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Literature for Middle School:
This is not an exhaustive list of good books for Middle School students. These are books that have enriched us and our own children and many children whom we have taught over the years. We highly recommend that parents read these books with their children. They afford many opportunities for valuable discussion.
Jane Austen
· Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte
· Jane Eyre
Richard Henry Dana
· Two Years before the Mast
Charles Dickens
· A Tale of Two Cities
· Great Expectations
· David Copperfield
Alexander Dumas
· The Count of Monte Cristo (The unabridged version is very long but it is well worth the time to read it all.)
· The Three Musketeers
· Twenty Years After
· The Man in the Iron Mask
Harper Lee
· To Kill a Mockingbird
Ernest Hemingway
· The Old Man and the Sea
Homer
· The Iliad – translated by Richmond Lattimore
· The Odyssey – translated by Richmond Lattimore
Sir Walter Scott
· Ivanhoe
Mark Twain
· Huckleberry Finn
James Fenimore Cooper
· The Last of the Mohicans
John Steinbeck
· Of Mice and Men
Robert Louis Stevenson
· Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
William Shakespeare
· A Comedy of Errors
· Much Ado About Nothing
· Hamlet
· Julius Caesar
· and some sonnets
Others
· The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
· The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
· Plutarch’s Lives
Re-read:
J.R.R. Tolkien
· The Hobbit
· The Lord of the Rings