When your child has listened to over 400 hours of audiobooks during the year, has listened as you’ve read aloud some awesome books, and has finally started to read independently, the result is a giant booklist full of several gems. I asked my son to tell me his favorite for the year, and it was excruciatingly hard for him to narrow it down to these 17. We’ve got some classics as well as books you’ve probably never heard of! Our list contains books appropriate for beginning ch