1. Classic Literature Reading List for Middle School Students

1. Classic Literature Reading List for Middle School

Students

By: LuAnn Schindler

Many middle school students enjoy the connection with a young adult novel, but classic

literature never goes out of style. Several humanities organizations have established a

classic literature reading list that emphasizes the importance of reading timeless books.

This list introduces new characters and alien worlds to the middle school set. Several of

these books are commonly taught in middle school English classes, so adding them to a

summer reading list can give your child an advantage when they come up during the

school year.

Title

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

A Christmas Carol

A Day No Pigs Would Die

A Stranger Came Ashore

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Wizard of Earthsea

A Wrinkle in Time

Across Five Aprils

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Amos Fortune, Free Man

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Call It Courage

The Call of the Wild

The Chocolate War

The Count of Monte Cristo

Daddy Long Legs

Diary of a Young Girl

Dragonsong

Dragonwings

Enchantress From the Stars

The Endless Steppe: Growing up in

Siberia

Fahrenheit 451

Frankenstein

The Ghost Belonged To Me

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The Hobbit

The Horatio Hornblower Series

Author

Jules Verne

Charles Dickens

Robert Newton Peck

Mollie Hunter

Betty Smith

Ursula K. LeGuin

Madeleine L'Engle

Irene Hunt

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Mark Twain

Elizabeth Yates

Thornton Wilder

Armstrong Sperry

Jack London

Robert Cormier

Alexander Dumas

Jean Webster

Anne Frank

Anne McCaffrey

Laurence Yep

Sylvia Engdahl

Esther Hautzig

Ray Bradbury

Mary Shelley

Richard Peck

James Hilton

J.R.R. Tolkien

C.S. Forester

Level Points

10.1

28

6.7

5

4.4

4

6.2

6

5.8

23

6.7

9

4.7

7

6.6

10

7.0

18

8.1

12

6.5

5

7.1

5

6.2

3

8.0

7

5.4

8

8.8

34

6.1

6

6.5

14

6.8

9

5.3

10

7.3

15

6.3

10

5.2

12.4

5.8

6.5

6.6

7.2-

7

17

6

3

16

7-19

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Incident at Hawk's Hill

Ivanhoe

Island of the Blue Dolphin

Jacob Have I Loved

Johnny Tremain

Journey to Topaz

Julie of the Wolves

Kim

The Last Mission

The Last of the Mohicans

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Little Prince

Little Women

M.C. Higgins the Great

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

My Brother Sam Is Dead

My Friend Flicka

Narrative of the Life of Frederick

Douglass

National Velvet

The Outsiders

The Pigman

The Pilgrim's Progress

The Red Pony

Rifles for Watie

Robinson Crusoe

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Shane

Story of My Life

To Be a Slave

Treasure Island

The Upstairs Room

War of the Worlds

Where the Lilies Bloom

Where the Red Fern Grows

The White Mountains

The Yearling

Victor Hugo

Allan W. Eckert

Sir Walter Scott

Scott O'Dell

Katherine Paterson

Esther Forbes

Yoshiko Uchida

Jean Craighead George

Rudyard Kipling

Harry Mazer

James Fenimore Cooper

Irving Washington

Antoine de SaintExupery

Louisa May Alcott

Virginia Hamilton

Howard Pyle

James and Christopher

Collier

Mary O'Hara

Frederick Douglass

Enid Bagnold

S.E. Hinton

Paul Zindel

John Bunyan

John Steinbeck

Harold Keith

Daniel Defoe

Mildred D. Taylor

Jack Schaefer

Helen Keller

Julius Lester

Robert Louis Stevenson

Johanna Reiss

H.G. Wells

Vera Cleaver

Wilson Rawls

John Christopher

Marjorie Kinnan

Rawlings

8.3

11.8

7.2

12.9

5.4

5.7

5.9

6.0

5.8

7.7

4.3

12.0

11.0

5.0

38

9

40

6

8

13

5

6

18

6

32

3

2

7.9

4.4

8.6

4.9

33

10

21

7

6.0

7.9

15

7

5.5

4.7

5.5

10.4

6.1

6.1

12.3

5.7

5.5

6.8

6.9

8.3

2.9

9.1

5.2

4.9

6.2

5.0

11

7

6

21

6

14

27

10

7

12

5

12

6

11

6

11

7

19

2. Older Classics for Children

The following titles commonly appear on lists of classic children's literature. Most have

been issued in several different editions, offering a range of illustration styles from

which to choose.

2.

Author

Title and date

Alcott, Louisa May

Barrie, J.M.

Baum, L. Frank

Bond, Michael

Brink, Carol Ryrie

Burnett,

Frances Hodgson

Carroll, Lewis

Little Women. c1868

Peter Pan. c1904

The Wizard of Oz. c1902

A Bear Called Paddington. c1958

Caddie Woodlawn. c1935

The Secret Garden. c1911

Collodi, Carlo

Defoe, Daniel

Dickens, Charles

Farley, Walter

Forbes, Esther

Frank, Anne

Gannett, Ruth Stiles

Gipson, Fred

Golding, William

Grahame, Kenneth

Kipling, Rudyard

Knight, Eric

Lewis, C.S.

Lindgren, Astrid

Milne, A. A.

Montgomery, L. M.

Norton, Mary

Pearce, Philippa

Rawlings, Marjorie

Kinnan

Sewell, Anna

Speare, Elizabeth G.

Spyri, Johanna

Stevenson, Robert

Louis

Alice's Adventures in

Wonderland. c1866

Adventures of Pinocchio. c1833

Robinson Crusoe. c1836

A Christmas Carol. c1844

The Black Stallion. c1941

Johnny Tremain. c1943

The Diary of a Young Girl. c1952

My Father's Dragon. c1948

Old Yeller. c1956

Lord of the Flies. c1954

The Wind in the Willows. 1907

The Jungle Book. 1894

Lassie Come-Home. c1940

The Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe. c1950

Pippi Longstocking. c1945

Winnie-the-Pooh. c1926

Anne of Green Gables. c1908

The Borrowers. c1953

Tom's Midnight Garden. c1958

The Yearling. c1938

Black Beauty. 1877

The Witch of Blackbird Pond. c1958

Heidi. c1884

Treasure Island. c1884

Level Points

7.9

33

7.2

8

7.4

7

4.7

4

6.0

8

6.3

13

7.4

5

5.3

12.3

6.7

5.2

5.9

6.5

5.6

5.0

5.0

8.2

7.4

5.4

5.7

6

27

5

7

13

14

1

5

9

11

20

9

6

5.2

4.6

7.3

5.3

6.1

5.0

4

3

17

5

9

19

7.7

5.7

8.2

8.3

11

9

16

12

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Travers, P. L.

Twain, Mark

Verne, Jules

White, E. B.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

The Hobbit

Mary Poppins. c1934

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. c1876

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the

Sea. c1873

Charlotte's Web. c1952

Little House in the Big Woods. c1932

6.6

6.1

8.1

10.1

16

6

12

28

4.4

4.9

5

8

3. Contemporary Classics

The following books are highly regarded by children's literature specialists, as well as

being popular with children - two qualities that make them likely to stand the test of

time.

Author

Adams, Richard

Alexander, Lloyd

Babbitt, Natalie

Blume, Judy

Burnford, Sheila

Cleary, Beverly

Cormier, Robert

Creech, Sharon

Curtis, Christopher

Paul

Dahl, Roald

DiCamillo, Kate

Farmer, Nancy

Fitzhugh, Louise

Gantos, Jack

Hamilton , Virginia

Jacques, Brian

Juster, Norton

Konigsburg, E. L.

LeGuin, Ursula

L'Engle, Madeline

Lowry, Lois

Lowry, Lois

Title and date

Watership Down. c1972

The Book of Three. c1964

Tuck Everlasting. c1975

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. c1972

The Incredible Journey. c1961

Ramona the Pest. c1968

The Chocolate War. c1974

Walk Two Moons. c1994

The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963. c1995

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. c1964

Because of Winn-Dixie. c2000

A Girl Named Disaster. c1996

Harriet the Spy. c1964

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key. c1998

M.C. Higgins, the Great. c1974

Redwall. c1986

The Phantom Tollbooth. c1961

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.

Frankweiler. 1967

The Wizard of Earthsea. c1968

A Wrinkle in Time. c1962

The Giver. c1982

Number the Stars. c1989

Level Points

6.2

25

5.3

7

5.0

4

3.3

3

7.6

5

5.1

4

5.4

8

4.9

9

5.0

8

4.8

3.9

5.1

4.5

4.9

4.4

5.6

6.7

4.7

5

3

14

8

5

10

16

7

5

6.7

4.7

5.7

4.5

9

7

7

4

MacLachlin, Patricia

Myers, Walter Dean

North, Sterling

Paterson, Katherine

Paulsen, Gary

Pierce, Tamora

Rasking, Ellen

Rawls, Wilson

Rockwell, Thomas

Rowling, J.K.

Sachar, Louis

Soto, Gary

Staples, Suzanne

Fisher

Taylor, Mildred D.

Uchida, Yoshiko

Watkins, Yoko

Kawashima

Yep, Laurence

Sarah, Plain and Tall. c1985

Scorpions. c1988

Rascal. c1963

Bridge to Terabithia. c1977

Hatchet. c1987

Alanna: The First Adventure. c1983

The Westing Game. c1978

Where the Red Fern Grows. c1961

How to Eat Fried Worms. c1973

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer¡¯s Stone. c1998

Holes. c1998

Baseball in April, and Other Stories. c1990

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind. c1989

3.4

3.7

7.1

4.6

5.7

4.5

5.3

4.9

3.5

5.5

4.6

5.1

5.9

1

6

7

5

7

7

8

11

2

12

7

4

9

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. c1976

Journey to Topaz. c1971

So Far From the Bamboo Grove. c1986

5.7

6.0

4.7

10

5

6

Dragonwings. c1975

5.3

10

4. Classic Reading¡ªRecommended Books

Author

Louisa May Alcott

William Armstrong

Jane Austin

Lynne Reid Banks

Frank Baum

Ray Bradbury

Charlotte Bront?

Emily Bront?

Frances Hodgson

Burnett

Willa Cather

Geoffrey Chaucer

Agatha Christy

Joseph Conrad

Stephen Crane

Daniel Defoe

Charles Dickens

Title

Little Women

Sounder

Pride and Prejudice

The Indian in the Cupboard

The Wizard of Oz

Fahrenheit 451

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

The Secret Garden

My ?ntonia

The Canterbury Tales

Murder on the Orient Express

Heart of Darkness

The Red Badge of Courage

Robinson Crusoe

A Christmas Carol

Level Points

7.9

33

5.3

3

12.0

27

4.6

6

7.4

7

5.2

7

7.9

33

11.3

23

6.3

13

6.9

8.1

6.2

9.0

8.0

12.3

6.7

9

26

9

10

8

27

5

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