Classics for Young People |
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| Books listed are at least 50 years old. Many titles are also found in the J and/or Y paperback areas and in the adult collection. Please check the catalog for complete holdings.
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Children’s Fiction (J)
| Atwater | Mr. Popper's Penguins |
| Barrie | Peter Pan |
| Baum | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| Bishop | Twenty and Ten |
| Brink | Caddie Woodlawn |
| Brooks | Freddy the Detective |
| Burnett | The Secret Garden |
| Butterworth | The Enormous Egg |
| Carlson | The Family Under the Bridge |
| Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Cleary | Henry Huggins |
| Collodi | Pinocchio |
| De Angeli | The Door in the Wall |
| De Jong | Shadrach |
| Dodge | Hans Brinker, or, The Silver Skates |
| Du Bois | The Twenty-one Balloons |
| Eager | Half Magic |
| Edmonds | The Matchlock Gun |
| Enright | Gone-Away Lake |
| Estes | The Moffats |
| Farley | The Black Stallion |
| Field | Hitty: Her First Hundred Years |
| Fisher | Understood Betsy |
| Gates | Blue Willow |
| Grahame | The Wind in the Willows |
| Gruelle | Raggedy Andy Stories |
| Haywood | "B" is for Betsy |
| Henry | Misty of Chincoteague |
| Irving | Rip Van Winkle |
| Kipling | The Jungle Book |
| Knight | Lassie Come-Home |
| Lawson | Rabbit Hill |
| Lewis | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
| Lindgren | Pippi Longstocking |
| Lofting | The Story of Doctor Dolittle |
| Lovelace | Betsy-Tacy |
| McCloskey | Homer Price |
| McSwigan | Snow Treasure |
| Milne | Winnie-the-Pooh |
| Nesbit | Five Children and It |
| Norton | The Borrowers |
| Pearce | Tom's Midnight Garden |
| Salten | Bambi: A Life in the Woods |
| Sewell | Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse |
| Smith | The Hundred and One Dalmatians |
| Streatfeild | Theatre Shoes |
| Taylor | All-of-a-Kind Family |
| Thurber | The 13 Clocks |
| Travers | Mary Poppins |
| Warner | The Boxcar Children |
| White | Charlotte's Web |
| Wilder | Little House in the Big Woods |
Junior High Fiction (Y)
| Alcott | Little Women (Also in J Fiction) |
| Bagnold | National Velvet |
| Bronte | Jane Eyre |
| Daly | Seventeenth Summer |
| Dickens | Oliver Twist |
| Doyle | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| Forbes | Johnny Tremain |
| Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| London | The Call of the Wild |
| McCullers | The Member of the Wedding |
| Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables (Also in J Fiction) |
| O'Dell | Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| O'Hara | My Friend Flicka |
| Poe | The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe |
| Rawlings | The Yearling |
| Shelley | Frankenstein |
| Smith | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Speare | The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| Steinbeck | The Red Pony |
| Stevenson | Treasure Island |
| Stoker | Dracula |
| Swift | Gulliver's Travels |
| Tolkien | The Hobbit (Also in J Fiction) |
| Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Also in J Fiction) |
| Verne | Around the World in 80 Days |
| Webster | Daddy-Long-Legs |
| Wells | The Time Machine (Y paperback only) |
| White | The Sword in the Stone |
| Wyss | The Swiss Family Robinson |
Last Updated: 3/11
