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Award-winning Books
Click on the book title for more info	Rating	Difficulty
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson		Average
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis		Average
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman		Challenging
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson		Average
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins		Average
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine		Average
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg		Average
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen		Challenging
Holes by Louis Sachar		Average
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen		Average
Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff		Challenging
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson		Challenging
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff		Average
Redwall by Brian Jacques		Average
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor		Challenging
Rules by Cynthia Lord		Average
Sold by Patricia McCormick		Average
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury		Average
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain		Challenging
The Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Shusterman		Average
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer		Average
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick		Average
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot		Average
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi		Average
The Watson's Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis		Average
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech		Average
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead		Average

Classics
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A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith		Average
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll		Average
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie		Average
Animal Farm by George Orwell		Challenging
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery		Average
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery		Average
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell		Challenging
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White		Easy Reading
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson		Average
Dracula by Bram Stoker		Challenging
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley		Challenging
Great Expectaions by Charles Dickens		Challenging
Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm		Average
Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift		Average
Hans Andersen's Fairytales by Hans Andersen		Challenging
Lord of the Flies by William Golding		Average
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen		Challenging
Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett		Challenging
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain		Challenging
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle		Challenging
The Call of the Wild by Jack London		Challenging
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas		Average
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling		Challenging
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry		Average
The Pearl by John Steinbeck		Challenging
The Swiss Family Robinson by John David Wyss		Challenging
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum		Challenging
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings		Average
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson		Challenging

Coming of Age Novels
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Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick		Challenging
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros		Average
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton		Average

Speculative Fiction
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Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury		Average
Feed by M T Anderson		Average
The Giver by Lois Lowry		Average
War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells		Challenging

Top 100 YA Novels
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Beastly by Alex Flinn		Average
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale		Average
Book Thief by Markus Zusak		Average
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl		Average
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper		Average
Coraline by Neil Gaiman		Average
Dateline: Troy by Paul Fleischman		Average
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan		Average
First Light by Rebecca Stead		Average
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen		Average
Green Angel by Alice Hoffman		Challenging
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh		Average
Heat by Mike Lupica		Challenging
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones		Average
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Lee Wilson		Challenging
Interworld by Neil Gaiman		Average
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell		Challenging
Jack's Black Book by Jack Gantos		Average
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl		Average
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata		Average
Leviathan by Scott Westerfield		Average
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli		Average
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli		Average
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs		Average
Monster by Walter Dean Myers		Average
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C O'Brian		Average
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George		Average
Nation by Terry Pratchett		Easy Reading
Octavian Nothing by M T Anderson		Challenging
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse		Easy Reading
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi		Easy Reading
Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster		Challenging
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith		Challenging
Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer		Average
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen		Average
Scat by Carl Hiaasen		Average
Skellig by David Almond		Easy Reading
So B. It by Sarah Weeks		Average
Sounder by William H. Armstrong		Average
Stardust by Neil Gaiman		Average
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli		Easy Reading
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz		Average
Sunshine by Edward Bloor		Average
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie		Average
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon		Challenging
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman		Average
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman		Challenging
The Princess Bride by William Goldman		Average
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke		Average
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt		Average
Watership Down by Richard Adams		Average
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats by Carolyn Meyer		Challenging
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls		Average

Pre-teen Favorite Series
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A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snickett		Challenging
Alex Rider Series by Anthony Horowitz		Average
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer		Average
Books of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau		Average
Circle of Magic by Tamora Pierce		Average
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney		Average
Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett		Average
Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth		Average
Dune by Frank Herbert		Average
Ender's Saga by Orson Scott Card		Average
Harry Potter Series by J K Rowling		Average
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman		Challenging
Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder		Average
Maximum Ride by James Patterson		Average
The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper		Average

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