"Teachers' 100 Favorite Books to Read"

Teachers in the National Education Association rated these books as their favorites for students to read. These books are taken from a list compiled by a survey of 1500 NEA members.

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
James and the Giant Peach: A Children's Story by Roald Dahl
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House (Series) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
Stuart Little by E. B. White
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare|
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Young Adults
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

All Ages
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum