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You've Seen the Movie, Now Read the Book: 2005 - 2009

Want to know what your favorite movie was based on? Here is an updated list of children's and young adults' feature films from 2005 - 2009 and the books upon which they were based. Also see adult fiction books made into movies, and adult non-fiction books made into movies, movies from 1986-1996 and from 1997-2004.

Find additional titles in Enser’s Filmed Books and Plays: A List of Books and Plays from Which Films Have Been Made, 1928-2001, *791.436016 B292e 2003 or see the Mid-Continent Public Library's Based on the Book page.

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, M, N, S, T, W, Y, Z

Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, 2006
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

Aquamarine, 2006
Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman

Astro Boy, 2009
Astro Boy series by Osamu Tezuka

Because of Winn-Dixie, 2005
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, 2008
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Bridge to Terabithia, 2007
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Charlotte's Web, 2006
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

A Christmas Carol, 2009
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, 2008
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 2005
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, 2009
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

Coraline, 2009
Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Curious George, 2006
Curious George books by H.A. Rey

Duma, 2005
How It Was With Dooms: A True Story From Africa by Xan Hopcraft and Carol Cawthra Hopcraft

Eragon, 2006
Eragon by Christopher Paolini

The Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2009
The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

Five Children and It, 2005
Five Children and It by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Flicka, 2006
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara

The Golden Compass, 2007
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2005
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2009
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2007
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling

Hoot, 2006
Hoot by Carl Hiassen

Horton Hears a Who, 2008
Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss

How to Eat Fried Worms, 2006
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

Inkheart, 2009
Inkheart by Cornelia Caroline Funke

Kit Kettridge, 2008
Meet Kit: An American Girl by Valerie Tripp

Meet the Robinsons, 2007
A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce

Nanny McPhee, 2005
Nurse Matilda (stories) by Christianna Brand

Nim's Island, 2008
Nim's island by Wendy Orr

The Seeker: the Dark is Rising, 2007
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

Sex Drive, 2008
All the Way by Andy Behrens

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, 2005
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 2008
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares

The Spiderwick Chronicles, 2008
The Spiderwick Chronicles series by Tony DiTerlizzi

The Tale of Despereaux, 2008
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo

The Thief Lord, 2006
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

Twilight, 2008
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

The Water Horse, 2007
The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith

Where the Wild Things Are, 2009
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Whip It, 2009
Derby Girl by Shauna Cross

Youth in Revolt, 2009
Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp by C.D. Payne

Zathura, 2005
Zathura: A Space Adventure by Chris Van Allsburg

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