Enlightium Academy Reading List

Reading List Disclaimer

This reading list is neither exhaustive nor are the books on this list suggestions. This list is merely a platform to start generating ideas on books that could be used. Students are more than welcome to request a book of their own choice; however, because the Reading Program is tied to extra credit, all books that are not on this list must be approved by the teacher in order to generate an appropriate point value.

Enlightium Academy provides an eLibrary system exclusively for Enlightium students, called Sora eLibrary. You will find the Sora links below for many of the books.

You will also find a Common Sense Media review below for many of the books. While Common Sense Media provides helpful age-based ratings and reviews on entertainment choices for families, the responsibility falls on the parent to review and choose the appropriate books for their student.

For help on determining your student's reading level, please refer to this link.

The books are organized into three reading levels: easy, medium, and hard.

* nonfiction

Easy

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

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Easy Easy

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

*I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai

*Bruchko by Bruce Olson

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

*The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Medium Medium

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Christy by Catherine Marshall

Lord of the Flies by Deckle Edge

*Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

*A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe

*Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

*Maus I and II by Art Spiegelman

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

*Through Gates Of Splendor by Elizabeth Elliot

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

*Peace Child by Don Richardson

Hard Hard

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Emma by Jane Austen

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

*Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

*Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

*Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

*Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

*The Cross and the Switchblade David Wilkerson

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Ben Hur: A Tale of Christ by Lew Wallace

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

*Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

*Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer

*A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

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Medium

Hard