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For Independent Readers

These books have been read and loved by kids for years!
All of the books on this list are located in the Juvenile Fiction section.  They are on the shelf in alphabetical order by the author’s last name.  This list is limited to one title per author, but you might like to read other books written by these authors.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Nickel-Plated Beauty by Patricia Beatty
The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs
Little Witch by Anna Bennett
Superfudge by Judy Blume
The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Return of the Twelves by Pauline Clark
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
The Boggart by Susan Cooper
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates by Mary Dodge
The Wheel On the School by Meindert DeJong
The Tower Treasure by Franklin Dixon
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Du Bois
Half Magic by Edward Eager
Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
The Great Brain by John Fitzgerald
Harriet, the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
Stone Fox by John Gardiner
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Doll in the Garden: a Ghost Story by Mary Hahn
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Bunnicula by Deborah Howe
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E.L. Konigsburg
Something Queer in the Cafeteria by Elizabeth Levy
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

 

The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
Miss Pickerell On the Moon by Ellen MacGregor
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O’Brien
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Call Me Heller, That’s My Name by Stella Pevsner
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Louis Sachar
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
by Margaret Sidney
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Snyder
Encyclopedia Brown Finds the Clues by Donald Sobol
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Abel’s Island by William Steig
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Wright
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss