They may have been around a while, but the stories are STILL good!

5.1/2 Best Christmas Pageant Ever ­ Robinson, Barbara. The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.

5.2/7 Black Stallion ­ Farley, Walter. A young boy and a wild black stallion survive a shipwreck and live on an uninhabited island.

6.0/6 Borrowers Aloft ­ Norton, Mary. The Borrowers, a family of tiny people, are kidnapped from their home in Little Fordham and held captive in an attic.

5.6/7 Brighty of Grand Canyon ­ Henry, Marguerite. Story of a little lone burro who lived in the Grand Canyon of Arizona and of an old prospector who found him running wild.

5.0/10 Bronze Bow - Speare, Elizabeth G. After his parents are killed by the Romans, Daniel loses all ability for compassion and forgiveness until he gains a new understanding through the teachings of Jesus.

4.2/2 Bunnicula ­ Howe, James. Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester the cat tries to warn his human family that their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire.

6.0/8 Caddie Woodlawn ­ Brink, Carol R. The story of a little girl who moved from Boston to grow up in Wisconsin.

4.4/5 Charlotte's Web ­ White, E. B. Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
4.9/4 Cricket in Times Square ­ Seldon, George. Chester the Cricket, with his friends Tucker the Mouse and Harry the Cat help bring success to a newsstand in Times Square.

6.0/7 Deathwatch ­ White, Robb. Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as a guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.

5.0/6 Enormous Egg ­ Butterworth, Oliver. A boy discovers a large egg in the chicken coop that hatches into a dinosaur.

5.8/13 Flowers for Algernon - Keyes, Daniel. A brain operation changes a retarded adult into a genius.

4.7/5 From the Mixed-Up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler ­ Konigsburg, E. L. Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.

5.0/6 House with a Clock in its Walls ­ Bellairs, John. A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the wall which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.

3.5/2 How to Eat Fried Worms ­ Rockwell, Thomas. Two boys make a bet about eating worms.

5.9/13 Johnny Tremain ­ Forbes, Esther. A young silversmith apprentice becomes involved in the American struggle for independence.

7.6/5 Incredible Journey ­ Burnford, Sheila. A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family.

5.4/6 Island of the Blue Dolphins ­ O'Dell, Scott. The adventures of a young Indian girl as she faces life alone on an island.

5.7/6 Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe ­ Lewis, C. S. Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

4.9/8 Little House on the Prairie ­ Wilder, Laura Ingalls. A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well and fight a prairie fire.

4.9/5 Lizard Music ­ Pinkwater, Daniel, When left to take care of himself, a young boy becomes involved with a community of intelligent lizards who tell him of a little known invasion from outer space.

5.3/4 Misty of Chincoteague ­ Henry, Marguerite. Two youngsters' determination to own a Chincotegue pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction.

5.1/8 Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH ­ O'Brien, Robert C. Having no one to help her with her problems, a widowed mouse visits the rats whose former imprisonment in a laboratory made them wise and long lived..

5.2/6 My Side of the Mountain ­ George, Jean Crainhead. A city boy decides to spend one year in the Catskill Mountains living off the land.

5.0/5 Old Yeller ­ Gipson, Fred. Young Travis faces a test of manhood when his heroic dog is bitten by a mad wolf.

6.4/3 Rabbit Hill ­ Lawson, Robert. New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.

6.3/13 Secret Garden ­ Burnett, Frances H. Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

5.5/7 Shane ­ Shaefer, Jack. A reformed gunfighter trying to escape his past befriends a family of homesteaders whom a local rancher is trying to drive out.

5.0/4 Tuck Everlasting ­ Babbit, Natalie. The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing old.

5.3/8 Westing Game ­ Raskin, Ellen. The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

5.7/9 Witch of Blackbird Pond ­ Speare, Elizabeth G. In 1687 a young girl from Barbados visits her Puritan relatives in Connecticut and becomes the suspect in a witchhunt.

6.5/1 Wolves of Willoughby Chase ­ Aiken, Joan. Set in the countryside of Victorian England, this novel tells of two children, their helpful friend, Simon, a tyrannical governess, and her strict sister.

4.7/7 Wrinkle in Time ­ L'Engle, Madeline. A midnight visitor escorts Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace across the barriers of space and time to another world to save.