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Lethia's "Classic Children's Books"

A list of classic children’s books I’d like to read. Based on a Borders bookstore feature.
1. Whittington
by Alan Armstrong
  
2. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
by Kate Dicamillo
  
3. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
by Kate Dicamillo
  
4. Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen
  
5. Bridge to Terabithia (rack)
by Katherine Paterson
  
6. Charlotte's Web
by E. B. White
  
7. The Thief
by Megan Whalen Turner
  
8. Cricket in Times Square, The
by George Selden
  
9. The Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
  
10. Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books)
by Lois Lowry
  
11. Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (Avon Camelot Books)
by Beverly Cleary
  
12. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E.Frankweiler
by E.L. Konigsburg
  
13. Princess Academy
by Shannon Hale
  
14. Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis
  
15. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics) (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Mildred D. Taylor
  
16. The Egypt Game
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  
17. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
by Gary D. Schmidt
  
18. The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
  
19. The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
by Ellen Raskin
  
20. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Summer Reading Edition)
by Avi
  
21. Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
  
22. A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park
  
23. Old Yeller (Summer Reading Edition)
by Fred Gipson
  
24. Kira-Kira
by Cynthia Kadohata
  
25. Esperanza Rising
by Pam Munoz Ryan
  
26. Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
  
27. Tangerine
by Edward Bloor
  
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Created by Lethia on Dec 16, 2006.