Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Classic Literature Reading List

CLASSIC LITERATURE FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

Select one of the following books to read during the 1st 9 weeks of this semester.  Please complete the book and the assignment by October 14.  You may complete the book and assignment as early as you wish. 

Feel free to read as many of these books as interest you!  Only one is required.  These books are readily available in libraries, and a few are even free on Kindle or Nook. The following books are favorites of 6th Grade MMS GT students.

                  Title                                                                                 Author                                   
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn                                        Mark Twain 
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes                                         Arthur Conan Doyle          
Adventures of Tom Sawyer                                                Mark Twain
And Then There Were None                                              Agatha Christy                    
Anne of Green Gables                                                       L.M. Montgomery               
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland                                     Lewis Carroll            
Alice’s Adventures through the Looking Glass                   Lewis Carroll
Black Beauty                                                                      Anna Sewell
Call of the Wild                                                                  Jack London            
Gone With the Wind                                                         Margaret Mitchell                              
The Hobbit                                                                           J.R.R. Tolkien                                
Jungle Book                                                                        Rudyard Kipling
Kidnapped                                                                            Robert Louis Stevenson
Little Women                                                                         Louisa May Alcott               
Murder on the Orient Express                                            Agatha Christy
Peter Pan                                                                              J. M. Barrie                           
Phantom Tollbooth                                                              Norton Juster                       
Pride and Prejudice                                                             Jane Austin                         
Robinson Crusoe                                                                Daniel Defoe                       
The Secret Garden                                                             Frances H. Burnett             
Swiss Family Robinson                                                      Johann David Wyss           
To Kill a Mockingbird                                                          Harper Lee
Treasure Island                                                                    Robert Louis Stevenson    
20,000 Leagues under the Sea                                        Jules Verne                         
War of the Worlds                                                                H.G. Wells                            
The Wizard of Oz                                                                 L. Frank Baum