1.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

2. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
3. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
4. El Deafo by Cece Bell
5. Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
6. The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
7. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
8. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
9. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
10. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
11. Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan 
12. Wonder by R.J. Palacio
13. The Giver by Lois Lowry
14. Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
15. Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
16. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
17. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
18. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
19. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
20. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
21. The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
22. The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
23. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
24. Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
25. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
26. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
27. George by Alex Gino
28. The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
29. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
30. Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk