Classics
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Aesop’s Fables by Aesop
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling
The Children’s Homer (The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy) by Homer & Padraic Colum
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Hans Brinker; or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Pilgrim’s Progress, from John Bunyan’s Classic by John Bunyan & Helen Taylor
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles & Mary Lamb
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Lesser-Known Books
Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
Behold Your Queen by Gladys Malvern
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael by Elisabeth Elliot
Choose Your Own Adventure, a series by Edward Packard
A Double Story (Also known as The Wise Woman or The Lost Princess) by George MacDonald
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, a series by Donald Sobol
The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West
George Washington Carver: His Life & Faith in His Own Words by Bill Federer
The Innocence of Father Brown, The Wisdom of Father Brown, etc. by G. K. Chesterton
Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody (the first in a series)
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Microbe Hunters by Paul De Kruif
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
“The Ransom of Red Chief” and Other Short Stories by O. Henry
Short Stories for English Courses by Rosa Mary Redding Mikels
Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald
The Small Woman by Alan Burgess
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Take My Hands: The Remarkable Story of Dr. Mary Verghese by Dorothy Clarke Wilson
Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories by Arthur Stanley Maxwell
Walk in the Light and Twenty-Three Tales by Leo Tolstoy
The Way Things Work by David Macaulay
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
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