Alcott, Louisa May. LITTLE WOMEN.
The four March sisters face joys and troubles as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England.

Bunting, Eve. SOS Titanic.
Barry is traveling from Ireland to America when his life is endangered.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson. THE SECRET GARDEN.
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers a cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

Conrad, Pam. PRAIRIE SONGS.
Louisa’s life in a loving pioneer family is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.

Creech, Sharon. WALK TWO MOONS.
Sal and her grandparents retrace the steps of her mother after she disappears. Along the way, she recalls the story of a friend whose mother also left.

Peterson, Katherine. BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA.
A boy’s new friend dies trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

Slote, Alfred. HANG TOUGH, PAUL MATHER.
A baseball pitcher with an incurable blood disease is determined to get in as much time on the mound as possible.

Giff, Patricia Reilly. LILY’S CROSSING.
Lily comes to see the war and her own world differently after her friendship with a young Hungarian refugee during a summer at the beach in 1944.

Levitin, Sonia. JOURNEY TO AMERICA.
Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938, a Jewish family endures innumerable separations before they are at last united.

Lowry, Lois. NUMBER THE STARS.
Annemarie must learn to be brave during the Nazi invasion when she helps shelter her best friend who is Jewish.

Rylant, Cynthia. MISSING MAY.
After the death of the beloved aunt who raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her Uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on.

Taylor, Mildred. ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY.
The children of a black family living in the South during the 1930s cannot under-stand the prejudice and discrimination that they face.

Uchida, Yoshiko. A JAR OF DREAMS.
During the 1930s, a time of great prejudice, a young girl grows up in a California,

Babbitt, Natalie. TUCK EVERLASTING.
An agonizing situation confronts the Tuck family when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from growing older.

Gipson, Fred. OLD YELLER.
The story of a boy and his big yellow dog in the Texas hill country.

Rawls, Wilson. WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS.
Billy, who trains his two dogs to be the best hunting team in the valley, finds victory and sadness.

Taylor, Theodore. THE CAY.
A boy and a cat struggle to survive on Caribbean island after their ship is torpedoed during World War II.

White, E.B. CHARLOTTE’S WEB.
Through his friendship with Charlotte the spider, Wilbur the pig becomes famous and learns about life and death.

Yolen, Jane. THE DEVIL’S ARITHMETIC.
Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.