A Banquet of Books

A reading list to cultivate virtue, feed the imagination, and fatten the soul.

Table of Contents

Introduction 2

Kindergarten 3 Read-Aloud and Early Readers 3

Lower Grammar (Grades 1-3) Reading List 5 Level 1 5 Level 2 7 Level 3 9

Upper Grammar (Grades 4-6) Reading List 12 Level 1 12 Level 2 14 Level 3 17

Logic Level (Grades 7-9) Reading List 20 Level 1 20 Level 2 21 Level 3 23

Rhetoric Level (Grades 10-12) Reading List 25 Level 1 25 Level 2 26 Level 3 28

Logic/Rhetoric Level (Grades 7-12) Poetry List 31

Education, Imagination, and the Life of the Mind List 32

Introduction

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ~Cicero

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.” ~ Oscar Wilde

Few things in life are more wonderful than sunny summer afternoons spent with a curious child and a stack of good books. We offer this list in the hope that it will encourage you to pursue many such magical afternoons.

All of the books in this list were chosen because they encourage their readers to seek the truth, grow in goodness, and love what is beautiful. Except for the Kindergarten selections, these books were placed at a level where students could read them on their own and enjoy them without outside assistance.1

Every list reflects the experience and preferences of the list’s authors. This list is no exception: its nonfiction selections are strong on science, American history, and Reformation era biographies. The authors offer no apologies for these biases. If someone else had written this list, the biases would simply be different, but they would still be biases.

None of the books in this list contain unnecessarily offensive material. However, parents differ in the kind of material they find acceptable for their children, and so they should preview any title they give to their children. The books on this list are no exception, though the authors would be perfectly content giving any of these books to their own kids at the ages stipulated in the list.

One of the greatest gifts parents can give their children is a life filled with books. But simply handing your child a stack of good books is no guarantee that they will become lifetime readers. We strongly encourage parents to read with their kids. Read aloud to them, have them read aloud to you, and talk about what you have read together. Let your kids see you reading as well, so they know that it is something worth doing.

And read your kids’ books as well. After all, this list was constructed with the sage words of C.S. Lewis in mind: “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

So, take up and read. May this list lead to a lifetime of good books for both the parents and children at Petra Academy

1 This list was compiled from the authors’ own reading as well as from other book lists made by authors we trust. Kindergarten “+” = any book in the series is worthwhile

Read-Aloud and Early Readers

❏ Bennett, The Children’s Book of Virtues ❏ Jaques, There Once Was a Puffin ​ ​ ❏ Brown, Little Fur Family ❏ Jonas, Round Trip ​ ​ ❏ Clements, Big Al ❏ Lionni, Biggest House in the World (and ​ ​ ❏ Crews, Freight Train others by author) ​ ❏ Crews, Ten Black Dots ❏ Lionni, Inch by Inch ​ ​ ❏ Eastman, Are You My Mother? ❏ Martin, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom ​ ​ ❏ Eastman, The Big Nest ❏ Munsch, Wait and See ​ ​ ❏ Eastman, Go, Dog, Go! ❏ Piper, The Little Engine That Could ​ ​ ❏ Galdone, The Gingerbread Boy ❏ Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Galdone, The Little Red Hen ❏ Perlutsky, Read-Aloud Poems for the ​ ​ ❏ Galdone, The Three Bears Very Young ​ ❏ Galdone, The Three Billy Goats Gruff ❏ Rey, H. A. Curious George + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Galdone, Three Little Kittens ❏ Rylant, The Relatives Came ​ ​ ❏ Galdone, The Three Little Pigs ❏ Serio, The Seasons (Poetry for Young ​ ​ ❏ George, Inside Mouse, Outside Mouse People Series) ​ ❏ Heller, Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones ❏ Seuss, Dr., The Cat in the Hat + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Hoban, Bread and Jam for Frances + ❏ Seuss, Dr., Hop on Pop ​ ​ ​ ❏ Hoff, Danny and the Dinosaur + ❏ Seuss, Dr., Green Eggs and Ham ​ ​ ​ ❏ Hollander, American Poetry (Poetry for ❏ Seuss, Dr., Yertle the Turtle and Other ​ ​ Young People Series) Stories ❏ Hollander, Animal Poems (Poetry for ❏ Sharmat, Gregory, the Terrible Eater ​ ​ Young People Series) ❏ Slobodkina, Caps for Sale ​ ❏ Hughes, The Big Alfie and Annie Rose ❏ Stinson, Red Is Best ​ ​ Storybook ❏ Zion, Harry the Dirty Dog + ​ ​ ❏ Hughes, Dogger ​

Lower Grammar (Grades 1-3) Reading List “+” indicates that any book in the series is worthwhile Level 1 = easy Level 2 = average Level 3 = challenging

Level 1

❏ Aliki, The Story of William Penn ❏ Lobel, Frog and Toad Are Friends ​ ​ ❏ Bate, Little Rabbit’s Loose Tooth + ❏ Lobel, Frog and Toad Together + ​ ​ ​ ​ ❏ Bean, Big Snow ❏ Lobel, Mouse Soup ​ ​ ❏ Bean, Building Our House ❏ Lobel, Owl at Home ​ ​ ❏ Bemelmans, Madeline ❏ McCloskey, Blueberries for Sal ​ ​ ❏ Bemelmans, Madeline’s Rescue + ❏ McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings ​ ​ ​ ❏ Benchley, George: The Drummer Boy ❏ McGrory, Mouton’s Impossible Dream ​ ​ ❏ Benchley, Sam: The Minute Man ❏ Meschenmoser, Mr. Squirrel and the ​ ​ ❏ Bolin, Carl Sandburg (Poetry for Young Moon ​ People Series) ❏ Minarik, Little Bear ​ ❏ Brett, The Hat ❏ Minarik, Little Bear’s Visit + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Brown, Stone Soup ❏ Paul, Water Is Water: A Book About the ​ ​ ❏ Brown/Weisgard, The Little Island Water Cycle ​ ❏ Bulla, Squanto: Friend of the Pilgrims ❏ Penner, The True Story of Pocahontas ​ ​ ❏ Burton, Katy & the Big Snow ❏ Rey, Curious George + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Burton, The Little House ❏ Roop, Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie ​ ​ ❏ Burton, Mike Mulligan and His Steam ❏ Rylant, Henry and Mudge + ​ ​ ​ Shovel ❏ Rylant, When I Was Young in the ​ ❏ Carle, Pancakes, Pancakes! Mountains ​ ❏ de Regniers, May I Bring a Friend? ❏ Sandin, Pioneer Bear ​ ​ ❏ Donoughue, The Mystery of the ❏ Schmidt, Robert Frost (Poetry for Young ​ ​ Hieroglyphs People Series) ❏ Emberley, Drummer Hoff ❏ Schoonmaker, Robert Louis Stevenson ​ ​ ❏ Flack/Weise, The Story About Ping (Poetry for Young People Series) ​ ❏ Freeman, Corduroy + ❏ Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are ​ ​ ​ ❏ Frost/Jeffers, Stopping by Woods on a ❏ Suess, Bartholomew and the Oobleck ​ ​ Snowy Evening ❏ Seuss, I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today ​ ❏ Gramatky, Little Toot ❏ Seuss, If I Ran the Zoo ​ ​ ❏ Hader, The Big Snow ❏ Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue ​ ​ ❏ Hall, Oxcart Man Fish ​ ❏ Hayward, The First Thanksgiving ❏ Seuss, There’s a Wocket in My Pocket ​ ​ ❏ Henkes, Penny and Her Marble ❏ Stead, A Sick Day for McGee ​ ​ ❏ Hoban, Bedtime for Frances ❏ Steig, Amos and Boris ​ ​ ❏ Hoban, Bread and Jam for Francis + ❏ Steig, Dr. DeSoto ​ ​ ​ ❏ Hoff, Sammy the Seal ❏ Steig, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble ​ ​ ❏ Hunt, The Tale of Three Trees ❏ Steig, Yellow & Pink ​ ​ ❏ Joyce, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. ❏ Turnbull, Egyptians (Usborne Beginners) ​ ​ Morris Lessmore ❏ Van Dusen, The Circus Ship ​ ❏ Keats, The Snowy Day ❏ Walker, The 18 Penny Goose ​ ​ ❏ Kellogg, Paul Bunyan ❏ Wildsmith, Exodus ​ ​ ❏ Krensky, Ben Franklin and His First Kite ❏ Wildsmith, ​ ​ ❏ Langstaff, Frog Went A-Courtin’ ❏ Williams, A Chair for My Mother ​ ​ ❏ Lasky, The Librarian Who Measured the ❏ Zion, Harry the Dirty Dog + ​ ​ ​ Earth ❏ Zolotow, Big Sister and Little Sister ​ ❏ Leaf, Ferdinand ❏ Zolotow, Hold My Hand ​ ​ ❏ Lionni, Frederick + ❏ Zolotow, Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely ​ ​ ​ ❏ Lionni, Swimmy Present ​ ❏ Littledale, The Magic Fish ❏ Zolotow, The Storm Book ​ ​

Level 2

❏ Aliki, Corn Is Maize ❏ Hunt, A Gift for Grandpa ​ ​ ❏ Allard, Miss Nelson Is Missing! + ❏ Krensky, Egypt ​ ​ ​ ❏ Ammon, An Amish Year ❏ Kunhardt, Pompeii...Buried Alive! ​ ​ ❏ Ammon, Amish Horses ❏ Lasky, Jem’s Island ​ ​ ❏ Andersen, The Emperor’s New Clothes ❏ Lewis, Floss + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Andersen/Brown, The Steadfast Tin ❏ Little, The Trojan Horse ​ ​ Soldier ❏ Lloyd-Jones, The Jesus Storybook ​ ❏ Anderson, Billy and Blaze + ❏ MacLachlan, All the Places to Love ​ ​ ​ ❏ Ardagh, Ancient Egypt (History ❏ Mattick, Finding Winnie: The True Story ​ ​ Detectives) of the World’s Most Famous Bear ❏ Atwater, Mr. Popper’s Penguins ❏ McCloskey, Lentil ​ ​ ❏ Aylesworth, My Grandfather’s Coat ❏ McCloskey, One Morning in Maine ​ ​ ❏ Bailey, Adventures in Ancient Egypt ❏ McCloskey, Time of Wonder ​ ​ ❏ Barklem, The Big Book of Brambly Hedge ❏ McLerran, Roxaboxen ​ ​ ❏ Bolin, Emily Dickinson (Poetry for Young ❏ Mendelson, Edward Lear (Poetry for ​ ​ People Series) Young People Series) ❏ Bond, A Bear Called Paddington ❏ Mendelson, Lewis Carroll (Poetry for ​ ​ ❏ Brenner, The Boy Who Loved to Draw Young People Series) ​ ❏ Brown, Dick Whittington and His Cat ❏ Milne, The House at Pooh Corner ​ ​ ❏ Brumbeau, The Quiltmaker’s Gift ❏ Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh ​ ​ ❏ Bulla, Daniel’s Duck ❏ Milne, The World of Christopher Robin ​ ​ ❏ Burgess, The Adventures of Mr. Toad ❏ Mitchell, Down Buttermilk Lane ​ ​ ❏ Mitchell, Tomahawks and Trombones ​ ❏ Chaucer/Cooney, Chanticleer and the ❏ Monjo, The One Bad Thing About Father ​ ​ Fox ❏ Parish, Amelia Bedelia + ​ ​ ❏ Cleary, Henry Huggins + ❏ Peet, Kermit the Hermit ​ ​ ​ ❏ Cleary, Ribsy ❏ Politi, Song of the Swallows ​ ​ ❏ Collier, The King’s Giraffe ❏ Potter, The Complete Adventure of Peter ​ ​ ❏ Cooney, Miss Rumphius Rabbit ​ ❏ Dahl, James & the Giant Peach ❏ Willard/Provensen, A Visit to William ​ ​ ❏ Dalgliesh, The Bears on Hemlock Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and ​ Mountain Experienced Travelers ❏ Dalgliesh, The Courage of Sarah Noble ❏ Rey, Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys ​ ​ ❏ Dalgliesh, The Thanksgiving Story ❏ Rylant, Thimbleberry Stories ​ ​ ❏ Daugherty, Andy and the Lion ❏ Schoomaker, Henry Wadsworth ​ ​ ❏ DiCamillo, Great Joy Longfellow (Poetry for Young People ​ ❏ DiCamillo, Mercy Watson to the Rescue + Series) ​ ​ ❏ Donnelly, Moonwalk: The First Trip to ❏ Sharmat, Nate the Great + ​ ​ ​ the Moon ❏ Sobol, Encyclopedia Brown + ​ ​ ❏ Donnelly, Tut’s Mummy ❏ Steig, Brave Irene ​ ​ ❏ Ferguson, : The Man ❏ Waters, Time Train to Ancient ​ ​ Who Faced Lions (Usborne) ❏ Ferguson, of Lyons: The Man ❏ Chisholm, Who Built the Pyramids? ​ ​ Who Wrote Books (Usborne) ❏ Ferguson, of Smyrna: The Man ❏ Ward, The Biggest Bear ​ ​ Whose Faith Lasted ❏ Warner, The Boxcar Children (#1-17) ​ ❏ Floca, Locomotive ❏ Waters, Eaton’s Day (American ​ ​ ❏ Fritz, Can’t You Make Them Behave, King Pilgrims) ​ George? ❏ Waters, Sarah Morton’s Day (American ​ ❏ Fritz, George Washington’s Breakfast Pilgrims) ​ ❏ Fritz, George Washington’s Mother ❏ Whitman/Long, When I Heard the ​ ​ ❏ Fritz, Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln Learn’d Astronomer ​ ❏ Good, Reuben and the Blizzard ❏ Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods ​ ​ ❏ Good, Reuben and the Quilt ❏ Wilder, Little House on the Prairie + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Harness, Three Young Pilgrims ❏ Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit ​ ​ ❏ Heller, The Reason for a Flower ❏ Yolen, Owl Moon ​ ​ ❏ Hodges, St. George and the Dragon ❏ Ziefert, A New Coat for Anna ​ ​ ❏ Huber, Flight of the Honey Bee ​

Level 3

❏ Aesop, The Aesop for Children ❏ Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth ​ ​ ❏ Andersen, Andersen’s Fairy Tales ❏ Kipling, Just So Stories ​ ​ ❏ Andersen, The Ugly Duckling ❏ Knight, The Farm ​ ​ ❏ Bagert, (Poetry for Young ❏ Lawson, Ben and Me ​ ​ People Series) ❏ Lawson, Rabbit Hill ​ ❏ Brisley, The Milly-Molly-Mandy ❏ Lobel, Fables ​ ​ Storybook ❏ Logan, The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle ​ ❏ Bryant, The Right Word: Roget and His ❏ MacDonald, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle + ​ ​ ​ Thesaurus ❏ MacLachlan, Caleb’s Story ​ ❏ Bunyan/Taylor, Little Pilgrim’s Progress ❏ MacLachlan, Sarah, Plain and Tall ​ ​ ❏ Cleary, Ramona Quimby, Age 8 ❏ Mann, The Great Pyramid ​ ​ ❏ Cleary, Ralph S. Mouse ❏ McCloskey, Homer Price ​ ​ ❏ Cleary, Runaway Ralph ❏ Milton, Hieroglyphs ​ ​ ❏ Collodi/Teahan, The Pinocchio of C. ❏ Nicholson, Ancient Greece ​ ​ Collodi ❏ O’Brien, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH ​ ❏ Colum, The Children’s Homer ❏ Pumphrey, Stories of the Pilgrims ​ ​ ❏ Colum, The Golden Fleece ❏ Pyle, The Wonder Clock ​ ​ ❏ Conly, Rasco and the Rats of NIMH ❏ Russell, Classic Myths to Read Aloud ​ ​ ❏ Connolly, The Ancient Greece of ❏ Sabuda, Tutankhamen’s Gift ​ ​ Odysseus ❏ Schoonmaker, Edna St. Vincent Millay ​ ❏ Connolly, The Legionary (The Roman (Poetry for Young People Series) ​ World) ❏ Selden, Chester Cricket’s New Home ​ ❏ Coray, Against the World: The Odyssey ❏ Selden, A Cricket in Times Square ​ ​ of Athanasius ❏ Sharp, Miss Bianca + ​ ​ ❏ Craik, The Little Lame Prince ❏ Sharp, The Rescuers ​ ​ ❏ Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ❏ Gillooly/Sharpe, Rudyard Kipling (Poetry ​ ​ ❏ de Angeli, Henner’s Lydia for Young People Series) ​ ❏ de Angeli, Thee, Hannah! ❏ Speare, The Bronze Bow ​ ​ ❏ DeJong, Along Came a Dog ❏ Sproul, A King Without a Shadow ​ ​ ❏ DeJong, The Wheel on the School ❏ Sproul, The with Dirty Clothes ​ ​ ❏ DiCamillo, Where Are You Going, Baby ❏ Sproul, The Prince’s Poison Cup ​ ​ Lincoln? + ❏ Stanley, Cleopatra ​ ​ ❏ D’Aulaire, D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek ❏ Steig, Dominic ​ ​ Myths (selections) ❏ Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses ​ ❏ Farley, The Black Stallion ❏ White, Charlotte’s Web ​ ​ ❏ Fritz, The Cabin Faced West ❏ White, Stuart Little ​ ​ ❏ Grimm, The Grimm’s Fairy Tales ❏ White, The Trumpet of the Swan ​ ​ ❏ Henry, Brighty of the Grand Canyon ❏ Wilder, Farmer Boy ​ ​ ❏ Henry, King of the Wind ❏ Winterfield, Detectives in Togas ​ ​ ❏ Henry, Misty of Chincoteague + ❏ Wojciechowski, The Christmas Miracle ​ ​ ​ ❏ Johnston, : A Boy of Galilee of Jonathan Toomey ​

Upper Grammar (Grades 4-6) Reading List “+” indicates that any book in the series is worthwhile Level 1 = easy Level 2 = average Level 3 = challenging

Level 1

❏ Aliki, and the Globe ❏ Knight, Jamestown: New World ​ ​ ❏ Bishop, Twenty and Ten Adventure ​ ❏ Bliven, The American Revolution ❏ Konigsburg, From the Mixed-up Files of ​ ​ ❏ Bowen, Stranded at Plimoth Plantation Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler ​ 1626 ❏ Lawton, Almost Home ​ ❏ Bulla, The Sword in the Tree ❏ Levine, If Your Name Was Changed at ​ ​ ❏ Bulla, Viking Adventure Ellis Island ​ ❏ Bulla, A Lion to Guard Us ❏ Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Cousins, Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia ❏ Longfellow, Paul Revere’s Ride ​ ​ ❏ de Zeeuw, Augustine: The Farmer’s Boy ❏ MacGowan, William Carlos Williams ​ ​ of Tagaste (Poetry for Young Readers) ❏ DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of ❏ McPherson, Artist of the Reformation: ​ ​ Edward Tulane Albrecht Durer ❏ DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux ❏ Monsell, Thomas Jefferson: Third ​ ​ ❏ du Bois, The Twenty-One Balloons President of the United States ​ ❏ d’Aulaire, Lincoln ❏ Norton, The Borrowers + ​ ​ ​ ❏ d’Aulaire, Columbus ❏ O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins ​ ​ ❏ d’Aulaire, George Washington ❏ Parks, Davy Crockett: Young Rifleman ​ ​ ❏ d’Aulaire, Pocahontas ❏ Pumphrey, Stories of the Pilgrims ​ ​ ❏ Edmonds, The Matchlock Gun ❏ Pyle, The Wonder Clock ​ ​ ❏ Estes, The Hundred Dresses ❏ Roessel, Langston Hughes (Poetry for ​ ​ ❏ Farley, The Black Stallion Young Readers) ​ ❏ Fisher, Understood Betsy ❏ Schanzer, How We Crossed the West ​ ​ ❏ Fleischman, By the Great Horn Spoon! ❏ Singer, Rutherford B., Who Was He?: ​ ​ ❏ Fritz, And Then What Happened, Paul Poems About Our Presidents ​ Revere? ❏ Sis, Starry Messenger ​ ❏ Fritz, Shh! We’re Writing the ❏ Skurzynski, Minstrel in the Tower ​ ​ Constitution ❏ Smith, The Green Ember + ​ ​ ❏ Fritz, What’s the Big Idea, Benjamin ❏ Stanley, Bard of Avon ​ ​ Franklin? ❏ Stanley, ​ ❏ Fritz, Where Was Patrick Henry on the ❏ Stanley, Leonardo da Vinci ​ ​ 29th of May? ❏ Stanley, Michelangelo ​ ❏ Fritz, Why Don’t You Get a Horse, Sam ❏ Stanley/Vennema, Charles Dickens: The ​ ​ ? Man Who Had Great Expectations ❏ Fritz, Why Not, Lafayette? ❏ Steele, The Buffalo Knife ​ ​ ❏ Fritz, Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? ❏ Steele, Flaming Arrows ​ ​ ❏ George, My Side of the Mountain ❏ Steig, Abel’s Island ​ ​ ❏ Grahame, The Reluctant Dragon ❏ Sterling Publishing, Poetry for Young ​ ​ ❏ Grahame, The Wind in the Willows People (series) ​ ​ ❏ Guthridge, Thomas Edison: Young ❏ Stevenson, Daniel Boone: Young Hunter ​ ​ Inventor and Tracker ❏ Harness, The Amazing Impossible Erie ❏ Stevenson, Paul Revere: Boston Patriot ​ ​ Canal ❏ Stewart, Pioneers Go West ​ ❏ Harness, They’re Off! The Story of the ❏ Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family ​ ​ Pony Express ❏ Vernon, The Beggar’s Bible (John Wycliff) ​ ​ ❏ Harness, Three Young Pilgrims ❏ Vernon, Ink on His Fingers (Johann ​ ​ ​ ❏ Harness, Young John Quincy Gutenberg) ​ ❏ Henry, Justin Morgan Had a Horse ❏ Vernon, Thunderstorm in the Church ​ ​ ❏ Howat, Ten Boys Who Changed the (Martin Luther) ​ World ❏ Wilson, Maya Angelou (Poetry for Young ​ ❏ Howat, Ten Girls Who Changed the Readers) ​ World ❏ Zemlicka, Nathan Hale: Patriot Spy ​ ❏ Jacques, Redwall + ​ ​ ❏ Knight, Journey to Monticello ​ ❏ Knight, Winter at Valley Forge ​

Level 2

❏ Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain + ❏ Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of ​ ​ ​ ❏ Allison, William Butler Yeats (Poetry for Versailles ​ Young Readers) ❏ Lenski, Indian Captive ​ ❏ Ballantyne, The Coral Island ❏ Levin, Walt Whitman (Poetry for Young ​ ​ ❏ Barrett, Meet Thomas Jefferson Readers) ​ ❏ Beasley, Circus Mirandus ❏ Levitin, Journey to America ​ ​ ❏ Birdsall, The Penderwicks + ❏ Liu, William Wordsworth (Poetry for ​ ​ ​ ❏ Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy Young Readers) ​ ❏ Burnett, A Little Princess ❏ Macaulay, Castle ​ ​ ❏ Burnett, The Secret Garden ❏ Macauley, Cathedral ​ ​ ❏ Burnford, The Incredible Journey ❏ MacDonald, The Golden Key ​ ​ ❏ Cary, Meet Abraham Lincoln ❏ MacDonald, The Light Princess ​ ​ ❏ Cornelissen, Soft Rain: A Story of the ❏ MacDonald, The Lost Princess ​ ​ Cherokee Trail of Tears ❏ MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie ​ ❏ Cousins, The Story of Thomas Alva ❏ MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin ​ ​ Edison ❏ Martin, Yankee Doodle Boy ​ ❏ Crockett, Davy Crockett: His Own Story ❏ Maynard, (Poetry for ​ ​ ❏ Daugherty, Daniel Boone Young Readers) ​ ❏ Daugherty, The Landing of the Pilgrims ❏ McAllister, The Mistmantle Chronicles + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Daugherty, The Magna Charta ❏ McGiffin, Iron Scouts of the Confederacy ​ ​ ❏ de Angeli, The Door in the Wall ❏ McPherson, River of Grace: The Story of ​ ​ ❏ DeJong, The House of Sixty Fathers John Calvin ​ ❏ de Kay, Meet Christopher Columbus ❏ McPherson, A Piece of the Mountain ​ ​ ❏ DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie (Blaise Pascal) ​ ❏ Dodge, Hans Brinker ❏ McPherson, Ocean of Truth: The Story of ​ ​ ❏ Lang, King Arthur Sir Newton ​ ❏ Enright, Gone-Away Lake ❏ McSwigan, Snow Treasure ​ ​ ❏ Enright, Return to Gone-Away Lake ❏ Nesbit, Five Children and It ​ ​ ❏ Enright, The Saturdays (Melendy Quartet) ❏ Nesbit, The Railway Children ​ ​ ​ ❏ Enright, Then There Were Five (Melendy ❏ Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers ​ ​ ​ Quartet) ❏ North, Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to the ​ ❏ Enright, Thimble Summer White House ​ ❏ Estes, Ginger Pye ❏ O’Dell, The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by ​ ​ ❏ Estes, The Moffats + Day ​ ​ ❏ Estes, Pinky Pye ❏ O’Dell, Sarah Bishop ​ ​ ❏ Farley, Duel in the Wilderness ❏ Peck, A Long Way from Chicago ​ ​ ❏ Fisher, Paul Revere and the Minute Men ❏ Peck, A Year Down Under ​ ​ ❏ Fleischman, Bull Run ❏ Pollard, The Life of Washington ​ ​ ❏ Floyer, The Young Huguenots ❏ Prins, When the Morning Came ​ ​ ❏ Forbes, Johnny Tremain ❏ Prins, Dispelling the Tyranny ​ ​ ❏ Frederick, Absolutely Truly: A Pumpkin ❏ Prins, Hideout in the Swamp ​ ​ Falls Mystery ❏ Pyle, Otto of the Silver Hand ​ ❏ Freedman, Cowboys of the Wild West ❏ Rawls, Summer of the Monkeys ​ ​ ❏ Freedman, Immigrant Kids ❏ Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows ​ ​ ❏ Fritz, Brady ❏ Reit, Guns for General Washington ​ ​ ❏ Fritz, Early Thunder ❏ Reynolds, The Wright Brothers ​ ​ ❏ Fritz, The Great Little Madison ❏ Ross, Joan of Arc ​ ​ ❏ Fritz, Stonewall ❏ Seredy, The Good Master ​ ​ ❏ Fritz, Traitor: The Case of Benedict ❏ Speare, The Bronze Bow ​ ​ Arnold ❏ Speare, Calico Captive ​ ❏ Giff, Lily’s Crossing ❏ Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond ​ ​ ❏ Gillooly, Robert Browning (Poetry for ❏ Speare, The Sign of the Beaver ​ ​ Young Readers) ❏ Sperry, John Paul Jones, Fighting Sailor ​ ❏ Gipson, Old Yeller ❏ Spyri, Heidi ​ ​ ❏ Gray, of the Road ❏ Stanley, Good Queen Bess ​ ​ ❏ Green, The Adventures of Robin Hood ❏ Steele, The Perilous Road ​ ​ ❏ Heilbroner, Meet George Washington ❏ Sterling, Freedom Train ​ ​ ❏ Hesse, Out of the Dust ❏ Stewart, Mysterious Benedict Society + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Holbrook, The Swamp Fox of the ❏ Terhune, Lad: A Dog ​ ​ Revolution ❏ Tolkien, The Hobbit ​ ❏ Holm, North to Freedom ❏ Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad ​ ​ ❏ Jackson, The Witchcraft of Salem Village ❏ Twain, Tom Sawyer Detective ​ ​ ❏ Jackson, Trailblazer Books (series) ❏ Firth, Knights and Armor (Usborne) ​ ​ ​ ​ ❏ Janeway, The ❏ Sims/Chisholm, The Usborne Book of ​ ​ ❏ Jones, Dutch Color Castles ​ ❏ Jones, Huguenot Garden ❏ Van der Jagt, The Escape ​ ​ ❏ Jones, Scottish Seas ❏ Van der Jagt, The Secret Mission ​ ​ ❏ Kantor, Gettysburg ❏ Van Leeuwen, Bound for Oregon ​ ​ ❏ Kent, The Story of the Surrender of ❏ Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth ​ ​ Yorktown ❏ Vernon, A Heart Strangely Warmed ​ ❏ Kjelgaard, Big Red (Charles Wesley) ​ ❏ Hahn, Mary, Queen of Scots ❏ Willard, If All the Swords in England ​ ​ ❏ Latham, Carry On, Mr. Bowditch ❏ Yates, Amos Fortune, Free Man ​ ​ ❏ Lasky, Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House ​ of Tudor

Level 3

❏ Adams, Watership Down ❏ Marrin, The Yanks Are Coming ​ ​ ❏ Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl ❏ Maynard, Alfred Lord Tennyson (Poetry ​ ​ ❏ Alcott, Eight Cousins for Young Readers) ​ ❏ Alcott, Little Men ❏ McGraw, Moccasin Trail ​ ​ ❏ Alcott, Little Women ❏ McMurdie, Hey, Mac! ​ ​ ❏ Altham/Pory/de Rasieres, Three Visitors ❏ McMurdie, Land of the Morning ​ ​ to Early Plymouth ❏ Meigs, Invincible Louisa: The Story of the ​ ❏ Auxier, The Night Gardener Author of Little Women ​ ❏ Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead ❏ Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Avi, Iron Thunder ❏ Montgomery, The Story Girl ​ ​ ❏ Ayer, Parallel Journeys ❏ Moody, Little Britches: Father and I Were ​ ​ ❏ Blackwood, The Shakespeare Stealer Ranchers + ​ ​ (Book 1) ❏ Mowat, Owls in the Family ​ ❏ Blackwood, Shakespeare’s Scribe (Book 2) ❏ Murphy, The Boys’ War ​ ​ ​ ❏ Blackwood, Shakespeare’s Spy (Book 3) ❏ Naylor, Shiloh ​ ​ ​ ❏ Blos, A Gathering of Days ❏ Negri, Civil War Poetry: An Anthology ​ ​ ❏ Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of ❏ Oxford/Wildsmith, Tales from the ​ ​ the Pie + Arabian Nights ​ ❏ Brink, Caddie Woodlawn ❏ O’Dell, Streams to the River, River to the ​ ​ Sea ❏ Burns, Hive Detectives: The Chronicle of ❏ Rawlings, The Yearling ​ ​ a Honey Bee Catastrophe ❏ Richter, The Light in the Forest ​ ❏ Cheaney, I Don’t Know How the Story ❏ Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s ​ ​ Ends Stone + ​ ❏ Cousins, The Boy in the Alamo ❏ Serio, Wallace Stevens (Poetry for Young ​ ​ ❏ de -Exupery, The Little Prince Readers) ​ ❏ Dickens, The Christmas Carol ❏ Serraillier, Beowulf the Warrior ​ ​ ❏ Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young ❏ Sewell, Black Beauty ​ ​ Girl ❏ Shaara, The Killer Angels ​ ❏ French, The Story of Rolf and the Viking ❏ Sidney, Five Little Peppers and How They ​ ​ Bow Grow ❏ Gombrich, A Little History of the World ❏ Sperry, Call It Courage ​ ​ ❏ Goudge, The Little White Horse ❏ Stevenson, Kidnapped ​ ​ ❏ Haskell/Oates, Gettysburg: Two ❏ Stevenson, Treasure Island ​ ​ Eyewitness Accounts ❏ Taylor, Air Raid--Pearl Harbor! ​ ❏ Hawkins, The Year Money Grew on Trees ❏ Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ​ ​ ❏ Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales ❏ Ten Boom, The Hiding Place ​ ​ ❏ Hawthorne, A Wonder Book ❏ Thomson, Morning Star of the ​ ​ ❏ Helprin, A City in Winter Reformation ​ ❏ Henty, With Lee in Virginia ❏ Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham ​ ​ ❏ Hershey, Hiroshima ❏ Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring ​ ​ ❏ Hunt, Across Five Aprils ❏ Tolkien, The Two Towers ​ ​ ❏ Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ❏ Tolkien, The Return of the King ​ ​ ❏ Irving, Rip Van Winkle ❏ Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry ​ ​ ❏ Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed Finn ​ the Wind ❏ Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ​ ❏ Kastan, William Shakespeare (Poetry for ❏ Twain, The Prince and the Pauper ​ ​ Young Readers) ❏ Wingate, The Viking World (Usborne) ​ ​ ❏ Keith, Rifles for Watie ❏ Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days ​ ​ ❏ Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow ❏ Verne, From the Earth to the Moon ​ ​ ❏ Kipling, Just So Stories ❏ Watkins, Co. Aytch ​ ​ ❏ Lamb, Ten Tales from Shakespeare ❏ Wilson, 100 Cupboards + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Lawhead, In the Hall of the Dragon King ❏ Wilson, Leepike Ridge ​ ​ ❏ Lawhead, The Sword and the Flame ❏ Wilson, Sam Miracle and the Outlaws of ​ ​ ❏ Lawhead, The Warlords of Nin Time + ​ ​ ❏ Lawson, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ❏ Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson ​ ​ ❏ Linnea, Raoul Wallenberg: The Man ❏ York/Skeyhill, Sergeant York and the ​ ​ Who Stopped Death Great War ❏ Lowry, Number the Stars ​ ❏ L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time + ​ ​ ❏ MacDonald, At the Back of the North ​ Wind Logic Level (Grades 7-9) Reading List “+” indicates that any book in the series is worthwhile Level 1 = easy Level 2 = average Level 3 = challenging

Level 1

❏ Alcott, Eight Cousins ❏ Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows ​ ​ ❏ Alcott, Jo’s Boys (Book 3) ​ ❏ Alcott, Little Men ❏ Peterson, The Warden of the Wolf King ​ ​ ❏ Alcott, Little Women (Book 4) ​ ❏ Alder, The King’s Shadow ❏ Pyle, The Book of Pirates ​ ​ ❏ Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy ❏ Pyle, Men of Iron ​ ​ ❏ Alexander, The Iron Ring ❏ Pyle, Otto of the Silver Hand ​ ​ ❏ Beagle, The Last Unicorn ❏ Pyle, The Wonder Clock ​ ​ ❏ Byars, The Summer of the Swans ❏ Ransome, Swallows and Amazons ​ ​ ❏ Cather, O Pioneers! ❏ Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s ​ ​ ❏ Cheaney, I Don’t Know How the Story Stone + ​ ​ Ends ❏ Sachar, Holes ​ ❏ de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince ❏ Schmidt, Okay for Now ​ ​ ❏ Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock ❏ Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars ​ ​ Holmes ❏ Snedeker, Theras and His Town ​ ❏ Doyle, Hound of the Baskervilles ❏ Speare, The Bronze Bow ​ ​ ❏ French, The Story of Rolf and the Viking ❏ St. John, Twice Feed ​ ​ Bow ❏ Stevenson, Treasure Island ​ ❏ Green, Tales from Ancient Egypt ❏ Sutcliff, ​ ​ ❏ Henty, The Dragon and the Raven ❏ Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham ​ ​ ❏ Henty, Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the ❏ Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings ​ ​ Crusades ❏ Travis, Tirzah ​ ❏ Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed ❏ Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry ​ ​ the Wind Finn ❏ Kipling, Captains Courageous ❏ Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ​ ​ ❏ Kipling, The Jungle Book ❏ Twain, The Prince and the Pauper ​ ​ ❏ Levitin, Escape from Egypt ❏ Vawter, Paperboy ​ ​ ❏ Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia + ❏ Wangerin, The Book of the Dun Cow ​ ​ ​ ❏ MacDonald, At the Back of the North ❏ Wangerin, The Book of Sorrows ​ ​ Wind ❏ Wells, The Time Machine ​ ❏ McGraw, The Golden Goblet ❏ Wells, The War of the Worlds ​ ​ ❏ McGraw, Mara: Daughter of the Nile ❏ Williamson, God King ​ ​ ❏ Moody, Little Britches: Father and I Were ❏ Wilson, Boys of Blur ​ ​ Ranchers + ​ ❏ O’Dell, The Black Pearl ❏ Wilson, The Dragon’s Tooth (Ashtown ​ ​ ​ ❏ Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia Burials, Book 1) ​ ❏ Payne, The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt ❏ Wilson, The Drowned Vault (Ashtown ​ ​ ​ ❏ Paulsen, Hatchet Burials, Book 2) ​ ❏ Peterson, On the Edge of the Dark Sea of ❏ Wilson, Empire of Bones (Ashtown ​ ​ ​ Darkness (Book 1) Burials, Book 3) ​ ❏ Peterson, North! Or Be Eaten (Book 2) ❏ Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson ​ ​ ​

Level 2

❏ Boland/Strand, The Making of a Poem: A ❏ , The Perilous Guard ​ ​ Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms ❏ Potok, The Chosen ​ ❏ Buck, The Good Earth ❏ Ray, The Ides of April ​ ​ ❏ Chesterton, The Complete Father Brown ❏ Ray, Beyond the Desert Gate ​ ​ Stories ❏ Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories ​ ❏ Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room ❏ Sabatini, Captain Blood ​ ​ ❏ Conarroe, Six American Poets ❏ Sabatini, Scaramouche ​ ​ ❏ Defoe, Robinson Crusoe ❏ Shaara, The Killer Angels ​ ​ ❏ Dumas, The Three Musketeers ❏ Smith, I Capture the Castle ​ ​ ❏ French, The Lost Baron ❏ Steinbeck, The Pearl ​ ​ ❏ French, The Red Keep ❏ Stevenson, The Black Arrow ​ ​ ❏ Goldman, The Princess Bride ❏ Stevenson, Kidnapped ​ ​ ❏ Henty, Beric the Briton: A Story of the ❏ Sutcliff, : The ​ ​ Roman Invasion Story of The Iliad ​ ❏ Henty, The Cat of the Bubastes ❏ Sutcliff, ​ ​ ❏ Henty, For the Temple ❏ Sutcliff, The Lantern Bearers ​ ​ ❏ Henty, In Freedom’s Cause ❏ Sutcliff, ​ ​ ❏ Henty, St. George for England ❏ Sutcliff, The Shining Company ​ ​ ❏ Henty, The Young Carthaginian ❏ Sutcliff, The Silver Branch ​ ​ ❏ Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ❏ Sutcliff, Sword Song ​ ​ ❏ Irving, Rip Van Winkle ❏ Sutcliff, The Wanderings of Odysseus ​ ​ ❏ Kipling, Kim ❏ Tolkien, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ​ ​ ❏ Lawhead, The Dragon King Trilogy ❏ Trott, A Sacrifice of Praise: An Anthology ​ ​ ❏ Lawhead, The Pendragon Cycle of Christian Poetry in English ​ ❏ Leopold, A Sand County Almanac ❏ Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King ​ ​ ❏ Litfin, The Sword (Chiveis Trilogy, Book 1) Arthur’s Court ​ ​ ❏ Litfin, The Gift (Chiveis Trilogy, Book 2) ❏ Twain, Life on the Mississippi ​ ​ ​ ❏ Litfin, The Kingdom (Chiveis Trilogy, ❏ Van Halsema, This Was John Calvin ​ ​ ​ Book 3) ❏ Verne, The Mysterious Island ​ ❏ Maclean, A River Runs Through It ​ ❏ Marrin, Hitler ❏ Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under ​ ​ ❏ Marrin, Stalin: Russia’s Man of Steel the Sea ​ ❏ Meroff, Coronation of Glory: The Story of ❏ Wallace, Ben-Hur ​ ​ Lady Jane Grey ❏ White, The Once and Future King ​ ❏ Orwell, Animal Farm ❏ Willard, Augustine Came to Kent ​ ​ ❏ O’Dell, The King’s Fifth ❏ Willard, Son of Charlemagne ​ ​ ❏ George, The Epic of Gilgamesh ❏ Zusak, The Book Thief ​ ​

Level 3

❏ Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin ❏ Peters, The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael ​ ​ Luther + ❏ Beza, The Life of John Calvin ❏ Plato, The Last Days of Socrates ​ ​ ❏ Bulwer-Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii ❏ Porter, Scottish Chiefs ​ ​ ❏ Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ❏ Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of ​ ​ (selections) English Verse ❏ Dickens, Copperfield ❏ Ramazani/Ellmann, The Norton ​ ​ ❏ Dickens, Oliver Twist Anthology of Modern and Contemporary ​ ❏ Downing, Looking for the King: An Poetry (2 vols.) ​ ​ Inkling’s Novel ❏ Rebsamen, Beowulf ​ ❏ Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral ❏ Sayers, The Nine Tailors ​ ​ ❏ Ferguson/Salter/Stallworthy, The Norton ❏ Scott, Ivanhoe ​ ​ Anthology of Poetry ❏ Scott, Quentin Durward ​ ❏ Forester, Horatio Hornblower + ❏ Scott, The Talisman ​ ​ ​ ❏ Hillenbrand, Unbroken ❏ Shakespeare, Julius Caesar ​ ​ ❏ Hirsch, Poet’s Choice ❏ Shakespeare, Macbeth ​ ​ ❏ Homer, The Iliad (Fagles translation) ❏ Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis ​ ​ ​ ❏ Homer, The Odyssey (Fagles translation) ❏ Steinbeck, The Red Pony ​ ​ ​ ❏ Hurnard, Hinds Feet on High Places ❏ Tippens/Walker/Weathers, Shadow and ​ ​ ❏ Kreeft, The Best Things in Life Light: Literature and the Life of Faith ​ ❏ Kreeft, The Unaborted Socrates ❏ Twain, Joan of Arc ​ ​ ❏ MacDonald, Sir Gibbie ❏ Wells, The Invisible Man ​ ​ ❏ Milosz, A Book of Luminous Things: An ​ International Anthology of Poetry

Rhetoric Level (Grades 10-12) Reading List “+” indicates that any book in the series is worthwhile Level 1 = easy Level 2 = average Level 3 = challenging

Level 1

❏ Austen, Emma ❏ , White Fang ​ ​ ❏ Austen, Persuasion ❏ Martel, Life of Pi ​ ​ ❏ Austen, Pride and Prejudice ❏ Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel ​ ​ ❏ Austen, Sense and Sensibility ❏ Potok, My Name is Asher Lev ​ ​ ❏ Bronte, ❏ Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward ​ ​ ❏ Buchan, Greenmantle ❏ Powers, The Anubis Gates ​ ​ ❏ Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps ❏ Sayers, The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries ​ ​ ❏ Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress + ​ ❏ Carroll, Alice in Wonderland ❏ Shaara, The Glorious Cause ​ ​ ❏ Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient ❏ Shaara, Gods and Generals ​ ​ Mariner ❏ Shaara, The Killer Angels ​ ❏ Costain, The Silver Chalice ❏ Shaara, The Last Full Measure ​ ​ ❏ Dickens, Great Expectations ❏ Shaara, No Less Than Victory ​ ​ ❏ Dickens, Oliver Twist ❏ Shaara, Rise to Rebellion ​ ​ ❏ Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities ❏ Shaara, To the Last Man ​ ​ ❏ Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily ❏ Shakespeare, ​ ​ Dickinson ❏ Shakespeare, Hamlet ​ ❏ Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ❏ Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ​ ​ ❏ du Maurier, Rebecca ❏ Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s ​ ​ ❏ Eliot, Marner Dream ​ ❏ Elliot, Through the Gates of Splendor ❏ Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ​ ​ ❏ Enger, Peace Like a River ❏ Shelley, Frankenstein ​ ​ ❏ Forester, Horatio Hornblower + ❏ Sibley, Through the Shadowlands ​ ​ ​ ❏ Foxe/Berry, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs ❏ Steinbeck, The Pearl ​ ​ ❏ Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost: The ❏ Steinbeck, Travels with Charley ​ ​ Collected Poems Complete and ❏ Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll ​ Unabridged and Mr. Hyde ❏ Heaney, Beowulf ❏ Tey, The Daughter of Time ​ ​ ❏ Herriott, All Creatures Great and Small + ❏ Tolstoy, Hadji Murat ​ ​ ​ ❏ Huxley, Brave New World ❏ Waugh, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold ​ ​ ❏ King, Brunelleschi’s Dome ❏ Whitman, The Complete Poems ​ ​ ❏ King, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling ❏ Wilkins, Call of Duty ​ ​ ❏ Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (Space ❏ Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan ​ ​ ​ Trilogy, Book 1) ❏ Wilson, Death by Living ​ ❏ Lewis, Perelandra (Space Trilogy, Book 2) ❏ Wodehouse, Company for Henry ​ ​ ​ ❏ Lewis, That Hideous Strength (Space ❏ Wodehouse, Leave It to Psmith ​ ​ ​ Trilogy, Book 3) ❏ Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves! ​ ❏ London, The Call of the Wild ​ ❏ London, The Sea-Wolf ​

Level 2

❏ Augustine, Confessions ❏ James, Washington Square ​ ​ ❏ Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin ❏ Johnson, The History of Rasselas ​ ​ Luther ❏ Kaminsky/Harris, The Ecco Anthology of ​ ❏ Bakeless, The Journals of Lewis and Clark International Poetry ​ ❏ Berry, Hannah Coulter ❏ Lawhead, The Paradise War (The Song of ​ ​ ​ ❏ Berry, Jayber Crow Albion, Book 1) ​ ❏ Bly/Hillman/Meade, The Rag and Bone ❏ Lawhead, The Silver Hand (The Song of ​ ​ ​ Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology Albion, Book 2) ❏ Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 ❏ Lawhead, The Endless Knot (The Song of ​ ​ ​ ❏ Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles Albion, Book 3) ​ ❏ Bronte, Wuthering Heights ❏ Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird ​ ​ ❏ Capon, The Supper of the Lamb ❏ Lewis, Christian Reflections ​ ​ ❏ Cather, My Antonia ❏ Lewis, The Great Divorce ​ ​ ❏ Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha ❏ Lewis, The Screwtape Letters ​ ​ ❏ Chesterton, The Flying Inn ❏ Lewis, The Weight of Glory ​ ​ ❏ Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday ❏ Machiavelli, The Prince ​ ​ ❏ Chesterton, Napoleon of Notting Hill ❏ Mauriac, A Kiss for the Leper ​ ​ ❏ Conrad, Heart of Darkness ❏ Miller, Death of a Salesman ​ ​ ❏ Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans ❏ Mitchell, Gone with the Wind ​ ​ ❏ Crane, The Red Badge of Courage ❏ O’Brian, Master and Commander + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Dante, The Divine Comedy (Musa ❏ O’Connor, A Prayer Journal ​ ​ ​ translation) ❏ O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find ​ ❏ Dekker, Black (Book 1) ❏ Orwell, 1984 ​ ​ ​ ❏ Dekker, Red (Book 2) ❏ Ovid, The Metamorphoses ​ ​ ​ ❏ Dekker, White (Book 3) ❏ Parkman, The Oregon Trail ​ ​ ​ ❏ Doig, This House of Sky ❏ Pullen, The Twentieth Maine ​ ​ ❏ Donne, The Complete English Poems ❏ Robinson, Gilead ​ ​ ❏ Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground ❏ Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of ​ ​ ❏ Douglas, The Robe English Verse ​ ❏ Dungy/O’Donnell/Thompson, From the ❏ Roberts, Northwest Passage ​ ​ Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems ❏ Roberts, Rabble in Arms ​ ❏ Eliot, The Mill on the Floss ❏ Sayers, The Man Born to Be King ​ ​ ❏ Fadiman, World Poetry: An Anthology of ❏ Sayers, The Nine Tailors ​ ​ Verse from Antiquity to Our Time ❏ Sayers, The Song of Roland ​ ❏ Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby ❏ Shakespeare, King Lear ​ ​ ❏ Forester, A Room with a View ❏ Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing ​ ​ ❏ Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin ❏ Shakespeare, Sonnets ​ ​ Franklin ❏ Sinclair, The Jungle ​ ❏ Gaarder, Sophie’s World ❏ Sophocles, Three Theban Plays (Fagles ​ ​ ​ ❏ Gaskell, Wives and Daughters translation) ​ ❏ Gerstner, Jonathan and Sarah: An ❏ Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath ​ ​ Uncommon Union ❏ Stockett, The Help ​ ❏ Gerstner, Idelette: A Novel Based on the ❏ Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin ​ ​ Life of Madame John Calvin ❏ Swift, Gulliver’s Travels ​ ❏ Golding, The Lord of the Flies ❏ Tennyson, Idylls of the King ​ ​ ❏ Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter ❏ Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich ​ ​ ❏ Heath, Mourt’s Relation: A Journal of the ❏ Washington, Up from Slavery ​ ​ Pilgrims at Plymouth ❏ Wharton, Ethan Frome ​ ❏ Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins: The ❏ Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ​ ​ Major Works ❏ Williams, The Glass Menagerie ​ ❏ Hughes, The Collected Poems of ❏ Wilson, Beyond Stateliest Marble: The ​ ​ Langston Hughes Passionate Femininity of Anne Bradstreet ❏ Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame ❏ Wilson, For Kirk and Covenant ​ ​ ❏ James, Cover Her Face ​

Level 3

❏ Augustine, The City of God ❏ Lewis, God in the Dock ​ ​ ❏ Augustine, On the Trinity ❏ Lewis, Mere Christianity ​ ​ ❏ Beckett, Waiting for Godot ❏ Lewis, Miracles ​ ​ ❏ Blackmore, Lorna Doone ❏ Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress ​ ​ ❏ Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation ❏ Lewis, The Problem of Pain ​ ​ ❏ Bronte, ❏ Lewis, Surprised by Joy ​ ​ ❏ Brown, : A Biography ❏ Lewis, Till We Have Faces ​ ​ ❏ Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop ❏ Luther, The Bondage of the Will ​ ​ ❏ Chambers, Witness ❏ Marlowe, Dr. Faustus ​ ​ ❏ Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ❏ Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz ​ ​ ❏ Chesterton, The Everlasting Man ❏ Melville, Moby Dick ​ ​ ❏ Chesterton, Orthodoxy ❏ Milton, Paradise Lost ​ ​ ❏ Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the ❏ Montaigne, Essays ​ ​ World ❏ Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New ​ ❏ Conrad, Lord Jim Biography ​ ❏ Dickens, David Copperfield ❏ O’Connor, The Complete Stories ​ ​ ❏ Dickens, Hard Times ❏ Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago ​ ​ ❏ Dickens, The Pickwick Papers ❏ Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country ​ ​ ❏ Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov ❏ Plato, Phaedrus ​ ​ ❏ Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment ❏ Plato, The Republic ​ ​ ❏ Dostoyevsky, The Grand Inquisitor ❏ Plato, The Symposium ​ ​ ❏ Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo ❏ Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death ​ ​ ❏ Eliot, The Complete Poems and Plays of ❏ Remarque, All Quiet on the Western ​ ​ T.S. Eliot Front ❏ Eliot, Adam ❏ Ryken, Worldly ​ ​ ❏ Eliot, Middlemarch ❏ Ryken, Windows to the World ​ ​ ❏ Goethe, Faust ❏ Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye ​ ​ ❏ Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables ❏ Shakespeare, Richard III ​ ​ ❏ Helprin, The Pacific ❏ Shakespeare, Henry V ​ ​ ❏ Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms ❏ Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan ​ ​ ❏ Herbert, George Herbert: The Complete Denisovich ​ English Poems ❏ Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago ​ ❏ Horace, Horace: The Odes ❏ Thoreau, Walden ​ ​ ❏ Hugo, Les Miserables ❏ Tolkien, The Silmarillion ​ ​ ❏ James, The American ❏ Tolstoy, Anna Karenina ​ ​ ❏ James, The Portrait of a Lady ❏ Tolstoy, War and Peace ​ ​ ❏ Joyce, The Portrait of the Artist as a ❏ Vanauken, A Severe Mercy ​ ​ Young Man ❏ Virgil, Eclogues ​ ❏ Lewis, The Abolition of Man ❏ Virgil, The Aeneid ​ ​ ❏ Lewis, The Discarded Image ❏ Waugh, Brideshead Revisited ​ ​ ❏ Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism ❏ Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray ​ ​ ❏ Lewis, The Four Loves ​

Logic/Rhetoric Level (Grades 7-12) Poetry List

❏ Auden, The Complete Works of W.H. ❏ Kinnell, The Book of Nightmares ​ ​ Auden ❏ Levertov, Life in the Forest ​ ❏ Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell ❏ Li, The City in Which I Love You ​ ​ Berry ❏ Milosz, New and Collected Poems: ​ ❏ Bishop, Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete 1931-2001 ​ Poems ❏ Oliver, American Primitive ​ ❏ Blake, William Blake: The Complete ❏ Owen, The Poems of Wilfred Owen ​ ​ Poems ❏ Plumly, Summer Celestial: Poems ​ ❏ Boland, Outside History: Selected Poems ❏ Roethke, The Collected Poems of ​ ​ 1980-1990 Theodore Roethke ❏ Brooks, Selected Poems of Gwendolyn ❏ Tennyson, The Complete Works of ​ ​ Brooks Alfred Lord Tennyson ❏ Burnside, Gift Songs ❏ Thomas, Dylan Thomas: Selected Poems ​ ​ ❏ Cairns, Philokalia: New and Selected ❏ Toomer, The Collected Poems of Jean ​ ​ Poems Toomer ❏ Collier, The Ledge ❏ Tretheway, Native Guard: Poems ​ ​ ❏ Edson, The Tunnel: Selected Poems ❏ Voight, Messenger: New and Selected ​ ​ ❏ Eliot, The Complete Poems and Plays of Poems 1976-2006 ​ T.S. Eliot ❏ Waldrep, Goldbeater’s Skin ​ ❏ Fairchild, The Art of the Lathe ❏ Wilbur, Richard Wilbur: New and ​ ​ ❏ Gioia, The Gods of Winter Collected Poems ​ ❏ Gluck, The Wild Iris ❏ Williams, William Carlos Williams: ​ ​ ❏ Hardy, Thomas Hardy: The Complete Selected Poems ​ Poems ❏ Williams, Repair: Poems ​ ❏ Harper, Dear John, Dear Coltrane ❏ Wordsworth, William Wordsworth: The ​ ​ ❏ Hass, Praise Major Works ​ ❏ Heaney, Opened Ground: Selected ❏ Wright, A Short History of the Shadow: ​ ​ Poems 1966-1996 Poems ❏ Keats, The Complete Poems of ❏ Yeats, The Collected Poems of W. B. ​ ​ Yeats

Education, Imagination, and the Life of the Mind List + = start here

❏ Adler, Reforming Education: The ❏ Leclercq, The Love of Learning and the ​ ​ Opening of the American Mind Desire for God ❏ Auchincloss, The Rector of Justin ❏ Lewis, The Abolition of Man + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Barfield, Saving the Appearances ❏ Markos, C.S. Lewis: An Apologist for ​ ​ ❏ Barzun, Begin Here: The Forgotten Education ​ Conditions of Teaching and Learning ❏ Newman, The Idea of a University ​ ❏ Caldecott, Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On ❏ Noll, Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind ​ ​ the Re-enchantment of Education ❏ Pelikan, The Idea of a University: A ​ ❏ Caldecott, Beauty in the Word: Reexamination ​ Rethinking the Foundations of Education ❏ Pieper, In Tune with the World: A ​ + Theory of Festivity ❏ Esolen, Ten Ways to Destroy the ❏ Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture ​ ​ Imagination of Your Child + ❏ Pieper, Only the Lover Sings ​ ​ ❏ Evans/Littlejohn, Wisdom and ❏ Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its ​ ​ Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Spirit, Conditions, Methods Classical Learning + ❏ Simmons, Climbing Parnassus: A New ​ ​ ❏ Frye, The Educated Imagination Apologia for Greek and Latin ​ ❏ Gamble, The Great Tradition ❏ Smith, You Are What You Love: The ​ ​ ❏ Gregory, The Seven Laws of Teaching + Spiritual Power of Habit + ​ ​ ​ ❏ Guroian, Tending the Heart of Virtue + ❏ Spears/Loomis, Education for Human ​ ​ ​ ❏ Hicks, Norms and Nobility + Flourishing: A Christian Perspective ​ ​ ❏ Highet, The Art of Teaching ❏ Taylor, Poetic Knowledge ​ ​ ❏ Howard, Chance or the Dance? + ❏ Wilson, The Case for Classical Christian ​ ​ ​ ❏ Klassen/Zimmerman, The Passionate Education + ​ ​ Intellect