Fantasy
Starting Readers:
Ruth Styles Gannett’s My Father's Dragon
Tony Abbot’s The Secrets of Droon series
Patrick Catling, The Chocolate Touch
Sid Fleischman, McBroom stories and others
Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House Series
Jon Scieszka’s Time Warp Trio series
Growing Readers:
L.M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe
Frank L. Baum’s The Wizard of Oz series
Edward Eager, Half Magic (and others)
Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstockings series
Betty MacDonald, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series
Elizabeth Nesbit, Five children and It. series
Solid Readers:
Cornelia Funke, Dragon Rider
Lloyd Alexander’s Prydian Chronicles
Brian Jacques, Red Wall series
C.S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe series
J.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings series
Patricia Wrede, Dealing with Dragons series
Realistic Fiction
Starting Readers:
Judy Blume, Freckle Juice
Ann Cameron, The Stories Julian Tells series
Johanna Hurwitz, Russell Sprouts series
Barbara Park’s Junie B. Jones series
Cynthia Rylant, Coble Street Cousins
Louis Sacher, Marvin Redpost series
Growing Readers:
Beverly Cleary’s Klickitat series
Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Double Fudge
Eleanor Estes, both Pye and Moffat Family series
Arthur Ransome, The Swallows and Amazons series
Margaret Sidney, The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew series
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House series (These books mature with the heroines)
Solid Readers:
Frances Burnett, The Secret Garden / A Little Princess
Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks
Barbara Robinson, The Best School Year Ever
Johanna Spryi - Heidi
Mark Twain, Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Johann Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson
Adventure & Mystery
Starting Readers:
Starting Readers:
Patricia Reilly Giff’s Minnie and Max series
James Preller’s Jigsaw Jones series
Ron Roy, A to Z mysteries
Marjorie Sharmat, Nate the Great
Alexander McCall Smith’s Akimbo series
Growing
Gertrude Chandler Warner’s Box Car Children series
John Erickson’s Hank the Cowdog series
Bruce Hale, Chet Gecko series
James Howe’s Bunnicula series
Laura Lee Hope’s Bobbsey Twins series
Donald Sobol, The Encyclopedia Brown series
Solid Readers:
E.L. Konisburg, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Jean Craighead George, Missing ‘gator of Gumbo Limbo
Kate Klise, Regarding the Fountain series
Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
Willo Davis Roberts, View from the Cherry Tree
Animal Tales
Starting Readers:
Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox
Richard Atwater, Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Shel Silverstein, Lafcadio, The Lion Who Shot Back
Randall Jarrell, Animal Family
Growing Readers:
Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington
Avi, Poppy
Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux; The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Dick King-Smith, Babe and other books
George Selden’s Cricket in Times Square series
William Steig, Abel's Island
Solid Readers:
Walter R. Books, Freddy the Pig series
Walter Farley, Black Stallion series
Carl Hiasen, Hoot, Flush
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh series
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh series
Dietlof. Reiche’s I, Freddy series
E,B. White, Charlotte’s Web (beware the sadness factor) and others
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