Joan Bauer - Hope Was Here

Betsy Byars – The Pinballs

Robert Cormier - Heroes

Paula Danzinger – P.S. Longer Letter Later

Kate DiCamillo – Because of Winn Dixie

Paula Fox – One-Eyed Cat

Jean Fritz – Homecoming (autobiography)

Jack Gantos – Joey Pigza series

Patricia Riley Giff – Nory Ryan’s Song

Bette Greene – Summer of My German Soldier

Karen Hesse – Out of the Dust, Witness

Irene Hunt – Across Five Aprils, Up a Road Slowly

Madeline L'Engle- House Like a Lotus

Walter Dean Myers – Monster, Bad Boy (autobiography)

Katherine Patterson – Bridge to Terabitha

Richard Peck – Remembering the Good Times, Long Way from Chicago

Wilson Rawls – Where the Red Fern Grows

Ann Rinaldi – Amelia’s War

Margeret Rostkowski – After the Dancing Days

Nevile Schute - A Town Like Alice

Elizabeth George Speare – Witch of Blackbird Pond

Jerry Spinelli – Crash, Maniac Magee

Natalie Babbitt – Tuck Everlasting

Susan Cooper – Grey King

Nancy Farmer - The Ear, the Eye and the Arm

William Goldman – Princess Bride only

Margaret Haddix – Among the Hidden

Margaret Haddix - Running Out of Time

Frank Herbert - Dune

Madeline L’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time

Gail Carson Levine – Ella Enchanted

Lois Lowry – The Giver

Philip Pullman – Golden Compass series, I Was a Rat

J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter series

Nevile Schute – On the Beach

William Sleator - Into the Dream

J.R.R. Tolkien – The Hobitt

Jane Yolen – Merlin series, etc.

Laurie Halse Anderson  - Fever 1793 

Avi – True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Avi - Crispin and the Cross of Lead

Sharon Creech – The Wanderer

Karen Cushman – Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Will Hobbs - Wild Man Island 

Jack London – Call of the Wild, biography

Robert Ludlum – Borne Identity

Ben Mikaelsen  - Touching Spirit Bear

Scott O’Dell – Island of the Blue Dolphins

Gary Paulsen – Hatchet, Soldier’s Heart

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Alexander Dumas - The Three Musketeers

Henry James -Turn of the Screw

Rudyard Kiplind - The Jungle Book 

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Jack London – Call of the Wild, biography

Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men

Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer

Richard Peck - Are You in the House Alone? 

Philip Pullman - Ruby in the Smoke series

Louis Sachar - Holes

Wendelin Van Draanen – Sammy Keyes mysteries

Cynthia Voigt – The Calendar Papers