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… .