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Introductory Reading List for Older Children

• Alice in Wonderland stories, Carroll
  
• Animal Farm, Orwell
  
• Asimov on Numbers, Asimov
• The Anne of Green Gables series, Montgomery
  
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  
• “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, Julia Ward Howe
  
• Ben Hur, Wallace, Johnson
  
• The Bible
  
• Brighty of the Grand Canyon, Henry
  
• Black Beauty, Sewell
  
• The Black Stallion series, Farley
  
• The Chronicles of Narnia series, Lewis
  
• The Collected Verse of Edgar A. Guest
  
• “Concord Hymn”, Emerson
  
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Twain
  
• The Constitution of the United States
  
• David Copperfield, Dickens
  
• Davy Crockett Legends
  
• The Declaration of Independence
  
• The Diary of a Young Girl, Frank
• Don Quixote, Cervantes
  
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson
  
• The Dred Scott Decision
  
• The Education of Henry Adams, Adams
  
• Eight Cousins, Alcott
  
• Emily Post’s Etiquette
  
• “In Flanders Fields”, McCrae
  
• Flatland, Abbott
  
• The Foundation series, Asimov
  
• Frankenstein, Shelley
  
• “The Gettysburg Address”, Lincoln
• “The War Inevitable”, Henry
  
• The Great Brain series, Fitzgerald
  
• Gulliver’s Travels, Swift
  
• Mythology, Hamilton
  
• "Hamlet ", Shakespeare
  
• Heidi, Spyri
  
• The Hiding Place, Boom
  
• History Reborn, Anderson
  
• Huckleberry Finn, Twain
  
• “I Have a Dream”, King
  
• Ivanhoe, Scott
  
• The Hobbit, Tolkein
  
• Island of the Blue Dolphins, O'Dell
• Joan of Arc, Twain
  
• Jo’s Boys, Alcott
  
• A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Verne
  
• "Julius Caesar", Shakespeare
  
• The Jungle Book, Kipling
  
• Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table
  
• Laddie, Porter
  
• The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper
  
• “Let America Be America Again”, Hughes
  
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  
• The Little Britches series, Moody
  
• Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hogson Burnett
  
• Little Men, Alcott
  
• Little Women, Alcott
  
• The Lonesome Gods, L'Amour
  
• Lord of the Rings series, Tolkein
  
• “The Man with the Hoe”, Markham
  
• Mathematicians are People, Too (2 volumes), Reimer
  
• Moby Dick, Melville
  
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  
• National Velvet, Bagnold
  
• Noah Webster’s Original 1828 Dictionary
  
• North to Freedom, Holm
  
• “O Captain! My Captain!”, Whitman
  
• “Old Ironsides”, Holmes
  
• Old Yeller, Gipson
  
• Oliver Twist, Dickens
  
• Tall Tales of Paul Bunyan
  
• The Phantom Tollbooth, Juster
  
• “The Present Crisis” Lowell
  
• “The Road Not Taken”, Frost
  
• The Real Benjamin Franklin, Allison
  
• The Real George Washington, Parry
  
• The Real Thomas Jefferson, Allison
  
• The Robe, Douglas
  
• Robinson Crusoe, Defoe
  
• The Sackett series, L'Amour
  
• The Saxon Math series
  
• The Secret Garden, Burnett
  
• Soldiers, Statesmen and Heroes, Parry
  
• Sonnets of Shakespeare
  
• Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers, Kavanaugh
  
• Stuart Little, White
  
• The Summer of the Monkeys, Rawls
  
• The Swiss Family Robinson, Wyss
  
• Tom Sawyer, Twain
  
• Treasure Island, Stevenson
  
• The Trumpet of the Swans, White
  
• The Doctor Dolittle series, Lofting
  
• White Fang, London
  
• The story of William Tell
  
• Where the Red Fern Grows, Rawls