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| MacDonald G. | The Golden Key | 3 | |
| Pyle H. | The Wonder Clock | 3 | Stories of adventure and wonder |
| Porter C. | Meet Addy | 3 | |
| Park | Skinnybones | 3 | Boy's sense of humor helps him get along with school bully |
| Milne A.A. | When We Were Very Young | 3 | Verses for children |
| McGuffey | Third Reader | 3 | Collection of poems & stories used to understand virtue & learn to read |
| Johnson | The Value of __(easy biographies) | 3 | |
| MacDonald G. | The Light Princess | 3 | The king's sister casts a spell depriving the princess of gravity & ability to cry |
| Ruskin J. | King of the Golden River | 3 | Tale of three brothers |
| MacDonald B | Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle | 3 | Amazing woman delights children |
| Lobel A. | Fables | 3 | Collection of beautifully detailed illustrations of classic fables |
| Levene | Shoelaces & Brussel Sprouts (others up to 3 | 3 | |
| Lawson R. | Ben and Me | 3 | A new & astonishing life of Benjamin Franklin as written by his mouse Amos |
| Lasky, K | My Island Grandma | 3 | |
| Krensky, S | Castles in the Air | 3 | Folk tales based on idioms |
| McGuffey | Second Reader | 3 | Collection of poems & stories used to understand virtue & learn to read |
| Thurber | Many Moons | 3 | A charming story about a princess who wants the moon |
| Corbett | (any of the mystery books) | 3 | |
| Arnosky | Secret of a Wildlife Watcher | 3 | |
| Yagawa S | The Crane Wife | 3 | Japanese Folk Tale |
| Williams | The Velveteen Rabbit | 3 | A worn rabbit is about to be buried, giving up hope of finding magic |
| Willard | A Visit to William Blake's Inn (poetry) | 3 | Poems describing a menagerie of guests who stayed at the inn |
| White E. B. | Stuart Little | 3 | Adventures of a little mouse as he sets out in the world |
| Rounds | Blind Outlaw | 3 | A blind outlaw horse is tamed by a boy who cannot speak |
| Warner | The Boxcar Children (up to 3) | 3 | 4 orphans who take shelter in a box car are determined to make it on their own |
| Rounds | Day Circus Came to Lone Tree | 3 | Humorous story about circus arriving in backward area |
| Thiele | Storm Boy | 3 | A boy living on a desolate beach in Australia rescues & befriends a pelican |
| Sobol | Encyclopedia Brown books (up to 3) | 3 | Boy with encyclopedic memory solves cases |
| Shaw | Meet Kristen | 3 | |
| Sharp M. | The Rescuers | 3 | Courageous mouse saves the day |
| Schur | Meet Samantha | 3 | |
| Peterson | The Littles | 3 | A Family of little tiny people who face many adventures |
| Watts | Divine Songs for Children | 3 | |
| Catling | The Chocolate Touch | 3 | A boy gets a magical gift that turns everything his lips touch into chocolate |
| Edmonds | The Matchlock Gun | 3 | |
| De Paola T. | The Clown of God | 3 | Poor jugller gives his greatest gift to God |
| De Angeli M. | Thee, Hannah! | 3 | Quaker girl learns lesson from runaway slave |
| D'Aulaire | Abraham Lincoln ( and others) | 3 | Also Columbus, Washington, Greek Myths |
| Dalgliesh | The Columbus Party | 3 | |
| Colver A. | Bread and Butter Indian | 3 | Late 1700's Pennsylvania girl befriends elderly Indian |
| Estes E. | The Hundred Dresses | 3 | A Little girl teaches her classmates a lesson by winning a medal |
| Caudill | A Certain Shepherd | 3 | |
| Bulla C. | Pirate's Promise | 3 | Indentured servant captured by pirates |
| Bulla C. | The Sword in the Tree | 3 | Adventures of King Arthur and knights |
| Bulla C. | The Beast of Lor | 3 | Set in ancient time, story of Celtic boy's friendship with elephant |
| Jenkins | Dallas O'Neil books (up to 3) | 3 | |
| Bulla | Indian Hill | 3 | |
| Price | Kim Walk-In-My-Shoes | 3 | |
| Blades A. | Mary of Mile 18 | 3 | Family lives a simple life in British Columbia |
| Atkins E.H. | Treasures of the Medranos | 3 | Bandit befriends girl in Old California |
| Christopher | Sports Stories | 3 | |
| Hurwitz | Aldo Ice Cream | 3 | Nine year old discovers pleasure of doing volunteer work for senior citizens |
| Bulla | Daniel's Duck | 3 | A novice woodcutter is momentarily defeated when people laugh at his work |
| Farjeon E. | Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep | 3 | Charming fairy tale |
| Hutchens P. | Sugar Creek Gang ( & others)(up to 3) | 3 | Series of detective & mystery stories; Christian fiction |
| Hunt I. | Trail of Apple Blossoms | 3 | Legend of Johnny Appleseed |
| Holling H. | Paddle to the Sea | 3 | Toy Indian travels through the Great Lakes before reaching the Atlantic |
| Harrison | The Book of Giant Stories | 3 | Includes "The Little Boy's Secret" & "The Giant who Was Afraid of Butterflies" |
| Grahame | The Reluctant Dragon | 3 | A dragon doesn't want to breathe fire or fight |
| Gordon S. | The Boy Who Wanted a Family | 3 | Foster child longs for a real home |
| Gardiner | Stone Fox | 3 | Boy hopes to pay back taxes on Grandfather's farm with $ from dog sled race |
| Gannett | My Father's Dragon | 3 | Humor and fantasy in the rescue of a baby dragon |
| Forbes E. | America's Paul Revere | 3 | Fictionalized account with great historical background |
| Faulkner W. | The Wishing Tree | 3 | Boy sets out to find wishing tree, Faulkner's only children's story |
| Goodrich | Tales of Peter Parley About America | 3 | |
| Jenkins | Baker Street series (up to 3) | 3 | |
| Farjeon E. | The Little Bookroom | 3 | Collection of original folk and fairy tales |
| McCloskey R. | Homer Price | 4 | Inventive boy gets out of scrapes and challenges |
| Richardson | Grandma's Attic Series (up to 3) | 4 | |
| Nesbit E. | Five Children and It | 4 | English children meet an unusual fairy |
| Montaigne | Essays (each essay)* | 4 | Delightful thoughts on wide range of subjects - some serious, some humorous |
| MilneA.A. | Winnie the Pooh (unabridged) | 4 | Original, creative, charming use of language to tell of Pooh & his friends |
| Milne A.A. | The House at Pooh Corner (unabridged) | 4 | Charming and delightful book for all ages, good for family (read aloud) |
| Milne A.A. | Now We Are Six | 4 | British author |
| LaFontaigne | Fables | 4 | |
| McCloskey R. | More Homer Price | 4 | More delightful stories about Homer |
| Leppard | Mandie series (up to 3) | 4 | |
| Roddy | DJ Dillon Adventure Series (up to 3) | 4 | Christian adventure set in various American sites |
| Keene | Nancy Drew books (up to 3) | 4 | |
| Steele W. O. | The Perilous Road | 4 | Boy battles Yankees and learns about war |
| McGuffey | Fourth Reader | 4 | Collection of stories & poems used to understand virtue and learn to read |
| Roddy | Ladd Family Adventures (up to 3) | 4 | |
| Selden G. | Chester Cricket's New Home | 4 | Sequel to Cricket In Times Square; More Adventures of Chester Cricket |
| Selden G. | Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride | 4 | Another sequel of Chester Cricket's adventures |
| Smucker | Amish Adventure | 4 | |
| Speare E. | Sign of the Beaver | 4 | A boy on his own is befriended by an Indian |
| Sperry | Danger to Windward | 4 | |
| Steele W. O. | The Buffalo Knife | 4 | Pioneer families |
| Stevenson | A Child's Garden of Verses (poetry) | 4 | Classic & delightful poems of childhood (worth memorizing) |
| Suhl Y | The Purim Goat | 4 | Early 1900's boy plots to keep favorite pet |
| Taylor | The Cay | 4 | |
| Taylor | The Children's War | 4 | |
| Taylor, S. | All of a Kind Family | 4 | Jewish family and their daily life: has good info on Jewish tradition |
| Henry M. | Misty of Chincoteague | 4 | Wild ponies are tamed by children |
| Holman F. | The Cricket Winter | 4 | Cricket and boy communicate in Morse Code |
| Stahl | Elizabeth Gail (any in series) (up to 3) | 4 | |
| Burgess | Bedtime Stories | 4 | |
| Cleary B. | The Mouse & the Motorcycle | 4 | Boy and mouse befriend each other |
| Cleary B. | Henry Huggins | 4 | Funny adventures of young boy and his dog |
| Cleary B. | Dear Mr. Henshaw | 4 | Boy writes letters to his favorite author |
| Byars | Trouble River | 4 | Young boy's raft provides escape for prairie family under Indian attack |
| Byars | The Night Swimmers | 4 | Young girl tries to mother 2 brothers after the death of their mother |
| Dahl R. | Charlie & the Chocolate Factory | 4 | Boy wins day tour of candy factory and much more |
| Burnford S. | The Incredible Journey | 4 | Beloved pets find way home to family |
| Avi | Night Journeys | 4 | Suspense and dilemmas over slavery, moral issues in 1700's |
| Brink C. | Magical Melons | 4 | 1860's tomboy's (Caddie Woodlawn) adventures |
| Bond | A Bear Called Paddington | 4 | Bear found at Paddington station becomes member of Brown family |
| Benary-Isbert, | Blue Mystery | 4 | German girl encounters mystery |
| Atwater | Mr. Popper's Penguins | 4 | Human family adopts penguin family with hilarious results |
| Henry M. | Justin Morgan Had a Horse | 4 | Story of boy and the first Morgan horse |
| Johnson | Adventures of Northwood | 4 | |
| Byars | Summer of the Swans | 4 | Teenager gains new insight when his mentally retarded brother gets lost |
| Fleming I. | Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang | 4 | Adventure in a magical, flying car |
| Armstrong W. | Sounder | 4 | Black youth struggles with his father's unjust jail sentence |
| Hawthorne S. | Tanglewood Tales | 4 | Adaptations of classic myths |
| Godden R | The Doll's House | 4 | Magic life of inhabitants of doll's house |
| Dahl R. | James & the Giant Peach | 4 | Fantasy adventure of a boy, a peach and insect friends |
| Fritz J | Magic to Burn | 4 | Children meet magical friend in England |
| Hale L. | The Complete Peterlein Papers | 4 | Confused family complicates simple projects |
| Ewing | Jackanapes | 4 | |
| Estes | The Moffats (any in the series)(up to 3) | 4 | Fatherless family shows humor and love |
| Enright E. | Thimble Summer | 4 | Farm children and their adventures in the 1930's |
| Dixon | Hardy Boys books (up to 3) | 4 | Adventures and mystery with 2 young boys |
| Dickens C. | Cricket on the Hearth | 4 | A fairy tale of home |
| DeLaMare | Songs of Childhood | 4 | |
| De Angeli | Bright April | 4 | Modern day story set in Pennsylvania |
| Dalgliesh | The Courage of Sarah Noble | 4 | Young pioneer learns what courage is - through misfortune |
| Gallico | The Snow Goose | 4 | Simple but powerful, about faith, love and duty, Battle of Dunkirk |
| Reiss | The Upstairs Room | 5 | Dutch Jewish girl hides in bedroom of a farmhouse during WWll |
| Reeder | Shades of Gray | 5 | Civil War orphan, forgiveness and courage |
| Raskin | The Westing Game | 5 | A who-done-it murder mystery |
| Norton M. | The Borrowers (any in series) (up to 3) | 5 | Miniature people live in a house by borrowing from humans |
| Morey | Gentle Ben | 5 | Traces the friendship of a boy and a bear in the Alaskan Territory |
| McGuffey | Fifth Reader | 5 | Collection of stories in McGuffey's 5th reader |
| MacLachlan | Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt | 5 | Unique girl and interesting life in New York |
| Luchhardt | Good King Wenceslas | 5 | The story behind the traditional Christmas carol |
| Llorente | The Apprentice | 5 | Renaissance Florence, a boy seeks to be a master painter against odds |
| Robertson K. | Henry Reed, Inc. | 5 | Series about an enterprising boy |
| Little J. | From Anna | 5 | WWll Jewish family emigrates to Canada |
| Sutcliff | The Light Beyond the Forest | 5 | Story of search for the Holy Grail |
| Little J. | Mine for Keeps | 5 | Disabled girl adjusts to life at home after living in sheltered environment |
| Sawyer R. | Roller Skates | 5 | Set in 1890's New York, girl explores city on skates |
| Seraillier I. | The Silver Sword | 5 | WWll adventure of a young man |
| Sorensen | Miracle on Maple Hill | 5 | Heartwarming story of family, of miracles, and of healing |
| Sperry | All Sail Set | 5 | Boy helps build and sail clipper ship |
| Sperry A. | Call it Courage | 5 | Polynesian legend of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea |
| Yates | Amos Fortune, Free Man | 5 | African king's son is captured and enslaved in 1700's |
| Streatfield N. | The Magic Summer | 5 | Children have adventurous time with Irish aunt |
| Thompson | Morning Star of the Reformation | 5 | Fictionalized account of John Wycliffe and followers |
| Travers | Mary Poppins | 5 | Extraordinary English nanny blows in on the wind with her magic carpet bag |
| Ullman | Banner in the Sky | 5 | Sixteen year old boy climbs the Alps |
| Westwood J | Stories of Charlemagne | 5 | Stories originally from France in 12-13th century - about 8th century heroes |
| Wilder | Little House series (up to 3) | 5 | Story of family life on the Prairie during Westward Expansion |
| Lewis C.S. | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | 5 | Chronicles of Narnia fantasy and adventure |
| Household | The Exploits of Xenophon | 5 | Young Greek soldier must lead Greeks out of hostile Persia in 401 B.C. |
| Stone N. | Whistle Up the Boy | 5 | True story set in 1870 Michigan about Swiss orphans' adventure, initiative |
| Ellis M. | Flight of the White Wolf | 5 | Boy and white wolf run away to Wisconsin forest |
| Aldrich | Song of Years | 5 | Frontier and pioneer life; Iowa |
| Baker | Walk the World's Rim | 5 | Mexican expedition in 1500's |
| Barrie | Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens | 5 | Adventures of Peter Pan - the boy who would not grow up |
| Brady E. | Toliver's Secret | 5 | Ten year old Revolutionary war heroine sneaks through enemy lines |
| Craik | The Little Lame Prince | 5 | A young crippled prince must reclaim his kingdom from evil uncle |
| DeJong M. | The House of Sixty Fathers | 5 | Alone, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river |
| Langton | Her Majesty Grace Jones | 5 | Charming story, a would be princess is not treated like royalty |
| Du Bois W. | The Twenty-One Balloons | 5 | The adventures of a professor trying to go around the world in a balloon |
| Lewis C.S. | The Silver Chair | 5 | Chronicles of Narnia fantasy and adventure |
| Evslin | The Greek Gods | 5 | Beginning look or refresher of Greek mythology |
| Farley | The Black Stallion | 5 | A young boy is shipwrecked on a desert island with a horse |
| Fitzgerald J. | The Great Brain | 5 | Set in Mormon Utah, boy seeks money or prestige with schemes, humorous |
| Fitzhugh | Harriet the Spy | 5 | 11 yr. old Harriet keeps secret notes, friends find out and seek revenge |
| Lewis C.S. | The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe | 5 | Chronicles of Narnia fantasy and adventure |
| DeJong M. | Wheel on the School | 5 | |
| Lewis C.S. | The Magicians Nephew | 5 | Chronicles of Narnia fantasy and adventure |
| Gates D. | Blue Willow | 5 | Migrant worker girl and her family's story |
| Lewis C.S. | The Horse and His Boy | 5 | Chronicles of Narnia fantasy and adventure |
| Lewis C.S. | Prince Caspian | 5 | Chronicles of Narnia fantasy and adventure |
| Levitin | Journey to America | 5 | Jewish family flees Nazi Germany |
| Lenski L. | Strawberry Girl | 5 | The story of two families feuding and trying to work out difficulties |
| Lenski L. | Blue Ridge Billy | 5 | Pioneer life on the Great Plains |
| Hunkin | Dangerous Journey | 5 | The story of John Bunyan - Christian Fiction |
| Henry | King of the Wind | 5 | Story of an Arabian Stallion and the mute Arabian boy who tends him |
| Goude E. | The Little White Horse | 5 | Orphan had adventures on elderly cousins estate |
| George J. | My Side of the Mountain | 5 | Adventure of a young by alone in the Catskill Mountains |
| George J. | Julie of the Wolves | 5 | Eskimo girl becomes lost and is befriended by a wolf pack |
| Lenski L. | Prairie School | 5 | Frontier and pioneer life in Florida |
| Boston | The Children of Green Knows | 6 | Modern boy becomes friends with 17th century children |
| Keith H. | Rifles for Watie | 6 | Young Union Infantryman sees war first-hand |
| Hilton J. | Goodbye, Mr. Chips | 6 | Story of beloved Latin master in 19th century boys school |
| Hamori L | Dangerous Journey | 6 | Tale of boy's adventure after escape from communist Hungary |
| Haggard | King Solomon's Mines | 6 | An African search for the lost treasure of King Solomon |
| Grahame K. | The Wind in the Willows | 6 | Rich language used to tell story of animals; communal life |
| Gipson F. | Old Yeller | 6 | Dog befriends family in heart warming story |
| Enright E. | Four Story Mistake | 6 | Sequel to the Saturdays, Melendy family moves to the country |
| Aldrich | Story of a Bad Boy | 6 | Civil war era antics |
| Cameron | Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet | 6 | More engaging science fiction to help the Mushroom people |
| Bishop | Twenty and Ten | 6 | French children hide Jewish children from Nazis |
| Coatsworth | John, the Unlucky | 6 | Set in late 1800's, a young Dane is lost in a snowstorm in Greenland |
| Steinbeck J. | The Red Pony | 6 | Boy conflicts with father and hired man |
| Rawls W. | Summer of the Monkeys | 6 | Mountain boy attempts to capture escaped circus monkeys |
| Rich L. | Star Island Boy | 6 | Foster child finds a permanent home with Marine family |
| Richter, O. | The Light in the Forest | 6 | Boy raised by Indians returns to live with white parents |
| Selden | Harry Cat's Pet Puppy | 6 | Harry Cat & Tucker Mouse help a stray puppy |
| Seredy K. | The Good Master | 6 | Set in Hungary, a tomboy is sent to live with uncle |
| Shannon | Dobry | 6 | Bulgarian family adjusts to life changes |
| Polland | Mission to Cathay | 6 | Fictionalized account of first Roman Catholic ambassador to enter China |
| Steele W. | Winter Danger | 6 | Wilderness life and its trials and triumphs |
| St. John P. | Star of Light | 6 | Missionary writes about life in North Africa |
| Tolkien J. | Farmer Giles of Ham | 6 | Common and reluctant hero becomes king |
| Treece | The Children's Crusade | 6 | Fictionalized account of the real event |
| Walsh | Children of the Fox | 6 | Set at time of Greek and Persian wars, 500 B.C. |
| Wojciechowska | Shadow of a Bull | 6 | Boy faces dilemma as to whether to become a bullfighter like his father |
| Judson C. | Soldier Doctor | 6 | Biographical account of Gorges who discovered cause of yellow fever |
| Holm | North to Freedom | 6 | Boy escapes to Denmark from Communist prison camp |
| St. John P. | Treasures of the Snow | 6 | Swiss brother and sister seek revenge and forgiveness |
| Konigsburg | The Second Mrs. Giaconda | 6 | Fiction about Da Vinci's life |
| Steele | Flaming Arrows | 6 | Indians & pioneers clash in Tennessee wilderness |
| Kipling | Just So Stories | 6 | Tales by master writer includes: How the Leopard Got His Spots. |
| Paterson K. | The Master Puppeteer | 6 | Mystery about a runaway set in 1700's Japan |
| Krumgold | Onion John | 6 | Boy faces moral dilemma with treatment of poor onion peddler |
| Lang A. | Tales of Troy and Greece | 6 | Retelling of myths with background information |
| Lovett | The Great and Terrible Quest | 6 | Late Middle Ages, orphan befriends knight |
| Lowry L. | Number the Stars | 6 | Danish family defies Nazis |
| MacDonald | The Princess and Curdie | 6 | Sequel to the Princess and the Goblin |
| Murphy R. | The Pond | 6 | Sensitive writing about adolescence |
| Kelly E. | The Trumpeter of Krakow | 6 | Middle Ages Polish family guards secret treasure |
| MacDonald | The Princess and the Goblin | 6 | |
| Neville | It's Like This Cat | 6 | New York boy develops relationship with various people & creatures |
| Meader | Shadow in the Pines | 6 | Mystery is part of a fast-moving, interesting series |
| McSwigan | Snow Treasure | 6 | During WWll Norwegian children become smugglers |
| McGuffey | Sixth Reader | 6 | Collection of poems and stories used to understand virtue & learn to read |
| McGraw | The Golden Goblet | 6 | Orphan in ancient Egypt experiences life in poverty and palace |
| Ormondroyd E. | Time at the Top | 6 | Girl goes back in time to 1860's |
| Stevenson R.L. | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 7 | Man progressively drawn to evil |
| Ransome A. | Swallows and Amazons | 7 | Imaginative English children have adventures on special island |
| Orwell G. | Animal Farm | 7 | Animals revolt, then unify |
| Pyle H. | Books of the Pirates | 7 | Swash-buckling adventure at its best by master illustrator |
| O'Dell S. | Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day | 7 | Set in Tyndale's time. A smuggler and his nephew deal with dilemmas |
| Pyle H. | Otto of the Silver Hand | 7 | Medieval boy raised in monastery lives a contrasting life in castle |
| O'Brien | The Return of Silver Chief | 7 | Dog story of bravery and loyalty |
| Ransome | Pigeon Post | 7 | More of above series. Read all of them! |
| Sidney | Five Little Peppers and How They Grew | 7 | Family of five children's foibles and relationships |
| Sophocles | Antigone | 7 | Trilogy of plays set in Ancient Greece (for mature readers) |
| Sophocles | Oedipus at Colonus | 7 | Trilogy of plays set in Ancient Greece (for mature readers) |
| Speare E. | Calico Captive | 7 | Family is captured in French and Indian War |
| Wells H. G. | The Time Machine | 7 | Inventor of a time machine travels forward & backward in time |
| Wodehouse P.G | The Inimitable Jeeves (& others up to 3) | 7 | Humorous 20th century butler always prevents calamity for gentleman |
| Burnett F.H. | Little Lord Fauntleroy | 7 | American boy becomes heir & beloved grandson of rich British gentleman |
| MacDonald G. | The Wise Women | 7 | Title story of fantasy story collection |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex | 7 | Trilogy of plays set in Ancient Greece (for mature readers) |
| Alexander L. | The High King | 7 | Fantasies based on Welsh legend, see others in series |
| Alder | The King's Shadow | 7 | Welsh boy befriended by King Battle of Hastings |
| Gilbreth | Cheaper by the Dozen | 7 | Adventures of a large family |
| Alexander | The Book of Three | 7 | Young man tries to save Prydain from evil invaders |
| MacDonald G. | The Curate's Awakening | 7 | This and other stories by MacDonald are quality ficiton |
| Alexander, L. | The Black Cauldron | 7 | |
| Benchley | A Necessary End | 7 | Crew aboard ship |
| Benchley | Bright Candles | 7 | WWll, 16 year old Dutch boy joins Resistance |
| Borland | Country Editor's Boy | 7 | Reminiscences of adolescence |
| Godden R. | An Episode of Sparrows | 7 | War-torn London, two homeless children have a profound impact |
| Hautzig | The Endless Steppe | 7 | True story, 1941, Siberian labor camp, prisoners overcome adversity |
| Irving W. | Rip Van Winkle and Other Tales | 7 | Read these original stories, not the modern day versions |
| Juster N. | The Phantom Tollbooth | 7 | Magical toll-booth takes normal boy on adventure |
| Koller | Nothing to Fear | 7 | Great Depression era story about Irish immigrants |
| Lawhead | The Dragon King Trilogy | 7 | Fantasy where boy confronts fear and evil |
| MacDonald G. | The Baronet's Song | 7 | Fantasy story by one of C.S. Lewis's favorite authors |
| Cable, G. W. | Old Creole Days | 7 | |
| Walsh J. | The Emperor's Winding Sheet | 8 | Fall of Constantinople as viewed by young boy |
| Montgomery L. | Anne of Green Gables (up to 3) | 8 | Orphan has adventures, learns to love, set on Prince Edward Island |
| Morris | The Well at the World's End | 8 | This author inspired C.S. Lewis to write fantasy |
| Nesbit E. | The Railway Children | 8 | English children move to country, save train from accidents, make new friends |
| O'Dell S. | Streams to the River, River to the Sea | 8 | Lewis and Clark expedition as told by Sacagawea |
| O'Hara M. | My Friend Flicka | 8 | Wyoming family benefits from son's relationship with horse |
| Poe E. | Gold Bug and Other Tales | 8 | Detective stories, often with bizarre twists |
| Pyle H. | The Story of King Arthur | 8 | Retelling of Classci story with challenging , rich vocabulary and phrasing |
| Salten | Bambi | 8 | Adventures of a young deer as he grows into a beautiful, mature stag |
| Sayers D. | Lord Peter Novels | 8 | Amateur detective solves unusual crimes |
| Wells H.G. | The Invisible Man | 8 | Man watches as he becomes invisible |
| Verne J. | A Long Vacation | 8 | Schoolboys struggle to survive on island after shipwreck |
| Longfellow | Song of Hiawatha (poem) | 8 | Rhythmical story of American Indian |
| Webster J. | Daddy Long Legs | 8 | Orphan and her benefactor correspond, atheism |
| Sutcliffe | The Shining Company | 8 | Britons in 6th century attempt to protect land against Saxons |
| Buchan | Adventures of Richard Hannay | 8 | Engrossing spy trilogy |
| Yep | Dragonwings | 8 | Chinese immigrant at time of great SF earthquake |
| L'Amour L. | Down the Long Hill (& others) (up to 3) | 8 | Western adventure stories. Great story telling |
| Bradbury R. | The Martian Chronicles | 8 | |
| Burnett, F. | The Secret Garden | 8 | English girl & her cousin discover a special, secret place |
| Christie | Murder on the Orient Express | 8 | Belgian Hercule Poirot solves who-done-it in the early 20th century |
| Clark A. | Secret of the Andes | 8 | Young man discovers purpose |
| Collodi | The Adventures of Pinocchio | 8 | Puppeteer creates boy from wood |
| Knight | Lassie Come Home | 8 | Collie's loyalty is shown through long journey tgo return to her master |
| DeTrevino | I, Juan De Pareja | 8 | Artist Velazquez' slave secretly learns to paint |
| Doyle | Hound of the Baskervilles | 8 | Ominous Sherlock Holmes mystery |
| Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | 8 | Man vs. nature, victory in defeat |
| Hilgartner | A Murder for Her Majesty | 8 | Elizabethan era intrigue |
| Hurnard H. | Hinds Feet on High Places | 8 | Allegory of the Christian life |
| James W. | Book of the Cowboys | 8 | |
| Crane S. | Red Badge of Courage | 8 | Dramatic Civil War adventure with coming of age theme |
| Blos | A Gathering of Days | 8 | Journal of an early American girl |
| L'Engle | A Wind in the Door | 9 | Trilogy: Time and space travel to battle evil dictator |
| L'Engle | A Wrinkle in Time | 9 | Trilogy: Sister & brother wage battle with life & death struggle |
| L'Engle M. | A Swiftly Tilting Planet | 9 | Trilogy: Children search through time & space for missing father |
| MacDonald G. | The Boyhood of Ronald Bannerman | 9 | |
| MacDonald G. | The Genius of Willie MacMichael | 9 | |
| MacDonald G. | Wanderings of Clare Skymer | 9 | |
| Rawls W. | Where the Red Fern Grows | 9 | Boy trains loyal and brave dogs |
| Twain | Tom Sawyer | 9 | Adventures of a boy in the south |
| Kjelgaard J. | Big Red (any others) (up to 3) | 9 | Irish setter and boy grow up in wilderness |
| Finley M. | Elsie Dinsmore | 9 | Young girl must reconcile religious differences with her stepfather |
| Sewell | Black Beauty | 9 | 19th century English horse recounts experiences |
| Brown D. | Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee | 9 | Westward expansion from the native Indian's viewpoint |
| Adamson J. | Born Free | 9 | True story in Africa-returning tamed lioness to the wild |
| Heyerdahl | Kon Tiki | 9 | 1940's voyage from South America to Polynesia, to prove prehistoric voyage |
| Brooks | The Moves Make the Man | 9 | Basketball as symbol of life |
| Kingsley C. | Water Babies | 9 | Magical fairies kidnap chimney sweep |
| Buchan | The 39 Steps | 9 | Falsely accused man tries to prove his innocence |
| Conrad J. | Lord Jim | 9 | Life at sea, commentary on man's nature |
| Eggleston | The Hoosier Schoolmaster | 9 | |
| Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | 9 | America in the 1920's, opportunist seeks wrong goals for wrong reasons |
| James W. | Smoky the Cow Horse | 9 | |
| Kafka F. | The Metamorphosis | 9 | Man becomes insect, study in what's truly human |
| Brecht B. | Mother Courage | 9 | Play-Thirty Years War, statement against war using opportunistic woman |
| Wells | The War of the Worlds | 10 | Aliens invade from outer space |
| Lewis C.S. | The Great Divorce | 10 | |
| Wharton | Ethan Frome | 10 | |
| Solzhenitsyn | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | 10 | Prisoner recounts day in Communist Russia's forced labor camp |
| Meigs | The Invincible Louisa | 10 | Story of Louisa May Alcott |
| Marryat | Midshipman Easy | 10 | |
| Mallory | The Boy's King Arthur | 10 | Well-told classic legend |
| MacDonald G. | At the Back of the North Wind | 10 | Fantasy of boy's adventure with the wind |
| Lewis C.S. | Perelandra | 10 | |
| Lewis C.S. | Out of the Silent Planet | 10 | Trilogy |
| LeGuin | A Wizard of Earthsea | 10 | Part of a fantasy trilogy, projects wisdom and goodness |
| Kenendy J. | Profiles in Courage | 10 | Stories of courageous Americans |
| Hilton | Lost Horizon | 10 | |
| Chekov | Stories and Plays | 10 | Anthology of the late 1800's Russian writer |
| Austen | Sense and Sensibility | 10 | 19th Century sisters are opposites - practical and romantic, find true love |
| Alcott | A Garland for Girls | 10 | |
| Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound | 10 | Ancient Greek myth - Prometheus gives fire to humans, is punished |
| Lewis C.S. | That Hideous Strength | 10 | Trilogy |
| Wiggin K. | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | 10 | A ten year old girl grow up with maiden aunts |
| Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge | 11 | 1800's man sells wife with repercussions |
| Verne | Around the World in Eighty Days | 11 | Race against time using a remarkable variety of transportation |
| Saunders | Beautiful Joe | 11 | Dog story |
| Lewis | Till We Have Faces | 11 | Cupid and Psyche story retold |
| Lewis | Screwtape Letters | 11 | Screwtape instructs Wormword in the art of temptation |
| Hudson W. | Green Mansions | 11 | 1904 Romantic novel |
| Dodge | Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates | 11 | Dutch children skate all over Netherlands |
| Carroll | Alice in Wonderland | 11 | Little girl falls into a strange and fantastic world |
| Kingsley | The Heroes | 11 | |
| Lofting | Voyages of Dr. Doolittle | 12 | Man learns animals; language and goes on adventures |
| Spyri | Heidi | 12 | Young girl goes to Switzerland to live with her grandfather |
| Unknown | Beowulf | 12 | Epic poem of battle with fierce dragon, among oldest literature |
| Twain | Huckleberry Finn | 12 | Runaway fried of Tom Sawyer learns about life in difficult ways |
| Stevenson | Treasure Island | 12 | Classic pirate's tale |
| Shakespeare | Each play | 12 | Read a variety for historical and literary value |
| Mitchell | Gone With the Wind | 12 | Dramatic Civil War story with bravery, cowardice, love and lost love |
| Kipling | Captains Courageous | 12 | |
| Hughes L. | Not Without Laughter | 12 | A black man grows up in early 1900's Kansas |
| Hope | The Prisoner of Zenda | 12 | Three monthsin the life of an English gentleman |
| Harris | Uncle Remus | 12 | Folklore of Brer Rabbit & Brer Fox, controversial language |
| Grey | Riders of the Purple Sage (& others up to 3) | 12 | Western set in 1871 Utah |
| Forester | Horatio Hornblower series | 12 | Sea-faring British Navy hero battles the French in Napoleonic Wars |
| Eliot | Middlemarch | 12 | Early 1800's character study on human goals and disillusionment |
| Douglas, L. | Magnificent Obsession | 12 | Man becomes surgeon and tries to cure his own blindness |
| Tarkington | Penrod (others in series) (up to 3) | 12 | Rascal of a boy creates havoc and solves problems |
| Llewellyn | How Green Was My Valley | 12 | Wales mining family story set in late 1800's |
| Hughes | Tom Brown's School Days | 13 | |
| Stevenson | The Black Arrow | 13 | |
| Huxley | Brave New World | 13 | Totalitarianism in Utopia |
| Frank, A. | The Diary of Ann Frank | 13 | Jewish girl records thoughts during Nazi oppression |
| Elliot | Through the Gates of Splendor | 13 | |
| DeFoe | Robinson Crusoe | 13 | Shipwrecked man fends for himself, discovers life's meaning |
| Alcott | Jack and Jill | 13 | |
| MacDonald | Sir Gibbie | 13 | |
| Alcott | Rose In Bloom | 14 | |
| Shelly | Frankenstein | 14 | Scientist creates a man who turns into a monster |
| Verne J. | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | 14 | Submarine crew and it's adventures |
| Tolkien | The Two Towers | 14 | 2nd in Fantasy Trilogy; Evil wizard and his influence |
| Tolkien | The Return of the King | 14 | 3rd in Fantasy Trilogy; Ultimate Redemption |
| Tolkien | Fellowship of the Ring | 14 | 1st in Fantasy Trilogy: Beginning quest to destroy evil ring |
| Terhune | Lad, A Dog | 14 | |
| Swift J. | Gulliver's Travels | 14 | Sailor ventures to land of eccentric, unusual people |
| Stratton-Porter | The Keeper of the Bees | 14 | WWI vet learns life and love via homely child and others |
| Stratton-Porter | Laddie | 14 | Life of a young man and family seen through little girl's eyes |
| Morris | House of Winslow series | 14 | |
| Marshall C. | A Man Called Peter | 14 | Biographical account of Presbyterian clergyman |
| London J. | White Fang | 14 | Adventures of half wolf/half dog in Yukon gold rush |
| Kipling | The Jungle Book | 14 | |
| Kipling | Kim | 14 | |
| Henty | St. Bartholomew's Eve (and others up to 3) | 14 | Fictional account of the Huguenot Wars |
| Dickens C. | Oliver Twist | 14 | Victorian England orphan discovers life's love and losses |
| Alcott L.M. | Jo's Boys | 14 | Jo grows up and oversees a boy's school |
| Alcott | Little Women | 14 | Devoted family encounters love, and challenges at time of Civil War |
| Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | 14 | |
