General Fiction
Avi
Sharon Creech
Roald Dahl
Carol Feener
Jean Craighead George
Karen Hesse
E.L. Konigsburg
Walter Dean Myers
Katherine Paterson
Gary Paulson
Cynthia Rylant
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Fantasy
Lloyd Alexander
Piers Anthony
Gail Carson
Edward Eager
Brian Jacques
C.S. Lewis
Robert C. O'Brien
Terry Pratchett
Phillip Pullman
J.R.R. Tolkien
Elizabeth Winthrop
Poetry
Arnold Adoff
Eve Bunting
T.S. Elliott
Barbara Esbensen
Nikki Giovanni
Eloise Greenfield
Lee Bennett Hopkins
Langston Hughes
Edward Lear
Jack Prelutsky
Walter Dean Myers
Shel Silverstein
Folk Tales / Fables
Joseph Bruchac
Gerald McDermott
Tomie DePaola
Patricia McKissack
Uri Orlev
Carl Sandburg
Laurence Yep
Paul Zelinski
Science
Jim Brandenburg
Jennifer Dewey
Jim Murphy
Lawrence Pringle
Diane Stanley
Social Studies/History
Rhoda Blumberg
Penny Colman
Russell Freedman
Jim Murphy
Mary Pope Osborn
Jerry Stanley
Diane Swanson
Historical Fiction
Karen Cushman
Michael Dorris
Paul Fleischman
Esther Forbes
Irene Hunt
Lois Lowry
Scott O'Dell
Elizabeth B. Speare
Mildred Taylor
Theodore Taylor
Laurence Yep
Mystery
John Bellairs
Edward Blyton
Eve Bunting
Agatha Christie
Franklin W. Dixon
Dorothy Reynolds Miller
Willo Davis Roberts
Nancy Springer
Barbara Wallace
Classics
Jane Austen
L. Frank Baum
Frances Burnett
Rudyard Kipling
Harper Lee
Lois Lowry
Herman Melville
Robert Louis Stevenson
J.R.R. Tolkien
Mark Twain
E.B. White
Animal Fiction
Marguerite Henry
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Dick King-Smith
George Selden
Science Fiction
K.A. Applegate
Isaac Asimov
Madeleine L'Engle
Jules Verne
H.G. Wells
Timothy Zahn
Adventure
John Bellairs
Peg Kehret
Gary Paulsen
Noel Streetfield
Jules Verne
John White
Horror
Stephen King
Edgar Allen Poe
R.L. Stine
Alvin Schwartz
Humor
Jim Davis
Gary Larson
John Scieszka
Bill Watterson
Sports Fiction
Matt Christopher
Myths
Edith Hamilton