 | Title: Peppermints in the parlor Author: Barbara Brooks Wallace Summary: Sent to San Francisco to live with her beloved aunt and uncle, newly orphaned Emily expectantly enters their once-happy mansion only to find unimaginable horrors. |
 | Title: Charlotte's web Author: E. B. White Summary: Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him. |
 | Title: Dealing with dragons Author: Patricia C. Wrede Summary: Bored with traditional palace life, a princess goes off to live with a group of dragons and soon becomes involved with fighting against some disreputable wizards who want to steal away the dragons' kingdom. |
 | Title: Shipwreck at the bottom of the world Author: Jennifer Armstrong Summary: Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land. |
 | Title: Through my eyes Author: Ruby Bridges Summary: Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960. |
 | Title: Where the sidewalk ends Author: Shel Silverstein Summary: A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. |
 | Title: Poppy Author: Avi Summary: Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas. |
 | Title: Caddie Woodlawn Author: Carol Brink Summary: The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. |
 | Title: The not-just-anybody family Author: Betsy Byars Summary: With a young brother in the hospital, a grandfather in jail, and their mother traveling with a rodeo, Maggie and Vern try to settle family problems. |
 | Title: When the Tripods came Author: John Christopher Summary: Fourteen-year-old Laurie and his family attempt to flee England when the Tripods descend from outer space and begin brainwashing everyone with their hypnotic Caps. |
 | Title: The mouse and the motorcycle Author: Beverly Cleary Summary: A reckless young mouse named Ralph makes friends with a boy in room 215 of the Mountain View Inn and discovers the joys of motorcycling. |
 | Title: Frindle Author: Andrew Clements Summary: When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. |
 | Title: My Daniel Author: Pam Conrad Summary: Ellie and Stevie learn about a family legacy when their grandmother tells them stories of her brother's historical quest for dinosaur bones on their Nebraska farm. |
 | Title: James and the giant peach Author: Roald Dahl Summary: A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach. |
 | Title: The tale of Despereaux : being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread Author: Kate DiCamillo Summary: The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin. |
 | Title: The whipping boy Author: Sid Fleischman Summary: A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. |
 | Title: Bunnicula : a rabbit-tale of mystery Author: Deborah Howe Summary: Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire. |
| Title: REDWALL Author: Brian Jacques Summary: When the peaceful life of ancient Redwall Abbey is shattered by the arrival of the evil rat Cluny and his villainous hordes, Matthias, a young mouse, determines to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior which, he is convinced, will help Redwall's inhabitants destroy the enemy. |
 | Title: The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe Author: C.S. Lewis Summary: Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist its ruler, the golden lion Aslan, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. |
 | Title: Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh Author: Robert C. O'Brien Summary: Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived. |
 | Title: Hatchet Author: Gary Paulsen Summary: After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. |
 | Title: A long way from Chicago Author: Richard Peck Summary: A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother. |
 | Title: How to eat fried worms Author: Thomas Rockwell Summary: Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal. |
| Title: Wayside School Author: Sachar, Louis Summary: |