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Classics

Alcott, Louisa May – Little Women   L1300

Austen, Jane -- Pride and Prejudice L1090, Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility

Barrie, James – Peter Pan   L920

Baum, Frank – Wizard of Oz (series) L1000

Bronte, Charlotte -- Jane Eyre L890

Burnett – The Secret Garden   L970   

Carroll, Lewis – - Alice in Wonderland   L950

Collodi, Carlo – Pinocchio   L780

DeJong, Meindert – The House of Sixty Fathers L820

Dodge, Mary Mapes – Hans Brinker   L1020

Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask

Heaney, Seamus, translator – Beowulf    L1090 (208 pages)

Kipling, Rudyard – Jungle Books   L1140

Milne, A.A. - Winnie the Pooh (not for portfolio)

Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables (series) L990

Orczy, Baroness Emmuska  -- The Scarlet Pimpernel  L1140

Saint Exupery, Antoine de – The Little Prince   L710

Seredy, Kate – The Good Master   L640

Sewell – Black Beauty   L1010

Spyri, Johanna – Heidi L960

Please do not read for the Book-of-the-Month Club  the illustrated classics abridged versions that are targeted at 7-9 year olds, unless you have permission/encouragement from the teacher to do so.  These are books that have large sparse print, many black and white drawings, and have been so simplified that they have lost the flavor of the originals.