6th, 7th, and 8th grade Humanities Reading List
Each summer your student will be expected to read five of the following books. By the end of their
three years at Morehead, they will have read fifteen different books over the course of their summers.
The choice of book is up to them. However, some of the books contain language or situations that may
require adult supervision. On the back of the page is a form the students need to turn in at the
beginning of the year. It does require a two sentence summary and the parent’s signature. Of course,
students can read more than the five required books each summer. Most of the books on this list are a
classic and available at public libraries or Google Books.
1984
George Orwell
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Across Five Aprils
Irene Hunt
Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Allanna: The First Adventure
Tamora Pierce
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Remarque
Amos Fortune, Free Man
Elizabeth Yates
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
Baseball in April, and Other Stories
Gary Soto
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Black Boy
Richard Wright
The Black Stallion
Walter Farley
The Book of Three
Lloyd Alexander
The Borrowers
Mary Norton
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
Caddie Woodlawn
Carol Ryrie Brink
Call It Courage
Armstrong Sperry
The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexander Dumas
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Cry, The Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Daddy Long Legs
Jean Webster
Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther
Dragonsong
Anne McCaffrey
Dragonwings
Laurence Yep
Enchantress From the Stars
Sylvia Engdahl
The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia
Ester Hautzig
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Flowers of Algernon
Daniel Keyes
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
The Ghost Belonged to Me
Richard Peck
A Girl Named Disaster
Nancy Farmer
The Giver
Lois Lowry
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
James Hilton
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver’s Travel
Jonathan Swift
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone J. K. Rowling
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
Incident at Hawk’s Hill
Allan W. Eckert
The Incredible Journey
Sheila Burnford
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Journey to Topaz
Yoshiko Uchida
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
Kidnapped
Robert Lewis Stevenson
Kim
Rudyard Kipling
The Last Mission
Harry Mazer
The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Irving Washington
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Mary Poppins
P. L. Travers
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard Pyle
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
My Antonia
Willa Cather
My Friend Flicka
Mary O’Hara
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
National Velvet
Enid Bagnold
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Native Son
Richard Wright
Number the Stars
Lois Lowry
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Our Town
Thorton Wilder
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
Rick Riordan
The Pigman
Paul Zindel
The Pilgrim’s Progress
John Bunyan
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austin
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Rascal
Sterling North
The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
Redwall
Brian Jacques
Rifles for Watie
Harold Keith
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred Taylor
Roots
Alex Haley
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Separate Peace
John Knowles
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Suzanne Staples
Silas Marner
George Eliot
So Far From the Bamboo Grove
Yoko Watkins
Story of My Life
Helen Keller
A Stranger Came Ashore
Mollie Hunter
Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
To Be a Slave
Julius Lester
Tom’s Midnight Garden
Philippa Pearce
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
The Upstairs Room
Johanna Reiss
War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
Watership Down
Richard Adams
The Westing Game
Ellen Rasking
Where the Lilies Bloom
Vera Cleaver
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
The White Mountain
John Christopher
The Wind in Willows
Kenneth Grahame
The Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula LeGuin
The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
The Yearling
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings