Detective Series:
- Droon Series (Abbott)
- Jigsaw Jones (Prellar)
- Encyclopedia Brown (Sobol)
- Geronimo Stilton (Stilton)
- Boxcar Children (Warner)

Fantasy Series:
- How to Train your Dragon series (Crowell)
- Flat Stanley series (Brown)
- Dragon Slayer Academy series (McMullan)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; The Glass Elevator (Dahl)
- Oz series by Baum

Talking Animals:
- Dr Dolittle series (Lofting)
- My Father's Dragon trilogy (Gannett)
- Cricket in Times Square (Selden)
- Jungle Book (Kipling)

Classics for read alouds:
- The Hobbit (Tolkein)
- Narnia (Lewis)
- Peter Pan (Barrie)
- Moby Dick (Melville)