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1 1984 GeorgeOrwell Utopia,Justice,Freedom 2 ABundleofSticks PaulRhoadsMauser Bullying,Self-discovery
3 AChristmasCarol CharlesDickens Characters,Relationships
4 AGirlNamedDisaster NancyFarmer Courage,Injustice,Cultures
5 ALightintheAttic ShelSilverstein Poetry 6 ANorthernLight JenniferDonnelly Crime,Mystery 7 ARingofEndlessLight MadeleineL'Engle Friendship,Imagination
8 ASingleShard LindaSueParkPerseverance,KoreanCulture
9 ATaleofTwoCities CharlesDickens Injustice,Adventure 10 AVisittoWilliamBlake'sInn NancyWillard Poetry 11 AWizardofEarthsea UrsulaLeGuin Self-discovery,Fantasy
12 AWrinkleinTime MadeleineL'Engle Fantasy,Adventure
13 Abel'sIsland WilliamSteig Independence,Adventure
14 Alice'sAdventuresinWonderland LewisCarrol Imagination,Adventure
15 AnimalFarm GeorgeOrwell Utopia,Justice,Freedom
16 AnneFrank:TheDiaryofaYoungGirl AnneFrank War,Self-Discovery 17 AnneofGreenGables L.M.Montgomery Family,Self-Discovery 18 AreYouThere,God?It'sMe,Margaret JudyBlume GrowingUp 19 AroundtheWorldinEightyDays JulesVerne Adventure,Travel
20 Arthur,fortheVeryFirstTime PatriciaMacLachlan Humour,HumanBehaviour
21 Bambert'sBookofMissingStories ReinhardtJung SocialIssues,Relationships 22 Beowulf MichaelMorpurgo Myth,Adventure 23 BookofGreekMyths IngriandEdgarD'Aulaire Myths,GreekCivilization 24 BridgetoTerabithia KatherinePaterson Friendship,Imagination 25 CallItCourage ArmstrongSperry Feelings,Adventure 26 Carrie'sWar NinaBawden War,Mystery
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27 Charlotte'sWeb E.B.White Friendship,Independence
28 CommodorePerryintheLandoftheShogun RhodaBlumbergAdventure,JapaneseCivilization
29 Conrad'sWar AndrewDavies Family,Adventure 30 Coraline NeilGaiman Mystery,Relationships 31 Daddy-Long-Legs JeanWebster Relationships,SchoolLife
32 Dogsong GaryPaulsen Adventure,Self-Discovery
33 Dragon'sBlood JaneYolen Fantasy 34 FiveChildrenandIt E.Nesbit Fantasy,Adventure 35 Frankenstein MaryShelley Horror,Characters
36 FreakyFriday MaryRodgers Family,Fantasy
37 GreatExpectations CharlesDickens Characters,Relationships
38 HailstonesandHalibutBones MaryO'Neill Poetry 39 HarounandtheSeaofStories SalmanRushdie Adventure,Fantasy 40 HuckleberryFinn MarkTwain Childhood,Adventure
41IamMalala:TheGirlwhoStoodupforEducationandwasShotbytheTaliban MalalaYousafzai
Education,Equality,Terrorism
42 JacobHaveILoved KatherinePaterson Family,Self-Discovery
43 JulieoftheWolves JeanGeorge Animals,Adventure
44 JumpShiptoFreedom JamesLincolnCollier Slavery 45 Kidnapped RobertLouisStevenson Adventure,Characters 46 Kim RudyardKipling Adventure,Self-Discovery 47 Kon-Tiki ThorHeyerdahl Travel,Civilizations 48 LittleWomen LouisaMayAlcott Friendship,Family 49 Miracles RichardLewis(Ed.) Poetry 50 Mockingbird KathrynErskine SpecialNeeds,Relationships 51 MrsFrisbyandtheRatsofNIMH RobertO'Brien Justice,Adventure
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52 MyFamilyandOtherAnimals GeraldDurrell Family,Animals 53 Nightmares:PoemstoTroubleYourSleep JackPreleutsky Poetry 54 NoPrettyPictures:AChildofWar AnitaLabel War,Childhood
55 NumbertheStars LoisLowry War,Childhood
56 PigeonPost ArthurRansome Mystery,Adventure 57 Pollyanna JeanPorter Childhood,Self-Discovery
58 RedScarfGirl:AMemoiroftheCulturalRevolution JiLiJang Biography,China 59 RollofThunder,HearMyCry MildredD.Taylor Racism,SocialProblems 60 Scorpions WalterMyers SocialIssues,Gangs 61 Shizuko'sDaughter KyokoMori Family,Self-Discovery 62 SingtotheDawn MinfongHo SiblingRivalry
63 Skellig DavidAlmond Friendship,Adventure 64 SongsofInnocenceandExperience WilliamBlake Poetry,Emotions
65 Spartacus HowardFastAdventure,RomanCivilization
66 StuartLittle E.B.White Friendship,Family 67 Superfudge JudyBlume Family
68 TheAmazingMauriceandHisAmazingRodents TerryPratchett Animals,Adventure 69 TheBlackPearl ScottO'Dell Adventure.Rivalry
70 TheBorrowers MaryNorton Adventure
71 TheChroniclesofNarnia C.S.Lewis Family,Fantasy
72 TheClayMarble MinfongHo War,Hope
73 TheCuriousIncidentoftheDogintheNight-Time MarkHammond Mystery,Disability 74 TheDarkisRising SusanCooper Mystery,Adventure 75 TheDayMyFatherBecameaBush JokeVanLeeuwen War,Relationships
76 TheExamination MalcolmBosseAdventure,Family,AncientChina
77 TheFamilyfromOneEndStreet EveGarnett Family,CityLife,Poverty 78 TheFledgling JaneLangton Adventure,Fantasy
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79 TheGhostofThomasKempe PenelopeLively Mystery,Adventure
80 TheGiver LoisLowry Adventure,Mystery 81 TheGoldenCompass PhilipPullman Fantasy,Adventure 82 TheGolem BarbaraRogasky Myths,JewishCulture 83 TheGraveyardBook NeilGaiman Mystery,Relationships
84 TheHaunting MargaretMahy Horror,Characters 85 TheHobbit J.R.R.Tolkien Fantasy,Adventure 86 TheHouseofDiesDrear VirginiaHamilton Mystery,History 87 TheIncredibleJourney SheilaBurnford Animals,Adventure 88 TheJungleBook RudyardKipling Adventure 89 TheLifeofPi YannMartel Adventure,Survival
90 TheLittlePrinceAntoinedeSaint-Exupery
Travel,Friendship,Self-Discovery
91 TheLordoftheRingsTrilogy J.R.R.Tolkien Fantasy,Relationships
92 TheMasterPuppeteer KatherinePatersonChildhood,JapaneseCulture
93 TheMoorchild EloiseMcGraw Prejudice,Fear
94 TheMysteriousBenedictSociety TrentonLeeStewart Adventure,Friendship 95 TheNightGardener JonathanAuxier Adventure,Mystery 96 TheOtherSideofTruth BeverlyNaidoo War,Family,Injustice
97 TheOutsiders S.E.Hinton Self-discovery,Conflict
98 ThePearl JohnSteinbeck Greed,Family,Injustice
99ThePenderwicks:ASummerTaleofFourSisters,TwoRabbits,andaVeryInterestingBoy JeanneBirdsall Family,Conflicts
100 ThePhantomTollbooth NortonJuster Adventure,Fantasy 101 ThePrinceandthePauper MarkTwain Injustice,Adventure
102 TheRailwayChildren EdithNesbit Injustice,Friendship
103 TheRattleBagSeamusHeaney&TedHughes Poetry
104 TheRedPony JohnSteinbeck Animals,Adventure
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105 TheRedPencil AndreaPinkney Refugee,War
106 TheSecretGardenFrancesHodgsonBurnett
Adventure,Self-Discovery
107 TheSilverSword IanSerrailier War,Family 108 TheSlaveDancer PaulaFox SocialIssues,Slavery 109 TheStoryofScience AnnaClaybourne Science,History 110 TheStoryofTracyBeaker JacquelineWilson Childhood,Relationships
111 TheTaleofDespereaux KateDiCamillo Fantasy,Adventure 112 TheTrueConfessionsofCharlotteDoyle Avi Crime,Mystery 113 TheTwenty-oneBalloons WilliamPeneDuBois Adventure,Travel 114 TheViewfromSaturday E.L.Konigsburg SchoolLife
115 TheVillagebytheSea AnitaDesai Poverty,Urbanization
116 TheWave MortonRhue SchoolLife,SocialIssues 117 TheWhisperingTown JenniferElvgren War,Holocaust
118 TheWitchofBlackbirdPond ElizabethSpeare SocialIssues,Justice
119 TheWizardofOz L.FrankBaum Friendship,Adventure
120 ThroughMyEyes RubyBridgesHistory,Racism,Biography
121 ThroughtheLooking-Glass LewisCarroll Adventure,Imagination
122 TomSawyer MarkTwain Childhood,Adventure
123 Tom'sMidnightGarden PhilippaPearceFamily,Adventure,Self-discovery
124 TreasureIsland RobertLouisStevenson Adventure,Characters
125 TuckEverlasting NatalieBabbitt Self-discovery,Family
126 WatershipDown RichardAdams Adventure,Injustice
127 WestoftheMoon MargiPreus Adventure,Relationships 128 WindintheWillows KennethGrahame Friendship,Adventure 129 Wonderstruck BrianSelznick SpecialNeeds,Family 130 YoungCharlesDarwinandtheVoyageoftheBeagle RuthAshby Travel,Biography