Homeschool: Childrens Top 20 Book or Author Picks and Parent's Top 10 Children's Book Picks

Homeschooling The Middle Years - Your Complete Guid to Successfully Homeschooling the 8- to 12-Year-Old Child by Shari Henry

Children's Top 20 Book or Author Picks

Little House series
Boxcar Children series
Marguerite Henry horse books {Misty, Stormy, Sea Star, King of the Wind, and so on}
Chronicles of Narnia series
Redwall series
The Black Stallion series
Gary Paulsten books {Hatchet, Dogsong, Dunc & Amos series}
The Bible
Encyclopedia Brown series
Mandie series
Johnny Tremain
Huckleberry Finn
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Left Behind series
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Time Trilogy {L'Engles's A Wrinkle in Time, and so on}
Little Britches series
Julie of the Wolves
Hardy Boys series

Parents' Top 10 Children's Book Picks 
{All favorites were series rather than single books.}

Little House
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Boxcar Children
Hardy Boys
Encyclopedia Brown
Anne of Green Gables
The Coopers Kids
Annie Henry
Little Britches
Star Wars