Books for 8- to 12-year-olds
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth
Janet Gray
Aesop's Fables by Cherry GilChrist
Aladdin and Other Favorite Arabian Nights Stories, editor Philip Smith
All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth
Amelia Bedelia Bookworm by Herman Parish
Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth
Yates
Arrow Over the Door (The) by Joseph Bruchac
Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
Beauty and the Beast by Kalinowski & Dixey
Beduin's Gazelle (The) by Frances Temple
Big Wave by Pearl
S. Buck
Blue Willow by
Doris Gates
Bonanza Girl by Patricia Beatty
Born in the Year of Courage by Emily Crofford
Bound for Oregon
by Jean Van Leeuwen
Boxcar Children (The) by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Breadwinner (The) by Deborah Ellis
Bronze Bow (The) by Elizabeth George Speare
Call It Courage by Sperry Armstrong
Cat Who Went to Heaven (The) by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Chalkbox Kid (The) by Clyde Robert Bulla
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White
Christmas Carol (A) by Charles Dickens
Christopher Columbus by Stephen
Krensky
Cinderella by Audrey McIlvain
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg
Courage of Sarah Nobel (The) by Alice Dalgliesh
Cricket in Time Square (The) by George Selden
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin
Dick Whittington by Crook & Duffield
Elves and the Shoemaker (The) by Crook & Campbell
Emperor and the Nightingale (The) by Crook & McBride
Finding Providence:
The Story of Roger Williams by Avi
Go Fish by Mary Stolz
Golden Goblet (The) by Eloise
Jarvis McGraw
Good Master by Kate
Seredy
Great Brain (The) by John
D. Fitzgerald
Great Gilly Hopkins
(The) by Kathering Paterson
Hannah by Gloria Whelan
Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson
Helen Keller by Stewart Graff
Horse and His Boy (The) by C.S. Lewis
House of Sixty Fathers (The) by
Meindert DeJong
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Jack and the Beanstalk by Bradshaw & Mumford
Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley
Naidoo
Jungle Book (The) by Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories by Rudyard
Kipling
Lily and Miss Liberty by Carla Stevens
Moonshiner's Son by Carolyn
Reeder
Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary
Musicians of Bremen (The) by Simon Smith
My Side of the Mountain by Jean
Craighead George
Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
Peter and the Wolf by Herndon, James, & Jakeman
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
Phantom Tollbooth (The) by Norton Juster
Pied Piper of Hamelin by Longman
Pippi LongStocking
by Astrid Lindgren
Princess and the Frog (The) by Crook & Dixey
Rat-Catcher's Son (The) by Carolyn London
Rascal by Sterling
North
Seabird by Holling Clancy Holling
Selfish Giant (The) by Oscar Wilde
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
Single Shard (A) by Linda Sue Park
Sleeping Beauty by Taylor & Dixey
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
Snow White and Rose Red by Hadley & Lupton
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by Bradshaw & Press
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Shiloh by
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Singing Tree (The) by Kate
Seredy
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Star of Light by Patricia
St. John
Stink Alley by Jamie
Gilson
Surprise Island by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Swiss Family Robinson (The) by Johann David Wyss
Three Billy Goats Gruff by Williams & McBride
Tinderbox (The) by Hughes & Williams
Tom Thumb by Crook & Duffield
Toy Story (The) by Swinburne & Cann
Tree That Would Not Die (The) by Ellen Levine
True Story of Pocahontas (The) by Lucille Rech Penner
Twenty-one Balloons (The) by William
Pene du Boise
Ugly Duckling (The) by (Hans Christian Andersen) Fox & Cann
Westing Game (The) by Ellen
Raskin
Wheel on the School (The) by
Meindert DeJong
When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
Wizard of Oz (The) by L. Frank Baum, Mary Hadley