GT Recommended Reading List for 2018-2019
For Grade 3 to Grade 5
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
- The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley* (fantasy)
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine* (fantasy)
- The Dark is Rising Series by Susan Cooper (fantasy)
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (fantasy, travel)
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (travel, survival)
- The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald* (fantasy)
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (historical fiction)
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens* (realism)
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas* (adventure)
For Grade 6 to Grade 8
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- The Abolition of Man, by C. S. Lewis
- Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley