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Due to our catalog upgrade, the books on this list will not link to our catalog. Please be patient while we update our lists.

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 or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy.
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	Three Tales of 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.
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.