- Avi: Poppy
- Banks, Lynne Reid: The Indian in the Cupboard
- Barrie, J.M. (James Matthew): Peter Pan
- Bjork, Christina: Linnea in Monet’s Garden
- Blume, Judy: Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
- Brink, Carol Ryrie: Caddie Woodlawn
- Cleary, Beverly: Henry Huggins
- Cleary, Beverly: Ramona the Pest
- Clements, Andrew: Frindle
- Coerr, Eleanor: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
- Dahl, Roald: James and the Giant Peach
- Dahl, Roald: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- DiCamillo, Kate: Because of Winn-Dixie
- Eager, Edward: Half Magic
- Estes, Eleanor: The Moffats
- Grahame, Kenneth: The Reluctant Dragon
- Grahame, Kenneth: The Wind in the Willows
- Greenburg, Dan: I’m Out of My Body–Please Leave a Message
- Hale, Bruce: The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse: from the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko, Private Eye
- Henry, Marguerite: King of the Wind
- Howe, Deborah: Bunnicula: a Rabbit Tale of Mystery
- Ibbotson, Eva: The Secret of Platform 13
- King-Smith, Dick: Babe: the Gallant Pig
- Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples): The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Lindgren, Astrid: Pippi Longstocking
- MacLachlan, Patricia: Sarah, Plain and Tall
- Martin, Ann M.: The Doll People
- Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander): Winnie-the-Pooh
- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds: Saving Shiloh
- Norton, Mary: The Borrowers
- Rockwell, Thomas: How to Eat Fried Worms
- Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Sachar, Louis: Sideways stories from Wayside School
- Sandburg, Carl: Rootabaga Stories
- Selden, George: The Cricket in Times Square
- Silverstein, Shel: Where the Sidewalk Ends: the Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein
- Skolsky, Mindy Warshaw: Love from Your Friend, Hannah
- Steig, William: Dominic
- Steig, William: Abel’s Island
- Taylor, Sydney: All-of-a-kind Family
- Townley, Rod: The Great Good Thing
- Tripp, Valerie: Meet Kit, an American Girl 1934
- Wells, Rosemary: Lassie Come-home
- White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks): Stuart Little
- White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks): Charlotte’s Web
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls: Little House in the Big Woods