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Story Hour Readings

GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD KNOW

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The following list of book titles suggests some good library browsing for you. Try reading one good book a week outside of school hours. Aside from the immediate pleasure and knowledge derived, you will thus establish an invaluable habit and set up for yourself standards of literary judgment.

Alcott's Eight Cousins

Aldrich's Story of a Bad Boy

Baldwin's Discovery of the Old Northwest

Baldwin's Fifty Famous Rides and Riders

Baldwin's Old Greek Stories

Brown's Rab and his Friends

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

Burnett's Secret Garden

Burroughs's Bird Stories

Burroughs's Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers

Clemens's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Clemens's Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Clemens's Prince and the Pauper

Clemens's Roughing It

Cooke's Stories of the Old Dominion

Cooper's Deerslayer

Cooper's Pathfinder

Cooper's Spy

Dana's Two Years before the Mast

Dickens's Child's History of England

Dickens's Christmas Carol

Dickens's Cricket on the Hearth

Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby

Dickens's Pickwick Papers

Garland's Boy Life on the Prairie

Guerber's Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages

Hill's On the Trail of Washington

Holland's Historic Boyhoods

Holland's Historic Girlhoods

Howells's Stories of Ohio

Hughes's Tom Brown at Rugby

Irving's Sketch Book

Kipling's Captains Courageous

Kipling's Jungle Books

Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare

London's Call of the Wild

Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish

Lucas's Slowcoach

Mabie's Book of Christmas

Mabie's Book of Old English Ballads

Mabie's Famous Stories Every Child should Know

Marden's Stories from Life

Ollivant's Bob, Son of Battle

Pyle's Men of Iron

Roosevelt's Stories of the Great West

Scott's Ivanhoe

Scott's Quentin Durward

Seton's Trail of the Sandhill Stag

Stevenson's Kidnapped

Stevenson's Master of Ballantrae

Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey

Stockton's Stories of New Jersey

Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Tarkington's Penrod

Thompson's Stories of Indiana

Warner's Being a Boy

Whitehead's Standard Bearer

Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Yonge's Book of Golden Deeds

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