Classics for Young Readers

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Here is an introductory list of books that may be of interest to the Love of Learning, Transition to Scholar and Scholar children; please review and categorize according to your family’s criteria of appropriate literature.

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• Alice In Wonderland, Carroll
• Animal Farm, Orwell
• Asimov on Numbers, Asimov
• The Anne of Green Gablesseries, Montgomery
• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  
• “Battle Hymn of the Republic“, Julia Ward Howe
• Ben-Hur, Wallace, Johnson
• The Bible (click here for a list of passages itemized by story/content)
• Brighty: Of the Grand Canyon, Henry
• Black Beauty, Sewell
• The Black Stallion series, Farley
• The Chronicles of Narnia series, Lewis
• Collected Works of Edgar A. Guest
• “The Concord Hymn“, Emerson
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Twain
• The Constitution of the United States
• David Copperfield, Dickens
• Davy Crockett Legends
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Diary of a Young Girl, Frank
• Don Quixote, Cervantes
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson
• Dred Scott Decision
• The Education of Henry Adams, Adams
• Eight Cousins, Alcott
• Emily Post’s Etiquette
  
• “In Flanders Fields“, McCrae
• Flatland, Abbott
• The Foundation series, Asimov
• Frankenstein, Shelley
• “The Gettysburg Address,” Lincoln
• “The War Inevitable”, Henry
• The Great Brain series, Fitzgerald
• Gulliver’s Travels, Swift
• Mythology, Hamilton
• “Hamlet,” Shakespeare
• Heidi, Spyri
• The Hiding Place, Boom
• History Reborn, Anderson
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
• “I Have A Dream,” King
• Ivanhoe, Scott
• The Hobbit, Tolkein
• Island of the Blue Dolphins, O’Dell
• Joan of Arc, Twain
• Jo’s Boys, Alcott
• Journey to the Center of the Earth, Verne
• “Julius Caesar,” Shakespeare
• The Jungle Book, Kipling
• King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table
• Laddie, Porter
• The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper
• “Let America Be America Again,” Hughes
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• The Little Britchesseries, Moody
• Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Little Men, Alcott
• Little Women, Alcott
• The Lonesome Gods, L’Amour
• The Lord of the Rings series, Tolkein
• “The Man with the Hoe,” Markham
• Mathematicians Are People, Too (2 volumes), Reimer
• Moby-Dick, Melville
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  
• National Velvet, Bagnold
• Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary of the English Language; see also: Online 1828 Dictionary
• North to Freedom, Holm
• “O Captain! My Captain!,” Whitman
• “Old Ironsides,” Holmes
• Old Yeller, Gipson
• Oliver Twist, Dickens
• Paul Bunyan and Other Tall Tales
• The Phantom Tollbooth, Juster
• “The Present Crisis,” Lowell
• “The Road Not Taken,” Frost
• The Real Benjamin Franklin, Allison
• The Real George Washington, Parry
• The Real Thomas Jefferson, Allison
• The Robe, Douglas
• Robinson Crusoe, Defoe
• The Sackett Series, L’Amour
• Saxon Mathseries
• The Secret Garden, Burnett
• Soldiers, Statesmen & Heroes, Parry
• Shakespeare’s Sonnets
  
• Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers, Kavanaugh
• Stuart Little, White
• Summer of the Monkeys, Rawls
• The Swiss Family Robinson, Wyss
• Tom Sawyer, Twain
• Treasure Island, Stevenson
• The Trumpet of the Swan, White
• The Doctor Dolittleseries, Lofting
• White Fang, London
• The story of William Tell
• Where the Red Fern Grows, Rawls