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Classics

Older Classics for Children

Alcott
Little Women
Andersen
The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen
Bagnold
National Velvet
Burnett
The Secret Garden
Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll
Through the Looking Glass
Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Dickens
A Christmas Carol
Grimm
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Lester
The Tales of Uncle Remus
London
The Call of the Wild
MacDonald
At the Back of the North Wind
Perrault
The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Pyle
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Rawlings
The Yearling
Spyri
Heidi
Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verse
Stevenson
Treasure Island
Travers
Mary Poppins
Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Wyss
The Swiss Family Robinson

Modern Classics for Children

Alexander
The Book of Three
Armstrong
Sounder
Atwater
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting
Cleary
"Ramona" series
Cleaver
Where the Lilies Bloom
Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
DuBois
The Twenty-one Balloons
Eager
Half Magic
Farley
The Black Stallion
Fitzgerald
The Great Brain
Frank
Diary of a Young Girl
George
Julie of the Wolves
Gipson
Old Yeller
Grahame
The Wind in the Willows
Hamilton
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
Holling
Paddle to the Sea
Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
Knight
Lassie Come-Home
Le Guin
A Wizard of Earthsea
L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Lindgren
Pippi Longstocking
McCloskey
Homer Price
MacDonald
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Milne
Winnie the Pooh
Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
Morey
Gentle Ben
Mowat
Owls in the Family
Norton
The Borrowers
O'Brien
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
O'Dell
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Paterson
Bridge to Terabithia
Rawls
Where the Red Fern Grows
Reid Banks
The Indian in the Cupboard
Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince
Salten
Bambi: A Life in the Woods
Selden
The Cricket in Times Square