Lemony Snicket
Dick King-Smith
Eoin Colfer
Madeline L’Engle
Lynne Reid Banks
Washington Irving
Philip Pullman
Frances Burnett
Ruskin Bond
Katherine Paterson
Enid Blyton
R. K. Narayan
N.J. Dawood
Enid Blyton
L.M. Montgomery Eleanor H. Porter
Erich Käestner
J.M. Barrie
Washington Irving
Sukumar Ray (translated by Sampurna Chattarji)
Recommended Reading
Title
Author
To Build a Fire and Other
Stories
The Golden Compass
101 Folktales from India
The Prince and Other
Modern Fables
Harriet the Spy
From the Mixed Up Files of
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Little House on the Prairie
Light in the Attic
The Chronicles of Narnia
The People Could Fly
My Side of the Mountain
Journey to Topaz
Number the Stars
Thunder Rolling in the
Mountains
The Search for Delicious
Dicey’s Song
Jacob Have I Loved
Stories of India
Wonders of the World
Hurricane!
Jack London
Phillip Pullman
Eunice de Souza
Rabindranath Tagore
L. Fitzhugh
E.L. Konigsburg
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Shel Silverstein
C.S. Lewis
V. Hamilton
J. George
Y. Uchida
Lois Lowry
Scott O’Dell and Hall
Natalie Babbit
Cynthia Voigt
Katherine Patterson
Mrinalini Sarabhai
Giovanni Caselli
Patricia Lakin
Reading List 2008-2009 Grade - 6
Required Reading
Title
Author
Wind, Sand and Stars
Just William
The Light Fantastic
Joan of Arc
Anne Frank: The Diary of
a Young Girl
I, Robot
My Life with the Chimpanzees
Jim Corbett Omnibus
The Orphan of Ellis Island
Perloo the Bold
Travel Team
Old Yeller
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
Never Mind!: A Twin Novel
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Swamy and Friends
The Secret Island
Ruskin Bond’s Treasury of
Stories for Children
Merchant of Venice (abridged)
Collected Poems
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Richmal Crompton
Terry Pratchett
Diane Stanley
Anne Frank
Isaac Asimov
Jane Goodall
Jim Corbett
Elvira Woodrow
Avi
Mike Lupica
Fred Gipson
Upendrakishore Roychoudhury (translated by Swagata Deb)
Avi
E. Nesbit
R.K. Narayan
Enid Blyton
Ruskin Bond
William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth
Recommended Reading
Title
Author
The Story of Thomas Alva
Edison
Collected Poems
Stories
Great Stories by Nobel
Prize Winners
Oliver Twist
A Solitary Blue
Rosie is My Relative
A Hat Full of Sky
Boy
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
War of the Worlds
Captains Courageous
Doctor Doolittle (series)
Selected Poems of Ogden Nash
The Borrowers (series)
Tom’s Midnight Garden
A Child’s Garden of Verses
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Mystery Stories
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Margaret Cousins
Ted Hughes
Leo Tolstoy
Edited by Leo Hamalian and Edmond L. Volpe
Charles Dickens
Cynthia Voigt
Gerald Durrell
Terry Pratchett
Roald Dahl
R.L. Stevenson
H.G. Wells
Rudyard Kipling
Hugh Lofting
Ogden Nash
Mary Norton
Phillipa Pearce
R.L. Stevenson
James Hilton
Dennis Hamley
Washington Irving
Reading List 2008-2009 Grade - 7
Required Reading
Title
Author
Of Mice and Men
White Fang
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Boy
The Sign of Four
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Little Men
Ben Hur
The Black Arrow
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Three Musketeers
Born Free
Living Free
Forever Free
My Family and Other Animals
Poetry for Young People
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Crispin: the Cross of Lead
The Red Pony
Five Children and It
John Steinbeck
Jack London
Jules Verne
Roald Dahl
Arthur Conan Doyle
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lousia May Alcott
Lew Wallace
R.L. Stevenson
Victor Hugo
Alexandre Dumas
Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson
Gerlad Durrell
Emily Dickenson
Scott O’Dell
Avi
John Steinbeck
E. Nesbit
Recommended Reading
Title
Author
The Time Machine
The Story of My Life
Tales of Mysteries and Terror
The Iliad and the Odyssey
Favorite Greek Myths
Shakespeare for Young People
Marie Curie, Brave Scientist
An Old-fashioned Girl
The Room On the Roof
Every Living Thing
Stories of Maupassant
A Christmas Carol
Stories from Premchand
The Celebrated Jumping Frog
of Calaveras County and
Other Sketches
The Red Badge of Courage
I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings
The Joy Luck Club
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Book of Nonsense
Dracula
H.G. Wells
Helen Keller
Edgar Allan Poe
Retold by Barbara Leonie Picard
Retold by Mary Pope Osborne
Series edited by Diane Davidson
Keith Brandt
Lousia May Alcott
Ruskin Bond
James Herriot
Guy de Maupassant
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
Maya Angelou
Amy Tan
Richard Bach
Edward Lear
Bram Stoker
Reading List 2008-2009 Grade - 8
Required Reading
Title
Author
The Hobbit
The Prince and the Pauper
The Last of the Mohicans
The Flying Classroom
The Call of the Wild
Animal Farm
Mysterious Island
The Invisible Man
Three Men in a Boat
Three Men on the Bummel
Kidnapped
The Happy Prince and Other
Stories
The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes
Moby Dick
The Count of Monte Cristo
Murder on the Orient Express
Life of Pi
The Old Man and the Sea
Clover
Gulliver’s Travels
J.R.R. Tolkien
Mark Twain
J. Cooper
Erich Kaestner
J. London
George Orwell
Jules Verne
H.G. Wells
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome
R.L. Stevenson
Oscar Wilde
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Herman Melville
Alexandre Dumas
Agatha Christie
Yann Martel
Ernest Hemingway
Dori Sanders
Jonathan Swift
Recommended Reading
Title
Author
The Golden Fortress
Frankenstein
Selected Poems
Five People You Meet in Heaven
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Cry the Beloved Country
The Mosquito Coast
All Creatures Great and Small
Hawthorne’s Short Stories
Beasts in My Belfry
David Copperfield
The Crescent Moon
Village by the Sea
Foundation
King Solomon’s Mines
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Revolting Rhymes
Malgudi Days
The Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Satyajit Ray
Mary Shelley
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Mitch Albom
Salman Rushdie
Alan Paton
Paul Theroux
James Herriot
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Gerald Durrell
Charles Dickens
Rabindranath Tagore
Anita Desai
Isaac Asimov
H. Rider Haggard
Douglas Adams
Roald Dahl
R.K. Narayan
William Golding
John Steinbeck