Christ Classical Academy’s Reading List
First and Second Grade
Read (or have read aloud to you) any of the following:
A Child Book of Verses-Stevenson
Aaron and the Green Mountain Boys-Gauch
Aesop’s Fables-Aesop
Amelia Bedelia (any title)-Parish
And I Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street-Giesel
Andy and the Lion-Dougherty
Angus and the Ducks-Flack
Are You My Mother?-Eastman
Big Dog, Little Dog-Eastman
Charlotte’s Webb-White
Corduroy-Freeman
Cross Country Cat-Calhoun
Curious George-Joyce
Detective Dan-Roland
Dick Whittington and his Cat-Brown
Doctor Seuss (any title)-Seuss
Fairy Tales-Anderson
Frederick-Lionni
George Washington’s Mother-Fritz
Henny Penny-Galdone
Henry and Mudge (any title)-Rylant
I can Pray to God-Brooks
If you Give a Mouse A Cookie-Numeroff
Johnny Crow’s Garden-Brooke
Just Me-Ets
Keep the lights Burning Abbie-Roop
Little Appaloosa-Hader
Little Bear-Minarik
Little Toot on the Thames-Gramatky
Madeline-Bemelmans
May I Bring a Friend?-De Reginers
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel-Burton
Millions of Cats-Gag
Mr. Popper’s Penguins-Atwater
Mr. Putter and Tabby (any title)-Rylant
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle-MacDonald
Once a Mouse-Brown
Paddington Bear (any title)-Bond
Pelle’s New Suit-Beskow
Prayer For a Child-Field
Put Me in the Zoo-Lopshire
Sam’s First Fish-Shortall
Sammy The Seal-Hoff
Stuart Little-White
The Big Snow-Hader
The Biggest Bear-Ward
The Borrowers-Norton
The Carrot Seed-Krauss
The Cock, The Mouse and the Little Red Hen-Lefevre
The Courage of Sarah Noble-Dalgliesch
The Five Chinese Brothers-Bishop
The Frog and Toad series-Lobel
The Gingerbread Boy-Galdone
The House that Jack Built-Caldecott
The Little Engine that Could-Piper
The Mother Goose Treasury-Greenaway
The Mouse and the Motorcycle-Cleary
The Outside Cat-Thayer
The Red Balloon-Lamorisse
The Rich Farmer-Butterworth
The Story of Ferdinand-Leaf
The Tale of Peter Rabbit-Potter
The Three Bears and Goldilocks-Brett
The Three Billy Goats Gruff-Galdone
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The Three Little Pigs-Seibert
The Two Sons-Butterworth
The Very Worst Monster-Hutchins
The Wolf and the Seven Kids-Grimm
Thy Friend Obadiah-Turkle
Wait For William-Flack
Whistle For Willie-Keats
Winnie-the-Pooh-Milne
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Third and Fourth Grade
Read any of the following:
A Child’s Garden or Verses-Stevenson
A Confederate Trilogy for Young ReadersWilliamson
A Journey of Souls-Baker
A More Perfect Union: The Story of our
Constitution-Maestro
A Piece of the Mountain-McPherson
A Triumph for Flavius-Snedeker
Adam of the Road-Gray
Adventures with Vikings-Bailey
All of a Kind Family-Taylor
Annie and the Wild Animals-Brett
Any biography
Augustine, The Farmer’s Boy of TagasteZeeuw
Baby Island-Brink
Baker Street Mysterious-Jenkins
Bard of Avon-Stanley
Beggar’s Bible-Vernon
Beorn the Proud-Pollard
Billy and Blaze-Anderson
Black Beauty-Sewell
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the
Illiad-Sutcliff
By Secret Railway-Meadowcroft
Caps For Sale-Slobodkina
Christopher Columbus: His world, His Faith,
His Adventures
Cleopatra-Stanlely/Vennema
Daniel Colton Under Fire-Schulte
Duncan’s War-Bond
Encyclopedia Brown series-Sobol
Freddy Plays Football-Brooks
From Dark to Dawn-Charles
Galen and the Gateway to Medicine-Bendick
Grandma’s Attic series-Richardson
Hannah-Whelan
Hans Brinker-Dodge
Heidi-Spyri
Henry Huggins-Cleary
Hittite Warrior-Williamson
Homer Price-McCloskey
Huguenot Garden-Jones 111
Hundred Dresses-Estes
Ian and the Gigantic Leafy Obstacle-Miller
If all the Swords in England: A story of Thomas BecketWillard
Ink on His Fingers-Vernon
Ivan series-Grant
James and Giant Peach-Dahl
Joan of Arc-Ross
Joan of Arc-Stanley
Katy and the Big Snow-Burton
King’s Arrow-Bond
Lassie series (any title)-Knight
Laura Ingalls Wilder (any title)
Lentil-McCloskey
Leonardo De Vinci and the Renaissance-Langley
Leonardo’s Horse-Fritz
Luther the Leader-Robinson
Lysis Goes to the Play-Snedeker
Madeline-Bemelmans
Many Moons-Thurber
Marguerite Makes a Book-Robertson
Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World-Maier
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Martin Luther: Giant of Faith-Glydenvald
Meet Abraham Lincoln-Cary
Memoirs of Joan of Arc-Twain
Michael Faraday: Father of Electronics-Ludwig
Milly, Molly, Mandy-Brisley
Misty of Chincoteague-Henry
Morning Star of the Reformation-Thomson
My Escape from the Auto De Fe-Timms
My Father’s Dragon-Gannett
Narcissa Whitman: Brave Pioneer-Sabin
Night Preacher-Vernon
On the Clouds to China: The Story of Hudson
Taylor Outcast-Sutcliff
Owls in the Family-Mowart
Paul Bunyan-Kellog
Petunia-Duvoisin
Pinnochio-Colladi
Pompeii…Buried Alive!-Kunhardt
Prairie School-Avi
Quintus-Weerstand
Rembrandt-Venezia
Ribsy-Cleary
Robinson Crusoe-Defoe
Roman Army-Broklehurst
Saint Francis-Wildsmith
Saint Patrick: Pioneer Missionary to IrelandMcHugh
Sarah Plain and Tall-MacLachlan
Scottish Seas-Jones
Shakespeare’s Scribe-Blackwood
Silver For General Washington-Meadowcroft
Snow Treasure-McSwiyan
Son of Charlemagne-Willard
Squanto: Friends of the Pilgrims-Bulla
Starry Messenger-Sis
Strangers in the Land-Vernon
Struggle For Freedom-Prins
Stuart Little-White
Sword Song-Sutcliff
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain-Dalgliesh
The Beggar’s Bible-Vernon
The Bible in the Wall-H.J.D.
The Bible Smuggler-Vernon
The Box Car Children-Warner
The Boy’s King Arthur-Malory
The Chronicles of Narnia (any of the 7)-Lewis
The Door in the Wall-De Angeli
The Dragon of Lonely Island-Rupp
The Eagle of the Ninth-Sutcliff
The Emperor’s New Clothes-Anderson
The Escape-Van De Jagt
The Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible-Taylor
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston-Jewett
The Ides of April-Ray
The King’s Shadow-Alder
The Lantern Bearers-Sutcliff
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth-Lasky
The Life of John Calvin-Beza
The Littles (any title)-Peterson
The Loner-Wier
The Lost Baron-French
The Magna Charta-Daugherty
The Making of a Knight-O’Brein
The Man who Laid the Egg-Vernon
The Matchlock Gun-Edmonds
The Mouse and the Motor Cycle-Cleary
The Railway Children-Nesbit
The Red Keep-French
The Secret Mission-Van De Jagt
The Shakespeare Stealer-Blackwood
The Shining Company-Sutcliff
The Silver Branch-Gay
The Silver Skates-Dodge
The Spanish Brothers-Alcock
The Story about Ping-Flack
The Story of the Boston Tea Parth-Phelan
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers-Nesbit
The Trojan Horse-Little
The Velveteen Rabbit-Williams
The Wanderings of Odyesseus-Sutcliff
Theras and His Town-Snedeker
Thomas Edison: Young Inventor-Gutheridge
Three Men Came to Heidleman-Halsema
Time of Wonder-McCloskey
Twelve Bright Trumpets-Leighton
Twenty and Ten-Bishop
Twice Freed-St. John
Vanya-Grant
Wheel on the School-De Jong
Where Does the Butterfly go When it Rains?-Garelick
William of Orange-Van De Hulst
Within the Palace Gates: The King’s Cupbearer-Siviter
Young Carthaginian: A Story of the Times of HannibalHenty
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Fifth and Sixth Grade
Read the following:
A Father’s Promise-Hess
A Wrinkle in Time-L’Engle
Alice in Wonderland-Carroll
Anne of Green Gables series-Montgomery
Basher Five Two-O’Grady
Calico Captive-Speare
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch-Latham
Children of the Storm-Natasha Vins
Duel in the Wilderness-Farley
Eight Cousins-Alcott
Eric Liddell-Swift
Father Brown Mysteries-Chesterton
Guns for General Washington-Reit
Hey, Mac!-McMurdie
Indian Captive-Lenski
Iron Scouts of the Confederacy-McGriffin
Island of the Blue Dolphin-O’Dell
It Began with a Parachute-Rang
James Madison: The Little Big Man-Banfield
Kitty, My Rib-Mall
Little Lord Fauntleroy-Burnett
Little Men-Alcott
Little Women-Alcott
Mountain of Fire-Thomsen
My Side of the Mountain-George
National Velvet-Bagnold
Old Yeller-Gipson
Oliver Twist-Dickens
Ride the West Wind-Chamberlain
Rifles for Watie-Keith
Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other
Tales-Irvin
Sarah Bishop-O’Dell
Scout-Nye
Seaman: The Dog-Karwoski
Stories of the Pilgrim-Pumphrey
Summer of the Swans-Byars
Swiss Family Robinson-Wyss
The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes-Doyle
The Hawks that Dare not Hunt by Night-O’Dell
The Incredible Journey-Burnford
The Little Prince-DeSaint-Expery
The Red Badge of Courage-Crane
The Reluctant Dragon-Grahame
The Secret Garden-Burnett
The Story of D-Day-Bliven
They Shall Be Mine-Tallach
Through the Looking Glass-Carrol
Where the Red Fern Grows-Rawls
Christ Classical Academy’s Reading List
Seventh and Eighth Grade
Read the following:
20,000 Leagues under the Sea-Verne
A Midsummer’s Night Dream-Shakespeare
A Voice in the Wind-Rivers
All Creatures Great and Small-Herriott
An Echo in the Darkness-Rivers
Anna Karenina-Tolstoy
As sure as Dawn-Rivers
Blood and Honor-Kerstan
Chosen By God-Sproul
Christy-Marshall
D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths-D’Aulaire
David Copperfield-Dickens
Death Comes to the Archbishop-Cather
Don Quixote-Cervantes
Eagle of the Ninth-Sutcliffe
G.A. Henty (any title)
Great Expectations-Dickens
Henry V-Shakespeare
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther-Bainton
Hero Tales: Volume 1 and 2-Jackson
Huckleberry Finn-Twain
In Freedom’s Cause: A Story of Wallace &
Bruce-Henty
Jane Eyre-Bronte
Johnny Tremain-Forbes
King Arthur-Pyle
King Richard 111-Shakespeare
Les Miserables-Hugo
Murder in the Cathedral-Eliot
Mythology – Edith Hamilton
Oliver Twist-Dickens
Out of the Silent Planet-Lewis
Outcast-Sutcliff
Perelandra-Lewis
Pilgrim’s Progress-Bunyan
Pilgrim’s Regress-Lewis
Pride and Prejudice-Austen
Sense and Sensibility-Austen
Sherlock Holmes-Doyle
The Best things in Life-Kreeft
The Bronze Bow-Speare
The Canterbury Tales-selected Tales-Chaucer
The Children’s Homer-Colum
The Chronicles of Narnia-Lewis
The Count of Monte Christo-Dumas
The Divine Comedy-Dante
The Dragon and the Raven-Henty
The Governor of England-Bowen
The Great Divorce-Lewis
The Hobbit-Tolkien
The Holiness of God-Sproul
The Hoosier Schoolmaster-Eggleston
The House of the Seven Gables-Hawthorne
The Hunchback of Notre dame-Hugo
The Ides of April-Ray
The Iliad-Homer
The Last of the Mohicans-Cooper
The Man in the Iron Mask-Dumas
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood-Pyle
The Nine Tailors-Sayers
The Odyssey-Homer
The Robe-Douglas
The Saga of the Volsungs: The Norse Epic of Singurd the
Dragon slayer-Byock
The Scarlet Letter-Hawthorne
The Scottish Chiefs-Porter
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The Screwtape Letters-C.S. Lewis
The Sea Wolf-London
The Tale of Two Cities-Dickens
The Three Musketeers-Dumas
The Trail of Tears-Swonger
The Unaborted Socrates-Kreeft
Till We Have Face-Lewis
To Kill A mocking Bird-Lee
Tom Brown at Oxfort-Hughes
Tom Brown School days-Hughes
Trial and Triumph-Hannula
Westward Ho!-Kingsley
White Fang-London
Winning His Spurs: A Story of the Crusades-Henty