Literature Lists

The past few weeks  I've been busy getting ready to start another school year and as part of that I spent a lot of time and put a lot of thought into what I wanted the girls to read this year for school. Here are their reading lists for anyone looking for good book ideas. I pulled most of these ideas from Sonlight, Veritas Press, Tapestry of Grace and the Well Trained Mind. It's a combination of literature and history (non-fiction as well as historical fiction). Mira is a big reader so her list is extra long. Annah just started reading last spring and enjoys shorter chapter books. Some of the best books we read aloud together. We just finished reading Nurse Matilda and now we're reading Thimble Summer, a wonderful story about a young girl growing up on a farm during the early 1900's.

Mira - 4th Grade - Studying Modern History (1850-2000)

A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt (Great Depression)

Across Five Aprils (Civil War)

By The Great Horn Spoon (‘49ers Gold Rush)

Freedom Train: The Story of Harriett Tubman

George Washington Carver: God’s Slave Becomes God’s Scientist

Helen Keller

Hero Over Here (WW1 Flu Epidemic)

In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (1947)

Miracles on Maple Hill (Post WWII)

Moccasin Trail

Old Yeller (Frontier Days)

Plain Girl

Diary of an Early American Boy (early 1800’s)

Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

Arctic Explorer: A Story of Matthew Henson (1866-1955 Lerner Bio) by Jeri Ferris

The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America

Dear America: When Christmas Comes Again-The World 1 Diary of Simone Spencer
Dear America: Time for Courage-Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bown

Doll Shop Downstairs-MCDonough
Julia’s Story (series)

Hattie Big Sky-Lawson

Clear the Cow Pasture I'm Coming in for a Landing!: A Story of Amelia Earhart by Robert Quackenbush
Sky Pioneer: Amelia Earhart

Hard Times by Nancy Antle (Great Depression)

Blue Willow-Gates (Early 1920’s)
Nothing to Fear –Koller (Early 1920’s)

Diary of a Young Girl –Anne Frank/Picture book of Anne Frank

Anne Frank Life in Hiding

Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West
My Side of the Mountain –Jean Craighead George

Oliver Twist

The Oregon Trail

Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille

Samuel Morse and the Telegraph

Susanna of the Alamo

Trial and Triumph

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Victorian Servant

You Wouldn’t Want to Be A Civil War Solider

You Wouldn’t Want to be a WWII Pilot

You Wouldn’t Want to be an American Pioneer

You Wouldn’t Want to Live in a Wild West Town

You Wouldn’t Want to be on Apollo 13

You Wouldn’t Want to Work on the Railroad

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Victorian Mill Worker

Bound for Oregon

Daily Life in a Covered Wagon

All of a Kind Family

Cheaper By the Dozen

Little Britches

Thimble Summer

Henry Huggins

Mr. Popper’s Penguins

The Year of Miss Agnes

A Little Princess

Strawberry Girl

God King – Joanne Williamson

Mara, Daughter of the Nile

Tirzah

Betsy Tacy Series

Gone Away Lake

Shades of Gray (Post Civil War)

The Great Turkey Walk (1860’s)

The Matchlock Gun – French Indian War

The Seventeenth Swap

The Story of Inventions

The Wright Brothers: Pioneers of American Aviation

Turn Homeward Hannalee

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

Little Britches Series Books on CD (early 1900’s)

Annah- 1st Grade - Studying Ancient History (Creation - Fall of Roman Empire)

General History

Archeologists’ Dig for Clues

Peoples of the World

The Usborne Book of World History

The Usborne Time Traveler

Classical Kids: Ancient Times Craft Book

Creation/Bible Times

Journey Through Bible Lands

The Very First Christians

Living in Bible Times

Exodus

Joseph – Brian Wildsmith

Noah’s Ark Noah’s Flood: Lots of Water, Lots of Mud

The Dragon and the Garden – N.D. Wilson

In The Time of Noah

Tower of Babel – Jon Taylor

Adam and His Kin

Old Testament Days (Craft Book)

Ancient Egypt

The Egyptian Cinderella

The Great Pyramid

The Great Wonder

Hieroglyphs

Mummies Made in Egypt

Tutankhamen’s Gift

Cleopatra

Egyptians – Stepanie Turnbull

Mummies

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Pyramid Builder

You Wouldn’t Want to be Cleopatra

You Wouldn’t Want to be an Egyptian Mummy

You Wouldn’t Want to be Tutankhamen

Ancient Greece

The Trojan Horse

Tut’s Mummy Lost and Found

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Greek Athlete

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Slave in Ancient Greece

Ancient Rome

Pompeii Buried Alive!

You Wouldn’t Want to live in Pompeii

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Roman Gladiator

You Wouldn’t Want to be in Alexander the Great’s Army

 

Ancient China

The Great Wall of China

You Are in Ancient China

Readers:

The Long Way to a New Land

The Long Way Westward

Prairie School

Keep the Light Burning Abbie

Escape From Egypt

Little House Easy Chapter Book Series

Owl at Home

Wagon Wheels

Sarah Plain and Tall

Greek Myths for Young Children

The Aesop for Children

Favorite Poems of Childhood

Hour of the Olympics

Magic Tree House series

Box Car Children