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Edwina: The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct by Mo Willems
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
Love you Forever by Robert Miunsch
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Tough Boris by Mem Fox
Lower Elementary
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! By Dr. Suess
Saturday’s and Teacakes by Lester Lamiack
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Upper elementary
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Little Britches by Ralph Moody
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Middle School
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
High School
Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Hunger Games; Catching Fire; Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
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