• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean, 2009
• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz, 2008
• The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, illus. by Matt Phelan, 2007
• Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins, 2006
• Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata, 2005
• 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, 2004
• Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi, 2003
• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park, 2002
• A Year Down Yonderby Richard Peck, 2001
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, 2000
• Holes by Louis Sachar, 1999
• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, 1998
• The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg, 1997
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan, 1986
• Bridge to Terabithiaby Katherine Paterson, 1978
• Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark, 1976. The story of an Incan boy who lives in a hidden valley high in the mountains of Peru with old Chuto the llama herder. Unknown to Cusi, he is of royal blood and is the 'chosen one.'
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 1963
• Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark, 1953
• Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson, 1945
• Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field, 1930
• The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly, 1929
• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, 1923. Told by nine year old Tommy Stubbins, crewman and future naturalist, the voyages of Doctor Dolittle and his company lead them to Spidermonkey Island.