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Realistic Fiction


Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
by Louise Rennison

Bloomability
by Sharon Creech

By The Great Horn Spoon
by Sid Fleischman

Catherine Certitude
by Patrick Modiano and Illustrations by Jean-Jacques Sempe

Esperanza Rising
by Pam Munoz Ryan

Everything on a Waffle
by Polly Horvath

Flipped
by Wendelin Van Draanen

Frindle
by Andrew Clements

Granny the Pag
by Nina Bawden

Hope Was Here
by Joan Bauer

Just Juice
by Karen Hesse

Me & Rupert Goody
by Barbara O’Connor

Miss Rumphius
by Barbara Cooney

Secret Letters from 0 to 10
by Susie Morgenstern

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
by Suzanne Fisher Staples

Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson

Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli

Terror at the Zoo
by Peg Kehret

The Boy Who Ate Words
by Thierry Dedieu. Translated from the French by Julie Harris with Lory Frankel

The Four Ugly Cats in Apartment 3D
by Marilyn Sachs

The Hundred Dresses
by Eleanor Estes

The Most Beautiful Place in the World
by Ann Cameron

The Trolls
by Polly Horvath

True Believer
by Virginia Euwer Wolff

Fantasy


Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer

Beast
by Donna Jo Napoli

Brave Irene
by William Steig

Bright Shadow
by Avi

Catwings
by Ursula LeGuin

Chrysanthemum
by Kevin Henkes

Dominic
by William Steig

Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine

Honus and Me
by Dan Gutman

I was a Rat!
by Philip Pullmann

Juniper
by Monica Furlong

Sabriel
by Garth Nix

Skellig
by David Almond

Solomon The Rusty Nail
by William Steig

Stravaganza
by Mary Hoffman

The Hobbit
by  J.R.R. Tolkien

The Ink Drinker
by Eric Sanvoisin

The Music of Dolphins
by Karen Hesse

The Sword in the Stone
by T. H. White

The Wainscott Weasel
by Tor Seidler

Weslandia
by Paul Fleischman; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes

Adventure


Far North
by Will Hobbs

Holes
by Louis Sachar

My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George

Remote Man
by Elizabeth Honey

Running Out of Time
by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The Twenty-one Balloons
by William Péne du Bois

The Wanderer
by Sharon Creech

The Wreckers
by Iain Lawrence

Mystery


Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen

Sammy Keyes Detective Series
by Wendelin Van Draanen

Smith
by Leon Garfield

Historical Fiction


Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride
by Pam Munoz Ryan, illustrated by Brian Selznick

At the Sign of the Star
by  Katherine Sturtevant

Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry

Shadow Spinner
by Susan Fletcher

Soldier’s Heart
by Gary Paulsen

The Shakespeare Stealer
by Gary Blackwood

The Wheel on the School
by Meindert DeJong

When My Name Was Keoko
by Linda Sue Park

Where the Ground Meets the Sky
by Jacqueline Davies

Science-Fiction


A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle

Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

The Nose From Jupiter
by Richard Scrimger

Biography & Memoir


Mary on Horseback
by Rosemary Wells


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