The following quest is based on SLJ’s Top 100 Children’s Novels from 2012.
| Title | Author | Reading Status |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte’s Web | E. B. White | |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L’Engle | |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | JK Rowling | |
| The Giver | Lois Lowry | |
| The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | CS Lewis | |
| Holes | Louis Sachar | |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | JK Rowling | |
| The Hobbit | JRR Tolkien | |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | |
| Winnie-the-Pooh | AA Milne | |
| Little House on the Prarie | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | |
| Matilda | Roald Dahl | |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | LFrank Baum | |
| The Bad Beginning | Lemony Snicket | |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | |
| Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret | Judy Blume | |
| Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney | |
| The Witches | Roald Dahl | |
| The BFG | Roald Dahl | |
| Pippi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren | |
| The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |
| The Horse and His Boy | CS Lewis | |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | JK Rowling | |
| From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler | EL Konisburg | |
| Anne of Green Gables | LM Montgomery | |
| The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin | |
| Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | |
| When You Reach Me | Rebecca Stead | |
| The Thief (Childrens Book) | MeganWHalen Turner | |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | |
| Harriet the Spy | Louise Fitzhugh | |
| The Book of Three | Lloyd Alexander | |
| Little House in the Big Woods | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo | |
| The Dark is Rising | Susan Cooper | |
| Hatchet | Gary Paulsen | |
| Ramona the Pest | Beverly Cleary | |
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 | ChristopherPaul Curtis | |
| The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy | Jeanne Birdsall | |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | MildredD Taylor | |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH | RobertC O’Brien | |
| Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls | |
| Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | Judy Blume | |
| The Witch of Blackbird Pond | ElizabethGeorge Speare | |
| The Wednesday Wars | GaryD Schmidt | |
| Frindle | Andrew Clements | |
| The Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick | |
| Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli | |
| Gone-Away Lake | Elizabeth Enright | |
| Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Paterson | |
| Okay for Now | GaryD Schmidt | |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O’Dell | |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | Avi | |
| Little Women | LouisaMay Alcott | |
| My Father’s Dragon | RuthStiles Gannett | |
| Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | |
| The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, A Princess, Some Soup, and a Spoool of Thread | Kate DiCamillo | |
| Betsy-Tacy | MaudHard Lovelace | |
| The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | |
| Half Magic | Edward Eager | |
| All-of-a-Kind Family | Sydney Taylor | |
| A Little Princess | FrancesHodgson Burnett | |
| The Wolves of Willoughby Chase | Joan Aiken | |
| Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome | |
| The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | Kate DiCamillo | |
| Bud, Not Buddy | ChristopherPaul Curtis | |
| Clementine | Sara Pennypacker | |
| The Great Gilly Hopkins | Katherine Paterson | |
| The Twenty-One Balloons | WilliamPene duBois | |
| Wonder | RJ Palacio | |
| The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | Jacqueline Kelly | |
| A Long Way from Chicago | Richard Peck | |
| The High King | Lloyd Alexander | |
| The Ruins of Gorlan | John Flanagan | |
| Walk Two Moons | Sharon Creech | |
| Each Little Bird That Sings | Deborah Wiles | |
| Where the Mountain Meets the Moon | Grace Lin | |
| The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | Barbara Robinson | |
| The Saturdays | Elizabeth Enright | |
| My Side of the Mountain | JeanCraighead George | |
| Ballet Shoes | Noel Streatfeild | |
| The Egypt Game | ZilphaKeatley Snyder | |
| The Four-Story Mistake | Elizabeth Enright | |
| The Cricket in Times Square | George Selden | |
| Ozma of Oz | LFrank Baum | |
| The Long Winter | Laura Ingalls Wilder | |
| Ella Enchanted | GailCarson Levine | |
| Peter Pan | JM Barrie | |
| The Strange Case of Origami Yoda | Tom Angleberger | |
| The Mouse and the Motorcycle | Beverly Cleary | |
| The Children of Green Knowe | LM Boston | |
| Flipped | Wendelin vanDraanen | |
| Journey to the River Sea | Eva Ibbotson | |
| Romona and her Father | Beverly Cleary | |
| The Diamond in the Window | Jane Langton | |
| The Boxcar Children | GertrudeChandler Warner | |
| Love That Dog | Sharon Creech |