Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Belle Prater’s Boy by Ruth White
 

Realism:

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

The Contender by Robert Lipsyte

Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

"Almost a Man" by Richard Wright

Black Boy by Richard Wright

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Curtis

Miriam’s Well by Lois Ruby

Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

What Jamie Saw by Carol Coman

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake

Heaven by Angela Johnson

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

M.C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton

Rite of Passage:

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

A Solitary Blue by Cynthia Voigt

In Summer Light by Zibby Oneal

The Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene

The Bear by William Faulkner

The Crazy Horse Electric Game by Chris Crutcher

Jacob Have I Loved by K. Paterson

Out of Control by Norma Fox Mazer

Chinese Handcuffs by Chris Crutcher

Deliver Us from Evie by M.E. Kerr

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Historical Fiction:

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss

Night by Elie Wiesel

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Indian Captive by Lois Lenski

Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Victor by Mordicai Gerstein

Bull Run by Paul Fleischman

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephan Crane

Lyddie (mid 1800s) by Katherine Paterson

Adventure and Romance:

Deathwatch by Robb White

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Daughters of Eve by Lois Duncan

Holes by Louis Sachar

The Boyfriend and The Girlfriend by R.L. Stine

The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney

Whatever Happened to Janie? By Caroline B. Cooney

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AVI

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier

Downriver by Will Hobbs

Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

Crash by Jerry Speinelli

A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Fantasy/SciFi and Sports:

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Stinker from Space by Pamela F. Service

Painting the Black by Carl Deuker

Alex Archer in Lane Three by Tessa Duder

Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Others See Us by William Sleator

The Trouble with Lemons by Daniel Hayes

Ella Enchanted by gail carson levine

Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books by Francesca Lia Black

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin

Skellig by David Almond
 

Non-fiction:

Eleanor Roosevelt by Russell Freedman

Our Endangered Planet: Population Growth by Suzanne Winckler and Mary M. Rodgers

Predator by Bruce Brooks

Ryan White: My Own Story with Ann Marie Cunningham

Bowman's Store by Joseph Bruchac

Invisible Enemies: Stories of Infectious Disease by Jeanette Farrell

What’s Happening to My Body? Book for Boys/Girls by Lynda Madaras

Abraham Lincoln: A Photo Biography by Russell Freedman

The Ditchdigger’s Daughters by Yvonne Thornton

Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic

Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer

The Diary of Anne Frank

Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen

Tomboy of the Air: Daredevil Pilot Blanche Stuart Scott by Julie Cummins