Classics

A list of classics for both elementary and middle school aged readers.

J Fiction or J Paperback for Elementary School-aged readers

Author	Title
Atwater, Richard	Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Banks, Lynne Reid	The Indian in the Cupboard
Barrie, J.M.	Peter Pan
Baum, L. Frank	Wizard of Oz
Blume, Judy	Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Bond, Michael	A Bear Called Paddington
Burnett, Frances Hodgson	The Secret Garden
Carroll, Lewis	Alice in Wonderland
Cleary, Beverly	Ramona the Pest (series)
Dahl, Roald	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dixon, Franklin	Hardy Boys Series (The Tower Treasure)
Eager, Edward	Half Magic
Fitzhugh, Louise	Harriet the Spy
Gannett, Ruth Stiles	My Father’s Dragon
Gardiner, John Reynolds	Stone Fox
Grahame, Kenneth	The Wind in the Willows
Henry, Marguerite	King of the Wind
Howe, Deborah	Bunnicula
Keene, Carolyn.	Nancy Drew Series (Secret of the Old Clock)
King-Smith, Dick	Babe: The Gallant Pig
Kipling, Rudyard	The Jungle Book
Lewis, C.S.	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Lindgren, Astrid	Pippi Longstocking
Lofting, Hugh	The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
MacLachlan, Patricia	Sarah, Plain and Tall
Milne, A.A.	Winnie the Pooh
Nesbit, E.	Five Children and It
Norton, Mary	The Borrowers
Patterson, Katherine	Bridge to Terabithia
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de	The Little Prince
Spyri, Johanna	Heidi
Travers, P.L	Mary Poppins
Twain, Mark.	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Warner, Gertrude Chandler	Boxcar Children (Series)
White, E.B.	Charlotte’s Web
Wilder, Laura Ingalls	Little House on the Prairie

(JRHI Fiction or Paperback for Middle School-aged readers)

Author	Title
Alcott, Louisa	Little Women
Burnford, Sheila	The Incredible Journey
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan	Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Farley, Walter	The Black Stallion
Forbes, Esther	Johnny Tremain
George, Jean Craighead	Julie of the Wolves
George, Jean Craighead	My Side of the Mountain
Irving, Washington	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Knight, Eric	Lassie Come-Home
L’Engle, Madeleine	A Wrinkle in Time
London, Jack	The Call of the Wild
Montgomery, L.M.	Anne of Green Gables (series)
Morey, Walter	Gentle Ben
O’Dell, Scott	Island of the Blue Dolphins
Paulsen, Gary	Hatchet
Raskin, Ellen	The Westing Game
Rawlings, Marjorie	The Yearling
Rawls, Wilson	Where the Red Fern Grows
Speare, Elizabeth George	The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Kidnapped
Tolkien, J.R.R.	The Hobbit
Twain, Mark	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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