Quality Literature List
printable lists of literature samples studied by Valor scholars
Kindergarten
Make Way for Ducklings
Robert McKloskey
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
Dr. Seuss Books
Winnie the Pooh
A.A. Milne
When We Were Very Young
A.A. Milne
William Steig Books
First
The Nutcracker
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Encyclopedia Brown
The Sword in the Tree
Clyde Robert Bulla
Paddington Bear
Michael Bond
Now We Are Six
A.A. Milne
Second
Little House Series
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Stuart Little
E.B. White
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Beverly Cleary
Roald Dahl Books
The Thirteen Clocks
James Thurber
Snow Treasure
Marie McSwigan
Third
The Trumpet of the Swan
E.B. White
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Patricia MacLachlan
Mr. Poppers Penguins
Richard Atwater
The Thirteen Clocks
James Thurber
The Tale of Desperaux
Kate DiCamillo
Fourth
Calico Captive
Elizabeth George Speare
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeline L’Engle
Misty of Chincoteague Island
Marguerite Henry
The Black Stallion
Walter Farley
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
Benjamin West and his Cat Grimalkin
Marguerite Henry
Fifth
The Reluctant Dragon
Kenneth Grahame
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Anne of Green Gables Series
L.M. Montgomery
Emily of New Moon Series
L.M. Montgomery
Old Yeller
Fred Gipson
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
The Black Arrow
Robert Lewis Stevenson
Sixth
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
Little Men
Louisa May Alcott
White Fang
Jack London
Redwall Series
Brian Jacques
Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Seventh
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Watership Down
Richard Adams
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fennimore Cooper
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
J.R.R. Tolkien
Eighth
Ben Hur
Lew Wallace
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Ninth
The Odyssey
Homer (Required Summer Reading)
Tenth
The Clouds
Aristophanes
Odes
Horace
Georgics
Virgil
The Oresteia
Aeschylus
The Women of Troy
Euripides
More selections from Metamorphoses
Ovid
Greek Lyric Poetry
Sapho, Xenophanes, Archilochus, etc.
Eleventh
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Whose Body
Dorothy Sayers
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Twelfth
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
My Antonia
Willa Cather
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain