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  Reading List 2008-2009 Grade - 5  
  Required Reading  
 
Title Author
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • The Sheep-Pig
  • Artemis Fowl
  • A Wrinkle in Time
  • The Indian in the Cupboard
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • Northern Lights
  • The Secret Garden
  • Rusty (series)
  • Bridge to Terebithia
  • The Famous Five (series)
  • The Road to the Bazaar
  • Aladdin and Other Stories from Arabian Nights
  • The Naughtiest Girl in School (series)
  • Anne of the Island
  • Pollyanna
  • Emil and the Detectives
  • Peter Pan
  • Rip Van Winkle
  • Abol Tabol

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
 
     
     
     
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