The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village , by Laura Amy Schlitz

The Higher Power of Lucky , by Susan Patron

Criss Cross , by Lynne Rae Perkins

Kira-Kira , by Cynthia Kadohata

The Tale of Despereaux , by Kate DiCamillo

Crispin: The Cross of Lead , by Avi

A Single Shard , by Linda Sue Park

A Year Down Yonder , by Richard Peck

Bud, Not Buddy , by Christopher Paul Curtis

Holes , by Louis Sachar

Out of the Dust , by Karen Hesse

The View From Saturday , by E.L. Konigsburg

The Midwife's Apprentice , by Karen Cushman

Walk Two Moons , by Sharon Creech

The Giver , by Lois Lowry

Missing May , by Cynthia Rylant

Shiloh , by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Maniac Magee , by Jerry Spinelli

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Joyful Noise , by Paul Fleischman

Lincoln: a Photobiography , by Russell Freedman

The Whipping Boy , by Sid Fleischman

Sarah, Plain and Tall , by Patricia MacLachlan

The Hero and the Crown , by Robin McKinley

Dear Mr. Henshaw , by Beverly Cleary

Dicey's Song , by Cynthia Voigt

A Visit To William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard

Jacob Have I Loved , by Katherine Paterson

A Gathering Of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 , by Joan Blos

The Westing Game , by Ellen Raskin

Bridge to Terabithia , by Katherine Paterson

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry , by Mildred Taylor

The Grey King , by Susan Cooper

M.C. Higgins, The Great , by Virginia Hamilton

The Slave Dancer , by Paula Fox

Julie of the Wolves , by Jean Craighead George

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH , by Robert C. O'Brien

Summer of the Swans , by Betsy, byars

Sounder , by William H. Armstrong

The High King , by Lloyd Alexander

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler , by E. L. Konigsburg

Up a Road Slowly , by Irene Hunt

I, Juan de Pareja , by Elizabeth Borten de Trevino

Shadow of a Bull , by Maia Wojciechowska

It's Like This, Cat , by Emily Cheney Neville

A Wrinkle in Time , by Madeleine L'Engle

The Bronze Bow , by Elizabeth George Speare

Island of the Blue Dolphins , by Scott O'Dell

Onion John , by Joseph Krumgold

The Witch of Blackbird Pond , by Elizabeth George Speare

Rifles for Watie , by Harold Keith

Miracles on Maple Hill , by Virginia Sorenson

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch , by Jean Lee Latham

The Wheel on the School , by Meindert Dejong

And Now Miguel , by Joseph Krumgold

Secret of the Andes , by Ann Nolan Clark

Ginger Pye , by Eleanor Estes

Amos Fortune, Free Man , by Elizabeth Yates

The Door In The Wall , by Marguerite de Angeli

King of the Wind , by Marguerite Henry

The Twenty-One Balloons , by William Pene du Boish

Miss Hickory , by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Strawberry Girl , by Lois Lenski

Rabbit Hill , by Robert Lawson

Johnny Tremain , by Esther Forbes

Adam of the Road , by Elizabeth Janet Gray

The Matchlock Gun , by Walter D. Edmonds

Call It Courage , by Armstrong Sperry

Daniel Boone , by James Daugherty

Thimble Summer , by Elizabeth Enright

The White Stag , by Kate Seredy