Here is a terrific collection of books that are selected for their kid-pleasing power. You get a collection of twenty-five favorites, old and new, fiction and nonfiction, contemporary, historical, and multicultural. But most importantly, you get a collection of stories that kids will want to read again and again. Set includes 25 books: Among the Hidden (Haddix), Amos Fortune, Free Man (Yates), Because of Winn-Dixie (DiCamillo), Bridge to Terabithia (Paterson), Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis), The Cay (Taylor), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl), City of Ember (Duprau), Esperanza Rising (Munoz-Ryan), Fantastic Mr. Fox (Dahl), From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Konigsburg), The Giver (Lowry), The Hobbit (Tolkien), Holes (Sachar), Hoot (Hiaasen), Indian in the Cupboard (Banks), Island of the Blue Dolphins (O'Dell), Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe (Lewis), Long Way From Chicago (Peck), My Side of the Mountain (George), Phantom Tollbooth (Juster), Redwall (Jacques), Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Coerr), Walk Two Moons (Creech), Wrinkle in Time (L'Engle).