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Books for Developing Readers

Adam of the Road, Elizabeth  Janet Gray

Amos Fortune, Free Man, Elizabeth Yates

Beyond the Bright Sea, Lauren Wolk

Black Pearl, Scott O'Dell

Blizzard: The Storm that Changed America

The Blue Sword, Robin McKinley

Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson

The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare

Catherine Called Birdy, Karen Kushman

Call it Courage, Armstrong Sperry

The Cay, Theodore Taylor

The Duel, Judith St. George

Frightful's Mountain, Jean Craighead George

Gathering Blue, Lois Lowry

The Giver, Lois Lowry

Hatchet, Gary Paulson

Hattie Big Sky, Kirby Larson

Holes, Louis Sachar

Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell

Kira, Kira, Cynthia Kadohata

My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George

Number the Stars - Lois Lowry

Onion John, Joseph Crumgold

On the Far Side of the Mountain

The Red Pony, John Steinbeck

A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park

Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalopi

Sounder - William Armstrong

The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wiss

The Watsons go to Birmingham -- 1963, Christopher Paul Curtis  

When you Reach Me, Rebecca Stead

Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls

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