Academics Pages:

ENGLISH 7, READING LIST, 2004 – 2005

You are required to read and do a report on a total of 8 books.  Only one title per author is permitted.  The starred (*) books are recommended reading. 

 

A             Aiken, Joan                           Go Bridle the Wind

                                                                Go Saddle the Sea

                                                                Teeth of the Gale

                Alcott, Louisa May             Little Men

                                                                *Little Women

                                                                Jo’s Boys

                                                                Under the Lilacs

                                                                An Old-Fashioned Girl

                Armstrong, William             Sounder

                Asimov, Isaac                       Fantastic Voyage

                (Anon)                                   *Aesop’s Fables

B             Bunyan, John                       *Pilgrim’s Progress

                Burnett, F. H.                        The Secret Garden

                                                                The Lost Prince

C             Calvert, Patricia                    Snowbird

                                                                The Money Creek Mare

                                                                The Stone Pony

                Carroll, Lewis                        *Alice in Wonderland

                                                                Through the Looking Glass

                Cervantes, Miguel               *Don Quixote (abridged allowed)

D             Defoe, Daniel                        *Robinson Crusoe

                Dickens, Charles                  *A Christmas Carol

                                                                *Oliver Twist

                                                                *Ye Old Curiosity Shop

                Doyle, A. Conan                  *Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

                                                                *The Hounds of the Baskervilles

Dubbel, S. Earl                      Daughter of the Plain Folk

E              Evslin, Bernard                     The Trojan War   

                Evslin and Hoopes              Heroes and Monsters of Greek Myths

                                                                The Greek Gods

F              Forbes, Ester                         *Johnny Tremain

G             Green, Roger                         Tales of Ancient Egypt

                                                                The Tale of Troy

H             Hawse, Alberta                     Vinegar Boy

                Hawthorne, N.                      *A Wonder Book

                Holm, Anne                           I Am David – also called North to Freedom

                Hunt, Irene                            *Across Five Aprils

I               Irving, Washington             *The Sketch Book

                                                                *Tales of the Alhambra

J              John C. Winston, Co.          The Arabian Nights

K.            Kipling, Rudyard                  *Kim

                                                                Just So Stories

                                                                Captains Courageous

L              Lamb, Charles                       Tales from Shakespeare

                L’Engle, Madeline                A Wrinkle in Time

                Longfellow, H. W.                The Song of Hiawatha

Evangeline

M            Montgomery, L. M.             Anne of Green Gables (any of series)

                                                                Emily series

P              Pyle, Howard                        Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

R             Rawlings, Marjorie               The Yearling

                Rawls, Wilson                      Where the Red Fern Grows

                                                                Summer of the Monkeys

S              Shakespeare, William          *A Midsummer Night’s Dream

                                                                * A Comedy of Errors

                                                                *The Tempest

                Shephard, Esther                  *Paul Bunyan

                Speare, Elizabeth                  *Witch of Blackbird Pond

                                                                Bronze Bow

                                                                Calico Captive

                Stevenson, R. L.                   *Treasure Island

S              Sutcliff, Rosemary                The Eagle of the Ninth

                                                                Knight’s Fee

                                                                The Silver Branch

                                                                Song for A Dark Queen

T             Tolkien, J. R.                         *The Hobbit

                Twain, Mark                          *Tom Sawyer

                                                                *The Prince and the Pauper

V             Verne, Jules                           Around the World in Eighty Days

                                                                Journey to the Center of the Earth

W            Wilde, Oscar                         *The Happy Prince and Other Stories

                Wyss, Johann                      The Swiss Family Robinson

 

BIOGRAPHY

 

Andrew, Brother                                  God’s Smuggler

Bush, Catherine                                    Elizabeth I

Dick, Lois H.                                         Amy Carmichael:  Let the Little Children Come 

Dowdy, Homer E.                 Christ’s Witchdoctor

Elliot, Elisabeth                                     Through Gates of Splendor

Forsberg, Malcolm                               Land Beyond the Nile

Frank, Anne                                          Anne Frank:  The Diary of a Young Girl

Hege, Ruth                                            We Two Alone

Hitt, Russel                                           Jungle Pilot

Jay, Ruth Johnson                               Mary Slessor: Queen of Cannibals

Keller, Helen                                         The Story of My Life

Kennedy, John F.                                 Profiles in Courage

Ludwig, Chalres                                   Susanna Wesley

                                                                George F. Handel

Proudfit, Isabel                                     James Fenimore Cooper

Tiner, John Hudson                             Louis Pasteur