Talented Youth: Fiction Reading List

*Abarat, by Clive Barker

*Amber Spyglass, by Philip Pullman

*Buddha Boy, by Kathe Koja

*Call of the Wild, by Jack London

*Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

A Connecticut Yankee in Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain

*The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas

*Dracula, by Bram Stoker

At the Crossing Places, by Kevin Crossley-Holland

*Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, a Ship’s Boy, by L.A. Meyer

*Crispin: the Cross of Lead, by Avi

*Esperanza Rising, by Pam Munoz Ryan

*Fair Weather, by Richard Peck

*Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

*Fever, 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson

Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger

* Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman

*The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien

*Homeless Bird, by Gloria Whelan

Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

*The Incredible Journey by Sheila Every Burnford

*Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke

*The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells

*Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

*To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

*Kidnapped, by Robert Lewis Stevenson

*The Kiterider, by Geraldine McCaughrean

*Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

*Long Way From Chicago: a Novel in Stories, by Richard Peck

*The Lord of the Rings series, by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Muchacho by Louanne Johnson

The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

*Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse

*Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane

*The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson

*The Seeing Stone, by Kevin Crossley-Holland *

Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley

*The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman

*Things Not Seen, by Andrew Clements

*The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells

*Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

Treasure Island, by Robert Lewis Stevenson

The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells

*When My Name Was Keoko, by Linda Sue Park

* Witness, by Karen Hesse

*X: A Novel, by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon

*A Year Down Yonder, by Richard Peck

Starred books are in Showalter LMC