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Mensa for Kids for Grades 7-8
The Mensa Foundation recognizes and encourages education, gifted youth, and lifelong learning through resources like the Mensa for Kids website. The reading list books were selected with all enthusiastic readers in mind. Mensa membership is not required.

Across Five Aprils

by Irene Hunt


Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle


The Adventures of Tom Swayer

by Mark Twain


The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder


Call It Courage

by Armstrong Sperry


The Call Of The Wild

by Jack London


A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens


The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexander Dumas


A Day No Pigs Would Die

by Robert Newton


Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank




Enchantress from the Stars

by Sylvia Louise Engdahl


The Endless Steppe

by Esther Hautzig


Fahrenheit 351

by Ray Bradbury




The Ghost Belonged to Me

by Richard Peck




Goodbye, Mr. Chips

by James Hilton


The Hobbit

by J. R. R. Tolkien


The Hunchback of Notre Dame

by Victor Hugo


Incident At Hawk's Hill

by Allen W. Eckert


Island of the Blue Dolphins

by Scott O'Dell




Jacob Have I Loved

by Katherine Paterson


Jonny Tremain

by Esther Forbes


Journey to Topaz

by Yoshiko Uchida


Julie of the Wolves

by Jeanne Craighead George




Le Morte d'Arthur

by Sir Thomas Malory


The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving


The Little Prince

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott


The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore


The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood

by Howard Pyle


My Friend Flicka

by Mary Ohara


Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass


National Velvet

by Enid Bagnold






The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan


The Red Pony

by John Steinbeck


Rifles for Watie

by Harold Keith


Rip Van Winkle

by Washingtion Irving


Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe


Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

by Mildred D. Tylor




Story of My Life

by Helen Keller


A Stranger Came Ashore

by Mollie Hunter


Tales from Shakespeare

by Charles & Mary Lamb


The Thurber Carnival

by James Thurber


The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by Elizabeth George Speare


Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson


A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

by Betty Smith


20000 Leagues Under The Sea

by Jules Verne


The Upstairs Room

by Johanna Reiss


War of the Worlds

by H.G. Wells


Where the Red Fern Grows

by Wilson Rawls


The White Mountains

by John Christopher


A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. LeGuin


A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle


The Yearling

by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings