Young Reader’s List

Arranged By Grade Level

To offer a reading list for grade groups in elementary school is indeed risky, for the best books and poems belong to all age groups. A little girl of ten reads Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows and writes of the character she likes best: "I like Mr. Badger the best because he is kind and old, and seems to be lonely." A fifteen year old boy writing about the same character says: "Mr. Badger avoided crowds. He enjoyed the quiet of his surroundings, and would not have been caught dead at a football game. He was very much like one of my teachers who enjoys his solitude and who would never be caught in a crowd." And J. Donald Adams, the critic, writing of the incident in the same story of Mole's coming home and his pleasure at being there again: "It is the truth that every adventurer comes to know. It is the same impulse that, in reading, brings us back from time to time to the old tried favorites, the books which we know will never let us down. To recognize and accept the strength of that desire is not to shut the door against new experiences, whether in the world or in books; it is merely to leave the door open, both for departure and return." Here then, as among all readers whether young or old, in all books, new ones or tested classics, each will find some experience, some feeling, which will give significance to some emotion or experience in life—that experience may be that of a little girl of ten who has seen age and loneliness and responded with love, or it may be the wise critic finding new pleasures in the familiar.

In addition to the problems of the best books and poems, there is also the problem of the reader. Studies in reading carried out at the University of Michigan indicate that a typical group of fifth graders might contain readers who read at nine different "book levels" ranging from Grades 1 through 9. Any list becomes, more or less, arbitrary, especially for the lower grades. One need only visit the local bookstore to see how many are the shelves from which to choose. There are rockets and spiders, sand dunes and middens, fairies and flying saucers, space-men and wilderness scouts, and snakes of the Gobi desert and flowers of the world. Interest will vary and change and it is to be hoped that the young reader will range widely.

If there seems to be an omission of titles befitting our age of automation and space, the reason for the omission is to be found in the reading habits of 93 children tested and a survey recently conducted by the University of Illinois. The survey, conducted in 270 communities, attempted to probe the gap between the interests of children and what parents, teachers, and libraries have believed they want to read. It was found that "adults" generally tend to overemphasize the child's "curiosity" about machines, applied science (all-about-how-it-works books), sports and recreation. Under-estimated has been the appeal of ethics and values, history and people. The same survey reveals that "interest" in animals is strong at every reading level.

The list here offered omits much. Many of the old favorites which are read to children, and which children come back to and read themselves, are omitted. Only a few titles from many significant series, such as Landmark and Signature, are listed; however, when the first is returned to the public library, the young reader will choose a second and a third. Included are a limited number of titles aimed at implanting a desire for further reading in the mind of the young reader.

There is the added problem of limitation. The child in the "dinosaur stage of reading" might want ten titles and find only one. However, when 93 youngsters submit themselves to conferences and check lists to determine what books they have enjoyed reading, most of the problems disappear. The list which follows is the result of extensive inquiry among eighth graders (50 girls and 43 boys) from thirty-two ¦States. Most of the 93 come from homes where there are some books; some evidenced wise guidance for the reading of good books on the part of their parents, but some have received no encouragement for reading at home. Except in rare cases (disturbed children because of some neglect) they all seemed to have one thing in common. As normal boys and girls who want to become better swimmers and tennis players, so also, they want to become better readers of better books. If this list is in any way surprising, your own child, with a little encouragement, might well surprise you more.

Grades 1 - 3

                        Andersen, Hans C.
            Fairy Tales                                           Grosset
            Arabian Nights                                     Grosset

                        Bannerman, Helen
            Little Black Sambo                               Lippincott

                        Belting, Natalia
            Moon is a Crystal Ball                          Bobbs

                       
                        Benson, Sally
            Stories of Gods and Heroes                  Dial
           
                        Bishop, Claire H.
            Five Chinese Brothers                           Coward

                        Boulton, R.
            Traveling With the Birds                        Donohue

                        Brooke, Leslie
            Johnny Crow's Garden                         Warne
            Golden Goose Book

                        Burgess, Thornton
            Old Mother West Wind                        Little, Brown

                        Dalgliesh, Alice
            Courage of Sarah Noble                       Scribner's
            The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
           
                        d'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar
            Buffalo Bill                                            Doubleday

                        de Angeli, Marguerite
            The Door in the Wall                            Doubleday

                        Doane, Pelagie
            Small Child's Bible                                Oxford
 
                        Eager, Edward
            Half Magic
            Knights' Castle                                     Harcort

                        Freeman, Ira
            Your Wonderful World of Science        Random

                        Frost, Francis
            Sleigh Bells for Windy Foot                  Whittlesey

                        Gag, Wanda
            Millions of Cats
            Fairy Tales From Grimm                       Coward

                        Grahame, Kenneth
            Reluctant Dragon                                  Holiday

                        Harris, Joel Chandler
            Tales of Uncle Remus                           Giosset

                        Hasford, Dorothy
            Thunder of the Gods                             Holt

                        Kieran, John
            Introduction to Birds                             Garden City

                        Kipling, Rudyard
            The Just So Stories

                        La Fontaine
            Fables  Grosset

                        Lawson, Robert
            Fabulous Flight                                     Little, Brown
            Rabbit Hill
           
                        Leaf, Munro
            Story of Ferdinand
            Aesop's Fables (Leafs edition)              Viking
 
                        Lenski, Lois
            Peanuts for Billy Ben                             Lippincott
            We Live in the Country                         Lippincott
                       
                        MacGregor, Ellen
            Miss Pickerel Goes to Mars                  Whittlesey

                        Macleod, Mary
            Book of King Arthur                             Lippincott
           
                        *Mason, Miriam.
            Young Audubon: Boy Naturalist            Bobbs

                        McKinney, Margaret
            Birds in Your Garden                            Minnesota Press
           
                        Meadowcroft, Enid
            First Year: The Story of the Pilgrims
            in America                                            Crowell

* (The Childhood of Famous Americans Series. Bobbs-Merrill. There are more than fifty titles and they are all well written for this age group.)

                        Otis, James
            Toby Tyler                                           Grosset

                        Peck, Harry T.
            The Adventures of Mabel                     Dodd

                        Politi, Leo
            Song of the Swallows                           Scribner's
           
                        Potter, Beatrix
            The Tale of Peter Rabbit                       Warne
            The Tale of Benjamin Bunny                 Warne
            The Tale of Jemima Paddle-Duck         Warne

                        Schwab, Gustave
            Gods and Heroes                                 Pantheon

                        Seuss, Dr.
            And to Think I saw It on
            Mulberry Street                                    Vanguard

                        Sewell, Ann                             
            Black Beauty                                        Scríbner's

                        *Stevenson, Augusta
            Booker T. Washington:                         Bobbs
            Ambitious Boy Abe Lincoln:                 Bobbs
            Frontier Boy Clara Barton:                    Bobbs
            Girl Nurse George Washington:             Bobbs
            Boy Leader                                          Bobbs

                        *Wagoner, Jean Brown
            Jane Addams: Little Lame Girl              Bobbs

                        Warner, Elsa J.
            Stories From the Old Testament:           Simon and Schuster

POETRY: Grades 1 - 3

                        de la Mare, Walter                   Holt
            Rhymes and Verses

¦ (The Childhood of Famous Americans Series. Bobbs-Merrill. There are more than fifty titles and they are all well written for this age group.)

                        Elliot, Gertrude (editor)             Simon and Schuster
            The Golden Book of Verses
           
                        Field, Eugene                            Scribnei's
            Poems of Childhood

                        Frost, Francis
            The Little Whistler                                Whittlesey
            The Little Naturalist                              Whittlesey
 
                        McFarland, Wilma (editor)
            Great Poems Old and New                   Westminster

                        Milne, A. A.
            When We Were Very Young                Dutton
            Now We Are Six                                 Dutton

                        Peterson, Isabel J.
            The First Book of Poetry                      Watts

                        Richards, Laura E.
            Tirra Lirra                                             Little, Brown

                        Riley, James Whitcomb
            Child Rhymes                                       Grosset
           
                        Stevenson, Robert L.
            A Child's Garden of Verses                  Grosset

Grades 4-5

                        Adams, Samuel H.
            The Pony Express                                 Random

                        Allen, M. P.
            Johnny Reb                                          Longmans

                        Andersen, Hans C.
            Andersen's Fairy Tales                          Heritage

                        Andrews, Roy Chapman
            All About Dinosaurs                             Viking
           
                        Barker, Shirley
            The Trojan Horse                                 Random
 
                        Boumann, Hans
            Caves of the Great Hunters                   Dodd
           
                        Buck, Margaret W.
            In Woods and Fields                            Abingdon

                        Burgess, Thornton
            Old Mother West Wind                        Little, Brown
            Children's Book of Flowers
            Children's Book of Birds
            Nature's Children

                        Burnett, Frances Hodgson
            The Secret Garden                               Scribner's

                        Carroll, Lewis
            Alice in Wonderland                             Grosset
            Through the Looking Glass                   Grosset

                        Carter, Hodding
            Robert E. Lee                                       Random
           
                        Collido, C.
            The Adventures of Pinocchio                Macmillan

                        Colum, Padraic
            Children of Odin                                   Macmillan
            Tales of Homer                                     Macmillan

                        Dalgliesh, Alice
            Ride on the Wind                                  Scribner's

                        Dougherty, James
            Daniel Boone                                        Viking
            Abraham Lincoln                                  Viking

                        de Angeli, Marguerite
            The Old Testament                               Doubleday

                        de le Mare, Walter
            A Penny a Day                                     Knopf

                        Earle, Olive G.
            Birds in their Nests                               Morrow

Fadiman, Clifton
            The Voyages of Ulysses                        Random
            The Adventures of Hercules                  Random

                        Farley, Walter
            The Black Stallion                                 Random

                        Fenton, Carroll
            Prehistoric World                                 Day
            Pecos Bill, Texas Cowpuncher              Knopf
            The Land We Live On                          Doubleday

                        Gait, John
            The Rise of Thunderer                          Crowell

                        Graves, Robert
            Greek Gods and Heroes                       Doubleday

                        Grimm (Brothers)
            Grimm's Fairy Tales                              Grosser

                        Gunther, John
            The Golden Fleece                               Random

                        Hahn, Emily
            Leonardo Da Vinci                               Random

                        Hawthorne, Nathaniel
            Tanglewood Tales                                Dodd
            The Wonder Book                               Dodd

                        Henry, Marguerite
            Misty of Chincoteague                          Rand-McNally
            Justin Morgan Had a Horse                  Rand-McNally
 
                        Hillyer, V. M.
            A Child's History of the World              Crofts
            A Child's Geography of the World        Crofts

                        Holden, Raymond
            Secrets in the Dust: Archaeology           Dodd

                        Hunt, Mabel L.
            Johnny Appleseed                                Lippincott

Johnson, Gerald W„
            America: A History for Peter (3 vols.)   Morrow
           
                        Johnson, Wm.
            Sam Houston                                        Random

                        Johnson, Ralph E.
            Old Tangle Eye                                     Houghton

                        Kieran, Margaret and John
            John J. Audubon                                   Random
           
                        Kingsley, Charles
            The Water Babies                                 Dodd

                        Kipling, Rudyard
            The Jungle Book                                   Doubleday

                        Knight, Eric
            Lassie Come Home                              Winston

                        Lawson, Robert
            Mr. Revere and I                                  Little, Brown
            Ben and Me                                         Little, Brown

                        Lewis, C. S.
            The Lion, the Witch,
            and the Wardrobe                                Macmillan
            Prince Caspian                                     Macmillan
            Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"             Macmillan
            The Silver Chair                                    Macmillan
            The Horse and His Boy                        Macmillan

                        Lofting, Hugh
            The Story of Dr. Dolittle                       Lippincott

                        Macdonald, George
            The Princess and the Goblins                Macmillan
            The Princess and Curdie At the Back of the North Wind

                        Mason, Van Wyck
            The Winter at Valley Forge                   Random
                       
                        McSwigan, Marie
            Snow Treasure                                     Button

                        Moody, Ralph
            Geremino                                             Random

                        North, Sterling
            Abraham Lincoln                                  Random

                        Orton, Helen F.
            Treasurer in the Little Trunk                  Lippincott

                        Pace, Mildred
            Old Bones, the Wonder Horse              McGraw

                        Pease, H.
            Mark Twain, His Life                            Holt

                        Pyle, Howard
            The Wonder Clock
            King Arthur and His Knights                 Scribner's
            Robin Hood

                        Rice, Alice H.
            Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch         Crofts
 
                        Ruskin, John
            King of the Golden River                      Macmillan

                        Salten, Felix
            Bambi                                                  Barnes

                        Sandburg, Carl
            Rutabaga Stories                                  Harcourt
            Abe Lincoln Grows Up                         Harcourt

                        Seredy, Kate
            The Good Master                                 Viking

                        Seton, Ernest Thompson
            Wild Animals I Have Known                Scribner's
            Biography of a Grizzly                           Scribner's

                        Sperry, Armstrong
            Danger to Windward                            Grosset
            Call it Courage                                     Grosset
           
                        Steele, William
            Winter Danger                                      Harcourt
                        Stuart, Jesse
            A Penny's Worth of Character              McGraw

                        Teale, Edwin W.
            Insect Friends                                       Dodd

                        Travers, Pamela L.
            Mary Poppins                                       Harcourt

                        Untermeyer, Louis (editor)
            The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan Heritage
                       
                        Van Riper, Guernsey
            Lou Gehrig                                           Bobbs

                        Waldeck, Theo.
            Lions on the Hunt                                 Viking

                        West, Anthony
            The Crusades                                       Random

                        White, E. B.
            Charlotte's Web                                   Harper
            Stuart Little

                        Wilder, Laura
            Little House in the Big Woods               Harper

                        Yates, Elizabeth
            Mountain Born                                     Coward

POETRY: Grades 4-5

                        Aldis, Dorothy
            All Together                                         Putman

                        Field, Eugene
            Poems of Childhood                             Scribner's

                        Frost, Robert
            You Come Too                                    Holt

                        Kipling, Rudyard
            Poems for Boys and Girls                     Doubleday

Lindsay, Vachel
            Johnny Appleseed and Other Poems     Macmillan
           
                        Lines, Kathleen, and Montgomery, Norah (editors)
            Poems and Pictures                              Abelard

                        Riley, James Whitcomb
            Best Loved Poems                               Bobbs

                        Sandburg, Carl
            Wind Song                                           Harcourt

Grades 6-7

                        Alcott, Louisa
            Little Women                                        Little, Brown
            Eight Cousins

                        Andrews, Mary
            The Perfect Tribute                               Scribner's

                        Baldwin, James
            The Story of Roland                             Grosset
            The Story of Siegfried                           Grosset

                        Blivan, Bruce J.

            The Story of D-Day                              Random

                        Buchan, John
            Prester John
            The 39 Steps                                        Houghton
                       
                        Chase, Mary Ellen
            Sailing the Seven Seas                          Houghton

                        Commanger and Ward
            Robert E. Lee                                       Houghton

                        Coolidge, Olivia

            Greek Myths
            Roman People
            Legends of the North                            Houghton

Cottier, Joseph
            Heroes of Civilization                            Little, Brown

                        Davis, W. S.
            Friend of Caesar                                   Macmillan

                        Defoe, Daniel
            Robinson Crusoe                                  Grosser

                        Dickens, Charles
            David Copperfield
            Oliver Twist                                          Macrae

                        Dumas, Alexander
            The Man in the Iron Mask                    Grosser

                        Edmonds, Walter
            Matchlock Gun                                     Dodd-Mead

                        Eifert, Virginia S.
(The five books listed below provide a well chronicled picture of
Abraham Lincoln and his times)
            The Buffalo Trace
            Out of the Wilderness
            Three Rivers South
            With This Task Before Me
            New Birth of Freedom                          Dodd-Mead

                        Fast, Howard
            Tall Hunter                                           Harper
           
                        Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
            Paul Revere and the Minute Men          Random
            Our Independence and the Constitution        Random

                        Flaherty, John J.
            The Courage and the Glory                   Lippincott
 
                        Forbes, Esther
            Johnny Tremain                                    Houghton

                        Foster, Genevieve
            Augustus Caesar's World
            George Washington's World
            Abraham Lincoln's World                     Scribner’s

                        Fox, John
            The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come        Rinehart

                        Frank, Ann
            The Diary of Ann Frank                        Doubleday
           
                        Gait, John
            The Story of Peace and War                 Crowell

                        Gipson, Frederick B.
            Old Yeller                                            Harper

                        Goodwin, Frank
            The Black Bull                                      Doubleday

                        Grahame, Kenneth
            The Wind in the Willows                       Heritage

                        Hammond-Innes, Ralph
            Wreck of the Mary Deare                     Westminster

                        Hemingway, Ernest
            The Old Man and the Sea                     Scribner's

                        Heyerdahl, Thor
            Kon-Tiki                                              Random

                        Household, Geoffrey
            The Exploits of Xenophon                     Random

                        James, Will
            Smokey, the Cow Horse                      Scribner's
 
                        Jones, Juanita
            David, Warrior of God                         Association

                        Kantor, MacKirnlay
            Gettysburg                                            Random
            Lee and Grant at Appomattox               Random
            The Voice of Bugle Ann                        Coward

                        Kipling, Rudyard
            Captains Courageous                            Doubleday

                        Kjelgaard, Jim
            Wild Trek                                             Holiday House
                        Lamb, Charles and Mary
            Tales from Shakespeare                        Crowell

                        Lawson, Robert
            Mr. Wilmer                                          Little, Brown

                        Lawson, Ted and Considine, Bob
            Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo                  Random

                        London, Jack
            Call of the Wild
            White Fang                                           Macmillan

                        Long, Laura
            Joseph: Slave and Prince                       Association

                        Mann, Martha
            Nathan Hale, Patriot                             Dodd

                        Masefield, John
            Jim Davis                                              McKay

                        Meader, Stephen W.
            Trap Lines North                                  Dodd
 
                        Montgomery, Eliz. R.
            The Story Behind Great Books             Dodd

                        Moody, Ralph
            Little Britches
            Man of the Family
            The Fields of Home                              Norton

                        Ogburn, C.
            The White Falcon                                 Lippincott

                        O'Hara, Mary
            My Friend Flicka
            Green Grass of Wyoming                      Lippincott

                        Pyle, Howard
            Men of Iron
            Otto of the Silver Hand
            Adventures of Robin Hood                   Grosset

Rowlings, Marjorie K.
            The Yearling                                         Scribner's

                        Reese, John H.
            Big Mutt                                               Westminster

                        Rendina, Laura
            My Love for One                                 Little, Brown

                        Reynolds, Quentin
            The Battle of Britain                              Random
            Ouster's Last Stand                              Random
            The Wright Brothers                             Random

                        Ross, Nancy Wilson
            Joan of Arc                                          Random
           
                        Rush, William
            Red Fox of Kinapoo                             Longmans
 
                        Ruskin, John
            King of the Golden River                      Macmillan

                        Sandburg, Carl
            Rutabaga Stories                                  Harcourt
            Prairie Town Boy                                 Harcourt

                        Scherman, Katherine
            The Sword of Siegfried                         Random

                        Steinbeck, John
            The Red Pony                                      Viking

                        Stevenson, Robert L.
            Treasure Island
            Kidnapped                                           Scribner's

                        Streatfield, Noel
            The Stranger in Primrose Lane              Random

                        Street, James
            Goodby, My Lady                                Lippincott
            The Civil War                                       Dial Press

                        Stuart, Jesse
            The Beatenist Boy
            Hie to the Hunters
            The Red Mule
            The Rightful Owner                               McGraw

                        Swift, Jonathan
            Gulliver's Travels                                  Grosset

                        Terhune, Albert P.
            Lad: A Dog                                          Dutton

                        Thomas, Lowell
            True Adventures                                   Hawthorne

                        Twain, Mark
            The Prince and the Pauper                    Grosset
            Tom Sawyer                                         Grosset
            The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn     Grosset

                        Warner, Rex
            Gods and Men                                     Random

                        Warren, Robert Penn
            The Gods on Mt. Olympus                   Random

                        West, Anthony
            The Crusades                                       Random

                        White, Anne T.
            Lost Worlds: Archaeology                    Random

                        Whitridge, Arnold
            Simon Bolivar                                       Random

                        Wilde, Oscar
            The Happy Prince and other Stories      Winston
           
                        Wyss, Johann
            Swiss Family Robinson                         Grosset

POETRY: Grades 6-7

                        Adams, Franklin P. (editor)
            Innocent Merriment                              McGraw

                        Benét, Rosemary and Stephen
            Book of Americans                               Rinehart
                        Daly, T. A.
            Selected Poems                                    Harcourt

                        Dickinson, Emily
            Poems for Youth                                  Little, Brown

                        Guiterman, Arthur
            Lyric Laughter                                      Dutton

                        Herbert, A. P.
            Laughing Ann and Other Poems            Benn

                        Kipling, Rudyard
            Poems for Boys and Girls                     Doubleday

                        Housman, A. E.
            A Shropshire Lad                                 Holt
           
                        Means, Hughes
            Creative Youth                                     Doubleday

                        Millay, Edna St. Vincent

            Second April                                        Harper
            The Harp Weaver and Other Poems     Harper

                        Sandburg, Carl
            Early Moon                                          Harcourt

                        Stephens, James
            In the Land of Youth                             Macmillan

                        Untermeyer, Louis
            The Golden Treasury of Poetry             Golden Press

Some Favorite Poems for 6th and 7th Graders

                        Blake, William
            The Lamb

                        Browning, Robert
            Pied Piper of Hamelin
                        Bryant, Wm. Cullen
            To a Water Fowl

Carroll, Lewis
Father William

                        Coffin, Robert P. T.
            The Means Massacre

                        de la Mare, Walter
            The Listeners
                       
                        Emerson, Ralph Waldo
            Concord Hymn

                        Frost, Robert
            Departmental
            The Pasture
            Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

                        Hodgson, Ralph
            "Time, You Old Gipsy Man"

                        Holmes, Oliver W. Old
            Ironsides

                        Hood, Thomas
            Past and Present Faithless Nellie Grey

                        Hunt, Leigh
            Abou Ben Adam

                        Longfellow, Henry W.
            The Village Blacksmith
            Paul Revere's Ride
            The Children's Hour
            Evangeline
            Hymn to the Night
            Excelsior
            The Psalm of Life
            The Wreck of the Hesperus
            The Arrow and the Song

                        Macaulay, Thomas B.
            Horatius at the Bridge
                       
                        Markham, Edwin
            The Christ of the Andes
            How the Great Guest Came
                        Masefield, John
            Sea Fever
            A Wanderer's Song

                        Miller, Joaquin
            Columbus

                        Noyes, Alfred
            The Highwayman

                        Foe, Edgar Allan
            The Raven
            Annabel Lee

                        Service, Robert
            The Cremation of Sam McGee
            The Shooting of Dan McGrew

                        Tennyson, Alfred Lord
            The Lady of Shalott
            The Charge of the Light Brigade

                        Thorpe, Rose Hartwick
            Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight

                        Untermeyer, Louis
            Caliban in the Coal Mines

                        Whitman, Walt O
            Captain! My Captain!

                        Whittier, John Greenleaf
            In School Days
            Maud Muller
            Snow Bound

                        Wordsworth, William
            The Solitary Reaper
            The Daffodils
            My Heart Leaps Up
            Lucy Gray; or, Solitude Intimations of Immortality

                        Yeats, WilliamB.
            The Ballad of Father Gilligan

Favorite Short Stones - 7th and 8th Graders

                        Asch, Sholem A
            Child Leads the Way

                        Bates, H. E.
            The Ox

                        Benét, Stephen Vincent
            The Devil and Daniel Webster

                        Bierce, Ambrose
            The Damned Thing

                        Caldwell, Erskine
            Snacker

                        Cather, Willa
            Neighbor Rosicky

                        Chase, Mary Ellen
            Salesmanship

                        Crane, Stephen
            The Open Boat

                        Dunsany, Lord
            The Return

                        Edmonds, Walter D.
            Death of Red Peril

                        Ewald, Carl
            My Little Boy

                        Ferber, Edna
            Meadow Lark

                        Galsworthy, John
            Quality

                        Hale, Edward Everett
            The Man Without a Country

                        Hardy, Thomas
            The Three Strangers
                        Harte, Bret
            The Luck of Roaring Camp
            Tennessee's Partner
            The Postmistress of Laurel Run

                        Hawthorne, Nathaniel
            The Ambitious Guest
            The Great Stone Face

                        Henry, O
            The Ransom of the Red Chief
            The Gift of the Magi

                        Herrick, Robert
            The Master of the Inn

                        Irving, Washington
            Rip Van Winkle
            The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

                        Jacobs, W. W.
            The Monkey's Paw

                        London, Jack
            To Build a Fire

                        Mansfield, Katherine A
            Cup of Tea
           
                        Maupassant, Guy
            The Necklace A Piece of String Two Friends

                        Pickthall, Marjorie
            The Stove

                        Poe, Edgar Allan
            The Black Cat The Pit and the Pendulum The Tell-Tale Heart

                        Stevenson, Robert Louis
            Markheim A Lodging for the Night

                        Stockton, Frank R.
            The Lady or the Tiger
                       
                        Stuart, Jesse
            The Chase of the Skittish Heifer
            Grandpa
            Sunday Afternoon Hanging
            Another April

                        Tolstoy, Leo
            The Three Hermits
            What Men Live By
            Where Love is, There God is Also

                        Twain, Mark
            The Celebrated Jumping Frog
           
                        von Saar, Ferdinand
            The Stone-breakers

                        Williams, Ben Ames
            "They Grind Exceeding Small"

                        Witherow, J. M.
            The Test

Grade 8

                        Aldrich, Bess
            A Lantern in Her Hand                         Grosset

                        Baumann, Hans
            The World of the Pharaohs                   Pantheon
 
                        Bishop, Jim
            The Day Lincoln was Shot                    Harper

                        Bronte, Emily
            Wuthering Heights                                Dutton

                        Brown, Ivor
            Shakespeare                                         Nelson

                        Cannon, Le Grand
            Look to the Mountain                           Holt

                        Catton, Bruce
            A Stillness at Appomattox                     Doubleday

                        Chase, Mary Ellen
            The White Gate
            Windswept                                           Macmillan

                        Crane, Stephen
            The Red Badge of Courage                  Appleton

                        Davis, Burke
            The Gray Fox                                       Rinehart

                        Dickens, Charles
            A Tale of Two Cities                            Scribner's

                        Du Maurier, Daphne
            Rebecca                                               Doubleday
           
                        Ellsberg, Edward
            Thirty Fathoms Deep                            Dodd-Mead

                        Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
            Seasoned Timber
            Hillboro People                                    Harcourt

                        Fitch, Florence M.
             One God: The Ways We Worship Him        Lothrop

                        Frank, Pat
            Alas! Babylon                                       Viking

                        Gallico, Paul
            The Snow Goose                                  Knopf

                        Godden, Rumer
            An Episode of Sparrows                       Viking

                        Gollomb, Joseph
            Albert Schweitzer                                 Vanguard

                        Graves, Robert
            Hercules, My Shipmate                         Macmillan

                        Gulbranssen, Tygre

Beyond Sing the Woods

            The Wind from the Mountains               Putnam's

                        Gunther, John
            Death Be Not Proud                             Harper

                        Guthrie, A. B.
            The Big Sky                                         Houghton

                        Hamilton, Edith
            Mythology                                            Little, Brown

                        Hersey, John
            Hiroshima                                             Knopf

                        Hudson, W. H.
            Green Mansions                                   Dodd-Mead

                        Hulme, Kathryn
            The Nun's Story                                   Little, Brown

                        Huxley, Aldous
            Brave New World                                Viking

                        Hyman, M.
            No Time for Sergeants                          Random
                       
                        London
            Anna and the King of Siam                   Day

                        Lansing, Alfred
            Endurance                                            McGraw

                        Lewis, C. S.
            Out of the Silent Planet
            Until We Have Faces                            Macmillan

                        Lord, Walter
            A Night to Remember                           Harper

                        Mitchell, Margaret
            Gone with the Wind                              Macmillan

                        Morley, Christopher
            Parnassas on Wheels                            Doubleday

                        Nathan, Robert
            They Went on Together                        Knopf

                        Nordhoff and Hall
            Mutiny on the Bounty                            Little, Brown
            Men Against the Sea                             Little, Brown
            Pitcairn's Island                                     Little, Brown
            Botany Bay                                          Little, Brown

                        Ogg, Oscar
            The 26 Letters                                      Crowell
                       
                        Orwell, George
            Nineteen Eighty-Four                            Harcourt

                        Paton, Man
            Cry, The Beloved Country                    Scribner's

                        Rosten, Leo
            The Education of Hyman Kaplan           Harcourt

                        Saint-Exupéry
            Night Flight                                           Reynal
            Wind, Sand, and Stars                          Reynal

                        Sandburg, Carl
            Abraham Lincoln (one vol. ed.)             Harcourt
            Always the Young Strangers                 Harcourt
            Storm Over the Land                            Harcourt

                        Saroyan, Wm.
            The Human Comedy                             Harcourt

                        Schaefer, Jack
            Shane                                                   Houghton

                        Scott, Robert S.
            God is My Co-Pilot                              Scribner's

                        Shute, Nevil
            On the Beach                                       Morrow

                        Standish, Wm.
            Elephant Walk                                      Macmillan

                        Stewart, George
            Storm                                                   Random

                        Stuart, Jesse
            Taps for Private Tussie                         Dutton
            The Thread That Runs So True             Scribner's

                        Taylor, Duncan
            Chaucer's England                                Roy
            The Elizabethan Age                             Roy

                        Thomas, Benjamin P.
            Abraham Lincoln                                  Knopf
           
                        Thoreau, Henry
            Walden                                                Heritage Press

                        Thurber, James
            The Thurber Album                              Simon and Schuster

                        Twain, Mark
            A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
            Court                                                   Heritage Press
            Life on the Mississippi                           Heritage Press

                        Ullman, James
            Banner in the Sky                                 Lippincott

                        Vandiver, Frank
            Mighty Stonewall                                  McGraw

                        Van Loon, Henrick
            The Story of Mankind                           Liveright

                        Verne, Jules
            Mysterious Island                                 Scribner's

                        White, T. H.
            The Once and Future King                    Putnam's

                        Wilder, Thornton
            The Bridge of San Luis Rey                  Grosset

                        Wouk, Herman
            The City Boy                                        Doubleday

PLAYS: Grade 8

                        Anderson, Maxwell
            Elizabeth, the Queen                             Random

                        Barrie, James M.
            The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
            What Every Woman Knows                 Scribner's
                       
                        Chekhov, Anton
            The Boor                                              Random

                        Dunsany, Lord
            A Night at an Inn                                  Putnam's

                        Galsworthy, John
            The Little Man                                      Scribner's

                        Gregory, Lady
            Spreading the News                             Scribner's
            The Rising of the Moon                         Scribner's

                        Hall, Holworthy; and Middlemass,Robert
            The Valiant                                           Longmans

                        Kennedy, Charles R.
            The Servant in the House                      Random

                        Maeterlinck, Maurice
            The Intruder                                         Liveright

                        Milne, A. A.
            Mr. Pim Passes By                               Random

                        Odets, Clifford
            Waiting for Lefty                                   Random

                        O'Neill, Eugene
            Ah! Wilderness                                     Random

                        Sherrill, Robert Cedric
            Journey's End                                       Coward

                        Sherwood, Robert
            Abe Lincoln in Illinois
            The Petrified Forest                              Scribner's

                        Synge, ƒ. M.
            Riders to the Sea                                  Random

                        Wilder, Thornton
            Our Town                                            Coward

                        Williams, Emlyn
            The Corn is Green                                Dramatist's Play Ser.

                        Vane, Sutton
            Outward Bound                                    Liveright

                        Yeats, W. B.
            The Hour Glass                                    Putnam's

POETRY: Grade 8

                        Auslander, Joseph
            The Winged Horse                               Doubleday

                        Hahn, Max T.
            Stories in Verse                                    Odyssey

                        Mïllay, Edna St. Vincent
            Poems Selected for Young People        Harper

                        Stephens, James
            Crock of Gold                                      Macmillan

                        Teasdale, Sara
            Stars Tonight                                        Macmillan

                        Untermeyer, Louis
            Magic Circle                                         Harcourt

Some Favorite Poems of 8th Graders

                        Arnold, Matthew
            Dover Beach
            Sohrab and Rustum

                        Blake, William
            The Tiger

                        Bryant, William Cullen
            Thanatopsis

                        Coffin, Robert P. T.
            The Secret Heart
            Lantern in the Snow

                       

Coleridge, Samuel T.
            Kubla Khan
            The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

                        Davidson, Donald
            Lee in the Mountains

                        de la Mare, Walter
            Silver
            All But Blind Voices
            The Miracle

                        Frost, Robert
            Desert Places
            Come In
            After Apple-Picking
            Mending Wall
            The Death of the Hired Man
            Birches
            The Runaway
            The Road Not Taken
            An Old Man's Winter Night
            Dust of Snow

                        Jones, Thomas S., Jr.
            Sometimes
           
                        Jonson, Ben
            To Celia
                       
                        Lindsay, Vachel
            Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight

                        Longfellow, Henry W.
            The Song of Hiawatha
            The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
            The Birds of Killingworth

                        Markham, Edwin
            The Man with the Hoe
            Lincoln, the Man of the People

                        Masters, Edgar Lee
            Ann Rutledge

            Noyes, Alfred
            The Band Organ

                        Poe, Edgar Allan
            Ulalume
            The Bells

                        Robinson, E. A.
            Mr. Flood's Party
            Miniver Cheevy
            Richard Cory

                        Stephens, James
            The Goat Paths

                        Stevenson, Robert Louis
            Requiem

                        Tennyson, Alfred
            Crossing the Bar

                        Thompson, Francis
            The Hound of Heaven

                        Whitman, Walt
            Pioneers, O Pioneers
            When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
            I Hear America Singing

                        Wilde, Oscar
            The Ballad of Reading Gaol

                        From the Old Testament
            The Song of Songs Psalms 15, 19, 23, 91, 104, 107, 121, 122, 125, 127 and 139.

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