Are You Well-Read?
Grades 7-9 English Reading List
This list was pulled from a July, 1970 Saskatchewan reading list for the public school system. Students were required to read a minimum of 6 books for each grade. Can you check-off at least 18 of these books?
See also the reading list for Grades 10-12
Albion-Meek. The Great Adventure (Ma) One of two choices for required Grade 9 reading
Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women (Rainbow classics), 1946
Alexander, Lloyd. The Book of Three (Hr), 1964
Armstrong, Richard. Danger Rock (De), 1964
Aora, Shirley L. What Then, Ramen? (Ry), 1960
Asimov, Isaac. Tomorrow's Children. (Do),1966
Bagnold, Enid. National Velvet (Bh), 1935
Baker, Nina. Sir Walter Raleigh (Lg), 1950
Ball, Zachary. Bristle Face (Lg), 1962
Baumann, Hans. The Caves of the Great Hunters (Pantheon),1962
Bauman, Hans. The World of the Paraohs (Pantheon), 1960
Benary-Isbert, Margot The Ark (Lg), 1953
Benary-Isbert, Margot Dangerous Spring (Lg), 1961
Berrill, Jacquelyn. Wonders of the Antartic (Dm), 1958
Bertoon, Pierre. The Golden Trail (Ma), 1954
Braymer, Marjoorie. The Walls of Windy Troy (Lg), 1960
Brill, Ethel C. Madeleine Takes Command (Mh), (Whittlesey House),1946
Brink, Carol R. Caddie Woodlawn (Ma), (N.Y.), 1935
Bunyan, John Pilgrim's Progress : retold and shortened for modern readers by Mary Godolphin; drawings by Robert Lawson (Ms), 1939
Burnford, Sheila. The Incredible Journey 1961
Burton, Hester. Castors Away! (Lb), 1962
Butler, Beverly. Light a Single Candle (Ox), 1962
Carr, Mary Jane. Young Mac of Fort Vancouver (Crowell), 1940
Caudill, Rebecca. Tree of Freedom (Ma), 1949
Chaucer, Geoffrey. A Taste of Chaucer: chosen and ed. by Anne Malcolmson (Lg), 1964
Chauncey, Nan. The Roaring 40 (Ox), 1963
Christopher, John. The White Mountains (Ma), (N.Y.), 1967
Church, Alfred J. The Aeneid for Boys and Girls (Ma), (Macmillan classics), (N.Y.), 1964
Church, Alfred J. The Iliad and The Odessey of Homer (Ma), (Macmillan classics), (N.Y), 1964
Churchill, Winston. My Early Life School Ed. (Al), 1947
Chute, Marchette. Stories from Shakespeare (World), 1956
Clark, Ann Nolan Santiago (Ma), 1955
Clarke, Arthur C. Dolphin Island (Hr), 1963
Clarke, Arthur C. Indian Ocean Treasure (Fw), 1964
Cleary, Beverly. Fifteen (M1), 1956
Cleaver, Solomon. Jean Val Jean Required Grade 8 reading
Clewes, Dorothy. Guide Dog (Hamish Hamilton), 1965
Colum, Padraic. The Adventures of Odysseus, and, The Tales of Troy (Ma), (N.Y.), 1918
Colum, Padraic. The Golden Fleece (Ma), (N.Y.), 1921
Cook, Lyn The Bells of Finland Street (Ma), 1950
Coolidge, Olivia. Men of Athens (Ne), 1962
Coolidge, Olivia. Winston Churchill and the Story of Two World Wars (Ne), 1960
Cruse. The Book of Myths (Ci) One of two choices for required Grade 9 reading
Daveluy, Paule Summer in Ville-Marie (Hr), 1962
Davies, Harriet Vaughan. Aboard the 'Lizzie Ross' (Nortoon), 1966
Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe (Sa), (Scribner Illus. classics), 1957
DeJong, Meindert. The House of Sixty Fathers (Fw), 1956
Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield (Ma), (Macmillan classics), (N.Y.), 1962
Dillon, Eilis. The House on the Shore (Ra), 1955
Doyle, Arthur Conan The Lost World (John Murray) (Uniform ed. series), 1934
Durrell, Gerald M. The New Noah (Cc), 1955
Eaton, Sara. Moccasin and Cross (Cc), 1959
Eyerly, Jeannette. Drop-Out (Ms), 1963
Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain (Ne), (Reverside Literature series), 1960
Friis-Baastad, Babbis. Don't Take Teddy (Sa), 1967
Garnett, Emmeling. Madame Prime Minister (Farrar), 1967
George, Jean. My Side of the Mountain (Ci), 1959
Gipson, Fred. Old Yeller (Fw), 1956
Gray, Elizabeth J. Adam of the Road (Ma), 1942
Green, Roger Lancelyn. Heroes of Greece and Troy (Bodley Head), 1960
Griffiths, Helen The Wild Heart (Hutchinson), 1963
Guillot, René. A Boy and Five Huskies (Ry), 1957
Haig-Brown, Roderick L. The Whale People (Collins), 1962
Hamori, Laszlo. Dangerous Journey (La), 1962
Harman, Gumphrey. Black Samson (Hutchinson), 1965
Haugaard, Erik Christian. Hakon of Rogen's Saga (Ne), 1963
Hayes, John F. Bugles in the Hills (Cc), 1955
Hayes, John F. The Dangerous Cove (Cc), 1957
Heinlein, Robert. Red Planet (Sa), 1949
Henry, Marguerite. King of the Wind (Ga), 1948
Holm, Anne I Am David (Me), 1965
Horizon Magazine. Joan of Arc by Jay Williams (American Heritage), (Horizon Caravel Books), 1963
Hunt, Irene Across Five Aprils (Ry), 1964
James, Will. Smoky the Cowhorse (Sa), 1954
Johnson, Dorothy M. Farewell to Troy (Ne), 1964
Keithe, Harold. Rifles for Watie (Cromwell), 1957
Kinglsey, Charles. The Heroes (CI), (Children's Illustrated classics), 1963
Kjelgaard, Jim. Big Red (Sa), 1945
Knight, Eric. Lassie Come-Home (Grosset), (Famous dog stories), 1940
Krumgold, Joseph. Onion John (Crowell), 1959
Lamb, Charles. Tales From Shakespeare (Ma), (Macmillan classics), (N.Y.), 1963
L'Engle, Madeleine. Meet the Austins (Cc), 1960
L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time (Farrar), (Ariel books), 1962
Lippincott, Joseph Wharton. Old Bill the Whooping Crane (Ms), 1958
Lippincott, Joseph Warton. Wilderness Champion (Ms), 1944
London, Jack. Call of the Wild (Ma), (Macmillan classics), (N.Y.), 1963
Longstreth, T. Morris. The Calgary Challengers (Ma), 1962
McCourt, Edward. Revolt in the West (Ma), 1958
McCracken, Harold Great White Buffalo (Ms), 1946
McEvoy, Bernard L. Stories From Across Canada (Ms), (Great stories of Canada), 1966
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis Mara, Daughter of the Nile (Coward-McCann), 1953
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. Moccasin Trail (Coward-McCann), 1952
McIntyre, W.R.S. Vigorous Verse (Ma), (London), 1963
McLean, Allan Campbell Master of Morgana (Collins), (Evergreen library), 1966
McNamee, James My Uncle Joe (Ma), 1962
Malory, Sir Thomas. The Boy's King Arthur ed. for boys by Sidney Lanier (Sa), (Scribner's illus. classsics), 1917
Maddock, Reginald. The Pit (Collins), 1966
Malvern, Gladys. Behold Your Queen (Lg), 1951
Malvern, Gladys. Dancing Star (Mu), 1942
Martel, Suzanne. The City Underground (Ma), 1964
Maule, Tex. The Last Out (McKay), 1964
Mayne, William. Underground Alley (Ox), (Oxford children's library), 1965
Means, Florence Crannell. Great Day in the Morning (Ne), 1946
Means, Florence Crannell. It Takes All Kinds (Ne), 1964
Merrill, Jean. The Pushcart War ((W.R. Scott), 1964
Mitchell, W.O. Jake and the Kid (Ma), 1961
Moody, Ralph. Little Britches (Ml), 1950
Morey, Walt. Gentle Ben (Ci), 1965
Morris, Rosamund. Great Detective Stories (Ml), (Sunrise library), 1965
Morrison, Lillian. Sprints and Distances (Crowell), 1965
Mowat, Farley Lost in the Barrens (Lb), 1956
Mowat, Farley. Owls in the Family (Lb), 1961
Nash, Ogden. The Moon is Shining Bright as Day (Ms), 1953
Neville, Emily. It's Like This Cat (Fw), 1963
Noble, Iris. Megan (Mu), 1965
Nolan, Jeannette Covert. The Story of Clara Barton of the Red Cross (Mu), 1941
North, Sterling. Rascal (Ci), 1963
North, Sterling. Young Thomas Edison (Ne), (North star books), 1958
Nourse, Alan E. The Universe Between (Mu), 1965
O'Brien, Jack. Silver Chief, Dog of the North (Hr), 1933
O'Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins (Ne), 1960
O'Hara, Mary. My Friend Flicka (Ms), 1941
William Mayne et al. Over the Horizon (Do), 1961
Pease, Howard. The Black Tanker (Do), 1941
Phelan, Josephine. The Bold Heart (Ma), (Great stories of Canada), 1956
Phelan, Josephine. The Boy Who Ran Away (Ma), 1954
Phipson, Joan. The Crew of the Merlin (Lg), 1966
Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Ma), (Macmillan classics), (N.Y.), 1963
Polland, Madeleine. The Queen's Blessing (Lg), 1963
Proudfit, Isabel. The Treasure Hunter (Mu), 1939
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan The Yearling (Sa), (School ed), 1938
Renault, Mary. The Lion in the Gateway (Fw), 1964 (A break-through book)
Reynolds, Quentin. The Wright Brothers (Rh), (Landmark books), (1950
Roberts, Sir Charles G.D. Thirteen Bears (Ry), 1947
Rodman, Bella. Lions in the Way (Ry), 1966
St. Pierre, Paul. Boss of the Namko Drive (Ry), 1965
Sandburg, Carl. Wind Song (Lg), 1960
Schaefer, Jack. Shane (Ne), 1954
Schull, Joseph. Battle for the Rock (Ma), (Great stories of Canada), 1960
Scoggin, Margaret C. Chucklebait (Knopf), 1945
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe (Dm), (Great illus. classics), 1944
Seredy, Kate. Good Master (Ma), 1935
Serraillier, Ian. The Silver Sword (Abelard-Schuman), 1959
Seton, Ernest Thompson. Wild Animals I Have Known (Sa), 1958
Sharp, Edith Lambert. Nkwala (Lb), 1958
Shirer, William L. The Sinking of the Bismarck (Rh), (World landmark books), 1962
Silverber, Robert. Time of the Great Freeze (Hr), 1964
Snedeker, Caroline D. Downright Dencey (Do), 1927
Sommerfelt, Aimée Miriam (As), 1963
Southall, Ivan. To the Wild Sky (Angus & Robertson), 1967
Speare, Elizabeth. The Bronze Bow (Ne), 1961
Speare, Elizabeth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Ne), 1958
Sperry, Armstrong Danger to Windward (Hh), 1947
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Gc), 1967
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Kidnapped (Sa), (Scribner illus. classics), 1913
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island (Sa), (Scribner illus. classics), 1911
Stevenson, William. The Bushbabies (Ne), 1965
Stiles, Martha Bennett. Darknewss Over the Land (Fw), 1966
Stolz, Mary. The Bully of Barkham Street (Fa), 1963
Stolz, Mary A Dog on Barkham Street (Fw), 1960
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Beowulf (Qu), 1961
Sutcliff, Rosemary The Eagle of the Ninth (Ox), 1954
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Warrior Scarlet (Ox), 1958
Swarthout, Glendon Fred. Whichaway (Rh), 1966
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels (World), (Rainbow classics), 1946
Townsend, John Rowe. Good-Bye to the Jungle (Ms), 1967
Trease, Geoffrey. Crown of Violet (Ma), 1952
Trease, Geoffrey. Cue for Treason (Cc), no date
Treece, Henry. The Last of the Vikings (Mu), 1964
Tunis, John R. Silence Over Dunkerque (Ml), 1962
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (World), (Rainbow classics), 1946
Van Stockum, Hilda The Winged Watchman (Farrar), (A Bell Book), 1962
Verne, Jules. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Sa), (Scribner illus. classics), 1925
Vicksten, Albert Gunilla (Ne), 1957
Waldeck, Theodore J. On Safari (Ma), 1940
Walsh, Gillian Paton. The Dolphin Crossing (Ma), 1967
Walton, Bryce. Cave of Danger (Crowell), 1967
Weaver, Stella. Sisters and Brothers (Collins), 1960
Weber, Lenora Mattingly. Dont' Call Me Katie Rose (Crowell), 1964
Weil, Ann. Red Sails to Capri (Ma), 1952
Welch, Ronald. Knight Crusader (Ox), (Request trade edition), 1960
Wells, H.G. The Invisible Man (Collins), (Collins classics), 1953
Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds (Rh), (Looking Glass library), 1960
Werstein, Irving. The Long Escape (Sa), 1964
White, Robb. The Survivor (Do), 1964
Wier, Ester. The Barrel (Mu), 1966
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. These Happy Golden Years (Fw), 1943
Willard, Barbara. The Battle of Wednesday Week (Lg), 1963
Williams, Eric. The Wooden Horse (Collins), 1955
Wojciechowska, Maia. Shadow of a Bull (Ms), 1964
Wood, Kerry. The Great Chief, Maskepetoon (Ma), (Great stories of Canada), 1957
Young, Scott. A Boy at the Leaf's Camp (Lb), 1963
Young, Scott. Scrubson Skates (Lb), 1952
