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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

26 of these books cover age 13. The 24 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1885 · ages 12–17 · Lexile 980L · AR 6.6 · AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, St. John's College
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• Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1865 · ages 11–13 · Lexile 880L · AR 7.4 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Davidson Gifted, Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids
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• Ben Hur by Lew Wallace, 1880 · ages 11–14 · Lexile 990L · AR 9.1
  also on Deep Roots Grade
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• Black Stallion by Walter Farley, 1941 · ages 11–13 · Lexile 680L · AR 5.2 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Beautiful Feet, Davidson Gifted, Mensa Kids
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• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, 1850 · ages 12–15 · Lexile 1070L · AR 9.5
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Harvard Classics
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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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• 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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• Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, 1896 · ages 12–15 · Lexile 720L
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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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• National Velvet by Enid Bagnold, 1953 · ages 11–13 · Lexile 700L · AR 5.5 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Mensa Kids
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• North to Freedom by Anne Holm, 1963 · ages 11–13 · Lexile 890L · AR 5.6 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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• Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls, 1976 · ages 11–13 · Lexile 810L · AR 4.8 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on The Good & The Beautiful
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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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, 1876 · ages 11–14 · Lexile 970L · AR 8.1 · AR Interest: MG+ (6–8)
  also on Mensa Kids
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• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, 1971 · ages 11–13 · Lexile 900L · AR 6.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Beautiful Feet, Deep Roots Grade, The Good & The Beautiful
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• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937 · ages 12–17 · Lexile 1000L · AR 6.6 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids, NY Public Library
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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 Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911 · ages 11–13 · Lexile 710L · AR 6.3 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
  also on Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids
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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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• White Fang by Jack London, 1964 · ages 12–17 · Lexile 650L · AR 7.4 · AR Interest: MG (4–8)
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