Good Authors for Upper Elementary Readers

Among the Hidden Margaret Peterson Haddix Review »		Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer 2003		Babe: The gallant pig Dick King-Smith 1985
Blubber Judy Blume 1986		Borrowers Mary Norton 2003		Bud, not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis Review »
Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now Lauren Child Review »		Crispin Avi Review »		Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Review »
Everest Gordon Korman 2002		Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining Anne Mazor Review »		Fourth Grade without a Clue Jack Gantos 2003
George's Marvelous Medicine Roald Dahl Review »		How to Steal a Dog Barbara O'Connor Review »		Ida B : - and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World Katherine Hannigan
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher Bruce Coville 2002		Judy Moody Megan MacDonald Review »		Lewis and Clark and Me Laurie Myers Review »
Lion Boy Zizou Corder		Lunch Money Andrew Clements Review »		Ribticklers Michael Rosen
Safe at Home Sharon Robinson		Sahara Special Esme Raji Codell Review »		Secret Identity Wendelin Van Draanen Review »
Swindle Gordon Korman Review »		The Bad Beginning Lemony Snicket Review »		The Calder Game Blue Balliet Review »
The Capture Kathryn Lasky Review »		The Ghost in the Third Row Bruce Coville		The Horse and His Boy C.S. Lewis 1994
The Invention of Hugo Cabret Brian Selznick Review »		The Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell		The Princess Test Gail Carson Levine
The Secret Language of Girls Frances O'Roark Dowell		The Spiderwick Chronicles Tony DiTerlizzi Review »		The Tale of Despareaux Kate DiCamillo Review »
The View from Saturday E.L. Konigsburg 1996		Under the Same Sky Cynthia DeFelice		Viking It & Liking It Jon Scieszka

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