Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Award Program (Grades 7-8)

1
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
15,799 members
251 reviews
4.1
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2
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
33,152 members
328 reviews
3.9
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3
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
24,923 members
528 reviews
4.1
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4
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
12,754 members
242 reviews
4.1
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5
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
54,263 members
1,006 reviews
4
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6
Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
14,732 members
352 reviews
4
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7
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
40,447 members
1,590 reviews
4.2
Member
rretzler
8
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
by James Hilton
2,323 members
51 reviews
3.8
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9
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
95,075 members
1,194 reviews
½ 4.3
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10
Journey to Topaz
by Yoshiko Uchida
467 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
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11
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
39,755 members
963 reviews
4
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12
My Friend Flicka
by Mary O'Hara
2,344 members
14 reviews
3.8
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13
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
44,992 members
770 reviews
4.2
14
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
42,966 members
714 reviews
3.8
15
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
34,348 members
439 reviews
3.8
16
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
26,674 members
402 reviews
4
17
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
25,720 members
436 reviews
½ 4.3
18
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
23,372 members
323 reviews
½ 3.6
19
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
21,204 members
680 reviews
4
20
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
20,302 members
324 reviews
3.8
21
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
by Jules Verne
18,557 members
255 reviews
½ 3.7
22
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
18,518 members
310 reviews
3.8
23
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
18,234 members
299 reviews
3.9
24
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
17,638 members
173 reviews
½ 3.7
25
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
16,616 members
444 reviews
½ 4.3
26
A Wizard of Earthsea
by Ursula K. Le Guin
16,057 members
377 reviews
4
27
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
14,261 members
178 reviews
3.9
28
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
13,302 members
125 reviews
½ 3.5
29
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
13,108 members
121 reviews
½ 3.7
30
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
11,877 members
382 reviews
3.9
31
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare
11,191 members
209 reviews
4
32
Johnny Tremain: A Story of Boston in Revolt
by Esther Forbes
9,390 members
84 reviews
3.8
33
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
9,332 members
119 reviews
4
34
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
9,042 members
201 reviews
3.8
35
Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George
7,636 members
121 reviews
3.9
36
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
7,137 members
51 reviews
3.9
37
Call It Courage
by Armstrong Sperry
5,799 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
38
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
5,736 members
54 reviews
3.9
39
Tales from Shakespeare
by Charles Lamb
5,698 members
41 reviews
3.8
40
Jacob Have I Loved
by Katherine Paterson
5,605 members
72 reviews
3.8
41
The Red Pony
by John Steinbeck
5,509 members
95 reviews
½ 3.5
42
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
5,212 members
58 reviews
3.9
43
Across Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt
5,003 members
44 reviews
½ 3.7
44
The Yearling
by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
4,807 members
69 reviews
4
45
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
4,800 members
119 reviews
3.8
46
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
4,131 members
119 reviews
½ 3.6
47
The Pigman
by Paul Zindel
3,038 members
71 reviews
½ 3.5
48
The Thurber Carnival
by James Thurber
2,589 members
33 reviews
4.2
49
The White Mountains
by John Christopher
2,538 members
45 reviews
3.9
50
Dragonwings
by Laurence Yep
2,532 members
33 reviews
½ 3.6
51
National Velvet
by Enid Bagnold
2,401 members
20 reviews
3.8
52
The Upstairs Room
by Johanna Reiss
2,230 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
53
A Day No Pigs Would Die
by Robert Newton Peck
2,125 members
35 reviews
½ 3.6
54
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
by Esther Hautzig
2,028 members
31 reviews
4.1
55
Rifles for Watie
by Harold Keith
1,991 members
23 reviews
4
56
Shane
by Jack Schaefer
1,817 members
43 reviews
3.9
57
Enchantress from the Stars
by Sylvia Engdahl
1,327 members
25 reviews
4.1
58
Rip van Winkle
by Washington Irving
1,305 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
59
Incident at Hawk's Hill
by Allan W. Eckert
1,286 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
60
The Ghost Belonged to Me
by Richard Peck
453 members
13 reviews
3.9
61
A Stranger Came Ashore
by Mollie Hunter
279 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
62
The Last Mission
by Harry Mazer
246 members
6 reviews
4