Recommended Reading List

For young readers (to grade 10)
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Alcott, Louise Mary - Little Women (389 pages)

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - A Little Princess (266 pages); The Secret Garden (288 pages)

Hemingway, Ernest -The Old Man and the Sea

Hinton, S.E. - The Outsiders That Was Then, This Is Now; Rumble Fish; Tex

Golding, William - The Lord of the Flies

Hodgson, Frances - The Secret Garden

Irving, Washington - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Rip Van Wrinkle

Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Book

Knowles, John - A Separate Peace

L'Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time

London, Jack - The Call of the Wild; White Fang; Selected Klondike Short Stories

Meade-Falkner - Moonfleet

Montgomery, Lucy Maud - Anne of Green Gables; Anne of Avonlea; Anne of the Island

Verne, Jules - Around the World in Eighty Days; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Sewell, Anna - Black Beauty

Spyri, Johanna - Heidi

Steinbeck, John - The Pearl Of Mice and Men

Stevenson, Robert - Louis Treasure Island

Swift, Jonathon - Gulliver's Travels

Tolkien, JRR - The Lord of the Rings; The Hobbit

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Zindel, Paul - The Pigman

Poetry by:

Walt Whitman, Robert Frost

Popular Writers:

Judy Blume, Lois Duncan, Paul Zindel, Shakespeare


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