• How Tia Lola Came to Stay

Alvarez, Julia

• The Watsons go to Birmingham

Curtis, Christopher Paul

• The Tale of Despereaux

DiCamillo, Kate

• City of Ember

DuPrau, Joanne

• Zlata’s Diary

Filpovic, Zlata

•  Shabanu

Fisher Staples, Suzanne

•  Captains Courageous

*Kipling, Rudyard

•  Onion John

Krumgold, Joseph

•  Gathering Blue

Lowry, Lois

•  A Single Shard

Park, Linda Sue

•  Maniac Magee

Spinelli, Jerry

•  Treasure Island

*Stevenson, Robert Louis