Preliminary 100 MG Books List
Submitted by Book Nut
Here’s the first draft of the list. Some explanations: I checked everything against my library’s catalog — I figured they’re a good standard (I love my library!) — and if it was shelved in the teen space or they didn’t have it, off the list it went. Also, for series, I put the first book, except for The Dark is Rising and Ramona Quimby, where I put what I thought was the best one, since they don’t necessarily need to be read as a series.
So. Your job: what is on here that doesn’t deserve to be? Is there any glaring holes? Let me know. (Otherwise, I’ll just have to chop the list down willy-nilly. Yes, I just used that in a sentence.)
- Wolves of Willoughby Chase, by Joan Aiken
- How Tia Lola Came to Visit, by Julia Alvarez
- The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander
- The Underneath, byKathi Appelt
- Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babitt
- The Search for Delicious, by Natalie Babitt
- Chasing Vermeer, by Blue Balliett
- The Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynn Banks
- Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
- The Spiderwick Chronicles, by Holly Black
- Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie
- Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
- Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing, by Judy Blume
- The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
- Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko
- Ramona Quimby, Age 8, by Beverly Cleary
- The Mouse and the Motorcycle, by Beverly Cleary
- Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer
- Gregor the Overlander, by Suzanne Collins
- The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper
- Elijah of Buxton, by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl
- Matilda, by Roald Dahl
- Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
- The Tiger Rising, by Kate DiCamillo
- The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo
- The London Eye Mystery, by Siobhan Dowd
- The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau
- Half Magic, by Edward Eager
- Then there were Five, by Elizabeth Enright
- The Big Splash, by Jack Ferraiolo
- The Great Brain, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Harriet The Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh
- The Ranger’s Apprentice, by John Flanagan
- The Girl Who Could Fly, by Victoria Forester
- Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
- The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
- My Side of the Mountain, by Jean Craighead George
- Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little, by Peggy Gifford
- The Liberation of Gabriel King, by K. L. Going
- The Thing about Georgie, by Lisa Graff
- The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
- Among the Hidden, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- The Princess Academy, by Shannon Hale
- Rapunzel’s Revenge, by Shannon, Dean and Nathan Hale
- Penny From Heaven, by Jennifer L. Holm
- Journey to the River Sea, by Eva Ibbotson
- Toys Go Out, by Emily Jenkins
- The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norman Juster
- The Ordinary Princess, by M. M. Kaye
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney
- The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling
- The Book of Story Beginnings, by Kristin Kladstrup
- Shipwreck, by Gordon Korman
- Schooled, by Gordon Korman
- The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E. L. Konigsburg
- The View from Saturday, by E.L. Konigsburg
- Savvy, by Ingrid Law
- A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
- A Ring of Endless Light, by Madeline L’Engle
- Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine
- The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin
- Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
- In The Year of The Boar and Jackie Robinson, by Bette Lord
- Rules, by Cynthia Lord
- Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things, by Lenore Look
- Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry
- The Giver, by Lois Lowry
- Every Soul a Star, by Wendy Mass
- Saffy’s Angel, by Hilary McKay
- The Blue Sword, by Robin McKinley
- Fablehaven, by Brandon Mull
- Five Children and It, by E. Nesbit
- Rascal, by Sterling North
- The Borrowers, by Mary Norton
- The Silver Crown, by Robert C. O’Brien
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien
- Greetings from Nowhere, by Barbara O’Conner
- Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell
- A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park
- The Bridge to Terebithia, by Katherine Patterson
- Hatchet, by Gary Paulson
- The Kingdom Keepers, by Ridley Pearson
- Clementine, by Sarah Pennypacker
- Rickshaw Girl, by Mitali Perkins
- Six Innings, by James Preller
- Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls
- The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
- The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
- Hurt Go Happy, by Ginny Rorby
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
- Yellow Star, by Jennifer Roy
- Becoming Naomi Leon, by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Magyk, by Angie Sage
- Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians, by Brandon Sanderson
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznik
- Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein
- Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo, by Obert Skye
- The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket
- The Changeling, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- The Velvet Room by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
- Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, by Donald J. Sobol
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
- When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead
- Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Keena Ford and the Second Grade Mix-Up, by Melissa Thompson
- The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- So B. It, by Sarah Weeks
- Stuart Little, by E.B. White
- Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White
- Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Worry Web site, by Jacqueline Wilson
- Leepike Ridge, by Nathan D. Wilson
- Dealing with Dragons, by Patricia Wrede
- Dollhouse Murders, by Betty Wren Wright
- Millicent Min: Girl Genius, by Lisa Yee
- The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen
- Passager, by Jane Yolen
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