The Tale of Despereaux
By Kate DiCamillo, published by Candlewick Press





The Yankee Years
By Joe Torre, published by Anchor





Heat
By Mike Lupica, published by Penguin Group (USA)





Siren Song
By Anne Ursa, published by Simon & Shuster Children's





The The Willoughbys books
By Lois Lowry, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt





Charlotte's Web
By E.B. White, published by HarperCollins





One Hundred Dresses
By Eleanor Estes, published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers





Land of the Lawn Weenies
By David Lubar, published by Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC





Ribsy
By Beverly Cleary, published by HarperCollins





Little House on the Prairie
By Laura Ingalls Wilder, published by HarperCollins





Walk Two Moons and "anything she writes"
By Sharon Creech, published by HarperCollins





Tuck Everlasting
By Natalie Babbitt, published by Square Fish





Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM
By Robert C. O'Brien, published by Simon& Schuster Children's





Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry
By Mildred Taylor, published by Penguin Group (USA)





Tom's Midnight Garden
By Rosemary Wells, published by HarperCollins





No Promises in the Wind
By Irene Hunt, published by Penguin Group (USA)





The Crispin: Cross of Lead books
By Avi, published by Hyperion Books for Children





The Great Gilly Hopkins
By Katherine Paterson, published by HarperCollins





Bread and Roses
By Katherine Paterson, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt





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