Must Read Books for ages 6 and up

Here are some "wunnerful" books for all ages :

•    Swallows and Amazons (series, Arthur Ransome, ages 8 and up read aloud, ages 10 and up independent)
• All Creatures Great and Small (USA) / If Only They Could Talk (series, Alfred Wight under pen name of James Herriot, ages 10 and up) There is also a television series All Creatures Great and Small suitable for ages 6 and up
• Life as We Knew It (Susan Beth Pfeffer- NOT A TYPO!!!-ages 11+)
• Matilda (ages 6+ by Roald Dahl)
• Percy Jackson series (Rick Riordan ages 8 and up)
• The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 ( ages 9 and up, Christopher Paul Curtis