Where to Find Literature Books

Here are our suggestions for where to find the books we recommend for Literature. You can also see this list divided into yearly groups and categorized by grade level.
Note: Your local library will probably have most of these books on hand, but it may be difficult to borrow them for long periods of time.

Public Domain

(You should be able to download these books as electronic files or read them online for free. The links will take you to a public domain source.)

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (grades 5–8)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (grades 5–8)
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (grades 1–4)
• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (grades 5–8)
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (grades 5–8)
• At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald (grades 1–4)
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (grades 1–4)
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London (grades 5–8)
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (grades 5–8)
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (grades 9–12)
• The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper (grades 9–12)
• Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney (grades 1–4)
• Five Children and It by E. Nesbit (grades 1–4)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (grades 9–12)
• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (grades 9–12)
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri (grades 1–4)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (grades 9–12)
• The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton (grades 9–12)
• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (grades 9–12)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (grades 9–12)
• Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott (grades 5–8)
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (grades 5–8)
• Laddie: A True Blue Story by Gene Stratton-Porter (grades 5–8)
• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (grades 9–12)
• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett (grades 1–4)
• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (grades 1–4)
• Little Men by Louisa May Alcott (grades 5–8)
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (grades 5–8)
• Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore (grades 9–12)
• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (grades 1–4)
• The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (grades 5–8)
• Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (grades 1–4)
• Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter (grades 1–4)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (grades 9–12)
• The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (grades 1–4)
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (grades 1–4)
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (grades 5–8)
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (grades 1–4)
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit (grades 5–8)
• Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss (grades 5–8)
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (grades 5–8)
• Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (grades 1–4)
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (grades 1–4)
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (grades 1–4)

Your Favorite Book Store

(The links will take you to Amazon.com or other book sources.)

• All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (grades 1–4)
• Along Came a Dog by Meindert DeJong (grades 1–4)
• Bambi: A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten (grades 5–8)
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton (grades 1–4)
• Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White (grades 1–4)
• Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis (grades 1–4): The Magician’s Nephew; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Last Battle
• The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne (grades 1–4)
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (grades 9–12)
• Little Britches series by Ralph Moody (grades 5–8): Little Britches; Man of the Family; The Home Ranch; Mary Emma and Company; The Fields of Home; Shaking the Nickel Bush; The Dry Divide; Horse of a Different Color
• The Lord of the Rings books by J. R. R. Tolkien (grades 9–12): The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King
• Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater (grades 1–4)
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (grades 5–8)
• Stuart Little by E. B. White (grades 1–4)
• The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White (grades 1–4)
• Watership Down by Richard Adams (grades 9–12)
• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (grades 9–12)