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This is a list to encourage young people of extraordinary promise to grow intellectually by reading good books. Use this list as a starting point in developing your own personal reading list. Ask your parents, older family member, teachers, and librarians to direct you to books related to your interests and concerns. Talking with friends and family about books that excite you will encourage introspection and reflection as well as stimulate curiosity about the larger worlds around you. |
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Types of Books and Stories, (Genre)
The World of Fiction
- Battle: Great American Folklore
- Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire: Book of Greek Myths, Norse Gods and Giants
- Virginia Hamilton: The People Could Fly; Black American Folk Tale
- Erik Haugaard and Masako Haugaard, adapters and translators: The Story of Yuriwaka: Japanese Odyssey
- Ted Hughes: Tales of the Early World
- M. Jaffrey: Seasons of Splendor; Tales, Myths, and Legends of India
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- Paul Creswick: Robin Hood
- Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
- Alexandra Dumas: The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Three Musketeers
- Thor Heyerdahl: Kon-Tiki
- Rudyard Kipling: Kim
- Howard Pyle: The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
- Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe
- Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
- Robert Louis Stevenson: Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island
- Bram Stoker: Dracula
- Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
- Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth, and other titles
- H. G. Wells: The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds
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- Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and other
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The House of the Seven Gables
- W. H. Hudson: Green Mansions
- Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca
- John Steinbeck: The Pearl and The Red Pony
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- William Armstrong: Sounder
- Avi: Blue Heron, Nothing but the Truth, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and other titles
- Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
- Sheila Burnford: The Incredible Journey
- Betsy Byars: Summer of the Swans
- Sook Nyul Choi: Year of Impossible Goodbyes
- Brock Cole: Celine and The Goats
- Paul Fleischman: The Borning Room
- Paula Fox: Monkey Island, One-Eyed Cat and other titles
- Jean George: My Side of the Mountain and The Cry of the Crow
- Minfong Ho: The Clay Marble
- Jack London: The Call of the Wild
- Lois Lowry: A Summer to Die and Number the Stars
- Margaret Mahy: Memory
- L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
- Phyllis Reynolds: Naylor: Shiloh
- Katherine Paterson: Jacob Have I Loved
- M. Rawlings: The Yearling
- W. Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery: The Little Prince
- Rosemary Sutcliff: The Shining Company
- Mildred Taylor: Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Roll of Thunder, and Hear My Cry
- Cynthia Voigt: Dicey's Song, Jackaroo, Tree by Leaf and other titles
- Laurence Yep: The Star Fisher and Dragonwings
- Vladimir Zheleznikov: Scarecrow (translated by Antonia W.Bovis)
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- Marguerite de Angeli: The Door in the Wall
- Patricia Beatty: Jayhawker
- Rhonda Blumberg: Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, and The Incredible Journey of Lewisand Clark
- Polly S. Brook: Beyond the Myth; The Story of Joan of Arc
- James and Christopher Collier: My Brother Sam is Dead
- Walter D. Edmonds: The Matchlock Gun
- Esther Forbes: Johnny Tremain
- Paula Fox: The Slave Dancer
- Jean Fritz: The Great Little Madison
- Sheila Garrigue: The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito
- F. Gibson: Old Yeller
- Irene Hunt: Across Five Aprils
- Eric Kelly: The Trumpeter of Krakow
- Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins, Sarah Bishop and other titles
- Katherine Paterson: Lyddie
- Elizabeth Speare: The Sign of the Beaver and The Witch of Blackburn Pond
- Suzanne Fisher Staples: Shabanu; Daughter of the Wind
- Robert Westall: Blitzcat, Echoes of War, The Kingdom by the Sea, and The Machine Gunners
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- Richard Adams: Watership Down
- Lloyd Alexander: Prydain Chronicles
- Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting
- Lucy M. Boston: The Children of Green Knowe
- Ray Bradbury: Martian Chronicles
- Eleanor Cameron: The Court of the Stone Children
- Susan Cooper: Dark is Rising Sequence
- William Pene DuBois: The Twenty-one Balloons
- Brain Jacques: Redwall
- Madeline L'Engle: Time Trilogy
- C. S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia
- Robin McKinley: The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown
- Mary Norton: The Borrowers
- R.O'Brien: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
- Katherine Paterson: Bridge to Terabithia
- Philippa Pearce: Tom's Midnight Garden
- Meredith Ann Pierce: The Darkangel Trilogy
- William Steig: Abel's Island
- J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
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Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot mysteries
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hounds of the Baskervilles and Sherlock Holmes mysteries
- Virginia Hamilton: The House of Dies Drear and The Mystery of Drear House
- Ruth Park: Playing Beatie Bow
- Ellen Raskin: The Westing Game
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The World Of Nonfiction
- James Herriot: All Creatures Great and Small, and other titles
- Laurence Pringle: Batman; Exploring the World of Bats, Living in a Risky World
- Don C. Reed: The Dolphins and Me
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- David Attenborough: The First Eden;The Mediterranean World and Man
- Sara C. Bisel: The Secrets of Vesirvius;Exploring the Mysteries of an Ancient Buried City
- From the Beginning: The Story of Human Evolution
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- Steven Adams: The Impressionists
- John Beardsley: Pablo Picasso
- Bruno Ernst: The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher
- Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan: The painter's Learning to look at Contemporary American Art
- H. W. Jansen: History of Art for Young People
- Richard Meryman: Andrew Wyeth
- Susan E. Meyer: Mary Cassatt
- Zheng Zhensun and Alice Low: A Young Painter; Life and Painting of Wang Yani-China's Extraordinary Young Artist
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- B. Brenner: On the Frontier with Mr. Audubon
- Michael Brophy: Michael Faraday
- Beverly Cleary: A Girl from Yamhaill; A Memoir
- Daniel Cohen: Carl Sagan; Superstar Scientist
- Joan Dash: The Triumph of Discovery; Four Nobel Woman
- M. Davidson: The Golda Meir Story
- M. Facklam: Wild Animals, Gentle Woman (story of Jane Goodall)
- Kitty Ferguson: Stephen Hawking; Quest for a Theory of the Universe
- Russell Freedman: Lincoln; A Photo-biography, The Wright Brothers, and other titles
- Jean Fritz: Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt
- Jim Haskins: Outwards Dreams; Black Inventors and Their Inventions
- Esther Hautzig: The Endless Steppe; Growing up in Siberia
- John Henricksson: Rachel Carson; The Environmental Movement
- Barbara Lewis: Kids with Courage; True Stories about Young People Who Make a Difference
- Margaret Mead: Blackberry Winter
- Milton Meltzer: The American Revolutionaries, Thomas Jefferson and other titles
- Janet Nomura Morey and Wendy Dunn: Famous Asian Americans
- Carol Pearce: Amelia Earhart
- Linda Peavy: Dreams into Deeds; Nine Women Who Dare
- Frances Stonaker: Famous Mathematicians
- Ginger Wadsworth: Julia Morgan, Architect of Dreams
- Paul Yee: Tales from Gold Mountain; Stories of the Chinese in the New World
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- Miriam Chaikin: A Nightmare in History; The Holocaust
- John Devaney: America Goes to War; 1949
- Doris Epler: The Berlin Wall: How it Rose and Why it Fell
- Jean Fritz: China's Long March: 6,000 Miles of Danger
- W. John Hackwell: Desert of Ice: Life and Work in Antarctica
- Albert Marrin: Napoleon and the Napoleonic Wars
- Delia Ray: A Nation Torn, Behind the Blue and Gray
- S. E. Solberg: The Land and People of Korea
- Rebecca Stefoff: China
- ErikaUitz: The Legend of Good Woman: Medieval Woman in Towns and Cities
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- Edwin Abbott: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
- R. E. Jason Abdelnoor: The Silver Burdett Mathematical Dictionary
- William Blackwell: Geometry in Architecture
- Martha Boles and Rochelle Newman: The Golden Relationship: Art, Math and Nature
- Julia Diggins: String, Straightedge, and Shadow; The Story of Geometry
- Michael Ecker: Getting Started in Problem Solving and Math Contests
- Trudi Garland: Fascinating Fibonaccis
- P. R. Halmos: I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathgraphy in Three Parts
- Andrew Kaplan: Careers for Number Lovers
- Oystein Ore: Invitation to Number Theory
- H. O. Peitgen and P. H. Richter: The Beauty of Fractals
- Teri Perl: Math Equals
- Garth Runion: The Golden Section
- J. Stenmark, et al: Family Math
- Dirk Struik: A Concise History of Mathematics
- David Thomas: Math Projects for Young Scientists
- David Wells: The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers
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- Mitsumasa Anno: Anno's Math Games III, and other titles
- Stephen Barr: Mathematical Brain Benders
- Anglea Dunn: Mathematical Bafflers
- Martin Gardner: any work
- Sam Loyd: Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd, and More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd
- Norvin Pallas: Calculator Puzzles and Trick and Games
- Fred Schuh: The Master Book of Mathematical Recreations
- Raymond Smullyan: Alice in Puzzleland, and other titles
- Steven Snover and Mark Spikell: Puzzles and Pastimes of Programmable Calculators and Personal Computers
- George Summers: New Puzzles in Logical Deduction
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- Melvin Berger: The Science of Music
- Bryan Brewer and Edd Key: The Compact Disk Book: A Complete Guide to the Digital Sound of the Future
- Michael Hurd: The Oxford Junior Companion to Music
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- Margaret J. Anderson: Food Chains: The Unending Cycle
- George Barr: Sports Science for Young People
- Robert Bates: Industrial Minerals; How They Are Found
- Melvin Berger: Lights, Lenses and Lasers
- Charlene W. Billings: Superconductivity: From Discovery to Breakthroughs
- Nicholas Booth: Space; The Next 100 Years
- Edward F. Dolan and Margaret M. Scariano: Nuclear Waste
- Roy A. Gallant: Before the Sun Dies: The Story of Evolution, Once Around the Galaxy
- Nigel Hawkes: Genetic Engineering
- Norman Horowitz: To Utopia and Back; The Search for life in the Solar System
- Mark Lambert: Medicine in the Future
- David Macaulay: The Way Things Work and other titles
- Thomas Metos: The Human Mind: How We Think and Learn
- Phillip Neal: The Greenhouse Effect
- Dorothy Patent: The Quest for Artificial Intelligence
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- Ann Atwood: Haiku; The Mood of the Earth
- Sara and John E. Brewton: Of Quarks, Quasars, and Other Quirks: Quizzical Poems for the Supersonic Age
- Joanna Cole: A New Treasury of Children's Poetry
- X. J. and Dorothy Kennedy: Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry
- Kenneth Koch: Talking to the Sun: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems for Young People
- Nancy Larrick: Crazy to be Alive in Such a Strange World
- Kenneth G. Rainis: Exploring with a Magnifying Glass
- Gloria Skurzynski: Almost the Real Thing: Simulation in Your High Tech World
- Zena Sutherland and Myra C. Livingston: Scott Foreman Anthology of Children's Literature
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- Classical Calliope: The Muse's Magazine for Youth, 20 Grove Street, Peterborough, NH 03458
- Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People, 30 Grove Street, Peterborough, NH 03458
- Cricket: Box 52961, Boulder CO 80322
- Odyssey: Crossroads Circle, Waukesha, WI 53188
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