Reading List

Written by renowned and award-winning authors, the literature in Junior Great Books® Series 3-5 captures students' imagination and engages the best of their thinking.

Series 3, Book One

The Banza Haitian folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein

The Man Whose Trade Was Tricks Georgian folktale as told by George and Helen Papashvily

The Fisherman and His Wife Brothers Grimm

Ooka and the Honest Thief Japanese folktale as told by I. G. Edmonds

It's All the Fault of Adam Nigerian folktale as told by Barbara Walker

The Monster Who Grew Small Joan Grant

The Selkie Girl Scotttish folktale as told by Susan Cooper

The Mushroom Man Ethel Pochocki

The Princess and the Beggar Korean folktale as told by Anne Sibley O'Brien

The Fire on the Mountain Ethiopian folktale as told by Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau

 

Series 3, Book Two

The Dream Weaver Concha Castroviejo

Jean Labadie's Big Black Dog French-Canadian folktale as told by Natalie Savage Carlson

Caporushes English folktale as told by Flora Annie Steel

The Upside-Down Boy Juan Felipe Herrera

The Green Man Gail E. Haley

The Ugly Duckling Hans Christian Andersen

White Wave Chinese folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein

The Mousewife Rumer Godden

How the Tortoise Became Ted Hughes

Two Wise Children Robert Graves

 

Series 4, Book One

Thank You, M'am Langston Hughes

The Gold Coin Alma Flor Ada

Tuesday of the Other June Norma Fox Mazer

Prot and Krot Polish folktale as told by Agnes Szudek

Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat Jennifer Armstrong

The Nightingale Hans Christian Andersen

Fresh Philippa Pearce

Thunder, Elephant, and Dorobo African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman

All Summer in a Day Ray Bradbury

Beauty and the Beast Madame de Villeneuve

 

Series 4, Book Two 

Shrewd Todie and Lyzer the Miser Ukrainian folktale as told by Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Goldfish Eleanor Farjeon

The Great Blackberry Pick Philippa Pearce

The Story of Wang Li Elizabeth Coatsworth

The Hemulen Who Loved Silence Tove Jansson

The Enchanted Sticks Steven J. Myers

The Elephant's Child Rudyard Kipling

Mr. Singer's Nicknames James Krüss

The Little Humpbacked Horse Russian folktale as told by Post Wheeler

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves from The Arabian Nights

 

Series 5, Book One 

The No-Guitar Blues Gary Soto

Kaddo's Wall West African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog

Turquoise Horse Gerald Hausman

A Game of Catch Richard Wilbur

Oliver Hyde's Dischcloth Concert Richard Kennedy

The Hundred-Dollar Bill Rose Wilder Lane

The Invisible Child Tove Jansson

In the Time of the Drums Gullah folktale as told by Kim L. Siegelson

Learning the Game Francisco Jiménez

The Bat-Poet Randall Jarrell

 

Series 5, Book Two

Charles Shirley Jackson

A Bad Road for Cats Cynthia Rylant

Podhu and Aruwa African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman

Lenny's Red-Letter Day Bernard Ashley

Barbie Gary Soto

Ghost Cat Donna Hill

Lucky Boy Philippa Pearce

Maurice's Room Paula Fox

The Prince and the Goose Girl Elinor Mordaunt

The Bermuda Triangle Tim Wynne-Jones

 

 

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