CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS(does not include Newbery winners or titles considered to be traditional classics. Those titles may be found on separate brochures.) |
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Animals |
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| Paddington Bear The Incredible Journey The Mouse & the Motorcycle Smoke Incident at Hawk’s Hill The Black Stallion Stories One- eyed cat Misty of Chincoteague Bunnicula a Mouse Called Wolf Babe the Gallant Pig Big Red Gentle Ben Dogsong Where the Red Fern Grows The Cricket in Times Square Beauty Charlotte's Web Stuart Little |
Bond, Michael Burnford, Sheila Cleary, Beverly Corbin, William Eckert, Allan Farley, Walter Fox, Paula Henry, Marguerite Howe, Deborah King-Smith, Dick |
Fantasy |
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| Prydain Chronicles Tuck Everlasting The Indian in the Cupboard Series The Dark is Rising Series Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Half Magic Dragon's Milk The Dragons of Blueland trilogy Dinotopia Redwall Series Phantom Tollbooth Earthsea Trilogy Ella Enchanted Dragonsong The Blue Sword The Borrowers Song of the Lioness series Harry Potter series Little Prince The Mennyms The Castle in the Attic Dealing with Dragons Dragon's Blood |
Alexander, Lloyd Banks, Lynne Reid Babbitt, Natalie Cooper, Susan Dahl, Roald Eager, Edward Fletcher, Susan Gannett, Ruth Stiles Gurney, James Jacques, Brian Juster, Norton LeGuin, Ursula Levine, Gail Carson McCaffrey, Anne McKinley, Robin Norton, Mary Pierce, Tamora Rowling, J.K. Saint- Exupery , Antoine de Waugh, Sylvia Winthrop, Elizabeth Wrede, Patricia Yolen, Jane |
Adventure |
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| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Trouble River James and the Giant Peach My Side of the Mountain Hatchet Danger in Quicksand Swamp |
Avi Byars, Betsy Dahl, Roald George, Jean Craighead Paulsen, Gary Wallace, Bill |
Humor |
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| Mr Poppers Penguins Superfudge The Ramona Stories Hank the Cowdog Series The Great Brain Stories Pippi Longstocking Mrs Piggle Wiggle Homer Price Ten Kids, No Pets The Boys Start the War Junie B Jones stories Harris & Me Soup Captain Underpants stories Sideways Stories from Wayside School A Light in the Attic (811 Si) Where the Sidewalk Ends (811Si) |
Atwater, Richard Blume, Judy Cleary, Beverly Erickson, John Fitzgerald, John Lindgren, Astrid MacDonald, Betty Bard McCloskey, Robert Martin, Ann Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Park, Barbara Paulsen, Gary Peck, Robert Pilkey, Dav Sachar, Louis Silverstein, Shel |
People |
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| On my Honor The Face on the Milk Carton The Watsons go to Birmingham Sixth Grade can really Kill you Because of Winn Dixie The Hundred Dresses Harriet the Spy The Diary of Anne Frank (921 Frank) Blue Willow Anastasia Krupnik Mick Harte was Here A Day no Pigs Would Die The Giving Tree All of A Kind Family A Taste of Blackberries |
Bauer, Marion Dane Cooney, Caroline Curtis, Christopher DeClements, Barthe DiCamillo,Kate Estes, Eleanor Fitzhugh, Louise Frank, Anne Gates, Doris Lowry, Lois Park, Barbara Peck, Robert Silverstein, Shel Smith, Doris Taylor, Sydney |
Historical Fiction |
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| Catherine Called Birdy The Courage of Sarah Noble The Legend of Jimmy Spoon Our Only May Amelia The Sign of the Beaver The Cay |
Cushman, Karen Dalgliesh,Alice Gregory, Kristina Holm, Jennifer Speare, Elizabeth Taylor, Theodore |
Science Fiction |
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| Animorphs The Norby books Tripods Series many The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm Time Warp Trio Series Star Wars, Jedi Apprentice Series Commander Toad |
Applegate, K.A. Asimov, Janet Christopher, John Coville, Bruce Farmer, Nancy Scieszka, John Various Yolen, Jane |
Mystery |
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| various Mushroom Planet Books Terror at the Zoo Encyclopedia Brown The Egypt Game Mysteries of Harris Burdick Sammy Keyes stories The Boxcar Children series |
Bellairs, John Cameron, Eleanor Kehret, Peg Snyder, Zilpha Keatley Sobol, Donald Van Allsburg, Chris Van Draanen, Wendelin Warner, Gertrude Chandler |