KOLBE ACADEMY Recommended Reading List

 

AGES 7-14


Adams, Andy:
Log of a Cowboy
Adams, Abigail:
Letters
Aiken, Joan:
The Kingdom Under the Sea
Alcott, Louisa May:
Little Women;
Eight Cousins;
Little Men;
Rose in Bloom

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey:
Story of a Bad Boy
Alexander, Lloyd:
The Book of Three
Anderson, Norman D.:
Investigating Science in the Swimming Pool and Ocean
Armer, Laura Adams:
Waterless Mountain
Bailey, Carolyn S.:
Miss Hickory
Barber, Richard:
A Strong Land and Sturdy: Life in Medieval England
Barnum, P. T.:
Barnum's Own Story
Barrie, James:
Drums;
Peter Pan

Baum, L. Frank:
The Wonderful World of Oz;
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Berger, Melvin:
Quasars, Pulsars and Black Holes in Space
Brink, Carol:
Caddie Woodlawn
Browning, Robert:
The Pied Piper of Hamlin
Brownlee, Walter D.:
The First Ships Round the World
Burnett, Frances Hodgson:
The Secret Garden;
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Burnford, Sheila:
Incredible Journey
Burns, Marilyn:
The Book of Think: Or How to Solve a Problem Twice Your Size
Burroughs, Edgar Rice:
Tarzan Series
Carroll, Lewis:
Through the Looking Glass;
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Chase, Alice Elizabeth:
Looking at Art
Cherry-Garrand, Apsley George Benet:
The Worst Journey in the World;
Antarctic

Chinery, Michael:
The Living World
Chrisman, Arthur Bowie:
Shen of the Sea
Church, Alfred John:
The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer Retold
Clarke, Pauline:
The Return of the Twelve
Clark, Ann Nolan:
Secret of the Andes;
All This Wild Land

Colum, Padraic:
Children of Odin;
The Golden Fleece;
Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles

Conrad, Joseph:
Youth from Youth;
The End of the Tether

Cowper, William:
John Gilpin's Ride
Cummings, Richard:
Make Your Own Model Forts and Castles
Dahl, Roald:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory;
The Magic Finger;
James and the Giant Peach

Dana, Richard Henry:
Two Years Before the Mast
Daugherty, James:
Daniel Boone
de Angeli, Marguerite:
The Door in the Wall
Defoe, Daniel:
Robinson Crusoe
De France, Marie:
Shadow of the Hawk
De la Mare, Walter:
Come Hither
Denny, Norman, and Filmer-Sankey, Josephine:
The Bayeux Tapestry: The Story of the Norman Conquest 1066
Dickens, Charles:
A Christmas Carol;
David Copperfield;
Oliver Twist

Dickenson, Emily:
Collected Poems
Dixon, Charlotte:
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Dodge, Mary Mapes:
Hans Brinker
Dostoevsky, Fyodor:
An Honest Thief
Doyle, Arthur Conan:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Durrell, Gerald:
The Taking Parcel
Elliott, Donald, and Arrowood, Clinton:
Alligators and Music
Enright, Elizabeth:
Thimble Summer
Estes, Eleanor:
Ginger Pye
Farley, Walter:
The Black Stallion;
Little Black, A Pony

Finger, Charles Joseph:
Tales from Silver Lands
Fisher, Leonard Everett:
Alphabet Art: Thirteen ABC's from Around the World
Fixx, James F.:
Solve It
Forbes, Esther:
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In;
Johnny Tremain

Forester, C. S.:
Captain Horatio Hornblower
Frost, Robert:
A Swinger of Birches;
Poems of Robert Frost for Young People

Garfield, Leon:
Smith
Garner, Alan:
The Owl Service;
Elidor

George, Jean Craighead:
Julie of the Wolves;
My Side of the Mountain

Gilbreth, Frank & Ernestine:
Cheaper By the Dozen;
Belles on Their Toes

Godden, Rumer:
The Doll's House
Gogol, Nikolai:
The Overcoat and Other Tales of Good and Evil
Goudge, Elizabeth:
The Little White Horse;
Linnets and Valerians;
Rosemary Tree;
Green Dolphin Street

Grahame, Kenneth:
The Wind in the Willows
Gray, Elizabeth Janet:
Adam of the Road
Gunther, John:
Alexander the Great
Gysson, Fred:
Old Yeller
Haggard, H. Rider:
King Solomon's Mines
Hale, E. E.:
The Man Without a Country
Hamilton, Edith:
The Greek Way;
The Roman Way

Hancock, Ralph:
Super Machines
Hawthorne, Nathaniel:
Tanglewood Tales;
A Wonder Book;
The House of the Seven Gables

Henry, O.:
Selected Short Stories;
The Gift of the Magi;
The Ransom of Red Chief;
Twenty Years Later

Heyerdahl, Thor:
Kon Tiki;
The Ra Expeditions

Holt, Michael:
Maps, Tracks, and the Bridges of Königsberg
Irving, Washington:
The Sketch Book;
Rip Van Winkle;
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

James, Will:
Smoky, the Cowhorse;
Lone Cowboy;
Book of Cowboys

Jenkins, Jerry B.:
The Bradford Family Adventures Series
Jobb, Jamie:
The Night Sky Book
Johnson, Samuel:
Rasselas
Judson, Clara Ingram:
George Washington, Leader of the People;
Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People

Juster, Norton:
The Phantom Tollbooth
Keller, Helen:
The Story of My Life
Kelly, Eric:
The Blacksmith of Vilna;
The Trumpeter of Krakow

Kendall, Carol:
The Gammage Cup;
Island of the Mini Pins

Kerrod, Robin:
The Universe
Kingsley, Charles:
Westward Ho;
The Heroes

Kipling, Rudyard:
The Jungle Book;
Stalky and Co.;
Kim;
Captains Courageous;
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Kjelgaard, James:
Big Red;
Snow Dog

Krumgold, Joseph:
Onion John
La Fontaine, Jean de:
Fables
Langton, Jean:
The Fledgling
Lanier, Sidney:
King Arthur and His Round Table
Lardner, Ring:
Short Stories
LeGuin, Ursula K.:
Earthsea Trilogy;
The Wtzard of Earthsea;
The Tombs of Atuan;
The Farthest Shore

L'Engle, Madeline:
The Young Unicorns;
A Wrinkle in Time;
A Wind in the Door;
A Swiftly Tilting Planet

Lenski, Lois:
Indian Captive;
Strawberry Girl

Lewis, C. S.:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe;
The Silver Chair;
Prince Caspian;
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader;
The Horse and His Boy;
The Magician's Nephew;
The Last Battle

Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman:
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Lindgren, Astrid:
The Tomten;
Pippi Longstocking

London, Jack:
The Sea Wolf;
To Build a Fire;
Call of the Wild;
White Fang

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth:
The Poetical Works
Macauley, David:
Cathedral;
City;
Castle;
Pyramid

MacDonald, George:
The Golden Key;
The Princess and the Goblin;
The Princess and Curdie;
At the Back of the North Wind

Mackenzie:
Till Eulenspiegel
Maeterlinck, Maurice:
Blue Bird
Malory, Sir Thomas:
The Boys' King Arthur - Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth
Marryat, Frederick:
Midshipman Easy;
Masterman Ready;
Children of the New Forest

Masefield, John:
Jim Davis;
Martin Hyde;
The Duke's Messenger

Masters, Edgar Lee:
Spoon River Anthology
Meigs, Cornelia Lynde:
Invincible Louisa
Montgomery, Lucy:
The Anne of Green Gables Series
Nisbet, E.:
Book of Dragons
Norman, James:
Ancestral Voices: Decoding Ancient Languages
Norris, Katherine:
Mama's Bank Account
North, Sterling:
Rascal
Norton, Mary:
The Borrowers
Nye, Robert:
Beowulf
O'Dell, Scott:
Sam Bishop;
Island of the Blue Dolphin;
Streams to the River, River to the Sea

Paterson, Katherine:
The Sign of the Chrysanthemum;
Of Nightingales that Weep;
The Master Puppeteer

Pearce, A. Philippa:
Tom's Midnight Garden
Porter, Gene Stratton:
Freckles;
Girl of the Limberlost;
Laddie

Pyle, Howard:
Robin Hood;
Men of Iron

Quiller-Couch, Arthur:
Splendid Spur
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnon:
The Yearling
Rollesten, T.W.:
Celtic Mythology
Rostand, E.:
Cyrano de Bergerac
Sampson, Emma Speed:
Miss Minerva and William Green Hill
Samson, John G.:
The Pond
Sandburg, Carl:
The Sandburg Treasury;
Early Moon

Sawyer, Ruth:
Roller Skates
Selden, George:
The Cricket in Times Square
Seredy, Kate:
The White Stag
Seton, Ernest Thompson:
Two Little Savages
Sewell, Anna:
Black Beauty
Shakespeare, William:
The Comedy of Errors;
Romeo and Juliet;
As You Like It;
A Midsummer Night's Dream;
Much Ado About Nothing;
Twelfth Night

Shannon, Monica:
Dobry
Sherwood, Robert:
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Speare, Elizabeth George:
The Witch of Blackbird Pond;
The Bronze Bow;
The Sign of the Beaver

Sperry, Armstrong:
Call It Courage
Spyri, Johanna:
Heidi
Stevenson, Robert Louis:
A Child's Garden of Verses;
Treasure Island;
Kidnapped

Stowe, Harriet Beecher:
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Swift, Jonathan:
Gulliver's Travels
Tarkington, Booth:
Penrod;
Penrod and Sam;
Penrod and Jasper;
The Arabian Nights

Tennyson, Alfred Lord:
Poetry
Thurber, James:
Short Stories
Tolkein, J. R. R.:
The Hobbit
Tolstoy, Leo:
Master and Man and Other Stories
Travers, Pamela L.:
Mary Poppins
Twain, Mark:
Tom Sawyer;
Huckleberry Finn;
The Prince and the Pauper

Van Loon, Hendrik Willem:
The Story of Mankind;
The Story of America;
Ancient Man and His Geography

Verne, Jules:
Around the World in 80 Days;
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

White, E. B.:
Stuart Little;
The Trumpet of the Swan;
Charlotte's Web

Whittier, John Greenleaf:
The Poetical Works
Wilde, Oscar:
Stories for Children - Illustrated by P. J. Lynch
Wilder, Laura Ingalls:
Little House on the Prairie Series
Williams, Jay:
Leonardo Da Vinci;
Joan of Arc

Wyss, Johannes:
Swiss Family Robinson
Yates, Elizabeth:
Amos Fortune, Free Man