I think we read all the good books in elementary school. Or, at least there was more of a variety than just the classics (and I'm not knocking the classics; I'm just saying that once you get older, it's like that's ALL YOU READ in literature/English classes). I'm also including books I read for Battle of the Books in sixth grade.

• The Westing Game, Ellen Rankin
• The Giver, Lois Lowry
• The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
• The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
• Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbit
• Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• The First Four Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Crucible, Arthur Miller
• My Father's Dragon, Ruth Stiles Gannett
• Mr. Popper's Penguins, Richard Atwater
• Peppermints in the Parlor, Barbara Brooks Wallac
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Betty MacDonald
• Underunners, Margaret Mahy
• A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L'Engle
• Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
• Zia, Scott O'Dell
• Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor
• Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Mildred Taylor
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
• Maniac McGee, Jerry Spinelli
• Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Beverly Cleary
• The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary
• My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
• The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
• On My Honor, Marion Dane Bauer
• The Sign of the Beaver, Elizabeth George Speare
• The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
• My Brother Sam Is Dead, James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
• Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
• Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
• The Call of the Wild, Jack London
• The Pigman, Paul Zindel
• The Pushcart War, Jean Merrill