Read before the challenge:
2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
2005: Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering
Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
2003: A Corner of The Universe by Ann M. Martin
1998: Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
1996: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
1995: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
1994: The Giver by Lois Lowry
1993: Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
1989: Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman
1988: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
1987: The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman
1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
1985: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
1981: Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
1979: The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
1978: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
1976: The Grey King by Susan Cooper
1974: The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
1969: The High King by Lloyd Alexander
1968: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
1966: The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
1963: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
1960: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
1953: Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
1948: Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
1939: Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
(less) (less)Read before the challenge:
2013: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
2012: Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
2010: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
2009: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
2007: The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
2005: Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
2004: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some S
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