Charlotte's web by E.B. White - Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him

Stuart Little by E. B. White - Follows the adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden

The BFG by Roald Dahl - Snatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants

The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe by C.S. Lewis - Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch

The wild robot by Peter Brown - Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment

Fortunately, the milk by Neil Gaiman - While picking up milk for his children's cereal, a father is abducted by aliens and finds himself on a wild adventure through time and space

Tales of a fourth grade nothing by Judy Blume - Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem

The cricket in Times Square by George Selden - The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo - Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie

The one and only Ivan by Katherine Applegate - When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life

Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis - Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father

Little house in the big woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder - A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions

The birchbark house by Louise Erdrich - Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847

Heidi by Johanna Spyri - Heidi, a Swiss orphan, is heartbroken when she must leave her home and grandfather to go to school and care for a sick girl named Clara in the city

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser - Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind

The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy by Jeanne Birdsall - While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters share adventures with a local boy

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne - The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday