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KISJ Elementary School Library: Great MS "Classic" Reads

This is the guide to the Elementary School library at Korea International School Jeju.

General

100+ "Classic" Books that all middle school students should read before they get to high school…created by Mr. Boyer and a few others.  These books are in no particular order at this time.

I COULDN’T JUST STOP AT 100!

I have decided to put a genre tag to them as well, so that you have an idea of what the book is about. 

HF-Historical Fiction
SF-Science Fiction
F-Fantasy
BIO-Biography
NF-Nonfiction
ADV-Adventure, Survival
MYS-Mystery
RF- Real Life Fiction

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Books that are in the KISJ MS Library are Highlighted in Yellow.... Those is Blue can only be found in the ES Library....in progress

Collection 1

  • Outbreak by Bryn Barnard-NF
  • Dangerous Planet by Bryn Barnard-NF
  • The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba-NF
  • Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution by Ji-li Jiang-BIO
  • Revolution is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine- HF
  • Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys,HF
  • Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, HF
  • The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander,F
  • Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, ADV
  • Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, F
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis, F
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry, SF
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, HF
  • Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry..and the whole Trilogy by Mildred D. Taylor, HF
  • Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt, RF
  • The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin, MYS
  • Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryric Brink, HF
  • The Complete Grimm’s Fairytales
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare, HF
  • My Antonia by Willa Cather, HF
  • Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman, HF
  • Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah, BIO
  • Dragonwings by Laurence Yep, HF
  • Homesick by Jean Fritz, HF
  • My Side of  the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, ADV
  • Love that Dog by Sharon Creech, RF
  • Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson, RF
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, SF
  • Little Women or Little Men by Louisa May Alcott, HF
  • Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck, HF
  • Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, HF
  • The Great Fire by Jim Murphy* NF
  • Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong *nonfiction
  • Legend of the Wandering King by Laura Gallego Garcia, HF, F
  • Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine, HF
  • Sounder by William Armstrong, HF
  • Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, HF
  • The Door in the Wall by MarGuerite De AAngelina, HF
  • The Black Stallion by Walter Farley, HF
  • King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry, HF
  • Call of the Wild and White Fang by Jack London, ADV, HF

Collection 2

  • Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin, F
  • Poetry by Robert Frost
  • Poetry by Emily Dickinson
  • Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson, BIO
  • My Own Two Feet, a Memoir by Beverly Cleary, BIO
  • Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson
  • Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, F
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodges Burnett, HF
  • Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars, RF
  • Year of the Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi, HF
  • The Report Card by Andrew Clements, RF
  • Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly, RF
  • Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, RF
  • Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, HF
  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis, HF
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, F
  • The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong, HF
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, MYS, HF
  • A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer, HF
  • Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, MYS
  • Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger’s Apprentice) by John Flannagan, F
  • Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman, RF
  • Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher, F
  • The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox, HF
  • Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, F
  • Joey Pigza Swallows The Key by Jack Gantos, RF
  • Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos, HF
  • Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George, HF
  • Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Riley Giff, HF
  • Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Riley Giff, RF
  • Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix, SF
  • Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix, F
  • Wait till Helen Comes Mary Downing Hahn, GHOST
  • The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton, HF
  • Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, ADV
  • The Stone Goddess by Minfong Ho, HF
  • Jason’s Gold by Will Hobbs, HF
  • Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm, HF
  • My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt, HF
  • When Zachary Beaver Comes To Town by Kimberly Willis Holt, HF
  • Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, HF
  • The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, F
  • Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson, HF, ADV
  • Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques, F
  • Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, F, HF
  • View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg, RF
  • No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman, RF
  • The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence, HF
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle, F

Collection 3

  • Dave At Night by Gail Carson Levine, HF
  • The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle, HF
  • Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, HF
  • Gold Dust by Chris Lynch, HF
  • Heroes Don’t Run by Harry Mazer, HF
  • The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
  • Saffy’s Angel by Hilary McKay, RF
  • Beware Princess Elizabeth by Caroline Meyer, MYS, HF
  • Petey by Ben Mikaelsen, HF
  • Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, HF
  • Shizuko’s Daughter by Kyoko Mori, HF
  • Monster by Walter Dean Myers, RF
  • The Black Pearl by Scott o’Dell, HF
  • Eragon Christopher Paolini, F
  • When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park, HF
  • Single Shard by Linda Sue Park, HF
  • Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson, HF
  • Lyddie by Katherine Paterson, HF
  • Jip, His Story by Katherine Paterson, HF
  • A Year Down Yonder and Fair Weather by Richard Peck, HF
  • Riding the Flume by Patricia Curtis Pfitsch, HF
  • Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, RF
  • Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce, F
  • The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, F
  • Mine Eyes Have Seen by Ann Rinaldi, HF
  • Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy, HF
  • The Dreamer by Pam munoz Ryan, HF
  • Holes by Louis Sachar, ADV
  • The Inventions of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, MYS
  • Loser by Jerry Spinelli, RF
  • The Cay by Theodore Taylor, HF
  • Okay For Now by Gary D. Schmidt, HF
  • Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan, HF
  • Jesse by Gary Soto, HF
  • Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, HF
  • Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli, RF
  • The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John, ADV
  • Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley, F
  • Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples, HF
  • The Red Pony by John Steinbeck, HF
  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson, ADV
  • Surving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan, RF
  • Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool, HF
  • The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner, F
  • Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen, RF
  • So B. It by Sarah Weeks, RF
  • Chu Ju’s House By Gloria Whelan, HF
  • Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan, HF
  • Belle Prater’s Boy by Ruth White, HF
  • After Tupac & D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson, RF
  • Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss, ADV
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, ADV
  • Hiroshima by Laurence Yep, HF
  • The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, HF