I mention each author only once, but several of them have MULTIPLE books that are FANTASTIC!!
**Indicates ALL books by this author are worth reading!!!
Al Capone Does My Shirts series, by Gennifer Choldenko
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,by Lewis Carroll**
Anne of Green Gables series, by L.M Montgomery
Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne**
At the Back of the North Wind, by George MacDonald**
Ballet Shoes series, by Noah Streatfield
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo**
The Fairy Book series, by Andrew Lang
The Borrrowers series by Mary Norton
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson**
Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London**
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee
The Cat Who Went to Heaven, by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Catherine, Called Birdy, by Karen Cushman
Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White **
Countdown, by Deborah Wiles
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis
Dead End in Norvelt, by Jack Gantos
The Doctor Dolittle Series, by Hugh Lofting
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, by Russell Freedman
Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine
Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline Kelly
The Family Under the Bridge, by Natalie Savage
Frindle, by Andrew Clements
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil
E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konigsburg**
Ginger Pye, by Eleanor Estes **
The Giver, by Lois Lowry**
The Golden Compass series, by Philip Pullman**
Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Amy Schlitz
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
Half Magic, by Edward Eager**
Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Heidi, by Johanna Spyri
Holes by Louis Sachar
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
The Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynne Reid Banks
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick**
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell**
Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes
Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead
The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling**
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles, by Julie Andrews Edwards**
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving**
The Lions of Little Rock, by Kristin Levine
The Little House series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott**
Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli**
Mary Poppins series, by P.L. Travers
Matilda, by Roald Dahl**
Miss Hickory, by Caroline Sherwin Bailey
Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, by Rodman Philbrick
Mr. Popper’s Penguins, by Richard and Florence Atwater
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien
My Father’s Dragon series, by Ruth S. Gannett
My Side of the Mountain series, by Jean Craighead George
The Mysterious Benedict Society series, by Trenton Lee Stewart
Oliver, by Charles Dickens**
One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate
The Penderwicks, by Jeanne Birdsall
The Percy Jackson series, by Rick Riordan
Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
Pippi Longstocking series, Astrid Lindgren
Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale
The Railway Children, by Edith Nesbitt**
Ramona series, by Beverly Cleary**
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era, by Sterling North
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor
Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan
The Saturdays, by Elizabeth Enright**
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnnett**
Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket
Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds
The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare**
Sounder, by William H. Armstrong
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, by Tom Angleberger
Strawberry Girl, by Lois Lenski
Swallows and Amazons, by Lee Ransome
Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Rudolph Wyss
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, by Judy Blume
Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain**
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson**
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi**
Trumpeter of Krakow, by Eric P. Kelly
Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
The Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pene de Bois
Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis**
The Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt**
The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin **
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Whipping Boy, by Sid Fleischman
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
A Wizard of Earthsea series, by Ursula K. LeGuin
The Wizard of Oz series, by L. Frank Baum
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, by Joan Aiken
Wonder, by R.J. Palacio
The Wrinkle in Time series, by Madeleine L’Engle
A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck **
