Plumfield Book List

 

 

Middle School Book List 2009-2010

 

The Little Prince by Antione de Saint Exupery

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Joseph Story from the Book of Genesis

The Story of Moses from the Book of Exodus

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Greek Myths by Matt Whitling 

Selections from The Aeneid by Vergil (Books 4-7 in connection with Latin)

A Year in the Maine Woods by Bernd Heinrich

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

Virginia's General: Lee and the Civil War by Albert Marrin

Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce

Coriolanus by Plutarch

Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

Heritage: Civilization and the Jews by Abba Eban

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

Selections from Letters from Westerbork by Etty Hillesum

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric Kelly

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor

Dr. Beaumont and the Man with the Hole in His Stomach by Sam and Beryl Epstein

The Story of Thomas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins

"God Sees the Truth but Waits" by Leo Tolstoy

“A Spark Neglected Burns the House” by Leo Tolstoy

Other short stories from Walk in the Light by Leo Tolstoy

 

 

Middle School Book List for 2008-2009

 

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Selections from The Aeneid by Vergil (Books1-3 in connection with Latin)

Carry on Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

Selections from Walk in the Light and Twenty Three Tales by Leo Tolstoy

The War for Independence by Albert Marrin

Sitting Bull by Albert Marrin

Readings from The Gospels of Matthew, Luke, John and Acts

Meditations on Art by Sister Wendy Becket

The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

Middle School Book List for 2007-2008 

 

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott;

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Life of Pericles from Plutarch's Lives

The Life of Fabius from Plutarch’s Lives

The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The World of Captain John Smith by Genevieve Foster

Short Stories from The Book of Virtues edited by William J. Bennett

Readings from The Gospels of Mathew, Mark, and Luke

I, Juan de Pareia by Elizabeth de Trevino

Desert Wisdom: Sayings from the Desert Fathers with Japanese drawings by Yushi Nomura

The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Cove

The First Martyrs of North America by John A. O’Brien