This list was created with the help of parents who wanted a list of books appropriate for young readers (through 7 years old) who are ready to read long chapter books but are emotionally sensitive. All books on this list should be great reads for your young gifted readers. The books with asterisks are books that one parent said was not appropriate for her particular young reader, so these books should be previewed.

For your pre-teen reader, visit Book list for pre-teen gifted readers. Read a review of Some of my Best Friends are Books.

Atwater, Richard: Mr. Popper's Penguins
Averill, Esther: Jenny and the Cat Club
Baum, L. Frank: Oz books - over 30 of them! See the list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books
Birdsall, Jeanne: The Penderwicks series
Blyton, Enid: The Faraway Tree Stories, The Wishing Chair
Bond, Michael: Paddington
Brink, Carol Ryrie: Caddie Woodlawn*
Brock, Betty: No Flying in the House
Brooks, Walter R.: Freddy Goes to Florida and other books
Burgess, Thornton: The Bird Book for Children, Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel
Burnett, Frances Hodgson: Racketty Packetty House and Other Stories, The Secret Garden*, The Little Princess*
Cameron, Eleanor: Mushroom Planet books
Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Cleary, Beverly: Mouse and the Motorcycle and other non-Ramona books*
Dahl, Roald: James and the Giant Peach*, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
DiCamillo, Kate: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Eager, Edward: Half Magic and other Magic books
Edwards, Julie Andrews: Mandy and The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Eliot, Ethel Cook: The House Above the Trees, The Wind Boy
Estes, Eleanor: The Moffats series and Pinky Pye series
Fitzgerald, John D.: The Great Brain series
Fitzhugh, Louise: Harriet the Spy series*
French, Jackie: The Dragonling series (currently out of print)
Gannet, Ruth Stiles: My Father's Dragon series
Gurney, James: Dinotopia series
Gruelle, Johnny: Raggedy Ann Stories
Hale, Lucretia P.: The Peterkin Papers
Haywood, Carolyn: B is for Betsy
Henry, Marguerite: Misty of Chincoteague and sequels
Jones, Elizabeth Orton: Big Susan
Juster, Norton: The Phantom Tollbooth
King-Smith, Dick: all books
Kipling, Rudyard: Just So Stories
Konigsburg, E.L.: From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Lagerlof, Selma: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Lasky, Kathryn: Guardians of Ga'hoole series
Lawson, Robert: Rabbit Hill
Lindgren, Astrid: Pippi Longstocking series
Lovelace, Maude Hart: Betsy-Tacy series
Lopez, Barry: Crow and Weasel
Lowell, Susan: I am Lavina Cumming
MacDonald, Betty: Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series
McCloskey, Robert: Homer Price
McGraw, Eloise: The Moorchild
Merrill, Jean: The Pushcart War
Milne, AA: Winnie the Pooh, House at Pooh Corner
Montgomery, Rutherford: Kildee House
Norton , Mary: Bedknob and Broomstick, The Borrowers
O'Brien, Richard: Mrs. Frisby & Rats of NIMH
Pochoeki, Ethel: The Attic Mice (currently out of print)
Ransome, Arthur: Swallows and Amazons and Swallowdale
Rodda, Emily: Rowan of Rin series
RRylant, Cynthia: The Lighthouse Family series
Selden, George: The Cricket in Times Square
Selznick, Brian: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sidney, Margaret: The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
Speare, Elizabeth George: Sign of the Beaver
Steig, William: Abel’s Island
Streatfeild, Noel: Ballet Shoes
Taylor, Sydney: All-of-a-kind Family series
Travers , Dr. P. L. and Mary Shepard: Mary Poppins
White, EB: The Trumpet of the Swan, Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little [E.B.White boxed set]
Wilder, Laura Ingalls: Little House series
Williams, Jay: Danny Dunn series
Winthrop, Elizabeth. The Castle in the Attic
Woodruff, Elvira: Small Beauties: The Journey of Darcy Heart O'Hara

Resources:

• Child Lit WIKI
• KidsReads
• Hoagies' Gifted
• Amazon.com list: Books for a 7 year old reading at a fifth grade level
• Ambleside Online
• CommonSense Media
• Some of My Best Friends Are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers from Pre-School to High School
  
• Wikipedia List of Classic Children's Books
  

If you have other suggestions, please leave them below -- Enjoy!