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The term classic
means different things to all readers. For some of us the classics are
those things we read or our parents read to us when we were very young For
others, a classic is something that won an award or was made into a popular
film. Keeping that in mind the following titles have been compiled from
many different lists and points of view . Click on the book cover to find
more information on location of the book in the Library and current
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Little Women
Louisa
may Alcott
A chronicle of the
joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies
in nineteenth-century New England.
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Book of Three
Lloyd
Alexander
Taran, assistant
Pig-Keeper to a famous oracular sow, sets out on a hazardous mission to
save Prydain from the forces of evil.
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Tuck Everlasting
Natalie
Babbitt
The Tuck family is confronted with an
agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a
malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water
prevents one from ever growing any older.
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The Wizard of Oz
Frank
L. Baum
After a cyclone deposits her in
the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return
to Kansas.
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The Secret Garden
Frances
Hodgson Burnett
Ten-year-old Mary comes to
live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid
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The Incredible Journey
Shelia
Burnford
A doughty young Labrador
retriever, a roguish bull terrier and an indomitable Siamese cat set out
through the Canadian wilderness to make their way home to the family that
they love.
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The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
A
little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical
and amusing characters.
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Ramona
the Pest
Beverly Cleary
Ramona meets a lot of
interesting people in kindergarten class, including Davy who she keeps
trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to beg to be pulled.
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A Christmas Carol
Charles
Dickens
A miser learns the true meaning of
Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and fortell his
future.
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The Hundred Dresses
Eleanor Estes
In
winning a medal she is no longer there to receive a tight-lipped girl
teaches her classmates a lesson.
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Harriet the Spy
Louise
Fitzhugh
Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps
notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebooks, but when some
of the students read the notebooks, they seek revenge.
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Johny Tremain
Esther
Forbes
After injuring his hand, a
silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of
Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
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Babe: The Gallant Pig
Dick
King-Smith
A piglet
destined for eventual butchering, arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by
an old sheep dog and discovers a special secret to sucess.
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Jungle Book
Rudyard
Kipling
The adventures
of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves and the wild animals of the
jungle and other stories.
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The Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula
Le Guin
A boy grows to
manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleased on world as an
apprentice to the Master Wizard.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S.
Lewis
Four English
school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the
magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over
the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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Pippi Longstocking
Astrid
Lindgren
Escapades of a
lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any
parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.
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Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia
MacLachan
When their
father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie
home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she
will stay.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A.
Milne
The story of a
small boy, Christopher Robin, and his beloved bear.
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Anne of Green Gables
Lucy
Maud Montgomery
Anne,
an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely,
middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds
to make indelible impression on everyone around her.
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Borrowers
Mary
Norton
Miniature people
who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are
forced to emigrate from their home under the clock.
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert
C. O'Brien
Having no
one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose
former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived.
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Island of the Blue Dolphin
Scott
O'Dell
Left alone on a
beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian
girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous
courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her
solitary life.
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Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine
Paterson
The life of a
ten-year-old boy in rural Virgina expands when he becomes friends with a
newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their
hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
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The Best Christmas Pagent Ever
Barbara
Robinson
The six mean
Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become
involved in the community Christmas pageant.
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Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse
Anna
Sewell
A horse in
nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad
masters.
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Elizabeth
G. Speare
In 1687 in
Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of
her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and
suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
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Heidi
Joanna
Spyri
A Swiss orphan is
heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy
home in the mountains to go to school and to care for and invalid girl in
the city.
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred
D. Taylor
A black
family living in the South during the 1930's is faced with prejudice and
discrimination which their children don't understand.
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Many Moons
James
Thurber
Though many may
try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for
the moon.
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The Hobbit
J.R.R.
Tolkien
Bilbo Baggins,
a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole
until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf choose him to share in an
adventure from which he may never return.
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Mary Poppins
P.L.
Travers
An
extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her
parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges,
Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and experiences.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark
Twain
The adventures
and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in
the early nineteenth century.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules
Verne
In 1872 Phileas
Fogg wins a bet by traveling around the world in seventy-nine days,
twenty-three hours and fifty-seven minutes.
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Charlotte's Web
E.B.
White
Wilbur, the pig,
is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's
Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte decides to help him.
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A Sword in the Stone
T.H.
White
A retelling of
the Arthurian legend.
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Little House in the Big Woods
Laura
Ingalls Wilder
A year
in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier as
they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories
and singing and share special occasions with their friends and neighbors.
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