Please see the following list of required reading for the upcoming year.
(In order of study)
Concepts A:
The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (Jean Lee Latham)
The Magician's Nephew (C. S. Lewis)
Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)
Amos Fortune, Free Man (Elizabeth Yates)
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
A Door in the Wall (Marguerite de Angeli)
Sarah, Plain and Tall (Patricia MacLachlan)
Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Avi)
The Bronze Bow (Elizabeth Speare)
The Westing Game (Ellen Raskin)
Concepts B:
The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E.L. Konigsburg)
Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)
The Hiding Place (Corrie ten Boom)
Tanglewood Tales (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Elizabeth Speare)
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Barbara Robinson)
Words Aptly Spoken: Short Stories, 3rd ed. (Jen Greenholt)
Concepts 2:
Beowulf (This must be read in completion by the start of the fall semester.)
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Paradise Lost (Milton)
The Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan)
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe)
A Modest Proposal (Swift)
The Mouse That Roared (Wibberley)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
Jane Eyre (Bronte)
A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
Favorite Father Brown Stories (Chesterton)
A Passage to India (Forster)
The Hobbit (Tolkien)
Out of the Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis)
The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
Animal Farm (Orwell)
Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Art Spiegelman)
Concepts 3:
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Henry V (Shakespeare)
Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare)
Note: The NYPL app (Libby) enables patrons to reserve and read many of these books online for free. Another option is to locate free PDF versions online.
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