Best Books for Children

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From the book by Anita Silvey. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. The books are arranged in order of intended audience:

Books 1-5 [board books]: birth to age 2
Books 6-33 [picture books]: ages 2 to 8
Books 34-37 [books for beginning readers]: ages 5 to 7
Books 38-51 [books for young readers]: ages 7-9
Books 52-88 [books for middle readers]: ages 8-11
Books 89-100 [books for older readers]: ages 11-12

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  1. 51.
    Little House in the Big Woods (Little House)
    by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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  2. 52.
    The Secret Garden (The Illus Children's Library)
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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  3. 53.
    The Incredible Journey
    by Sheila Burnford

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  4. 54.
    The Dark Is Rising Sequence (Puffin Books)
    by Susan Cooper

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  5. 55.
    The BFG (Puffin Fiction)
    by Roald Dahl

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  6. 56.
    Because of Winn-Dixie
    by Kate DiCamillo

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  7. 57.
    Half Magic
    by Edward Eager

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  8. 58.
    Harriet the Spy (Collins Modern Classics)
    by Louise Fitzhugh

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  9. 59.
    Humbug Mountain
    by Sid Fleischman

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  10. 60.
    Lincoln: A Photobiography (Houghton Mifflin social studies)
    by Russell Freedman

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  11. 61.
    Julie of the Wolves (Summer Reading Edition) (Julie of the Wolves)
    by Jean Craighead George

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  12. 62.
    Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  13. 64.
    Redwall
    by Brian Jacques

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  14. 65.
    Phantom Tollbooth
    by Norton Juster

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  15. 66.
    From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E.Frankweiler
    by E.L. Konigsburg

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  17. 68.
    A Wrinkle in Time
    by Madeleine L'Engle

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  18. 70.
    Pippi Longstocking (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Astrid Lindgren

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  19. 71.
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    In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
    by Bette Bao Lord

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  20. 72.
    The New Way Things Work
    by David Macaulay

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  21. 73.
    Winnie-the-Pooh
    by A. A. Milne

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  22. 74.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
    by L. M. Montgomery

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  23. 75.
    Great Fire (Newberry Honor)
    by Jim Murphy

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  24. 76.
    Rascal (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Sterling North

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  25. 77.
    Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh/Newbery Summer
    by Robert C. O'Brien

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  26. 78.
    The Island of the Blue Dolphins
    by Scott O'Dell

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  27. 79.
    Bridge to Terabithia
    by Katherine Paterson

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  28. 80.
    Hatchet
    by Gary Paulsen

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  29. 81.
    Tom's Midnight Garden
    by Philippa Pearce

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  30. 82.
    The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Ellen Raskin

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  31. 83.
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    by J. K./ GrandPre, Mary (ILT) Rowling

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  32. 84.
    Holes
    by Louis Sachar

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  33. 85.
    Cricket in Times Square, The
    by George Selden

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  34. 86.
    The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Collins Modern Classics)
    by Elizabeth George Speare

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  35. 87.
    Mary Poppins
    by P. L. Travers

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  36. 88.
    Charlotte's Web
    by E. B. White

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  37. 90.
    Tuck Everlasting
    by Natalie Babbitt

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  38. 91.
    Behind the Attic Wall (An Avon Camelot Book)
    by Sylvia Cassedy

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  39. 92.
    Catherine, Called Birdy (Summer Reading Edition)
    by Karen Cushman

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  40. 93.
    Johnny Tremain
    by Esther Forbes

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  42. 95.
    Out Of The Dust
    by Karen Hesse

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  43. 96.
    A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  44. 97.
    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry

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  45. 99.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  46. 100.
    Homecoming
    by Cynthia Voigt

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