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Valerie Bendt's Favorite Books for Upper Elementary/Middle School
Seesaw Girl and The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Parks
Little House Boxed Set by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Road from Roxbury, The Far Side of the Loch, On Tide Mill Lane, The Little House in the Highlands, Little House by Boston Bay, and Down to the Bonny Glen, all by Melissa Wiley
On Top of Concord Hill, Little Town at the Crossroads, Brookfield Days, Little House in Brookfield, Little Clearing in the Woods and Caroline and Her Sister, all by Maria D. Wilkes
Anne of Green GablesSeries and The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery
My Side of the Mountain Books and Julie of the Wolves Books by Jean Craighead George
Sarah, Plain and Tall, Skylark, and Caleb's Story by Patricia MacLachlan
The Bronze Bow, The Sign of the Beaver, and Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia Box Set (Paperback)
The Chronicles of Narnia (Hardcover), The Complete Chronicles of Narnia is a beautifully illustrated, oversized hardback that contains all seven of the Narnia books in one volume.
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, by Margaret Sidney
The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Treasure Island and A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, From Earth to the Moon, and Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Little Women, Little Men,Jo's Boys, An Old Fashioned Girl, and Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
The Happy Orpheline, A Grandmother for the Orphelines and others in the Orpheline series, The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson
Strawberry Girl, San Francisco Boy, Peanuts for Billy Ben, Shoo Fly Girl and others in the Regional United States series, Indian Captive by Lois Lensky
Lumber Camp Library by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Dangerous Journey by Oliver Hunkin. (An adaptation of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.)
Little Pilgrim's Progress by Helen L. Taylor. (An adaptation of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.)
The Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English by John Bunyan
Hatchet and The River by Gary Paulsen
Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day, The Black Pearl, Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O’Dell
Childhood of Famous American Series:
Betsy-Tacy, Betsy-Tacy and Tib, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown, Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, Betsy and the Great World, Betsy in Spite of Herself, Heaven to Betsy, and Betsy's Wedding, all by Maud Hart Lovelace
How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head, The Ant and the Elephant, Buford the Little Bighorn, Cowardly Clyde, The Caboose Who Got Loose, and many others by Bill Peet
Bill Peet an Autobiography, by Bill Peet
Books by Marguerite Henry
Marguerite Henry's Horseshoe Library
Misty of Chincoteague
Sea Star Orphan of Chincoteague
Stormy, Misty’s Foal
Misty's Twilight
King of the Wind
Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West
San Domingo
Born to Trot
Album of Horses
Five O'clock Charlie
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
E. B. White Boxed Set contains these three beloved classics: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, and Stuart Little by E.B. White
The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, and The Light Princess
by George MacDonald
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
(For other great books for this age group see the Newbery Medal Winners.)
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