75 Authors/Illustrators Everyone Should Know
• Preschool-Kindergarten
• Grades 1 to 3 (Primary)
• Grades 3 to 6 (Intermediate)
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LLOYD ALEXANDER — A skilled fantasy writer who touches our deepest sense of characters and moral order.
The Cat Who Wished To Be A Man
The Black Cauldron
AVI — His characters face issues of personal integrity as they grow up in historical or contemporary settings.
Nothing But The Truth
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
SUSAN COOPER — Fantasy writer whose characters face the eternal struggle between darkness and light, between good and evil.
The Dark Is Rising
The Grey King
ROBERT CORMIER — Teenage characters face realities and choices -- not always happy or hopeful ones.
The Chocolate War
I Am The Cheese
PAULA FOX — She captures strong emotions and vivid images in superb understated and taut writing.
Monkey Island
One-Eyed Cat
VIRGINIA HAMILTON — Graphic writer who weaves superb plots and vivid characters into realistic, fanciful, folkloric, and historical settings.
M.C. Higgins, The Great
The People Could Fly
MADELEINE L'ENGLE — She probes the theme that everything in our universe is connected and that all things, even the tiniest microbes, matter.
A Wrinkle In Time
Ring Of Endless Light
WALTER DEAN MYERS — He portrays an authentic view of African-Americans in gripping novels and sound informational books.
Fallen Angels
Now is Your Time: The African-American Struggle For Freedom
KATHERINE PATERSON — A perceptive writer whose characters and dramatic themes live on in our memories.
Bridge to Terabithia
Lyddie
RICHARD PECK — Time spent in schools talking with teenagers helps capture the tone, language, and concerns reflected in the gripping, authentic dialogue that permeates Peck's work.
Father Figure
Are You In The House Alone?
GARY SOTO — He draws upon his Mexican-American heritage to create vignettes in poetry and prose.
A Fire In My Hands
Living Up The Street
MILDRED TAYLOR — One of the first African-American authors to win major awards writes about the experience of rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Let The Circle Be Unbroken
CYNTHIA VOIGT — An impressive novelist who addresses thoughtful topics through realistic, fantasy, and historical stories.
Homecoming
Dicey's Song
LAURENCE YEP — He probes his heritage for universal themes of growing up in an Asian-American family.
Dragonwings
Star Fisher
75 Authors/Illustrators Everyone Should Know
• Preschool-Kindergarten
• Grades 1 to 3 (Primary)
• Grades 3 to 6 (Intermediate)
Other Reading Lists