READING LIST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Compiled by The Iowa Library Commission In Cooperation With The Iowa Association of English Teachers Published by The State of Iowa 1921 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates https://archive.org/details/readinglistjunioOOstat 0 2.7. 8*U BEADING LIST—^JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Seventh and Eighth Grades FICTION Aanrud.Lisbeth Longfrock Alcott.Little Women Aicott.Old Fashioned Girl Altsheier.Young Trailers Andersen.Stories Atkinson.: .Greyfriars Bobby Barrie.Peter and Wendy Bennett.Master Skylark Brooks.Master of Stronghearts Bunyan.Pilgrim’s Progress Burnett.Secret Garden Carroll .Alice in Wonderland Chaucer.Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims; ed. by Darton Clemens.Huckleberry Finn Clemens.Tom Sawyer Defoe.Robinson Crusoe Dickens.Christmas Carol Dickens.Cricket on the Hearth Dickens.Great Expectations Dodge.Hans Brinker French.Lance of Kanana Haines.Luck of the Dudley Grahams Hale.Man Without a Country Harris.Nights With Uncle Remus Harris.Uncle Remus; His Songs and Sayings Hawthorne.Grandfather’s Chair Hawthorne.Tanglewood Tales Howells..Boy’s Town Hughes.Tom Brown’s School Days Irving.Rip Van Winkle and Legend of Sleepy Hollow Jewett.Betty Leicester Kipling.Captains Courageous Kipling.Jungle Book Lagerlof.Wonderful Adventures of Nils Lamprey.In the Day of the Guild La Ramee.Dog of Flanders London.Call of the Wild Masefield.Jim Davis Meigs.Master Simon’s Garden Meigs.Pool of Stars Ollivant.Bob, Son of Battle Parish.Man With the Iron Hand Pyle.Jack Ballister’s Fortunes Pyle..Men of Iron Pyle.Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Quiller Couch.Splendid Spur Renninger.Story of Rustem Richards.Nellie’s Silver Mine Ruskin.King of the Golden River Saintine.,Picciola Seton.Lives of the Hunted Shaw.Castle Blair 4 - Spyri.Heidi Stevenson....Treasure Island Stockton.Lady or the Tiger Warner.Being a Boy Wiggin.Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Wyss.Swiss Family Robinson Zollinger..Widow O’Callaghan’s Boys Seventh and Eighth Grades NON-FICTION Baldwin.Story of Siegfried Bishop.Panama, Past and Present Boyssen.Boyhood in Norway Bryant.To a Waterfowl Browning.How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix Bullen.Cruise of the Cachalot Burroughs.Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers Colum.Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy Custer.Boots and Saddles Dana..Two Years Before the Mast DuChaillu.Land of the Long Night Eastman.Indian Boyhood Fabre.Story Book of Science Field..Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse French.Story of Rolf and the Viking’s Bow Froissart.Chronicles Grenfell.Adrift on an Ice Pan Hale.New England Boyhood Hill.On the Trail of Washington Holland.Lafayette We Come Keller.Story of My Life Lamb.Tales From Shakespeare Lanier.Boy’s King Arthur (new ed.) Lanier.Boy’s Percy Lodge and Roosevelt.Hero Tales From American History Longfellow.Courtship of Miles Standish Longfellow.Evangeline Mabie.Norse Stories Meadowcroft.Boy’s Life of Edison Mitton.Children’s Book of Stars Moses.Louisa May Alcott Nicolay.Boy’s Life of Abraham Lincoln Olcott.Storytelling Ballads Oliver.First Steps in the Enjoyment of Pictures Paine..Boy’s Mark Twain Richards.Florence Nightingale Roberts.Red Feathers Sabin.Making of Iowa Seton.Wild Animals I Have Known Sharp.Watcher in the Woods Swift.Gulliver’s Travels Tappan.In the Days of Queen Victoria Tomlinson.Places Young Americans Want to Know Washington.Up From Slavery Wilmot-Buxton.Jean d’Arc — 5 — Ninth Grade FICTION A.ldrich.:_Story of a Bad Boy Allen.Flute and Violin Andrews.Courage of the Commonplace Andrews.Perfect Tribute Bacheller.Dri and I Barrie.Little Minister Bishop.Bob Thorpe—Sky Fighter Blackmore.Lorna Doone Bunyan.Pilgrim’s Progress Catherwood.Story of Tonty Clemens.Prince and the Pauper Connor.Glengarry School Days Cooper.’.Deerslayer Cooper.Last of the Mohicans Craddock.Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains Craik.John Halifax, Gentleman Davis.Victor of Salamis Dickens.Christmas Stories Dickens.Oliver Twist Doyle.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Eggleston.Hoosier Schoolmaster Eliot.Silas Marner Fox.Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come Fuller.Across the Campus Gates.Biography of a Prairie Girl Hawkins.Prisoner of Zenda Hawthorne.Twice Told Tales Heyliger.High Benton Hough.Story Of a Cowboy Howells.Rise of Silas Lapham Hubbard.Message to Garcia Hughes.Tom Brown’s Schooldays Irving.Tales of a Traveler Jackson.Ramona Jewett.Country Doctor Kipling.Kim Kipling.Phantom ’Rickshaw Knipe.A Mayflower Maid London.Tales of the Fish Patrol Lytton.Last Days of Pompeii Marryat.Midshipman Easy Martin.Emmy Lou Martineau.Peasant and the Prince Masefield.Jim Davis Muir.Stickeen Paine.College Years Poe.Best Tales from Poe Rihbany.Hidden Treasure of Rasmola Scott.Rob Roy Seton.Biography of a Grizzly Seton.Trail of the Sandhill Stag Sienkiewicz.In Desert and Wilderness Smith.Caleb West Snedecker.Coward of Thermopylae Stevenson.Black Arrow Stevenson.Kidnapped Stevenson.Merry Men — 6 — Stockton.Rudder Grange Tarbell.He Knew Lincoln Tarkington.Gentleman from Indiana Van Dyke.Blue Flower Van Dyke.Story of the Other Wise Man Verne.Round the World In Eighty Days Wallace.Ben Hur Waterloo...Story of Ab Weyman.House of the Wolf White.Blazed Trail Williams.Princeton Stories Wister.Virginian Wilson.White Indian Boy Ninth Grade NON-FICTION Antin.Promised Land Baldwin.Sailing the Seas Bates.Ballad Book Bishop... .Story of the Submarine Bond.Inventions of the Great War Burroughs.Wake Robin Cather.Boyhood Stories of Famous Men Davis.The West From a Car Window Demetrios....When I Was a Boy In Greece Drinkwater.Abraham Lincoln Dunbar.Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow Dunsany.Plays (at least 2 of them) Fabre.Secret of Everyday Things Fabre.Social Life in the Insect World Frank.Great Authors in Their Youth Franklin.Autobiography Gilbert..More Than Conquerors Gilder.Lincoln, The Leader Hagedorn.Life of Roosevelt Hall..... High Adventure Holland.Historic Boyhoods Holland.Historic Girlhoods Hudson.Book of a Naturalist Ingersoll.Wit of the Wild Longfellow.Tales of a Wayside Inn Lowell.Vision of Sir Launfal Lummis.Some Strange Corners of Our Country Moses.Charles Dickens Nicolay.Boy’s Life of Lafayette Moulton.Short Stories Muir.Story of My Boyhood and Youth Overton.Life of Robert Louis Stevenson Palmer.Life of Alice Freeman Palmer Parkman.Heroes of Today Parkman.Heroines of Service Peabody.The Piper • Phillips.Ulysses Plutarch.Boys and Girls Plutarch; ed. by White Ragazin.Frithjof and Roland Ragazin.^Siegfried and Beauwolf Riis.Making an American Roberts.Kindred of the Wild — 7 — Roberts.Watchers of the Trails Roosevelt.Letters to His Children Scott.Lady of the Lake Scott.Lay of the Last Minstrel Shakespeare.Midsummer Night’s Dream Sharp.Where Rolls the Oregon Slusser.Stories of Luther Burbank’s Plant School Steiner.Against the Current Tappan.In the Days of Queen Elizabeth Wade.Light Bringers Wade.Pilgrims of Today Wallace.Lure of the Labrador Wild Washington.Up From Slavery Whittier.Snowbound Young.Alaska Days with John Muir Zangwill.Melting Pot