mo2 Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 Are there any book lists out there that list books by time period as well as age/grade level? I want to use living books and historical novels for history, but it is becoming so frustrating trying to find the right books. Also, we are not Christian and prefer not to use Christian materials. I have looked at All Through the Ages by Miller, but in reading over her website, she seems very religious, so I'm not sure if the books she chose to include in All Through the Ages would reflect that. Are there any other lists I could consult? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 I did this with my son from grades 3 to 6 (prehistory-present day). We aren't Christian either, so I avoided the stuff with a message, though if you study the past 2000 years you have to deal with a heavy dose of Christianity no matter what. Anyway, I just put together my own lists by looking on amazon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo2 Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 I did this with my son from grades 3 to 6 (prehistory-present day). We aren't Christian either, so I avoided the stuff with a message, though if you study the past 2000 years you have to deal with a heavy dose of Christianity no matter what. Anyway, I just put together my own lists by looking on amazon. I agree we'll have to read about Christianity, but like you said, I want to avoid things with a message or that are preachy. I don't suppose there's any chance you'd want to share you list, is there? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABQmom Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 I have done this by using http://www.abookintime.com This site will list books in order by time period and will give you an idea about what age level the book would be good for. They do list Christian historical fiction, but you don't have to use those books. They list plenty of Newberry winners and other good books too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 I have had pretty good success with looking at the Sonlight catalog for suggestions on historical fiction. Yes, I know it is a Christian-focused curriculum, but we have been able to use a number of their suggestions (we're about as far from Christian as you can get ;)). I don't believe they have this on the website, but in the catalog, things that are heavily Christian in focus have an "X" in the description to mark them. Lots of the suggestions are Newberry honor or award books. I've found some things I would not have thought of looking into. There is also a sonlight secular yahoo group that has files listing alternative fiction suggestions to replace the cores with the heaviest emphasis on Christian theology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthodox6 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 The booklists often include many titles by the prolific Henty. They are heavy-handed with his [Protestant] worldview, so you might want to skip them. (My boys also thought him a most boring writer -- which is not the common homeschooler opinion.) Miller's book is very religious. Just skip all the "inset boxes" and stay with the lists. Her lists are not all-inclusive, but she really has done a fine job of covering a large chunk of territory. By no means are all of the works listed "religious" books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alte Veste Academy Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 This is helpful. http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/history.htm She rates things as easy, medium, or older, which I find vague but I imagine that you will be referencing Amazon (reading reviews and using the "Look Inside" feature all you can), so it might be helpful anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I was going to mention A Book in Time as well. Also, Simply Charlotte Mason http://www.simplycharlottemason.com has a good booklist for this as well. Woolybear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Prehistory-400 AD (3rd-ish grade level) (I also have a list that I used with my 1st grader this year that accompanies SOTW 1. Let me know if you're interested in that one.) From the Beginning of the Universe to Early Man Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story From Lava to Life: The Universe Tells Our Earth Story The Birth of the Earth The Dawn of Life Life Story Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution The Day of the Dinosaurs The Stick and Stone Age Archaeologists Dig for Clues Find Out About the Stone Age Painters of the Caves Exploring the Ice Maroo of the Winter Caves Boy of the Painted Cave Sunset of the Sabertooth Ancient Mesopotamia Find Out About Mesopotamia Ancient Egyptians and Their Neighbors Science in Ancient Mesopotamia Gilgamesh the Hero Istar and Tammuz: A Babylonian Myth of the Seasons Myths and Civilization of the Ancient Mesopotamians The City of Rainbows: A Tale from Ancient Sumer Ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptians and Their Neighbors Science in Ancient Egypt The Shipwrecked Sailor Egyptian Myths A Place in the Sun Spend the Day in Ancient Egypt Pyramid You Wouldn't Want to be and Egyptian Mummy Ancient Egypt Revealed Mummies and Pyramids How Would You Survive as an Ancient Egyptian Hatshepsut: His Majesty, Herself Cat Mummies Tut's Mummy Lost and Found Ms Frizzle's Adventures in Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece Greek Myths (MaCaughrean) The Iliad (McCarty) The Odyssey (Lister) Spend the Day in Ancient Greece the Librarian Who Measured the Earth You Wouldn't Want to Be a Greek Athlete Archimedes and the Door to Science Science in Ancient Greece Hour of the Olympics Ancient Rome Spend the Day in Ancient Rome Science in Ancient Rome Roman Mysteries: The Thieves of Ostia You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Gladiator City Roman Myths (McCaughrean) Galen: My Life in Imperial Rome Galen and the Gateway to Medicine Vacation Under the Volcano Pompeii Buried Alive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 400-1600 (used with a 4th grader) (I also have a list that I will be using with my 2nd grader next year to accompany SOTW 2. Let me know if you're interested in that one.) The Vikings The Real Vikings The Vikings (Nicholson) Living History: The Vikings Leif the Lucky Medieval Life, Castles, Knights, and Monarchs Atlas of the Medieval World I Wonder Why Castles Had Moats Days of Knights and Damsels The Time Trekkers Visit the Middle Ages If You Lived in the Days of Knights How Would You Survive in the Middle Ages Days of the Knights Ms Frizzle's Adventures: Medieval Castle A Medieval Feast Across a Dark and Wild Sea Castle Cathedral The Unready King Joan of Arc (Stanley) Outrageous Women of the Middle Ages Son of Charlemagne (this has a Christian message and I don't recommend it anyway because it's extremely boring) The Whipping Boy A Company of Fools Adam of the Road Girl in a Cage The Perilous Gard King Long Shanks Myths, Legends, Period Writing Beowulf the Warrior King Arthur (Kerven) Sir Cumference and the Knights of teh round Table Merlin and the Dragons The Young Merlin The Reluctant Dragon St George and the Dragon Robin Hood (Philip) Canterbury Tales (Cohen) Golem Renaissance, Inquisition, Elizabethan Age The Neptune Fountain Mosque Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer Giants of Science: Leonardo da Vinci (this has a chapter on Leonardo's sexual orientation) The Secretive Printer If You Were There in 1492 Michelangelo (Stanley) The Starry Messenger: Galileo Galilei Galileo for Kids Good Queen Bess (Stanley) William Shakespeare and the Globe Bard of Avon Secrets in the House of Delgado The Age of Exploration and American History Around the World in a Hundred Years The Discovery of the Americas (Maestro) Exploration and Conquest (Maestro) Ship (Macaulay) Columbus (D'Aulaire) The Forgotten Explorer A Long and Uncertain Journey A History of US: The First Americans The World of Captain John Smith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 1600-1850 (used with a 5th grader) We emphasized American history but it was in the context of world history. Colonial America The Lost Colony of Roanoke (Fritz) The World of Captain John Smith Jamestown: New World Adventure Pocahontas (d'Aulaire) Samuel Eaton's Day On the Mayflower Squanto: Friend of the Pilgrims A History of US: Making Thirteen Colonies The New Americans (Maestro) The Courage of Sarah Noble The Matchlock Gun The Witch of Blackbird Pond A Break with Charity The Revolutionary Period George Washington's World A History of US: From Colonies to Country Struggle fro a Continent (Maestro) Liberty or Death (Maestro) The 4th of July Story The Winter at Valley Forge (Knight) George vs George A Picture Book of Paul Revere A Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson George Washington (d'Aulaire) Benjamin Franklin (d'Aulaire) Poor Richard (Daugherty) Ben and Me Mr Revere and I The Cabin Faced West What Are You Figuring Now? A Story About Benjamin Banneker My Brother Sam Is Dead A More Perfect Union Shhh! We're Writing the Consitiution The United States 1800-1850 A Picture Book of Sacagawea A Picture Book of Lewis and Clark Sacagawea: Guide to Lewis and Clark Lewis and Clark and Me A History of US: The New Nation The War of 1812 (Carter) From Slave Ship to Freedom Road (preread this one) The Old African (this book is amazing but be sure to preread) Walking the Road to Freedom Amos Fortune Free Man A Picture Book of Fredrick Douglass A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth Nightjohn Sarny: A Life Remembered (this is a fabulous book but you might want to preread) The Industrial Revolution (Collins) The Cotton Gin (Masters) Mill Lyddie Images of America: The Erie Canal The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal Only the Names Remain Soft Rain: The Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears The Rest of the World Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Giants of Science: Isaac Newton Peter the Great (Stanley) The World of Captain John Smith George Washington's World Dr Jenner and the Speckled Monster Paris 1789: A Guide to Paris on the Eve of the Revolution Gracie and the Emperor Abraham Lincoln's World We also did some Jackdaws Witch Hysteria Comes to Salem Village Slavery Comes to America Lewis and Clark Expedition Industrial Revolution Comes to America Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 1850-Present (used with a 6th grader) We emphasized American history this year as well. 1850-1865 Liberty for All Charles Dickens (Stanley) A Christmas Carol War, Terrible War The Abraham Lincoln You Never Knew A Brilliant Streak: The Making of Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Fields of Fury Abraham Lincoln's World Rifles for Watie The War Within Captured! Who Was Charles Darwin? 1865-1929 Reconstructing America An Age of Extremes Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Empire America Kids at Work An Overview of World War I The Good Master The Singing Tree Animal Farm Angel on the Square Listening for Lions Sara's Journey The Twenty-One Balloons 1930-1945 Dust to Eat Out of the Dust No Promises in the Wind Children of the Great Depression Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Freedman) World War II (McGowan) Echoes of World War II No Pretty Pictures War, Peace, and All That Jazz Winston Churchill (Severance) The Endless Steppe Hitler (Marrin) Stalin (Marrin) Farewell to Manzanar Journey to Topaz The Green Glass Sea Number the Stars 1945-Present The Cold War Joseph McCarthy and the Cold War The Korean War The Vietnam War Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry A Dream of Freedom If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King The Moon Landing; The Race into Space All the People Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cougarmom4 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Kai, These lists are terrific! Thanks so much for sharing. I'd be interested in your other two lists you mentioned, if it's not too much trouble! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt_Uhura Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Kai, You are wonderful! Thank you! I'm ordering THe City of Rainbows! That's a new one to me! Thanks again, Capt_Uhura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Books to Supplement SOTW 1 (used with a 1st grader) This one is more mixed up as I haven't sorted it out for my records yet. Ancient Agriculture Casting the Gods Adrift Cat Mummies Curse of the Pharaohs Genesis: The Jewish Children's Bible I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefert If I Were a Kid in Ancient Egypt Mummies Made in Egypt Seeker of Knowledge The Golden Sandal The Shipwrecked Sailor The Three Princes You Wouldn't Want to Be An Egyptian Mummy Egyptian Gods and Goddesses (Barker) Ice Mummy Mummies and Pyramids Secrets of the Mummies The Ancient Egyptians Lugalbanda Gilgamesh the King Revenge of Ishtar The Last Quest of Gilgamesh Ishtar and Tammuz Once a Mouse Ms Frizzle's Adventures in Ancient Egypt Tut's Mummy Lost and Found Exodus: The Jewish Children's Bible Atlantis The Lost City The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War Ancient Greece and the Olympics The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor Greek Myths (McCaughrean) The Hero and the Minotaur You Wouldn't Want to Be a Greek Athlete The Librarian Who Measured the Earth If I Were a Kid in Ancient Greece Greek Gods and Goddesses (McCaughrean Alexander the Great (Pancella) Macchu Picchu (Mann) The One-Eyed Giant The Land of the Dead Sirens and Sea Monsters The Grey Eyed goddess Return to Ithaca Roman Myths (McCaughrean) You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Gladiator Sacred River: The Ganges of India I Once Was a Monkey: Stories Buddha Told The Final Battle Pompeii (Davis) The Great Wall of China (Fisher) The Lost Horse Confucius: The Golden Rule If I Were a Kid in Ancient Rome Sun Day Moon Day Science in Ancient Rome War Are You Calling Me a Barbarian? The Thieves of Ostia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo2 Posted July 16, 2009 Author Share Posted July 16, 2009 Kai, those lists are awesome. Thank you so much for sharing! I would be interested in seeing your SOTW2 list also if you don't mind. I have a 7yo who will be studying the middle ages this year. Thanks! BTW, your book review of Morpurgo's Beowulf has persuaded me to purchase it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jensway Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Thank you so much Kai for the list for the 6th grader-1850 to present. This is just what I've been looking for/trying to come up with myself. :thumbup1::hurray: This is really appreciated! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcjlkplus3 Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Did you look at the recs in TWTM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlovebaker Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 It is the best! And we're secular - you can easily drop the very preachy books (they actually put an "X" by those books in the catalog) ... but religion is part of history and it is so interesting so don't drop them all! Sonlight exposes the kids to lots of different religions and you can always supplement as you see fit. But for easy of lesson planning and really great books, go with Sonlight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Books to Supplement SOTW 2 (to be used with a 2nd grader) Ancient Romans I Wonder Why Romans Wore Togas Beowulf (Morpurgo) Across a Dark and Wild Sea What Were Castles For? Marguerite Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Morpurgo) King Arthur The Acrobatic Empress The Young Merlin Trilogy Knights of the Round Table Science in Ancient China Buddha The King's Chessboard The Story of Religion Muhammad Ali, Child of the Desert Empress of China Lord of the Cranes The Warlord's Puzzle Fa Mulan The Boy Who Drew Cats Look Who Came From Australia Viking Adventure The Real Vikings Leif the Lucky Cathedral Castle The Reluctant Dragon St George and the Dragon The Making of a Knight A Medieval Feast Brendan the Navigator Canterbury Tales (Cohen) Castle Diary Robin Hood Whipping Boy Days of the Knights Adam of the Road Knights and Castles Raisa's Riddle Golem Marco Polo The Silk Road Mosque Medieval Medicine and the Plague A Company of Fools Joan of Arc (Stanley) Three Swords for Granada Sundiata Traveling Man Columbus (d'Aulaire) The Discovery of the Americas (Maestro) Follow the Dream A Long and Uncertain Journey Pedro's Journal The Forgotten Explorer The Secretive Printer The Neptune Fountain Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Leonardo Beautiful Dreamer Starry Messanger The Genius of Leonardo Good Queen Bess You Wouldn't Want to Be Sick in the 16th Century William Shakespeare and the Globe The Bard of Avon Tales from Shakespeare Ship Exploration and Conquest Roanoke (Yolen) Around the World in a Hundred Years Jacques Cartier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manamana Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 I recently compiled this literature list for my dd7 for next year. I used SOTW2 activity guide, our library catalog as well as Amazon to create the list. Augustine Came to Kent Across a Dark and Wild Sea Who in the World was the Acrobatic Empress? Once a Mouse… The River Goddess: A Hindu Tale Muhammad Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights Tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor Sinbad Maples in the Mist: Poems for Children from the Tang Dynasty The Paper Dragon Yoshi's Feast A Single Shard The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars The Long Silk Strand Maui and the Sun The Holy Twins: Benedict & Scholastica Son of Charlemagne El Cid Minstrel in the Tower Leif the Lucky Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky Blood Feud The Midwife's Apprentice Castle Diary Knight's Castle The Last Knight: An Intro to Don Quixote Sword of the Samurai Canterbury Tales Here bygynneth Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Robin Hood The Apple and the Arrow Tale of Meshka the Kvetch Snow in Jerusalem The Song of Mu Lan Genghis Kahn Beautiful Warrior The Emperor and the Kite Kat and the Emperor's Gift Baboushka and the Three Kings Prince Ivan and the Firebird Tom Thumb The Door in the Wall Days of Courage Three Sacks of Truth Joan of Arc Fire, Bed and Bone More Tales from Shakespeare: Richard III Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain 1466 The Girl Who Married a Lion… Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali In the Land of the Taj Mahal Where Do You Think You are Going, Mr. Columbus? Follow the Dream Columbus Me Oh Maya The Bravest Flute Spy for the Night Riders Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World Whipping Boy The William Tyndale Story The River of Grace: John Calvin bio HawkThat Dare Not Hunt By Day Starry Messenger Galileo's Treasure Box Good Queen Bess Sir Frances Drake The Queen's Progress Shakespeare for Kids More Tales from Shakespeare Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night The Lyon's Roar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manamana Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 My Excel spreadsheet did not transfer well to the post. Sorry about that! :ohmy: You can also find the list posted here: http://readaloudbooknook.blogspot.com/ I just created the blog today and posted the list to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cslbda Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 I love this list. Books are sorted according to history periods and then by grade levels. http://bookgirl3.tripod.com/historicalfiction.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micjayne Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Thanks for all your help ladies. This is an excellent thread, happen-chance upon in The Lyon's Roar search. TY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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