Ancient History Reading List
*Please note that we have not read all of these books. Please preview before letting your child read. These are just
suggestions: any book pertaining to the history time periods/ topics studied this year can be read for points. You may also
read any Christian biography. If a book is not listed on the suggested list, please go to www.scholastic.com/bookwizard to
determine the point value (round up to the nearest grade level). If you cannot find a book’s point value, use the value of an
equivalent book or ask your child’s history teacher.
Recommended Ages are from the publishers and book lists; you know your child.
E=1st-3rd UE=4th-6th JH=7th-8th HS=9th-12th
TITLE
AUTHOR
****TIME
PERIOD/TOPIC****
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Egypt
Egypt
RECOMMENDED
AGE
K-E
E-UE
UE+
K-UE
E-UE
READING
POINTS
3
3
6
3
4
Joanne Williamson
Egypt
UE-HS
7
Bill and Pete Go Down the Nile
The Golden Sandal
Casting the Gods Adrift
The Egyptian Cinderella
Gift Of The Nile: An Ancient
Egyptian Legend
God King: A Story in the Days of
King Hezekiah
The Golden Goblet (not for 5th/6th
– reading in class)
Tomie DePaola
Rebecca Hickox
Geraldine McCaughrean
Shirley Climo
retold by Jan M. Mike
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Egypt
UE-HS+
6
Joseph
Brian Wildsmith
Egypt
K-UE
4
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
Eloise McGraw
Egypt
JH+
8
Pepi and the Secret Names
Jill Paton Walsh
Egypt
E-UE .
4
Pyramid
David Macaulay
Egypt
UE+
7
Shadowhawk
Andre Norton
Egypt
JH-HS
7
Temple Cat by Andrew Clements
Andrew Clements
Egypt
K-E
3
Tut's Mummy: Lost...and Found
(Step into Reading, Step
4) Donnelly
Judy Donnelly
Egypt
E-UE
4
Tutankhamun
Robert Green
Egypt
UE-JH+
6
Zekmet, the Stone Carver: A Tale
of Ancient Egypt
Mary Stolz
Egypt
UE+
5
The Three Princes
Eric Kimmel
Mesopotamia
E-UE
4
Exodus
Brian Wildsmith
Egypt-Moses
E-UE
5
Mummies in the Morning
Mary Pope Osborne
Egypt
E
3
The Bronze Bow (not for 7th/8th – lit
selection)
Elizabeth George Speare
Rome
JH+
8
Seeker of Knowledge: The Man
Who Deciphered Egyptian
Hieroglyphs
James Rumford
Egypt
E
5
Tutankhamen’s Gift
Robert Sabuda
Egypt
E
5
Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures: Ancient
Egypt
Joanna Cole
Egypt
E
3
You Wouldn’t Want to be an
Egyptian Mummy
David Stewart, David
Salariva, David Antram
Egypt
UE
5
Great Pyramid
Elizabeth Mann
Egypt
UE
5
You Wouldn’t Want to be a
Pyramid Builder
Jacqueline Morley
Egypt
UE
5
(Royal Diaries) CleopatraVII:
Daughter of the Nile
Kristiana Gregory
Egypt
UE
7
Into the Mummy’s Tomb
Nicholas Reeves
Egypt
JH
6
Motel of Mysteries (satire of
archaeology)
David MaCauley
Egypt
JH
7
The Egyptian News
Scott Steedman
Egypt
UE+
5
Cleopatra
Diane Stanley
Egypt
E
3
You Wouldn’t Want to Be
Cleopatra
Jim Pipe
Egypt
UE
6
His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut
Dorothy Sharp Carver
Egypt
UE+
6
Tut, Tut (Time Warp Trio)
Jon Scieszka
Egypt
E
4
Tutankhamen’s Gift
Robert Sabuda
Egypt
E
5
Ancient Egypt: An Interactive
Adventure
Heather Adamson
Egypt
UE
4
Atlantis: The Legend of a Lost City
Christina Balit
Crete
UE
5
Monster in the Maze: The Story of
the Minotaur (All Aboard Reading)
Stephanie Spinner
Crete
E
3
Greece
UE
4
Greece – Trojan
War
E-UE
5
Kathryn Lasky
Greece
UE
6
Black Ships Before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff
Greece
UE+
7
The Wanderings of Odysseus
(caution on some pictures)
Rosemary Sutcliff
Greece
UE+
7
d’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths
Ingri and Edgar d’Aulaire
Greece-myths
E+
6
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Slave
in Ancient Greece
Fiona MacDonald
Greece
E+
5
Aesop’s Fables
Jerry Pinkney
Greece
E+
5
The Hero and the Minotaur
Robert Byrd
Greece-myths
UE
7
Tanglewood Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Greece-myths
UE+
9
Wonder Book
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Greece-myths
UE+
9
Golden Fleece
Padaic Colum
Greece
UE+
8
Tales from the Odyssey (6 books
in the series)
Mary Pope Osborne
Greece-myths
UE
5
Favorite Greek Myths
Mary Pope Osborne
Greece-myths
UE+
6
Children’s Homer (retelling of Iliad
and the Odyssey)
Padraic Colum
Greece
UE+
8
Galen and the Gateway to
Medicine
Jeanne Bendick
Greece
UE+
6
Archimedes and the Door of
Science
Jeanne Bendick
Greece
UE+
6
I Am the Great Horse
Katherine Roberts
UE-JH
7
The Flying Horse: The Story of
Pegasus
Jane Mason
Greece –
Alexander the
Great
Greece-myths
E
3
The Greek News
Anton Powell and Philip
Steele
Greece –
Alexander the
Great
UE
6
Stallion by Starlight
Mary Pope Osborne
Greece- Alexander
E
3
Ancient Greece: An Interactive
Adventure
William Caper
The Trojan Horse: How the
Greeks Won the War
Emily Little
The Librarian Who Measured the
Earth
the Great
The Winged Cat: And Other Tales
of Ancient Civilizations
Deborah Nourse Lattimore
Babylon
UE
5
Iliad
Homer
Greece
JH-HS
11
Odyssey
Homer
Greece
JH-HS
11
Hittite Warrior
Joanne Williamson
UE-HS
7
Children of the Fox
Jill Walsh
Greece
UE-JH
8
Greek Myths for Young Children
Heather Avery
Greece-myths
E-UE
4
Gilgamesh the Hero
Geraldine McCaughrean
UE+
5
The Buried City of Pompeii (I Was
There Series)
Shelly Tanaka
Pompeii
E-UE
6
Ancient Rome: An Interactive
Adventure
Rachael Hanel
Rome
UE
4
Life as a Gladiator (You Choose
Adventure)
Michael Burgen
Rome
UE
4
Pompeii: Buried Alive
Edith Kunhardt
Rome-Pompeii
E
3
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Roman
Gladiator
John Malam
Rome-Gladiators
UE
5
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Roman
Soldier
David Stewart
Rome-soldiers
UE
6
Detectives in Togas (won’t count
for 5th/ 6th graders –it’s a lit
selection)
Henry Winterfeld
Rome
UE+
5
Mystery of the Roman Ransom
(sequel to Detectives in Togas)
Henry Winterfeld
Rome
UE+
5
Roman Mysteries series (13 books
in the series – Thieves of Ostia is
first book)
Caroline Lawrence
Rome
UE+
5
See You Later, Gladiator (Time
Warp Trio)
Jon Sciezka
Rome
E-UE
4
Hannibal: Rome’s Worst
Nightmare
Philip Brooks
Hannibal
UE+
6
City
David MacCauley
Rome
UE+
7
Ben Hur
Lew Wallace
Rome
JH+
10
Eagle of the Ninth
Rosemary Sutcliff
Roman Britain
JH
7
Silver Branch (sequel to Eagle of
the Ninth)
Rosemary Sutcliff
Roman Britain
JH
7
Young Carthaginian
G. A. Henty
Hannibal
JH+
8
Julius Caesar
Shakespeare
Rome – Julius
Caesar
HS
11
The Wadjet Eye
Jill Rubalcaba
Rome
UE
4
“Julius Caesar” from Tales from
Shakespeare
Marcia Williams
Rome – Julius
Caesar
UE
5
Vacation Under the Volcano
Mary Pope Osborne
Pompeii
E
3
Christian Heros: Then & Now (any
book in the series)
Janet & Geoff Benge
Christian
Biographies
UE+
6
Trailblazer Series
Neta & Dave Jackson
Christian
Biographies
UE+
5