Classic children's Literature - Grades 7 and 8

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Middle school and junior high. Reading now has some tough competition for your child's attention. Use well-chosen classic children's literature to try to keep reading from disappearing from your child's radar screen!

Alcott, Louisa May

• Little Men

Bagnold, Enid

• National Velvet

Blackmore, Richard D.

• Lorna Doone

Boulle, Pierre

• The Bridge over the River Kwai

Bradbury, Ray

• Dandelion Wine
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Illustrated Man
• Martian Chronicles

Buchan, John

• The Thirty-Nine Steps

Bunyan, John

• The Pilgrim's Progress

Carroll, Lewis

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Through the Looking Glass

Clark, Walter

• The Ox-Bow Incident

Cooper, James Fenimore

• The Deerslayer
• The Last of the Mohicans

Curie, Eve

• Madame Curie: A Biography

Dana, Richard Henry

• Two Years before the Mast

Day, Clarence

• Life with Father

Defoe, Daniel

• Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles

• A Christmas Carol

Douglas, Lloyd C.

• The Robe

Doyle, Arthur Conan

• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Dumas, Alexander

• The Count of Monte Christo
• The Three Musketeers

Du Maurier, Daphne

• Rebecca

Edmonds, Walter D.

• Drums along the Mohawk

Ferber, Edna

• Cimarron

Forbes, Esther

• Johnny Tremain

Forester, C.S.

• The African Queen
• The Hornblower series

Frank, Anne

• Diary of a Young Girl

Frost, Robert

• Poems

Gallico, Paul

• The Snow Goose

Gunther, John

• Death Be Not Proud

Guthrie, A.B.

• The Big Sky

Haggard, H. Rider

• King Solomon's Mines

Hansberry, Lorraine

• Raisin in the Sun

Hemingway, Ernest

• The Old Man and the Sea

Hersey, John

• A Bell for Adano
• Hiroshima
• The Wall

Heyerdahl, Thor

• Kon-Tiki

Hilton, James

• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Lost Horizon

Hudson, W.H.

• Green Mansions

Hughes, Richard

• A High Wind in Jamaica

Hugo, Victor

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Irving, Washington

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Keller, Helen

• Story of My Life

Kennedy, John F.

• Profiles in Courage

Kipling, Rudyard

• Kim

Knowles, John

• A Separate Peace

Lee, Harper

• To Kill a Mockingbird

London, Jack

• The Sea Wolf

Lord, Walter

• A Night to Remember

Malory, Sir Thomas

• Le Morte d'Arthur

Maxwell, Gavin

• Ring of Bright Water

McCullers, Carson

• Member of the Wedding

Michener, James

• The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Mitchell, Margaret

• Gone with the Wind

Nordhoff, Charles and J.N. Hall

• Mutiny on the Bounty

O'Dell, Scott

• Island of the Blue Dolphins

Orczy, Baroness Emma

• The Scarlet Pimpernel

Paton, Alan

• Cry, the Beloved Country

Pyle, Howard

• Men of Iron

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

• The Yearling

Renault, Mary

• The King Must Die

Roberts, Kenneth

• Northwest Passage

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de

• The Little Prince
• Wind, Sand and Stars

Saki

• Stories

Schaefer, Jack

• Shane

Scott, Sir Walter

• Ivanhoe

Shelley, Mary

• Frankenstein

Smith, Betty

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Steinbeck, John

• The Pearl
• Tortilla Flat

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• The Black Arrow
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stoker, Bram

• Dracula

Thurber, James

• The Thurber Carnival

Tolkien, J.R.R.

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings

Twain, Mark

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• Innocents Abroad
• Life on the Mississippi
• The Prince and the Pauper

Verne, Jules

• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Mysterious Island
• 20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Wallace, Lewis

• Ben-Hur

Washington, Booker T.

• Up from Slavery

Wells, H.G.

• The Time Machine
• War of the Worlds

Wharton, Edith

• Ethan Frome

Wilder, Thornton

• The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Wister, Owen

• The Virginian

Yates, Elizabeth

• Amos Fortune, Free Man

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