• Animal Friends, a Golden Book by Jane Werner (the book that started it all)
  
  
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  
  
• Black Like Me by John Griffin
  
  
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf
  
  
• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
  
  
• Blu's Hanging by Lois Ann Yamanaka
  
  
• Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle
  
  
• Perloo the Bold by Avi
  
  
• Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff
  
  
• I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
  
  
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini