The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter

Rules by Cynthia Lord

The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Tom's Midnight Garden by A. Philippa Pearce

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

A Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter

The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell

The Half-a-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls

Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin. A student recently introduced me to this biography of a 16 year old's quest to become a mountain climber. I was captivated!