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The following comprises the reading list for Liberty Christian Junior High students. While, of course, we cannot endorse every concept of every book, we do believe that these are among the books one would read in order to be widely read. Many can be found in the school library.
Junior High Recommended Reading List
| Any |
Alcott, Louisa May |
| Sounder |
Armstrong, William H. |
| Hope Was Here |
Bauer, Joan |
| Wizard of Oz |
Baum, Frank L. |
| Mist Over The Mountains |
Bial, Raymond |
| The Bridge Over The River Kwai |
Boulle, Pierre |
Dandelion Wine
The Martian Chronicles |
Bradbury, Ray |
Clotel
The President's Daughter |
Brown, William Wells |
All Men Are Brothers
Dragon Seed |
Buck, Pearl S. |
| The Pilgrim's Progress |
Bunyan, John |
| The Adventures of Reddy Fox |
Burgess, Thornton W. |
A Little Princess
Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Secret Garden |
Burnett, Frances Hodgson |
| Tarzan of the Apes |
Burroughs, Edgar Rice |
| Ender's Game |
Card, Orson Scott |
| Al Capone Does My Shirts |
Choldenko, Gennifer |
| Any |
Christie, Agatha |
| The Grey King |
Cooper, Susan |
| Getting Near to Baby |
Couloumbis, Audrey |
Walk Two Moons
The Wanderer |
Creech, Sharon |
| Madame Curie: A Biography |
Curie, Eve |
Bud, Not Buddy
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 |
Curtis, Christopher Paul
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Catherine Called Birdy
The Midwife's Apprentice |
Cushman, Karen |
| James & The Giant Peach |
Dahl, Roald |
| The Tale of Despereaux : Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread |
DiCamillo, Kate |
| 26 Fairmount Avenue |
dePaola, Tomie |
| The Robe |
Douglas, Lloyd |
| Any |
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan |
| Rebekah |
du Maurier, Daphne |
A Girl Named Disaster
The House of the Scorpion |
Farmer, Nancy |
| The Whipping Boy |
Fleischman, Sid |
| Washington, The Indispensable Man |
Flexner, James Thomas |
| The African Queen |
Forrester, C.S. |
| Joey Pigza Loses Control |
Gantos, Jack |
Lily's Crossing
Pictures of Hollis Woods |
Giff, Patricia Reilly |
| Lord of the Flies |
Golding, William |
| Death Be Not Proud |
Gunther, John |
| King Solomon's Mines |
Haggard, H. Rider |
| The Man Without a Country |
Hale |
| A Raisin in the Sun |
Hansberry, Lorraine |
| Old Man & The Sea |
Hemingway, Ernest |
| Olive's Ocean |
Henkes, Kevin |
| Out of the Dust |
Hesse, Karen |
| Lost Horizon |
Hilton, James |
The Outsiders
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Hinton, S.E. |
| Our Only May Amelia |
Holm, Jennifer L. |
| Everything on a Waffle |
Horvath, Polly |
| Farewell to Manzanar |
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. |
The Road Unseen
The Walk West |
Jenkins, Peter & Barbara |
| The Story of My Life |
Keller, Helen |
| Profiles in Courage |
Kennedy, John F. |
| The View from Saturday |
Konigsburg, E.L. |
| Anna and the King of Siam |
Landan, Margaret |
| Stories from the Thousand & One Nights |
Lane, Edward |
| The Arabian Nights Entertainments |
Lang, Andrew |
| Inherit the Wind |
Lawrence |
| Mr. Revere and I |
Lawson, Robert |
Meet the Austins
A Wrinkle in Time |
L'Engle, Madelaine |
| Ella Enchanted |
Levine, Gail Carson |
Space Trilogy (no Narnia) |
Lewis. C.S. |
The Call of the Wild
Martin Eden
The Sea Wolf
White Fang |
London, Jack |
Gathering Blue (Companion book to The Giver)
Gooney Bird Greene
Messenger
Number the Stars |
Lowry, Louis |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall |
MacLachlan, Patricia |
| Le Morte de Arthur |
Malory, Thomas (trans.) |
| Christy |
Marshall, Catherine |
| A Corner of The Universe |
Martin, Ann M. |
| Moorchild |
McGraw, Eloise |
| The Hero and the Crown |
McKinley, Robin |
| Any |
Montgomery, L.M. |
| Mutiny on the Bounty |
Norhoff and Hall |
| Rascal |
North, Sterling |
| The Scarlet Pimpernell |
Orczy, Baroness Emma |
| Pearl |
Osgood, Charles |
| A Single Shard |
Park, Linda Sue |
| Eragon |
Paolini, Christopher |
Bridge to Terabithia
Jacob Have I Loved |
Paterson, Katherine |
The Day No Pigs Would Die
A Long Way from Chicago
A Year Down Yonder |
Peck, Richard |
| The Chosen |
Potok, Chaim |
| The Yearling |
Rawlings, Marjorie |
| The Light In The Forest |
Richter, Conrad |
| Any |
Rowling, J.K. |
| Wild Horses I Have Known |
Ryden, Hope |
| Missing May |
Rylant, Cynthia |
| The Little Prince |
Saint-Exupery, Antoinne |
| Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy |
Schmidt, Gary D. |
| Talisman |
Scott, Sir Walter |
| Black Beauty |
Sewell, Anna |
Maniac Magee
Wringer |
Spinelli, Jerry |
| Heidi |
Spyri, Johanna |
| Michelangelo |
Stanley, Diane |
The Pearl
The Red Pony |
Steinbeck, John |
The Black Arrow
Kidnapped
Prince Otto
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Treasure Island |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
| Gulliver's Travels |
Swift, Jonathan |
| Once a Wolf |
Swinburne, Stephen R. |
| Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
Taylor, Mildred D. |
| The Hiding Place |
Ten Boom, Corrie |
| Surviving the Applewhites |
Tolan, Stephanie S. |
Nikolenka's Childhood |
Tolstoy, Leo |
| The Thief |
Turner, Megan Whalen |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the Moon
Around the World in Eighty Days
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
Five Weeks in a Balloon
From the Earth to the Moon
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Master of the World
Michael Strogoff
The Mysterious Island
Robur the Conqueror
The Survivors of the Chancellor
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Verne, Jules |
Island Of Dr. Moreau
The Time Machine |
Wells, H. G. (George) |
| Ethan Frome |
Wharton, Edith |
| Belle Prater's Boy |
White, Ruth |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Our Town |
Wilder, Thornton |
| The Swiss Family Robinson |
Wyss, Johann |
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