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- Literary Classics
- Traditional Literature
- Modern Fantasy & Science Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
- Poetry
- Historical Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Multicultural & International Literature
- Literary Classics
- A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
- Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
- The Cay by Theodore Taylor
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- The Grey King by Susan Cooper
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
- Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
- The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
- Little Women by Louisa Alcott
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck
- Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
- The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Sounder by William Armstrong
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
- Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
- War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- White Fang by Jack London
- The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings
- Traditional Literature
- In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World by Virginia Hamilton and Barry Moser
- Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
- The Dark Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
- Gay-Neck, The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- The Golem retold by Barbara Rogasky
- The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
- The People Who Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton
- Return of the Sun by Joseph Bruchac
- The Story of Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle
- Tales from Silver Lands by Charles J. Finger
- The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit retold by Julius Lester
- World Before This One by Rafe Martin
- Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Modern Fantasy & Science Fiction
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Along Came a Dog by Meindert DeJong
- The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell
- The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
- The Borrowers by Mary Norton
- Building Blocks by Cynthia Voigt
- The Complete Fairy Tales of George Macdonald by George Macdonald
- The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
- Dragon’s Blood by Jane Yolen
- Duplicate by William Sleator
- The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The House of Scorpions by Nancy Farmer
- The Islands of the Blessed by Nancy Farmer
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- The Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
- Kneeknock Rise by Natalie Babbitt
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Lost Years of Merlin by T. A. Barron
- Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
- The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
- Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
- Redwall by Brian Jacques
- Singularity by William Sleator
- Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
- The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
- The White Mountains by John Christopher
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- Realistic Fiction
- The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell
- Blue Heron by Avi
- Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
- Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
- The Friendship and the Gold Cadillac by Mildred Taylor
- The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson
- Gracie’s Girl by Ellen Wittlinger
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
- Home Sweet Home, Good-Bye by Cynthia Stowe
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
- Island by Gary Paulsen
- Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
- Journey of the Sparrows by Fran Leeper Buss
- Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
- Matt Gargan’s Boy by Alfred Slote
- Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
- The Monument by Gary Paulsen
- Mudville by Kurtis Scaletta
- Nothing But the Truth by Avi
- Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
- Onion John by Joseph Krumgold
- Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
- Park’s Quest by Katherine Paterson
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Seedfolks by Paul Fleishman
- Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
- Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
- Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
- A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry
- Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
- Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Two Against the North by Farley Mowat
- Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
- Waiting for the Rain by Sheila Gordon
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong
- Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera and Bill Cleaver
- Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
- Words by Heart by Ouida Sebastyen
- Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
- Poetry
- Ashley Bryan’s ABC of African American Poetry by Ashley Bryan
- Blackberry Ink by Eve Merriam
- The Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear
- Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman
- Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O’Neill
- Hawk, I’m Your Brother by Byrd Baylor
- I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings & Poems ed. by Hana Volavkova
- Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
- Make Lemonade (a novel in poetic form) by Virginia Euwer Wolff
- Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost ed. by Schmidt & Sorensen
- The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
- Selected Poems by Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes
- Under the Sunday Tree by Eloise Greenfield
- When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
- Whispers and Other Poems by Myra Cohn Livingston
- Historical Fiction
- Witness by Karen Hesse
- Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch
- A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Henry Mazer
- Beyond the Burning Tree by Kathryn Lasky
- Bull Run by Paul Fleischman
- Crispin, the Cross of Lead by Avi
- The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
- Dragonwings by Lawrence Yep
- Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman
- Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter
- A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal by Joan Blos
- Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
- The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore M. Jewett
- Incident at Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert
- A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
- Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
- Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
- My Brother Sam Is Dead by James & Christopher Collier
- No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad
- The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon
- Something Upstairs by Avi
- Song of the Trees by Mildred Taylor
- Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry
- The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
- West Against the Wind by Liza Ketchum Murrow
- Wrapped for Eternity: The Story of the Egyptian Mummy by Mildred Pace
- Nonfiction
- Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity by Cwiklik
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
- Cars on Mars: Roving the Red Planet by Alexandra Siy
- Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Dorothy Heiligman
- Death Be Not Proud: A Memoir by John Gunther
- Emily Dickinson: Singular Poet by Carol Dommermuth-Costa
- Evolution Revolution: From Darwin to DNA by Robert Winston
- Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
- Homesick, My Own Story by Jean Fritz
- Hurricane Force: In the Path of America’s Deadliest Storms by Joseph B. Treaster
- Leonardo da Vinci by Kathleen Krull
- Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
- Lincoln Shot: A President’s Life Remembered by Barry Denenberg
- Long Journey Home by Julius Lester
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Problem of His Time by Sobel
- My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall
- Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
- Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
- Prairie Visions: The Life and Times of Soloman Butcher by Pam Conrad
- To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
- Simple Gifts: Lessons in Living from a Shaker Village by June Sprigg
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace by Greg Mortenson
- Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens by Patricia Lauber
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin
- The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman*
- Multicultural & International Literature
- Black Elk Speaks:Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux as told through John G. Neihardt
- Buried Onions by Gary Soto
- Dragon Road by Laurence Yep
- Extra Credit by Andrew Clements
- The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
- If You Could Be My Friend: Letters of Mervet Akram Sha’ban and Galit Fink presented by Litsa Boudalike
- Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O’Dell
- Journey to Jo’burg by Beverly Naidoo
- Journey Home by Yoshiko Uchida
- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
- The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam by Huynh Quang Nhuong
- My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
- Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang and David Hwang*
- The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Kherdian
- Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark*
- The Sign of the Chrysanthemum by Katherine Paterson
- Swami and Friends by R. K. Narayan
- Upon the Head of a Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 by Aranka Siegal
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
- Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
- Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic
