School Library Journal Top 100 Children's Novels, 2012 Poll

Given by School Library Journal

96 Works 1,509,228 Books 33,665 Reviews 4.2
WorkOrder Label
Charlotte's Web (1952) by E. B. White
1
A Wrinkle in Time (1962) by Madeleine L'Engle
2
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) by J. K. Rowling
3
The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry
4
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C. S. Lewis
5
Holes (1998) by Louis Sachar
6
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967) by E. L. Konigsburg
7
Anne of Green Gables (1908) by L. M. Montgomery
8
The Westing Game (1978) by Ellen Raskin
9
Bridge to Terabithia (1977) by Katherine Paterson
10
When You Reach Me (2009) by Rebecca Stead
11
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) by J. K. Rowling
12
The Thief (1996) by Megan Whalen Turner
13
The Hobbit (1937) by J. R. R. Tolkien
14
The Secret Garden (1910) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
15
Tuck Everlasting (1975) by Natalie Babbitt
16
Harriet the Spy (1964) by Louise Fitzhugh
17
The Book of Three (1964) by Lloyd Alexander
18
Little House in the Big Woods (1932) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
19
Because of Winn-Dixie (2000) by Kate DiCamillo
20
The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) by Norton Juster
21
The Dark Is Rising (1973) by Susan Cooper
22
Hatchet (1987) by Gary Paulsen
23
Ramona the Pest (1968) by Beverly Cleary
24
The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 (1995) by Christopher Paul Curtis
25
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A. A. Milne
26
Little House on the Prairie (1935) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
27
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) (1995) by Philip Pullman
28
The Penderwicks (2005) by Jeanne Birdsall
29
Matilda (1988) by Roald Dahl
30
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
31
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976) by Mildred D. Taylor
32
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971) by Robert C. O'Brien
33
Where the Red Fern Grows (1961) by Wilson Rawls
34
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972) by Judy Blume
35
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1958) by Elizabeth George Speare
36
The Wednesday Wars (2007) by Gary D. Schmidt
37
Frindle (1996) by Andrew Clements
38
The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007) by Brian Selznick
39
Maniac Magee (1990) by Jerry Spinelli
40
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum
41
Gone-Away Lake (1957) by Elizabeth Enright
42
Jacob Have I Loved (1980) by Katherine Paterson
43
Okay for Now (2011) by Gary D. Schmidt
44
Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960) by Scott O'Dell
45
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1990) by Avi
46
Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott
47
The Bad Beginning (1999) by Lemony Snicket
48
My Father's Dragon (1948) by Ruth Stiles Gannett
49
Number the Stars (1989) by Lois Lowry
50
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (2003) by Kate DiCamillo
51
Betsy-Tacy (1940) by Maud Hart Lovelace
52
The Graveyard Book (2008) by Neil Gaiman
53
Half Magic (1954) by Edward Eager
54
All-of-a-Kind Family (1951) by Sydney Taylor
55
A Little Princess (1905) by Frances Hodgson Burnett
56
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (1962) by Joan Aiken
57
Swallows and Amazons (1930) by Arthur Ransome
58
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (2006) by Kate DiCamillo
59
Bud, Not Buddy (1999) by Christopher Paul Curtis
60
Clementine (2006) by Sara Pennypacker
62
The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978) by Katherine Paterson
63
The Twenty-One Balloons (1947) by William Pène du Bois
64
Wonder (2012) by R. J. Palacio
65
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (2009) by Jacqueline Kelly
66
A Long Way from Chicago (1998) by Richard Peck
67
The High King (1968) by Lloyd Alexander
68
The Ruins of Gorlan (2004) by John Flanagan
69
Walk Two Moons (1994) by Sharon Creech
70
Each Little Bird That Sings (2005) by Deborah Wiles
71
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (2019) by Grace Lin
72
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1972) by Barbara Robinson
73
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970) by Judy Blume
74
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2007) by Jeff Kinney
76
My Side of the Mountain (1959) by Jean Craighead George
77
Ballet Shoes (1936) by Noel Streatfeild
78
The Egypt Game (1967) by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
79
The Four-Story Mistake (1942) by Elizabeth Enright
80
The Witches (1983) by Roald Dahl
81
The Cricket in Times Square (1960) by George Selden
82
Ozma of Oz (1907) by L. Frank Baum
83
The Long Winter (1940) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
84
Ella Enchanted (1997) by Gail Carson Levine
85
Peter Pan (1934) by J. M. Barrie
86
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda (2010) by Tom Angleberger
87
The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965) by Beverly Cleary
89
The Children of Green Knowe (1954) by L. M. Boston
90
Pippi Longstocking (1945) by Astrid Lindgren
91
Flipped (2001) by Wendelin Van Draanen
92
Journey to the River Sea (2001) by Eva Ibbotson
93
Ramona and Her Father (1977) by Beverly Cleary
94
The Horse and His Boy (1954) by C. S. Lewis
96
The Diamond in the Window (1962) by Jane Langton
97
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000) by J. K. Rowling
98
The Boxcar Children (1924) by Gertrude Chandler Warner
99
Love That Dog (2001) by Sharon Creech
100

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