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Author
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Title
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Armstrong
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Sounder
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Avi
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S.O.R. Losers
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Babbitt
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Tuck Everlasting
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Banks
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Indian in the Cupboard
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Burnett
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Secret Garden
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Byars
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Summer of the Swans
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Dahl
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James & the Giant
Peach
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Estes
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Ginger Pye
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Farley
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Black Stallion
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Gardiner
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Stone Fox
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George
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Julie of the Wolves; My
Side of the Mountain
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Guy
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The Friends
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Hemingway
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Hughes
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Nutty for President
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Hunt
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Across Five Aprils
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Keith
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Rifles for Watie
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Kjelgaard
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Big Red
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Konigsburg
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From the Mixed-up Files
of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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LeGuin
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The Wizard of Earthsea
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L’Engle
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A Wrinkle in Time
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Lindgren
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Pippi Longstocking
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Morey
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Gentle Ben
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| McCloskey |
Homer Price |
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Mowat
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Owls in the Family
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Naylor
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The Agony of Alice,
Shiloh (series)
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O’Brien
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats
of NIMH
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Paterson
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Jacob Have I Loved
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Paulson
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The River, Hatchet
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Peck
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Soup
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Pierce
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Allana: The First
Adventure
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Pinkwater
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Lizard Music
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Raskin
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The Westing Game
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Rawls
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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Roberts
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Babysitting is a
Dangerous Job
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Rowling
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Harry Potter (series)
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Selden
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Cricket In Times Square
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Smith
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Chocolate Fever
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Snyder
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Libby on Wednesday
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Stevenson
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Treasure Island
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Stewart
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A Walk in Wolf Wood
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Taylor
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The Cay; Roll of
Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Verne
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Journey to the Center of
the Earth
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Voight
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Homecoming
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Tolkien
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The Hobbit
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Wilder
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Farmer Boy; Little House
on the Prairie series
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Wyss
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Swiss Family Robinson
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Other choices:
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Warner
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The Boxcar Children
series
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Bunting
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Our Sixth Grade Sugar
Babies
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Christopher
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Shortstop from Tokyo,
Dirt Bike Rider, etc
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Fleischman
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The Whipping Boy
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Osbourne
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Ghost Town at Sundown,
etc.
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Lowry
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All About Sam
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Danziger
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Amber Brown series
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Martin
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Babysitter’s Club
series
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| Adler |
Cam Jansen series |
| Baker |
Third Grade is Terrible |
| Blume |
Freckle Juice, Superfudge, etc |
| Brink |
Caddie Woodlawn |
| Cleary |
Henry and Ribsy, Ramona the
Pest, etc |
| Conford |
Hail, Hail Camp Timberwood |
| Estee |
The Hundred Dresses |
| Field |
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years |
| FitzHugh |
Harriet the Spy |
| Fleishman |
The Wish Giver |
| Gipson |
Old Yeller |
| Hesse |
Sable |
| Howe |
Bunnicula (series) |
| Hurwitz |
Teacher's Pet (or others by
this author) |
| Jacques |
Redwall Series |
| King-Smith |
Ace: The Very Important Pig |
| Knight |
Lassie Come Home |
| Lawson |
Rabbit Hill |
| Leighton |
Florence Nightingale |
| Lexau |
Striped Ice Cream |
| Lowry |
Number the Stars |
| Milne |
House at Pooh Corner |
| Norton |
The Borrowers |
| Sewell |
Black Beauty |
| Snickett |
Bad Beginning (or others in
the series) |
| Sobol |
Encyclopedia Brown (series) |
| Spinelli |
Fourth Grade Rats, Maniac
Magee |
| Thomas |
The Comeback Dog |
| White |
Stuart Little |
| Winthrop |
Castle in the Attic |
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Books from the following
series: The American Girl, Dear America, Artemis Fowl, Warriors,
Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries
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Biographies or
autobiographies on African Americans, Presidents, Inventors, or
Women
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Award-winning books (Newbery
Medal, SC
Children’s Book Award Nominees for 2006-2007, Coretta Scott
King Award)
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