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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

5 of these books cover age 8. The 24 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

• 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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• Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, 1920 · ages 8–10 · Lexile 930L · AR 5.1 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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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 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 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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