(from the School Library Journal, January 2000)
Most of these book are found in the Coury Library Media Center. Use OPAC (the online card catalog) to find them. Enjoy reading!
Titles in red are for PreK-2nd grade. Titles in black are for 3rd grade and up.
|
Title |
Author |
| Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears | Verna Aardema |
| The High King | Lloyd Alexander |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi |
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt |
| Madeline | Ludwig Bemelmans |
| The Five Chinese Brothers | Claire Huchet Bishop |
| A Bear Called Paddington | Michael Bond |
| Goodnight Moon | Margaret Wise Brown |
| Smoky Night | Eve Bunting |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| The Incredible Journey: A Tale of Three Animals | Sheila Burnford |
| Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel | Virginia Lee Burton |
| Summer of the Swans | Betsy Byars |
| The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Eric Carle |
| Ramona the Pest | Beverly Cleary |
| The Goats | Brock Cole |
| The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks | Joanna Cole |
| The Dark is Rising | Susan Cooper |
| The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier |
| Ordinary Jack | Helen Cresswell |
| Freight Train | Donald Crews |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl |
| Strega Nona | Tomie dePaola |
| Harriet the Spy | Louise Fitzhugh |
| Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices | Paul Fleischman |
| The One-Eyed Cat | Paula Fox |
| Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank |
| Lincoln: A Photobiography | Russell Freedman |
| And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? | Jean Fritz |
| Millions of Cats | Wanda Gag |
| Julie of the Wolves | Jean Craighead George |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame |
| M.C. Higgins, the Great | Virginia Hamilton |
| The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales | Virginia Hamilton |
| Chester's Way | Kevin Henkes |
| Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse |
| The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton |
| Shapes and Things | Tana Hoban |
| Paddle-to-the-Sea | Holling C. Holling |
| The Snowy Day | Ezra Jack Keats |
| Just So Stories | Rudyard Kipling |
| From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | E.L. Konigsburg |
| Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mt. St. Helens | Patricia Lauber |
| Rabbit Hill | Robert Lawson |
| A Wizard of Earthsea | Ursula LeGuin |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle |
| The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | C.S. Lewis |
| Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren |
| Frog and Toad Are Friends | Arnold Lobel |
| Anastasia Krupnik | Lois Lowry |
| The Giver | Lois Lowry |
| Cathedral | David Macaulay |
| The Way Things Work | David Macaulay |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan |
| George and Martha | James Marshall |
| Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Bill Martin, Jr. & John Archimbault |
| Make Way for Ducklings | Robert McCloskey |
| Far and Few | David McCord |
| The Hero and the Crown | Robin McKinley |
| Mirandy and Brother Wind | Patricia McKissack |
| The Pushcart War | Jean Merrill |
| Winnie-the-Pooh | A.A. Milne |
| Little Bear | Else Minarik |
| Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery |
| Fallen Angels | Walter Dean Myers |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson |
| Hatchet | Gary Paulsen |
| Tom's Midnight Garden | Philippa Pearce |
| The Little Engine That Could | Watty Piper |
| The Tale of Peter Rabbit | Beatrix Potter |
| Yo! Yes? | Chris Raschka |
| The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin |
| Curious George | H.A. Rey |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | J.K. Rowling |
| The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales | John Scieszka |
| Where the Wild Things Are | Maurice Sendak |
| The Cat in the Hat | Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings | Shel Silverstein |
| Zlateh the Goat | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| The Alfred Summer | Jan Slepian |
| Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business | Esphyr Slobodkina |
| Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | William Steig |
| Stevie | John Steptoe |
| The Lantern Bearers | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Mildred Taylor |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Mary Poppins | P.L. Travers |
| The Polar Express | Chris Van Allsburg |
| Homecoming | Cynthia Voigt |
| Max's First Word | Rosemary Wells |
| Charlotte's Web | E.B. White |
| Little House in the Big Woods | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Seven Blind Mice | Ed Young |
| Rumpelstiltskin | Paul O. Zelinsky |
| The Pigman | Paul Zindel |
| William's Doll | Charlotte Zolotow |