Children’s Classics Grades 3 to 6 Born Free – Joy Adamson Fables – Aesop Little Women – Louisa May Alcott Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen Mr. Popper’s Penguins – Richard and Florence Atwater Miss Hickory – Carolyn Sherwin Bailey Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Frank L. Baum The Children of Green Knowe – L.M. Boston Caddie Woodlawn – Carol Ryrie Brink The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett The Enormous Egg – Oliver Butterworth Secret of the Andes – Ann Nolan Clark Henry Huggins series – Beverly Cleary The Cat Who Went to Heaven – Elizabeth Coatsworth The Bears on Hemlock Mountain – Alice Dalgliesh The Courage of Sarah Noble – Alice Dalgliesh The Door in the Wall – Marguerite De Angeli The House of Sixty Fathers – Meindert De Jong The Wheel on the School – Meindert De Jong Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates – Mary Mapes Dodge The Twenty-One Balloons – William Pene DuBois The Matchlock Gun – Walter D. Edmonds Ginger Pye – Eleanor Estes Moffats series – Eleanor Estes The Black Stallion – Walter Farley Hitty, Her First Hundred Years – Rachel Field The Cabin Faced West – Jean Fritz Cheaper By the Dozen – Frank B. Gillbreth & Ernestine G. Carey Old Yeller – Fred Gipson The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame Adam of the Road – Elizabeth Janet Gray Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm The Dark Frigate – Charles Hawes King of the Wind – Marguerite Henry Misty of Chincoteague – Marguerite Henry Rifles for Watie – Harold Keith The Trumpeter of Krakow – Eric Kelly Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling Just So Stories for Children – Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling Big Red – Jim Kjelgaard Lassie Come Home – Eric Knight …And Now Miguel – Joseph Krumgold Onion John – Joseph Krumgold Laughing Boy – Oliver LaFarge Carry On, Mr. Bowditch – Jean Lee Latham Ben and Me – Robert Lawson Rabbit Hill – Robert Lawson Strawberry Girl – Lois Lenski Chronicles of Narnia series – C.S. Lewis Pippi Longstocking series – Astrid Lindgren Doctor Doolittle series – Hugh Lofting The Call of the Wild – Jack London White Fang – Jack London Homer Price – Robert McClosky Snow Treasure – Marie McSwigan Invincible Louisa – Cornelia Meigs Anne of Green Gables series – L.M. Montgomery The Borrowers series – Mary Norton My Friend Flicka – Mary O’Hara Tom’s Midnight Garden – Philippa Pearce The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle The Light in the Forest – Conrad Richter The Cricket in Times Square – George Selden Black Beauty – Anna Sewell Miracles on Maple Hill – Virginia Sorenson The Witch of Blackbird Pond – Elizabeth George Speare Call it Courage – Armstrong Sperry Heidi – Johanna Spyri The Red Pony – John Steinbeck Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson Mary Poppins series – Pamela L. Travers The Story of Mankind – Hendrik Van Loon Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White Stuart Little – E.B. White Little House series – Laura Ingalls Wilder Swiss Family Robinson – Johan Wyss Grades 7 to 9 Little Men – Louisa May Alcott Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen Emma – Jane Austen Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen National Velvet – Enid Bagnold Lorna Doone – Richard D. Blackmore The Bridge over the River Kwai – Pierre Boulle Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man – Ray Bradbury Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll The Ox-Bow Incident – Walter Clark The Deerslayer – James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper Madame Curie: A Biography – Eve Curie Two Years before the Mast – Richard Henry Dana Life with Father – Clarence Day Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Great Expectations – Charles Dickens David Copperfield – Charles Dickens Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens Bleak House – Charles Dickens Hard Times – Charles Dickens The Robe – Lloyd C. Douglas Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle The Count of Monte Christo – Alexander Dumas The Three Musketeers – Alexander Dumas Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier Drums along the Mohawk – Walter D. Edmonds Cimarron – Edna Ferber Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes The African Queen – C.S. Forester The Hornblower series – C.S. Forester Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank The Snow Goose – Paul Gallico Lord of the Flies – William Golding Death Be Not Proud – John Gunther The Big Sky – A.B. Guthrie King Solomon’s Mines – Rider H. Haggard Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway A Bell for Adano – John Hersey Hiroshima – John Hersey The Wall – John Hersey Kon-Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl Goodbye, Mr. Chips – James Hilton Lost Horizon – James Hilton Green Mansions – W.H. Hudson A High Wind in Jamaica – Richard Hughes The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving Story of My Life – Helen Keller Kim – Rudyard Kipling A Separate Peace – John Knowles To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee The Sea Wolf – Jack London A Night to Remember – Walter Lord Le Morte d’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory Ring of Bright Water – Gavin Maxwell Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers The Bridges at Toko-Ri – James Michener Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell Mutiny on the Bounty – Charles Nordhoff & J.N. Hall Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Emma Orczy Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton Men of Iron – Howard Pyle The Yearling – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The King Must Die – Mary Renault Northwest Passage – Kenneth Roberts The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery Wind, Sand and Stars – Antoine de Saint-Exupery Shane – Jack Schaefer Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott Frankenstein – Mary Shelley A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith The Pearl – John Steinbeck Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck The Black Arrow – Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula – Bram Stoker Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathon Swift The Thurber Carnival – James Thurber The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi – Mark Twain The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain Pudd’nhead Wilson – Mark Twain Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne Mysterious Island – Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne Ben-Hur – Lewis Wallace Up from Slavery – Booker T. Washington The Time Machine – H.G. Wells War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder The Virginian – Owen Wister Amos Fortune, Free Man – Elizabeth Yates .