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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

25 of these books cover age 17. The 24 that name no age at all are left off rather than guessed at — choose any age to bring them back.

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain, 1889 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1020L · AR 9.2 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• 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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• Animal Farm by George Orwell, 1945 · ages 14–17 · Lexile 1090L · AR 7.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids, Time Magazine 1923-2005
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• Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, 1791 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1370L · AR 11.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Harvard Classics, Mensa Kids
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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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• Don Quixote, Part 1 by Miguel Cervantes, 1612 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1410L · AR 13.2 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Davidson Gifted, Harvard Classics, Mensa Kids, St. John's College
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• Foundation by Isaac Asimov, 1991 · ages 14–17 · Lexile 830L · AR 6.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 1818 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 560L · AR 12.4 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids
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• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 1726 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1370L · AR 13.5 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Davidson Gifted, Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, St. John's College
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• Hamlet by William Shakespeare, 1603 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 650L · AR 10.5 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Harvard Classics, Mensa Kids, St. John's College
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• Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, 1864 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1030L · AR 9.9 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Davidson Gifted
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• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, 1599 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 980L · AR 10.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Little Men by Louisa May Alcott, 1871 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1150L · AR 8.1 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on The Good & The Beautiful
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• Lonesome Gods by Louis L'Amour, 1983 · ages 14–18 · AR 4.6 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1973 · ages 14–17 · Lexile 860L · AR 6.1
  also on Davidson Gifted, Mensa Kids, Time Magazine 1923-2005
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• Moby Dick by Herman Melville, 1851 · ages 15–18 · Lexile 1150L · AR 10.3
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids
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• Mythology by Edith Hamilton, 1953 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1040L · AR 8.2 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
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• Narrative on the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, 1845 · ages 15–18 · Lexile 920L
  also on Beautiful Feet, Halsted - Best Friends, Mensa Kids
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• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 1838 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1230L · AR 11.3 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Deep Roots Grade
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• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DeFoe, 1719 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 920L · AR 5.8 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Deep Roots Grade, Mensa Kids, TJEd Adult Recommended
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• Sonnets by William Shakespeare, 1609 · ages 14–17
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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 Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, 1826 · ages 14–18 · Lexile 1230L · AR 12.0 · AR Interest: UG (9–12)
  also on Mensa Kids
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• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886 · ages 15–18 · Lexile 1010L · AR 9.4
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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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