- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
- Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- My Brother Sam Is Dead by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier