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TJEd Youth Recommended

A Thomas Jefferson Education is Oliver and Rachel DeMille's home-education method. It recommends three reading lists by the age of the reader — Early, Youth and Adult — and these are the ones for young readers.

80 books in the catalog stand on this list. The list itself (opens the list's own website) ↗

A reader aged

20 of these books cover age 10. The 24 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, 1935 · ages 9–12 · Lexile 710L · AR 7.3 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids, The Good & The Beautiful
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• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 1877 · ages 8–12 · Lexile 1010L · AR 7.7 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Beautiful Feet, Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, The Good & The Beautiful
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• Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank, 1952 · ages 10–17 · Lexile 1020L · AR 6.5 · AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids
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• Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, 1920 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 930L · AR 5.1 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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• Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott, 1875 · ages 9–14 · Lexile 1150L · AR 8.2 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on The Good & The Beautiful
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• Heidi by Joanna Spyri, 1880 · ages 9–14 · Lexile 1200L · AR 8.2 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, The Good & The Beautiful
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• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell, 1960 · ages 10–12 · Lexile 1000L · AR 5.4 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids, Newbery Award, The Good & The Beautiful
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• King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green, 1953 · ages 9–14 · Lexile 1130L · AR 7.7 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Beautiful Feet
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• Little Britches by Ralph Moody, 1991 · ages 9–14 · Lexile 600L · AR 5.3 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1886 · ages 9–14 · Lexile 1070L · AR 8.1 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, The Good & The Beautiful
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• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 1868 · ages 9–14 · Lexile 1300L · AR 7.9 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, The Good & The Beautiful
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• Old Yeller by Fred Gipson, 1964 · ages 10–12 · Lexile 910L · AR 5.0 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Deep Roots Grade
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• Stuart Little by E.B. White, 1945 · ages 9–10 · Lexile 920L · AR 6.0
  also on Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade
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• Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss, 1812 · ages 9–14 · Lexile 1210L · AR 8.1 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, The Good & The Beautiful
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• The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, 1967 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 840L · AR 5.2 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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• The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, 1893 · ages 9–13 · Lexile 1050L · AR 5.8 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Mensa Kids
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• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, 1950 · ages 8–13 · Lexile 940L · AR 5.7
  also on Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library, The Good & The Beautiful, Time Magazine 1923-2005
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• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, 1961 · ages 10–13 · Lexile 1000L · AR 6.7 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Davidson Gifted, Halsted - Best Friends, NY Public Library
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• The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White, 1970 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 750L · AR 4.9 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Davidson Gifted, The Good & The Beautiful
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• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1882 · ages 9–14 · Lexile 1070L · AR 8.3 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, The Good & The Beautiful
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