Baird
Favorite Authors
Baird
Favorite Authors
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Adventure
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Lloyd Alexander |
Jean Craighead George |
Wilson Rawls |
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Joan Bauer |
Gordon Korman |
Roland Smith |
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Betsy Byars |
Jack London |
Elizabeth George Speare |
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Cynthia DeFelice |
Harry Mazer |
Theodore Taylor |
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Thomas Dygard |
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Megan Turner |
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Allan Eckert |
Scott O'Dell |
Bill Wallace |
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Will
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James Patterson |
Paul Zindel |
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Anthony
Horowitz (Alex Rider) |
Gary
Paulsen |
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Animals Real and Fantastic
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Avi |
Marguerite Henry |
Sterling North |
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Sheila Burnford |
Erin Hunter |
Kenneth Oppel |
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Kate Di Camillo |
Robin Jarvis |
Wilson Rawls |
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Jean Craighead George |
Phyllis Naylor |
E.B. White |
Fantasy, Supernatural, and Science Fiction
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Douglas
Adams |
Cornelia Funke |
Christopher
Paolini |
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Lloyd
Alexander |
Margaret
Haddix |
James
Patterson (Maximum Ride) |
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K.A.
Applegate |
Frank
Hebert |
Tamora
Pierce |
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Isaac
Asimov |
Douglas
Hill |
Phillip
Pullman |
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Avi |
Brian
Jacques |
Phillip Reeve |
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T.A
Barron |
Robin Jarvis |
Rick
Riordan (Olympians) |
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Ray
Bradbury |
Diana
Wynne Jones |
Emily
Rodda |
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Nancy
Bond |
Kathryn
Lasky |
J.K.
Rowling |
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Terry
Brooks |
Ursula
LeGuin |
Angie Sage |
| Georgia Byng |
Madeline
L'Engle |
Jon
Scieszka |
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Orson Scott Card |
Gail
Carson Levine |
William
Sleator |
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Eoin
Colfer |
C.S.
Lewis |
Lemony
Snicket |
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Suzanne
Collins |
D.J.
MacHale |
Paul
Stewart |
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Susan Cooper |
Anne
McCaffrey |
Jonathan
Stroud |
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Michael Crichton |
Robin
McKinley |
J.R.R.
Tolkien |
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Roald
Dahl |
Graham McNamee |
Jules
Verne |
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Chris D'Lacey |
Stephenie Meyers |
H.G.
Wells |
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Tony
DiTerlizzi |
Gerald
Morris |
Patricia Wrede |
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Diane
Duane |
Edith
Nesbit |
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Jean
DuPrau |
Jenny
Nimmo |
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Nancy Farmer |
Garth
Nix |
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Dennis Foon |
Kenneth Oppel |
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Historical Fiction
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Avi |
Virginia Hamilton |
Mildred
Taylor |
| Gary Blackwood | Karen Hesse | Yoshiko Uchida |
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James Christopher Collier |
Irene Hunt |
Robert Westall |
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Christopher Paul Curtis |
Kathryn Laskey |
Laurence Yep |
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Karen
Cushman |
Lois Lowry |
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Paul Fleischman |
Harry Mazer |
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Sid Fleischman |
Scott O'Dell |
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| Paula Fox | Katherine Paterson | |
| Jean Fritz | Ann Rinaldi | |
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Patricia
Reilly Giff |
Elizabeth George Spear |
Everyday Life-Fiction
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Marion Bauer |
Paula Fox |
Walter
Dean Myers |
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Edward Bloor |
Jack Gantos |
Barbara Park |
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Judy Blume |
Patricia
Reilly Giff |
Katherine Paterson |
| Ann Brashares | Carol Gorman | Richard Peck |
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Sue Ellen Bridgers |
Virginia
Hamilton |
Rodman Philbrick |
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Bruce Brooks |
Karen Hesse |
Cynthia Rylant |
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Betsy Byars |
Carl Hiaasen |
Louis Sachar |
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Meg Cabot |
S.E. Hinton |
Jan
Slepian |
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Jeff Kinney |
Jerry Spinelli |
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Andrew Clements |
Lois Lowry |
Mildred Taylor |
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Ellen Conford |
Patricia MacLachlan |
Wendelin Van Draanen |
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Caroline Cooney |
Stephen Manes |
Cynthia Voigt |
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Robert Cormier |
Norma
Fox Mazer |
Gloria Whelan |
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Sharon Creech |
Lurlene McDaniel |
Jacqueline Woodson |
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Paula Danziger |
Carolyn Meyer |
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Humor
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Eve Bunting |
Kristine Franklin |
Stephen Manes |
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Betsy Byars |
Kate Klise |
Louis Sachar |
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Andrew Clements |
Gordon Korman |
Jon Scieszka |
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Bruce Coville |
Lois Lowry |
Jerry Spinelli |
Mystery
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Avi |
Margaret Petersen Haddix |
Richard Peck |
| Blue Balliet |
Anthony
Horowitz |
Ellen Raskin |
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John Bellairs |
M.E.Kerr |
Ron Roy |
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Lillian Jackson Braun |
Peg Kehret |
Zilpha Snyder |
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Betsy Byars |
E.L. Konigsburg |
Donald Sobol |
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Agatha Christie |
Madeline L’Engle |
Wendelin Van Draanen |
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Caroline Cooney |
Margaret Mahy |
Bill Wallace |
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Cynthia De Felice |
Joan Lowry Nixon |
Betty Ren Wright |
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Lois Duncan |
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Sports Fiction
| Avi | Thomas Dygard | Chris Lynch |
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Bruce Brooks |
Tim Green |
Walter Dean Myers |
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Matt Christopher[ |
Dan Gutman |
Gary Soto |
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Chris Crutcher |
Jonah Kalb |
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Carl Deuker |
Robert Lipsyte |
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Tessa
Duder |
Mike
Lupica |
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Classics
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Louisa May Alcott / Little Women |
Harper Lee / To Kill a Mockingbird |
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Charlotte Bronte / Jane Eyre |
L.M. Montgomery / Anne of Green Gables |
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Stephen Crane / Red Badge of Courage |
Betty
Smith / A Tree Grows in |
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Daniel DeFoe / Robinson Crusoe |
John Steinbeck / The Red Pony |
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Charles Dickens / Oliver Twist |
Robert
Louis Stevenson / |
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Ernest Hemingway / Old Man and the Sea |
T.H. White / The Once and Future King |
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Easy
Picks
Avi/ The
Avi/ The S.O.R. Losers
Bishop/ Twenty and Ten
Blume/ Double Fudge (Fudge #5)
Blume/ Fudge-A-Mania (Fudge #4)
Blume/ Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great (Fudge #2)
Blume/ Superfudge (Fudge #3)
Blume/ Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Fudge #1)
Bunting/ Summer of Riley
Bunting/ Our Sixth Grade Sugar Babies
Byars/ Beans on the Roof
Byars / Pinballs
Cohen/ Thank You Jackie Robinson
Clements/ Frindle
Creech/ Granny Torelli Makes Soup
Danziger/ The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
DeCamillo/ Because of Winn Dixie
DiTerlizzi/ Field Guide (Spiderwick Chronicles #1)
DiTerlizzi/ Ironwood Tree ( Spiderwick Chronicles #4)
DiTerlizzi/ Lucinda’s Secret (Spiderwick Chronicles#3)
DiTerlizzi/ Seeing Stone (Spiderwick Chronicles #2)
DiTerlizzi/ Wrath of Mulgarath (Spiderwick Chronicles #5)
Duffey/ Fur-Ever Your Booker Jones
Evans/ The Elevator Family
Fletcher/ Flying Solo
Gantos/ Joey Pigza Loses Control (Joey#2)
Gantos/ Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (Joey #1)
Gantos/ What Would Joey Do? (Joey #3)
Howe/ Bunnicula (Bunnicula Mysteries #1)
Howe/ Bunnicula Strikes Again (Bunnicula Mysteries #6)
Howe/ The Celery Stalks at Midnight (Bunnicula Mysteries #3)
Howe/ Howliday Inn (Bunnicula Mysteries #2)
Howe/ Nighty Nightmare (Bunnicula Mysteries #4)
Howe/ Return to Howliday Inn (Bunnicula Mysteries #5)
MacLachlan/ Caleb’s Story (Sarah #3)
MacLachlan/
MacLachlan/ Skylark (Sarah #2)
McArthur/ The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks
Naylor/
Park/ The Graduation of Jake Moon
Paterson/ The Great Gilly Hopkins
Rockwell/ How to Eat
Fried
Van Draanen/ Shredderman: Secret Identity
Sachar/ Sideways
Stories from the
Sachar/ Wayside School is Falling Down
Sachar/
Scieszka/ It’s All Greek to Me
Scieszka/ Knights of the Kitchen Table
Scieszka/ Summer Reading is Killing Me
Scieszka/ Tut, Tut.
Scieszka/ See You Later Gladiator
Slote/ Trading Games
Sobol/ Encyclopedia Brown Shows the Way
Sobol/ Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day
Sobol/ Encyclopedia
Brown Finds the Clues
Warner/ Finders
Kkeepers Mystery
Warner/ Tree House Mystery
Warner/ Bicycle
Mystery
Warner/ Ghost Town Mystery
Warner/ Mystery in the Cave
Warner/ Mystery of
the Mummy’s Curse
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