Lists of Bests: The Educated Child's Good Books for Junior High http://www.listsofbests.com/list/29870 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. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:42:41 GMT en-us 0 50 67 50 0 National Velvet http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2565124 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2565124"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1405209496.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1129917547_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Enid Bagnold</div> A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2768454 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2768454"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689829914.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joan W. Blos</div> The Moves Make the Man (rpkg) (HarperClassics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1725904 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1725904"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0064405648.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414869_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bruce Brooks</div> The Good Earth (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43777 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43777"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416500189.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pearl S. Buck</div> Alice's Adventures in Wonderland http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1003477 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</div> Through the Looking - Glass and What Alice Found There: With Fifty Illustrations http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2251272 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2251272"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0543900568.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V64599546_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lewis Carroll</div> Neighbor Rosicky http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1857220 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> The Dark Is Rising Sequence (Puffin Books) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/142357 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/142357"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140316884.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Susan Cooper</div> The Red Badge of Courage (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39673 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39673"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0689820003.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Crane</div> Madame Curie, A Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2768479 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eve Curie</div> Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9355 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9355"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375757325.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1628390 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1628390"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140620168.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> I'm Nobody! Who Are You? (Scholastic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2289846 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2289846"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439295769.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Dickinson</div> Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave (Penguin Classic) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/430120 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Douglass</div> The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4289 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4289"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0192835084.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div> The Lost World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2275792 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2275792"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400100860.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Conan Doyle</div> The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3310 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3310"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014044615X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057188757_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas pere</div> The Three Musketeers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/561278 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/561278"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0670037796.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> My Family and Other Animals (Cascades) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1006103 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1006103"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0003303187.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1083802006_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gerald Durrell</div> The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2768514 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2768514"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/091586455X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amelia Earhart</div> Washington: The Indispensable Man 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Henry</div> The Kon-Tiki Expedition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2600195 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2600195"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0006550339.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thor Heyerdahl</div> Rip Van Winkle And The Legend of Sleepy Hollow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2465898 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2465898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1591090792.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Washington Irving</div> A Boy of Old Prague http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2746068 <div id="position">30</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shulamith Ish-Kishor</div> The Story of My Life (Library Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92946 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92946"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1400131294.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Helen Keller</div> Kim http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/619807 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudyard Kipling</div> To Kill a Mockingbird http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2337938 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harper Lee</div> The Call Of The Wild (Scholastic Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49341 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49341"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439227143.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack London</div> Good Night, Mr. Tom http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46782 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46782"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/006440174X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michelle Magorian</div> The Crucible (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3715 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3715"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437336.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Miller</div> The Bounty Mutiny (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589653 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" 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