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+)

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

  • Across Five Aprils - Irene Hunt

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

  • The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton

  • Amos Fortune, Free Man - Elizabeth Yates

  • Angels in Iron - Nicholas Prata

  • Animal Farm - George Orwell

  • The Arthurian Trilogy - Rosemary Sutcliff

  • Bach - Imogen Holst

  • Bernice Bobs Her Hair - F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

  • Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

  • The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

  • The Dark Is Rising - Susan Cooper

  • David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

  • The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

  • Don Quixote - Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

  • The Door in the Hedge - Robin McKinley

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

  • Dracula - Bram Stoker

  • The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff

  • The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig

  • The Father Brown Series - G.K. Chesterton

  • Gorgias - Plato

  • Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

  • The Great Little Madison - Jean Fritz

  • Grisly Grisell - Charlotte Yonge

  • Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift

  • The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton

  • The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott

  • Kim - Rudyard Kipling

  • The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Copper

  • Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

  • Little Britches - Ralph Moody

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

  • Lord of the World - Robert Hugh Benson

  • The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas

  • The Man Who was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton

  • The Master of Hestviken - Sigrid Undset

  • The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

  • Middlemarch - George Eliot

  • The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

  • Moby Dick - Herman Melville

  • Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert Massie

  • The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

  • The Once and Future King - T.H. White

  • The Outlaws of Ravenhurst - M. Imelda Wallace, S.L.

  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

  • The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope

  • The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

  • Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

  • Rose in Bloom - Louisa May Alcott

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy

  • Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

  • Shadows on the Rock - Willa Cather

  • The Shining Company - Rosemary Sutcliff

  • The Song at the Scaffold -Gertrud Von le Fort

  • The Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis

  • The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius - Saint Ignatius of Loyola

  • The Story of My Life - Helen Keller

  • The Story of a Soul - Saint Therese of Lisieux

  • Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss

  • Thirty-Two Stories - Edgar Allan Poe

  • The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

  • The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

  • Typhoon and Other Tales - Joseph Conrad

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

  • The Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin

  • The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

MIDDLE READERS’ BOOKSHELF (8-12)

  • All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot

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

  • Amelia Earhart: Pioneer of the Sky - John Parlin

  • Angel on the Square -Gloria Whelan

  • Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne

  • At the Back of the North Wind - George MacDonald

  • Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

  • The Blood-Red Crescent - Henry Garnett

  • The Blue Gonfalon: At the First Crusade - Margaret Ann Hubbard

  • The Borrowers - Mary Norton

  • The Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner

  • The Boys Who Challenged Hitler - Phillip Hoose

  • Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt - Jean Fritz

  • Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink

  • Calico Bush - Rachel Field

  • Carry On, Mr. Bowditch - Jean Lee Latham

  • The Castle in the Attic - Elizabeth Winthrop

  • Catherine, Called Birdy - Karen Cushman

  • Cheaper By the Dozen - Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

  • The Children's Homer - Padraic Colum

  • 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

  • Daddy-Long-Legs - Jean Webster

  • Dick Whittington and His Cat - Eva Moore

  • The Door in the Wall - Marguerite de Angeli

  • Eight Cousins - Louisa May Alcott

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

  • Emily of New Moon - L.M. Montgomery

  • Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card

  • Five Children and It - E. Nesbit

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

  • A Gift for Mama - Esther Hautzig

  • A Girl of the Limberlost - Gene Stratton Porter

  • The Golden Goblet - Eloise Jarvis McGraw

  • The Golden Key - George MacDonald

  • The Good Master - Kate Seredy

  • Gone-Away Lake - Elizabeth Enright

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

  • The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks

  • Invincible Louisa - Cornelia Meigs

  • Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell

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

  • Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes

  • Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne

  • King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry

  • The Lady of Guadalupe - Tomie de Paola

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

  • The Light Princess - George MacDonald

  • A Lion to Guard Us - Clyde Robert Bulla

  • A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • Magellan: First around the World - Ronald Syme

  • Maria Tallchief - Tobi Tobias

  • Miracles on Maple Hill - Virginia Sorenson

  • The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsberg

  • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O’Brien

  • A Murder for Her Majesty - Beth Hilgartner

  • The Perilous Gard - Elizabeth Marie Pope

  • Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter

  • The Prydain Chronicles - Lloyd Alexander

  • The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

  • Redwall Series - Brian Jacques

  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor

  • Rules of the Road - Joan Bauer

  • Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan

  • The School Story - Andrew Clements

  • The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • Seven Daughters and Seven Sons - Barbara Cohen

  • The Shakespeare Stealer - Gary Blackwood

  • The Shining Company - Rosemary Sutcliff

  • The Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth George Speare

  • Snow Treasure - Marie McSwigan

  • Sounder - William H. Armstrong

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

  • Strawberry Girl - Lois Lenski

  • Stuart Little - E. B. White

  • A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle

  • The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo

  • Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

  • The Trumpeter of Krakow - Eric Kelly

  • The Truthful Harp - Lloyd Alexander

  • The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pene du Bois

  • The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin

  • Westmark - Lloyd Alexander

  • A Wind in the Door - Madeleine L'Engle

  • The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare

  • The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Joan Aiken

  • 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 Book of Saints and Heroes - Andrew Lang

  • The Boy Who Loved Music - David Lasker

  • Cautionary Tales for Children - Hilaire Belloc

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

  • The Children of Noisy Village - Astrid Lindgren

  • The Emperor's New Clothes - Hans Christian Andersen

  • Frog and Toad are Friends - Arnold Lobel

  • The Hour of the Olympics - Mary Pope Osborne

  • 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 Long Way to a New Land - Joan Sandin

  • Mouse Tales - Arnold Lobel

  • Nate the Great - Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

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

  • The Painter and the Wild Swans - Claude Clement

  • Peter the Great - Diane Stanley

  • Pippi Longstocking Series - Astrid Lindgren

  • The Railway Children - E. Nesbit

  • 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 Ugly Duckling - Hans Christian Andersen

  • The Unicorn and the Lake - Marianna Mayer

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