current booklist.

(These books will be chosen both by me for literature seminar and the girls individually for personal reading)

Fiction
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Little Women (and other in series) by Louisa May Alcott
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Holes by Louis Sachar
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake
Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets
Jane Austen’s works
Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkein
Agatha Christie mysteries
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

Historical Fiction
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper
The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy

Non-Fiction
The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix
Hidden Figures – (young readers version) by Margot Lee Shetterly
Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
The Boy who Harnessed the Wind (young readers version) by William Kamkwamba
I Am Malala (young readers version) by Malala Yousafzai
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Where Stars are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamison
Turning of Days: Lessons from Nature, Season, and Spirit by Hannah Anderson
Braiding Sweetgrass (young readers version) by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Essays by Wendell Berry, Flannery O’Connor, C.S. Lewis, etc.
Tarantula in My Purse