Children & Young Adult Books

Picture Books:

Crockett Johnson – Harold and the Purple Crayon

Middle School Readers:

Louisa May Alcott – Little Women

Kate DiCamillo – The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

J. Meade Falkner – Moonfleet

Dave Eggers – The Lifters

Chris Grabenstein – Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library

Kara LaReau – The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters #1: The Jolly Regina

Anne Michaels – The Adventures of Miss Petitfour

Farley Mowat – The Curse of the Viking Grave

R.J. Palacio – Wonder

Sara Pennypacker – Pax

Andrew Peterson – At the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness

Robert Louis Stevenson – Kidnapped

J.R.R. Tolkien – Roverandom

P.L. Travers – The Fox at the Manger

Alex Williams – The Talent Thief

Young Adults:

Tomi Adeyemi – Children of Blood and Bone

Sherman Alexie – The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

John Green – The Fault in our Stars

John Green – Looking for Alaska

John Green – Paper Towns

Sara N. Harvey – Death Benefits

A.S. King – Reality Boy

John Knowles – A Separate Peace

Ashley Little – Confessions of a Teenage Leper

Lucy Maud Montgomery – The Blue Castle

Susin Nielsen – We Are All Made of Molecules

Ransom Riggs – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Betty Smith – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle

Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give

Markus Zusak – I Am the Messenger