Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Baskerville Hounds by Sir Author Conan Doyle
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
The Caye by I-cannot-remember-to-save-my-life
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Emma by Jane Austen
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Dairy of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
As many Nancy Drew and Hard Boys as one can consume
Hear ye, hear ye, this is the requested junior high book list. Never fear, a high school and college list featuring your debaucherous favorites to follow. (My morals forbid me from feeding Lawrence and Kerouac to junior high students no matter how much they dress like Britney Spears.) The Great American Novel compilation is already up here. As it has been a good many years since I suffered the indignity and the agony of junior high, please let me know what suggestions you may have that are age appropriate. This list will be arbitrarily and capriciously updated.
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1 avocadoinparadise // Aug 28, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Another good one for this list is The Outsiders. I remember sitting in english class imagining the scenes. Not often the teacher would assign a book everyone would enjoy.
We also read The Red Pony by Steinbeck. It was sort of traumatic, the graphic violence, but memorable.
You have Jane Eyre here. I didn’t read that till college! It’s dense and old fashioned, but it was good. Did you read this in jr high?!
2 Phil // Sep 12, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Oh, yeah, The Cay. That book rules. It’s by Theodore somebody, I think; I snagged a copy (complete with torn cover and food stains) for my nephew last Christmas.
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