Middlish Readers

Chapter Books
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
A Wrinkle in Time (Series) by Madeline L'Engle
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
American Girls' Handy Book by Lina & Adelia Beard 
And Miss Carter Wore Pink by Helen Bradley
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick
Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster
Bambi by Felix Salten
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
Beric the Briton: A Story of the Roman Invasion by GA Henty
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Captain Bayley's Heir by GA Henty
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key by Mrs. H. R. Hawei
Chronicles of Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Diary of an Early American Boy by Eric Sloane
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Good-bye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
How the Heather Looks by Joan Bodger
In Freedom's Cause, by G.A. Henty
Jack and Jill, by Louisa May Alcott
Jane of Lantern Hill by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics by Charles Ludwig
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen
Mrs Frisby and the rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Nancy Drew Mysteries 1-10
Odd and the Frost Giants by Galman
Outcast by Rosemary Sutcliff
Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter
Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Return To Gone Away by Elizabeth Enright
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Shoes Series by Noel Streatfeild
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt by GA Henty
The Chronicles of Narnia Series by C.S. Lewis
The Cricket on the Hearth, by Charles Dicken
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (parent should pre-read)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

The Golden Road by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Lord of the Rings series by  J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lost Princess by George MacDonald
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Once and Future King by T. H. White (first book only)
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Story Girl by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit
The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp
The Wouldbegoods by Edith Nesbit
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
To Have and to Hold: A Story of Virginia in Colonial Days by Mary Johnston
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Unknown to History: Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Yonge
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Poetry
A Boy Scouts' Patrol Song by Rudyard Kipling 

A Navity by Rudyard Kipling

Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Chaucer by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Children by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Cities and Thrones and Powers by Rudyard Kipling

Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every Time I Climb a Tree by David McCord
Floradora Doe by Jack Prelutsky

For all we have and are by Rudyard Kipling
Green Apple Morning by Mary Graham Bond

Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I Found a Four-Leaf Clover by Jack Prelutsky

If by Rudyard Kipling
My Left Foot is Always Near the Bag by Arnold Adoff
Night of Rain by Tessa Sweazy Webb
Portrait by a Neighbor by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rope Rhyme by Eloise Greenfield

Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling
Sleepless Nights

Snowflakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Spring Costume by Marian Stearns Curry
Spring Garden by Leland B. Jacobs
Spring Song by Winifred C. Marshall

The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Baseball by Sandra Liatsos

The Castle-Builder by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Children's Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling

The Landlord's Tale by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Palace of Art by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Pack Rat by Jack Prelutsky

The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Secret of the Sea by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Splendor Falls by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Tide Rises by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling
Trees by Phyllis Halloran
White Billows Breaking by Tessa Sweazy Webb
Young and Old by Charles Kingsley

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