American Born Chinese – Gene Luen Yang  [Discussion Guide]

Anastasia Krupnik – Lois Lowry

Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer

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Baby – Patricia MacLachlan

The Bad Beginning (Series of Unfortunate Events #1) – Lemony Snicket

Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days – Stephen Manes

Because of Winn-Dixie – Kate DiCamillo

Becoming Naomi Leon – Pam Munoz Ryan

Being – Kevin Brooks  [Discussion Guide]

The Best School Year Ever – Barbara Robinson

The BFG – Roald Dhal

Bird Boy – Elizabeth Starr Hill

Bridge to Terebithia – Katherine Paterson

Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis

Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery – Deborah and James Howe

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The Capture (Guardians of Ga'Hoole #1) - Kathryn Lasky   

Catherine, Called Birdy – Karen Cushman

Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White

Chasing Vermeer – Blue Balliett

The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites – Heather Brewer  [Discussion Guide]

The City of Ember – Jeanne DuPrau

City of the Beasts – Isabel Allende  [Discussion Guide]

Coralline – Neil Gaiman  [Discussion Guide]

The Cricket in Times Square – George Selden

The Cryptid Hunters – Ronald Smith

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The Dark Is Rising – Susan Cooper

The Discovery (Dive #1) – Gordon Korman

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The Egypt Game – Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Eleven Birthdays - By Wendy Mass

Elsewhere – Gabrille Zevin  [Discussion Guide]

Esperanza Rising – Pam Munoz Ryan

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Feed – M.T. Anderson (recommended for older teens)  [Discussion Guide]

The Field Guide (Spiderwick Chronicles #1) – Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black

The Floating Island: The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme – Elizabeth Haydon 

Frindle – Andrew Clements

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler – E. L. Konigsberg

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Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator – Jennifer Allison

Gollywhopper Games by Jody Feldman

Gone – Michael Grant

The Goose Girl – Shannon Hale

Granny Torrelli Makes Soup – Sharon Creech

Gregor the Overlander – Suzanne Collins

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Hatchet – Gary Paulsen

Heir Apparent – Vivian Vande Velde

Holes – Louis Sachar

Hoot – Carl Hiaasen

How to Eat Fried Worms – Thomas Rockwell

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) – Suzanne Collins  [Discussion Guide]

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I am the Messenger – Markus Zusak 

If I Stay – Gayle Forman 

The Indian In the Cupboard – Lynne Reid Banks

Ingo – Helen Dunmore  [Discussion Guide]

Inkheart – Cornelia Funke

Invisible – Peter Hautman 

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James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life - Wendy Mass

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Last Exit to Normal – Michael Harmon 

The Library Card – Jerry Spinelli

Life As We Knew It – Susan Beth Pfeffer  [Discussion Guide]

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia #1) – C.S. Lewis

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Make Lemonade – Virginia Euwer Wolff

The Maze Runner (Maze Runner #1) – James Dashner 

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac – Gabrielle Zevin 

Missing May – Cynthia Rylant

Mr. Popper’s Penguins – Richard Atwater

Music of Dolphins – Karen Hess

My Side of the Mountain – Jean Craighead George

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The Phantom Tollbooth – Nathan Juster

Princess Academy – Shannon Hale

Punished! – David Lubar

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Rules of the Road – Joan Bauer  [Discussion Guide]

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The School Story – Andrew Clements

The Secret of Platform 13 – Eva Ibotson

The Shakespeare Stealer – Gary Blackwood

So Yesterday – Scott Westerfield

Son of the Mob – Gordon Korman

Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card

Stuart Little - E.B. White

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The Tail of Emily Windsnap – Liz Kessler

The Tale of  Despereaux – Kate DiCamillo

The Talking Earth – Jean Craighead George

The Tiger Rising – Kate DiCamillo

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle – Avi

Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt

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Unwind – Neal Shusterman

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The Warrior Heir – Cinda Williams Chima

The Water Horse – Dick King-Smith

The Watson’s Go to Birmingham – Christopher Paul Curtis

The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin

What Happened to Cass Mcbride? – Gail Giles

The Whipping Boy – Sid Fleischman

Wildfire! – Elizabeth Starr Hill

The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth George Speare  

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