lindsey Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 I'm having trouble getting results in a search, I think my words are too general. :/ I'm looking for book recommendations, especially history-based fiction, for the ancients. I have loads for younger kids, but my 8yo is over Magic Treehouse and storybooks and the like. He's read a fiction series about the Greek gods...I can't think of the name at the moment. I have some of the classics in middle-grade versions (The Odyssey, etc). But he'd love some general adventure books based in ancient times or during big events, or about individuals we'll study in the coming weeks. We're working our way through SOTW, heading into Egypt's middle kingdom, but anything after that is great, too!! He is reading at an 8th grade level so mostly we just try to monitor content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellen Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 (edited) Black Ships Before Troy - Sutcliffe Egyptian Diary Archimedes and the Door of Science Look at the Sonlight website. Check the fifth or sixth grade reading lists. I don't know which year they do ancients again but it will have ideas. ETA. I looked it up. Click on 6th grade package and then the tab for What's Included. Edited September 5, 2016 by hellen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacbeaumont Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Simply Charlotte Mason has a booklist search engine, too. Sent from my U9200 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Long Ago People is one of the few prehistoric novels in the public domain that many people would still find appropriate to use. London is called Llyn-dun. https://books.google.com/books?id=q2YAAAAAYAAJ&dq=long+ago+people&source=gbs_navlinks_s Tales and Customs of the Ancient Hebrew really has some interesting info about daily life and early farming and is lots more than Bible stories. https://books.google.com/books/about/Tales_and_Customs_of_the_Ancient_Hebrews.html?id=UJZHAAAAIAAJ Librivox has free audio of Peeps at Ancient Egypt https://librivox.org/peeps-at-many-lands-ancient-egypt-by-james-baikie/ Cat of Bubastes https://librivox.org/the-cat-of-bubastes-by-g-a-henty/ Famous Men of Greece https://librivox.org/famous-men-of-greece-by-john-h-haaren-and-ab-poland/ Famous Men of Rome https://librivox.org/famous-men-of-rome-by-john-h-haaren-and-a-b-poland/ A Wonder Book https://librivox.org/a-wonder-book-for-girls-and-boys-by-nathaniel-hawthorne/ Tanglewood Tales https://librivox.org/tanglewood-tales-by-nathaniel-hawthorne/ The beginning chapters for Story of Mankind https://librivox.org/the-story-of-mankind-by-hendrik-van-loon/ The beginning chapters of Our Island Story https://librivox.org/our-island-story-part-1-by-he-marshall/ On the Shores of the Great Sea https://librivox.org/on-the-shores-of-the-great-sea-by-m-b-synge/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 (edited) You don't need to buy the ebooks from Heritage History to use their lists. Here is the historical fiction novel list. http://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=library#fiction You can also browse the Yesterdays's Classics lists by subject and acquire the books elsewhere. http://www.yesterdaysclassics.com/catalog/displaycatalog.php?catalog=greece Rosegate Harbour's Henty chronological list. http://users.gobigwest.com/rosegate/HentyChron.html Edited September 5, 2016 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 (edited) Don't forget to expand on whatever is coming up in the GEOGRAPHY of SOTW. While studying the Nile river, you might want to add a novel or DVD with a river setting. Or even a DVD or novel of modern Egypt. Edited September 5, 2016 by Hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Some of our favorites: Ludmilla Zeman's Gilgamesh picture-books Hittite Warrior The Golden Goblet Tirzah Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green D'aulaire's Greek Myths Black Ships before Troy The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff or The Children's Homer in place of the Sutcliff Theras and His Town Lysis Goes to the Play The Bronze Bow Detectives in Togas The Mystery of the Rkman Ransom The Aeneid for Boys and Girls by Church Modern Rhymes for Ancient Times Quintus The Ides of April The Eagle of the Ninth Julius Caesar, a story version Plus picturebooks listed in the SOTW AG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kareni Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 I'm not entirely sure what constitutes the "middle grades" but perhaps something here will be helpful. Copying an older post of mine ~ First a general note about my list, we're quite liberal so some of the videos on the list as well as a few books (i.e., Gonick's the Cartoon History ...) might not suit all families. I enlisted my husband to watch all of the videos with my daughter. It gave them something to enjoy together and also involved my husband in homeschooling. Bear in mind that my daughter was a voracious reader; I suspect that one might happily use far fewer books. We also were homeschooling on a serious budget our first few years of homeschooling, and so I basically used what I could locate at the library and thrift stores. This list covers the time period from prehistory to 500AD. My daughter used the following materials in 7th grade: Selections from The Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World by Charlotte Evans et al. The Young People's Story of Our Heritage: The Ancient World, Pre-history to 500BC by V. M. Hillyer and E. G. Huey The Young People's Story of Our Heritage: The Ancient World, 500BC to 500AD by V. M. Hillyer and E. G. Huey A Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson Cave of the Moving Shadows by Thomas Milstead Spirit on the Wall by Ann O'Neal Garcia Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw Pharaoh's Daughter by Julius Lester Video: David Macaulay's World of Ancient Engineering: Pyramid Black Ships before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff Dateline: Troy by Paul Fleischman Inside the Walls of Troy by Clemence McClaren The Curse of King Tut by Patricia Netzley The Golden Fleece by Padraic Colum Escape from Egypt by Sonia Levitin Troy by Adele Geras The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty City of Gold and Other Stories from the Old Testament by Peter Dickinson Gods and Goddesses by John Malam The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin Selections from Cultural Atlas for Young People: Ancient Greece by Anton Powell Selections from Then and Now by Stefania and Dominic Perring Selections from Usborne Book of Famous Lives Selections from Heroines by Rebecca Hazell Selections from A Picturesque Tale of Progress, Volume 2 by Olive Beaupre Miller The Story of the World, History for the Classical Child: Ancient Times by Susan W. Bauer Niko: Sculptor's Apprentice by Isabelle Lawrence How Would You Survive as an Ancient Greek? by Fiona Macdonald Calliope Magazine: Taharqo Calliope Magazine: Ancient Celts Alexander the Great by Peter Chrisp Video: Alexander the Great (The History Makers) Men of Athens by Olivia Coolidge Selections from Mathematicians are People, Too by Luetta and Wilbert Reimer Science in Ancient Greece by Kathlyn Gay Selections from A Day in Old Athens by William S. Davis Your Travel Guide to Ancient Greece by Nancy Day The Librarian who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky The Emperor's Silent Army by Jane O'Connor Selections from Ancient Japan by J. E. Kidder Hannibal's Elephants by Alfred Powers The Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber Galen: My Life in Imperial Rome by Marissa Moss Caesar's Gallic War by Olivia Coolidge Selections from Ancient Inventions by Peter James and Nick Thorpe Video: Anthony and Cleopatra (Royal Shakespeare Company, 1974) Videos: I, Claudius (Volumes 1-7) Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster City by David Macaulay The Wadjet Eye by Jill Rubalcaba Video: David Macaulay's World of Ancient Engineering: Roman City Song for a Dark Queen by Rosemary Sutcliff Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfield Video: Ancient Mysteries: Pompeii, Buried Alive The Capricorn Bracelet by Rosemary Sutcliff The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff Selections from Wonders of Ancient Chinese Science by Robert Silverberg The White Stag by Kate Seredy Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges Selections from The Dark Ages by Tony Gregory Lady Ch'iao Kuo: Warrior of the South by Laurence Yep The Dancing Bear by Peter Dickinson Video: Africa (Ancient Civilizations for Children) The Cartoon History of the Universe II, From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome by Larry Gonick Regards,Kareni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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