Reading List
Jr/High (7th/8th grade) Title Author Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle Ann of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery Any Book P.G. Wodehouse Any Book Madeline L’Engle Banner in the Sky James Ullman Bronze Bow Elizabeth George Speare Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling The Cay Theodore Taylor Christmas Carol Charles Dickens The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell Julie of the Wolves Jean Craighead George Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling Kim Rudyard Kipling Light in the Forest Conrad Richter Lilies of the Field William Barrett Little Lord Fauntleroy Frances Hodgeson Burnett Little Men Louisa May Alcott Little Women Louisa May Alcott Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighean George October Sky Homer Hickam Old Yeller F. B. Gipson Other Side of the Mountain E.G. Valens Princess Bride William Goldman Summer of the Monkeys Wilson Rawls Sword in the Stone T.H. White That Quail Robert Margaret Stanger The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Time Machine H.G. Wells Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne War of the Worlds H.G. Wells Westing Game Ellen Raskin Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
Freshman/Sophmore Title Author All Things Bright & Beautiful James Herriot Any Book P.G. Wodehouse Any Book Ray Bradbury Children of the River Linda Crew This list is currently used in the Living Wisdom Jr./High School at Ananda Village (11/14) www.livingwisdom.org Crown and the Cross Frank Slaughter Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank Freedom in Exile The Dalai Lama Gay Neck Dhan Gopal Mukerji George Washington Carver Eva Moore I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Joanne Greenberg Ishi in Two Worlds Theodora Kroeber Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson Kon-Tiki Thor Heyerdahl Year of the Whale Victor Scheffer Lead Kindly Light (Ghandi) Vincent Sheean Life of Tagore Probhat Kumer Mukherji Lost Horizon James Hilton Madame Curie Eva Curie Man for Others Maximillian Kolbe Man to Match His Mountains Eknath Easwaran Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare Miracle Worker William Gibson Mutiny on the Bounty Nordhoff and Hall My Posse Don’t Do Homework Louanne Johnson Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Once and Future King T.H. White Peace Pilgrim Peace Pilgrim Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster Profiles in Courage John F. Kennedy Ride the Wind Lucia St. Clair Robson Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Saint Joan Mark Twain Story of My Life Helen Keller Swiss Family Robinson Johann Wyss Tales from Shakespeare Mary and Charles Lamb To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Watership Down Richard Adams When the Legends Die Hal Borland Year of Impossible Goodbyes Sook Nyul Choi
Junior/Seniors
Title Author A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Any Play William Shakespeare Any Poem Samuel Taylor Coleridge Any Poem William Wordsworth The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Jane Pittman This list is currently used in the Living Wisdom Jr./High School at Ananda Village (11/14) www.livingwisdom.org Black Elk Speaks John Gneisenau Neihardt Black Like Me John Howard Griffin Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown The Call of the Wild Jack London Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky Dibs: In Search of Self Virginia M. Axline The Divine Comedy Dante Don Quixote Cervantes The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift Hiroshima John Hersey His Day Is Marching On Shirley Graham DuBois The Iliad; The Odyssey Homer Last Days of Hitler H.R. Trevor-Roper The Learning Tree Gordon Parks Les Miserables Victor Hugo Life of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross M. Gliko-Braden The Little Prince St. Exupery The Man in the Iron Mask Alexander Dumas My Life with Martin Luther King Jr. Coretta Scott King My Religion Helen Keller Out of My Life and Thought Albert Schweitzer Paul Robeson Martin Duberman The Portable Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson Pride and Prejudice Jane Austin The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane Riders to the Sea/Playboy of the WW J.M. Synge Rolling Thunder D. Boyd The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne Seven Years in Tibet Heinrich Harrer Siddhartha Hermann Hesse Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson The Three Musketeers Alexander Dumas Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Touch the Earth T C McLuhan Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington Walden Henry David Thoreau
This list is currently used in the Living Wisdom Jr./High School at Ananda Village (11/14) www.livingwisdom.org