| 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 |