LCHS Junior High Reading List

Students are required to read assigned literature at least 30 minutes per night for homework. This literature will either be assigned from the Core Knowledge Sequence or students may select titles from the Junior High Reading List or any book from the list of authors below. When selecting from the author list, students should choose titles other than those already specified in the Core Knowledge curriculum.

Author List for Junior High Reading

1. Asimov, Isaac 2. Austen, Jane 3. Bradbury, Ray 4. Bronte, Charlotte; Emily 5. Caroll, Lewis 6. Dickens, Charles 7. Doyle, A.C. 8. Dunsany, Lord 9. Eliot, George 10. Forester, C.S. 11. Henty, G.A. 12. Grahame, Kenneth 13. Green, Roger Lancelyn 14. Kipling, Rudyard 15. Lang, Andrew 16. Lewis, C.S. 17. MacDonald, George 18. Saki (H.H. Munro) 19. Scott, Walter 20. Shakespeare, William 21. Stevenson, Robert Louis 22. Tolkien, J.R.R. 23. Trollope, Anthony 24. Twain, Mark 25. Wilde, Oscar 26. Williams, Charles 27. Wodehouse, P.G.

Junior High Reading List-(*) Indicates available to 7th grade only

Author Title 28 Adams, Richard Watership Down 29 Alcott, Louisa May An Old Fashioned Girl 30 Alcott, Louisa May Little Men 31 Alcott, Louisa May Eight Cousins 32 Alcott, Louisa May Jo's Boys 33 Aldrich, Beth A Lantern in Her Hand 34 *Avi True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

35 Ballantyne, R.M. The Coral Island 36 Blackmore, R.D. Lorna Doone 37 Blos, Joan W. A Gathering of Days 38 Buck, Pearl S. House of Earth Trilogy 39 Bunyan, John The Pilgrim's Progress (no severely abridged versions allowed) 40 *Burnett, Frances 41 *Burnett, Frances Sara Crew 42 Burnett, Frances The Lost Prince 43 *Burnett, Frances A Little Princess 44 *Burnford, Sheila The Incredible Journey

45 Cather, Willa Song of the Lark 46 Cather, Willa My Antonia 47 Cather, Willa O Pioneers! 48 Christie; Agatha And Then There Were None 49 Collins, Wilkie The Moonstone 50 Collins, Wilkie The Woman in White 51 Colum, Padraic Golden Fleece. 52 Colum, Padraic The King of Ireland's Son 53 Colum, Padraic Children of Odin 54 Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness 55 Conrad, Joseph Nostromo 56 Conrad, Joseph The Secret Agent 57 Cooper, James Deerslayer

58 *De Angeli The Door in the Wall 59 * Dodge, Mary Napes Hans Brinker 60 De Foe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe 61 Doyle, Arthur Conan Case Book of Sherlock Holmes 62 Doyle, Arthur Conan Hound of the Baskervilles 63 Doyle, Arthur Conan Last Bow 64 Doyle, Arthur Conan Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 65 Doyle, Arthur Conan Return of Sherlock Holmes

66 Doyle, Arthur Conan Sign of the Four 67 Doyle, Arthur Conan Study in Scarlet 68 Doyle, Arthur Conan Valley of Fear 69 Doyle, Arthur Conan White Company 70 Dumas, Alexandre Three Musketeers 71 Dumas, Alexandre Count of Monte Cristo 72 Dumas, Alexandre Man in the Iron Mask

73 Edmonds, Walter Drums Along the Mohawk 74 Eliot, George Silas Marner 75 Ende, Michael Never Ending Story 76 *Evslin, Bernard Trojan War

77 Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain

78 Gaskell, Elizabeth Mary Barton 79 Gaskell, Elizabeth Ruth 80 Gilbreth, Frank Cheaper by the Dozen 81 Gilbreth, Frank With Bells on Their Toes 82 Goldman, William Princess Bride 83 Grahame, Kenneth Dream Days 84 Grahame, Kenneth The Golden Age 85 Grahame, Kenneth The Reluctant Dragon 86 Green, Roger Lancelyn Luck of Troy 87 Greene, Bette Summer of My German Soldier

88 Haggard, H. Rider King Solomon's Mines 89 Hale, Edward A Man Without a Country 90 Hale, Lucretia The Peterkin Papers 91 *Hautzig, Esther The Endless Steppe: A Girl in Exile 92 Henty, G.A. The Young Carthaginian 93 Henty, G.A. Under Drake's Flag 94 Henty, G.A. In the Reign of Terror 95 Henty, G.A. Bonnie Prince Charlie 96 Hope, Anthony The Prisoner of Zenda 97 Hunt, Irene Up a Road Slowly 98 Hunt, Irene Across Five Aprils 99 Huxley, Aldous Brave New World (9th Grade)

100 Johnson, Samuel Rasselas

101 Kingsley, Charles The Water Babies 102 Kingsley, Charles Westward Ho! 103 Kipling, Rudyard Captains Courageous 104 Kipling, Rudyard Just So Stories 105 Kipling, Rudyard Kim 106 Kipling, Rudyard Man Who Would Be King 107 Kipling, Rudyard Mark of the Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories 108 Kipling, Rudyard Puck of Pook's Hill

109 Lang, Andrew Colored Fairy Stories 110 Lanier, Sidney The Boy's King Arthur 111 Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird 112 Leroux, Gaston Phantom of the Opera 113 Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet 114 Lewis, C.S. Prelandra 115 Lewis, C.S. That Hideous Strength 116 London, Jack White Fang

117 MacDonald, George At the Back of the Northern Wind 118 MacDonald, George The Lost Princess 119 MacDonald, George The Princess and Curdie 120 MacDonald, George The Princess and the Goblin 121 Malory, Sir Thomas Le Morte d'Arthur (selections) 122 Marryatt, Frederick The Children of the New Forest 123 Marryatt, Frederick Mr. Midshipman Easy 124 McCaughrean, Geraldine El Cid 125 Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Avonlea 126 Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables 127 Montgomery, L.M. Anne of the Island 128 Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Windy Poplars 129 Montgomery, L.M. Anne's House of Dreams 130 Montgomery, L.M. Emily Climbs 131 Montgomery, L.M. Emily of New Moon 132 Montgomery, L.M. Emily's Quest

133 *Nesbit, Edith Railway Children 134 *Nesbit, Edith The Story of the Treasure Seekers 135 *Nesbit, Edith New Treasure Seekers 136 *Nesbit, Edith The Story of the Amulet

137 *Nesbit, Edith The Phoenix and the Carpet 138 *Nesbit, Edith 139 *Nesbit, Edith The Wouldbegoods 140 *Nesbit, Edith The Enchanted Castle 141 *Nesbit, Edith The House of Arden 142 Nordhoff, Charles The Mutiny on the Bounty 143 North, Sterling Rascal 144 North, Sterling Wolfling

145 Orczy, Baroness Emmuska Scarlett Pimpernel 146 Orwell, George 1984 (9th Grade) 147 Peck, Robert Day No Pigs Would Die 148 Porter, Jean A Girl of the Limberlost 149 Potok, Chaim The Chosen 150 Potok, Chaim The Promise 151 Pyle, Howard King Arthur and the 152 Pyle, Howard Story of th e Gr ail 153 Pyle, Howard The St ory of Lanc el ot

154 Ransome, Arthur Big Six 155 Ransome, Arthur Picts and the Martyrs 156 Ransome, Arthur Pigeon Post 157 Ransome, Arthur 158 Ransome, Arthur 159 Ransome, Arthur 160 Ransome, Arthur 161 Ransome, Arthur We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea 162 Ransome, Arthur Secret Water 163 Ransome, Arthur Missee Lee 164 Ransome, Arthur Coot Club 165 Rawlings, Marjorie The Yearling 166 Rawls, Wilson Where the Red Fern Grows

167 Saki (H.H. Munro) Short Stories 168 *Sewall, Anna Black Beauty 169 Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion 170 Shelley, Mary Frankenstein 171 Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 172 Spyri, Johanna Heidi 173 Spyri, Johanna Heidi Grows Up

174 Stevenson, Robert Louis Kidnapped 175 Stevenson, Robert Louis The Black Arrow 176 Stevenson, Robert Louis The Master of Ballantree 177 Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island 178 Sutcliff, Rosemary Knight's Fee 179 Sutcliff, Rosemary Tristan and Iselut 180 Sutcliff, Rosemary Dragon Slayer: The Story of Beowulf 181 Sutcliff, Rosemary Shining Company 182 Sutcliff, Rosemary Warrior Scarlet

183 Thackeray, William Vanity Fair 184 Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit 185 Tolkien, J.R.R. Two Towers 186 Tolkien, J.R.R. Fellowship of the Ring 187 Tolkien, J.R.R. Return of the King 188 Unknown (Translated by Tolkien, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight J.R.R.)

189 Verne, Jules The Mysterious Island 190 Verne, Jules Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 191 Verne, Jules Around the World in Eighty Days 192 Verne, Jules Journey to the Center of the Earth

193 Wells, H.G. The Invisible Man 194 Wells, H.G. Island of Dr. Moreau 195 Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds 196 White, T.H. The Sword in the Stone 197 White, T.H. (The rest of) The Once and Future 198 Wiggin, Kate ReKi becc a of Sunnybrook Farm 199 Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray 200 Wyss, Johann Swiss Family Robinson