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TeachersFirst - 100 Best Books for Children - Page 3

Here is a list of one hundred books selected by the National Education Association in 1999 as great reading for children and young people. To help make these books more useful, we have added book and author links to any TeachersFirst resources and lesson ideas.
The list actually only had 97 titles so I added the three at the end from another list on the site to even it out.
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Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Anne of Green Gables
81
L.M. Montgomery
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Great Gilly Hopkins
82
Little House Series (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Little House Series
83
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sideways Stories From Wayside School (Louis Sachar)
Sideways Stories From Wayside School
84
Louis Sachar
Harriet the Spy (Louise Fitzhugh)
Harriet the Spy
85
Louise Fitzhugh
A Light in the Attic (Shel Silverstein)
A Light in the Attic
86
Shel Silverstein
Mr. Popper's Penguins (Richard and Florence Atwater)
Mr. Popper's Penguins
87
Richard and Florence Atwater
My Father's Dragon (Ruth Gannett)
My Father's Dragon
88
Ruth Gannett
Stuart Little (E.B. White)
Stuart Little
89
E.B. White
Walk Two Moons (Sharon Creech)
Walk Two Moons
90
Sharon Creech
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Elizabeth George Speare)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
91
Elizabeth George Speare
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (Christopher Paul Curtis)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
92
Christopher Paul Curtis
Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)
Where the Red Fern Grows
93
Wilson Rawls
Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Hobbit
94
J.R.R. Tolkien
Summer of the Monkeys
Summer of the Monkeys
95
The Cay
The Cay
96
The Sign of the Beaver
The Sign of the Beaver
97
Across Five Aprils
Across Five Aprils
98
The Bad Beginning (Lemony Snicket)
The Bad Beginning
99
Lemony Snicket
Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine)
Ella Enchanted
100
Gail Carson Levine
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