To encourage the joy of reading, the Mensa Foundation has developed the Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Program, a year-round challenge to kids of all ages based on the NEH's "Summertime Favorites" reading list, with some alterations.
Across Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
The Bridge of San Luis Ray
by Thornton Wilder
Call It Courage
by Armstrong Sperry
Recommended Age: 9
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The Call Of The Wild
by Jack London
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A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
A Day No Pigs Would Die
by Robert Newton Peck
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
Dragonwings
by Laurence Yep
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Enchantress from the Stars
by Sylvia Engdahl
The Endless Steppe
by Esther Hautzig
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
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The Ghost Belonged to Me
by Richard Peck
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Recommended Age: 12
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Goodbye Mr Chips
by James Hilton
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
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Incident at Hawk's Hill
by Allan W. Eckert
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O’Dell
Recommended Age: 9
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Ivanhoe
by Walter Scott
Jacob Have I Loved
by Katherine Paterson
Recommended Age: 13
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Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
Recommended Age: 10
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Journey To Topaz
by Yoshiko Uchida
Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George
Recommended Age: 14
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Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
The Last Mission
by Harry Mazer
Le Morte D'Arthur
by Thomas Mallory
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
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The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
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The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
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My Friend Flicka
by Mary O'Hara
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
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National Velvet
by Enid Bagnold
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
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The Pigman
by Paul Zindel
Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
The Red Pony
by John Steinbeck
Rifles for Watie
by Harold Keith
Recommended Age: 12
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Rip Van Winkle
by Washington Irving
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
Recommended Age: 11
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Shane
by Jack Schaefer
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
A Stranger Came Ashore
by Mollie Hunter
Tales from Shakespeare
by Charles & Mary Lamb
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The Thurber Carnival
by James Thurber
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
Recommended Age: 11
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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20,000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
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The Upstairs Room
by Johanna Reiss
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
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Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
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The White Mountains
by John Christopher
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L’Engle
Recommended Age: 11
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The Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings