Junior book club members in Dublin City Libraries read and talked about 127 different books in 2009 – who said books are dead?! Not only did they read the books but they talked about them as well!

Roddy Doyle was the most popular author along with Enid Blyton, Judi Curtin (again!), Siobhán Dowd, Philip Pullman, Kate Thompson and Jacqueline Wilson.

Old favourites such as Roald Dahl, Frances Hodgson Burnett (A Little Princess), A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh) and L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables) are still going strong

• The Cat Who Got Carried Away  Allan Ahlberg
• The Fall of Fergal  Philip Ardagh
• Titanic 2020  Colin Bateman
• Five go off in a Caravan  Enid Blyton
• Five go to Smuggler’s Top  Enid Blyton
• Five Run Away Together  Enid Blyton
• The Castle of Adventure  Enid Blyton
• The Enchanted Wood   Enid Blyton
  
• The Magic Faraway Tree   Enid Blyton
• The Mystery of Holly Lane   Enid Blyton
• The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage  Enid Blyton
• The Mystery of the Strange Bundle  Enid Blyton
• A Treasury of Enid Blyton School Stories  Enid Blyton
• Starseeker  Tim Bowler
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas  John Boyne
• The Penderwicks  Jeanne Birdsall
• A Little Princess  Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Scarlett  Cathy Cassidy
• Time and Again  Rob Childs
• Airman  Eoin Colfer
• The Legend of Spud Murphy  Eoin Colfer
• The Blue Horse  Marita Conlon-McKenna
• The Dark is Rising  Susan Cooper
  
• Cosmic  Frank Cottrell Boyce
• Millions  Frank Cottrell Boyce
• Jimmy Coates Killer  Joe Craig
• Alice Next Door  Judi Curtin
• Bonjour Alice   Judi Curtin
• See If I Care  Judi Curtin
• The Magic Finger  Roald Dahl
• The Twits  Roald Dahl
• The Spook’s Apprentice  Joseph Delaney
• Because of Winn-Dixie  Kate Di Camillo
• Reavers’ Ransom  Emily Diamand
• Oliver Twist  Charles Dickens
• Bog Child  Siobhan Dowd
• The London Eye Mystery  Siobhan Dowd
• Farewell to Ireland  Malachy Doyle
• The Hound of Ulster  Malachy Doyle
• Her Mother’s Face  Roddy Doyle
• Rover Saves Christmas  Roddy Doyle
• The Giggler Treatment  Roddy Doyle
• Wilderness  Roddy Doyle
• Cinderella  Alan Durant
• Amy & Claire agus An Phleist Mhór  Susan Edwards
• The Usborne Book of Greek & Norse Legends  Cheryl Evans
• Bad Dreams  Anne Fine
• How to Write Really Badly  Anne Fine
• Anila’s Journey  Mary Finn
• Stone Heart  Charlie Fletcher
  
• Inkheart  Cornelia Funke
• Lizzie’s Wish  Adele Gèras
• Blue Flame  K.M. Grant
• Barack Obama, Son of Promise, Child of Hope  Nikki Grimes    
• The Book of a Thousand Days  Shannon Hale
• The Gift of the Magi  O. Henry
• Flush  Carl Hiaasen
• The Star of Kazan   Eva Ibbotson
• Pirate Patch and the Chest of Bones  Rose Impey
• The Great Paper Caper  Oliver Jeffers
• The Game   Diana Wynne Jones
  
• Jacob’s Ladder  Brian Keaney
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit  Judith Kerr
• Dinosaur Trouble  Dick King-Smith
• Happy Mouseday  Dick King-Smith
• The Mouse Family Robinson  Dick King-Smith
• Skulduggery Pleasant  Derek Landy
• The Faceless Ones  Derek Landy
• The Roman Mysteries Treasury  Caroline Lawrence
• A Wizard of Earthsea  Ursula Le Guin
• The Magician’s Nephew  C.S. Lewis
• Twelfth Day of July  Joan Lingard
• Just Henry  Michelle Magorian
• Missing  Catherine MacPhail
• Portable Ghosts  Margaret Mahy
• Dirty Bertie: Yuck!  Alan McDonald
• Indigo’s Star  Hilary Mckay
• Saffy’s Angel  Hilary McKay
• Winnie the Pooh  A.A. Milne
• Anne of Green Gables  L.M. Montgomery
• The Secret of Kells – Retold by Mary Webb  Tomm Moore
• Born to Run  Michael Morpurgo
• The Butterfly Lion  Michael Murpurgo
• The Orchard Book of Aesop’s Fables  Michael Morpurgo
• The Voyage of Shackleton’s Endurance  Gavin Mortimer
• The Worst Witch  Jill Murphy
• Lost Boy  Linda Newbery
• Nevermore  Linda Newbery
• Polly’s March  Linda Newbery
• Brionglóidí agus Aistir Eile  Aine Ní Ghlinn
• Wolfgran  Finbar O’Connor
• Airborn  Kenneth Oppel
• Four Kids, Three Cats, Two Cows, One Witch (Maybe)  Siobhán Parkinson
• Tom’s Midnight Garden  Philippa Pearce
• A Dog So Small  Philippa Pearce
• A Finder’s Magic  Philippa Pearce
• Dog  Daniel Pennac
• The Wee Free Men  Terry Pratchett
• Clockwork  Philip Pullman
• The Firework-Maker’s Daughter  Philip Pullman
• The Scarecrow and his Servant  Philip Pullman
• Bill and Fred  John Quinn
• Fairy Secrets, Fairyland Could be Lost Forever!  Gwyneth Rees
• Tales of Beedle the Bard  J.K. Rowling
• A Flying Birthday Cake?  Louis Sachar
• Koyasan  Darren Shan
• Horrid Henry and the Bogey Babysitter  Francesca Simon
• The Bad Beginning  Lemony Snicket
• Heidi  Johanna Spyri
• Mr Gum and the Power Crystals  Andy Stanton
• You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum  Andy Stanton
• Various Rotten School Stories  R.L. Stine
• Dracula  Bram Stoker
• The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog  Jeremy Strong
• Gulliver’s Travels  Jonathan Swift
• Faraway Home  Marilyn Taylor
• Creature of the Night  Kate Thompson
• Highway Robbery  Kate Thompson
• The New Policeman  Kate Thompson
• Josie Under Fire  Ann Turnbull
• Daddy-Long-Legs  Jean Webster
• Lincoln & his Boys  Rosemary Wells
• Charlotte’s Web  E.B. White
• Cookie  Jacqueline Wilson
• My Sister Jodie  Jacqueline Wilson
• The Silver Notebook  Enda Wyley