All Time Classic
Books
A Bibliography by Grade
Level
Suggested Reading from the
National Endowment for the Humanities in Cooperation with the American Library
Association
"This list of classic children's
books published before 1986 was updated in part by members of the Association
for Library Service to Children and the Young Adult Library Services
Associations, which are divisions of the American Library Association. Maria
Salvadore, a children's literature specialist, also provided advice and
assistance." ALA --2004
Call Number |
Author |
Title |
Synopsis |
FIC ALC |
Alcott, Louisa May |
Little Women |
Classic novel chronicling the joys and sorrows
of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in
nineteenth-century New England |
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Bagnold, Enid |
National Velvet |
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Bradbury, Ray |
Fahrenheit 451 |
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Bunyan, John |
The Pilgrim's Progress |
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Christopher, John |
The White Mountains |
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Cooper, James Fenimore |
The Last of the Mohicans |
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DeFoe, Daniel |
Robinson Crusoe |
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Dickens, Charles |
A Christmas Carol |
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Douglass, Frederick |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
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Doyle, Arthur Conan |
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
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Dumas, Alexandre |
The Count of Monte Cristo |
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Eckert, Allan W |
The Incident at Hawk's Hill |
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Engdahl, Sylvia Louise |
Enchantress from the Stars |
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Forbes, Esther |
Johnny Tremain |
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Forester, C. S. |
The Horatio Hornblower series |
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Frank, Anne |
The Diary of a Young Girl |
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Frost, Robert |
Poems |
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George, Jean Craighead |
Julie of the Wolves |
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Hautzig, Esther |
The Endless Steppe |
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Hilton, James |
Goodbye Mr. Chips |
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Hinton, S. E. |
The Outsiders |
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Hugo, Victor |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
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Hunt, Irene |
Across Five Aprils |
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Hinter, Mollie |
A Stranger Came Ashore |
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Irving, Washington |
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
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Keith, Harold |
Rifles for Watie |
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Keller, Helen |
Story of My Life |
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Kipling, Rudyard |
Kim |
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LeGuin, Ursula K |
A Wizard of Earthsea |
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L'Engle, Madeleine |
A Wrinkle in Time |
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London, Jack |
Call of the Wild |
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Malory, Sir Thomas |
Le Morte D'Arthur |
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Mazur, Harry |
The Last Mission |
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McCaffrey, Anne |
Dragonsong |
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O'Dell, Scott |
Island of the Blue Dolphins |
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O'Hara, Mary |
My Friend Flicka |
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Paterson, Katherine |
Jacob Have I Loved |
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Peck, Richard |
The Ghost Belonged To Me |
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Peck, Robert Newton |
A Day No Pigs Would Die |
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Pyle, Howard |
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood |
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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan |
The Yearling |
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Rawls, Wilson |
Where the Red Fern Grows |
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Reiss, Johanna |
The Upstairs Room |
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Saint-Exupery, Antoine De |
The Little Prince |
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Schaefer, Jack |
Shane |
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Scott, Sir Walter |
Ivahoe |
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Shelley, Mary |
Frankenstein |
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Smith, Betty |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
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Speare, Elizabeth George |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
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Sperry, Armstrong |
Call it Courage |
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Steinbeck, John |
The Red Pony |
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Stevenson, Robert Lewis |
Treasure Island |
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Taylor, Mildred D. |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
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Tolkein, J. R. R. |
The Hobbit |
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Twain, Mark |
Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
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Uchida, Yoshiko |
Journey to Topaz |
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Verne, Jules |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
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Webster, Jean |
Daddy-Long-Legs |
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Wells, H. G. |
War of the Worlds |
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Wilder, Thornton |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey |
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Yep, Laurence |
Dragonwings |
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Zindel, Paul |
The Pigman |
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