Treasury · Age

Books for a reader aged…

The lists are not sorted by year at school, so this is the door for the question parents actually ask: what is there for a reader this old? Choose an age and the lists answer at that age.

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910 of these books cover age 8. The 490 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

Don't miss these at 8

These lists were made by different people for different reasons, and they are not trying to agree. The books below are the ones on at least two of them, the ones on the most lists first.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, 1950 · ages 8–13 · Lexile 940L · AR 5.7
on 7 lists Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library, The Good & The Beautiful, Time Magazine 1923-2005, TJEd Youth Recommended
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 1877 · ages 8–12 · Lexile 1010L · AR 7.7 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
on 6 lists Beautiful Feet, Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, The Good & The Beautiful, TJEd Youth Recommended
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, 1952 · ages 8–12 · Lexile 680L · AR 4.4 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
on 5 lists Davidson Gifted, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library, The Good & The Beautiful, TJEd Early Recommended
Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan, 1985 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 660L · AR 3.4 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
on 5 lists Deep Roots Grade, Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids, Newbery Award, The Good & The Beautiful
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, 1926 · ages 5–9 · Lexile 790L · AR 4.6 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
on 5 lists Deep Roots Grade, Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids, NY Public Library, TJEd Early Recommended
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1935 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 600L · AR 5.3
on 4 lists Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, The Good & The Beautiful
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli, 1949 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 920L · AR 6.2 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
on 4 lists Beautiful Feet, Deep Roots Grade, Newbery Award, The Good & The Beautiful
The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds, 1941 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 860L · AR 5.1 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
on 4 lists Beautiful Feet, Mensa Kids, Newbery Award, The Good & The Beautiful
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor, 1951 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 520L · AR 4.9 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
on 3 lists Mensa Kids, NY Public Library, The Good & The Beautiful
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace, 1940 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 650L · AR 4.0 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
on 3 lists Davidson Gifted, Mensa Kids, TJEd Early Recommended
Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner, 1942 · ages 8–9 · Lexile 580L · AR 3.9 · AR Interest: LG (K–3)
on 3 lists Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, The Good & The Beautiful
Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol, 1963 · up to age 10 · Lexile 610L · AR 4.1 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
on 3 lists Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, The Good & The Beautiful

64 books qualify at this age; these are the 12 on the most lists.

The whole of every list is still here: the Merit door.

The grade-level collections

The lists on this page were written for many ages at once. The Treasury's own collections, gathered one grade at a time, are a separate piece of work and are not finished.

Not open yet. Nothing here is being shown half-built: when a grade-level collection exists, it appears here with its own shelf.

Until then, the ages above and the lists behind the other two doors are the whole of what the catalog can honestly offer.