Books from A-Z Note: This is not an exhaustive list. It simply contains suggested titles for each letter of the alphabet. Titles followed by ** are

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1 Books from A-Z Note: This is not an exhaustive list. It simply contains suggested titles for each letter of the alphabet. Titles followed by ** are for more mature readers and those followed by + feature African-American or multi-ethnic characters. A Adam Canfield of the Slash (Michael Winerip) After Ever After (Jordan Sonnenblick) Airman (Eoin Colfer) Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, Book 1) Tamora Pierce Al Capone Does my Shirts (Gennifer Choldenko) Amazing Grace (Megan Shull) Among the Hidden (Margaret Peterson Haddix) Artichoke s Heart (Suzanne Supplee) Across Five Aprils (Irene Hunt) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) B The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (Karen Cushman) Beast (Donna Jo Napoli) The Book Thief (Markus Zusak) The Boy who Saved Baseball (John Ritter) Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson) Bud, Not Buddy (Christopher Paul Curtis) + Benito Cereno (Herman Melville) C Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift s Chocolate Pilot (Michael O. Tunnell) Chasing Redbird (Sharon Creech) Chasing Vermeer (Blue Balliett) Close to Famous (Jona Bauer) Copper Sun (Sharon M. Draper) + Counting by 7s (Holly Goldberg Sloan) Crow (BarbaraWright) + The City of Ember (Jean DuPrau) The Clockwork Three (Matthew Kirby) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas) Cannery Row (John Steinbeck) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur s Court (Mark Twain) D Day of Tears (Julius Lester) + Do the Math: Secrets, Lies and Algebra (Wendy Lichtman) Double Dutch (Sharon M. Draper) + Dream of the Blue Heron (Victor Barnouw) Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie (Jordan Sonnenblick) The Dragon s Tooth (N.D. Wilson) David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) Dracula (Bram Stoker)

2 E Each Little Bird that Sings (Deborah Wiles) Eight Keys (Suzanne LaFleur) Elijah of Buxton (Christopher Paul Curtis) + Ender s Game** (Orson Scott Card) Esperanza Rising (Pam Muñoz Ryan) + Enchantress from the Stars (Sylvia Engdahl) The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia (Esther Hautzig) F Feathers (Jacqueline Woodson) + For Laughing Out Loud (Jack Prelutsky) Freak the Mighty (Rodman Philbrick) Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) G Gabriel s Journey: Racing to Freedom (Alison Hart) + The Giver (Lois Lowry) Gregor the Overlander (Suzanne Collins) Guts (Gary Paulsen) The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Gulliver s Travels (Jonathan Swift) H Habibi (Naomi Shihab Nye) + Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh) Hatchet (Gary Paulsen) Heat (Mike Lupica) + Homesick (Kate Klise) Hope was Here (Joan Bauer) The House of the Scorpion (Nancy Farmer) How Lamar s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-Sized Trophy (Crystal Allen) + How to Survive Middle School (Donna Gephart) The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien) The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo) I I Am the Cheese (Robert Cormier) I am the Messenger (Markus Zusak) I Never Said I Wasn t Difficult (Sara Holbrook) If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period (Gennifer Choldenko) If You re Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand (Kalli Dakos) Imperfect Spiral** (Debbie Levy) Inkheart (Cornelia Funke) Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O Dell) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)

3 J Jacob Have I Loved (Katherine Paterson) Jefferson s Sons: A Founding Father s Secret Children (Kimberly Brubaker Bradley) + Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (Wendy Mass) Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (Jack Gantos) Julie of the Wolves (Jean Craighead George) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) Johnny Tremain (Esther Forbes) K Keeping Safe the Stars (Sheila O Connor) Kensuke s Kingdom (Michael Morpurgo) Kira-Kira (Cynthia Kadohata) Knots in my Yo-Yo String (Jerry Spinelli) To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) L Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery (John Feinstein) Loser (Jerry Spinelli) Love, Ruby Lavender (Deborah Wiles) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Lord of the Flies (William Golding) M Math Doesn t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail (Danica McKellar) M. C. Higgins, the Great (Virginia Hamilton) + Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf (Jennifer L. Holm.) Middle School: Get me Out of Here! (Chris Tebbetts and James Patterson) Miss Peregrine s Home for Peculiar Children** (Ransom Riggs) Moon Over Manifest (Clare Vanderpool) Myths and Legends (Anthony Horowitz) The Maze Runner** (James Dashner) The Moves Make the Man (Bruce Brooks) + The Music of the Dolphins (Karen Hesse) My Brother Sam is Dead (James and Christopher Collier) N Never Trust a Dead Man (Vivian Vande Velde) New Boy (Julian Houston) + Night Kites (M. E. Kerr) Ninth Ward (Jewell Parker Rhodes) + No More Dead Dogs (Gordon Korman) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass) +

4 O On the Run: Chasing the Falconers (Gordon Korman) Out of My Mind (Sharon Draper) The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (E.L. Konigsburg) Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) P P.S. Be Eleven (Rita Williams-Garcia) + Peak (Roland Smith) Peeled (Joan Bauer) Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe (Bette Green) Pictures of Hollis Woods (Patricia Reilly Giff) The Pigman (Paul Zindel) The Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens) Q QB1 (Mike Lupica) Quidditch Through the Ages, by Kennilworthy Whisp, (J. K. Rowling) All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque) R Ready Player One** (Ernest Cline) Red Kayak (Priscilla Cummings) The Ravenmaster s Secret (Elvira Woodruff) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry (Mildred Taylor) + S A Single Shard (Linda Sue Park) See you at Harry s (Jo Knowles) Seedfolks (Paul Fleischman) + Slam! (Walter Dean Myers) + Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time (Lisa Yee) + Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli) The Schwa was Here (Neal Shusterman) The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares) The Skin I m In (Sharon Flake) + The Slave Dancer (Paula Fox) So B. It (Sarah Weeks) Sugar (Jewell Parker Rhodes) + Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (Suzanne Fisher Staples) + The Swiss Family Robinson (Johann David Wyss)

5 T Tangerine (Edward Bloor) The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet (Erin Dionne) Things Not Seen (Andrew Clements) Truce: the Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting (Kim Murphy) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)+ The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas) Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) U Uglies trilogy (Scott Westerfeld) Under the Blood Red Sun (Graham Salisbury) Unwind** (Neal Shusterman) Uprising (Margaret Peterson Haddix) The Upstairs Room (Johanna Reiss) V Vladimir Tod Series: Eighth Grade Bites; Ninth Grade Slays; Tenth Grade Bleeds, etc. (Heather Brewer) W Walk Two Moons (Sharon Creech) When you Reach Me (Rebecca Stead) Wonder (R.J. Palacio) Wonderstruck (Brian Selznick) A Wrinkle in Time (Madeline L Engle) Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum) X Looking for X (Deborah Ellis) The Extra** (Kathryn Lasky) The Exchange Student (Kate Gilmore) The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp (Rick Yancy) Y You Don t Know Me (David Klass) Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior (Chris Bradford) Young, Black and Determined: A Biography (Patricia McKissack) + The Yearling (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings) Z When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (Kimberly Willis Holt) Zink (Cherie Bennett) Zoobreak (Gordon Korman) Zombie Baseball Beatdown (Paolo Bacigalupi) Zombieland, a Goosebumps Story (R.L. Stine)