Classic Literature 7 - 8th
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!
  • Little Men. Alcott, Louisa May
  • National Velvet. Bagnold, Enid
  • Lorna Doone. Blackmore, Richard D.
  • The Bridge over the River Kwai. Boulle, Pierre
  • Dandelion Wine. Bradbury, Ray
  • Fahrenheit 451.
  • The Illustrated Man.
  • Martian Chronicles.
  • The Thirty-Nine Steps. Buchan, John
  • The Pilgrim's Progress. Bunyan, John
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll, Lewis
  • Through the Looking Glass
  • The Ox-Bow Incident, Clark, Walter
  • The Deerslayer. Cooper, James Fenimore
  • The Last of the Mohicans
  • Madame Curie: A Biography. Curie, Eve
  • Two Years before the Mast. Dana, Richard Henry
  • Life with Father. Day, Clarence
  • Robinson Crusoe. Defoe, Daniel
  • A Christmas Carol. Dickens, Charles
  • The Robe. Douglas, Lloyd C.
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle, Arthur Conan
  • The Count of Monte Christo. Dumas, Alexander
  • The Three Musketeers.
  • Rebecca. Du Maurier, Daphne
  • Drums along the Mohawk. Edmonds, Walter D.
  • Cimarron. Ferber, Edna
  • Johnny Tremain. Forbes, Esther
  • The African Queen. Forester, C.S.
  • The Hornblower series.
  • Diary of a Young Girl. Frank, Anne
  • Poems. Frost, Robert
  • The Snow Goose. Gallico, Paul
  • Death Be Not Proud. Gunther, John
  • The Big Sky. Guthrie, A.B.
  • King Solomon's Mines. Haggard, H. Rider
  • Raisin in the Sun. Hansberry, Lorraine
  • The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway, Ernest
  • A Bell for Adano. Hersey, John
  • Hiroshima.
  • The Wall.
  • Kon-Tiki. Heyerdahl, Thor
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Hilton, James
  • Lost Horizon.
  • Green Mansions. Hudson, W.H.
  • A High Wind in Jamaica. Hughes, Richard
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Hugo, Victor
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving, Washington
  • Story of My Life. Keller, Helen
  • Profiles in Courage. Kennedy, John F.
  • Kim. Kipling, Rudyard
  • A Separate Peace. Knowles, John
  • To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee, Harper
  • The Sea Wolf. London, Jack
  • A Night to Remember. Lord, Walter
  • Le Morte d'Arthur. Malory, Sir Thomas
  • Ring of Bright Water. Maxwell, Gavin
  • Member of the Wedding. McCullers, Carson
  • The Bridges at Toko-Ri. Michener, James
  • Gone with the Wind. Mitchell, Margaret
  • Mutiny on the Bounty. Nordhoff, Charles and J.N. Hall
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins. O'Dell, Scott
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel. Orczy, Baroness Emma
  • Cry, the Beloved Country. Paton, Alan
  • Men of Iron. Pyle, Howard
  • The Yearling. Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
  • The King Must Die. Renault, Mary
  • Northwest Passage. Roberts, Kenneth
  • The Little Prince. Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
  • Wind, Sand and Stars.
  • Stories. Saki
  • Shane. Schaefer, Jack
  • Ivanhoe. Scott, Sir Walter
  • Frankenstein. Shelley, Mary
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Smith, Betty
  • The Pearl. Steinbeck, John
  • Tortilla Flat.
  • The Black Arrow. Stevenson, Robert Louis
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
  • Dracula. Stoker, Bram
  • The Thurber Carnival. Thurber, James
  • The Hobbit. Tolkien, J.R.R.
  • The Lord of the Rings.
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain, Mark
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
  • Innocents Abroad.
  • Life on the Mississippi.
  • The Prince and the Pauper.
  • Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne, Jules
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth.
  • Mysterious Island.
  • 20,000 Leagues under the Sea.
  • Ben-Hur. Wallace, Lewis
  • Up from Slavery. Washington, Booker T.
  • The Time Machine. Wells, H.G.
  • War of the Worlds.
  • Ethan Frome. Wharton, Edith
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Wilder, Thornton
  • The Virginian. Wister, Owen
  • Amos Fortune, Free Man. Yates, Elizabeth
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                               Updated: July 11, 2011.