Alexander - Prydain Chronicles/Iron Ring
Almond - Skellig
Avi - True confessions of Charlotte Doyle/Poppy
Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting/Search for Delicious
Balliett - Chasing Vermeer
Barron - Ancient one/Merlin series
Bauer - On My Honor/Hope Was Here
Bawden - Granny the Pag
Blackwood - Shakespeare Stealer
Burnford - Incredible Journey
Byars - Summer of the Swans
Byng - Molly Moon stories
Calhoun - Firegold
Card - Ender's game
Clements - Anything
Colfer - Artemis Fowl
Conly - Crazy Lady
Cooper - Dark is Rising (series)
Corder - Lion boy
Creech - Walk Two Moons (and others)
Curtis - Watson's Go to Birmingham
Cushman - Catherine called Birdy (and others)
DeFelice - Weasel
Dejong - Wheel on the School
DiTerlizzi - Spiderwick chronicles
Fritz - Homesick: My own Story
Fitzgerald - Great Brain series
Fletcher - Shadow Spinner
Funke - Thief lord/Inkheart
Gaiman - Coraline
George - My Side of the Mountain
Haddix - Running Out of Time/Among the Hidden series
Hale - Chet Gecko mysteries
Hesse - Out of the Dust/Stowaway
Hiaasen - Hoot
Hobbs -Ghost Canoe
Horvath - Everything on a Waffle
Ibbotson - Journey to the river sea, etc
Jacques - Redwall series
Juster - Phantom Tollbooth
Kehret - Secret journey, etc
Konigsburg - From the mixed up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, etc
Lawrence - The Wreckers
Lawson - Ben and Me
L'Engle - Wrinkle in Time, etc.
Levine - Ella Enchanted
Lowry - The Giver trilogy/Number the Stars
Magorian - Goodnight, Mr. Tom
Maguire - Seven Spiders Spinning
Merrill - Pushcart War
Morpurgo - Kensuke's kingdom
Morris - Squire's Tale
Nicholson - Wind Singer
Paterson - Jip: His Story/Bridge to Terabithia, etc.
Paolini - Eragon
Paulson - Harris and Me
Peck - Long Way From Chicago (and others)
Pierce - Protector of the small series
Pullman - Golden Compass series
Sachar - Holes
Smith - Jaguar/Thunder Cave/Sasquatch
Snicket - Series of unfortunate events
Spinelli - Loser, Wringer, etc.
Tolkien - Hobbit series
Van Draanen - Sammy Keyes mysteries
Verne - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
White - Belle Prater's Boy
Wyss - Swiss Family Robinson

Consider reading any of the old kiddie classics- Charlotte's Web, House at Pooh Corner, Bambi, Mary Poppins, Wind in the Willows - just to revisit wonderful characters and language.

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