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The Educated Child's Good Books for Junior High

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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1. National Velvet
by Enid Bagnold
  
2. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
by Joan W. Blos
  
3. The Moves Make the Man (rpkg) (HarperClassics)
by Bruce Brooks
  
4. The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
by Pearl S. Buck
  
5.
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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
  
6. Through the Looking - Glass and What Alice Found There: With Fifty Illustrations
by Lewis Carroll
  
7.
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 Neighbor Rosicky
by Willa Cather
  
8. The Dark Is Rising Sequence (Puffin Books)
by Susan Cooper
  
9. The Red Badge of Courage (Scribner Classics)
by Stephen Crane
  
10.
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 Madame Curie, A Biography
by Eve Curie
  
11. Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
12. Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
13. I'm Nobody! Who Are You? (Scholastic Classics)
by Emily Dickinson
  
14.
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 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave (Penguin Classic)
by Frederick Douglass
  
15. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
16. The Lost World
by Arthur Conan Doyle
  
17. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas pere
  
18. The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
19. My Family and Other Animals (Cascades)
by Gerald Durrell
  
20. The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation
by Amelia Earhart
  
21. Washington: The Indispensable Man
by James Thomas Flexner
  
22. The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
  
23. You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Readers of All Ages
by Robert Frost
  
24. A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
  
25. The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
26. The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
  
27. The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
by O. Henry
  
28. The Kon-Tiki Expedition
by Thor Heyerdahl
  
29. Rip Van Winkle And The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
  
30.
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 A Boy of Old Prague
by Shulamith Ish-Kishor
  
31. The Story of My Life (Library Edition)
by Helen Keller
  
32.
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 Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
  
33.
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 To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
34. The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics)
by Jack London
  
35. Good Night, Mr. Tom
by Michelle Magorian
  
36. The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
by Arthur Miller
  
37. The Bounty Mutiny (Penguin Classics)
by William Bligh
  
38. Island of the Blue Dolphins (Puffin Books)
by Scott O'Dell
  
39. The Scarlet Pimpernel  
40. Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
  
41. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
by Ann Petry
  
42.
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 The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
by Hervey / Poe, Edgar Allan Allen
  
43.
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 The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
  
44. The Yearling (Aladdin Classics)
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  
45. The Light in the Forest (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
by Conrad Richter
  
46. The Little Prince: Sixtieth-Anniversary Gift Edition
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  
47. Early Moon (A Voyager/Hbj Book)
by Carl Sandburg
  
48. Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
by Walter Scott
  
49. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
  
50. The Red Pony (Puffin Classics S.)
by John Steinbeck
  
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Created by Carolyn on Apr 01, 2007.