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School Library Journal - 2012 Top 100 Children's Novels

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Rank Title Author Added

1

The Long Winter

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

10,195 members

96 reviews

4.2

6 Members: aulsmith, agneson9, rretzler, cej1027, ahef1963, el_len

2

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

22,199 members

424 reviews

3.9

5 Members: agneson9, rretzler, cej1027, ahef1963, el_len

3

The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children, No. 1)

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

9,000 members

103 reviews

4

5 Members: aulsmith, agneson9, rretzler, cej1027, el_len

4

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

25,215 members

454 reviews

4.1

5 Members: agneson9, rretzler, cej1027, ahef1963, el_len

5

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by Elizabeth George Speare

11,199 members

209 reviews

4

3 Members: agneson9, rretzler, cej1027

6

The Horse and His Boy

25,790 members

244 reviews

3.9

4 Members: agneson9, cej1027, ahef1963, el_len

7

The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

45,010 members

770 reviews

4.2

4 Members: agneson9, rretzler, cej1027, ahef1963

8

by J. M. Barrie

19,094 members

326 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aulsmith, agneson9, ahef1963, el_len,cej1027

9

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

15,938 members

215 reviews

4.2

4 Members: agneson9, cej1027, ahef1963, el_len

10

by Louisa May Alcott

26,686 members

402 reviews

4

3 Members: agneson9, rretzler, ahef1963

11

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

12,007 members

148 reviews

4

4 Members: agneson9, cej1027, ahef1963, el_len

12

All-of-a-Kind Family

by Sydney Taylor

3,262 members

59 reviews

4.2

4 Members: agneson9, rretzler, cej1027, el_len

13

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

103,020 members

887 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: agneson9, cej1027, ahef1963, el_len

14

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,518 members

478 reviews

4.1

3 Members: immaculatechaos, cej1027, ahef1963

15

by Andrew Clements

9,733 members

214 reviews

4

3 Members: agneson9, cej1027, ahef1963

16

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Brian Selznick

9,736 members

665 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: agneson9, rretzler, cej1027

17

The Cricket in Times Square

by George Selden

8,314 members

76 reviews

4

3 Members: agneson9, cej1027, el_len

18

by Elizabeth Enright

1,771 members

30 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: aulsmith, agneson9, cej1027

19

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

7,743 members

241 reviews

3.8

3 Members: agneson9, rretzler, ahef1963

20

15,098 members

198 reviews

4.1

3 Members: agneson9, ahef1963, el_len

21

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

by Barbara Robinson

7,120 members

111 reviews

4.2

3 Members: agneson9, cej1027, el_len

22

Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

3,904 members

84 reviews

4.1

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

23

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,623 members

1,176 reviews

3.8

3 Members: immaculatechaos, cej1027, ahef1963,
Explanations: : not a children's book. no basic life lessons relevant to children.

24

Number the Stars

18,795 members

645 reviews

4.1

3 Members: agneson9, cej1027, ahef1963

25

by Edward Eager

4,279 members

87 reviews

4

3 Members: agneson9, cej1027, el_len

26

Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

10,599 members

161 reviews

4

4 Members: agneson9, cej1027, ahef1963, el_len,aulsmith

27

The Twenty-One Balloons

by William Pène du Bois

5,069 members

64 reviews

4

3 Members: agneson9, cej1027, el_len

28

19,638 members

320 reviews

4.1

3 Members: agneson9, ahef1963, el_len

29

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

by Beverly Cleary

10,777 members

119 reviews

3.9

3 Members: agneson9, cej1027, el_len

30

by Joseph Heller

40,191 members

529 reviews

4.1

2 Members: immaculatechaos, ahef1963

31

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

by Kate DiCamillo

14,496 members

550 reviews

4.1

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

32

The Bad Beginning

by Lemony Snicket

21,524 members

493 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: agneson9, ahef1963, el_len,cej1027

33

Jacob Have I Loved

by Katherine Paterson

5,606 members

72 reviews

3.8

2 Members: agneson9, ahef1963

34

The Four-Story Mistake

by Elizabeth Enright

1,135 members

19 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: aulsmith, agneson9

35

by Elizabeth Enright

2,537 members

32 reviews

4.1

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

36

My Father's Dragon

by Ruth Stiles Gannett

6,029 members

71 reviews

4.1

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

37

The Great Gilly Hopkins

by Katherine Paterson

4,746 members

156 reviews

3.9

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

38

Island of the Blue Dolphins

by Scott O'Dell

18,242 members

299 reviews

3.9

2 Members: agneson9, el_len

39

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

by Avi

6,837 members

147 reviews

4

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

40

by Lloyd Alexander

6,049 members

59 reviews

4.2

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

41

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

by Kate DiCamillo

7,753 members

263 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

42

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

3,466 members

85 reviews

4.1

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

43

by Maud Hart Lovelace

2,516 members

53 reviews

4.1

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

44

by Gail Carson Levine

13,342 members

401 reviews

4.1

2 Members: agneson9, el_len

45

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

4,837 members

63 reviews

3.8

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

46

Each Little Bird That Sings

by Deborah Wiles

1,760 members

50 reviews

4.1

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

47

by L. Frank Baum

3,133 members

53 reviews

3.9

3 Members: agneson9, ahef1963, el_len,aulsmith

48

by Christopher Paul Curtis

10,088 members

507 reviews

4.1

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

49

The Wednesday Wars

by Gary D. Schmidt

4,122 members

214 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: agneson9

50

by Sara Pennypacker

4,060 members

164 reviews

4.2

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

51

A Long Way from Chicago

by Richard Peck

4,977 members

90 reviews

4.2

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

52

by Sharon Creech

6,041 members

337 reviews

4.2

2 Members: agneson9, ahef1963

53

Ramona and Her Father

by Beverly Cleary

6,848 members

69 reviews

4

2 Members: agneson9, cej1027

54

by Jerry Spinelli

9,366 members

233 reviews

4

Member: agneson9

55

by Gary D. Schmidt

1,958 members

128 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: agneson9

56

The Graveyard Book

22,310 members

1,264 reviews

4.2

2 Members: agneson9, ahef1963,cej1027

57

by R. J. Palacio

14,280 members

1,252 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: agneson9

58

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

by Jacqueline Kelly

3,373 members

215 reviews

4.1

Member: agneson9

59

The Ruins of Gorlan

by John Flanagan

6,398 members

201 reviews

4.1

Member: agneson9

60

by Sharon Creech

9,873 members

309 reviews

4.1

Member: agneson9

61

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

4,033 members

234 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: agneson9

62

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

13,444 members

718 reviews

4

Member: agneson9

63

by Noel Streatfeild

3,533 members

72 reviews

4.2

Member: agneson9

64

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda

by Tom Angleberger

2,775 members

122 reviews

3.8

Member: agneson9

65

The Children of Green Knowe

by L. M. Boston

1,658 members

42 reviews

4.1

Member: agneson9

66

by Wendelin Van Draanen

4,049 members

151 reviews

3.9

Member: agneson9

67

Journey to the River Sea

by Eva Ibbotson

2,111 members

58 reviews

4.1

Member: agneson9

68

The Diamond in the Window

by Jane Langton

516 members

13 reviews

4.2

Member: agneson9

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July 2012
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