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Good Authors to Read

Easy Fiction | Intermediate Fiction | Nonfiction

EASY FICTION

Harry Allard

Mitsumasa Anno

Marc Brown

Eric Carle

Tomie De Paola

Kevin Henkes

Steven Kellogg

Leo Lionni

Arnold Lobel

James Marshall

Bill Martin

Peggy Parish

Bill Peet

Andrea Pinkney

Brian Pinkney

Jerry Pinkney

Patricia Polacco

Cynthia Rylant

Jon Scieszka

Chris Van Allsburg

Rosemary Wells

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INTERMEDIATE FICTION

Lloyd Alexander

Avi

Eve Bunting

Betsy Byars

Beverly Cleary

Roald Dahl

John Erickson

Patricia Reilly Giff

Mary Downing Hahn

Johanna Hurwitz

Suzy Kline

Lois Lowry

Phyllis Naylor

Barbara Park

Katherine Paterson

Gary Paulsen

Louis Sachar

Mildred Taylor

Bill Wallace

Betty Ren Wright

E. B. White

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NONFICTION

David Adler

Caroline Arnold

Jim Arnosky

Joanna Cole

Kathy Darling

Tara Darling

Diane Dillon

Leo Dillon

Paul Fleischman

Russell Freedman

Jean Fritz

Gail Gibbons

James Giblin

James Haskins

Dennis Lee

Sandra Markle

David McCord

Patricia McKissack

Milton Meltzer

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Jack Prelutsky

Joanne Ryder

Shel Silverstein

Seymour Simon

Diane Stanley

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