Realistic Fiction
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Holes by Louis Sachar
Mick Harte was Here by Barbara Park
The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Awkward by S. Chimakova
Fantasy
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Adventure Fiction
Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
Peak (series) by Roland Smith
Historical Fiction
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
Nonfiction
Small Steps: the year I got polio
by Peg Kehret
Basher Science series
Marley: a dog like no other by John Grogan
The Boy on the wooden box (a memoir)
by Leon Leyson