Some of the best fiction and non-fiction available is written for children and pre-teens. Here is selection of books for adults.
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
- Whittington by Alan Armstrong
- Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
- Running with the Reservoir Pups by Colin Bateman
- The Penderwicks: a Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall
- Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell
- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
- Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Chuck and Danielle by Peter Dickinson
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
- The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
- Coraline by Neil Gaiman
- Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
- Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse
- Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang
- Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway by Kirkpatrick Hill
- Penny from Heaven by Jennifer Holm
- Journey to the River Sea by Eve Ibbotson
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
- Ruby Lu, Empress of EverythingA Corner of the Universe by Ann Martin
- Left For Dead by Peter Nelson
- Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- On Cat Mountain by Francoise Richard
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
- The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
- The Friendship by Mildred D. Taylor
- Dear Papa by Anne Ylvisaker