Our Library

We believe one of the greatest gifts parents can give their children is a deep love of reading; therefore, one of the greatest gifts we can give parents is a good book list. Carefully and lovingly compiled by our Leadership team, these books are bound to awaken the imagination, inspire the mind, and inflame the heart. We highly recommend them all for your family library!

OLDER READERS’ BOOKSHELF (12+)

• Animal Farm - George Orwell

• The Arthurian Trilogy - Rosemary Sutcliff

• Bach - Imogen Holst

• Bernice Bobs Her Hair - F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Book of the Dun Cow - Walter Wangerin, Jr.

• The Call of the Wild - Jack London

• Carry On, Mr. Bowditch - Jean Lee Latham

• The Dark Is Rising - Susan Cooper

• David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

• Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

• The Diamond as Big as the Ritz - F. Scott Fitzgerald

• A Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

• The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig

• The Great Little Madison - Jean Fritz

• Kim - Rudyard Kipling

• The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Copper

• The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

• A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt

• The Master of Hestviken - Sigrid Undset

• Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert Massie

• The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

• The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope

• Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

• The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy

• Shadows on the Rock - Willa Cather

• The Story of My Life - Helen Keller

• Typhoon and Other Tales - Joseph Conrad

• Watership Down - Richard Adams

• The Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin

MIDDLE READERS’ BOOKSHELF (8-12)

• The Adventures of Robin Hood - Roger Lancelyn Green

• All-of-a-Kind Family - Sydney Taylor

• Amelia Earhart: Pioneer of the Sky - John Parlin

• At the Back of the North Wind - George MacDonald

• Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

• Charlotte's Web - E. B. White

• The Children's Homer - Padraic Colum

• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

• The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

• Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross - Susan Sloate

• Cupid and Psyche: A Love Story - Edna Barth

• D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths - Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire

• Dick Whittington and His Cat - Eva Moore

• The Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli

• Elisabeth and the Water Troll - Walter Wangerin, Jr.

• George Washington: The Man Who Would not Be King - Stephen Krensky

• A Gift for Mama - Esther Hautzig

• The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry

• The Golden Key - George MacDonald

• Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates - Mary Mapes Dodge

• The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

• Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'DellIs

• land of the Mighty: Stories of Old Britain - Haydn Middleton

• Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion - Guernsey Van Riper, Jr.

• Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes

• King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry

• The Lady of Guadalupe - Tomie de Paola

• The Light Princess - George MacDonald

• The Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder

• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Expury

• A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Little Women - Louisa Alcott

• Magellan: First around the World - Ronald Syme

• Maria Tallchief - Tobi Tobias

• The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

• Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi

• The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald

• The Prydain Chronicles - Lloyd Alexander

• Redwall - Brian Jacques

• Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan

• The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

• The Shining Company - Rosemary Sutcliff

• The Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth Spare

• Sounder - William H. Armstrong

• The Story of Junipero Serra, Brave Adventurer - Florence Meiman White

• Stuart Little - E. B. White

• A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle

• Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

• Trumpeter of Krakow - Eric Kelly

• The Truthful Harp - Lloyd Alexander

• Westmark - Lloyd Alexander

• A Wind in the Door - Madeleine L'Engle

• The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

• A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle

• The Writing on the Hearth - Cynthia Hartnett

YOUNG READERS’ BOOKSHELF (5-8)

• Amahl and the Night Visitors - Gian Carlo Menotti

• The Black Falcon - Boccaccio (retold, William Wise)

• The Boy Who Loved Music - David Lasker

• Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months - Maurice Sendak

• A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson

• The Emperor's New Clothes - Hans Christian Andersen

• Fables - Aesop

• Frog and Toad - Arnold Lobel

• John Henry: An American Legend - Ezra Jack Keats

• Jump on Over! - Joel Chandler Harris

• The King of the Golden River - John Ruskin

• The Legend of the Christmas Rose - Selma Lagerlof

• The Lion and the Puppy - Leo Tolstoy

• The North Wind and the Sun - Jean de la Fontaine

• The Painter and the Wild Swans - Claude Clement

• Peter the Great - Diane Stanley

• The Selfish Giant - Oscar Wilde

• The Sleeping Beauty - Mercer Mayer

• St. Francis: The Poor Man of Assisi - Tomie de Paola

• St. George and the Dragon - Margaret Hodges

• St. Jerome and the Lion - Margaret Hodges

• The Story of William Penn - Aliki

• The Tailor of Gloucester - Beatrix Potter

• The Tale of Mrs. Tittelmouse - Beatrix Potter

• The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter

• The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin - Beatrix Potter

• The Tale of Tom Kitten - Beatrix Potter

• The Ugly Duckling - Hans Christian Andersen

• The Unicorn and the Lake - Marianna Mayer

• The Velveteeen Rabbit - Margery Williams Bianco

EARLY READERS’ BOOKSHELF

• The Boy Who Held Back the Sea - Lenny Hort

• Brave Irene - William Steig

• Clancy's Coat - Eve Bunting

• The Clown of God - Tomie de Paola

• Elfwyn's Saga - David Wisniewski

• The Emperor and the Kitee - Jane Yolen

• Forest of Dreams - Rosemary Wells

• The Griffin and the Minor Canon - Frank Stockton

• Harald and the Giant Knight - Donald Carrick

• Harald and the Great Stag - Donald Carrick

• King Nimrod's Tower - Leon Garfield

• The King's Fountain - Lloyd Alexander

• Leo the Late Bloomer - Robert Kraus

• The Little House - Virginia Lee Burton

• Madeline - Ludwig Betelmans

• Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McCloskey

• Marcella's Guardian Angel - Evaline Ness

• Miss Rumphius - Barbara Cooney

• Nutcracker - E.T.A. Hoffman

• Owl Moon - Jane Yolen

• The Runaway Bunny - Margaret Wise Brown

• The Snowy Day - Ezra Jack Keats

• The Story about Ping - Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese

• The Story of Babar - Jean de Brunhoff

• The Story of Ferdinand - Munro Leaf

• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble - William Steig

• Through Grandpa's Eyes - Patricia MacLaughlan

• Thy Friend, Obadiah - Brinton Turkle

• The Warrior and the Wiseman - David Wisniewski

• The Young Artist - Thomas Locker