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CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS

(does not include Newbery winners or titles considered to be traditional classics. Those titles may be found on separate brochures.)

A Bear Called Paddington

TITLE

AUTHOR

Animals

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
Kjelgaard, Jim
Morey, Walt
Paulsen, Gary
Rawls, Wilson
Selden, George
Wallace, Bill
White, E. B
.

Fantasy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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