Kindergarten:
 Treasury of Mother Goose (Yeatman) and The Real Mother Goose (Wright)
 Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales (Arthur Szyk illustrations)
 A. Milne: The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie the Pooh
 A. Milne: The Complete Poems of Winnie the Pooh
 Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm
 Annotated Brothers Grimm
 D'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths, D'Aulaires Book of Trolls, D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths, Black
Ships Before Troy
 Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve?, Jan Brett
 The Prince of Ireland and the Three Magic Stallions
 Trouble with Trolls, Jan Brett
 Perrault's Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault
 A Child's Garden of Verse, Robert Louis Stevenson
 The Three Billy Goats Gruff, P.C. Asbjornsen
 The Story about Ping, Marjorie Flack
 The Little Engine that Could, Watty Piper
 Stone Soup, Marcia Brown
 The Gingerbread Man, Dominique Thibault
 Goldilocks And The Three Bears
 The Aesop for Children, Il. Milo Winter
 Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (Unabridged)
 The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
 The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
 The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
 Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
 Ancient Civilizations - Prehistory to Ancient Peoples
 Science is Simple: Over 250 Activities
First Grade:
 Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales (Arthur Szyk illustrations)
 Annotated Brothers Grimm
 D'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths, D'Aulaires Book of Trolls, D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths, Black
Ships Before Troy
 Learning to read series: The Greeks (Steele), The Romans (Steele), Middle Ages (Steele), Greek
Cities (Steele), Medieval Markets (Steele), The Saxons (Steele), Cavaliers and
Roundheads (Steele), Normans (Steele), and Tudor Merchant (Steele).
 Aesop: Complete Fables or The Aesop for Children, Il. Milo Winter
 Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
 Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
 Viking Tales, Jennie Hall
 Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
 King of the Golden River, John Ruskin
 The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
 Saint George and the Dragon, Margaret Hodges
 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
 The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
 A Child's History of the World, V. M. Hillyer
Second Grade:
 Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales (Arthur Szyk illustrations)
 D'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths, D'Aulaires Book of Trolls, D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths, Black
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Biographies: Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? (McDonough), Bard of Avon: The Story of William
Shakespeare (Stanley), Michelangelo (Stanley), Starry Messenger: Galileo
Galilei (Sis), Darwin (McGinty)
Celtic Myths and Legends, Joan C. Verniero
Irish Fairy Tales, James Stephens (Il. Arthur Rackham)
The Greeks, Steel
Westward Ho!, Charles Kingsley
Smoky the Cowhorse by Will James
Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, Farmer Boy, On the
Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Little Town on the Prairie, These
Happy Golden Years
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgeson Burnett
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Howard Pyle
The Little Duke, Charlotte Mary Yonge
Columbus, Ingri Daulaire
Leif the Lucky, Ingri Daulaire
Arabian Nights (ed. Andrew Lang)
A Child's History of the World, V. M. Hillyer
Our Island Story, H. E. Marshall
Famous Men of the Middle Ages, John H Haaren
Classical Masterpieces of the Millennium
Third Grade:
 D'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths, D'Aulaires Book of Trolls, D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths, Black
Ships Before Troy
 Biographies: Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? (McDonough), Bard of Avon: The Story of William
Shakespeare (Stanley), Michelangelo (Stanley), Starry Messenger: Galileo
Galilei(Sis), Darwin (McGinty)
 Annotated Brothers Grimm
 Celtic Myths and Legends, Joan C. Verniero, or Irish Fairy Tales, James Stephens (Il. Arthur Rackham)
 Hereward the Wake, Charles Kingsley
 Harald the Ruthless: The Saga of the Last Viking Warrior, Andrea Hopkins
 The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
 Men of Iron, Howard Pyle
 Michelangelo, Diane Stanley
 Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare, Diane Stanley
 Log of the Cowboy by Andy Adams
 Cautionary Verses by Hilaire Belloc
 Otto of the Silver Hand, Howard Pyle
 The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
 The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald
 The Lost World by Sir Arthur Doyle
 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett
 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
 Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb
 Treasure Island (unabridged), by Robert Louis Stevenson
 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
 A Child's History of the World, V. M. Hillyer
 The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon
 Story Of Inventions, Frank P. Bachman
 The Ancient Romans, Allison Lassieur
 Moments in History: Ancient Egypt, Shirley Jordan
 D'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths
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The Complete National Geographic, 108 Years
Stories of the Great Composers (Book & CD), June Montgomery
Fourth Grade:
 Ancient Civilizations Wall Maps
 Biographies: Who Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? (McDonough), Bard of Avon: The Story of William
Shakespeare (Stanley), Michelangelo (Stanley), Starry Messenger: Galileo
Galilei (Sis), Darwin (McGinty)
 D'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths, D'Aulaires Book of Trolls, D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths, Black
Ships Before Troy
 A Child's History of the World, V. M. Hillyer
 Annotated Brothers Grimm
 Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
 Tales from Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb
 Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
 The Boy Knight by G. A. Henty
 Story of a Bad Boy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
 Beric the Briton: A Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. Henty
 The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
 A Tale of the Western Plains by G. A. Henty
 Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories by Jack London
 Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
 The Chessman of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
 Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
 A Child's History of the World, V. M. Hillyer
 The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon
 The Story of the Greeks, H.A. Guerber
 Famous Men of Greece by John H. Haaren and A.B. Poland
 The Tale of Troy, Roger Lancelyn Green
 The Black Ships Before Troy, Rosemary Sutcliff
 Spend the day in Ancient Greece, Linda Honan
 The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales: For My Children by Charles Kingsley
 D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
 Complete Classical Music Library: The Baroque, Vol. 1
Fifth Grade:
 Harry Stottlemier's Discovery, Matthew Lipman
 Philosophy for Kids, David A. White
 The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien & Maps of Middle Earth
 D'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths, D'Aulaires Book of Trolls, D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths, Black
Ships Before Troy
 Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dogdes
 In Freedom's Cause by G. A. Henty
 The Story of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, Howard Pyle
 Puck Of Pook's Hill, Rudyard Kipling
 From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
 Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes or Jungle Tales of Tarzan
 Andy Adams: Wells Brothers: the young Cattle Kings or Campfire Stories
 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Marc D. Falkoff
 20,000 leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
 Falcons of France, James Norman Hall
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The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The Story of the Romans, H. A. Guerber
Famous Men of Rome by John H. Haaren and A.B. Poland
Famous Men of Rome Student Guide, Cheryl Lowe
Famous Men of Rome Teacher Guide (w/ answers key), Cheryl Lowe
Usborne Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Rome, Tim Wood
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction, David MacAulay
Spend the Day in Ancient Rome, Linda Honan
The Complete National Geographic, 108 Years
Let's Meet Famous Composers, Harriet Kinghorn
Complete Classical Music Library: The Symphonies, Vol. 1
The Fairy-Land of Science, Arabella B. Buckley
Great Astronomers, R. S. Ball
Physics Lab in a Housewares Store, Robert Friedhoffer
Sixth Grade:
 Harry Stottlemier's Discovery, Matthew Lipman
 Philosophy for Kids, David A. White
 Art in Focus, ed. Gene A. Mittler
 D'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths, D'Aulaires Book of Trolls, D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths, Black
Ships Before Troy
 The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien & Maps of Middle Earth
 Age of the Fable, Thomas Bullfinch
 Under Drake's Flag by G. A. Henty
 In the Reign of Terror by G. A. Henty
 Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
 Sketchbook by Washington Irving
 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
 Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
 Animal Farm, George Orwell
 Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
 Gene Stratton-Porter: Michael O'Halloran or A Girl of the Limberlost
 Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
 Augustus Caesar's World, Genevieve Foster
 The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Willem Van Loon
 The Roman and the Teuton, Kingsely
 Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology, Thomas Bulfinch
 Legends of Charlemagne & the Age of Chivalry, Thomas Bulfinch
 Castle, David Macaulay
 Cathedral, David Macaulay
 Castles And Palaces of Europe, Ulrike Schober
 Castles and Fortified Cities of Medieval Europe, Jean-denis Lepage
 Everyday Life in Medieval Europe, Neil Morris
 Make this Medieval Castle
 The Complete National Geographic, 108 Years
 Archimedes and the Door of Science, Jeanne Bendick
 Galileo and the Magic Numbers, Sidney Rosen
 The Sea Around Us, Rachel L. Carson
 Secrets of the Universe: Discovering the Universal Laws of Science, Paul Fleisher
Seventh Grade:
 Art in Focus, ed. Gene A. Mittler
 The Story of Painting: From Cave Painting to Modern Times, Horst W. Janson
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The Once and Future King, T. H. White
Wulf the Saxon by G. A. Henty
Beowulf, ed. Burton Raffel
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, William Morris
Knight's Fee, Rosemary Sutcliff
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. Burton Raffel
The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien & Maps of Middle Earth
A knight of the White cross; a tale of the siege of Rhodes, G. A. Henty
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, H.P. Lovecraft
The Lost Prince, Francis Hodgson Burnett
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Two Years before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Silverado Squatters or Across the Plains
Stratton-Porter: The Harvester or Freckles
The Brendan Voyage: Across the Atlantic in a Leather Boat, Tim Severin
With the Lee in Virginia by G. A. Henty
Penrod by Booth Tarkington
Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Stalky
Alfred the Great, John Asser
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David Hackett Fischer
This Country of Ours: A Classic United States History Book, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
A History of the American People, Paul Johnson
Re-Forging America: The Story Of Our Nationhood, T. Lothrop Stoddard Roots Of American Order,
Russell Kirk
The Complete National Geographic, 108 Years
Eighth Grade:
 Art in Focus, ed. Gene A. Mittler and/or The Story of Painting: From Cave Painting to Modern Times,
Horst W. Janson
 The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien & Maps of Middle Earth
 A Taste of Chaucer, Selections from The Canterbury Tales, Anne Malcolmson
 Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
 Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
 Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
 The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
 The Talisman, Sir Walter Scott
 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
 G.A. Henty: The Lion of the North
 James Fenimore Cooper: The Two Admirals and Pilot: A Tale of the Sea
 Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Barnaby Rudge
 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Doyle
 Stratton-Porter: A Daughter of the Land or At the Foot of the Rainbow
 Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
 Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, Edith Hamilton
 Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David Hackett Fischer
 This Country of Ours: A Classic United States History Book, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
 A History of the American People, Paul Johnson
 Albion's Seed, David Hackett Fischer
Ninth Grade:
 Understanding Human History, Michael H. Hart
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The Great Conversation by Mortimer J. Adler
Aesop: The Complete Fables
The Histories by Herodotus (trans. by Aubery de Selincourt)
Thucydides: The Landmark Thucydides or On Justice, Power, and Human Nature
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer, Tales from the Odyssey (Part 1 & 2), The Wandering of Odysseus: The Story
of Odyssey
Plato: Collected Dialogues, ed. Edith Hamilton (read Apology & Euthyphro)
The Basic Works of Aristotle, ed. Richard McKeon (read the Politics and Books I & II of
the Nicomachean Ethics)
Greek Tragedies, ed. David Grene (Volume 1, 2 & 3)
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, Edith Hamilton
Plutarch's Lives (Vol. I & Vol. II), trans. by Dryden or Plutarch: The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek
Lives
Theogony by Hesiod
The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements, ed. Thomas L. Heath
The Complete Plays of Aristophanes, ed. Mosas Hadas
The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, ed. Robin Waterfield
The Greek Conservative Mind, Thomas Fleming
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien & Maps of Middle Earth
Tenth Grade:
 Frankenstein
 Understanding Human History, Michael H. Hart
 Europe: A History, Norman Davies
 Livy - Early History of Rome
 Cicero: On Duties
 The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar
 Tacitus: Annals and Germania
 Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
 Plutarch: Roman Lives
 On The Nature of Things by Lucretius
 The Aeneid by Virgil
 Satyricon by Petronius (only "Dinner with Trimalchio")
 Satires by Juvenal
 A History of Rome by M. Cary
 Fall of the Roman Empire (only essays by Tenny Frank, J. B. Bury & Edward Gibbon)
 The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity, James C. Russell
 Beowulf
 Saga of the Volsungs
 Germanic Mythology by Jacob Grimm
 Prose Edda and Poetic Edda by Snorri Sturluson
 Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede (only Book I)
 History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours (only end of Book II on Clovis)
 Two Lives of Charlemagne, Einhard
Eleventh Grade:
 Understanding Poetry, Brooks & Warren
 10,000 Year Explosion, Cochran & Harpending
 A History of Europe, J. M. Roberts
 The Roman and the Teuton, Charles Kingsley
 Morality of Everyday Life by Thomas Fleming
 Prose Edda and Poetic Edda by Snorri Sturluson
 Thomas Malory: Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
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Song of Roland
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Shakespeare: Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Henry IV, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet, The
Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night
Paradise Lost by Milton
Discourse on Method and Meditations by Descartes
Leviathan by Hobbes
Pensees by Pascal
Praise of Folly by Erasmus
The Prince by Machiavelli
Utopia by Sir Thomas More
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Francois Rabelais
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences by Galileo
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Copernicus
The New Atlantis and Novum Organum by Bacon
Coming of Age in the Milky Way, Timothy Ferris
Twelfth Grade:
 10,000 Year Explosion, Cochran & Harpending
 Understanding Poetry, Brooks & Warren
 Shakespeare: Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, and The Tempest
 David Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion,
and Treatise of Human Nature
 Immanuel Kant: Anthropology or Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
 Democracy in America by De Tocqueville
 Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France
 The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
 Phaedra by Racine
 Tartuffe by Moliere
 Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality, Beyond Good and Evil, and Twilight of the Idols
 Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 Anthony Trollope: The Way we Live Now
 Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail
 On Origin of Species or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin
 An American History (colonies - 1910, classic 1911 text, grade 12), David Saville Muzzey