Title

Author

Genre

The Book of Three

Lloyd Alexander

Fantasy

Something Upstairs

Avi

Fantasy

It’s Not the End of the World

Judy Blume

Realistic

The Wish Giver

Bill Brittain

Fantasy

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Realistic

The Glory Girl

Betsy Byars

Realistic

House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

Realistic/Ethnic

Crazy Lady

Jane Leslie Conly

Realistic

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

Realistic/Ethnic

Catherine, Called Birdy

Karen Cushman

Historical

The Midwife’s Apprentice

Karen Cushman

Historical - Middle Ages

Zlata’s Diary

Zlata Filipovic

Autobiography

Harriet the Spy

Louise Fitzhugh

Realistic

One-Eyed Cat

Paula Fox

Realistic

Stone Fox

John Reynolds Gardiner

Realistic

Julie of the Wolves

Jean George

Realistic/Adventure

Wait Till Helen Comes

Mary Downing Hahn

Supernatural

The House of Dies Drear

Virginia Hamilton

Adventure/Ethnic

The Gift Giver

Joyce Hansen

Realistic/Ethnic

Misty of Chincoteague

Marguerite Henry

Adventure

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Kim Holt

Realistic

Invitation to the Game

Monica Hughes

Science Fiction

Mossflower

Brian Jacques

Adventure/Fantasy

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

Fantasy

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E. L. Konigsburg

Adventure

The View from Saturday

E. L. Konigsburg

Realistic

No More Dead Dogs

Gordon Korman

Realistic

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L’Engle

Fantasy

Ella Enchanted

Gail Levine

Fantasy

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

Historical/WW II

A Summer To Die

Lois Lowry

Realistic

Shiloh

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Realistic

A Family Apart

Joan Lowery Nixon

Historical Adventure

Rascal

Sterling North

Non-Fiction/Animal

Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson

Realistic

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

Adventure

A Long Way from Chicago

Richard Peck

Realistic

Freak the Mighty

Rodman Philbrick

Realistic

Night of the Twisters

Ivy Ruckman

Realistic

The Egypt Game

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Adventure

Call It Courage

Armstrong Sperry

Adventure

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

Realistic

Dominic

William Steig

Fantasy

The Cay

Theodore Taylor

Adventure/Ethnic/W.W. II

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Classic/ Historical

The Green Book

Jill Paton Walsh

Science Fiction

Belle Prater’s Boy

Ruth White

Realistic

The Sword in the Stone

T.H. White

Fantasy