The Educated Child's Good Books for the Intermediate Grades

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William J. Bennett’s The Educated Child provides this list of good books for children in grades four through six. He suggests combining this list with additional books unique to your family’s religion and heritage.

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    Little Women
    by Louisa May Alcott

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    Sounder (Summer Reading Edition)
    by William H. Armstrong

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    Mr. Popper's Penguins
    by Richard Atwater

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    Tuck Everlasting
    by Natalie Babbitt

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    Peter Pan: The Original Story (Peter Pan)
    by J. M. Barrie

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    Crickets and Bullfrogs and Whispers of Thunder
    by Harry Behn

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    Stories of the Gods and Heroes
    by Sally Benson

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    Sundiata: The Epic of the Lion King, Retold.
    by Roland Bertol

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    The Secret Garden
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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    Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
    by Eleanor Coerr

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    Prairie Songs
    by Pam Conrad

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    James and the Giant Peach
    by Roald Dahl

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    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    by Roald Dahl

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    The Black Stallion
    by Walter Farley

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    Thor and the Giants
    by Anita Feagles

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    The Great Brain (A Yearling book)
    by John Dennis Fitzgerald

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    The Whipping Boy (rpkg) (HarperClassics)
    by Sid Fleischman

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    Johnny Tremain
    by Esther Forbes

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    Poor Richard's Almanack: Benjamin Franklin's Best Sayings
    by Benjamin Franklin

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    And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Paperstar)
    by Jean Fritz

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    What's The Big Idea, Ben Franklin? (Paperstar)
    by Jean Fritz

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    Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?
    by Jean Fritz

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    Julie of the Wolves (Summer Reading Edition) (Julie of the Wolves)
    by Jean Craighead George

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    Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame

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    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

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    Misty of Chincoteague
    by Marguerite Henry

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    Brighty of the Grand Canyon
    by Marguerite Henry

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    Phantom Tollbooth
    by Norton Juster

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    The Trumpeter of Krakow
    by Eric Kelly

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    The Jungle Books (Signet Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

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    Captains Courageous
    by Rudyard Kipling

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    Lassie Come Home
    by Eric Knight

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    From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
    by E. L. Konigsburg

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    Tales from Shakespeare (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charles Lamb

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    A Wrinkle In Time
    by Madeleine L'Engle

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    Castle
    by David Macaulay

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    Cathedral: The story of its construction
    by David Macaulay

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    Sarah, Plain and Tall
    by Patricia MacLachlan

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    Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe
    by Dell J. McCormick

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    Snow Treasure
    by Marie McSwigan

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    The Borrowers: Fiftieth-Anniversary Gift Edition
    by Mary Norton

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    Hailstones and Halibut Bones
    by Mary O'Neill

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    Bridge to Terabithia
    by Katherine Paterson

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    Great Gilly Hopkins (New Windmill)
    by Katherine Paterson

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    Tales of Mystery & Imagination
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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