Author Lists

							If You Would Like to Read . . .                    If You Would Like to Read . . .
       Animal Stories                                         Fantasy
     Try These – Authors                                Try These – Authors
           Ben Baglio                                      Lloyd Alexander
        Lauren Brooks                                     Lynne Reid Banks
         Bonnie Bryant                                       Terry Brooks
         John Erickson                                     Suzanne Collins
         Walter Farley                                      Susan Cooper
          Fred Gipson                                       John Flanagan
       Marguerite Henry                                       C. S. Lewis
          James Howe                                        Tamora Pierce
          Erin Hunter                                        Rick Riordan
         Brian Jacques                                       Emily Rodda
         Jim Kjelgaard                                      J. K. Rowling
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor                                  Paul Stewart
          Bill Wallace                                     J. R. R. Tolkien
          E. B. White



If You Would Like to Read . . .                    If You Would Like to Read . . .
           Humor                                         Historical Fiction
     Try These – Authors                                Try These – Authors
        Beverly Cleary                                              Avi
         Bruce Coville                                       Patricia Beatty
       John R. Erickson                                      Joseph Bruchac
          Jack Gantos                                     James Lincoln Collier
        Dan Greenburg                                       Barry Denenberg
         James Howe                                         Patrica Reilly Giff
          Jeff Kinney                                        Carolyn Meyer
        Gordon Korman                                      Mary Pope Osborne
         Richard Peck                                         Gary Paulsen
      Robert Newton Peck                                       Ann Rinaldi
       Barbara Robinson                                  Elizabeth George Spear
         Jon Scieszka                                      Laura Ingalls Wilder
        Henry Winkler             Also try the Dear America Diaries and the My Name is America series
    If You Would Like to Read . . .          If You Would Like to Read . . .
     Mystery / Adventure Stories                    Science Fiction
         Try These – Authors                      Try These – Authors
        Pierdomenico Baccalario                     John Christopher
               Jay Bennett                            Susan Collins
             Agatha Christie                    Bruce Coville (some of his)
          Caroline B. Cooney                         Gene DeWeese
              Lois Duncan                       Margaret Peterson Haddix
             Gordon Korman                         Douglas Arthur Hill
        Phyllis Reynolds Naylor                       H. M. Hoover
           Joan Lowery Nixon                        Madeline L’Engle
          Willo Davis Roberts                        James Patterson
                                                    Neal Shusterman
                                                       Jules Verne
                                                       H. G. Wells
    If You Would Like to Read . . .                  Scott Westerfeld
          Horror / Suspense
     Try These – Authors / Titles
                                             If You Would Like to Read . . .
                                                        Sports
            Ray Bradbury –                        Try These – Authors
  Something Wicked This Way Comes
         Mary Downing Hahn
           Alfred Hitchcock                              Clair Bee
            Christopher Pike                        Sigmund Brouwer
            Edgar Allan Poe                         Matt Christopher
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein            Chris Crutcher
              Darren Shan                               Carl Deuker
              R. L. Stine                             John Feinstein
             Goosebumps                                Dan Gutman
             Bram Stoker –                             Mike Lupica
                Dracula                                Jake Maddox
           Betty Ren Wright                            Rich Wallace
                                                      Jonny Zucker
        If You Would Like to Read . . .                  If You Would Like to Read . . .
               Realistic Fiction                                  Folk Lore
             Try These – Authors                        Try Books by These Collectors–
                   Judy Bloom                                Hans Christian Andersen
                Beverly Cleary                                    Grimm Brothers
              Andrew Clements                                      Andrew Lang
                 Sharon Creech                             Look in the 398 Section for:
                 Chris Crutcher                           Aladdin and other tales from the
                 Sarah Dessen                                          Arabian nights
                  Paul Langan                                  Beauty and the Beast
              Walter Dean Myers                                Grimm’s Fairy Tales
            Phyllis Reynolds Naylor                        Her stories: African American
              Katherine Patterson                           folktales, fairy tales, and true tales
               Nicholas Sparks                            The merry adventures of Robin
                  Jerry Spinelli                                            Hood
                 Cynthia Voigt                             The story of King Arthur and
             Jacqueline Woodson                                      his knights

        If You Would Like to Read . . .                 If You Would Like to Read . . .
                    Drama                                         Classics
              Look in the 800’s –                            Try These Authors –
The Literature Section -- specifically in 812 and 822
                                                                Louisa May Alcott
                                                                  L. Frank Baum
           Or Try These Plays by
                                                                    J. M. Barrie
           William Shakespeare –                                   Lewis Carroll
                                                                   Daniel Defoe
                 As You Like It                                  Charles Dickens
                    Hamlet                                      L. M. Montgomery
                 Julius Caesar                                     Walter Scott
          A Midsummer’s Night Dream                           Robert Louis Stevenson
            Much Ado about Nothing                                 Mark Twain
               Romeo and Juliet                                     Jules Verne
            The Taming of the Shrew                                 H. G. Wells
                                                                   Johann Wyss
         If You Would Like to Read . . .                               If You Would Like to Read . . .
                    Poetry                                                        Nonfiction
              Try These Authors –                             Do you like Sports? History? Science? Technology?
                                                         Pick a topic that interests you, do a search in the catalog,
                                                         and see what you can find in the library. There are lots of
                   Maya Angelou                                                  great books!
                   William Cole
                 Walter De La Mare
                                                                          Or Try These – Authors
                  Emily Dickinson
                Lee Bennett Hopkins
                                                                             Christopher Collier
                  Shel Silverstein
                                                                            James Lincoln Collier
                                                                              Russell Freedman
                                                                              David McCauley
                And the 800’s –                                                 Jim Murphy
The Literature Section, specifically 811 and 821
Also, there are novels in verse. Check out Karen Hesse