We discovered Junior Great Books when my daughter Callie took a homeschool co-op course around 5th grade. Now I'm in love with them and try to buy up all of them. Some of them we consume and are not in love with, so we pass them on. Some we save and I hope to teach my own Junior Great Books class at the co-op someday :-) Here you can find the Table of Contents for the books we have read:
Series 2, First Semester (1992) (selling in upcoming homeschool used book sale)
The Happy Lion by Louise Fatio
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrix Potter
How the Camel Got His Hump by Rudyard Kipling
Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath by A.A. Milne
Arap Sang and the Cranes (African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman)
Blue Moose by Daniel Manus Pinkwater
Anancy and Dog and Puss and Friendship (West Indian folktale as told by James Berry)
Jack and the Beanstalk (English folktale as told by Joseph Jacobs)
The Magic Listening Cap (Japanese folktale as told by Yoshiko Uchida)
The Jackal and the Partridge (Punjabi folktale as told by Flora Annie Steel)
Nail Soup (Swedish folktale as told by Linda Rahm)
The Apple of Contentment by Howard Pyle
Series 4, First Semester (1992) (planned for 2021/2022 school year)
Thank You, M'am by Langston Hughes
The Water-Horse of Barra (Scottish folktale as told by Winifred Finlay)
The Story of Wang Li by Elizabeth Coatsworth
The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling
Vasilissa the Beautiful (Russian folktale as told by Post Wheeler)
Cedric by Tove Jansson
Fresh by Philippa Pearce
The Enchanted Sticks by Steven J. Myers
Wisdom's Wages and Folly's Pay by Howard Pyle
Mr. Singer's Nicknames by James Kruss
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Chapters 1, 2, 5, 6) by Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Chapters 7, 8, 11, 12) by Lewis Carroll
Series 4, Book One (2014)
The Theme of Trust
Thank You, M'am by Langston Hughes
Crow Call by Lois Lowry
Fresh by Philippa Pearce
The Theme of Resourcefulness
Shrewd Todie and Lyzer the Miser (Ukranian folktale as told by Isaac Bashevis Singer)
On Sand Island by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
The Green Man by Gail E. Haley
The Theme of Communication
Song of Hope by Peggy Duffy
Jean Labadie's Big Black Dog (French-Canadian folktale as told by Natalie Savage Carlson)
Thunder, Elephant, and Dorobo (African folktale as told by Humprey Harman)
Series 5, First Semester (1992)
This is the one we were introduced to years ago at the homeschool co-op. Probably my favorite.
Charles by Shirley Jackson
Ghost Cat by Donna Hill
Turquoise Horse by Gerald Hausman
Maurice's Room by Paula Fox
Barbie by Gary Soto
Lenny's Red-Letter Day by Bernard Ashley
The Prince and the Goose Girl by Elinor Mordaunt
Tramp by Malcolm Carrick
Alberic the Wise by Norton Juster
Podhu and Aruwa (African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman)
The Invisible Child by Tove Jansson
The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell
Series 5, Book One (2006) (selling in upcoming homeschool used book sale)
The No-Guitar Blues by Gary Soto
Kaddo's Wall (West African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog)
Turquoise Horse by Gerald Hausman
A Game of Catch by Richard Wilbur
Oliver Hyde's Dishcloth Concert by Richard Kennedy
The Hundred-Dollar Bill by Rose Wilder Lane
The Invisible Child by Tove Jansson
In the Time of the Drums (Gullah folktale as told by Kim L. Siegelson)
Learning the Game by Franciso Jimenez
The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell
Series 5, Book Two (2006)
Charles by Shirley Jackson
A Bad Road for Cats by Cynthia Ryland
Podhu and Aruwa (African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman)
Lenny's Red-Letter Day by Bernard Ashley
Barbie by Gary Soto
Ghost Cat by Donna Hill
Lucky Boy by Philippa Pearce
Maurice's Room by Paula Fox
The Prince and the Goose Girl by Elinor Mordaunt
The Bermuda Triangle by Tim Wynne-Jones
Series 7 (1992) (for grades 6-8) (planned for 2021/2022 school year)
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
I Just Kept on Smiling by Simon Burt
At Her Father's and Her Mother's Place by Natalya Baranskaya
The White Circle by John Bell Clayton
The Zodiacs by Jay Neugeboren
End of the Game by Julio Cortazar
The Cat and the Coffee Drinkers by Max Steele
The Diary of a Young Girl (from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl) (was assigned this book to read when I was 12 in 7th grade and it rocked my world)
The Secret Lion by Alberto Alvaro Rios
Day of the Butterfly by Alice Munro (read stories by this author in junior college in my 20s and loved her)
A Christmas Carol (Staves 1-2) by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (Staves 3-5) by Charles Dickens
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