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FREE Novel Resources Currently Available. They appear in alphabetical order.

A River Ran Wild by Lynne Cherry

A Story A Story by Gail E. Hailey (Caldecott Winner)

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst

If Animals Kissed Goodnight by Ann Whitford Paul

The Apple Doll by Elisa Kleven

Apples, Apples, Apples by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale by Gerald McDermott (Caldecott Winner)

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Newbery Honor Winner)

Beetle Bop by Denise Fleming

Blue Goose by Nancy Tafuri

Bravo, Livingstone Mouse by Pamela Duncan Edwards

Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell Hoban

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (Newbery Winner)

By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Newbery Winner)

Cast Two Shadows by Ann Rinaldi

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (Newbery Honor Winner)

City of Masks by Mary Hoffman

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett

Corduroy by Don Freeman

Corduroy Lost and Found by B.G. Hennessy

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins (Newbery Winner)

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (Newbery Winner)

Delicious by Helen Cooper

The Diary of Anne Frank edited by Otto Frank

Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt (Newbery Winner)

Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep (Newbery Honor Winner)

Drummer Hoff by Barbara Emberley (Caldecott Winner)

Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Newbery Honor Winner)

Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car by Eileen Christelow

Franny's Friends by Catarina Kruusval

The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble (Caldecott Winner)

The Giver by Lois Lowry (Newbery Winner)

The Glorious Flight by Alice and Martin Provensen (Caldecott Winner)

Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert

The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry

The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster (Caldecott Winner)

Hey, Al by Arthur Yorinks (Caldecott Winner)

Holes by Louis Sachar (Newbery Winner)

A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman

The Hungry Thing by Jan Slepian and Ann Seidler

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff

If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Numeroff

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Newbery Winner)

I Am David by Anne Holm

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Newbery Winner)

The Jolly Mon by Jimmy Buffett and Savannah Jane Buffett

The Judge by Harve Zemach (Caldecott Winner)

Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg

kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata (Newbery Winner)

Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus

Little Cloud by Eric Carle

The Little House by Virgina Lee Burton (Caldecott Winner)

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young (Caldecott Winner)

The Lonely Moose by John Segal

The Magic Hat by Mem Fox

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey (Caldecott Winner)

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein (Caldecott Winner)

Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully (Caldecott Winner)

Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard and James Marshall

The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle

Monster by Walter Dean Meyers

Mrs. Biddlebox by Linda Smith

My Apron by Eric Carle

My Brother Sam is Dead by James & Christopher Collier (Newbery Honor Winner)

My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann (Caldecott Winner)

The Napping House by Audrey Wood

Never Take a Shark to the Dentist by Judi Barrett

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Newbery Winner)

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Newbery Winner)

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Over in the Meadow by Louise Voce

Owl Moon by Jane Yolan (Caldecott Winner)

Pedro's Journal by Pam Conrad

The Perilous Road by William Steele (Newbery Honor Winner)

The River Between Us by Richard Peck

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (Newbery Winner)

Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Newbery Honor Winner)

Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell (Newbery Honor Winner)

Smash! Crash! by Jon Scieszka

Smoky Night by Eve Bunting (Caldecott Winner)

Someday by Alison McGhee and Peter Reynolds

Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman (Caldecott Winner)

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Caldecott Winner)

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (Newbery Winner)

Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold (Caldecott Winner)

Ten Out of Bed by Penny Dale

There's a Nightmare in My Closet by Mercer Mayer

The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey (Caldecott Winner)

To Be Like the Sun by Susan Marie Swanson

Truman's Aunt Farm by Jama Kim Rattigan

Trupp by Janell Cannon

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

The Turning of the Year by Bill Martin Jr.

Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt (Newbery Winner)

Verdi by Janell Cannon

The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (Newbery Winner)

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech (Newbery Honor Winner)

Welcome to the Green House by Jane Yolan

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (Newbery Winner)

What Happens on Wednesdays by Emily Jenkins

When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant (Caldecott Winner)

Where the Giants Sleep by Mem Fox

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? by Bonnie Lass and Philemon Sturges

Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox

Will's Mammoth by Rafe Martin and Stephen Gammell

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Newbery Winner)

The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Bob Hartman

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle (Newbery Winner)

 

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