Free Paragraph Writing Reading List

TWF Paragraph Writing Reading List: Page 1 of 8 The Write Foundation Paragraph Writing Reading List Instructions Recommend for Ages 12–16 It matters what you read. 1. The best readers are the best writers. 2. What you read is a major factor determining who you will become. 3. Quality literature encourages reading, because it is hard to put a good book down. 4. Reading is not just for fun. Reading plays a major role in brain development. Book List Organization and Point System: To encourage students to read quality literature, for every book a student reads from the following book list, a predetermined number of assigned points can be earned and included in their semester grade. The point groups are determined by length and reading level. • Books are mostly listed in alphabetical order by title. • If several books are by one author or a series by various authors, then they are included in the alphabetical order by the author’s name, series title, or a group title such as missionaries. • Books are not listed in a required reading order. • If using this system, students need to read a total of 48 points per semester. Extra points can be rolled over into the next semester. Reading Guidelines : • Books may be read to students, listened to on tape, or read independently. Books that have already been read to students or listened to on tape that a student reads independently now may count. • Avoid book reports . Book reports take the joy out of reading. Instead, talk about each book together. When books are enjoyed, it is natural to want to talk about them. Take advantage of it. • Students should ask permission/approval about receiving credit for books required for other classes (e.g. Worldviews of the Western World, Tapestry of Grace, Sonlight, or any Lamplighter books). Easy-to-Read? Abridged? Translated? Need teacher guidance and approval. • Avoid “easy-to-read” versions of any books, such as those by Great Illustrated Classics. • Abridged means a book has been condensed or shortened. For a few extremely difficult books there are some abridged versions which may be preferable. • A few of the classics were originally written in another language. Some translations are much better than others.

The Books Read form is a suggested record keeping tool for record keeping convenience of the student and parent/teacher. If using this system, books read should be recorded on the form provided, on another full piece of paper, or on the computer so the teacher has a record of books read by each student. 1.) The student’s name 2.) The title of the book 3.) The number of points assigned to the book on the book list 4.) One parent’s signature

Where to find these books? 1. Many of these books will likely be found at a public library. 2. An easy way to find out more about these books is through Amazon descriptions and reviews. 3. A number of these books are available on Kindle. 4. Used and online bookstores offer new and used copies of many books at reasonable prices.

The goal is to encourage the reading of quality books that all will enjoy. Investigating these books that range from modern to classical to unrenowned works of art will hopefully be an enjoyable adventure.

Student Name: ______

Book Titles: Number of Points

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Total Points

Parent’s Signature:

2nd Edition © Copyright 2015-2020 www.thewritefoundation.org TWF Paragraph Writing Reading List: Page 3 of 8 The Write Foundation Paragraph Writing Reading List 12 Point Books All of a Kind Family Series – Sydney Taylor All of a Kind Family

More All of a Kind Family All of a Kind Family Uptown Horses and Healing – Kim Meeder All of a Kind Family Downtown Hope Rising Ella of All of a Kind Family Bridge of Hope And the Word Came with Power – Horse Stories – Marguerite Henry Joanne Shetler Justin Morgan Had a Horse Benjamin West and his Cat Gimalkin – King of the Wind Marguerite Henry Misty of Chincoteague Born in the Year of Courage – Emily Crofford White Stallion of Lipizza The Breadwinner – Deborah Ellis Humbug Mountain – Sid Fleischman The Broken Blade – William Durbin The Incredible Journey – Sheila Burnford Bud Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis Just David – Eleanor H. Porter Building on the Rock Series (Short Stories) – Leonardo Da Vinci – Emily Hahn Joel R. Beeke & Diana Kleyn A Long Way from Chicago Series – Richard Peck How God Stopped the Pirates A Long Way from Chicago How God Used A Thunderstorm A Season of Gifts Other books in this series count. A Year Down Yonder Call it Courage – Armstrong Sperry Old Yeller – Fred Gipson Catherine Called Birdie – Karen Cushman Otto of the Silver Hand – Howard Pyle Clubhouse Mysteries – Sharon M. Draper Penderwick Series – Jean Birdsall Lost in the Tunnel of Time The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale The Buried Bones The Penderwicks at Gardam Street The Space Mission Adventure Other books in this series count. Other books in this series count . Peter Pan – James M. Barrie Dear America Series – Historical Fiction Various Authors Pollyanna – Eleanor H. Porter Across the Wide-Open Prairie Pooh Books (Original not Disney) – A. A. Milne I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly Winnie the Pooh Behind the Masks The House at Pooh Corner Any other books in this series count . The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane Detectives in Togas – Henry Winterfeld Red Sails to Capri – Melissa Weil The Mystery of the Roman Ransom (sequel) Shades of Gray – Carolyn Reeder The Door in the Wall – Marguerite De Angeli Shiloh Quartet – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Drew Farthering Mysteries – Julianna Deering Shiloh Death by the Book Shiloh Season Rules of Murder Other books in this series count. Dressed for Death Snow Treasure – Marie McSwigan Murder at the Mikado Stink Alley – Jamie Gilson Faith Like Potatoes – Angus Buchan Tales of Robin Hood – Tony Allan Toliver's Secret – Esther Wood Brady A Gathering of Days – Joan W. Blos Up from Slavery – Booker T. Washington God's Adventurer: Hudson Taylor – The Wright Brothers – Quentin Reynolds Phyllis Thompson (missionary) The Younguns Series – Thomas L. Tedrow The Heart Reader – Terri Blackstock The Younguns of Mansfield Hind’s Feet on High Places – Hannah Hurnard Frankie and the Secret Holes – Louis Sachar The Circus Escape The Legend of the Missouri Mud Monster Homesick – Jean Fritz

Amos Fortune Free Man – Elizabeth Yates Little House Series – Laura Ingalls Wilder Anne of Green Gables Series – L. M. Montgomery Little House in the Big Woods Anne of Green Gables Little House on the Prairie Anne of the Island Farmer Boy Anne of Avonlea On the Banks of Plum Creek Other books in this series count. Other books in this series count. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill: The Life of Colonel Love Comes Softly Series – Janette Oke William F. Cody – Love Comes Softly William F. Cody (Timeless Classic Books 178 pages) Love’s Enduring Promise Archimedes and the Door of Science – Love’s Long Journey Jeanne Bendick Love’s Abiding Joy Bound for Oregon – Jean Van Leeuwen Other books in this series count. The Bronze Bow – Elizabeth G. Speare The Magna Charta – James Daugherty Bud and Me – Alta Abernathy By the Great Horn Spoon – Sid Fleischman Men of Faith Series – Various Authors Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl John Newton: The British Slave Trader George Muller: Man of Faith and Miracles Christian Heroes, Then and Now Series – Samuel Morris: The African Boy God Sent Janet and Goeff Benge (missionary) Gladys Altwood: The Adventure of a Lifetime Other books in this series count. David Livingston: Africa’s Trailblazer Miracles on Maple Hill – Virginia Sorenson Other books in this series count. Mother Carey’s Chickens – Kate Douglas Wiggin A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Number the Stars – Lois Lowry The Cross and the Switchblade – David Wilkerson The Pink Motel – Carol Ryrie Brink Father Brown – G.K. Chesterton Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Wiggin The Best of Father Brown Science – John Hudson Tiner The Complete Father Brown Exploring Planet Earth Father Brown: The Essential Tales Exploring the History of Medicine Follow My Leader – James B. Garfield Exploring the World of Biology Exploring the World of Chemistry Freedom Train (Harriet Tubman) – Dorothy Sterling Science Fiction – Jules Verne The Good Master– Kate Seredy Around the World in Eighty Days The Singing Tree (sequel) Master of the World Gone Away Lake – Elizabeth Enright 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Heidi – Johanna Spyri A Journey to the Center of the Earth The Mysterious Island Henry Reed Series – Keith Robertson Henry Reed, Inc. Sign of the Beaver – Elizabeth G. Speare Henry Reed’s Journey Star of Light – Patricia St. John Henry Reed’s Babysitting Service The Tanglewood’s Secret The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle The Secret at Pheasant Cottage Rainbow Garden The House of Sixty Fathers – Meindert Dejong Treasures of the Snow In Search of Honor – Donna Lynn Hess Where the River Begins The Journeyman – Elizabeth Yates Three Go Searching Jungle Books (not Disney) – Rudyard Kipling Theras and His Town – Caroline Dale Snedeker Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling The Trumpeter of Krakow – Eric P. Kelley Kildee House – Rutherford George Montgomery Warrior of the Son – Samuel Schiller

2nd Edition © Copyright 2015-2020 www.thewritefoundation.org TWF Paragraph Writing Reading List: Page 5 of 8 16 Point Books American History– Peter Marshall The Light and the Glory for Young Readers Kingdom’s Dawn Series – Chuck Black From Sea to Shining Sea for Young Readers Kingdom’s Dawn Sounding Forth the Trumpet for Young Readers Kingdom’s Hope Kingdom’s Edge Air Raid, Pearl Harbor – Theodore Taylor Kingdom’s Call Black Horses for the King – Anne McCaffrey Other books in this series count. Blackthorn Winter – Douglas Wilson The Last Sin Eater – Francine Rivers Susan Creek (sequel) A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett The Borrowers – Mary Norton Caddie Woodlawn – Carol Ryrie Brink Missionaries (more elsewhere) Calico Bush – Rachel Field Bruscho – Bruce Olsen The Cay – Theodore Taylor The Cross and the Switchblade – David Wilkerson The Chestery Oak – Kate Seredy My Side of the Mountain – Jean C. George Chronicles of Narnia Series – C. S. Lewis Orphan Train Adventures – Joan Lowery Nixon The Magicians Nephew A Family Apart The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Caught in the Act The Silver Chair In the Face of Danger The Horse and His Boy A Place to Belong Prince Caspian A Dangerous Promise The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Keeping Secrets Daughter of the Legend – Jessie Stuart Circle of Love

Daughters of the Faith Series – Wendy Lawton The Phantom Toll Booth – Norton Juster The Tinker’s Daughter: Mary Bunyan Rani Adventure Series – Ron Snell The Captive Princess: Pocahontas It's a Jungle Out There! Ransom’s Mark: Pioneer Olive Oatman Life is a Jungle Courage to Run: Harriet Tubman Jungle Calls Other books in this series count. Rascal – Sterling North Favorite Dog Stories – James Herriot Rachel’s Tears: The Spiritual Journey – God King: A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah – Beth Ninmo, Darrell Scott Joanne Williamson Same Kind of Different as Me – Ron Hall The Great and Terrible Quest – Margaret Lovett Sarah Bishop – Scott O’Dell Shadows on the Sea – Joan Hiatt Harlow Greek Mythology – Rosemary Sutcliff Shepherd of the Hills – Harold Bell Wright Black Ships Before Troy: Iliad The Silver Pencil – Alice Dagliesh The Wanderings of Odysseus: Odyssey They Loved to Laugh – Kathryn Worth

The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt Day – Scott O’Dell The Thread That Runs So True – Jesse Stuart Hittite Warrior – Joanne Williamson Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson I Am David – Anne Holm Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls Indian Captive – Lois Lenski Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Graham

Across Five Aprils – Irene Hunt Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries – Dorothy Sayer Adam of the Road – Elizabeth Janet Gray Clouds of Witnesses Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain Strong Poison Book of Greek Myths – Unnatural Death Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire Other Sayer mysteries about this length count. Big Red – Jim Kjelgoard Mark of the Lion Series – Francine Rivers Calico Captive – Elizabeth G. Speare A Voice in the Wind Carry on Mr. Bowditch – Jean Lee Latham An Echo in the Darkness As Sure as the Dawn Crown and Covenant – Douglas Bond Duncan’s War Mara, Daughter of the Nile – Eloise Jarvis McGraw King’s Arrow Rebel’s Keep Missionaries (others elsewhere) – Tr ue story of missionary outreach to Auca Indians of Ecuador. Dutch Tales – Meindert Dejong End of the Spear – Steve Saint Dirk’s Dog Bello Jungle Pilot (Nate Saint) – Russell T. Hitt Far out the Long Canal Shadow Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim The Wheel on the School Elliot - Zondervan The Escape – A. Vander Jagt Through the Gates of Splendor – Elizabeth Elliot Fairy Tales: Original Versions Pilgrim’s Progress Today – Lael Arrington Andersen’s Fairy Tales – H. C. Andersen The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales Second Series Redwall Series – Brian Jacques Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Diversion Classics) Redwall (Warning – Grimm’s is dark.) Mossflower Mattimeo The Galway Chronicles – Brock and Bodie Other books in this series count. Thoene Roll of Thunder,Hear My Cry – M. D. Taylor Only the River Runs Free Of Men and Of Angels Let the Circle Be Unbroken (sequel) Ashes of Remembrance The Roman Britain Trilogy – Rosemary Sutcliff All Rivers to the Sea Eagle of the Ninth God’s Smuggler – Brother Andrew The Silver Branch The Golden Goblet – Eloise Jarvis McGraw The Lantern Bearers If I Perish – Esther Ahn Kim The Secret Garden – Frances H. Burnett Lad: A Dog – Albert Payson Terhune The Shining Company – Rosemary Sutcliff Lassie, Come Home – Eric Knight Snow in the River – Carol Ryrie Brink A Lantern in Her Hand – Beth Streeter Aldrich Stowaway – Karen Hesse Summer of the Monkeys – Wilson Rawls Little Britches Series – Ralph Moody Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers Swift Rivers – Cornelia Meigs Man of the Family Will Rogers: A Biography – Ben Yogado The Home Ranch Never Met A Man I Didn’t Like: The Life and Mary Emma and Company Writings of Will Rogers – Will Rogers and Joseph The Fields of Home Other books in this series count. Carter

2nd Edition © Copyright 2015-2020 www.thewritefoundation.org TWF Paragraph Writing Reading List: Page 7 of 8 20 Point Books The Ramsay Scallop – Frances Temple Rifles for Watie – Harold Keith Alas, Babylon – Pat Frank Robinson Crusoe – Daniel DeFoe Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Robin Hood – Roger Green Campaign to End Slavery – Eric Metaxas Run Baby Run: Story of NY Gang Leader – Anna and the King of Siam – Margaret Landon Nicky Cruz Jane Austen St. Simons Trilogy – Eugenia Price Pride and Prejudice Historical Fiction Emma Lighthouse

Born Again – Charles Colson New Moon Rising Buffalo Coat – Carol Ryrie Brink Beloved Invader

Dorothy L. Sayers Agatha Christie (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries 200-400 pgs.) Murder on the Orient Express Clouds of Witnesses And Then There Were None The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Five Red Herrings Other books in Hercule Poirot mysteries count. Murder Must Advertise

Strong Poison Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Other Sayers books this length can count. Mark Twain

The Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage – The Elusive Pimpernel Alfred Lansing The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel The Favorite Uncle Remus – Joel Chandler Harris Sir Percy Leads the Band

Other books in this series count. The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their

Influence – Jane Stuart Smith & Betty Carlson Sea of Glory – Ken Wales & David Poling

Hard Times – Charles Dickens The Shiloh Legacy – Bodie Thoene The Hiding Place – Corrie Ten Boom In My Father’s House The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien A Thousand Shall Fall How to Win Friends and Influence People – Say to This Mountain Dale Carnegie In the Presence of My Enemies – G. Burnham Jessie Stuart Stories Johnny Tremain – Esther Forbes Hie to the Hunter Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson The Thread That Runs So True

Keeper of the Bees – Gene Stratton Porter The Story of King Arthur and His Knights – Kon-Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl Howard Pyle

Catherine Marshall The Story of the Trapp Family Singers – Julie Maria Augusta Trapp (Sound of Music) A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall Swiss Family Robinson – Johann D. Wyss The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux Tales from Shakespeare – Charles Lamb Gene Stratton Porter To Kill a Mocking Bird – Harper Lee Girl of the Limberlost (Sequel to Freckles) The Harvester A Walk Across America – Peter Jenkins Laddie The Walk West (sequel)

2nd Edition © Copyright 2015-2020 www.thewritefoundation.org TWF Paragraph Writing Reading List: Page 8 of 8 24 Point Books Buffalo Bill’s Life Story: An Autobiography – William F. Cody (365 pages version) The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien Christy – Catherine Marshall The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers Charles Dickens The Return of the King Great Expectations Oliver Twist The Zion Chronicles – Brock & Bodie Thoene A Tale of Two Cities The Gates of Zion

A Daughter of Zion Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte The Return to Zion The Key to Zion James Herriot (some language) A Light in Zion All Creatures Great and Small All Things Bright and Beautiful The Zion Covenant – Brock & Bodie Thoene All Things Wise and Wonderful Vienna Prelude The Lord God Made Them All Prague Counterpoint Every Living Thing Munich Signature Jerusalem Interlude Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan Danzig Passage Other books in this series count. Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries 400-600 pgs.) The Zion Legacy – Brock & Bodie Thoene Busman's Honeymoon Jerusalem Vigil Gaudy Night Thunder from Jerusalem Have His Carcase Jerusalem’s Heart The Nine Tailors The Jerusalem Scroll Other books this length can count. Stones of Jerusalem Irving Stone Jerusalem’s Hope The President’s Lady: Rachel and Andrew Other books in this series count. Jackson Love is Eternal: Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln

34 Point Books

Ben Hur – Lew Wallace Greek Mythology Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy – (Translated by Robert Fagles) Eric Metaxas The Aeneid – Virgil The Iliad – Homer Civil War Trilogy– Jeff M. Shaara The Odyssey – Homer The Killer Angels A Lineage of Grace: Five Stories of Unlikely Gods and Generals Women Who Changed Eternity – Francine Rivers The Last Full Measure

Alexandre Dumas Lorna Doone – R. D. Blackwell The Count of Monte Cristo (Lowell Bair translator) North and South – Elizabeth Gaskill The Three Musketeers The Robe – Lloyd C. Douglas Twenty Years Later Ten Years Later Irving Stone The Man in the Iron Mask Men to Match My Mountains Those Who Love: John and Abigail Adams