All Time Favourites
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking Glass by Lewis Carrol
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
All of a Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
The Little Prince by Antoine de Dainte-Exupery
Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
Mark Pooins by P.L. Travers
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Tree Groes in Booklyn by Betty Smith
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Wonderful WIzard of Oz by Frank Baumon
Girl Classics
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour Reit
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Caddie Woodlawn (and the sequel,
Magical Melons) by Carol Ryrie Brink
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
The Famous Five by Enid Blyton
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
The Illyrian Adventure Series by Lloyd Alexander
The Little Princess (and the Secret Garden) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Keep Climbing, Girls by Beah H. Richards
Little Women and Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lizzie Bright (and The Buckminster Boy) by Gary Schmidt
Mandy by Julie Andrews
Matilda (and The BFG) by Roald Dahl
Miss Happiness and
Miss Flower by Rumer Godden
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Ramona By Beverly Cleary
Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
Lloyd Alexander’s
The Chronicles of Prydain
Isaac Asimov’s
Foundation series
Ray Bradbury’s
Dandelion Wine and Fahrenheit 451
Orson Scott
Card’s Ender’s Game
Susan Cooper’s
The Dark is Rising
Lois Lowry’s
The Giver, Gather Blue and Messenger
Ursula K. LeGuin’s
The Tombs of Atuan and her Earthsea Trilogy
Anne McCaffrey’s
Dragonsong trilogy
Robin McKinley’s
The Blue Sword and
The Hero and the Crown
Philip Pullman’s
His Dark Materials