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
The God of Animals, Aryn Kyle
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
I Am Malala, Malala Yousafzai
Keeper, Kathi Appelt
Little Bee, Chris Cleave
The Magician's Elephant, Kate DiCamillo
Mockingbird, Kathryn Erskine
My Name is Mina, David Almond
Off the Sidelines, Kirsten Gillibrand
The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate
One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams-Garcia
Princess Academy, Shannon Hale
The Penderwicks, Jeanne Birdsall
Rain, Reign, Ann M. Martin
The Road to Paris, Nikki Grimes
A Room on Lorelei Street, Mary E. Pearson
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli,
Turtle in Paradise, Jennifer Holm
Wonder, R.J. Palacio