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Adamson, Joy
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Born Free
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This is an animal book.
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Alcott, Louisa May
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Little Women
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These are good safe books.
Good teachings. All of her books are enjoyable.
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Little Men
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The first is better then the
second.
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Bagnold, Enid
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National Velvet
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If your child likes horses,
she or he may very well like this book.
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Brink, Carol Rohrau
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Caddie Woodlawn
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Bronte, Charlotte
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Jane Eyre
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Older readers will most like
this. May of the young ladies in my church enjoyed this
book.
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Bronte, Emily
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Withering
Heights
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Buck, Pearl
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The Good Earth
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Mature themes
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Bunyan, John
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The Holy War
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Anyone who loves Jesus should
read these two books by Bunyan.
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Pilgrims
Progress
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At one time Pilgrims Progress
was a read along with the Bible.
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Carroll, Lewis
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Alice in
Wonderland
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Clemens, Samuel
(Mark Twain)
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The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer
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These are very good books, but
the parent needs to be aware that Twain belittles the
Christian life. Still these books are well worth reading.
Talk about them with your children.
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The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
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There is a scene in this book
where Huck decides that if God wants Tom to be a slave then
he doesn't want anything to do with God. Naturally this is
based on a misunderstanding about God and his laws, but talk
it over with your child.
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Conrad, Joseph
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The Heart of
Darkness
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Cooper, James Fenimore
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The Deerslayer
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One of the young ladies and
many of the young men in my church loved all of Cooper's
books. They are adventure stories. There is a little romance
and great deal of Indian fighting.
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The Last of the
Mohicans
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Costain, Thomas
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The Silver
Chalice
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Crane, Stephen
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The Red Badge of
Courage
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A couple of the young men in
my church read this over and over. It is a very realistic
books about the Civil War. There is a reason this is a
masterpiece. Mature readers only.
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Craven, Margaret
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I Heard the Owl Call My
Name
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Dickens, Charles
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David
Copperfield
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Many of the young men and
women in my church have read most, if not all, of Dickens'
books. These are hard to read for some readers, but they are
more than worth it. This should be your first Dickens'
book.
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Oliver Twist
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This book has a very graphic
description of a murder.
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A Tale of Two
Cities
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Keep very close tabs on the
characters and what they are doing. This is a great book
about the French Revolution. It is very good but very
graphic. It is must read. Get some background on the French
Revolution before you start this book.
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Great
Expectations
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This is wonderful. A young man
meets a convict in the graveyard. Soon he comes into 'great
expectations.'
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Dodge, Mary Mapes
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Hans Brinker
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Douglas, Lloyd
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The Robe
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A Roman slider who crucified
Christ.. He was the one who won the robe .
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Doyle, Arthur Conan
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The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes
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The king of mysteries.
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Eliot, George
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Silas Marner
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Fast, Howard
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April Morning
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Fitzgerakd, F. Scott
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The Great Gatsby
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This is on many reading lists,
but I would only let older students read it. It portrays
life among the idle rich of the twenty. I wouldn't have my
child read it.
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Forbes, Esther
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Johnny Tremain
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This is an excellent book
about a young man's eyewitness account of the War for
Independence. He meets all kinds of men right out of
history. Add this to a Revolutionary war unit.
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Frank, Anne
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The Diary of Anne
Frank
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This is a true story of a
Jewish family hiding from Nazis during WWII. This is Anne's
ordinal journal. It has mature themes. It should be a part
of any study of WWII.
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Gipson, Fred
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Old Yeller
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This is the king of all dog
stories. Every child should read this book more than
once.
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Gunther, John
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Death Be Not
Proud
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This father writes about the
death of his son from cancer.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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The Scarlet
Letter
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This book is how the false
view of Puritans began. All of the women are witches and the
men immoral hypocrites. There is no real repentance from the
adulteress or her lover who happens to be the
preacher.
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Hemingway, Ernest
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The Old Man and the
Sea
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This is great. This must be
read. There is another book that everyone must read at least
once. It is a masterpiece.
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Hilton, James
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Good-bye, Mr.
Chips
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Homer
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The Iliad
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These may be difficult for
some readers but they are full of action and war and
romance.
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The Odyssey
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Hugo, Victor
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Les Miserables
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This is a tough read. It is
hard going in the beginning but well worth the effort. If a
person can get past the first few chapters, he will be
hooked. The story is wonderful. It is also full of
adventure, tare love, revenge, war, and sword fights.
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Keller, Helen
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The Story of My
Life
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This is an autobiography of a
woman who was both death and blind.
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Knowles, John
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A Separate Peace
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This has mature themes but is
a wonderful book. It is a coming of age story. Two friends
in a pirate school for boys during WWI.
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Lee, Harper
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To Kill a
Mockingbird
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This has mature themes but is
a wonderful book. Racial hatred and rape are a part of the
story. This must be read.
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Lewis, C.S.
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The Chronicles of
Narnia
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These are fanatisy books with
a Christian theme.
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London, Jack
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The Call of the
Wild
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Fantastic book but violent.
Everyone I know who has read this book, loved it. It is a
masterpiece. It short and easy to read. Great book. Hunt for
gold in the Yukon. Great dog book.
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White Fang
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This is another book about
looking for gold in the Yukon. It is violent at times. It is
great book for dog people.
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Marshall, Cartherine
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Christy
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This is a wonderful book
except for one part where a rape is described in way too
much detail. Cut those pages out and this is a great
book.
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duMauier, Daphne
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Rebecca
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First all time gothic romance.
Romance and mystery. Mature readers only. Ask me about this
one if you haven't read it yourself.
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Melville, Herman
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Moby Dick
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If you can get through the
chapters about how to hunt and kill whales, you will enjoy
this classic.
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Mitchell, Margaret
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Gone With the
Wind
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Only for mature readers.
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Montgomery Lucy Maud
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Anne of Green
Gables
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This is just wonderful fun.
All of the girls in my church loved this book. Some of the
boys also read it. It is great fun. Allof her books are
wonderful.
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O'Hara, Mary
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My Friend Flicka
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This is a great book about
horses. This has cussing. I edit these kinds of books for
children I have authority over. It is a good book, but the
cussing needs to be edited out.
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Orczy, Baroness
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The Scarlet
Pimpernel
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Orwell, George
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Animal Farm
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This book is perfect for
showing the problems with communism.
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Paton, Alan
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Cry, the Beloved
Country
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Wonderful book but only for
very mature readers. Deals with South Africa.
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Potok, Chaim
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The Promise
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This is very good, but I tell
children I love not to read any of his other books. It is a
great in site into the Jewish lives of the Brooklyn Jews in
the 40s.
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Rawlings, Marjorie
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The Yearling
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Another wonderful animal book.
The boy raises a fawn.
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Rawls, Wilson
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Where the Red Fern
Grows
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This book ranks up there with
Old Yeller. Every single child needs to read this book.
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Richter, Conrad
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The Light in the
Forest
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Rostand, Edmund
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Scott, Sir William
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Ivanhoe
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Sewell, Anne
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Black Beauty
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This is another book that all
children need to read. There is cruelty to horses in this
book that may bother some readers.
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Shakespeare, William
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As You Like It
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Everyone needs to read
Shakespeare but get an anthology from a school.
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Hamlet
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That way all of the bawdy
parts will be cut.
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Macbeth
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Romeo and Juliet
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Siekiewicz, Henryk
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Quo Vadis
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Sinclair, Upton
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The Jungle
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This is a rough read. Mature
readers only.
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Spyri, Johanna
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Heidi
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This book is wonderful.
Excellent scene of true repentance in this book. A must read
for all children.
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Steinbeck, John
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The Grapes of
Wrath
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This is a masterpiece but only
very mature students should read it. It has very mature
themes.
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The Pearl
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This is also a masterpiece. If
a child is going to read only one of Steinbeck's books, this
is the one it should be.
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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Uncle Tom's
Cabin
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Very mature themes but should
be read . Add it to your Civil War unit.
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Thoreau, Henry David
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Walden
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Tolkein, J.R.R.
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The Hobbit
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Tolstoy, Leo
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War and Peace
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This is a very long long long
book. Mature readers only.
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Wallace, Lew
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Ben Hur
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Get past the first few
chapters and this book will be difficult to put down.
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West, Jassamyn
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Cress Delahanty
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Wiesel, Elie
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Night
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Wilder, Thornton
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Our Town
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Wright, Harold Bell
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The Shepherd of the
Hills
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This book is a Ozark Ian
classic. It is a good book for mature readers.
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Wyss, Johanna
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Swiss Family
Robinson
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