These books are divided according to topic. When you click on the topic, you will find questions to the individual books in purple. Some of these are duplicates for the classics; if more questions are available for duplicates, those titles are clickable. Asterisks indicate historical fiction.
Golden Age Girls book group
Burnett, A Little Princess
---.
The Secret Garden.
Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Porter, Pollyanna
Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Roald Dahl book group
The BFG
Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Danny the
Champion of the World
James and the Giant Peach
Matilda
The Twits
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
Witches
Memorable Children book group--(the
criterion here is eponymous books, really)
Cleary, Ramona the Pest, and the other
Ramona books
Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy
Hamilton, M.C. Higgins the Great
Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking
Potter, Olivia Kidney
Spinelli, Maniac Magee
---. Stargirl
Survival/Wilderness Stories book
group
Farmer, A
Girl Named Disaster
George,
Julie of the Wolves
---. My Side of the Mountain
O'Dell,
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Paulsen,
Hatchet
Nonfiction:
Bartoletti, Black Potatoes
---. Kids on Strike
Capuzo, Close
to Shore (He wrote an adult version with the same title, so make sure
you get the right version.)
Graydon, Made You Look
Murphy, An American Plague
Animal Stories
DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie
Farley, The Black Stallion
Gipson, Old
Yeller
Hesse, The Music of Dolphins
Naylor, Shiloh
Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows
Sewell, Black Beauty
Multicultural Books--
Creech,
Walk Two Moons
*Curtis,
Bud Not Buddy
*---. The Watsons Go
to Birmingham 1963: A Novel
Jones, Standing Against the Wind
*Taylor,
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
*Wolf, Bat 6
*Yep, Dragonwings
Historical Fiction: War
*Collier,
My Brother Sam is Dead
*Lowry, Number the Stars
*Forbes, Johnny Tremain
*Spinelli, Milkweed
*Yolen, The Devil's
Arithmetic
American History
*Anderson,
Fever 1793
*Bruchac, Sacajawea
*Hesse, Out
of the Dust
*---. Witness
*Holt, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town,
*Speare, The Witch of Blackbird
Pond
Historical Fiction: Medieval
Cushman,
Catherine
Called Birdy
---. Matilda Bone
---.The Midwife's Apprentice,
The Ramsay Scallop
The Door in the Wall
Fantasy
Alexander,
The Book of Three
Farmer, The Ear,
The Eye, and the Arm
---The Sea of
Trolls
Levine,
Ella Enchanted
Pullman,
The Golden Compass
Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
(and the others of course)
Speculative Fiction:
Babbitt,
Tuck Everlasting
Boston, Children of Green Knowe
L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Tim
Lowry,
The Giver
Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden