Mr. Popper’s Penguins  (J)
Atwater, Richard
Penguins in the living room & refrigerator! This classic has entertained families for generations.

The Stories Julian Tells  (J)
Cameron, Ann
Julian's curiosity and desire to learn get him in and out of all kinds of scrapes. (Series)

The Case of the Falling Sky  (J)
Erickson, John R.
After Hank the Cowdog collects clues from the chickens and the cat indicating that the sky will fall, he springs into action to keep the ranch safe. (Hank The Cowdog series)

My Father’s Dragon  (J)
Gannett, Ruth
Bursting with fantasy and the adventures of helping a baby dragon. (Series)

Catwings  (J)
Le Guin, Ursula K.
The adventures of kittens born with wings! (Series)
 

Rats on the Roof and Other Stories  (J)
Marshall, James
Short, funny stories about a variety of animals.

Winnie The Pooh  (J)
Milne, A.A.
The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump and Eeeyore has a birthday.

Jimmy Dabble  (J)
Vischer, Frans
A young boy, who talks to animals, suffers with conventional parents until his grandmother arrives.

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by A. Wolf   (E)
Scieszka, Jon
The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing  (J)
Blume, Judy
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem. (Series)

The Mouse and the Motorcycle   (J)
Cleary, Beverly
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.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory  (J)
Dahl, Roald
A golden ticket leads to glorious adventures in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.

Because of Winn-Dixie   (J)
DiCamillo, Kate
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big, ugly dog, Winn-Dixie.
 

A Hundred Dresses  (J)
Estes, Eleanor
Teasing someone who is different takes it’s toll on two young schoolgirls.

Bunnicula : A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery   (J)
Howe, Deborah
Chester the Cat tries to warn his human family about the vampire tendencies of their new bunny.

Shoebag   (J)
James, Mary
Shoebag, a happy young cockroach who finds himself suddenly changed into a little boy, changes the lives of those around him before returning to his former life as an insect.

Twig   (J)
Jones, Elizabeth Orton
After she is made tiny by magic, Twig finds friendship and adventure with Elf, the Fairy Queen, and the Sparrow family.

Fairy Rebel
Reid Banks, Lynne
A jean clad fairy risks the wrath of the Fairy Queen by helping a human.

Front Porch Stories at the One-Room School
Tate, Eleanora E.
On a hot summer night in Missouri, Margie Carson’s daddy tells stories from his childhood.

The Boxcar Children  (J)
Warner, Gertrude Chandler
Four orphaned children run away and live in a boxcar until they are found by their grandfather. (Series)

Charlotte’s Web
White, E. B.
Wilbur and Charlotte, pig and spider, universally acclaimed and loved.
 

Tuck Everlasting  (J)
Babbitt, Natalie
The Tuck’s are fated to live forever, now Winnie and an evil stranger share their secret.

Frindle
Clements, Andrew
Fifth grader Nick Allen invents a new word that spreads throughout the world.

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher   (J)
Coville, Bruce
Twelve-year-old Jeremy unknowingly buys a dragon's egg. (Series)

The Watsons Go to Birmingham  (J)
Curtis, Christopher Paul
An African-American family is changed by the racism encountered on a visit to Grandma’s.

Inkheart  (J)
Funke, Cornelia
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can “read” fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them. 

The Phantom Tollbooth  (J)
Juster, Norton 
A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers, and provides a cure for his boredom. 

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler  (J)
Konigsburg, E.L.
Twelve-year-old Claudia and her younger brother run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. 

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe  (J)
Lewis, C.S.
Four English school children enter the magic land of Narnia through the back of a wardrobe and assist Aslan, the golden lion, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.  (Chronicles of Narnia Series) 

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson  (J)
Lord, Bette Bao
In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn, where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building and by her love for baseball.
 

Little House in the Big Woods
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Spend a year with two young pioneer girls growing up on the prairie. (Series)

The Borrowers  (J)
Norton, Mary
Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from humans are forced to leave their home under the clock.  (Series)   

The Hoboken Chicken Emergency  (J)
Pinkwater, Daniel
Arthur goes to pick up the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner but comes back with a 260-pound chicken. 

Sign of the Beaver  (J)
Speare, Elizabeth George
Left to guard the family’s pioneer cabin, a boy’s survival depends on accepting help from Indians. 

The Friendship  (J)
Taylor, Mildred D.
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly black man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.