What are the Top 25 Novels for Young People?

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Tom Cantwell - Top 25 Novels for Young People

• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• Artemis Fowl (s) - Eoin Colfer
• Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
• The Catcher in the Rye * - J.D. Salinger
• Catherine, Called Birdy - Karen Cushman
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (s) - Roald Dahl
• Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
• The Golden Compass (s) - Philip Pullman
• Hatchet (s) - Gary Paulsen
• The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Light in the Forest - Conrad Richter
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (s) - C.S. Lewis
• The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
• My Side of the Mountain (s) - Jean Craighead George
• The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
• The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
• Petey - Ben Mikaelsen
• Redwall (s) - Brian Jacques
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (s) - Mildred Taylor
• A Separate Peace - John Knowles
• Stargirl - Jerry Spinneli
• Stuck in Neutral * - Terry Trueman
• The Sword of Shannara (s) - Terry Brooks
• Watership Down - Richard Adams

Rebecca Wilson - Top 25 Books (not necessarily novels) for Young People

• Anne of Green Gables (s) - L.M. Montgomery
• The Black Stallion (s) - Walter Farley
• The Catcher in the Rye * - J.d. Salinger
• Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
• The Cricket in Times Square - George Seldon
• A Girl From Yamhill County - Beverly Cleary
• The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
• Heidi - Joahnna Spyri
• James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
• The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagles
  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (s) - C.S Lewis
• Little House on the Prarie (s) - Laura Ingalls Wilder
  Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  Old Yeller - Fred Gipson
  The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
• Ralph S. Mouse (s) - Beverly Cleary
  The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
  Stuart Little - E.B White
  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
  The Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
  Watership Down - Richard Adams
  Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
• Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
• Where the Wilds Things Are - Maurice Sendak
• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame