That's a great list Sweetie posted!
FWIW, there are books on it my ds really loved when he was little and I'd forgotten about -
Robinson Crusoe....Daniel Defoe
Gulliver's Travels...Jonathan Swift
Swiss Family Robinson...Johann Rudolf Wyss
Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn...Mark Twain
Treasure Island, Kidnapped...Robert Louis Stevenson
Wizzard of Oz...L. Frank Baum
I liked Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...Lewis Carroll
Black Beauty...Anna Sewell
Heidi...Johanna Spyri
Little House in the Big Woods (all the Little House books)...Laura Ingalls Wilder
(but fwiw, I think these are not as high in level as the other books above)
To Kill a Mockingbird...Harper Lee (one you would want to discuss with her)
(fwiw, I read this in 3rd grade and loved learning about the history associated with it)
I am not sure I'd recommend Call of the Wild or Johnny Tremaine, ds read these for school recently enough that I have vague memories of him talking about them, and I think there's a little bit too much scariness to them for a 2nd grader.
I didn't read them but remember my sister loving:
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...Kate Douglas Wiggin
Anne of Green Gables...Lucy Maud Montgomery
Wind in the Willows...Kenneth Grahame
The Story of Doctor Dolittle...Hugh Lofting
Winnie-the Pooh...A. A. Milne
My ds didn't read them until he was a little older but he LOVED the Hobbit - and all of the Tolkien books.
One thing I have enjoyed as my kids read the classics is re-reading them myself, which has been fun!
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