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N.E.C.A.

Grade 7

Any age appropriate Christian biography

Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell

Sounder by William Armstrong

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Cooper Kids Adventure Series by Frank Peretti

Adventures Down Under: Escape to Murray River by Robert Elmer

Reel Kids Adventure Series: The Amazon Stranger by Dave Gustaveson

Reel Kids Adventure Series: The Dangerous Voyage by Dave Gustaveson
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Left Behind: The Kids Series by Jerry Jenkins & Tim LaHaye

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Grade 8

Any age appropriate Christian biography

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

White Fang by Jack London

Little Men By Louisa May Alcott

The Light in the Forest
by Conrad Richter

The Chronicles of Narnia
(any book) by C.S. Lewis

Shadowcreek Chronicles (any book) by T. Elizabeth Renich
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier

Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Jacob Have I Lovedby Katherine Paterson

Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

The Chronicles of Prydain Series (any book) by Lloyd Alexander

High School

Grade 9

Any book by Charles Dickens

Miracle Worker by William Gibson

Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

The Yearling by Marjorie K. Rawlings

Christy by Catherine Marshall

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

White Fang by Jack London


Grade 10

In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien


Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper


The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald


Through Gates of Splendor by Elizabeth Elliott

Emma by Jane Austen

David Livingstone by Basil Matthews

The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson

The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

Hangman's Curse by Frank Peretti

Harriet Tubman by Ann Petry

He Chose the Nails by Max Lucado

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley



Grade 11

End of the Spear by Steve Saint

Run Baby Run by Nicky Cruz

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Through Flood and Flame by Henry Charles Moore

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Iliad by Homer

The Awakening by Angela Elwell Hunt

He Chose You by Max Lucado

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

The Chosen by Chaim Potok

Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Grade 12

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave written by himself

God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Six Hours one Friday by Max Lucado

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Next Door Savior by Max Lucado

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss