| Mythology and Folk Tales |
| Andersen: Fairy Tales |
| D'Aulaires: Book of Greek Myths |
| Edith Hamilton: Mythology |
| Madhar Jaffrey: Seasons of Splendour: Tales, myths and legends of India |
| Jacob Lawrence: Aesop's Fables |
| Charles Perrault: The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault |
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| Fiction |
| Lloyd Alexander: The High King |
| Alan Armstrong: Whittington |
| Joan Blos: A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 |
| Polly S. Brooks: Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc |
| Betsy Byars: Summer of the Swans |
| Beverly deary: Dear Mr. Henshaw |
| Susan Cooper: The Grey King |
| Sharon Creech: Walk Two Moons |
| Paul Creswick: Robin Hood |
| Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe |
| Meindert DeJong: The Wheel on the School |
| Elizabeth Borten de Trevino: /, Juan de Pareja |
| Kate DiCamillo: The Tale of Despereaux, Because of Winn Dixie |
| Walter D. Edmonds: The Matchlock Gun |
| Julie Andrews Edwards: The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles |
| Paul Fleischman: The Borning Room |
| Sid Fleischman: The Whipping Boy |
| Michael Foreman: War Boy: A Country Childhood |
| Paula Fox: Monkey Island; One-Eyed Cat, other titles |
| Sheila Garrigue: The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Golden Touch |
| Carl Hiaasen: Hoot |
| Polly Horvath: Everything on a Waffle, The Canning Season |
| Ted Hughes: The Iron Giant |
| Irene Hunt: Up a Road Slowly |
| Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth |
| Eric Kelly: The Trumpeter of Krakow |
| Elaine Konigsburg: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basel E. Frankweiler; other titles |
| Joseph Krumgold: Onion John; And Now Miguel |
| lain Lawrence: Gemini Summer |
| Patricia MacLachlan: Sarah, Plain and Tall |
| Eloise McGraw: Moorchild |
| Hilary McKay: Saffy's Angel |
| Robin McKinley: The Hero and the Crown |
| L.M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables |
| Phyllis Reynolds Naylor: Shiloh |
| Emily Cheney Neville: It's Like This, Cat |
| Robert C. O'Brien: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM |
| Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins; Sarah Bishop, other titles |
| Linda Sue Park: A Single Shard, other titles |
| Jerry Pinkney: The Talking Eggs, The Jungle Book |
| Howard Pyle: The Story of King Arthur and His Knights |
| Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game |
| M. Rowlings: The Yearling |
| W. Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows |
| J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter series |
| Pam M. Ryan: Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride |
| Cynthia Rylant: Missing May |
| Cynthia Rylant: The Van Gogh Cafe |
| Louis Sachar: Holes |
| Brian Selznick: The Invention of Hugo Cabret |
| Jerry Spinelli: Maniac Magee |
| Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped; Treasure Island |
| Gary Soto: Off and Running |
| Lois Lowry: The Willowbys |
| Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
| Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth, other titles |
| Robert Westall: Blitzcat; Echoes of War; The Kingdom by the Sea |
| Deborah Wiles: Each Little Bird that Sings |
| Nancy Willard: A Visit To William Blake's Inn |
| Maia Wojciechowska: Shadow of a Bull |
| Jacqueline Woodson: Show Way |
| Laurence Yep: The Star Fisher; Dragonwings |
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| Poetry |
| Paul Fleischman: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices |
| Eloise Greenfield: Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems |
| Bobbi Katz: Pocket Poems |
| D.J. and D. Kennedy: Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry |
| Elizabeth Partridge: This Land Was Made for You and Me |
| Jack Prelutsky: The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury |
| Kenneth G. Rainis: Exploring with a Magnifying Glass |
| Gary D. Schmidt: Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost |
| Shel Silverstein: A Light in the Attic and others |
| Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses |
| Jane Yolen: Bird Watch: A Book of Poetry, other titles |
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| Children's Classics |
| William Armstrong: Sounder |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden |
| Beverly deary: Ramona the Pest; Dear Mr. Henshaw |
| Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; other titles |
| Antoine De Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince |
| Mary Mapes Dodge: Hans Brinker; or The Silver Skates |
| Elizabeth Enright: The Saturdays |
| Eleanor Estes: The Moffat stories; Ginger Pye |
| Louise Fitzhugh: Harriet the Spy |
| Ian Fleming: Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang |
| Esther Forbes: Johnny Tremain |
| Jean George: Julia of the Wolves |
| F.Gibson: Old Yeller |
| Kenneth Graham: The Wind in the Willows |
| Rudyard Kipling: Just So Stories; The Jungle Books |
| Madeleine L'Engle: A Wrinkle in Time |
| C.S. Lewis: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe |
| Jack London: The Call of the Wild |
| Mary Norton: The Borrowers |
| Armstrong Sperry: Call it Courage |
| Johanna Spryi: Heidi |
| Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| E.B. White: Stuart Little; Charlotte's Web; Trumpet of the Swan |