Okay, here's MY list. I'm sure it doesn't include all your favorites but I hope it includes a few of them at least. This is the bibliography I passed out to my 4th-6th graders before summer vacation.
100 Books You Should Read Before You Turn 13
(These are novels for grades 3-6)
Aiken, Joan. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
Alexander, Lloyd. The Black Cauldron.
Alexander, Lloyd. The Cat Who Wished To Be a Man.
Appelt, Catherine. The Underneath.
Avi. Crispin and the Cross of Lead.
Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting.
Banks, Lynne Reid. The Indian in the Cupboard.
Baum, Frank. The Wizard of Oz.
Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks.
Blume, Judy. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing.
Boston, Lucy. The Children of Green Knowe.
Brittain, Bill. The Wish Giver.
Brown, Susan Taylor. Hugging the Rock.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden.
Byars, Betsy. The Pinballs.
Choldenko, Gennifer. Al Capone Does My Shirts.
Choldenko, Gennifer. Notes From a Liar and her Dog.
Cleary, Beverly. Dear Mr. Henshaw.
Cleary, Beverly. Ralph S. Mouse.
Cleary, Beverly. Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
Cohen, Barbara. Thank You, Jackie Robinson.
Cooper, Susan. The Dark Is Rising.
Creech, Sharon. Love That Dog.
Creech, Sharon. Walk Two Moons.
Creech, Sharon. The Wanderer.
Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud, Not Buddy.
Cushman, Karen. Catherine, Called Birdy.
Cushman, Karen. The Midwife’s Apprentice.
Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Dahl, Roald. The BFG.
DeFelice, Cynthia. Weasel.
DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn Dixie.
DiCamillo, Kate. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
DiCamillo, Kate. Tale of Despereux.
Estes, Eleanor. The Hundred Dresses.
Farley, Walter. The Black Stallion.
Fitzgerald, John. The Great Brain.
Fitzhugh, Louise. Harriet the Spy.
Fleischman, Paul. The Half-a-Moon Inn.
Fleischman, Syd. The Whipping Boy.
Fox, Paula. How Many Miles To Babylon?
Fox, Paula. The One-Eyed Cat.
Fox, Paula. The Slave Dancer.
Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart.
Gantos, Jack. Joey Pigza Loses Control.
Gantos, Jack. Joey Pigza Swallowed The Key.
Gardiner, John. The Stone Fox.
George, Jean. My Side of the Mountain.
Hale, Shannon. The Princess Academy.
Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust.
Holman, Felice. Slake’s Limbo.
Holt, Kimberly Willis. My Louisiana Sky.
Hughes, Ted. The Iron Giant.
Hurwitz, Johanna. Class Clown.
Juster, Norton. The Phantom Tollbooth.
Konigsburg, E.L. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler.
L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time.
Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted.
Lewis, C.S. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.
Lord, Bette. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Lord, Cynthia. Rules.
Lowry, Lois. Autumn Street.
Lowry, Lois. The Giver.
Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars.
Naylor, Phyllis. Shiloh.
Lupica, Mike. Heat.
MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah Plain and Tall.
McKinley, Robin. Beauty
Mongomery, Lucy Maud. Anne of Green Gables.
Norton, Mary. The Borrowers.
O’Brien, Robert. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
O’Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Paterson, Katherine. A Bridge To Terabithia.
Paterson, Katherine. The Great Gilly Hopkins.
Paulsen, Gary. Harris and Me.
Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet.
Paulsen, Gary. Nightjohn.
Pinkwater, Daniel. Fat Men From Space.
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game.
Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows.
Robinson, Barbara. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Riordan, Rick. The Lightning Thief.
Rylant, Cynthia. A Blue-Eyed Daisy.
Sachar, Louis. Holes.
Selznick, David. The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Sewall, Anna. Black Beauty.
Spinelli, Jerry. Crash.
Spinelli, Jerry. Wringer.
Taylor, Sydney. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Taylor, Theodore. The Cay.
Travers, Mary. Mary Poppins.
Urban, Linda. A Crooked Kind of Perfect.
White, E.B. Charlotte’s Web.
White, E.B. Stuart Little.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By the Shores of Silver Lake.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. The Long Winter.
Williams, Marjorie. The Velveteen Rabbit.
Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Bat 6.
