Literature List

Quality Literature Choices

Series

The Borrowers

By Mary Norton

The Children of Green Knowe

By Lucy M. Boston

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective

By Donald J. Sobol

A Family Apart: The Orphan Train Quartet

By Joan Lowry Nixon

Little House in the Big Woods

By Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Narnia Chronicles

By C.S. Lewis

Prydain Chronicles

By Lloyd Alexander

Individual Titles

Abel’s Island

By William Steig

The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin

By James Cross Giblin

Are You There, God?  It’s me, Margaret (Girls only book)

By Judy Blume

Bright Freedom’s Song: A Story of the Underground Railroad

By Gloria Houston

Call to Courage

By Armstrong Sperry

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit (Girls only book)

By Paula Danziger

Dear Mr. Henshaw

By Beavery Cleary

Dragonwings

By Lawrence Yep

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler

By E.L. Konigsburg

The Great Gilly Hokins

By Katharine Paterson

Harriet the Spy

By Louise Fitzhugh

The House with a Clock in its Walls

By John Bellairs

The House of Dies Drear

By Virginia Hamilton

The Indian in the Cupboard

By Lynne Reid Banks

Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang

By Mordecai Richler

The Little Prince

By Antoine de Saint Exupery

The Moffats

By Eleanor Estes

The Midnight Fox

By Betsy Byars

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

By Robert C. O’Brien

Nothings Fair in Fifth Grade

By Barthe DeClements

Old Yeller

By Fred Gipson

The Phantom Tollbooth

By Norton Juster

The Tower of Geburah

By John White

Tuck Everlasting

By Natalie Babbitt

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

By Judith Kerr

The World at Her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller

By Joan Dash

A Wrinkle in Time

By Madeline L’Engle

The Yearling

By Marjorie Rawling