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Has Chronicles of Narnia been canceled yet? Those are pretty good. Honestly, by the time they finish those and kid's versions of Aesop's Fables, faire tales, myths, and a few other good early one's they should just be given the Iliad and Aeneid, the David story of Samuel and I Kings, Genesis, Maccabees, etc. Obviously, that's for assisted reading and then I suppose stuff like Narnia and the Book of Three will good for individual reading. By the time they are preteens it's time for the easy Platonic dialogues (yes, including the Alcibiades, it's excellent even if Plato didn't write it), dramas, Ethics, Confessions, etc. Then as an early teen the Consolation, before getting into heavier stuff (which needs to come before Dante to make Dante fully worthwhile).

I would make the Republic, Physics and Metaphysics, Phaedrus, Symposium, and some of the relevant stuff from the Summas the "welcome to adulthood" package for well prepared 16 year olds, and then give them Dante. Some exposure to Indian and Chinese thought is helpful, in that they are also a virtue ethics, same for Islamic philosophy. Only then is it worth trying to get into Hume, Nietzsche, etc., because otherwise they dismiss their heritage without having any clue what they are actually turning down (like many moderns and most contemporaries), and adopt incoherent and destructive world-views.