·      A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett β α (£) (£amzn) ($amzn) Ω Ω Λ

·      The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald (sequel to Princess and the Goblin) β α ($amzn) Ω Read Wendi Capehart's blog post mentioning MacDonald's books: Of Good Books: The Power and the Fear

·      Men of Iron by Howard Pyle β α (£) (ChrBk) (£amzn) ($amzn) Ω K

·      Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω Λ ∩ [38]

·      Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω K

·      The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major α (£) (£amzn)

·      Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K), Swallowdale ($amzn) (K), and others in the series.

·      Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·      On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder (ChrBk) ($amzn) ($amzn) (K) 9-bk series: (ChrBk) ($amzn) (paperback K)

·      The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge ($amzn) (K)

·      English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs α α (£) (ChrBk) (£amzn) ($amzn) Ω K (more)

·      King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (18th century, Africa, France and England) (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·      The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong ($amzn)

·      The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley (also here) β α ($amzn) ($amzn) (K) K New: Purchase Kingsley's Heroes and Water-Babies in one volume with Anne White's study helps ($amzn) (K) Ω

·      The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) and sequels:

·      The Four Story Mistake (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·      Then There Were Five (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·      Spiderweb for Two (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·       The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds ($amzn) (K)

·       The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh ($amzn) (K)

·       The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen by Lloyd Alexander ($amzn)

·       Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop ($amzn)

·       Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson ($amzn)

·       The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois ($amzn) (K)

·       My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George ($amzn) (K)

 ·      Black Beauty β, by Anna Sewell (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω Λ

·      Pollyanna β, by Eleanor Porter (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω

·      The Secret Garden β, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω Λ ∩

·      The Railway Children β, by Edith Nesbit (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω

·      Bambi by Felix Salten ($amzn) (K)

·      Little Britches by Ralph Moody (ChrBk) (K) (some language; please preview)

·      The Borrowers by Mary Norton (ChrBk) ($et) ($amzn) (K)

·      Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight ($amzn) (K)

·      Gentle Ben by Walt Morey (ChrBk) ($amzn)

·      Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright (ChrBk) ($amzn)

·      Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·      Return To Gone Away by Elizabeth Enright ($amzn) (K)

·      By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder (ChrBk) ($amzn) ($amzn) (K) 9-bk series: (ChrBk) ($amzn) Paperback: ($amzn) (K)

·      ** Calico Captive - girl interest (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)       or The Sign of the Beaver - boy interest (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K), by Elizabeth George Speare

·      Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill ($amzn) (K)

·      Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (ChrBk) ($amzn)

·      *** The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery (British view of revolution) ($amzn) (K)

·      Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·       Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (ChrBk) ($amzn)

·       The Rescuers by Margery Sharp ($amzn) (K) (and others in the series)

·       The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·       Centerburg Tales by Robert McCloskey (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

 ·      Little Women by Louisa May Alcott β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω Λ

·      A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω K Λ ∩

·      At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald β α (£) (£amzn) ($amzn) Ω K

·      Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling β α (£) (ChrBk) (£amzn) ($amzn) (K) Ω K

·      Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω K

·      The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω K Λ

·      The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω

·      Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω Ω K Λ

·      Lad: A Dog (or another book in the Lad series), by Albert Payson Terhune α ($amzn)

·      The Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω K

·      The Wouldbegoods by Edith Nesbit; sequel to The Treasure-Seekers β α (£) Ω K

·      Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) ($eries) (K) Ω Λ

·      The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) 9-bk series: (ChrBk) ($amzn) Paperback: ($amzn) (K)

·      Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·      These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·      The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·      Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω K

·      Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge β α (£) (£amzn) Ω K

·      Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics by Charles Ludwig (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·      ** Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) (Contains some violence pertaining to war.)

·      *** Falcons of France by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall ($amzn) (K)

·      *** Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton ($amzn) (K)

·      The Story of My Life by Helen Keller β (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω K

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·       Noel Streatfeild books (appealing to girls in particular)

·       Ballet Shoes ($amzn) (K)

·       Skating Shoes ($amzn) (K)

·       Dancing Shoes ($amzn) (K)

·       Theater Shoes ($amzn) (K)

·       * The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig ($amzn)

·       * The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·       * Blue Willow by Doris Gates (ChrBk) ($amzn); dust bowl story - there is another book by this name

·       * Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K); depression era fiction- sweet, upbeat, nature appreciation

·       * Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse ($amzn) (K); very literary story of a Jewish Immigrant to post WWI America

·       * The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta von Trapp

·       * The Ark by Margot Benary-Isbert; refugee family attempts survival in post WWII Germany ($amzn) Can also be purchased directly from the publisher.

·       * The Chestry Oak by Kate Seredy ($amzn); A young prince from Hungary leaves his homeland in WWII

·       School of the Woods α, by William J. Long ($amzn) (K)

·       Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω Vol 1 K Vol 2 K

·       Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω Λ

·       Little Men by Louisa May Alcott β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω

·       Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott β α (ChrBk) Ω K (every homeschool family should read this)

·       The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens β α ($amzn) Ω K

·       The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω

·       The Call of the Wild by Jack London β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω Ω K Λ

·       Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω K Λ

·       A Little Brother to the Bear by William J. Long α ($amzn) (K) K

·       *** The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·       ** *** Ben Hur by Lew Wallace β α ($amzn) K Ω

·       * The Search for Planet X by Tony Simon [out of print; this book has a PNEU connection.]

·      Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (ChrBk) ($amzn)

·       other Kate Seredy books, including:

·       The Good Master ($amzn)

·       The White Stag ($amzn)

·      Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight (Burton Raffel's version is very accessible) (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) (ChrBk) Ω

·      A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain β ($amzn) (K) Ω Λ

·      The Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch, also here. β α (K) Ω

·      Knight's Fee by Rosemary Sutcliff ($amzn) (K)

·      The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (ChrBk) ($amzn)

·      Rolf and The Viking Bow by Allen French (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·      The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett β α (£) Ω

·      The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle β ($amzn) (K) Ω; its prequel is Sir Nigel Ω

·      David Copperfield by Charles Dickens β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω Λ

·      The Black Arrow β by Robert Louis Stevenson α ($amzn) (K) Purchase audiobook on CD (ChrBk) or mp3 (ChrBk) - Ω

·      Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley β α(or Hereward the Wake, originally published in Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales)

·      Beloved Botanist: The Story of Carl Linnaeus by Adrian Stoutenburg, 1961 (as a companion to Atkinson's First Lessons in Plant Life) (out of print; $amzn)

·      The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien: (ChrBk) or (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·      The Hobbit

·      The Fellowship of the Ring

·      The Two Towers

·      The Return of the King

·      The Tripods series ($amzn) by John Christopher:

·      When the Tripods Came ($amzn) (K)

·      The White Mountains ($amzn) (K)

·      The City of Gold and Lead ($amzn) (K)

·      The Pool of Fire ($amzn) (K)

·      Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω

·      The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton β α (ChrBk) ($amzn)

·      Emma by Jane Austen β α ($amzn) (K)

·      Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter β α ($amzn) (ChrBk) (K)

·      * Unknown to History: Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Yonge β α (£) (£amzn) Ω

·      ** The House of Arden: A Story for Children by E. Nesbit β ($amzn)

·      ** Harding's Luck by E. Nesbit β α ($amzn)

·      ** Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore β α (ChrBk) ($amzn)

·      *** Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel ($amzn) (K)

·      The Wonderful O ($amzn) and/or The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber ($amzn)

·      To Have and to Hold: A Story of Virginia in Colonial Days by Mary Johnston β α ($amzn)

·      All for Love, or, The World Well Lost by John Dryden β

·      Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry by John Dryden

·      The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω (short contemplative readings)

·      The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln tr. by Marvin Lowenthal; 1690 diary of a Jewish widow ($amzn) (K)

·      Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings by Mary Johnston β

·      The History of King Charles II of England by Jacob Abbott β α (edition/publisher under review)

·      The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by astronomer Owen Gingerich ($amzn)
Jean Henri Fabre: Choose any of his books on insect life

·      Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott β α ($amzn) Ω (or other Scott novel)

·      Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes ($amzn) Find an edited version!
Unedited version here; The PNEU recommended an edition called The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by John Ormsby. α There's also a fun retelling for youths by James Baldwin here ($amzn) (K)

·      The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander ($amzn) (K)

·      The Book of Three (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·      The Black Cauldron ($amzn) (K)

·      The Castle of Llyr ($amzn) (K)

·      Taran Wanderer ($amzn) (K)

·      The High King ($amzn) (K)

·       DEAN’S READING LIST FORM 4

·       The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne by William Makepeace Thackeray β α ($amzn) (K)

·       A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω Λ ∫

·       The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy β (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω ∫

·       The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck ($amzn) ∫

·       The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·       The Screwtape Letters (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) by C.S. Lewis ∫

·       Manalive by G. K. Chesterton β α (ChrBk) ($amzn)

·       The Man Who Was Thursday β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω by G.K. Chesterton.

·       Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald β α or other book from this website.

·       Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω ∫

·       Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K)

·       Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini β α ($amzn) Ω, French Revolution #2 in series

·       *** Reflections on the Revolution in France α (in vol 3 of his Reflections) by Edmund Burke (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω ∫ (Burke wrote this cautious take on France's political situation before it turned violent; "The Rights of Man" is Thomas Paine's rebuttal. The debate continued with Burke's "Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs," prompting Paine to add a second part to his Rights of Man.)

·       Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω Λ [Note: Gothic novels such as Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole β α ($amzn) (K) Ω and Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, referred to in Northanger Abbey β α ($amzn) (K) Ω were quite popular in this time period, and Northanger Abbey is a delicious spoof of the genre. Exposure to these works forms a good backdrop for the works of Scott, Byron, and Poe.]

·      The Little Nugget Ω

·      Uneasy Money Ωor others by P. G. Wodehouse β α (These are only two of what's available online; freely choose any other Wodehouse titles of your choice. Ω Some readers may be uncomfortable with the alcohol consumption in his books, a reflection of differing standards of culture and time. Read these for the superb humor and Wodehouse's remarkable knack for simile.)

·      *** An Inquiry Into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens α by William Carey (1792) ($amzn) since he was known as the 'Father of Modern Missions.'

·      Horatio Hornblower books by C. S. Forester. Particularly suited for male readers (although we know several women who enjoy them as well). The character Hornblower was inspired by Horatio Lord Nelson, and is noted for his personification of honor, duty and personal integrity. These books are historical fiction accounts of actual battles and incidents in the wars between England, France and Spain during this era. Titles are, in chronological order:

·      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.

·      Choose one title for literature and one for free reading from these books by Sir Walter Scott. If your student has not yet read Rob Roy (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω, we suggest that you begin with it.

·      * The Bride of Lammermoor - East Lothian, 1695 β

·      * The Pirate - Shetland and Orkney Islands, 1700

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

·      ** Rob Roy - The Jacobites β

·      ** Heart of Mid-Lothian - Time of George II. (Porteous Riots) β

·      ** Waverley - The Jacobites β α (ChrBk)

·      ** Redgauntlet - Time of George III. β

·      ** Guy Mannering - Time of George III β

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

·      *** The Antiquary - Scotch Manners, last decade of the 18th Century β α

·      *** St. Ronan's Well - Near Firth of Forth, 1812 β α

·      In order of publication:

·      Mansfield Park by Jane Austen β α (ChrBk) ($amzn K) Ω

·      * Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat 1836 β α (or others) ($amzn) Ω

·      * The Bible in Spain by George Henry Borrow 1843 β α

·      Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 1847 β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω Λ ∫

·      Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 1847 β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω Λ

·      The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1851 β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω Λ

·      Moby Dick by Herman Melville (optional) β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω Λ ∫

·      Lavengro, The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Henry Borrow 1851 β α

·      Hard Times by Charles Dickens 1854 β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω

·      The Daisy Chain, or, Aspirations by Charlotte Yonge, 1856 β α(There's a sequel called The Trial: More Links of the Daisy Chain 1865 β α

·      Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 1857 β α ($amzn) Ω

·      The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 1860 β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω Λ

·      Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω (her letters home detailing her experiences as a Civil War nurse; 1863)

·      The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 1868 β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) Ω

·      The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain 1869 β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω

·      War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 1869 β α (ChrBk) Ω

·      *** Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 1874 β α (ChrBk) Ω

·      Gilbert and Sullivan, HMS Pinafore (1878) and others (Check out the plays on YouTube or other video. You really can't read a musical.) Plays also available at Ω

·      The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 1880 β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω

·      *** Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson 1884 β α ($amzn) Ω

·      A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle 1886 β α the first of the Sherlock Holmes stories (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω Λ ∩ ∫

·      The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope 1894 β α ($amzn) Ω

·      The Importance of Being Earnest a play by Oscar Wilde 1895 β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω The recent movie ($amzn) was well done with one exception of one scene that contains some nudity which is repeated in a flashback a couple times.

·      *** The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 1898 β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Λ

·      Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad β α (ChrBk) ($amzn) Ω A good boy title; sad, but a great story about honor, about doing the right thing, about being responsible for those in your care, about recovering lost honor. 1899

·      The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox, Jr 1903 β α

·      The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, 1978 (ChrBk) ($amzn) (K) loosely based on the Chanticleer and the Fox adaptation from "The Nun's Priest's Tale" from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.)

·      Books by Bess Streeter Aldrich: Wonderful character-building books for girls. 1920's-1950
A Lantern In Her Hand (ChrBk)
A White Bird Flying
Mother Mason

·      The Babus Of NayanJore a short story by Rabindranath Tagore (from The Hungry Stones, 1916) Ω

·      Bret Harte; select from his many works online (consider Luck of the Roaring Camp, 1917)

·      Books by Willa CatherDeath Comes for the Archbishop (1927) (ChrBk)
O Pioneers (1913) β α (ChrBk) ΩMy Antonia (1918) β (ChrBk) Ω

·      The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton 1922 β α ($amzn) Ω

·      The Man Who Was Thursday or others by G.K. Chesterton β α (ChrBk) - all of his books are wonderful! (Most were written 1904-1933) Read the article The Man Who Was Thursday, the Nightmare of Modernity, and the Days of Creation

·      C.S. Lewis: The Great Divorce (ChrBk), The Screwtape Letters (ChrBk) ∫ (most published 1933-1963)