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Achebe, Chinua "Things Fall Apart"

Adams, Douglas "Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The" *

Adams, Richard "Watership Down" *

Alcock, Vivien "Cuckoo Sister, The" *

Alcock, Vivien "Haunting of Cassie Palmer, The" *

Alcott, Louisa May "Little Women" *

Alexander, Lloyd "Arkadians, The" *

Alexander, Lloyd "Book of Three, The" *

Alexander, Lloyd "El Dorado Adventure, The" *

Alexander, Lloyd "Gypsy Rizka" *

Alexander, Lloyd "High King, The" *

Alexander, Lloyd "Illyrian Adventure, The" *

Alexander, Lloyd "Iron Ring, The" *

Alexander, Lloyd "Philadelphia Adventure, The" *

Alexander, Lloyd "Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen, The" *

Alexander, Lloyd "Wizard in the Tree, The" *

Alexie, Sherman "Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The" *

Allende, Isabel "House of the Spirits, The" *

Almond, David "Skellig" *

Anaya, Rudolfo "Bless Me, Ultima" *

Anderson, Laurie Halse "Fever 1793" *

Anderson, Laurie Halse "Speak" *

Anderson, Poul "Escape the Morning" *

Anderson, Poul "Game of Empire, The" *

Anderson, Poul "Hunter’s Moon" *

Anderson, Poul and Anderson, Karen "Roma Mater" *

Angeli, Marguerite de "Door in the Wall, The" *

Angelo, Valenti "Bells of Bleecker Street, The" *

Angelou, Maya "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

Anthony, Piers "Ogre, Ogre" *

Applegate, K. A. "Discover the Destroyer" *

Applegate, K. A. "Enter the Enchanted" *

Applegate, K. A. "Fear the Fantastic" *

Applegate, K. A. "Land of Loss" *

Applegate, K. A. "Realm of the Reaper" *

Applegate, K. A. "Search for Senna" *

Armer, Laura Adams "Waterless Mountain" *

Armstrong, William H. "Sounder" *

Arrick, Fran "God’s Radar" *

Ashabranner, Brent Kenneth; Davis, Russell Gerard "Chief Joseph: War Chief of the Nez Perce" *

Asher, Sandy "Everything Is Not Enough" *

Asher, Sandy "Things Are Seldom What They Seem" *

Asimov, Isaac "David Starr, Space Ranger" *

Asimov, Isaac "Forward the Foundation" *

Asimov, Isaac "Foundation Trilogy, The" *

Asimov, Isaac "Ugly Little Boy, The" *

Asimov, Isaac and Silverberg, Robert "Nightfall" *

Asimov, Janet and Asimov, Isaac "Norby: The Mixed-Up Robot" *

Atkins, Catherine "When Jeff Comes Home" *

Atwood, Margaret "Edible Woman, The" *

Atwood, Margaret "Handmaid’s Tale, The" *

Austen, Jane "Pride and Prejudice"

Avi "Fighting Ground, The" *

Avi "Man Who Was Poe, The" *

Avi "Nothing but the Truth" *

Avi "True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The" *

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Babbitt, Natalie "Eyes of the Amaryllis, The" *

Babbitt, Natalie "Tuck Everlasting" *

Bach, Richard "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" *

Bacho, Peter "Matter of Faith, A" *

Bagnold, Enid "National Velvet" *

Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin "Miss Hickory" *

Baldwin, James "Story of Roland, The" *

Bambara, Toni Cade "Lesson, The" *

Bambara, Toni Cade "Raymond’s Run" *

Banks, Lynne Reid "Melusine: A Mystery" *

Barrie, J. M. "Dear Brutus" *

Barrie, Sir James "Admirable Crichton, The" *

Barron, T. A. "Ancient One, The" *

Barron, T. A. "Lost Years of Merlin, The" *

Barron, T. A. "Merlin Effect, The" *

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell "Black Potatoes" *

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell "Growing Up in Coal Country" *

Bat-Ami, Miriam "Dear Elijah" *

Bat-Ami, Miriam "Two Suns in the Sky" *

Bauer, Joan "Hope Was Here" *

Bauer, Joan "Rules of the Road" *

Bauer, Joan "Squashed" *

Bauer, Marion Dane "Am I Blue?" *

Baum, L. Frank "Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The" *

Beagle, Peter S. "Giant Bones" *

Beagle, Peter S. "Innkeeper’s Song, The" *

Beagle, Peter S. "Julie’s Unicorn" *

Beagle, Peter S. "Last Song of Sirit Byar, The" *

Beagle, Peter S. "Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros" *

Beagle, Peter S. "Unicorn Sonata, The" *

Bear, Greg "Blood Music" *

Bear, Greg "Dinosaur Summer" *

Bear, Greg "Hardfought" *

Bear, Greg "Heads" *

Bear, Greg "Tangents (book summary)" *

Beatty, John Louis and Beatty, Patricia "Master Rosalind" *

Beatty, Patricia "Be Ever Hopeful, Hannalee" *

Beatty, Patricia "Turn Homeward, Hannalee" *

Beatty, Patricia "Who Comes with Cannons?" *

Bell, Clare "Clan Ground" *

Bellairs, John "Curse of the Blue Figurine, The" *

Bellairs, John "Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn, The" *

Bernard, Jacqueline "Journey toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourner Truth" *

Bernardo, Anilú "American Girls" *

Bernardo, Anilú "Hurricane Friends" *

Bernardo, Anilú "Jumping off to Freedom" *

Berry, James "Ajeema and His Son" *

Berry, James "Fanso and Granny-Flo" *

Berry, James "Thief in the Village, A" *

Bierce, Ambrose "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An" *

Blackmore, R. D. "Lorna Doone" *

Blackwood, Gary L. "Shakespeare Stealer, The" *

Blackwood, Gary L. "Wild Timothy" *

Block, Francesca Lia "Baby Be-Bop" *

Block, Francesca Lia "Weetzie Bat" *

Blos, Joan Winsor "Gathering of Days, A: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830-32" *

Blume, Judy "Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret" *

Blume, Judy "Summer Sisters" *

Blume, Judy "Tiger Eyes" *

Bohner, Charles "Bold Journey" *

Bois, William Pene "Twenty-One Balloons, The" *

Bonham, Frank "Durango Street" *

Bonham, Frank "Viva Chicano" *

Book, Rick "Necking with Louise" *

Borland, Harold Glen "When the Legends Die" *

Bradbury, Ray "Fahrenheit 451" *

Bradbury, Ray "Martian Chronicles, The" *

Bradbury, Ray "Something Wicked This Way Comes" *

Bradbury, Ray "There Will Come Soft Rains" *

Brancato, Robin F. "Facing Up" *

Braymer, Marjorie "Walls of Windy Troy, The" *

Bridgers, Sue Ellen "Notes for Another Life" *

Bridgers, Sue Ellen "Permanent Connections" *

Bridgers, Sue Ellen "Sara Will" *

Brink, Carol Ryrie "Caddie Woodlawn" *

Brontë, Charlotte "Jane Eyre" *

Brontë, Emily "Wuthering Heights" *

Brooks, Bruce "Asylum for Nightface" *

Brooks, Bruce "Midnight Hour Encores" *

Brooks, Bruce "No Kidding" *

Brooks, Martha "Being with Henry" *

Brooks, Martha "Bone Dance" *

Brown, Christy "My Left Foot" *

Broyard, Bliss "My Father, Dancing" *

Bryson, Bernarda "Gilgamesh: Man’s First Story" *

Bulgakov, Mikhail "Master and Margarita, The" *

Bunting, Eve "Sudden Silence, A" *

Bunting, Eve "Surrogate Sister" *

Bunyan, John "Pilgrim’s Progress, The" *

Burch, Robert J. "Queenie Peavy" *

Burgess, Melvin "Smack" *

Burnett, Frances Hodgson "Secret Garden, The" *

Burroughs, Edgar Rice "At the Earth’s Core" *

Burroughs, Edgar Rice "Land That Time Forgot, The" *

Burroughs, Edgar Rice "Tarzan of the Apes" *

Butterworth, Oliver "Trouble with Jenny’s Ear, The" *

Butterworth, W. E. "Member of the Family, A" *

Byars, Betsy "Summer of the Swans, The" *

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Cabot, Meg "Princess Diaries, The" *

Cadnum, Michael "Edge" *

Cadnum, Michael "Rundown" *

Calhoun, Dia "Aria of the Sea" *

Calhoun, Dia "Firegold" *

Callaghan, Mary Rose "Has Anyone Seen Heather?" *

Cameron, Eleanor "Court of the Stone Children, The" *

Cameron, Eleanor "Room Made of Windows, A" *

Camp, L. Sprague "Gun for Dinosaur, A" *

Camus, Albert "Stranger, The" *

Canon, Claudia Von "Inheritance, The" *

Card, Orson Scott "Prentice Alvin" *

Card, Orson Scott "Red Prophet" *

Card, Orson Scott "Seventh Son" *

Carroll, Lewis "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" *

Carroll, Lewis "Through the Looking-Glass" *

Carter, Forrest "Education of Little Tree, The" *

Cather, Willa "My Ántonia" *

Charnas, Suzy McKee "Bronze King, The" *

Chekhov, Anton "Gooseberries" *

Childress, Alice "Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich, A" *

Chopin, Kate "Awakening, The" *

Chopin, Kate "Désirée’s Baby" *

Chrisman, Arthur Bowie "Shen of the Sea" *

Christie, Agatha "Ten Little Indians" *

Christopher, John "Guardians, The" *

Christopher, John "When the Tripods Came" *

Christopher, John "White Mountains, The" *

Christopher, Matt "Tackle without a Team" *

Cisneros, Sandra "House on Mango Street, The" *

Clancy, Joseph P. "Pendragon: Arthur and His Britain" *

Clancy, Tom and Pieczenik, Steve R. "One Is the Loneliest Number" *

Clancy, Tom and Pieczenik, Steve R. "Ultimate Escape, The" *

Clancy, Tom; Pieczenik, Steve R.; and Duane, Diane "Deadliest Game, The" *

Clancy, Tom; Pieczenik, Steve R.; and McCay, Bill "Virtual Vandals" *

Clancy, Tom; Pieczenik, Steve R.; and Perry, Steve "Net Force" *

Clapp, Patricia "Tamarack Tree, The" *

Clark, Ann Nolan "Secret of the Andes" *

Clarke, Arthur C. "Star, The" *

Clavert, Patricia "Hour of the Wolf, The" *

Cleary, Beverly "Dear Mr. Henshaw" *

Cleaver, Vera and Cleaver, Bill "Where the Lilies Bloom" *

Coatsworth, Elizabeth "Cat Who Went to Heaven, The" *

Cofer, Judith Ortiz "Line of the Sun, The" *

Cole, Brock "Goats, The" *

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The" *

Colfer, Eoin "Artemis Fowl" *

Collier, James L. and Collier, Christopher "My Brother Sam Is Dead" *

Colum, Padraic "At the Gateways of the Day" *

Colum, Padraic "Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived before Achilles, The" *

Coman, Carolyn "What Jamie Saw" *

Connell, Richard "Most Dangerous Game, The" *

Conrad, Joseph "Heart of Darkness" *

Conrad, Pam "Holding Me Here" *

Conrad, Pam "Prairie Visions: The Life and Times of Solomon Butcher" *

Cook, Thomas H. "Chatham School Affair, The" *

Coolidge, Olivia "Gandhi" *

Cooney, Caroline B. "Driver’s Ed" *

Cooney, Caroline B. "Face on the Milk Carton, The" *

Cooney, Caroline B. "Terrorist, The" *

Cooper, James Fenimore "Last of the Mohicans, The" *

Cooper, Susan "Grey King, The" *

Cooper, Susan "Over Sea, Under Stone" *

Cormier, Robert "Bumblebee Flies Anyway, The" *

Cormier, Robert "Chocolate War, The" *

Cormier, Robert "Fade" *

Cormier, Robert "I Am the Cheese" *

Cormier, Robert "In the Middle of the Night" *

Cormier, Robert "Tenderness" *

Cormier, Robert "We All Fall Down" *

Costain, Thomas B. "William the Conquerer" *

Couloumbis, Audrey "Getting Near to Baby" *

Crane, Stephen "Red Badge of Courage, The" *

Craven, Margaret "I Heard the Owl Call My Name" *

Creech, Sharon "Bloomability" *

Creech, Sharon "Chasing Redbird" *

Creech, Sharon "Walk Two Moons" *

Cross, Gillian "Chartbreaker" *

Cross, Gillian "Map of Nowhere, A" *

Crutcher, Chris "Athletic Shorts" *

Crutcher, Chris "Chinese Handcuffs" *

Crutcher, Chris "Crazy Horse Electric Game, The" *

Crutcher, Chris "Running Loose" *

Crutcher, Chris "Stotan!" *

Crutcher, Chris "Whale Talk" *

Cummings, Phil "Piece of Mind, A" *

Curie, Eve "Madame Curie" *

Curtis, Christopher Paul "Bud, Not Buddy" *

Curtis, Christopher Paul "Watsons Go to Birmingham, The" *

Cushman, Karen "Midwife’s Apprentice, The" *

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Dahl, Roald "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" *

Daly, Maureen "Acts of Love" *

Daly, Maureen "First a Dream" *

Danziger, Paula "Divorce Express, The" *

Danziger, Paula "It’s an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World" *

Danziger, Paula "There’s a Bat in Bunk Five" *

Danziger, Paula and Martin, Ann M. "P.S. Longer Letter Later" *

Dash, Joan "We Shall Not Be Moved (book summary)" *

Daugherty, James "William Blake (book summary)" *

Daugherty, James "Daniel Boone (book summary)" *

De Lint, Charles "Bird Bones and Wood Ash" *

De Lint, Charles "In the House of My Enemy" *

De Lint, Charles "Seven for a Secret" *

De Lint, Charles "Small Deaths" *

De Lint, Charles "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night" *

De Lint, Charles "Wooden Bones" *

Deaver, Julie Reece "Say Goodnight, Gracie" *

DeCamp, L. Sprague "Honorable Barbarian, The" *

Defoe, Daniel "Moll Flanders" *

Defoe, Daniel "Robinson Crusoe" *

DeJong, Meindert "House of Sixty Fathers, The" *

DeJong, Meindert "Wheel on the School, The" *

Delany, Samuel R. "Star Pit, The" *

Dereske, Jo "Lone Sentinel, The" *

Derleth, August "Thing That Walked on the Wind, The" *

Derleth, August "Whippoorwills in the Hills, The" *

Desai, Kiran "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard" *

Dessen, Sarah "Dreamland" *

Dessen, Sarah "Someone Like You" *

Deuker, Carl "On the Devil’s Court" *

Deutsch, Babette "Walt Whitman: Builder for America" *

Diaz, Junot "Drown" *

DiCamillo, Kate "Because of Winn-Dixie" *

Dick, Philip K. "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" *

Dickens, Charles "Christmas Carol, A" *

Dickens, Charles "David Copperfield" *

Dickens, Charles "Great Expectations" *

Dickens, Charles "Oliver Twist" *

Dickens, Charles "Tale of Two Cities, A" *

Dickinson, Peter "Weathermonger, The" *

Dicks, Terrance "Doctor Who: The Five Doctors" *

Dixon, Franklin W. "Hardy Boys Series, The" *

Dodge, Mary Mapes "Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates" *

Dorris, Michael "Morning Girl" *

Dorris, Michael "Yellow Raft in Blue Water, A" *

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor "Brothers Karamazov, The" *

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor "Crime and Punishment" *

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan "Hound of the Baskervilles, The" *

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan "Lost World, The" *

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan "Red-Headed League, The" *

Dragonwagon, Crescent and Zindel, Paul "To Take a Dare" *

Dreiser, Theodore "American Tragedy, An" *

Dreiser, Theodore "Sister Carrie" *

Du Maurier, Daphne "Rebecca" *

Duane, Diane "Deep Wizardry" *

Dumas, Alexandre "Three Musketeers, The" *

Duncan, Lois "Don’t Look behind You" *

Duncan, Lois "Twisted Window, The" *

Dyer, Daniel "Jack London (book summary)" *

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Eckert, Allan W. "Incident at Hawk’s Hill" *

Edmonds, Walter D. "Matchlock Gun, The" *

Edwards, Grace F. "Toast Before Dying, A" *

Eliot, T. S. "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats" *

Ellison, Harlan "Boy and His Dog, A" *

Ellison, Ralph "Invisible Man" *

Ende, Michael "Neverending Story, The" *

Engdahl, Sylvia Louise "Enchantress from the Stars" *

Enright, Elizabeth "Thimble Summer" *

Esquivel, Laura "Like Water for Chocolate" *

Estes, Eleanor "Ginger Pye" *

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Farber, Norma "Mercy Short: A Winter Journal, North Boston, 1692-93" *

Farge, Oliver La "Laughing Boy" *

Farley, Walter "Black Stallion, The" *

Farmer, Nancy "Girl Named Disaster, A" *

Faulkner, William "Absalom, Absalom!" *

Faulkner, William "As I Lay Dying" *

Faulkner, William "Sound and the Fury, The" *

Faulkner, William "Wishing Tree, The" *

Fenner, Carol "Yolanda’s Genius" *

Fenton, Edward "Morning of the Gods, The" *

Fenton, Edward "Refugee Summer, The" *

Field, Rachel "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years" *

Finger, Charles J. "Tales from Silver Lands" *

Fitzgerald, F. Scott "Great Gatsby, The"

Fleischman, Paul "Borning Room, The" *

Fleischman, Paul "Bull Run (book summary)" *

Fleischman, Paul "Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices" *

Fleischman, Paul "Saturnalia (book summary)" *

Fleischman, Paul "Seedfolks" *

Fleischman, Paul "Townsend’s Warbler" *

Fleischman, Sid "Abracadabra Kid, The" *

Fleischman, Sid "Whipping Boy, The" *

Forbes, Esther "Johnny Tremain" *

Forster, E. M. "Howards End" *

Forster, E. M. "Passage to India, A" *

Forster, E. M. "Room with a View, A" *

Fox, Paula "Place Apart, A" *

Fox, Paula "Slave Dancer, The" *

Frank, Anne "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" *

Freedman, Russell "Life and Death of Crazy Horse, The" *

Freedman, Russell "Lincoln: A Photobiography" *

Freedman, Russell "Martha Graham: A Dancer’s Life" *

French, Allen "Story of Grettir the Strong, The" *

French, Michael "Circle of Revenge" *

Freuchen, Pipaluk "Eskimo Boy" *

Friedman, Ina R. "Flying against the Wind" *

Fritz, Jean "Great Little Madison, The" *

Fritz, Jean "Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers" *

Fritz, Jean "Homesick: My Own Story" *

Fritz, Jean "Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold" *

Fritz, Jean "Why Not, Lafayette?" *

Fritz, Jean "You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?" *

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García Márquez, Gabriel "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" *

García Márquez, Gabriel "Love in the Time of Cholera" *

García Márquez, Gabriel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" *

Garden, Nancy "Peace, O River" *

Garfield, Leon "Black Jack" *

Garfield, Leon "Footsteps" *

Garfield, Leon "Smith" *</fo