- Little House on the Prarie
- Ramona the Pest
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
- Frindle
- The BFG
- A Long Way from Chicago
- On the banks of Plum Creek
- Ramona and her Father
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
- Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH
- Little House in the Big Woods
- Matilda, by Roald Dahl
- The Secret Garden,
- Charlotte’s Web, by E.B.White
- The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke
- The Boxcar Children
- The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency
- Ticket to India, N.H.Senzai
- El Deafo, by Cece Bell
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, by Chris Grabenstein
- Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Olympics, by Chris Grabenstein
- The Faraway Tree series, by Enid Blyton
- The Sasquatch Escape (The Imaginary Veterinary, Book 1), by Suzanne Selfors
- Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen
- The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, by Kathi Appelt.
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S.Lewis.
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
- Rickshaw Girl, by Mitali Perkins
- Esperanza Rising, by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
- Blaze and the Gray Spotted Pony, C.W.Anderson
- Ramona and her Father, by Beverly Cleary
- The Black Stallion, by Walter Farley
- Fablehaven, by Brandon Mull
- Dragon Rider by Cornelia Caroline Funke
- Mr. Popper’s Penguins, by Richard & Florence Atwater
- Misty of Chincoteague, by Marguerite Henry
- The Wheel on the School, by Meindert DeJong
- Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate DiCamillo
- The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo
- The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
- Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry
- Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell
- Blue Willow, by Doris Gates
- The Hundred Dresses, by Eleanor Estes
- The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
- Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine
- Holes, by Louis Sachar
- Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
- Echo, by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Exceptional)
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline Kelly (Exceptional)
- Fortunately the Milk, by Neil Gaiman (Worth Reading)
- Wolf Hollow, by Lauren Wolk (Worth Reading)
- The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate (Exceptional)
- Tuesdays at the Castle, by Jessica Day George (Worth Reading)
- Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott (Exceptional)
- King of the Wind, Marguerite Henry (Exceptional)
- Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai (Exceptional)
- Hook’s Revenge, by Heidi Schulz (Worth Reading)
- Stuart Little, by E.B.White (Exceptional)