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