Adamson, Joy
Born Free : A Lioness of Two Worlds

The Classic Treasury of Aesop's Fables*

Alcott, Louisa May
Little Women (Illustrated Junior Library)

Andersen, Hans Christian
Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales

Atwater, Richard and Florence
Mr. Popper's Penguins *

Mr. Popper's Penguins Study Guide

Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
Miss Hickory *

Barrie, J.M.
Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition)

Baum, L. Frank
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A Commemorative Pop-up

Bemelmans, Ludwig
Mad About Madeline: The Complete Tales*

Bond, Michael
A Bear Called Paddington

Boston, L.M.
The Children of Green Knowe

Brink, Carol Ryrie
Caddie Woodlawn

Brown, Margaret Wise
Goodnight Moon Room: A Pop-Up Book (Pop-Up Book) *

Brunhoff, Jean de
The Story of Babar (Babar Books (Random House)) *

Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The Secret Garden (The Illus Children's Library)

Burton, Virginia Lee
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (Sandpiper books) *

Butterworth, Oliver
The Enormous Egg

Clark, Ann Nolan
Secret of the Andes (Puffin Book)

Cleary, Beverly
Beverly Cleary, Henry Huggins Series (Boxed Set) (Henry in the Clubhouse, Henry Huggins, Henry and Beezus, and Henry and Ribsy)

Coatsworth, Elizabeth
The Cat Who Went to Heaven

Dalgliesh, Alice
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain*,
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain Study Guide
The Courage of Sarah Noble*
A Guide for Using The Courage of Sarah Noble in the Classroom

De Angeli, Marguerite
The Door in the Wall (Yearling Newbery)

De Jong, Meindert
The House of Sixty Fathers
The Wheel on the School

Dodge, Mary Mapes
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

Du Bois, William Pene
The Twenty-One Balloons 

Edmonds, Walter D.
The Matchlock Gun 

Estes, Eleanor
Ginger Pye
Moffats series

Farley, Walter
The Black Stallion 

Field, Rachel
Hitty
Her First Hundred Years 

Fritz, Jean
The Cabin Faced West

Gilbreth, Frank B. and Ernestine G. Carey
Cheaper By the Dozen 

Gipson, Fred
Old Yeller  

Godden, Rumer
The Mousewife*

Grahame, Kenneth
The Reluctant Dragon*
The Wind in the Willows 

Gray, Elizabeth Janet
Adam of the Road 

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
Grimm's Fairy Tales 

Hawes, Charles
The Dark Frigate 

Haywood, Carolyn
Betsy series*

Henry, Marguerite
King of the Wind
Misty of Chincoteague 

Keith, Harold
Rifles for Watie 

Kelly, Eric
The Trumpeter of Krakow 

Kipling, Rudyard
Captains Courageous, Just So Stories for Little Children* The Jungle Books

Kjelgaard, Jim
Big Red

Knight, Eric
Lassie Come Home

Krumgold, Joseph
...and Now Miguel Onion John

LaFarge, Oliver
Laughing Boy

Lamb, Charles and Mary
Tales from Shakespear

Latham, Jean Lee
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

Lawson, Robert
Ben & Me, Rabbit Hill

Leaf, Munro
The Story of Ferdinand*

Lear, Edward
Book of Nonsense*

Lenski, Lois
Strawberry Girl

Lewis, C.S.
Chronicles of Narnia series

Lindgren, Astrid
Pippi Longstocking series

Lofting, Hugh
Doctor Doolittle series

London, Jack
The Call of the Wild, White Fang

MacDonald, Betty
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle*

MacGregor, Ellen
Miss Pickerell series

McCloskey, Robert
Blueberries for Sal*, Homer Price, Make Way for Ducklings*

McSwigan, Marie
Snow Treasure

Meigs, Cornelia
Invincible Louisa

Milne, A.A.
The House at Pooh Corner*, Now We Are Six*, When We Were Very Young*, Winnie-the-Pooh*

Minarik, Else Holmelund Little Bear

Montgomery, L.M.
Anne of Green Gables

Mukerji, Dhan Ghopal Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon

Norton, Mary
The Borrowers series

O'Hara, Mary
My Friend Flicka

Pearce, Philippa
Tom's Midnight Garden

Perrault, Charles
Cinderella*

Potter, Beatrix
The Tale of Peter Rabbit*

Pyle, Howard
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Rey, H.A.
Curious George series*

Richter, Conrad
The Light in the Forest

Selden, George
The Cricket in Times Square*

Seuss, Dr.
The Cat in the Hat*

Sewell, Anna
Black Beauty

Sorenson, Virginia
Miracles on Maple Hill

Speare, Elizabeth George
The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Sperry, Armstrong
Call It Courage

Spyri, Johanna
Heidi

Steinbeck, John
The Red Pony

Stevenson, Robert Louis
A Child's Garden of Verses*, Kidnapped, Treasure Island

Travers, Pamela L.
Mary Poppins series

Van Loon, Hendrik

The Story of Mankind

White, E.B.
Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little

Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Little House series

Williams, Margery
The Velveteen Rabbit*

Wyss, Johann
Swiss Family Robinson

Zion, Gene
Harry the Dirty Dog*

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Recommended Classics
for Grades 7 and 8
 

Alcott, Louisa May
Little Men

Bagnold, Enid
National Velvet

Blackmore, Richard D.
Lorna Doone

Boulle, Pierre
The Bridge over the River Kwai

Bradbury, Ray
Dandelion Wine
Fahrenheit 451
The Illustrated Man
Martian Chronicles

Buchan, John
The Thirty-Nine Steps

Bunyan, John
The Pilgrim's Progress

Carroll, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass

Clark, Walter
The Ox-Bow Incident 

Cooper, James Fenimore
The Deerslayer
The Last of the Mohicans

Curie, Eve
Madame Curie: A Biography

Dana, Richard Henry
Two Years before the Mast 

Day, Clarence
Life with Father

Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe

Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol

Douglas, Lloyd C.
The Robe

Doyle, Arthur Conan
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Dumas, Alexander
The Count of Monte Christo
The Three Musketeers

Du Maurier, Daphne
Rebecca

Edmonds, Walter D.
Drums Along the Mohawk 

Ferber, Edna
Cimarron  

Forbes, Esther
Johnny Tremain 

Forester, C.S.
The African Queen
The Hornblower series

Frank, Anne
Diary of a Young Girl 

Frost, Robert
Poems

Gallico, Paul
The Snow Goose

Gunther, John
Death Be Not Proud

Guthrie, A.B.
The Big Sky

Haggard, H. Rider
King Solomon's Mines

Hansberry, Lorraine
Raisin in the Sun

Hemingway, Ernest
The Old Man and the Sea

Hersey, John
A Bell for Adano
Hiroshima
The Wall

Heyerdahl, Thor
Kon-Tiki

Hilton, James
Goodbye
Mr. Chips, Lost Horizon

Hudson, W.H.
Green Mansions

Hughes, Richard
A High Wind in Jamaica

Hugo, Victor
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Irving, Washington
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Keller, Helen
Story of My Life

Kennedy, John F.
Profiles in Courage

Kipling, Rudyard
Kim

Knowles, John
A Separate Peace

Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird

London, Jack
The Sea Wolf

Lord, Walter
A Night to Remember

Malory, Sir Thomas
Le Morte d'Arthur

Maxwell, Gavin
Ring of Bright Water

McCullers, Carson
Member of the Wedding

Michener, James
The Bridges at Toko-Ri

Mitchell, Margaret
Gone with the Wind

Nordhoff, Charles and J.N. Hall
Mutiny on the Bounty

O'Dell, Scott
Island of the Blue Dolphins

Orczy, Baroness Emma
The Scarlet Pimpernel

Paton, Alan
Cry, the Beloved Country

Pyle, Howard
Men of Iron

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
The Yearling

Renault, Mary
The King Must Die

Roberts, Kenneth
Northwest Passage

Saint-Exupery,
Antoine de The Little Prince Wind
Sand and Stars

Saki
Stories

Schaefer, Jack
Shane

Scott, Sir Walter
Ivanhoe

Shelley, Mary
Frankenstein

Smith, Betty
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Steinbeck, John
The Pearl Tortilla Flat

Stevenson, Robert Louis
The Black Arrow
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Stoker, Bram
Dracula

Thurber, James
The Thurber Carnival

Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings

Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi
The Prince and the Pauper

Verne, Jules
Around the World in Eighty Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Mysterious Island
20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Wallace, Lewis
Ben-Hur

Washington, Booker T.
Up from Slavery

Wells, H.G.
The Time Machine
War of the Worlds

Wharton, Edith
Ethan Frome

Wilder, Thornton
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Wister, Owen
The Virginian

Yates, Elizabeth
Amos Fortune, Free Man

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