Children's Classics
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These books have stood the test of time; for 40 years or more, generations of children
have read and enjoyed them. Classics are appropriate for grades 4 and older, although
younger children will enjoy many of these as read-alouds. Click on the title to see if the
book is available.
| Alcott, Louisa May |
Little
Women. |
| Atwater, Richard |
Mr.
Popper's Penguins. |
| Bagnold, Enid |
National
Velvet. |
| Barrie, J.M. |
Peter
Pan. |
| Baum, L. Frank |
The
Wizard of Oz. |
| Boston, L.M. |
The
Children of Green Knowe. |
| Brink, Carol Ryrie |
Caddie
Woodlawn. |
| Burnett, Frances H. |
The
Secret Garden. |
| Cameron, Eleanor |
The
Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet. |
| Carroll, Lewis |
Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland. |
| Collodi, Carlo |
Pinocchio. |
| Cooper, James Fenimore |
The
Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757. |
| De Angeli, Marguerite |
The
Door in the Wall. |
| Defoe, Daniel |
Robinson
Crusoe. |
| DeJong, Meindert |
The
House of Sixty Fathers. |
| Dickens, Charles |
Oliver
Twist. |
| Dumas, Alexandre |
The
Three Musketeers. |
| Eager, Edward |
Half
Magic. |
| Estes, Eleanor |
The
Hundred Dresses. |
| Gannett, Ruth |
My
Father's Dragon. |
| George, Jean Craighead |
My
Side of the Mountain. |
| Gipson, Fred |
Old
Yeller. |
| Grahame, Kenneth |
The
Wind in the Willows. |
| Hale, Lucretia |
The
Peterkin Papers. |
| Henry, Marguerite |
King
of the Wind. |
| Irving, Washington |
The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow. |
| Kipling, Rudyard |
The
Jungle Book. |
| Lawson, Robert |
Ben
and Me. |
| Lewis, C.S. |
The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. |
| Lindgren, Astrid |
Pippi
Longstocking. |
| Lofting, Hugh |
The
Story of Doctor Dolittle. |
| London, Jack |
The
Call of the Wild. |
| McCloskey, Robert |
Homer
Price. |
| Milne, A.A. |
Winnie-the-Pooh. |
| Montgomery, L.M. |
Anne
of Green Gables. |
| Nesbit, E. |
The
Enchanted Castle. |
| Norton, Mary |
The
Borrowers. |
| O'Dell, Scott |
Island
of the Blue Dolphins. |
| Pyle, Howard |
The
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. |
| Pyle, Howard |
The
Story of King Arthur and His Knights. |
| Rawlings, Marjorie |
The
Yearling. |
| Richter, Conrad |
The
Light in the Forest. |
| Robertson, Keith |
Henry
Reed, Inc. |
| Saint-Exupery, Antoine de |
The
Little Prince. |
| Salten, Felix |
Bambi:
A Life in the Woods. |
| Scott, Walter, Sir |
Ivanhoe. |
| Selden, George |
The
Cricket in Times Square. |
| Sewell, Anna |
Black
Beauty. |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Treasure
Island. |
| Thurber, James |
Many
Moons. |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. |
The
Hobbit. |
| Travers, P.L. |
Mary
Poppins. |
| Twain, Mark |
The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer. |
| Verne, Jules |
Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. |
| White, E.B. |
Charlotte's
Web. |
| White, T.H. |
The
Sword in the Stone. |
| Wyss, Johann David |
The
Swiss Family Robinson. |
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