JUNIOR HIGH CHARLIE CLASSICS 2003-2004
NOTE: Books set off by an asterisk (*) are classics that count toward the 100 books that are required for a scholarship in the senior year of high school.
* Abe Lincoln Grows Up by Carl Sandburg
*Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi
*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
*And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
*Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
April Morning by Howard Fast
*Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Banner in the Sky by James Ullman
Beowulf: A New Telling by Robert Nye
The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov by Isaac Asimov
*Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell
Born Free by Joy Adamson
Brady by Jean Fritz
The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
*The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
*A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Clock by James L. & Christopher Collier
*A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Contender by Robert Libsyte
*The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
*Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt
The Diving Bell by Todd Strasser
Down the Long Hills by Louis L’Amour
*Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon
Fifteen by Beverly Cleary
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
The Giver by Lois Lowery
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
Gospels of the New Testament
*Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Heroes, Gods, & Monsters of Greek Mythology by Bernard Evslin
*The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
*Hirsoshima by John Hersey
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Homecoming by Cynthia Voight
*The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
How the West Was Won by Louis L’Amour
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Jacob Have I Loved by Katerine Paterson
Jean and Johnny by Beverly Cleary
*Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
*Kidnapped by Robert L. Stevenson
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Lad: A Dog by Albert Terhune
A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess S. Aldrich
The Last Silk Dress by Ann Rinaldi
*The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
*Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott
The Loner by Ester Wier
*Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat
Maniac Magee By Jerry Spinelli
*The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Miracle at the Plate by Matt Christopher
*The Mirror Crack’d by Agatha Christie
The Monument by Gary Paulsen
Motown and Didi by Walter Dean Myers
*The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
*Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James L. & Christopher Collier
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
*A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Nothing but the Truth by Avi
*O Pioneers! By Willa Cather
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Olympic Dream by Matt Christopher
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
*The Pearl by John Steinbeck
*The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
*The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
*The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
*The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
Rascal by Sterling North
*The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Rifles for Watie by Howard Keith
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Rumblefish by S. E. Hinton
*The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Search for the Shadowman by Jean Lowery Nixon
Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Shiloh by Phyllis R. Naylor
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Speare
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell
Sniper by Theodore Taylor
Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers
Sounder by William Armstrong
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Steal Away by Jennifer Armstrong
*The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O’Dell
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
*The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
*Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar R. Burroughs
Tex by S. E. Hinton
That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Time Enough for Drums by Ann Rinaldi
*The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
*A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Trouble River by Betsy Byars
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
*The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Weep No More, My Lady by Mary Higgins Clark
What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera & Bill Cleaver
While My Pretty One Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark
*White Fang by Jack London
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare
Wolf by the Ears by Ann Rinaldi
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi
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