Junior high is an exciting time for both the student and the teacher. This is the time that the student will want to explore his world, contribute to his world, and analyze his world. As a teacher, you are doing your best to prepare your student for the high school years ahead. During this time, it is all the more important to keep your student reading twaddle free, living, solid books. Allow your student to explore the minds of Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Nathanial Hawthorne, and Charles Dickens. While, you may have explored these authors and some of their books previously, this is the perfect time to revisit them. Your student now has the maturity to delve deep into a book and come out with a new understanding about the time period and lives in the books he reads.
Here is a list of twaddle free books for the junior high years:
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
Paradise Lost, by John Milton
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter
The House of Arden by E. Nesbit
Harding’s Luck by E. Nesbit
Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
Christy, by Catherine Marshall
The Divine Comedy, by Dante
Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan
The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber
The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
The Prince and the Pauper, by Mark Twain
Sounder, by William H. Armstrong
Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Emma, by Jane Austen
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