Bruce Coville
    My Teacher Is an Alien (series)
    The Ghost In The Third Row (1987)
    The Ghost Wore Gray (1988)
    The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed (1991)

Robert Heinlein
    Space Cadet (1948)
    Farmer in the Sky (1950)
    The Rolling Stones (1952)
    Citizen of the Galaxy (1957)
    Have Spacesuit - Will Travel (1958)
    Podkayne of Mars (1962)
    Waldo and Magic Inc. (1950)

J.R.R. Tolkien
    The Hobbit: or, There and Back Again (1937)

Roald Dahl
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
    Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972)
    The Witches (1983)
    Matilda (1988)

Jules Verne
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870)
    Around the World in Eighty Days (1872)

E.B. White
    Charlotte's Web (1952)

Mark Twain
    The Prince and the Pauper (1881)
    Short Stories

Kenneth Grahame
    The Wind in the Willows (1908)

Mary O'Hara
    My Friend Flicka

Walter Farley
    Black Stallion

Anna Sewell
    Black Beauty

Philippa Pearce
    Tom's Midnight Garden

Shel Silverstein
    Where the Sidewalk Ends
    Light in the Attic

Other recomendations for children:

    Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
    Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
    Father Brown mysteries by G.K. Chesterton
    A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
    The Encyclopedia Brown series, by Donald Sobol
    The Adolescence of P-1 by Thomas Ryan
    Perelandra, Out of the Silent Planet, and That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
    Anything by Theodore Seuss Geisel
    Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales
    Grimm's Fairy Tales
    Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
    Harry Potter series
    The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
    Bonita by Kathleen Duey
    Esperanza by Kathleen Duey
    Sierra by Kathleen Duey
    Spirit by Kathleen Duey
    Daughter of the Mountians by Louise Rankin
    Sherlock Holmes series
    Call of the Wild by Jack London
    The Sea Wolf by Jack London
    Oz series by L. Frank Baum
    Stuart Little by E.B. White
    The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
    Judy Moody series by Megan McDonald
    Oscar Lobster’s Fair Exchange by George Selden
    The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Isaac Asimov
    The Robot Short Stories and Novels

J.R.R. Tolkien
    The Ring Trilogy (1954/1955)

Lilian Jackson Braun
    The Cat Who series

Robert Asprin
    The Myth series
    Phules Company series

Dick Francis
    Novels and Short Stories

Tony Hillerman
    Navajo Police series

Sue Grafton
    Alphabet series

Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Tarzan series

Carolyn G. Hart
    Death on Demand series

Elizabeth Peters
    Amelia Peabody series

Arthur Conan Doyle
    Sherlock Holmes series
    Professor Challenger series

Ellery Queen
    Ellery Queen series

Dashiell Hammett
    Continental Op short stories

Sara Paretsky
    V.I. Warshawski series

Arthur C. Clark
    Tales of the White Hart

Richard Adams
    Watership Down

T.H. White
    Once and Future King
    Book of Merlin

Don Marquis
    Archy and Mehitabel

Harry Harrison
    Stainless Steel Rat series

William Shakespeare
    Romeo and Juliet

Chaim Potok
    Davita's Harp (for older children only, needs to be read with parents. contains disturbing situations)
    The Chosen

Robertson Davies
    High Spirits

Jack Chalker
    Well of Souls series