Read Aloud

• The Candy Bomber by Gail S. Halvorsen [After WWII]

Poetry

• Collected Works of Edgar A. Guest

Year 4 – Modern
1850-Present
Elementary Reading List

Year 4 – Modern
1850-Present
Middle School Reading List

Year 4 – Modern
1850-Present
High School Reading List

Other Classics for Children

Other Classics for Youth

• • Emily Post’s Etiquette
  • “In Flanders Fields“, McCrae
  • Flatland, Abbott
  • The Foundation series, Asimov
  • Frankenstein, Shelley
  • “The Gettysburg Address,” Lincoln
  • “The War Inevitable”, Henry
  • The Great Brain series, Fitzgerald
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson

• • Mythology, Hamilton
  • “Hamlet,” Shakespeare
  • Heidi, Spyri

• • History Reborn, Anderson
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
  • “I Have A Dream,” King
  • Ivanhoe, Scott
  • The Hobbit, Tolkein
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins, O’Dell
  • Joan of Arc, Twain
  • Jo’s Boys, Alcott

• • “Julius Caesar,” Shakespeare
  • The Jungle Book, Kipling
  • King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table
  • Laddie, Porter

• • “Let America Be America Again,” Hughes
  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
  • The Little Britchesseries, Moody
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy, Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Little Men, Alcott
  • Little Women, Alcott
  • The Lonesome Gods, L’Amour
  •  The Lord of the Rings series, Tolkein
  • “The Man with the Hoe,” Markham
  • Mathematicians Are People, Too (2 volumes), Reimer

• • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • National Velvet, Bagnold
  • Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary of the English Language; see also: Online 1828 Dictionary
  • North to Freedom, Holm
  • “O Captain! My Captain!,” Whitman
  • “Old Ironsides,” Holmes
  • Old Yeller, Gipson

• • Paul Bunyan and Other Tall Tales
  • The Phantom Tollbooth, Juster
  • “The Present Crisis,” Lowell
  • “The Road Not Taken,” Frost
  • The Real Benjamin Franklin, Allison
  • The Real George Washington, Parry
  • The Real Thomas Jefferson, Allison
  • The Robe, Douglas

• • The Sackett Series, L’Amour
  • Saxon Mathseries
  • The Secret Garden, Burnett
  • Soldiers, Statesmen & Heroes, Parry
  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets
  • Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers,Kavanaugh
  • Stuart Little, White
  • Summer of the Monkeys, Rawls
  • The Swiss Family Robinson, Wyss

• The Doctor Dolittleseries, Lofting
• White Fang, London
• The story of William Tell
• Where the Red Fern Grows, Rawls

Year 1
Creation – 400 AD
Elementary Reading List

Year 1
Creation – 400 AD
Middle School Reading List

Year 1
Creation – 400 AD
High School Reading List

Year 2
Renaissance 400 – 1600
Elementary Reading List

Year 2
Renaissance 400 – 1600
Middle School Reading List

Year 2
Renaissance 400 – 1600
High School Reading List

Read Aloud 

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• “A Voyage to Lilliput” and “A Voyage to Brobdingnag” from Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift.
• The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas, Step into Classics
• A Christmas Carol, Dickens
• Journey to the Center of the Earth, Verne, Classic Start Series
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
• Oliver Twist, Dickens
• Treasure Island, Stevenson

Geography

• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, Classic Start Series

Poetry

• Songs of Innocence, William Blake (Online) The Tyger (Online)
• William Wordsworth, collected poems (Online)
• “The Lady of Shalott” (Online) and “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” (Online) Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Edward Lear, the nonsense poems (Online)
• Christina Rossetti: “Goblin Market,”(Online) “A Birthday,” (Online) “Sister Maude”,(Online) “No, Thank
  You, John” (Online)
• East O’ the Sun and West O’ the Moon : Fifty-Nine Norwegian Folk Tales, by
  Peter Christen Asbjrnsen (Online)
• “The Concord Hymn“, Emerson [1836]

Year 3 – Late Renaissance / Early Modern 1600-1850
Elementary Reading List

Year 3 – Late Renaissance / Early Modern 1600-1850
Middle School Reading List

• The Constitution of the United States
• The Declaration of Independence
• Beauty by Robin McKinley
• Les Miserables, Victor Hugo Step into Classics
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo Step into Classics
• Les Miserables, Victor Hugo Step into Classics
• Robinson Crusoe, Defoe
• Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift.
• Pilgrim’s Progress : A Retelling by Gary D. Schmidt
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo Step into Classics
• Les Miserables, Victor Hugo Step into Classics
• The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas, Step into Classics
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin,  Robert Browning
• Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
• A Christmas Carol, Dickens
• The Magic Fishbone, Dickens (Online)
• Alice In Wonderland, Carroll
• Tom Sawyer, Twain
• The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper (Online)
• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
• Journey to the Center of the Earth, Verne
• Davy Crockett Legends

Year 3 – Late Renaissance / Early Modern 1600-1850
High School Reading List

• The Constitution of the United States
• The Declaration of Independence
• Pilgrims Progress (Online)
• 5,000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen

• Pilgrims Progress
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
• Moby-Dick, Melville
• Great Expectations, Dickens
• The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper (Online)
• Gulliver’s Travels, Swift
• Don Quixote, Cervantes
• Eight Cousins, Alcott [early 1800’s, Boston, women’s rights]{11.5}

• Donald in Mathmagic Land (DVD)
• Anno, Anno’s Counting Book
• Anno, Anno’s Journey
• Anno, Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar
• Anno, Anno’s USA
• Anno, All in a Day
• Anno, Anno’s Magic Seeds
• Anno, Anno’s Magical ABC: An Anamorphic Alphabet
• Burns, Greedy Triangle
• Burns, Spaghetti And Meatballs For All!
• Calvert, Multiplying Menace: The Revenge Of Rumpelstiltskin (A Math Adventure)
• Ellis, What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras?
• Lee, 5-Minute Math Problem of the Day
• McKellar, Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who’s Boss
• McKellar, Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail
• Neuschwander, Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream
• Neuschwander, Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry
• Neuschwander, Patterns in Peru: An Adventure in Patterning
• Neuschwander, Pastry School in Paris: An Adventure in Capacity

• Neuschwander, Sir Cumference and All the King’s Tens
• Neuschwander, Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone
• Neuschwander, Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter
• Neuschwander, Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi
• Neuschwander, Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland
• Neuschwander, Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
• Ray, Ray’s New Practical Arithmetic
• Scieszka, Math Curse
• Tang, The Best Of Times
• Tang, Grapes Of Math {grades 2-5}
• Tang, Math Appeal (Mind-Stretching Math Riddles)
• Tang, Math Fables
• Tang, Math Fables Too
• Tang, Math For All Seasons
• Tang, Math Potatoes: Mind-stretching Brain Food
• Tang , Math-terpieces
• Schmidt, The Life of Fred (everything!)