I have been asked to share my book lists...

[Medieval Mom]

for grades 1-12. These are not original-- I have simply compiled the lists of AO, TWTM, Robinson Curriculum, OFE, etc., etc. for our own use. Recently, someone asked me to share these lists in reference to this thread. Here they are!

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[TheCoffeeChick]

for grades 1-12. These are not original-- I have simply compiled the lists of AO, Robinson Curriculum, OFE, etc., etc. for our own use. Recently, someone asked me to share these lists in reference to this thread. Here they are!

 

 

I think I am missing something (not the first time!) -- where are the lists? :tongue_smilie:

[Medieval Mom]

Technical difficulties :D

 

ETA: Done!

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[TheCoffeeChick]

Technical difficulties :D

 

 

Good to know I'm not just being dense! LOL I'll check later. :)

[Medieval Mom]

First Grade

*Books We Own **e-books (Read online or print.)

Essential titles are in bold. There are MANY titles here; these are provided for choice, and are OPTIONAL. ( In the later lists, duplicate listings may occur.)

 

Check box when finished reading this book, noting the date. Mark IR for Independent Reading, RA for Read Aloud , BR for Buddy Reading, AB for Audio Book. If none is listed, assume IR. See Family Read Alouds Log for more books read during the year.

 

Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

*McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey.

*The Beginner’s Bible by Karyn Henley.

*The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter.

*Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book.

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Poetry

*Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young by Jack Prelutsky.

*A Child’s Garden of Verses by R.L. Stevenson. {Dandelion Library}

*Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne.

*Mother Goose by Sylvia Long.

*Nonsense Alphabets by Edward Lear. {Dandelion Library}

*The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright.

*Poems & Prayers for the Very Young by Martha G. Alexander

*Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes by Marguerite de Angeli.

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History & Geography: American History

**Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston.

Books by Josephine Pollard.

**The Boston Tea Party for Children by Josephine Pollard.

**The History of the United States by Josephine Pollard.

**Columbus and the Story of the New World by Josephine Pollard.

**The Life of George Washington by Josephine Pollard.

**Our Hero General Grant by Josephine Pollard.

 

More History Books Divided Into Syllables by Harriet Putnam.

**The Life of Abraham Lincoln for Young People by Harriet Putnam.

**Lives of the Presidents in Words of One Syllable by Harriet Putnam.

**A First Book in American History by Edward Eggleston.

 

 

Historical Literature: Classics and Historical Fiction

Little House on the Prairie series.

*Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

*Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

*Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

On the Banks of Plum Creek

By the Shores of Silver Lake

The Long Winter

Little Town on the Prairie

These Happy Golden Years

 

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

 

Biographies by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire.

*George Washington by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire.

*Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire.

Columbus by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire.

Benjamin Franklin by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire.

Buffalo Bill by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire.

Pocahontas by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire.

 

Math & Science (non-fiction)

*Where Everyday Things Come From by Aldren Watson.

*The Year At Maple Hill Farm by Alice and Martin Provensen.

*All Kinds of Animals: A Child’s First Encyclopedia by Michael Chinery.

*Crinkleroot’s Guide to Knowing the Trees by Jim Arnosky.

Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book 1.

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Classics

*The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter.

*Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White.

*The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams.

*Winnie the Pooh & The House at Pooh’s Corner by A. A. Milne.

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl.

*Stuart Little by E.B. White.

The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White.

*Great Illustrated Classics

*The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*Moby Dick by Herman Melville. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*Great Expectation by Charles Dickens. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R.L. Stevenson. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*The Last of the Mohicans by James Fennimore Cooper. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*Heidi by Johanna Spryi. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. {Great Illustrated Classics}

*The Last of the Mohicans. {Great Illustrated Classics}

 

 

Nature Stories by Thornton W. Burgess

*James Herriot’s Treasury of Inspirational Stories for Children.

*The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess.

*Old Mother West Wind by Thornton W. Burgess.

*The Adventures of Grandfather Frog by Thornton W. Burgess.

*The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat by Thornton W. Burgess.

*The Adventures of Buster Bear by Thornton W. Burgess.

*The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel by Thornton W. Burgess.

Sleepy-Time Tales by Arthur Scott Bailey

** The Tale of Cuffy Bear (c. 1915)

** The Tale of Frisky Squirrel (c. 1915)

** The Tale of Tommy Fox (c. 1915)

** The Tale of Fatty Coon (c. 1915)

** The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit (c. 1916)

** The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk (c. 1916)

** The Tale of Brownie Beaver (c. 1916)

** The Tale of Paddy Muskrat (c. 1916)

** The Tale of Peter Mink (c. 1916)

** The Tale of Billy Woodchuck (c. 1916)

** The Tale of Ferdinand Frog (c. 1918)

** The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse (c. 1918)

** The Tale of Timothy Turtle (c. 1919)

** The Tale of Major Monkey (c. 1919)

** The Tale of Benny Badger (c. 1919)

** The Tale of Grandfather Mole (c. 1920)

** The Tale of Grumpy Weasel (c. 1920)

** The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse (c. 1921)

** The Tale of Nimble Deer (c. 1922)

 

Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales

*Great Children's Stories : The Classic Volland Edition.

*My Big Book of Brer Rabbit Stories by Rene Cloke.

*The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

*The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

*Paul Bunyan by Steven Kellogg.

*Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges.

 

Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Humor, Modern, etc.

*The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary.

*Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary.

*The Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

*The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

Surprise Island by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

The Yellow House Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

Mystery Ranch by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

Mike’s Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

Blue Bay Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

The Woodshed Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

The Lighthouse Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

Mountain Top Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner.

*A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith.

Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink.

Stories by Carolyn Haywood.

B is For Betsy by Carolyn Haywood.

*Back to School with Betsy by Carolyn Haywood.

Betsy and Billy by Carolyn Haywood.

The Happy Hollisters series by Jerry West.

The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West.

The Happy Hollisters on a River Trip by Jerry West.

The Happy Hollisters at the Sea Gull Beach by Jerry West.

The Littles series by John Peterson.

The Littles by John Peterson.

The Littles and the Trash Tinies by John Peterson.

The Littles Go Exploring by John Peterson.

**The Bobbsey Twins series by Laura Lee Hope

The Bobbsey Twins, or Merry Days Indoors and Out

The Bobbsey Twins in the Country

The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore

The Bobbsey Twins at School

The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge

The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat

The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook

The Bobbsey Twins at Home

The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City

The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberrry Island

The Bobbsey Twins on the Deep Blue Sea

The Bobbsey Twins in Washington

**Dotty Dimple Series by Sophie May

Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's.

Dotty Dimple at Home.

Dotty Dimple Out West.

Dotty Dimple at Play.

Dotty Dimple at School .

Dotty Dimple’s Flyaway.

**Little Prudy series and more by Sophie May.

** Little Prudy

** Little Prudy’s Captain Horace

** Little Prudy’s Cousin Grace

** Little Prudy’s Fairy (or Story) Book

** Little Folks Astray

** Prudy Keeping House

** Aunt Madge’s Story

** Little Grandmother

** Little Grandfather

** Miss Thistledown

** Flaxie Frizzle

** Doctor Papa

** Little Pitchers

** Twin Cousins

** Flaxie’s Kittyleen

** Flaxie Growing Up

** Wee Lucy

** Jimmy Boy

** Kyzie Dunlee

** Wee Lucy’s Secret

** Jimmy, Lucy, and All

** Lucy in Fairyland

Raggedy Ann Stories by Johnny Gruelle.

Raggedy Andy Stories by Johnny Gruelle.

Pleasant Field Mouse Storybook by Jan Wahl.

The School Mouse by Dick King-Smith

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Second Grade Consider buying

 

Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

*The Child’s Story Bible by Catherine Vos.

*The DK Children’s Illustrated Bible by Selina Hastings.

*The Usborne Children’s Bible.

*Fables by Arnold Lobel

*The Children’s Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett.

**The Goop Directory & More Goops and How Not to Be Them by Gelett Burgess.

The Usborne Encyclopedia of World Religions

 

Poetry

*When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne.

*A Flower Fairies Treasury by Cicely Mary Barker.

*A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes by Charles Robinson. {Dandelion Library}

*Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

*A Rumpus of Rhymes by Bobbi Katz

**Rhymes and Verses: Collected Poems for Children by Walter de la Mare.

**Songs of Childhood by Walter de la Mare.

Lullaby land.: Songs of childhood,/ by Eugene Field. Selected by Kenneth Grahame and illustrated by Charles Robinson.

James Whitcombe Riley

 

Classics

*The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame {Companion Library}

*The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit.

**Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

*Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit.

*The Uncle Wiggily Book by Howard R. Garis. {Dandelion Library}

**Wizard of Oz Series by L. Frank Baum.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The Marvelous Land of Oz.

Ozma of Oz.

Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit.

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers.

**Five Little Peppers series by Margaret Sidney *

*Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney {Companion Library}

"Five Little Peppers Midway"

"Five Little Peppers Abroad"

"Five Little Peppers and Their Friends"

"Five Little Peppers Grown Up"

"Five Little Peppers: Phronsie Pepper"

 

Nonfiction

*Children’s Guide to Knowledge.

Grammar-Land by M.L. Nesbit.

*Discovering Science Secrets by Sandra Markle.

Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book 2.

 

Nature Stories

*The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess.

The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children by Jane Andrews.

*All On A Mountain Day by Aileen Fisher.

Prudence With The Millers by Mildred A. Martin (Health).

*Stories Around the Year by Thornton Burgess. {Dandelion Library}

Pagoo by Holling C. Holling.

Among the ______People series by Clara Dillingham Pierson.

**Among the Forest People by Clara Dillingham Pierson.

**Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson.

**Among the Meadow People by Clara Dillingham Pierson.

**Among the Pond People by Clara Dillingham Pierson.

**Among the Night People by Clara Dillingham Pierson.

**Dooryard Stories by Clara Dillingham Pierson.

 

Geography with Holling C. Holling Books (Beautiful Feet maps available)

Seabird by Holling C. Holling.

Paddle to the Sea Holling C. Holling.

Minn of the Mississippi Holling C. Holling.

Tree in the Trail Holling C. Holling.

 

History & Geography: World History ªOverview”

*Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History.

*A Child’s History of the World by V. M. Hillyer.

*The Usborne Book of Living Long Ago.

**Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now by Jane Andrews

 

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

*Linnea in Monet’s Garden by Christina Björk & Lena Anderson.

*50 Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin.

*30 More Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin.

**50 Famous People by James Baldwin.

Marie Curie’s Search for Radium by Beverly Birch

Pasteur’s Fight Against Microbes by Beverly Birch

Various Biographies by Mike Venezia (list titles)

 

Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales

*Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling.

*Town Mouse, Country Mouse by Jan Brett.

*Andersen’s Fairy Tales. {Dandelion Library}

*Grimm’s Fairy Tales. {Dandelion Library}

*My Book Of Old-Time Fairy Tales by Margaret Evans Price.

*My Book House by Olive Beaupré Miller.

*The Book of Giant Stories by David L. Harrison.

*Tom Thumb and Other Favorites by L. Leslie Brooke. {Dandelion Library}

*Best Loved Fairy Tales of Water Crane. {Dandelion Library}

 

Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Humor, Modern, etc.

Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry.

Along Came A Dog by Meindert De Jong.

**The Twins Series by Lucy Fitch Perkins.

The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Belgian Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Eskimo Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

The French Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Japanese Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Scotch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Swiss Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

*Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene

# 1 The Secret of the Old Clock 1930, 1959

# 2 The Hidden Staircase 1930, 1959

# 3 The Bungalow Mystery 1930, 1960

# 4 The Mystery at Lilac Inn 1930, 1961

# 5 The Secret at Shadow Ranch 1931, 1965

# 6 The Secret of Red Gate Farm 1931, 1961

# 7 The Clue in the Diary 1932, 1962

# 8 Nancy's Mysterious Letter 1932, 1968

# 9 The Sign of the Twisted Candles 1933, 1968

# 10 The Password to Larkspur Lane 1933, 1966

# 11 The Clue of the Broken Locket 1934, 1965

# 12 The Message in the Hollow Oak 1935, 1972

Tuck-Me-In Tales by Arthur Scott Bailey

** The Tale of Jolly Robin (c. 1917)

** The Tale of Old Mr. Crow (c. 1917)

** The Tale of Solomon Owl (c. 1917)

** The Tale of Jasper Jay (c. 1917)

** The Tale of Rusty Wren (c. 1917)

** The Tale of Daddy Longlegs (c. 1918)

** The Tale of Kiddie Katydid (c. 1918)

** The Tale of Betsy Butterfly (c. 1918)

** The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (c. 1918)

** The Tale of Freddie Firefly (c. 1918)

** The Tale of Bobby Bobolink (c. 1920)

** The Tale of Chirpy Cricket (c. 1920)

** The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug (c. 1921)

** The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker (c. 1922)

** The Tale of Grandma Goose (c. 1923)

Rover Boys series by Arthur Winfield

01: The Rover Boys At School or, The Cadets Of Putnam Hall - 1899

02: The Rover Boys On The Ocean or, A Chase For Fortune - 1899

03: The Rover Boys In the Jungle or, Stirring Adventures In Africa- 1899

04: The Rover Boys Out West or, The Search For The Lost Mine - 1900

05: The Rover Boys On the Great Lakes or, The Secret Of The Island Cave - 1901

06: The Rover Boys In the Mountains or, A Hunt For Fun And Fortune - 1902

07: The Rover Boys On Land and Sea or, The Crusoes Of Seven Islands - 1903

08: The Rover Boys In Camp or,The Rivals Of Pine Island - 1904

09: The Rover Boys On the River or, The Search For The Missing Houseboat - 1905

10: The Rover Boys On the Plains or, The Mystery Of Red Rock - 1906

11: The Rover Boys In Southern Waters or, The Deserted Steam Yacht - 1907

12: The Rover Boys On the Farm or, Last Days At Putnam Hall - 1908

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Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

*McGuffey’s Third Eclectic Reader.

**Stories From Plato and Other Classic Writers by Mary E. Burt.

*Best Loved Fables of Aesop. {Dandelion Library}

**The Bible for Young People by Josephine Pollard.

**In Story-land by Elizabeth Harrison.

Poetry

*Sing A Song of Popcorn: Every Child’s Book of Poems

*The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky.

*A Child’s Treasury of Poetry edited by Mark Daniel.

*Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young by Jack Prelutsky. (repeat)

**Hilda Conkling

** Sara Teasdale

**Sing-Song by Christina Rossetti

Classics

*Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

*Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley.

**The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald.

*At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald.

**The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald.

*Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie.

*Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.

*Heidi by Joanna Spyri. {Companion Library}

**Black Beauty by Anna Sewell.

**The Story of Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting

**The Voyage of Dr. Doolittle by Hugh Lofting

*Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. Nesbit.

 

Math & Science (non-fiction)

**Elementary science reader by Charles McRae.

*Number Stories of Long Ago by David Eugene Smith.

*175 Science Experiments by Terry Cash.

*Understanding Your Brain by Rebecca Treays.

Ancient Science: 40 Time-Traveling, World-Exploring, History-Making Activities for Kids by Jim Wiese.

Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book 3.

Nature Stories (narrative)

Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat.

**Secret of the Woods by William Joseph Long.

Ways of Wood Folk by William J. Long.

A Little Brother to the Bear by William J. Long.

**Tom Swift series by Victor Appleton (continued in Grade 4.)

*Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle by Victor Appleton

**Tom Swift and His Motor Boat by Victor Appleton.

**Tom Swift and His Motor Boat by Victor Appleton.

**Tom Swift and His Airship by Victor Appleton.

**Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat by Victor Appleton.

**Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout by Victor Appleton.

**Tom Swift and His Wireless Message by Victor Appleton.

Tom Swift Among The Diamond Makers.

**Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera by Victor Appleton.

**Tom Swift and His Air Scout by Victor Appleton

Historical Literature: Classics and Historical Fiction

*Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff.

*The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff.

*Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld.

**The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone by Margaret A. McIntyre.

**Spartan Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins.

 

History

**The Story of the Greeks by H.A. Guerber.

Tales of the Greeks by F.J. Gould.

*Story of the World by Susan Wise Bauer, Volume 1.

**Streams of History: Early Civilizations by Ellwood W. Kemp.

**Streams of History: Ancient Rome by Ellwood W. Kemp.

**Streams of History: Ancient Greece by Ellwood W. Kemp.

**On the Shores of the Great Sea by M.B. Synge

**The Story of the Romans by H.A. Guerber.

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

**Our Young Folks Plutarch by Rosalie Kaufman.

Cleopatra by Diane Stanley.

**Famous Men of Greece by John H. Haaren.

**Famous Men of Rome by John H. Harren.

**The Greek Heroes by Charles Kingsley.

Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales

*D’Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths.

*D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths.

*A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

*A Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

**The Aeneid for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church.

Ruth Ainsworth Book by Ruth Ainsworth.

Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Humor, Modern, etc.

**The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major.

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome.

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge.

The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright.

The Four Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright.

Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright.

The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong.

**Just David by Eleanor H. Porter.

The Moffats series by Eleanor Estes.

The Black Stallion by Walter Farley.

Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry.

Ruth Fielding series by Alice Emerson.

Vol. #1 Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill, 1913

Vol. #2 Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall, 1913

Vol. #3 Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp, 1913

Vol. #4 Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point, 1913

Vol. #5 Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch, 1913

Vol. #6 Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island, 1915

Vol. #7 Ruth Fielding at Sunrise Farm, 1915

Vol. #8 Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies, 1915

Vol. #9 Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures, 1916

Vol. #10 Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie, 1916

Vol. #11 Ruth Fielding at College, 1917

Vol. #12 Ruth Fielding in the Saddle, 1917

Extras: To Read After the List Above to the Complete the School Year. Optional.

Picture Books

Noah's Ark: Words from the Book of Genesis by Jane Ray

Old Rosie, the Horse Nobody Understood by Lilian Moore & Leone Adelson

On Mother’s Lap by Ann Herbert Scott

Owl Moon by Jane Yolan

Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall

Paper Crane by Molly Bang

Pelle’s New Suit by Elsa Beskow

Penny Wise - Fun Foolish by Judy Delton

Peter Spier's Rain and others by Peter Spier

Petunia by Roger Duvoisin and other Petunia stories

Picture Books by Randolph Caldecott published by Frederick Warne

Pimm’s Place by Beverly Keller

Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowry, illus. by Gustaf Tenggren

Rain, Rain Rivers by Uri Shulevitz

Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Book by Richard Scarry

Rome Antics by David Macaulay

Saint Valentine by Robert Sabuda

Shy Little Kitten by Cathleen Schurr, illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren

Sir Francis Drake: His Daring Deeds by Roy Gerrard

Smartest Bear and His Brother Oliver by Alice Bach

Snowy Day and others by Ezra Jack Keats

Snuggle Bunny by Nancy Jewell

St. Francis and the Friendly Beasts by Margaret Hodges

St. George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges

Stone Soup and others by Marcia Brown

Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack

Story of Babar and others by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff

Story of the Creation: Words from Genesis by Jane Ray

Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

Tale of Peter Rabbit & others by Beatrix Potter

Three Little Horses by Piet Worm

Three Little Kittens by Paul Galdone

Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco

Toad for Tuesday by Russell Erickson

Two Roman Mice by Horace, retold by Marilynne K. Roach

Uncle Wiggly Book by Howard R. Garis

Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

Veronica by Roger Duvoisin

Very Hungry Caterpillar and others by Eric Carle

Where Does the Butterfly Go When It Rains? by May Garelick

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Advanced Readers: Last Third from 1000 Good Books

Peter the Great by Diane Stanley

Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall

Puppy Summer by Meindert de Jong

Pyramid by David Macaulay

Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame

Rocking Horse Secret by Rumer Godden

Sarah Morton's Day and others by Kate Waters

Seabird by Holling C. Holling

Shhhh … We're Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz

Ship by David Macaulay

Shoeshine Girl by Clyde Robert Bulla

Skippack School by Marguerite de Angeli

Song of the Swallows by Leo Politi

Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims by Clyde Robert Bulla

St. Philip of the Joyous Heart by Francis X. Connolly

Tale of Three Trees by Angela Hunt

They Were Strong & Good by Robert Lawson

Three Dollar Mule by Clyde Robert Bulla

Three Young Pilgrims by Cheryl Harness

Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle

Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling

Truthful Harp by Lloyd Alexander

Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop

Twenty Elephant Restaurant by Russell Hoban

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? by Jean Fritz

Where do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? by Jean Fritz

Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? by Jean Fritz

Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock? by Jean Fritz

Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? by Jean Fritz

Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? by Jean Fritz

Yellow and Pink by William Steig

Yonie Wondernose by Marguerite de Angeli

Holiday Books from 1000 Good Books List

Rembrandt: The Christmas Story published by Thomas Nelson

Silent Night by Susan Jeffers

Story of Christmas: Words from the Gospels of Matthew & Luke by Jane Ray

Who Is Coming to Our House by Joseph Slate

*The Young Children’s Encyclopedia. Vol. 1-16.

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Fourth Grade-- Medieval

 

Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

*McGuffey’s Fourth Eclectic Reader.

*The Bible.

**A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Yonge.

**Why the Chimes Rang by Raymond Macdonald Alden.

Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc.

The Usborne Encyclopedia of World Religions by Susan Meredith.

 

Poetry

*Poetry Speaks to Children by Elise Paschen.

*Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot.

*A Child’s Treasury of Poetry edited by Mark Daniel. (repeat)

*A Child’s Anthology of Poetry edited by Elizabeth Hauge Sword.

**Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning

I'm Nobody! Who Are You? Poems of Emily Dickinson.

*The Springs of Joy by Tasha Tudor.

Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected For Boys and Girls by Helen Ferris Tibbets and Leonard Weisgard.

**Alfred Lord Tennyson

*The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky. (repeat)

 

Classics

* The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. {Companion Library}

*The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle. {Companion Library}

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Men of Iron by Howard Pyle.

*The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. {Companion Library}

*Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle. {Companion Library}

**The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin.

Math & Science (non-fiction)

The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay.

The Usborne Internet-Linked Science Encyclopedia.

*175 More Science Experiments by Terry Cash.

*Brain Surgery for Beginners by Steve Parker.

Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book 4

 

Nature Stories (narrative)

**The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre.

**Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley.

**Books by Margaret Warner Morley.

**Seed-Babies by Margaret Warner Morley.

**Little Wanderers by Margaret Warner Morley.

**The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley.

**Tom Swift series by Victor Appleton.

Tom Swift Among The Diamond Makers.

Tom Swift In The Caves Of Ice.

Tom Swift And His Sky Racer.

Tom Swift In The City Of Gold.

Tom Swift And His Air Glider.

Tom Swift And His Photo Telephone .

Tom Swift And His Big Tunnel.

Tom Swift In The Land Of The Wonders.

Tom Swift Among The Fire Fighters.

Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive

 

Historical Literature: Classics and Historical Fiction

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli.

**Stories of Beowulf by H.E.Marshall.

**Stories of Roland by H.E.Marshall.

**Stories of Siegfried by H.E.Marshall.

**Boy Knight: A Tale of the Crusades by G.A. Henty.

**Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago by Evaleen Stein.

 

History--Medieval

Story of the World Volume Two by Susan Wise Bauer.

Marco Polo for Kids: His Marvelous Journey to China, 21 Activities by Janis Herbert.

**The Story of the Middle Ages by H.A. Guerber.

**The Discovery of New Worlds by M.B. Synge.

**Streams of History: The Middle Ages by Ellwood W. Kemp.

**The Story of the Middle Ages by Samuel B. Harding.

**In the Days of Alfred the Great by Eva March Tappan.

**In the Days of William the Conqueror by Eva March Tappan.

 

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

**The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge.

Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley.

**Famous Men of The Middle Ages by John H. Harren.

**When Knights Were Bold by Eva March Tappan.

 

Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales

**Tales From Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb.

*Viking Tales by Jennie Hall.

**The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde.

Prince Rabbit by A. A. Milne

Wonder Clock by Howard Pyle.

**Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang.

*King Arthur and His Knights by Mabel Louise Robinson.

Beowulf, the Warrior by Ian Serraillier.

Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon.

Boy's King Arthur by Sidney Lanier.

 

Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Humor, Modern, etc.

The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford.

The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit.

Bambi by Felix Salten.

*The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (1951)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)

The Silver Chair (1953)

The Horse and His Boy (1954)

The Magician's Nephew (1955)

The Last Battle (1956)

Little Britches series by Ralph Moody.

The Borrowers by Mary Norton.

Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight.

Gentle Ben by Walt Morey.

*Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright.

Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright.

Return To Gone Away by Elizabeth Enright.

**The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia Hale.

Justin Morgan had a Horse by Marguerite Henry.

Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant.

The Gawgon by Lloyd Alexander.

TheTrolls by Polly Hovarth.

The Water-Horse by Dick King-Smith.

Babe, The Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith.

Redwall Series by Brian Jacques

Redwall

Mossflower

Mattimeo

Mariel of Redwall

Salamandastron

Martin the Warrior

The Bellmaker

Outcast of Redwall

The Pearls of Lutra

Stories by Horatio Alger

Do and Dare; or A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune (1884)

Jack's Ward; or, The Boy Guardian (1875)

Brave and Bold; or, The Fortunes of Robert Rushton (1874)

Facing the World; or, The Haps and Mishaps of Harry Vane (1893)

The Young Salesman (1896)

Strive and Succeed; or, The Progress of Walter Conrad

Helping Himself; or, Grant Thornton's Ambition (1886)

Slow and Sure; The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant (1872)

# Phil the Fiddler; or, The Story of a Young Street Musician (1872)

The Erie Train Boy (1890)

# The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus (1888)

# Bound to Rise; or, Up the Ladder (1873)

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[Medieval Mom]

Fifth Grade-- Colonial 1500-1800

 

Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

McGuffey’s Fifth Reader.

**George Washington’s Rules of Civility.

**Heroes Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie.

**A Community Civics by Edwin W. Adams. Questions & exercises provided.

*Book of Virtues by William Bennett

Little Pilgrim’s Progress by Helen Taylor.

Hero Tales by Dave and Neta Jackson. (Christian Heroes)

 

 

Poetry

*Complete Nonsence of Edward Lear

*Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

**Paul Revere’s Ride

Hiawatha

*William Wordsworth

*Shakespeare

Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected For Boys and Girls by Helen Ferris Tibbets and Leonard Weisgard.

Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

*The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky. (repeat)

 

Classics

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

*Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales by Washington Irving. {Companion Library}

*Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

*Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Maples Dodge. {Companion Library}

Gulliver’s Travels by Johnathan Swift.

*Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss.

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

Math & Science (non-fiction)

**Great Astronomers by Sir Robert S. Ball.

Always Inventing: A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell by Tom L. Matthews.

Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics by Charles Ludwig

Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book 5

A Child's Geography of the World by Virgil Hillyer.

 

Nature Stories (narrative)

**The Fairy Land of Science by Arabella B. Buckley.

**Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton.

By Pond and River by A. Buckley.

Wild Life in Woods and Fields by A. Buckley.

Historical Literature: Classics and Historical Fiction

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes.

Ben and Me by Robert Lawson.

The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery.

King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (18th century, Africa, France and England).

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare.

Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare.

 

Historical Novels by G.A. Henty

A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes 1522

By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic 1556-1649

By England's Aid or the Freeing ofthe Netherlands 1585-1604

The Lion of the North 1594-1632

Won By the Sword : a tale of theThirty Years' War 1618-1648

Friends, though divided: a Tale of the Civil War:Puritan Revolution 1642-1660

The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain 1658-1735

When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire1660-1688

The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars 1703

Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden 1720-88

With Wolfe in Canada 1759

In Times of Peril 1765-1947

True to the Old Flag 1775-83

With Moore at Corunna 1789-1820

In the Reign of Terror 1789-99

 

History

The Story of the World Vol. 3 by Susan Wise Bauer.

**American History Stories, Volume I by Mara L. Pratt.

**American History Stories, Volume 2 by Mara L. Pratt.

**The Awakening of Europe by M.B. Synge.

**The Struggle for Sea Power by M.B. Synge.

The World of Christopher Columbus and His Sons by Genevieve Foster.

The World of Captain John Smith by Genevieve Foster.

The World of Wiliam Penn by Genevieve Foster.

*George Washington’s World by Genevieve Foster.

**Streams of History: The Renaissance and Reformation by Ellwood W. Kemp.

**Streams of History: The New World by Ellwood W. Kemp.

 

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

Michelangelo by Diane Stanley.

Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare by Peter Vennema and Diane Stanley.

Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley.

Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley.

**The Life of Lafayette by Henry C. Watson.

Poor Richard by James Daugherty.

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober.

**Stories of the Pilgrims by Margaret B. Pumphrey.

**Unknown to History: Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Yonge.

**A Book of Discovery by M.B. Synge.

Peter the Great by Diane Stanley.

**Four Great Americans by James Baldwin.

**The Story of Napoleon by H.E. Marshall.

**The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh by Margaret Duncan Kelley.

**Richard of Jamestown by James Otis.

**In the Days of Queen Elizabeth by Eva March Tappan.

 

Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales

**The Book of Legends by Horace Elisha Scudder.

*The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

*The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

American Tall Tales by Adrien Stoutenburg.

**Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott.

 

Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Humor, Modern, etc.

**Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle.

Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling.

**The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit.

**The Wouldbegoods by Edith Nesbit.

**Elsie series by Martha Finley

Mildred and Elsie

Elsie Dinsmore

Elsie’s Girlhood

Elsie’s Children.

**A Garland for Girls by Louisa May Alcott.

*Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott.

Mysterious Miss Slade by Dick King-Smith.

Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang by Ian Fleming.

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle.

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer.

 

Extras: To Read After the List Above to the Complete the School Year. Optional.

Holiday Books from 1000 Good Books List

*Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

On That Night by Elizabeth Yates

One Wintry Night by Ruth Graham

Oxford Illustrated Dickens’ Christmas Books by Charles Dickens

Patricia St. John Christmas Book by Patricia St. John

Rembrandt: The Christmas Story published by Thomas Nelson

[Medieval Mom]

Sixth Grade-- Industrial 1800-1919

 

Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

*McGuffey’s Sixth Eclectic Reader.

**The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin.

*Moral Compass by William Bennett

Chicken Soup for the Kids Soul by Jack Canfield.

 

Poetry

**Robert Frost

The Magic Casement by Alfred Noyes

**Shakespeare

The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems.

Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected For Boys and Girls by Helen Ferris Tibbets and Leonard Weisgard. (repeat)

Best-Loved Poems of the American People selected by Hazel Felleman.

**John Gilpin’s Ride by William Cowper

*A Child’s Treasury of Poetry edited by Mark Daniel. (repeat)

*A Child’s Anthology of Poetry edited by Elizabeth Hauge Sword.(repeat)

*The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky. (repeat)

 

Classics

**Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling.

*The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

*Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

*Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

**Pollyanna

**Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. Porter

*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

**Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

*Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

*A Christmas Carol by CharlesDickens

**Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folk'sEdition by Harriet Beecher Stowe

*Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

**The Pathfinder by James Fennimore Cooper.

 

Math & Science (non-fiction)

**War Inventions by Charles R. Gibson.

**The Sciences by Edward Holden.

Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity by Robert Cwiklik.

**Picturesque America Vol. 1 by William Cullen Bryant.[Geography]

 

Nature Stories (narrative)

**The Scientific American Boy by A. Russell Bond

The Sea Around Us by Rachael Carson.

*James Herriot’s Cat Stories by James Herriot.

James Herriot’s Favourite Dog Stories by James Herriot.

Girl of the Limberlost and others by Gene Statton Porter.

*Adrift: 76 Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan.

 

Historical Literature: Classics and Historical Fiction

Historical Novels by G.A. Henty

In the Heart of the Rockies 1800's

On the Pampas:The Young Settlers1800's

Through the Fray:The Luddite Riots1800's

The Young Buglers 1801-1814

With Lee in Virginia: a story of the American Civil War 1807-1870

One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo 1815

The Treasure of the Incas1829-1919

With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader 1839-1908

Forest & Frontiers 1844

Jack Archer1853 -1856

The Golden Canyon 1856

By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War 1873-74

Tales of Daring and Danger 1885

Colonel Thorndyke's Secret 1900's

Among Malay Pirates : a Tale ofAdventure and Peril

The Queen's Cup

Little House on the Prairie series.

*Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

*Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

*Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

On the Banks of Plum Creek

By the Shores of Silver Lake

The Long Winter

Little Town on the Prairie

These Happy Golden Years

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham.

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith.

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt.

Falcons of France by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall.

Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton.

 

History: Industrial 1800-1919

The Year of the Horseless Carriage by Genevieve Foster.

Abraham Lincoln’s World by Genevieve Foster.

The Story of the World Volume 4 The Modern Age by Susan Wise Bauer.

**American History Stories, Volume 3 by Mara L. Pratt.

**American History Stories, Volume 4 by Mara L. Pratt.

**The Growth of the British Empire by M.B. Synge.

**Streams of History: The United States by Ellwood W. Kemp.

**Not Yours to Give by Davy Crockett

**The Soldier in Our Civil War by Frank Leslie. [Pictorial]

Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens.

Child’s History of Art by V. M. Hillyer.

 

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

**Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank P. Bachman.

**Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Vol. 1 by Ulysses S. Grant

**Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Vol. 2 by Ulysses S. Grant

Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark by James Daugherty.

**In the Days of Queen Victoria by Eva March Tappan

**The Boys Life of Mark Twain by Albert Paine

**Lives of Girls Who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton

**Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Olive Gilbert

**David Crockett by John Abbott

**David Crockett, Scout by Charles Fletcher Allen

**The Life of Kit Carson by Edward Ellis

**Life & Adventures of Calamity Jane

**Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance by Francis Cavanah

**Famous Indian Chiefs I Have Known by Oliver Otis Howard.

Book of Americans by Rosemary & Stephen V. Benet

 

 

Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales

*Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch.

*Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson.

*Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Walter Crane.

Perrault’s Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault.

Myths of the World by Padraic Colum.

 

Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Humor, Modern, etc.

*Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis. {Companion Library}

**Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott.

**LuLu’s Library by Louisa May Alcott.

The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens.

Call of the Wild by Jack London.

Penrod by Booth Tarkington.

A Little Brother to the Bear by William J. Long

Books by Arleta Richardson

In Grandma's Attic

More Stories from Grandma's Attic

Still More Stories from Grandma's Attic

Treasures from Grandma

Sixteen and Away From Home

Eighteen and on her Own

Nineteen and Wedding Bells Ahead

At Home in North Branch

**A Modern Cinderella by Louisa May Alcott.

**An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott.

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan.

Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg.

[notbefore7]

WOW - these are amazing! Thank you! ARe these the read aloud books you do or independent reading? or a combination? I just love these! I need to look at the original thread to see what brought this up because I am curious :) Do you pick just some to "study" in depth and others to just read for fun?

 

Amazing! Thanks for sharing. I am a "newbie" and my youngest is first grade, so this will be useful for years to come!

[Medieval Mom]

Seventh Grade

 

Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

**The Law by Frederic Bastiat.

 

 

Poetry

**William Blake.

*A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers.

**Idylls of the King by Tennyson.

*Lewis Carroll.

**Rudyard Kipling

Poems by Emily Dickinson

Poems by George Herbert

Favorite Poems Old and New: Selected For Boys and Girls by Helen Ferris Tibbets and Leonard Weisgard.

 

Classics

*Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

*Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

**The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.

**War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.

*20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne.

**Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

**King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard.

*Anne of Green Gables Series by L.M. Montgomery.

Anne of Green Gables.

Anne of the Island.

Anne of Avonlea.

Anne of Windy Poplars.

Anne’s House of Dreams.

Anne of Ingleside.

Rainbow Valley.

Rilla of Ingleside.

*Emily Series by L.M. Montgomery.

Emily of New Moon.

Emily Climbs.

Emily’s Quest.

**Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

**Daddy Long-Legs by Jean Webster.

*Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

 

 

Math & Science (non-fiction)

Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick.

Galileo and the Magic Numbers by Sidney Rosen.

**Picturesque America Vol. 2 by William Cullen Bryant.[Geography]

 

Nature Stories (narrative)

**The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre.

**The Secret of Everyday Things by Jean Henri Fabre.

**The Wonder Book of Chemistry by Jean Henri Fabre.

 

Historical Literature: Classics and Historical Fiction

**Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat.

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.

The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig.

Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor.

Blue Willow by Doris Gates.

MIracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen.

Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse.

The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp.

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.

The Ark by Margot Benary.

 

History

The Century for Young People by Peter Jennings.

**The Little Book of the War by Eva March Tappan.

What Everyone Should Know About the 20th Century: 200 Events That Shaped the World by Alan Axelrod.

 

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

**The Story of My Life by Helen Keller.

**Florence Nightingale by Laura E. Richards.

Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Teddy Roosevelt by George Grant.

Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan.

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History by William Safire (or similar speech anthology). Read pertinent speeches.

 

Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales

*Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

*Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

Beauty by Robin McKinley

 

Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Humor, Modern, etc.

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott.

When the Tripods Came by John Christopher.

The White Mountains by John Christopher.

City of Gold and Lead by John Christopher.

Pool of Fire by John Christopher.

**The Spy by James Fennimore Cooper.

**Afloat and Ashore by James Fennimore Cooper.

**The Border Boys in the Canadian Rockies by Fremont B. Deering.

**The Border Boys Across the Frontier by Fremont B. Deering.

**Dick Hamilton’s Fortune by Howard R. Garis.

**Dick Hamilton’s Cadet Days by Howard R. Garis.

**From Office To Reporter by Howard R. Garis.

**The Boy Pilot of the Lakes by Frank. V. Webster.

**Pony Rider Boys series by Frank Gee Patchin.

1 - The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies - Or, The Secret of the Lost Claim

2 - The Pony Rider Boys in Texas - Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains

3 - The Pony Rider Boys in Montana - Or, The Mystery of the Old Custer Trail.

4 - The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks - Or, The Secret of Ruby Mountain.

6 - The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico - The End of the Silver Trail

7 - The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon - The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch

8 - The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers - or On the Trail of the Border Bandits

**The Haunted Mine by Harry Castleman.

**The Wonder Island Boys: The Castaways by Roger Finlay.

**The Wonder Island Boys: Capture and Pursuit by Roger Finlay.

**Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood by George MacDonald.

**Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott.

**Sea Wolf by Jack London.

Patrick O’Brien series of naval stories.

The Princess Bride by William Goldman.

[Medieval Mom]

Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

*The Bible

**The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson.

How To Read a Book by Mortimer Adler.

The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer.

Poetry

**Oliver Wendell Holmes

Poems by Robert Browning

Poems by Robert Frost

Poems by Rudyard Kipling

 

Classics (listed in chronological order)

The Bible: Genesis, Job

*Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2500 BC)

*The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer (c. 850 BC)

*A Day in Old Athens by William S. Davis

*History of the Persian Wars by Herodotus (485-424 BC)

*The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (Livingston abridged edition) (460-395 BC)

*Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (c. 440 BC)

*Medea, Euripides (c. 431 BC)

*The Frogs, Aristophanes (405 BC)

*Republic, Symposium, Plato (c. 387 BC)

*On Poetics, Ethics, Aristotle (384-322 BC)

*A Day in Old Rome by William S. Davis

*The Bible: The Book of Daniel (c. 165 BC)

*On the Nature of Things, Lucretius (c. 60 BC)

*De republic, Cicero (54 BC)

*The Aeneid by Virgil (c. 30 BC)

*Metamorphoses by Ovid (c. 5)

*The Bible: Paul, 1 & 2 Letters to the Corinthians (c. 58 AD)

*The Wars of the Jews by Josephus (c. 68)

*The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Roman, Plutarch (c.100)

*The Annals of Tacitus (c. 117)

*On the Incarnation by Athanasius (c. 300)

 

Math & Science (non-fiction)

Pyramid by David Macaulay.

A Story of Roman Planning and Construction by David Macaulay.

**The Friendly Arctic by Vihjalmur Stefansson. [Geography]

**Economic Sophisms by Frederic Bastiat.

 

Nature Stories (narrative)--Still searching

 

Historical Literature: Classics and Historical Fiction

**Ben Hur by Lew Wallace.

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare.

**Historical Novels by G.A. Henty

The Cat of Bubastes 1250 B.C.

The Young Carthaginian 247-187 BC.2

Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion 55 BC.

For The Temple 70 AD

*Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.

The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas

History--Ancients

The History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer.

Augustus Caeser’s World by Genevieve Foster.

Oxford First Ancient History by Roy Burrell.

*The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon.

 

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

**Biographies by Jacob Abbott

Romulus.

Hannibal.

Nero.

Julius Caesar.

Cleopatra.

Xerxes.

Darius the Great.

Alexander the Great.

Genghis Khan.

**Helen of Troy by Andrew Lang.

Outrageous Women of Ancient Times by Vicki Leon.

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History by William Safire (or similar speech anthology). Read pertinent speeches.

Cicero’s Orations.

T

ales: Myths, Legends, Folktales

*Age of Fable by Bulfinch.

*Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

*Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

Once On A Time by A. A. Milne.

 

Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Humor, Modern, etc.

The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter.

The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton.

The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott.

The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber.

To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston.

Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene DuBois.

The Iron Ring by Lloyd Alexander.

The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander

The Book of Three

The Black Cauldron

The Castle of Llyr

Taran Wanderer

The High King

The Westmark Trilogy by Lloyd Alexander

Westmark

The Kestrel

The Beggar Queen

[Medieval Mom]

Ninth Grade--Middle Ages

 

Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

Ourselves by Charlotte Mason.

How To Read a Book by Mortimer Adler.

The Well-Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer.

 

Poetry

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, especially Idylls of the King.

John Keats, especially The Eve of St. Agne

Shakespeare

Poems by Thomas Gray

Poems by Thomas Macaulay

Poems of Horace

 

Classics

The History of English Literature for Girls and Boys. by H.E. Marshall.

Augustine, Confessions and City of God, Book 8 (c. 411)

*The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius (524)

*The Koran (selections) (c. 650)

*Beowulf (c. 1000)

The Song of Roland

*The Mabinogion (c. 1050)

*1066: The Year of Conquest, Howartz Dand

*Cur Deus Homo by Anselm (c. 1090)

*Life in a Medieval Barony, William Stearns Davis

*The Magna Carta, James Daugherty

*Aquinas: Selected Writings (ed. Robert Goodwin) (c. 1273)

*The Inferno, Dante (1320)

*Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1400)

*Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (selections)A Taste of Chaucer by Anne Malcolmson(c. 1400)

*Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur (selections)(c. 1470)

 

Math & Science (non-fiction)

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy by Richard Maybury.

The Life of the Spider by Henri Fabre.

The Story of Painting by H. W. Janson.

**On That Day Began Lies by Leonard Read. [Political Science Essay]

 

Nature Stories (narrative)

The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin.

How the Heather Looks by Joan Bodger.

Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp.

 

Historical Literature: Classics and Historical Fiction

The Once and Future King by T. H. White.

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.

*The Prince & the Pauper by Mark Twain.

Song of Roland translated by Dorothy L. Sayers

*A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain.

* The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. {Companion Library}

*The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle. {Companion Library}

Historical Novels by G.A. Henty

In Freedom's Cause by G.A. Henty.

The Dragon and the Raven 871-899 AD

Wulf the Saxon 1066-1154

Winning His Spurs 1189-1192

Rujub, the Juggler 1189

Wallace and Bruce 1285-1371

St. George for England 1327-77

The Lion of Saint Mark 1380

A March on London 1381

At Agincourt 1415

 

History--The Middle Ages

The Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor.

The Birth of Britain by Winston Churchill.

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People - Selections.

William of Malmesbury's account of the Battle of Hastings.

History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea by William Tyre.

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey.

 

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

Outrageous Women of the Middle Ages by Vicki Leon.

**Famous Men of The Middle Ages by John H. Harren.

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History by William Safire (or similar speech anthology). Read pertinent speeches.

 

Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales

Age of Chivalry by Bulfinch.

Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch.

 

King Arthur by Andrew Lang.

The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda, translated by William Morris or Eirikr Magnusson.

**The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald anonymous Icelandic epic

 

Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Humor, Modern, etc.

*The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkein

Watership Down by Richard Adams.

The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill.

The Knight's Fee by Rosemary Sutcliff.

The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall.

Rolf and The Viking Bow.

Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley

The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

**The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott.

**Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington.

**Alhambra by Washington Irving.

**Feats on the Fiord by Harriet Martineau.

Heather and Snow by George MacDonald.

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne.

**Life on the Mississippi by Samuel Langhorn Clemmens.

Emma by Jane Austen.

[Medieval Mom]

Tenth Grade

 

Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

Pilgrim’s Progress by Paul Bunyan.

Whatever Happened to Justice by Richard Maybury.

Utopia by Sir Thomas More.

Francis Bacon essays: Of Truth, Of Revenge, Of Innovations, Of Friendship, Of Regiment of Health, Of Suspicion, Of Discourse, Of Riches, Of Youth and Age, Of Studies, Of Praise, Of Honor and reputation, Of Anger.

Common Sense by Thomas Paine.

The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine.

The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift.

Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift.

History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia by Samuel Johnson.

 

Poetry

*Best Poems of the English Language by Harold Bloom.

*Shakespeare's Sonnets

The Roar on the Other Side: A Guide for Student Poets by Suzanne Clark.

John Donne

George Herbert

John Milton

Songs of Innocence and Experience, Blake (1789)

Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth and Coleridge (1798)

Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves, which is Spenser's Fairie Queene Book I updated and annotated by Roy Maynard.

 

Classics-- In Chronological Order.

Education of a Christian Prince (selections)(1510)

*The Prince by Machiavelli (1513)

Utopia by Thomas More (1516)

Commentary on Galatians, Martin Luther (c. 1520)

Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin (selections)** (1536)

Aztecs and Spaniards, Albert Marrin

Empires Lost and Won: The Spanish Heritage in the Southwest, Albert Marrin

Novum Organum, Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Faustus, Marlowe (1588)

The Faerie Queene, Spenser (1590)

Julius Caesar (1599), Hamlet (1600), or other plays,

*Shakespeare

Life in Elizabethan Days, William Stearns Davis

Cervantes, Don Quixote (abridged)(1605)

Divine Meditations, John Donne (c. 1635)

Principles of philosophy, Rene Descartes (1644)

Paradise Lost (selections), Milton (1664)

Pensees, Pascal (1670)

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1678)

"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," John Locke (1690)

Gulliver's Travels, Swift (1726)

"On American Taxation," Burke (1774)

The War for Independence, Albert Marrin

"The Social Contract," Rousseau (1762)

The Declaration of Independence (1776)

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (1775)

Articles of Confederation (1777)

Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown (1781)

"Critique of Pure Reason," Kant (1781)

Treaty with Great Britain (1783)

The Federalist Papers, Hamilton et.al.

The Constitution of the United States (ratified 1788)

"The Rights of Man," Paine (1792)

**Letters to His Son by Lord Chesterfield.

**Washington's First Inaugural Address (1789)

**Treaty with the Six Nations (1794)

**Washington's Farewell Address also here, or find audio (1796)

**Treaty with France (Louisiana Purchase) (1803)

**Treaty with Great Britain (End of War of 1812) (1814)

**Simonds American Literature.

Isaac Bickerstaff by Richard Steele.

Days with Sir Roger DeCoverly by Richard Steele.

 

Math, Geography & Science (non-fiction)

Christopher Columbus, Mariner by Samuel Eliot Morison.

Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl.

The Discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh.

**On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by William Harvey.

**Faraday’s Lectures [Chemistry]

**The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith [Economics]

 

Nature Stories (narrative)

**Rural Hours by Susan Fenimore Cooper.

**William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood by Thomas Henry Huxley.

The Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif.

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot.

 

 

Historical Literature: Classics and Historical Fiction

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

*The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy.

Speeches

* A slightly abridged version of Martin Luther's defense before the Diet of Worms

** Queen Elizabeth's speech to the Spanish Armada, July 29, 1588 (this is included in the text of Churchill's book)

*** John Donne's funeral address, from the full sermon titled Death's Duel

Patrick Henry's famous 'Give me liberty or give me death' speech (which prepared Virginia for war against the Mother Country) [audio]

Edmund Burke's Plea for Conciliation with the American Colonies, March 22,1775.

Salem witch trial transcript 1692

Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen.

The Invasion of Canada by Pierre Berton.

**Speech by William Wilberforce concerning the slave trade.

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis.

I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni.

Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke.

The House of Arden by E. Nesbit.

Harding's Luck by E. Nesbit.

Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore.

Patrick O’Brien’s Master and Commander series.

**Midshipman Easy and others by Captain Frederick Marryat.

 

History

The World of Christopher Columbus and His Sons by Genevieve Foster.

The World of Captain John Smith by Genevieve Foster.

The World of Wiliam Penn by Genevieve Foster.

The Story of America by Hendrik Van Loon.

A History of the American People by Paul Johnson.

The New World by Winston Churchill.

The Age of Revolution by Winston Churchill.

The Renaissance: A Short History by Paul Johnson.

Oxford Book of American History by Samuel Eliot Morison.

America: A Narrative History by George B. Tindall (appropriate sections.)

Timetables of History (applicable sections--reference)

History of the World by P.S. Fry, DK. (applicable sections--reference)

 

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

*The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771).

**The Diaries of George Washington by George Washington (Vol. 1-4)

A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt.

Life of Sir Francis Bacon by William Rawley.

The Voyage of the Armada The Spanish Story by David Howarth.

A History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford.

Johannes Kepler: Giant of Faith and Science by John Hudson Tiner.

The Life of Dr. [John] Donne by Izaak Walton.

A Coffin for King Charles by C. V. Wedgwood.

Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel .

Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England by Sir Charles Firth (at least the epilogue).

**The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns.

**Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings by Mary Johnston.

**The History of King Charles II of England by Jacob Abbott.

Founding Father -- Rediscovering George Washington by Richard Brookhiser.

George Washington: A Biography by Washington Irving.

Washington: The Indispensible Man by James Thomas Flexner.

The Life of George Washington by David Ramsay.

John Adams by David McCullough.

John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen.

Marie Antoinette and Her Son by Louise Muhlback.

The Story of Napoleon by H.E. Marshall.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson by Robert Southey.

Life of Johnson - The famous, classic biography of the English author Samuel Johnson by James Boswell.

Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life by Robert Spaethling.

Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman by William T. Sherman.

Fifty Years in the Royal Navy by Admiral Sir Percy Scott

Biographies of Thomas Jefferson

Biographies of Alexander Hamilton

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History by William Safire (or similar speech anthology). Read pertinent speeches.

 

Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales

*Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

*Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

Necklace and Other Stories and others by Guy DeMaupassant .

 

Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Humor, Modern, etc.

Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith.

The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith.

The School for Scandal by Richard Sheridan.

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (referred to in Northanger Abbey. Northanger Abbey is a delicious spoof of the genre.)

Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (referred to in Northanger Abbey. Northanger Abbey is a delicious spoof of the genre.)

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton.

Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald.

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome.

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini.

Horatio Hornblower books by C. S. Forester

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

Lieutenant Hornblower

Hornblower and The Hotspur

Hornblower and the Atropos

Beat To Quarters

Ship of the Line

Flying Colours

Commodore Hornblower

Lord Hornblower

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

Hornblower During the Crisis

Sir Walter Scott:

The Bride of Lammermoor - East Lothian, 1695

The Pirate - Shetland and Orkney Islands, 1700

The Black Dwarf - The Lowlands of Scotland, 1706 (Jacobites)

Heart of Midlothian - Time of George II. (Porteous Riots)

Waverley - The Jacobites

Redgauntlet - Time of George III.

Guy Mannering - Time of George III

The Surgeon's Daughter - Fifeshire, Isle of Wight, and India (1780)

The Antiquary - Scotch Manners, last decade of the 18th Century

St. Ronan's Well - Near Firth of Forth, 1812

**The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo.

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

[Medieval Mom]

Eleventh Grade

 

Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

"Self-Reliance," Emerson (1844)

The Fallacy Detective by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn.

“On the Art of Writing†by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

Civil Disobedience by Thoreau (1849).

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill.

Graves of Academe by Richard Mitchell.

Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin.

*Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engles (1848)

*de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1805-1860)

Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins

 

Poetry

*Best Poems of the English Language by Harold Bloom.

"Ode to a Nightingale" and other poems of Keats (1820s)

"The Lady of Shalott" and other poems of Tennyson (1832)

*Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (1855)

*Selected Poems, W. B. Yeats (1895)

*"The Innocence of Father Brown," Chesterton (1911)

*Selected Poems, Wilfrid Owen (1918)

 

Classics

Faust, Book I by Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1808)

*Pride and Prejudice, Austen (1813)

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1818)

The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper (1826)

"The Fall of the House of Usher" and other stories of Poe**1839)

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (1847)

*Moby Dick, Melville (1851)

*Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe (1852)

*Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky (1856)

*Great Expectations, Dickens (1861)

Silas Marner by George Eliot. (1861)

*Virginia's General: Robert E. Lee, Albert Marrin

*"Gettysburg Address," Lincoln (1863)

*War and Peace, Tolstoy (1864)

*The Return of the Native, Hardy (1878)

*Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche (1883)

*Huckleberry Finn, Twain (1884)

 

 

Math, Geography & Science (non-fiction)

*On the Origin of Species, Darwin (1859)

*The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud (1900)

Euclid's Elements.

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard P. Feynman.

**What Has Government Done to Our Money by Murray Rothbard.

**The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman.

Books by H.V. Morton

In Search of England

A Traveller in Rome

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton--Great book for a glimpse into South Africa.

Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy. See the world on a bicycle.

Heidi's Alp: One Family's Search for Storybook Europe by Christina Hardyment.

 

Nature Stories (narrative)

*Walden, Thoreau (1854)

The Great Astronomers by Robert S. Ball.

My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.

Naturalist by E.O. Wilson

All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot.

 

Historical Literature: Classics and Historical Fiction

Essays

Montaigne

Ralph Waldo Emerson

G.K. Chesterton

C.S. Lewis.

The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent by John Erskine 1927.

Books and Bookmen by Ian MacLaren.

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Ramona by Helen Jackson Hunt

Mr. Midshipman Easy (or others) by Frederick Marryat

 

History

America: A Narrative History by George B. Tindall (appropriate sections.)

Timetables of History (applicable sections--reference)

History of the World by P.S. Fry, DK. (applicable sections--reference)

**The Great Democracies by Winston Churchill.

**Our Island Story by H.E. Marshall.

**Our Empire Story by H.E. Marshall.

Arguing about Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller.

**The War Between the States by Alexander Stephens.

The World Crisis by Winston Churchill

 

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

**Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington.

Unconditional Surrender - US Grant and the Civil War by Albert Marrin.

**The Life of Lincoln by L.P. Brockett.

**Lincoln’s Speeches and Letters

John James Audobon: The Making of An American by Richard Rhodes.

Audobon’s Birds of America

**First Across the Continent: The Story of the Exploring Expediction of Lewis and Clark by Noah Brooks.

** The Underground Railroad: Authentic Narratives and First-Hand Accounts by William Still.

**The Spirit of the Age by William Hazlitt.

Frederick Douglass' autobiography.

Davy Crockett's autobiography.

*Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Sandburg (Pulitzer biography, 1940)

Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott.

Madame Curie by Eve Curie.

The Life of Stonewall Jackson by R.L. Dabney.

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History by William Safire (or similar speech anthology). Read pertinent speeches.

 

Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales

*Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

*Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by J. R. R. Tolkien.

 

Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Humor, Modern, etc.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. (1886)

Dracula by Bram Stoker. (1897)

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne. (1864)

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.

Hard Times by Charles Dickens.

Persuasion by Jane Austen

The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The Importance of Being Earnest a play by Oscar Wilde.

Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, 1979

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad.

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.

Lavengro, The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Henry Borrow

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

[Medieval Mom]

Twelfth Grade

 

Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

The Art of War

The Prince by Machiavelli.

Autobiography of a Slander by Edna Lyall.

Plutarch's Lives.

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.

On Writing Well The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser.

 

Poetry

Robert Frost

Philip Larkin

Norton's Anthology of Modern Poetry

 

Classics

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)

*"The Trial," Kafka (1925)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

*"Murder in the Cathedral," T. S. Eliot (1935)

*"Our Town," Thornton Wilder (1938)

*The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck (1939)

*Mein Kampf, Hitler (1939)

*Animal Farm, Orwell (1945)

Nineteen Eighty-Four by Orwell (1949).

*Invisible Man, Ellison (1952)

*Mere Christianity, Lewis (1952)

*"The Crucible," Miller (1953)

Seize the Day by Saul Bellow (1956)

*"A Man for All Seasons, Bolt (1962)

*"Why We Can't Wait," Martin Luther King Jr. (1964)

*"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," Stoppard (1967)

*"The Gulag Archipelago," Solezhenitsyn (1974)

Beloved by Toni Morrison (1988)

All Rivers Run to the Sea: Memoirs by Elie Wiesel. (1995)

 

 

Math & Science (non-fiction)

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition by Oliver Sacks.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales.

**Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Davis [Geography]

**Common Sense of the Exact Sciences by W.K. Clifford

 

Nature Stories (narrative)

The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould.

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes.

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir

Our National Parks by John Muir.

The Life of the Caterpillar by J. Henri Fabre.

All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot.

The Lord Made Them All by James Herriot.

 

Historical Literature: Classics and Historical Fiction

The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesteron.

 

History

America: A Narrative History by George B. Tindall (appropriate sections.)

Modern Times by Paul Johnson.

The Century by Peter Jennings.

 

Timetables of History (applicable sections--reference)

History of the World by P.S. Fry, DK. (applicable sections--reference)

**New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?

The Nuremberg trials--research original documents.

How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis. --dark.

 

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank.

**My Life and Work by Henry Ford.

**Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer.

The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children, Roosevelt.

**My African Journey by Winston Churchill.

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain.

The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After.

Georges Vanier: Soldier - The Wartime Letters and Diaries, 1915-1919, edited by Deborah Cowley.

Black Boy by Richard Wright.

Witness by Whittaker Chambers.

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom.

Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng.

Mao Tse-Tung and His China by Albert Marrin.

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History by William Safire (or similar speech anthology). Read pertinent speeches.

 

Tales: Myths, Legends, Folktales

*Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

*Rose Fairy Book by Andrew Lang.

 

 

Fiction: Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Humor, Modern, etc.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque.

The Chosen by Chaim Potok.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding-- dark.

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury -- dark.

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.

Keeper of the Bees by Stratton Porter.

Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton Porter.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.

At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

Christy by Catherine Marshall

Dr. Von Igelfeld series by Alexander McCall Smith

Neither Five nor Three by Helen MacInnes

While Still We Live by Helen MacInnes

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster.

 

SHORT STORIES

Nathaniel Hawthorne (Young Goodman Brown; My Kinsman, Major Molineux)

Nikolai Gogol (The Overcoat)

Edgar Allen Poe (The Fall of the House of Usher)

Herman Melville (Bartleby the Scrivener)

Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Grand Inquisitor)

Anton Chekhov (Gooseberries)

Gustave Flaubert (A Simple Heart)

Leo Tolstoy (How Much Land Does a Man Need?)

Mark Twain (The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County)

Sarah Orne Jewett (Miss Tempy's Watchers)

Saki (Hector.H. Munro) (The Open Window)

Stephen Crane (The Open Boat)

Sherwood Anderson (I'm a Fool)

James Joyce (The Dead)

Somerset Maugham

E. M. Forster (The Machine Stops)

Dorothy Parker (You Were Perfectly Fine)

James Thurber (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

William Faulkner (A Rose for Emily, Barn Burning)

F. Scott Fitzgerald (Babylon Revisited)

Ernest Hemingway (A Clean, Well-Lighted Place; Hills Like White Elephants)

Eudora Welty (Why I Live at the P.O.)

Saul Bellow (Looking for Mr. Green)

Flannery O'Connor (Judgment Day; Everything That Rises Must Converge; Revelation - .pdf file)

John Updike (A & P; Ace in the Hole)

Tillie Olsen (I Stand Here Ironing)

Raymond Carver (Cathedral)

John Gardner (Redemption)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Harrison Bergeron)

John Barth (Lost in the Funhouse)

O Henry (Ransom of Red Chief)

[Cynful]

You are AWESOME - thank you so much. :)

[plimsoll]

Thank you for sharing this!

[Dinsfamily]

Awesome lists!!! Thanks for sharing.

[Amy Jo]

I am in awe. :thumbup: Thanks.

[melissel]

Holy moly, those are amazing! I'm bookmarking. Thanks for sharing!

[lovemykids]

Nice!!!! I have been strongly leaning toward doing the same thing. (since last night-LOL) My dd loves Sonlight, but every time I look at the higher cores I am not satisfied, no matter how much I tell myself I can make it work, I still have nagging doubts. I would basically have to rewrite the cores to mesh with our beliefs. Why not make my own list and LBC style schedule? It will be fun! We have always done our own booklist and schedule for history and science over the years (sometimes pulling from packages or guides); why not continue?

For the books I don’t feel like reading, I can simply pick up a study guide. Others I can skim and pull out material for discussion that way.

With our new plan, we can return to a CM mutli-stream of history study, which I miss doing.

:hurray:

Thanks for the inspiration, Medieval Mom. :grouphug: Great LIST!

[NYC]

Thank you for sharing!

Edited February 6, 2010 by NYC
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[Medieval Mom]

Nice!!!! I have been strongly leaning toward doing the same thing. (since last night-LOL) My dd loves Sonlight, but every time I look at the higher cores I am not satisfied, no matter how much I tell myself I can make it work, I still have nagging doubts. I would basically have to rewrite the cores to mesh with our beliefs. Why not make my own list and LBC style schedule? It will be fun! We have always done our own booklist and schedule for history and science over the years (sometimes pulling from packages or guides); why not continue?

For the books I don’t feel like reading, I can simply pick up a study guide. Others I can skim and pull out material for discussion that way.

With our new plan, we can return to a CM mutli-stream of history study, which I miss doing.

:hurray:

Thanks for the inspiration, Medieval Mom. :grouphug: Great LIST!

 

 

Multi-streaming with American History is a theme I have not incorporated into these list. Hmm... Off to edit and add :lol:

[Chloe]

This is what I have done also.....compiled a book list for each year. You've got more books listed though, as my list, so far, is only for the books we actually own right now. I haven't added the ones I still need to buy. This is a wonderful resource for me, as you've put together your list from some of the same resources I have used to make my lists (Ambleside, Robinson Curriculum, OFE, etc.)

 

Thanks so much!!

[yvonne]

Wow! Thank you!

 

What's OFE?

[SophiaH]

Old Fashioned Education

 

Thanks for these Medieval Mom! How did you decide which year to put them in if two different curricula listed them in two different years? Does that make sense? :)

[~Kirsten~]

Awesome! Thank you so, so much for sharing! :thumbup:

[TheCoffeeChick]

WOW! Thanks for the wonderful list. :thumbup:

[Medieval Mom]

Old Fashioned Education

 

Thanks for these Medieval Mom! How did you decide which year to put them in if two different curricula listed them in two different years? Does that make sense? :)

 

I guess I just used my own best judgment ;)

[robsiew]

Thanks very much! I've printed them out!

[Amber in AUS]

Thanks so much for sharing!!

[angela in ohio]

Old Fashioned Education

 

Thanks for these Medieval Mom! How did you decide which year to put them in if two different curricula listed them in two different years? Does that make sense? :)

 

Not Medieval Mom, but what I did was to take a 'vote.' I marked the grade level next to each book each time I found it on one of the original lists I was using, and then I went with the majority. It also helped me narrow my lists. Unless I loved the book, if it was only recommended by one source, I didn't put it on my list.

[homeschooltoone]

Thank You for sharing!! Wow! that's a wonderful list.

[AngelBee]

Thank you for posting this :)

[catherine smith]

What a gift, thank you. I love the nature/science readers suggested, so many seem to be living books. Thanks for your work!

[lollie010]

Wowzers!!! I better get busy.

[LauraGB]

Wow! Thank YOU, Medieval Mom! :thumbup:

[NoPlaceLikeHome]

Wow!!

Thanks for sharing:001_smile:

[mammaruss]

Thank you, thank you for sharing!!!:grouphug:

[ourjourneys]

and wanted to say thank you. This is the best reading list I have seen! Great compilation... :auto: Headed to the library :001_smile:

[Medieval Mom]

and wanted to say thank you. This is the best reading list I have seen! Great compilation... :auto: Headed to the library :001_smile:

 

Gee, thanks! :blushing:

[Revwife]

awesome! awesome! awesome! Thank you SOO much for sharing!

[Angie in VA]

Wow. Just wow. WOW!

 

Thank you so much for sharing this info!!!

[Tabula Rasa]

I want to thank both Medieval Mom for putting together this phenomenal list and ourjourneys for bumping up this thread so some of us newbies can benefit from Medieval Mom's great list.

 

Thank you!

[Annabel Lee]

I want to thank both Medieval Mom for putting together this phenomenal list and ourjourneys for bumping up this thread so some of us newbies can benefit from Medieval Mom's great list.

 

Thank you!

 

Yes, thank you! Medieval Mom, do you pick & choose from your lists or do you get through all of these titles?

[Medieval Mom]

Yes, thank you! Medieval Mom, do you pick & choose from your lists or do you get through all of these titles?

 

I'm embarrassed! Actually, I made these list when I was thinking of beginning ancients in third grade. But ds wanted to begin Ancients halfway through 1st, so that is what we did. We're giving AO2 a shot this year. We've just begun this week. If we can't stand following a schedule, perhaps we'll go back to our routine of the basics + copious reading! :)

 

So! Have we got through all the titles in first grade? Hmm! I've have to go back and look. Let's see..

Edited July 8, 2010 by Medieval Mom

[Medieval Mom]

In 1st, ds has read:

 

Guidance: Bible, Religion, Philosophy, Ethics, Etiquette, Manners, etc.

*McGuffey’s Second Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey.

*The Beginner’s Bible by Karyn Henley.

*The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter.

*Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book.

 

Poetry

*Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young by Jack Prelutsky.

*A Child’s Garden of Verses by R.L. Stevenson. {Dandelion Library}

*Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne.

*When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne.

*Mother Goose by Sylvia Long.

*Nonsense Alphabets by Edward Lear. {Dandelion Library}

*The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright.

*Poems & Prayers for the Very Young by Martha G. Alexander

*Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes by Marguerite de Angeli.

 

History & Geography: American History

**Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston.

Books by Josephine Pollard.

**The Boston Tea Party for Children by Josephine Pollard.

 

Historical Literature: Classics and Historical Fiction

*Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

 

Biography: Leaders, Artists, Musicians, Authors, Scientists, Mathematics, etc.

 

Biographies by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire.

*George Washington by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire.

*Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire.

Columbus by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire.

Benjamin Franklin by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire.

 

Math & Science (non-fiction)

*Where Everyday Things Come From by Aldren Watson.

*The Year At Maple Hill Farm by Alice and Martin Provensen.

*All Kinds of Animals: A Child’s First Encyclopedia by Michael Chinery.

*Crinkleroot’s Guide to Knowing the Trees by Jim Arnosky.

*Christian Liberty Nature Reader, Book 1.

Edited July 8, 2010 by Medieval Mom