Thursday, May 31, 2012

New Reading List

Okay, sorry the title is misleading, it's not a new reading list for us.  It's actually a new list for my daughter.  I pay her $2 for any book she reads off of it.  This is her new one for 7th-8th grade.  I thought I'd put it up for any suggestions..... suggestions are always welcome!  Just FYI, I make the list of some harder books to challenge her, and then some books just so she'll branch out and read a wide variety of genres, and some I just put on because I like them. :)  She doesn't read without being required too, and she wouldn't read most of these without the monetary reward.


  • The Blue Sword -Robin McKinley
  • Kira-Kira -Cynthia Kadohata
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles -Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Lord of the Flies -William Golding
  • Dracula -Bram Stoker
  • The Hobbit -J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Rebecca -Daphne du Maurier
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin -Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Northanger Abbey -Jane Austin
  • Wuthering Heights -Emily Bronte
  • Ramona -Helen Hunt Jackson
  • Mrs. Mike -Benedict Freedman and Nancy Freedman
  • Kidnapped -Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Adrift:Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea - Steven Callahan
  • Little Women -Louisa May Alcott
  • Jurassic Park -Michael Crichton
  • Across Five Aprils -Irene Hunt
  • The Call of the Wild -Jack London
  • Anne of Green Gables -L.M. Montgomery
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm -Kate Douglas Wiggen
  • The Pearl -John Steinbeck
  • My Brother Sam is Dead -James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
  • The Outsiders -S.E. Hinton
  • The Cay -Theadore Taylor
  • A Day No Pigs Would Die -Robert Newton Peck
  • Night -Elie Wiesel
  • H.M.S. Ulysses -Allistair Maclean
  • Goodbye Mr. Chips -James Hilton
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins -Scott O’Dell
  • The Sea Wolf -Jack London
  • Treasure Island -Robert Louis Stevenson
  • On Fortune’s Wheel- Cynthia Voigt
  • The Forestwife -Theresa Thomlinson
  • The Bronze Bow -Elizabeth George Speare
  • The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • I Heard the Owl Call My Name -Margaret Craven
  • No Promises in the Wind -Irene Hunt
  • Obasan-Joy Kogawa
  • The River Between Us -Richard Peck
  • The Slave Dancer -Paula Fox
  • Silas Marner -George Eliot
  • Who Has Seen the Wind -W.O. Mitchell
  • Anthem -Ayn Rand
  • The Time It Never Rained -Elmer Kelton
  • All Creatures Great and Small -James Herriot
  • Goodnight, Mr. Tom -Michelle Magorian
  • The Robe -Lloyd C. Douglas
  • Believing Christ -Stephen E. Robinson
  • Our Search for Happiness -M. Russell Ballard
  • A Marvelous Work and A Wonder - LeGrand Richards
  • The Work and the Glory -Gerald N. Lund
  • Fishers of Men -Gerald N. Lund
  • By These Ten Bones -Claire B. Dunkle
  • The House of Many Rooms -Rodella Hunter
  • The Prisoner of Zenda -Anthony Hope
  • I Capture the Castle -Dodie Smith
  •   Juniper -Monica Furlong
  • Rifles for Watie -Harold Keith
  • Charlie’s Monument -Blaine M. Yorgason
  • And Then There Were None-Agatha Christie
  • Elantris- Brandon Sanderson
  • The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
  • Follow the River - James Thom
  • A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
  • Billy Budd - Herman Melville
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emmuska Orczy
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes- Ray Bradbury
  • The Maude Reed Tale -Norah Lofts
  • The Only Alien on the Planet- Kristen D. Randle
  • Freckles- Gene Statton-Porter
  • Soul Surfer - Bethany Hamiliton
  • Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World- Jennifer Armstrong
  • Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science - John Fleischman
  • An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy
  • Any (1 time only) Tony Hillerman
  • Any longer Louis L’Amour (ask me first)

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