Modern Classics (1960 - 2000)
Abel’s Island
William Steig
J / STEIG
Babe : the Gallant Pig
Dick King-Smith
J / KING-SMITH
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Karen Cushman
J / CUSHMAN
Beauty : a Retelling of the Story of Beauty & the Beast
Robin McKinley
J / MCKINLEY
Because of Winn-Dixie
Kate DiCamillo
J / DICAMILLO or J / BOD / DIC
Belle Prater’s Boy
Ruth White
J / WHITE
The BFG
Roald Dahl
J / DAHL
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
J / PATERSON
Castle
David Macaulay
j725.18 / MAC
The Cay
Theodore Taylor
J / TAYLOR or J / BOD / TAY
Dealing with Dragons
Patricia Wrede
J / WREDE or J / BOD / WREDE
Ella Enchanted
Gail Carson Levine
J / LEVINE or J / BOD / LEV
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
E.L. Konigsburg
J / KONIGSBURG
The Giver
Lois Lowry
J / LOWRY
Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh
J / FITZHUGH
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
J.K. Rowling
J / ROWLING or J / BOD / ROW
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
J / PAULSEN
Holes
Louis Sachar
J / SACHAR or J / BOD / SAC
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Bette Lord
J / LORD
The Indian in the Cupboard
Lynn Reid Banks
J / BANKS
Jip : His Story
Katherine Paterson
J / PATERSON
A Long Way from Chicago
Richard Peck
J / PEC or J / BOD / PEC
Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli
J / SPINELLI
Mick Harte was Here
Barbara Park
J / PARK
The Midwife’s Apprentice
Karen Cushman
J / CUSHMAN
Missing May
Cynthia Rylant
J / RYLANT
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Beverly Cleary
J / CLEARY
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O’Brien
J / O’BRIEN
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
J / LOWRY or J / BOD / LOW
On My Honor
Marion Dane Bauer
J / BAUER or J / BOD / BAU
One-eyed Cat
Paula Fox
J / FOX
Out of the Dust
Karen Hesse
J / HESSE or J / BOD / HES
The People Could Fly : American Black Folktales
Virginia Hamilton
j398.2 / African-AM / HAM
The Pinballs
Betsy Byars
J / BYARS
Redwall
Brian Jacques
J / JACQUES or BOD / Y / JACQUES
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred Taylor
J / TAYLOR or J / BOD / TAY
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Eleanor Coerr
j952 / BIO / Sasaki or J / BOD / 952
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan
J / MACLACHLAN or J / BOD / MAC
Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
J / NAYLOR
Sounder
William H. Armstrong
J / ARMSTRONG
Superfudge
Judy Blume
J / BLUME
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi
J / AVI
Tuck Everlasting
Natalie Babbitt
J / BABBITT
Walk Two Moons
Sharon Creech
J / jr hi / CREECH
Watership Down
Richard Adams
J / ADAMS
The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
J / CURTIS
The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
J / RASKIN
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein
j811.54 / SIL or J / BOD / 811.54
The Whipping Boy
Sid Fleischman
J / FLEISCHMAN
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth George Speare
J / SPEARE
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L’Engle
J / L’ENGLE or BOD / Y / L’ENGLE