The Educated Child's Good Books for Junior High

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William J. Bennett’s The Educated Child includes this list of books good for students in seventh or eighth grade. He also suggests supplementing this list with books unique to your family’s ethnic or religious heritage.

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    National Velvet
    by Enid Bagnold

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    The Moves Make the Man (rpkg) (HarperClassics)
    by Bruce Brooks

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    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck

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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

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    Neighbor Rosicky
    by Willa Cather

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    The Dark Is Rising Sequence (Puffin Books)
    by Susan Cooper

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    The Red Badge of Courage (Scribner Classics)
    by Stephen Crane

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    Madame Curie, A Biography
    by Eve Curie

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    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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    Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    I'm Nobody! Who Are You? (Scholastic Classics)
    by Emily Dickinson

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    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    The Lost World
    by Arthur Conan Doyle

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    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas pere

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    The Three Musketeers
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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    My Family and Other Animals (Cascades)
    by Gerald Durrell

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    Washington: The Indispensable Man
    by James Thomas Flexner

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    The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

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    You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Readers of All Ages
    by Robert Frost

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    A Raisin in the Sun
    by Lorraine Hansberry

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    The House of the Seven Gables
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    The Kon-Tiki Expedition
    by Thor Heyerdahl

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    Rip Van Winkle And The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    by Washington Irving

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    A Boy of Old Prague
    by Shulamith Ish-Kishor

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    The Story of My Life (Library Edition)
    by Helen Keller

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    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling

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    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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    The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics)
    by Jack London

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    Good Night, Mr. Tom
    by Michelle Magorian

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    The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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    The Bounty Mutiny (Penguin Classics)
    by William Bligh

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    Island of the Blue Dolphins (Puffin Books)
    by Scott O'Dell

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    The Scarlet Pimpernel

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    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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    The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Hervey / Poe, Edgar Allan Allen

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    The Chosen
    by Chaim Potok

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    The Yearling (Aladdin Classics)
    by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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    The Little Prince: Sixtieth-Anniversary Gift Edition
    by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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    Early Moon (A Voyager/Hbj Book)
    by Carl Sandburg

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    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

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  45. 49.
    The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
    by William Shakespeare

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    The Red Pony (Puffin Classics S.)
    by John Steinbeck

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