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There are many opportunities for self-advocacy in the NCBC, as members decide which book they want to read, how they want to read the book, and how they want to organize their weekly meetings.

If you would like to participate in the Next Chapter Book Club, get involved today!

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Adapted Classics
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables- Christmas Stories by L.M. Montgomery
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
White Fang by Jack London
Miscellaneous
Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
Count Us In: Growing Up with Down syndrome by Jason Kingsley & Mitchell Levitz
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Popular Fiction
A Wind in the Door by Madeline L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo
Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
Blubber by Judy Blume
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
George Washington's Socks by Elvira Woodruff
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Henry and Beezus by Beverly Cleary
Henry and Ribsy by Beverly Cleary
Henry and the Clubhouse by Beverly Cleary
Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
Joey Pigza Loses Control by Jack Gantos
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
Knights of the Kitchen Table by John Scieszka
Little House on the Prairie series (The Laura Years) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Nancy Drew: The Riding Club Crime by Carolyn Keene
Poppy by Avi
Ramona and her Father by Beverly Cleary
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Runaway Ralph by Beverly Cleary
Skinny Bones by Barbara Parks
Stealing Freedom by Elisa Carbone
Stuart Little by E.B. White
The Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danzinger
The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
The Green Mile by Stephen King
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Summer of Riley by Eve Bunting
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Whittington by Alan Armstrong
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