Aquinas Academy Middle School Recommended Reading List
Alexander, Lloyd The Prydain Chronicles:
The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of LLyr
Taran Wanderer
The High King
The Westmark Trilogy
Alcott, Louisa May Little Women
Little Men
Jo’s Boys
Eight Cousins
Rose in Bloom
Under the Lilacs
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Others
Aiken, Joan The Kingdom Under the Sea
Black Hearts in Battersea
A Necklace of Raindrops
The Cuckoo Tree
Nightbirds on Nantucket
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Bagnold, Enid National Velvet
Boston, L.M. The Children of Green Knowe: Treasure of Green Knowe
Enemy at Green Knowe
The River at Green Knowe
A Stranger at Green Knowe
The Stone of Green Knowe
Burnford, Sheila The Incredible Journey
Byars, Betsy Trouble River
Clark, Ann N. Secret of the Andes
Others
Coatsworth, Elizabeth Door to the North: A Saga of 14th Century America
The Last Fort: A Story of the French Voyagers
Coolidge, Susan What Katy Did
What Katy Did at School
What Katy Did Next
Clover
In the High Valley
Dana, Richard Two Years Before the Mast
De La Mare, Walter A Penny A Day
Come Hither
Others
Dodge, Mary Mapes Hans Brinker
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The White Company
The Lost World
Sir Nigel Fitgerald, John D. The Great Brain
More Adventures of the Great Brain
Brave Buffalo Fighter
Finlayson, Ann Redcoat in Boston
Greenhorn on the Frontier
Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain
French, Allen The Lost Baron
The Red Keep
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow
Fritz, Jean Brady
Early Thunder
I, Adam
Forester, C.S. Captain Horatio Hornblower
Fox, Paula The Slave Dancer
One-Eyed Cat
Blowfish, Live in the Sea
Lily and the Lost Boy
The Moonlight Man
Garnett, Henry The Blood Red Crescent
A Trumpet Sounds
Gilbreth, Frank and Ernestine Carey Cheaper by the Dozen
Belles on Their Toes
Gipson, Fred Home Place
Old Yeller series:
Old Yeller Savage Sam
Little Arlis
Godden, Rumer An Episode of Sparrows
Hamori, Laszlo Dangerous Journey
Flight to the Promised Land
Herriott, James All Creatures Great and Small
All Things Bright and Beautiful
All Things Wise and Wonderful
Henty, George A. Won By the Sword
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Friends Though Divided
Lion of the North
Others….
Holm, Anne North to Freedom
Johnston, Annie Fellows The Little Colonel Series
Judson, Clara Ingram Soldier Doctor
George Washington, Leader of the People
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People
Keith, Harold Rifles for Waite
Brief Garland
Komantica
The Obstinate Land
Lovelace, Maud Hart Betsy-Tacy series (later books in the series)
Kelly, Eric The Blacksmith of Vilno: A Tale of Poland in the Year 1832
The Golden Star of Halich Trumpeter of Krakow
Kendall, Carol The Gammage Cup
Island of the Mini Pins
Whisper of Glocken
Kingsley, Charles Westward Ho
The Heroes
Kipling, Rudyard The Jungle Book
Stalky and Co.
Kim
Captains Courageous
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Kjelgaard, Jim The Big Red Series:
Big Red
Irish Red, Son of Big Red
Outlaw Red, Son of Big Red
The Snow Dog Series:
Snow Dog
Wild Trek
Konigsburg, E.L. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Krumgold, Joseph Onion John
Latham, Jean Lee Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Le Guin, Ursula Earthsea Trilogy:
The Wizard of Earthsea
The Tombs of Atuan
The Farthest Shore Leighton, Margaret Journey for a Princess
L’Engle, Madeline The Young Unicorns
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Locke, Elsie The Runaway Settlers
London, Jack The Sea Wolf
To Build a Fire
Call of the Wild
White Fang
Macauley, David Cathedral
City
Castle
Pyramid
Marryat, Frederick Midshipman Easy
Masterman Ready
Children of the New Forest
Meader, Stephen Shadow in the Pines
Who Rides in the Dark?
Whaler ‘Round the Horn
Clear for Action
The Fish Hawk’s Nest
Red Horse Hill
Meigs, Cornelia Invincible Louisa
Norris, Catherine Mama’s Bank Account North, Sterling Rascal
So Dear to My Heart
Nye, Robert Beowolf
O’Dell, Scott Island of the Blue Dolphin
The Black Pearl
The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day
The Dark Canoe
The King’s Fifth
Black Star, Bright Dawn
Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagawea
Sarah Bishop
Sing Down the Moon
O’Hara, Mary My Friend Flicka
Thunderhead
The Green Grass of Wyoming
The Catch Colt
Paterson, Katherine The Sign of the Chrysanthemum
Of Nightingales that Weep
The Master Puppeteer
Pearce, A. Philippa Tom’s Midnight Garden
Porter, Gene Stratton Freckles
Girl of the Limberlost
Laddie
Pyle, Howard Robin Hood
Men of Iron Quiller-Couch, Arthur Splendid Spur
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnon The Yearling
Rawls, Wilson Where the Red Fern Grows
Reiss, Johanna The Journey Back
The Upstairs Room
Rushmore, Helen Shadow of Robber’s Roost
Sawyer, Ruth Roller Skates
The Year of Jubilo (sequel to Roller Skates)
Speare, Elizabeth George The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Bronze Bow
The Sign of the Beaver
Sperry, Armstrong Danger to Windward
Thunder Country
Frozen Fire
Steinbeck, John The Red Pony
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Kidnapped
David Balfour
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Black Arrow
Tolkien, J.R. R. The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Trevor, Meriol Lights in a Dark Town
The Rose Round
The Sparrow Child Sun Slower, Sun Faster
The Letzenstein Chronicles:
The Crystal Snowstorm
Following the Phoenix
Angel and Dragon
The Rose and Crown
Twain, Mark Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
The Prince and the Pauper
Verne, Jules Around the World in Eighty Days
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Vipont, Elfrida The Lark in the Morn
The Lark on the Wing (sequel to The Lark in the Morn)
Flowering Spring
The Pavilion
The Spring of the Year
Voigt, Cynthia Jackaroo
Homecoming
Dicey’s Song (sequel to Homecoming)
The Callendar Papers
Izzy, Willy-Nilly
Seventeen Against the Dealer
Wiggin, Kate Douglas Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
New Chronicles of Rebecca
White, John The Tower of Geburah The Iron and the Scepter
The Swordbearer
White, T.H. The Sword in the Stone
Worth, Katherine New Worlds for Josie
They Loved to Laugh
Wyss, Johannes Swiss Family Robinson
Yates, Elizabeth Amos Fortune, Free Man
The Journeyman
Hue and Cry
With Pipe, Paddle, and Song
Others…