For Fifth to Seventh Grade Readers:
Rascal	Sterling North
Zlata's Diary	Zlata Filipovic
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle	Avi
Lyddie	Katherine Paterson
The Bridge to Terabithia	Katherine Paterson
Letters from Rifka	Karen Hesse
Catherine Called Birdy	Karen Cushman
The Midwife's Apprentice	Karen Cushman
Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls
The Summer of the Monkeys	Wilson Rawls
Chronicles of Narnia Series	C.S. Lewis
The Giver	Lois Lowry
Sweet Friday Island	Theodore Taylor
The Weirdo	Theodore Taylor
Walk Two Moons	Sharon Creech
Chasing Redbird	Sharon Creech
Anne of Green Gables Series	L.M. Montgomery
Caddie Woodlawn	Carol Ryrie Brink
Johnny Tremain	Esther Forbes
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Mildred Taylor
The Secret Garden	Frances Hogson Burnett
My Side of the Mountain	Jean Craighead George
The Island of the Blue Dolphins	Scott O'Dell
The Upstairs Room	Johanna Reiss
Yolanda's Genius	Carol Fenner
The Witch of Blackbird Pond	Elizabeth Speare
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank
The Silver Pencil	Alice Dalgliesh
Sing Down The Moon	Scott O'Dell
The View from Saturday	E.L. Konigsburg

For Seventh Grade and up Readers:
And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle
The Yearling	Marjorie Kinman Rawlings
The Ruby in the Smoke	Philip Pullman
A Solitary Blue	Cynthia Voigt
Homecoming	Cynthia Voigt
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
The Golden Compass	Philip Pullman
Dicey's Song	Cynthia Voigt
Into Thin Air	Jon Krakauer