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The Educated Child's Good Books for the Intermediate Grades

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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1.
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 Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
  
2. Sounder (Summer Reading Edition)
by William H. Armstrong
  
3. Mr. Popper's Penguins
by Richard Atwater
  
4. Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbitt
  
5. Peter Pan: The Original Story (Peter Pan)
by J. M. Barrie
  
6.
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 Crickets and Bullfrogs and Whispers of Thunder
by Harry Behn
  
7.
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 Stories of the Gods and Heroes
by Sally Benson
  
8.
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 Sundiata: The Epic of the Lion King, Retold.
by Roland Bertol
  
9. Doctor Coyote: A Native American Aesop's Fables (Aladdin Picture Books)
by John Bierhorst
  
10. The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
11. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr
  
12.
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 A New Treasury of Children's Poetry: Old Favorites and New Discoveries
by Joanna Cole
  
13.
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 Prairie Songs
by Pam Conrad
  
14. James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
  
15.
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 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
  
16.
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 The Black Stallion
by Walter Farley
  
17.
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 Thor and the Giants
by Anita Feagles
  
18.
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 The Great Brain (A Yearling book)
by John Dennis Fitzgerald
  
19. The Whipping Boy (rpkg) (HarperClassics)
by Sid Fleischman
  
20. Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
  
21.
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 Poor Richard's Almanack: Benjamin Franklin's Best Sayings
by Benjamin Franklin
  
22. And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Paperstar)
by Jean Fritz
  
23. What's The Big Idea, Ben Franklin? (Paperstar)
by Jean Fritz
  
24. Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?
by Jean Fritz
  
25. Swinger of Birches: Poems of Robert Frost for Young People
by Robert Frost
  
26. Julie of the Wolves (Summer Reading Edition) (Julie of the Wolves)
by Jean Craighead George
  
27. Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
  
28. Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
  
29. The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Treasured Gifts for the Holidays)
by Virginia Hamilton
  
30. Misty of Chincoteague
by Marguerite Henry
  
31.
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 Brighty of the Grand Canyon
by Marguerite Henry
  
32. Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
  
33.
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 The Trumpeter of Krakow
by Eric Kelly
  
34. The Jungle Books (Signet Classics)
by Rudyard Kipling
  
35. Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
  
36. Lassie Come Home
by Eric Knight
  
37.
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 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
  
38. Tales from Shakespeare (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Charles Lamb
  
39. A Wrinkle In Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
  
40.
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 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Book 1 in the Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
41.
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 Castle
by David Macaulay
  
42. Cathedral: The story of its construction
by David Macaulay
  
43. Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
  
44.
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 Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe
by Dell J. McCormick
  
45. Snow Treasure
by Marie McSwigan
  
46. The Borrowers: Fiftieth-Anniversary Gift Edition
by Mary Norton
  
47. Hailstones and Halibut Bones
by Mary O'Neill
  
48. Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
  
49. Great Gilly Hopkins (New Windmill)
by Katherine Paterson
  
50. Tales of Mystery & Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
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Created by Carolyn on Mar 31, 2007.