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List 3: Grades 7–8

Please check off each box as the book, series, or compilation is completed.

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Across Five Aprils – Hunt, Irene

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Doyle,

Arthur Conan

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer –

Twain, Mark

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Wilder,

Thornton

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Call it Courage – Sperry, Armstrong

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The Call of the Wild – London, Jack

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A Christmas Carol – Dickens, Charles

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The Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas,

Alexander

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Daddy-Long-Legs – Webster, Jean

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A Day No Pigs Would Die – Peck, Robert

Newton

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Diary of a Young Girl – Frank, Anne

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Dragonsong – McCaffrey, Anne

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Dragonwings – Yep, Laurence

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Enchantress from the Stars – Engdahl,

Sylvia Louise

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The Endless Steppe – Hautzig, Esther

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Fahrenheit 451 – Bradbury, Ray

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Frankenstein – Shelley, Mary

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The Ghost Belonged to Me – Peck, Richard

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Hilton, James

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The Hobbit – Tolkien, J.R.R.

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The Horatio Hornblower series –

Forester, C.S.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame –

Hugo, Victor

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Incident at Hawk’s Hill – Eckert, Allan W.

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Island of the Blue Dolphins – O’Dell, Scott

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Ivanhoe – Scott, Sir Walter

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Jacob Have I Loved – Paterson, Katherine

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Johnny Tremain – Forbes, Esther

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Journey to Topaz – Uchida, Yoshiko

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Julie of the Wolves – George, Jeanne

Craighead

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Kim – Kipling, Rudyard

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The Last Mission – Mazer, Harry

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The Last of the Mohicans – Cooper, James

Fenimore

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Le Morte d’Arthur – Malory, Sir Thomas

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow –

Irving, Washington

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The Little Prince – Saint-Exupery, Antoine de

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Little Women – Alcott, Louisa May

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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood –

Pyle, Howard

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My Friend Flicka – O’Hara, Mary

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass –

Douglass, Frederick

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National Velvet – Bagnold, Enid

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The Outsiders – Hinton, S.E.

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The Pigman – Zindel, Paul

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The Pilgrim’s Progress – Bunyan, John

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Poems – Frost, Robert

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The Red Pony – Steinbeck, John

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Rifles for Watie – Keith, Harold

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Robinson Crusoe – Defoe, Daniel

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Tylor,

Mildred D.

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Shane – Schaefer, Jack

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Story of My Life – Keller, Helen

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A Stranger Came Ashore – Hunter, Mollie

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The Thurber Carnival – Thurber, James

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond –

Speare, Elizabeth George

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Treasure Island – Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Smith, Betty

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20,000 Leagues under the Sea – Verne, Jules

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The Upstairs Room – Reiss, Johanna

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War of the Worlds – Wells, H.G.

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Where the Red Fern Grows – Rawls, Wilson

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The White Mountains – Christopher, John

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A Wizard of Earthsea – LeGuin, Ursula K.

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A Wrinkle in Time – L’Engle, Madeleine

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The Yearling – Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan