Book Recommendations for EC and Grades

We have collected our Waldorf inspired reading list that is age appropriate for each child.

Early Years from the age of 3-6

● Admar Kwant: Sam and the Gnome’s Red Hat

● Adrian Macho: The Whale the Sea and the Stairs

● Andrea Cheng: When the Bees Fly Home

● Daniela Drescher: Goodnight Sandman

● Daniela Drescher: Little Fairy Can’t Sleep

● Dawn Casey: Spin a Scarf of Sunshine

● Doris Rainville: The Girl Who Never Let Her Mother Brush Her Hair ● Doris Rainville:The Power of Love

● Dvzinka Hayda: Natalia's Journey to the Land of the Fairies

● Elsa Beskow: Around the Year

● Elsa Beskow: Children of the Forest

● Elsa Beskow: Emily and Daisy

● Elsa Beskow: Ollie’s Ski Trip

● Elsa Beskow: Pelle’s New Suit

● Elsa Beskow: Peter and Lotta’s Christmas

● Elsa Beskow: Peter in Blueberry Land

● Elsa Beskow: Princess Sylvie

● Elsa Beskow: Rosalind and the Little Dear

● Elsa Beskow: The Curious Fish

● Elsa Beskow: The Sun Egg

● Elsa Beskow: Woody, Hazel and Little Pip

● Else Wenz-Viëtor The Christmas Angels

● Geoff Mead and Sanne Dufft: Bear Child

● Gerda Muller: A Year Around the Great Oak

● Gerda Muller: A Year in Our New Garden

● Gerda Muller: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

● Gerda Muller: How Does My Fruit Grow

● Gerda Muller: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

● Gerda Muller: Where Do They Go When it Rains?

● Jef Aerts and Sanne te Loo: Cherry Blossom and Paper Planes ● Jennifer Matthai Garner: The Pumpkin Painter

● Jonathan Emmett: Bringing Down the Moon

● Martin Widmark and Emilia Dziubak: Little Pearl

● Martin Widmark and Emilia Dziubak: The House of Lost and Found 1

● Mary Azarian: A Farmer's Alphabet

● Nancy Jewel Poer: Mia’s Apple Tree

● Nienke van Hichtum: The Apple Cake

● Reg Down: A Tangle of Tales

● Reg Down: Big Stamp Two Toes the Barefoot Giant

● Reg Down: Eggs for the Hunting

● Reg Down: The Festival of Stones

● Reg Down: The Magic Knot

● Reg Down: The Midsummer Mouse

● Reg Down: The Tales of Tiptoes Lightly

● Sibylle von Olfers: The Story of Little Billy Bluesocks

● Sibylle von Olfers: The Story of the Butterfly Children

● Sibylle von Olfers: The Story of the Root Children

● Sibylle von Olfers: The Story of the Snow Children

● Sibylle von Olfers: The Story of the Wind Children

● Stefanie Dahle: Evie and the Strawberry Surprise

● Sven Nordqvist: Can Findus Find Pettson?

● Sven Nordqvist: Findus Goes Fishing

● Sven Nordqvist: Findus Plants Meatballs

● Sven Nordqvist: Findus and the Fox

● Sven Nordqvist: Findus goes Camping

● Sven Nordqvist: Keeping up with Findus

● Sven Nordqvist: Pancakes for Findus

● Theresa Roach Melia: Scoochie Mouse and the Miracle of Life ● Ulf Stark and Eva Eriksson: The Yule Tomte and the Little Rabbits

Kindergarten:

● Astrid Lindgren: The Tomten

● Astrid Lindgren: The Tomten and the Fox

● Barbara Helen Berger: Grandfather Twilight

● Barbara Helen Berger: When the Sun Rose

● Cicely Mary Barker: Flower Fairy Books series

● Coby Hol: Punch and His Friends

● Daniel Bryan: Sun and Seeds

● Elsa Beskow: See from Early Years

● Ezra Jack Keats: Peter’s Chair

● Ezra Jack Keats: The Snowy Day

● Ezra Jack Keats: Whistle for Willie

● Joel Chandler: Uncle Remus

● Judith Adams: Hedgehogs’ Midnight Milking

● Judith Adams: Looking for a Fairy

● Robert McCloskey: Blueberries for Sal

● Robert McCloskey: Make Way for Ducklings

● Robert McCloskey: One Morning in Maine

● Robert McCloskey: Time of Wonder

● Rudolf Copple: To Grow and Become: Stories for Children

● Thornton Burgess: The Adventures of Johnny Chuck

● Thornton Burgess: The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer

● Thornton Burgess: The Adventures of Little Joe Otter

● Thornton Burgess: The Adventures of Mr. Mocker

● Thornton Burgess: The Adventures of Peter Cottontail

First Grade-reading aloud:

● A First Reading Book for Waldorf Schools: Hay for My Ox

● Afanaser: Russian Fairy Tales

● Alfred Tennyson: The Brook

● An Illustrated Treasury of Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Daniela Drescher ● Arthur Ransome: Old Peter’s Russian Tales

● Asbjornsen and Moe: East of Sun and West of Moon

● Astrid Lindgren: Christmas in the Noisy Village

● Astrid Lindgren: Christmas in the Stable

● Astrid Lindgren: The Children on Troublemaker Street

● Barbara Helen Berger: Animalia

● Barbara Helen Berger: Grandfather Twilight

● Barbara Helen Berger: Gwinna

● Barbara Helen Berger: The Donkey’s Dream

● Barbara Helen Berger: The Jewel Heart

● Barbara Helen Berger: When the Sun Rose

● Carol Ann Williams: Tsubu the Little Snail

● Cicely Mary Barker: Flower Fairy Books

● Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

● Daniel C. Bryan: Sun and Seed

● D’Aulaire: Children of the Northern Light

● Elizabeth Orton Jones: Twig

● Eric G. Müller: The Invisible Boat and the Molten Dragon

● Ethel Cook Eliot: The Wind Boy

● Famke Zonnenveld: Waldorf Alphabet Book

● Flora Annie Steel: English Fairy Tales

● Gerald McDermott: Zomo the Rabbit

● Gunhild Sehlin: Mary’s Little Donkey

● Henry Horenstein: My Mom’s Vet

● Hunt, Margaret and James Stern, editors: The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales (introduction by Padraic Colum and commentary by Joseph Campbell. pub. Pantheon Jacobs, Joseph, editor: English Fairy Tales illustrated by John D. Batten)

● Jacob Streit: Puck the Gnome

● Jacob Streit: Tatatuk’s Journey to the Crystal Mountings

● Joel Chandler: Uncle Remus

● Judith Adams: Hedgehogs’ Midnight Milking

● Judith Adams: Looking for a Fairy

● Julius Lester: The Tales of Uncle Remus

● Kenneth Grahame: The Reluctant Dragon

● Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

● Luke Fischer: The Blue Forest

● Maj Lindman: Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and the Three Kittens series ● Orczy: Old Hungarian Fairy Tales

● Paul F. Cooper: Tal: His Marvelous Adventures with Noom-Zoor-Noom ● Rinna Hermann: The Sand Elephant

● Robert McCloskey: One Morning In Maine

● Shelley Davidow: The Wise Enchanter

● Sieglinde De Francesca: A Gnome-in-Training (Book 5)

● Sieglinde De Francesca: Gnomes and Friends (Book2)

● Sieglinde De Francesca: Nine Gnome Nights (Book 4)

● Sieglinde De Francesca: The Gnomes’ Rosette (Book 3)

● Sieglinde De Francesca: The Way of the Gnome (Book 1)

● Steig William: Dominic

● Tomie De Paola: Big Anthony

● Tomie De Paola: Clown of God

● Tomie De Paola: Oliver Button is a Sissy

● Tomie De Paola: Stregna Nona

● Wyatt Isabel: Seven Year Old Wonder Book

● Wyatt Isabel: The Book of Fairy Princes

Second Grade:

Reading aloud:

● Aesop: Aesop’s Fables

● Andrew Lang: The “Color” Fairy Tales book series

● Arthur Ransome: Old Peter’s Russian Tales

● Dalgliesh, Alice: Columbus Story

● Dalgliesh, Alice: Thanksgiving Story

● Daniela Drescher: The Garden Adventures of Griswald the Gnome ● David Kherdian: Feather and Tails Animal Fables

● Eleanor Farjeon: Ten Saints

● Ethel Cook Eliot: The Wind Boy

● George MacDonald: The Light Princess

● George MacDonald: The Princess and Curdie

● George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin

● Gerald McDermott: Zomo the Rabbit

● Glenda Millard:The Naming of Tishkin Silk

● Gunhild Sehlin: Mary’s Little Donkey and the Flight to Egypt

● Henry Barnes: The Golden Footprint and Other Fairy Tales

● Jacob Streit: Animal Stories

● Jacob Streit: Brother Francis

● Jacob Streit: Little Bee Sunbeam

● Jacob Streit: Saint Nicholas

● Jacob Streit:The Bee Book

● J.M.Barrie: Peter Pan

● Joel Chandler: Uncle Remus

● Kelly Morrow: King Thrushbeard

● Kelly Morrow: Lazy Jack

● Kelly Morrow: Sylvain and Jocosa

● Kelly Morrow: The Prince and the Dragon

● Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

● Lin Grace: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

● Leo Lionni: Frederick’s Fables

● Luke Fischer: The Blue Forest (collection of bedtime stories)

● Marguerite De Angeli: Copper- toed Boots

● Marguerite De Angeli: Petite Suzann

● Marguerite De Angeli: Skippack School

● Michael Ende: Jim Botton and the Wild 13

● Micheal Ende: Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver

● Milne A.A.: When We Were Very Young

● Milne A.A.: Winnie the Pooh

● Padraic Cloum: The King of Ireland’s Son

● Rose Esi Blissett: Stories from Africa “Tsie Na Atsie”

● Rudyard Kipling: Just So Stories

● Susan Cooper: The Selkie Girl

● Wyatt, Isabel: Eight Year Old Legend Book

● Wyatt, Isabel: Magical Wonder Tales

● Wyatt, Isabel: Seven Year Old Wonder Book

● Wyatt, Isabel: The Book of Fairy Princess

Beginning to read:

● Barbara Cooney: Chanticleer and the Fox

● Barbara Cooney: Miss. Rumphius

● Bishop Clare: Five Chinese Brothers

● Eve Bunting: Winter’s coming

● Marie Dorléans: The Night Walk

● Rylant Cynthia: The Blue Hill Meadows

● Rylant Cynthia: The Cobble Street Cousins series

● Rylant Cynthia: The Lighthouse Family series

● Rylant Cynthia: Thimbleberry Stories

● Virginia Burton: Katy and the Big Snow

● Virginia Burton: Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel

● Virginia Burton: The Little House

● Walter Farley: Little Black, A Pony

● Walter Farley:Little Black Goes to Circus

● Ziefert, Harriet: New Coat for Anna

Read Myself:

● A First Reading Book for Waldorf Schools: Hay for My Ox

● Arnold Lobel: Mouse tales

● Arthur Pittis: Fee Fi Fo Fum

● Barbara Berger: Grandfather Twilight

● Burgess, Thornton: Old Mother West Wind

● Dalgliesh, Alice: Bears of Hemlock Mountain

● Dalgliesh, Alice: The courage of Sarah Noble

● Gannett Ruth Stiles: Elmer and the Dragon

● Gannett Ruth Stiles: My Father’s Dragon

● Gannett Ruth Stiles: The Dragons of Blueland

● Godden Rumer: Mouse House

● Iwamatsu Satomi: Crow Boy

● LeGuin Ursula : Catwing series

● Leaf Munro : Story of Ferdinand

● Lindgren Astrid: The Street of Troublemaker Street

● Lindgren Astrid: Tomten

● Lindgren Astrid: Tomten and the Fox

● Rappaport Doreen: Martin’s Big Words

● Ruth Sawyer: Journey Cake, Ho!

Third Grade:

● A.A. Milne: Now we are Six

● A.A. Milne: The House at Pooh Corner

● A.A. Milne: Winnie the Pooh

● Ann Tompert: Little Fox Goes to the End of the World

● Arthur M. Pittis: When I Hear My Heart Wonder

● Astrid Lindgren: Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter

● Astrid Lindgren: Mio, My son

● Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Goes on Board

● Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking

● Astrid Lindgren: Pippi on the Run

● Bill Peet: Big Bad Bruce

● Bill Peet: Eli

● Chief Seattle: Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle ● Dan Millman: Quest for Crystal Castle

● Dan Millman: Secret of the Peaceful Warrior

● E.B. White: Charlotte’s Web

● E.B. White: Stuart Little

● E.B.White: Charlotte’s web

● E.B: White: The Trumpet of the Swan

● Ella Young: Celtic wonder Tales

● Ella Young: The Tangle-Coated Horse

● Ellis Credle: Down Down the Mountain

● Eric Kastner: Emil

● Erich Kastner: Emil and the Detectives

● Erich Kastner: The Flying Classroom

● Ervin Lazar: Arnica the Duck Princess

● Ezra Jack Keats: An American Legend

● Felix Salten: Bambi

● Frances Carpenter: Tales of a Korean Grandmother

● Frank L. Baum: Wizard of Oz

● Frank Waters: Book of the Hopi

● George MacDonald: The princess and Curdie

● George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin

● George MacDonald: At the back of the North Wind

● Han Micko: Turtle Power

● Holling C. Holling: The Book of Indians

● Ingwe:Ingwe

● Isabel Wyatt: King Beetle-Tamer and Other

● Isabel Wyatt: Lighthearted Wonder Tales

● Isabel Wyatt: The Book of Fairy Princes

● J.M.Barrie: Peter Pan

● Jacob Streit: And There Was Light

● Jacob Streit: We Will Build a Temple

● James Thurber: The Thirteen Clocks

● Jill Barklem: Autumn Story

● Jill Barklem: Spring Story

● Jill Barklem: Summer Story

● Jill Barklem: The World of Brambly Hedge

● Jill Barklem: Winter Story

● John Bierhorst: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

● José Patterson: Angels, People, Rabbis and Kings from the Stories of the Jewish People

● L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

● Laura Ingalls Wilder: Farmer Boy (read first)

● Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House in the Big Woods

● Leo Politi: The Nicest Gift

● Leo and Diane Dillon: Ashanti to Zulu

● Leo and Diane Dillon: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ear ● Lin Grace: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

● Ludwig Bemelman: Madeline series

● Manitonquat: The Children of the Morning Light Wampanoag Tales as told by Medicine Story

● Marilee Heyer: The Weaving of a Dream

● Mary Pope Osborne: American Tall Tales

● Michael Ende: Jim Botton and the Wild 13

● Nancy Luenor: The Dragon Kite

● Norman Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth

● Peter Spier: London Bridge is Falling Down

● Phoebe Gilman: Something from Nothing

● R. and F. Atwater: Mr. Popper’s Penguins

● Rachel Carson: The Sense of Wonder

● Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach

● Roald Dahl: Matilda

● Roald Dahl: The B F G

● Roald Dahl: The Witches

● Robert Kimmel Smith: Chocolate Fever

● Robert Kimmel Smith: Jelly Belly

● Robert Kimmel Smith: Mostly Michael

● Robert Kimmel Smith: The War with Grandpa

● Robin Moore: When the Moon is Full: Supernatural Stories from the Old Pennsylvania Mountains

● Rudyard Kipling: Just So Stories

● Rudyard Kipling: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

● Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Books

● Russel Hiban: Bread and Jam for Frances

● Russel Hoban: Bedtime for Frances

● Ruth Manning-Sanders: Red Indian Folk and Fairy Tales

● Hyemeyohsts Storm: Seven Arrows

● Tony Johnston: The Adventures of Mole and Troll

● Ursula Le Guin: Catwings

● Ursula Le Guin: Catwings Returns

● Ursula Le Guin: Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings

● Wilhelm Hauff: Little Long-Nose

● William Steig: Doctor DeSoto

● William Steig: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

● Williams: The Velveteen Rabbit

● Yen Shen: A Cinderella Story from China

● Yoshiko Uchida: The Magic Listening Cap

Fourth Grade:

● Ann Tompert: Little Fox Goes to the End of the World

● Arthur Ransome: Swallows and Amazons

● Astrid Lindgren: Karlson on the Roof

● Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Goes on Board

● Astrid Lindgren: Pippi Longstocking

● Astrid Lindgren: Pippi on the Run

● Astrid Lindgren: The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking

● Bill Peet: Big Bad Bruce

● Bill Peet: Eli

● C.S. Lewis: Prince Caspian

● C.S. Lewis: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

● C.S. Lewis: The Silver Chair

● Carlo Collodi: The Adventures of Pinocchio

● Charles Kovacs: Ancient Mythologies: India, Persia, Babylon, Egypt ● Chief Seattle: Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle ● Christine Nöstlinger: Conrad, The Factory – Made Boy

● Dan Millman: Quest for Crystal Castle

● Dan Millman: Secret of the Peaceful Warrior

● E.B. White: Charlotte’s Web

● E.B. White: Stuart Little

● E.B: White: The Trumpet of the Swan

● Ella Young: Celtic wonder Tales

● Ella Young: The Tangle-Coated Horse

● Ellis Credle: Down Down the Mountain

● Eric Kastner: Little Man

● Eric Kastner: Parent Trap

● Eric Knight: Courage of Lassie

● Eric Knight: Lassie Come Home

● Ezra Jack Keats: An American Legend

● Felix Salter: Bambi

● Frances Carpenter: Tales of a Korean Grandmother

● Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Little Princess

● Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden

● Frank L. Baum: Wizard of Oz

● Frank Waters: Book of the Hopi

● Han Micko: Turtle Power

● Holling C. Holling: The Book of Indians

● Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire: Norse Gods and Giants

● Ingwe:Ingwe

● Isabel Wyatt: King Beetle-Tamer and Other

● Isabel Wyatt: Lighthearted Wonder Tales

● Isabel Wyatt: The Book of Fairy Princes

● J.R.R. Tolkien: Farmer Giles of Ham

● Jacob Streit: Three Knight Tales

● James Matthew Barrie: The Adventures of Peter Pan

● James Thurber: The Thirteen Clocks

● Jill Barklem: Autumn Story

● Jill Barklem: Spring Story

● Jill Barklem: Summer Story

● Jill Barklem: The World of Brambly Hedge

● Jill Barklem: Winter Story

● Johanna Spyri: Heidi

● John Bauer: An Illustrated Treasury of Swedish Folk and Fairy Tales ● John Bierhorst: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

● José Patterson: Angels, People, Rabbis and Kings from the Stories of the Jewish People

● Karin Michaelis: Bibi

● Karin Michaelis: Bibi Goes Traveling

● Kirsti Makinen: An Illustrated Kalevala – Myths and Legends from Finland ● L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

● Laura Ingalls Wilder: Farmer Boy (read first)

● Leo Politi: The Nicest Gift

● Leo and Diane Dillon: Ashanti to Zulu

● Leo and Diane Dillon: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ear ● Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland

● Lewis Carroll: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass ● Lin Grace: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

● Lin Grace: When the Sea Turned to Silver

● Ludwig Bemelman: Madeline series

● Manitonquat: The Children of the Morning Light Wampanoag Tales as told by Medicine Story

● Marilee Heyer: The Weaving of a Dream

● Mark Twain: Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the

● Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

● Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

● Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer

● Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer Abroad, By Huck Finn

● Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

● Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer, Detective

● Mary Pope Osborne: American Tall Tales

● Michael Ende: Momo

● Michael Ende: The Never Ending Story

● Michael Ende: The Night of Wishes

● Nancy Luenor: The Dragon Kite

● Norman Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth

● P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins

● P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins Comes Back

● P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins Opens the Door

● P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins in Cherry Lane

● P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins in the Kitchen

● P.L. Travers: Mary Poppins in the Park

● Peter Spier: London Bridge is Falling Down

● Phoebe Gilman: Something from Nothing

● R. and F. Atwater: Mr. Popper’s Penguins

● Rachel Carson: The Sense of Wonder

● Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach

● Roald Dahl: Matilda

● Roald Dahl: The B F G

● Roald Dahl: The Witches

● Robert Kimmel Smith: Chocolate Fever

● Robert Kimmel Smith: Jelly Belly

● Robert Kimmel Smith: Mostly Michael

● Robert Kimmel Smith: The War with Grandpa

● Robin Moore: When the Moon is Full: Supernatural Stories from the Old Pennsylvania Mountains

● Rudyard Kipling: Just So Stories

● Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book

● Russel Hiban: Bread and Jam for Frances

● Russel Hoban: Bedtime for Frances

● Ruth Manning-Sanders: Red Indian Folk and Fairy Tales

● Schocken Books: World Mythology Series

● Selma Lagerlöf: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson ● Storm: Seven Arrows

● Theresa Breslin: An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Castle Legends ● Theresa Breslin: An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales ● Theresa Breslin: An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Mythical Creatures ● Tony Johnston: The Adventures of Mole and Troll

● Ursula Le Guin: Catwings

● Ursula Le Guin: Catwings Returns

● Ursula Le Guin: Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings

● William Steig: Doctor DeSoto

● William Steig: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

● Williams: The Velveteen Rabbit

● Yen Shen: A Cinderella Story from China

● Yoshiko Uchida: The Magic Listening Cap

Fifth grade:

● Alan Burgess: The Small Woman

● Albert Terhune: Lad: A Dog

● Alice Dalgliesh: American Travels

● Alice Dalgliesh: Courage of sarah Noble

● Astrid Lindgren: The Brothers Lionheart

● Beverly Cleary: Ellen Tebbits

● Beverly Cleary: Henry Huggins series

● Beverly Cleary: Ramona series

● C. Day Lewis: The Otterbury Incident

● C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia

● Carol Hoff: Johnny Texas

● Catherine Sellew: Adventures with the Gods

● Charles Dickens: Christmas Carol

● Charles Kovacs: Greece: Mythology and History

● Clyde Robert Bulla: Down the Mississippi

● Clyde Robert Bulla: Riding the Pony Express

● Clyde Robert Bulla: Secret Valley

● Clyde Robert Bulla: The Sword in the Tree

● Dan Millman: Quest for Crystal Castle

● Dan Millman: Secret of the Peaceful Warrior (Peaceful Warrior Children's Series) ● Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Gay Neck

● Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Ghond, the Hunter

● Dhan Gopal Mukerji: The Story of a Pigeon

● E. B. White: Charlotte's Web (and other titles)

● Edith Hunter: Child of the Silent Night

● Edith Nesbit: Five Children and It

● Edith Nesbit: The Enchanted Castle

● Edith Nesbit: The Railway Children

● Edith Nesbit: The Story of the Amulet

● Edith Nesbit: The Treasure Seekers

● Eleanor H. Porter: Pollyanna (recommended for girls mainly)

● Eleanore M. Jewett: Cobbler's Knob

● Elizabeth Coatsworth: Golden Horseshoe

● Elizabeth Coatsworth: John, The Unlucky

● Elizabeth Coatsworth: Sod House

● Elizabeth Coatsworth: Sword of the Wilderness

● Elizabeth Kyle: The Seven Sapphires

● Enid Meadowcroft: By Secret Railway

● Evelyn Lampman: Navaho Sister

● Evelyn Lampman: Tree Wagon

● Florence Hightower: The Secret of the Crazy Quilt

● Frances Burnett: The Secret Garden

● Gertrude Warner: The Boxcar Children (series)

● Ginger Wadsworth: Rachel Carson,

● Ginger Wadsworth: Voice for the Earth

● Harold Courlander: Ride with the Sun

● Harold McCracken: Winning of the West

● Holling C. Holling: Paddle to the Sea

● Honore W. Morrow: On to Oregon

● Howard Pyle: Story of Sir Lancelot and His Champions of the Round Table ● Hugh Lofting: The Dr. Dolittle books (1988 edition preferred) ● Ian Serrailier: The Clashing Rock

● Ian Serrailier: The Gorgon's Head

● Ian Serrailier: The Way of Danger

● Ingre/Edgar D’Aulaire: The Greek Myths

● J. F. Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans

● J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit

● Jack London: Call of the Wild

● Jim Kjelgaard: Big Red (and others)

● John Ruskin: King of the Golden River

● Judy Blume: Freckles

● Karl May: Oil Prince

● Karl May: Winnetou

● Kate Douglas Wiggin: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)

● Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

● Key Alexander: Escape to Witch Mountain

● L. Ancharsvard: The Robber Ghost

● L.M. Boston: The Children of Green Knowe series

● Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House on the Prairie (series)

● Leon Wilson: Cody and His Friends

● Leon Wilson: This Boy Cody

● Lin Grace: When the Sea Turned to Silver

● Lois Lenski: Cotton in My Sack

● Lois Lenski: Indian Captive, The Story of Mary Jemison

● Lois Lenski: Prairie School

● Lois Lenski: Puritan Adventure

● Lois Lenski: Strawberry Girl

● Louis L'amour: The Californios

● Louise Neyart: Henry's Lincoln

● Lynn Hall: Danza

● Madeleine L'engle: A Wrinkle in Time

● Manfred Kyber: Three Candles of Little Veronica

● Marguerite De Angeli: Copper Toes Boots

● Marguerite De Angeli: Elin’s Amerika

● Marguerite Henry King of the Wind

● Marguerite Henry: Black Gold

● Marguerite Henry: Black Pearl

● Marguerite Henry: Born to Trot

● Marguerite Henry: Brighty of the Grand Canyon

● Marguerite Henry: Misty of Chincoteague

● Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Secret River

● Mary Norton: Bedknobs and Broomstick

● Mary Norton: The Borrowers

● Mary Stewart: The Little Broomstick

● Mary and Conrad buff: Dancing Cloud

● Michael Ende: Momo

● Michael Ende: The Never Ending Story

● Michael Gibson: Gods, Men, and Monsters from the Greek Myths ● Olga Hall-Quest: Powhatan and Captain Smith

● Padriac Colum: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy ● Padriac Colum: The Golden Fleece

● Padriac Colum: The King of the Ireland’s Son

● Random House: EYEWITNESS BOOKS (Extensive series include books on animals, minerals, plant life, weather, human beings, etc.)

● Reif Larsen: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

● Roger Green: Tale of Troy

● Roger Green:Tales of Greek Heroes

● Saxby & Ingma: Great Deeds of Heroic Women

● Scott O'dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins

● Scott O'dell: Zia

● Shirley Graham: Story of Pocahontas

● Stephen Meader: Boy with a Pack

● Sydney Taylor: All-of-a-Kind Family (series)

● Thomas Mayne Reid: The White Chief

● Tove Jansson: Finn Family Moomintroll (series)

● W.R. Dubois: Twenty One Balloons

● Wallace Wadsworth: Paul Bunyan and His great Blue Ox

● Willaim O. Steele: The Far Frontier

● Wyatt & Rudel: The King and the Green Angelica

● Zelpha Snyder: Black and Blue Magic

Sixth Grade:

● A. De St. Exupery: The Little Prince

● A. Lang: Arabian Knights

● Alan Burgess: The Small Woman

● Aliki Brandenberg: A Medieval Feast

● Ann Nolan Clark: Secret of the Andes

● Arthur Conan Doyle: The Boys' Sherlock Holmes

● Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World

● B. T. Washington: Up From Slavery

● Beverly Butler: Light A Single Candle

● C. S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia series

● Carl Sandberg: Rootabaga Stories

● Carolyn Kendall: The Gammage Cup

● Carolyn Kendall: Whisper of Glocken

● Charles Lindbergh: Spirit of St. Louis

● Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (recommended for girls mainly)

● Christopher Sblendorio: The Falconer

● Elizabeth G. Speare: The Bronze Bow

● Elizabeth G. Speare: The Sign of the Beaver

● Elizabeth G. Speare: Witch of Blackbird Pond

● Elizabeth Gouge: The Lost Angel

● Elizabeth J. Gray: Adam of the Road

● Enid Bagnold: National Velvet

● Eric Knight: Lassie Come Home

● Farley Mowat: Never Cry Wolf

● Farley Mowat: The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be

● Frances Burnett: The Secret Garden

● George Macdonald: At the Back of the North Wind

● Helen Keller: Journal of Helen Keller

● Helen Keller: World I Live In

● Howard Pyle: Book of Pirates

● Howard Pyle: Men of Iron

● Howard Pyle: Otto of the Silver Hand

● Howard Pyle: Story of Sir Lancelot and His Champions of the Round Table ● Hugh Lofting: The Dr. Dolittle books

● Isaac B. Singer: When Shlemiel Went to Warsaw

● J. R. R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings

● J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit

● J. R. R. Tolkien: The Return of the King

● J. R. R. Tolkien: The Two Towers

● Jacob Streit: Three Knight Tales

● James Baldwin: Song of Roland

● James Ullaman: Banner in the Sky

● Janet Whitney: Elisabeth Fry

● Jean Craighead George: Julie and the Wolves

● Jean Craighead George: My Side of the Mountain

● Jean Craighead George: Shark Beneath the Reef

● Jean Craighead George: Summer of the Falcon

● Jean Craighead George: The Cry of the Crow

● Jean Craighead George: Water Sky

● Jim Kjelgaard: Big Red

● Johann Wyss: Swiss Family Robinson

● John Kent: Elizabeth Fry

● John Sherman O'brien: Silver Chief: Dog of the North

● Joseph Krumgold: And Now Miguel

● Judy Blume: It's Me, Margaret

● Judy Blume: Are You There, God?

● Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days

● Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth

● Jules Verne: Mysterious Island

● Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

● Kate Seredy: The Good Master

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)

● Kerry Usher: Heroes, Gods and Emperors from Roman Mythology ● L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables

● Lawrence Yep: Dragonwings

● Lloyd Alexander: Chronicles of Prydain

● Lois Lowry: Number the Stars

● Louis Haber: Black Pioneers of Science and Invention

● Louisa May Alcott: Eight Cousins

● Louisa May Alcott: Little Men

● Louisa May Alcott: Little Women

● Lucy Boston: The Children of Green Knowe (and others)

● Madeleine L'engle: Wrinkle in Time series

● Manfred Kyber: Three Candles of Little Veronica

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Black Gold

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Black Pearl

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Born to Trot

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Brighty of the Grand Canyon ● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: King of the Wind

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Misty of Chincoteague ● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Sea Star

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: Stormy, Misty's Foal

● Marguerite Henry’s HORSE STORIES: White Stallion of Lipizza ● Marion Wood: Spirits, Heroes and Hunters from North American and Indian Mythology

● Marjorie Rawlings: The Yearling

● Mary Dodge: Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates

● Michal Rusinek: Land of Nicholas Copernicus (about astronomy) ● Olivia E. Coolidge: Roman Lives

● Olivia E. Coolidge: The King of Men

● Paul Gallico: Snow Goose

● Peter Patterson: Fal

● Peter Patterson: The Dragon Horse

● Peter S. Beagle: The Last Unicorn

● Prince Modupe: I was a Savage

● Rachel Field: Hitty - Her First Hundred Years

● Ralph Moody: Little Britches

● Random House: EYEWITNESS BOOKS (Extensive series includes books on animals, minerals, plantlife, weather, human beings, etc.)

● Regine Pernoud: The Story of Joan of Arc

● Robert Falcon Scott: Scott's Last Expedition

● Robert L. Stevenson: Black Arrow

● Robert L. Stevenson: Treasure Island (and others)

● Robert Newton Peck: A Day No Pigs Would Die

● Robin Moore: The Bread Sister of Sinking Creek (trilogy)

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Brother Dusty Feet

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Dragon Slayer

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Light Beyond The Forest

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Outcast

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Road to Camlan

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Sword and the Circle

● Rosemary Sutcliff: The High Adventures of Finn MacCool

● Rosemary Sutcliff: Warrior Scarlet

● Saxby & Ingma: Great Deeds of Heroic Women

● Scott O'Dell: Island of the Blue Dolphins

● Scott O'Dell: The Black Pearl

● Scott O'Dell: The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day

● Scott O'Dell: The King's Fifth

● Scott O'Dell: Zia

● Sheila Burnford: The Incredible Journey

● Stephen Meader: Boy with a Pack

● Susan Cooper: Green Witch

● Susan Cooper: The Dark is Rising

● Susan Cooper: The Grey King

● T. H. White: Mistress Masham's Repose

● T. H. White: The Once and Future King

● Tao Tao Liu Sanders: Dragons

● Tao Tao Liu Sanders: Gods and Spirits from Chinese Mythology ● Terry Brooks: Sword of Shannara

● Ursula Leguin: A Wizard of EarthSea (trilogy)

● Van Stockum: The Borrowed House

● Victor Barnouw: Dream of the Blue Heron

● Walter Farley: Black Stallion

● Walter Morey: Gentle Ben

● Walter Morey: Kavik the Wolf Dog

● Walter Wangerin: Book of the Dun Cow

● Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle

● William Armstrong: Sounder

● Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows

Seventh Grade:

● Agnes Allen: The Story of Michelangelo

● Alan Burgess: The Small Woman

● Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

● Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country

● Albert Luthuli: Let My People Go

● Alexander Dumas: The Three Musketeers

● Alfred Lansing: Endurance

● Alfred Slote: Hang Tough, Paul Mather

● Ann Nolan Clark: Hoofprint on the Wind

● Ann Nolan Clark: Santiago

● Ann Petry: Tituba of Salem Village

● Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl

● Armstrong Sperry: Call it Courage

● Armstrong Sperry: Captain Cook the South Seas

● Arthur C. Clarke: Indian Ocean Treasure

● B. T. Washington: Up From Slavery

● Benary-Isbert: The Ark

● Bernadine Bailey: Juan Ponce de Leon - First in the Land

● Camilla Campbell: Coronado and His Captains

● Captain Cook: Captain Cook

● Captain Cook: Explores the South Seas

● Captain Cook: Pacific Explorer

● Captain Cook: The Quest of Captain Cook

● Cecile Pepin Edwards: Champlain

● Cecile Pepin Edwards: Father of New France

● Charles Duff: The Truth About Columbus

● Charles L. Mee: Lorenzo de Medici

● Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (recommended for girls mainly)

● Cherry Garrard: Worst Journey in the World

● Christopher Bick: The Bells of Heaven

● Coretta Scott King: My Life with Martin Luther King

● Cosmas Desmond: Discarded People

● Cynthia Harnett: The Cargo of the Madalena

● Cynthia Harnett: The Merchant's Mark

● Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

● David C.Knight: Titan of Modern Astronomy

● David C.Knight: Copernicus

● David Howarth: Shetland Bus

● Dorothea Snow: Henry Hudson, Explorer of the North

● Elizabeth Enright: The Truth about Columbus

● Elizabeth Ripley: Botticello

● Elizabeth Ripley: Durer

● Elizabeth Ripley: Michelangelo

● Elizabeth Ripley: Raphael

● Elizabeth Ripley: Rembrandt

● Elizabeth Ripley: Titian

● Elizabeth Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

● Elizabeth Trevino: I. Juan D. Pareja: The Story of Velasquez and His Servant ● Elma Levinger: Galileo

● Elma Levinger: Leonardo da Vinci

● Emily Hahn: Mary Queen of Scots

● Enid Bagnold: National Velvet

● Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft: Ship Boy with Columbus

● Eric Philbrook Kelly: The Trumpeter of Krakow

● Eric Williams: The Tunnel

● Eric Williams: Wooden Horse

● Erich M. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

● Esther Averill: Cartier Sails the St. Lawrence

● Eva Curie: Madame Curie

● Eve Curie: Madame Curie

● Felice Holman: Slake's Limbo

● Felix Riesenberg: Balboa, Swordsman and Conquistador

● Fred Gipson: Old Yeller

● Geoffrey Trease: Sir Walter Raleigh

● Gerald Durrel: My Family and other Animals

● H. G. Wells: The Time Machine

● Harold Keith: Rifles for Watie

● Harold Lamb: Chief of the Cossacks

● Harold Lamb: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde

● Harold Lamb: Genghis Khan, the Emperor of All Men

● Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

● Harry Fosdick: Martin Luther

● Heinz Sponsel: Copernicus Struggle and Victory

● Helen Keller: Journal of Helen Keller

● Helen Keller: The World I Live In

● Howard Pyle: Champion of the Round Table

● Howard Pyle: King Arthur and his Knights

● Howard Pyle: Sir Lancelot and his Companions

● Ingwe: Ingwe (Stories of the Akamba people of Kenya)

● Irene Hunt: Across Five Aprils

● Irene Hunt: Up a Road Slowly

● Irving Stone: Michelangelo

● Irwin R. Blacker: Cortes and the Aztec Conquest

● J. R. R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings (trilogy)

● J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit

● Jack London: Call of the Wild

● Jack London: Sea-Wolf

● Jacob Streit: Columban

● Jacob Streit: Geron and Virtus

● Jacques Lusseyran: And There Was Light

● James Collier: Became a Winner

● James Collier: The Teddy Bear Habit or How I

● James Fisher: Shackleton

● Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

● Jean Craighead George: My Side of the Mountain

● Jeanette Mirsky: Balboa

● Jeanette Mirsky: Discoverer of the Pacific

● Jill Paton Walsh: Children of the Fox

● Jim Kjelgaard: The Explorations of Pere Marquette

● John Lewis: Martin Luther King

● John Masefield: The Bird of Dawning

● John Nechardt: Eagle Voice

● John Steinbeck: The Pearl

● Joy Adamson: Born Free

● Katherine Paterson: The Master Puppeteer

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)

● Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass

● Lloyd Alexander: Taran Wanderer

● Lloyd Alexander: The Black Cauldron

● Lloyd Alexander: The Book of Three

● Lloyd Alexander: The Castle of Llyr

● Lloyd Alexander: The High King

● Lloyd Alexander: The Truthful Harp

● Louis Haber: Black Pioneers of Science and Invention

● Louisa May Alcott: Little Men

● Louisa May Alcott: Little Women

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Christopher Columbus

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Drake

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Marco Polo

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Vasco da Gama

● Louise S. Rankin: Daughter of the Mountains

● Lynn Hail: Dog of the Bondi Castle

● M. McKendrick: Ferdinand and Isabella

● Madeleine L'engle: Meet the Austins

● Madeleine L'engle: The Arm of the Starfish

● Madeleine L'engle: The Young Unicorns

● Manfred Kyber: Three Candles of Little Veronica

● Margaret A. Stanger: That Quail Robert

● Marguerite Vance: Elisabeth Tudor

● Marian King: Young Mary Stuart

● Marilyn Sachs: A Summer’s Lease

● Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper

● Martin Luther King: Chaos or Community

● Mary Stewart: Crystal Cave

● May McNeer: Stranger in the Pines

● McNeer-Ward: Martin Luther

● Michal Rusinek: Land of Nicholas Copernicus (about astronomy) ● Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

● Nancy Bona: A String in the Harp

● Nancy Wilson Ross: Joan of Arc

● Nina Brown Baker: Henry Hudson

● Nina Brown Baker: Juan Ponce de Leon

● Noah Brooks: The Story of Marco Polo

● Norma Johnston: The Keeping Days

● Norma Klein: Mom, the Wolfman, and Me

● Paul Brickhill: Reach for the Sky

● Peter Abrahams: Tell Freedom

● Prince Madupe: I Was a Savage

● Random House: EYEWITNESS BOOKS (Extensive series includes books on animals, minerals, plantlife, weather, human beings, etc.)

● Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine

● Ray Bradbury: Martian Chronicles

● Regine Pernoud: The Story of Joan of Arc

● Retold by Robin Lester: The Legend of King Arthur

● Richard E. Byrd: Alone

● Richard Peck: The Ghost Belonged to Me

● Robert Falcon Scott: Scott's Last Expedition

● Robert L. Stevenson: Kidnapped

● Robert Newton Peck: Soup

● Roger Duvoisin: The Four Corners of the World

● Roger Greene: Tales of King Arthur

● Ronald Syme: Balboa, Finder of the Pacific

● Ronald Syme: Captain Cook, Pacific Explorer

● Ronald Syme: Champlain of the St. Lawrence

● Ronald Syme: Henry Hudson

● Rosemary Harris: Bright and Morning Star

● Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous

● Rudyard Kipling: Kim

● Ruth Cromer Weir: Marco Polo

● Saxby & Ingma: Great Deeds of Heroic Women

● Seymour Gates Pond: Ferdinand Magellan, Master Mariner

● Sidney Rosen: Doctor Paracelsus

● Sidney Rosen: Galileo and the Magic of Numbers

● Sidney Rosen: The Harmonious World of Johann Kepler

● Susan Cooper: Dark is Rising

● Silviu Craciunas: Lost Footsteps

● T. E. Bethancourt: Instruments of Darkness

● Theodora Kroeber: Ishi in Two Worlds

● Theodora Kroeber: Ishi, Last of his Tribe

● Theodore Taylor: The Cay

● Theodore Taylor: Timothy of the Cay

● Thor Heyerdahl: Kon-Tiki

● Thor Heyerdahl: Ra

● Tom Dooley: The Night They Burned the Mountain

● Ursula Le Guin: The Farthest Shore

● Ursula Le Guin: The Tombs of Atuan

● Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of EarthSea

● Virginia Hamilton: The Great M. C. Higgins

● Virginia Hamilton: The House of Dies Drear

● Washington Irving: Legend of Sleepy Hollow

● Washington Irving: The Voyages of Columbus

● Wilfred T. Grenfell: 40 Years for Labrador

● Wilfred T. Grenfell: A Labrador Doctor

● William Armstrong: Sounder

● William Bixby: The Universe of Galileo and Newton

● William James: Smoky, the Cowhorse

● William Mayne: Earthfasts

● Willo Davis Roberts: The View from the Cherry Tree

● Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows

● Zilpha Keatley Snyder: Black and Blue Magic

Eight Grade:

● A. De St. Exupery: Flight to Arras

● A. De St. Exupery: Little Prince

● A. De St. Exupery: Night Flight

● A. De St. Exupery: Wind, Sand and Stars

● A. De St. Exupery: Wisdom of the Sands

● Agnes Allen: The Story of Michelangelo

● Alan Burgess: And There Was Light

● Alan Burgess: The Small Woman

● Alan Garner: The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

● Alan Paton: Cry, the Beloved Country

● Albert Luthuli: Let My People Go

● Albert Schweitzer: My Life and Thought

● Albert Schweitzer: The Primeval Forest

● Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Candle in the Wind

● Alexander Dumas: Count of Monte Cristo

● Alexander Dumas: The Three Musketeers

● Alfred Lansing: Endurance

● Alfred Slote: Hang Tough, Paul Mather

● Ann Nolan Clark: Hoofprint on the Wind

● Ann Nolan Clark: Santiago

● Ann Petry: Harriet Tubman

● Ann Petry: Tituba of Salem Village

● Ann Rinaldi: A Break with Charity

● Ann Rinaldi: Finishing Becca

● Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl

● Anne Holm: North to Freedom

● Anne Parrish: A Clouded Star

● Armstrong Sperry: Call it Courage

● Armstrong Sperry: Captain Cook the South Seas

● Armstrong Sperry: John Paul Jones

● Arna W. Bontemps: Frederick Douglass

● Arthur C. Clarke: Indian Ocean Treasure

● Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes series

● Arthur Orrmont: Amazing Alexander Hamilton

● Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel

● Beatrice Sparks: Anonymous: Go Ask Alice

● Benary-Isbert: The Ark

● Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography

● Bernadine Bailey: Juan Ponce de Leon - First in the Land

● Bess Aldrich: Lantern in Her Hand

● Booker T. Washington: Up from Slavery

● Bruce Bliven: The Battle for Manhattan

● Bruce Grant: Eagle of the Sea

● Bruce Lancaster: The American Revolution

● C. B. Woodham Smith: Florence Nightingale

● Camilla Campbell: Coronado and His Captains

● Captain Cook: Captain Cook

● Captain Cook: Explores the South Seas

● Captain Cook: Pacific Explorer

● Captain Cook: The Quest of Captain Cook

● Carol Brink: Caddie Woodlawn

● Carol Brink: Magical Melons

● Cecile Pepin Edwards: Champlain

● Cecile Pepin Edwards: Father of New France

● Charles Bruce Catton: Banners at Shenandoah

● Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

● Charles Dickens: David Copperfield

● Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

● Charles Dickens: Tale of Two Cities

● Charles Duff: The Truth About Columbus

● Charles Hamblett: Generation X

● Charles L. Mee: Lorenzo de Medici

● Charles Lindbergh: Spirit of St. Louis

● Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre (recommended for girls mainly)

● Cherry Garrard: Worst Journey in the World

● Christopher Bick: The Bells of Heaven

● Conrad Richter: Light in the Forest

● Conrad Richter: Sea of Grass

● Coretta Scott King: My Life with Martin Luther King

● Cornelia Lynde Meigs: Invincible Louisa

● Cosmas Desmond: Discarded People

● Cynthia Harnett: The Cargo of the Madalena

● Cynthia Harnett: The Merchant's Mark

● Daniel Dufoe: Robinson Crusoe

● Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Captain Courageous

● David C.Knight: Titan of Modern Astronomy

● David C.Knight: Copernicus

● David Howarth: Shetland Bus

● David Weitzman: Great Lives: Human Culture

● Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Gay Neck

● Dhan Gopal Mukerji: Ghond, the Hunter

● Dhan Gopal Mukerji: My Brother’s Face

● Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Letters and Papers from Prison

● Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Bonhoeffers

● Dorothea Snow: Henry Hudson, Explorer of the North

● Dorothy Sterling: Forever Free

● Dorothy Sterling: Freedom Trail

● Douglas Freeman: Lee of Virginia

● E.S. Miers: Billy Yank and Johnny Reb

● E.S. Miers: Story of Thomas Jefferson

● Edgar Allen Poe: Short Stories and Poems

● Edvart Rolvaag: In the Earth

● Edward Bellamy: The Duke of Stockbridge

● Edward Everett Hale: Man Without a Country

● Edwin Tunis: Shaw’s Fortune

● Eizabeth Yates: Amos Fortune, Free Man

● Eizabeth Yates: Prudence Crandall

● Elin Yates: We, the People

● Eliot Wigginton: The Foxfire Books series

● Elisabeth Coatsworth: The Golden Horseshoe

● Elisabeth Coatsworth: The Last Fort

● Elisabeth Gray: Beppy Marlowe of Charlestown

● Elisabeth Gray: Meggy McIntosh

● Eliz. George Speare: Calico Captive

● Eliz. George Speare: Witch of Blackbird Pond

● Elizabeth Abell: Westward, Westward, Westward

● Elizabeth Enright: The Truth about Columbus

● Elizabeth Ripley: Botticello

● Elizabeth Ripley: Durer

● Elizabeth Ripley: Michelangelo

● Elizabeth Ripley: Raphael

● Elizabeth Ripley: Rembrandt

● Elizabeth Ripley: Titian

● Elizabeth Speare: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

● Elizabeth Trevino: I. Juan D. Pareja: The Story of Velasquez and His Servant ● Elma Levinger: Galileo

● Elma Levinger: Leonardo da Vinci

● Emily Hahn: Mary Queen of Scots

● Enid Bagnold: National Velvet

● Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft: Ship Boy with Columbus

● Eric Philbrook Kelly: The Trumpeter of Krakow

● Eric Sloan: Diary of an Early American Boy

● Eric Williams: The Tunnel

● Eric Williams: Wooden Horse

● Erich M. Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

● Erich M. Remarque: Seed and Sower

● Erick Berry: The Wavering Flame

● Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea

● Esther Averill: Cartier Sails the St. Lawrence

● Esther Forbes: Johnny Tremain

● Esther Forbes: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In

● Esther Hautzig: Endless Steppe

● Eugenia Ginsburg: Into the Whirlwind

● Eve Curie: Madame Curie

● Farley Mowat: Never Cry Wolf

● Felice Holman: Slake's Limbo

● Felix Riesenberg: Balboa, Swordsman and Conquistador

● Frank L. Donovan: Many Worlds of Benjamin Franklin

● Fred Gipson: Old Yeller

● Frederick Douglass: Life of an American Slave

● Gary Paulsen: Nightjohn

● Genevieve Foster: Abraham Lincoln’s World

● Genevieve Foster: George Washington’s World

● Genevieve Foster: World of Captain John Smith

● Geoffrey Ashe: Gandhi

● Geoffrey Trease: Sir Walter Raleigh

● George Orwell: Animal Farm

● George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four

● Gerald Durrel: My Family and other Animals

● H. G. Wells: The Time Machine

● H. G. Wells: War of the Worlds

● H. Rider Haggard: King Solomon’s Mines

● Hal Borland: When the Legends Die

● Harold Keith: Rifles for Watie

● Harold Lamb: Chief of the Cossacks

● Harold Lamb: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde

● Harold Lamb: Genghis Khan, the Emperor of All Men

● Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird

● Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

● Harry Fosdick: Martin Luther

● Heinz Sponsel: Copernicus Struggle and Victory

● Helen Keller: Journal of Helen Keller

● Helen Keller: The Story of My Life

● Helen Keller: The World I Live In

● Helmut Gollwitzer: Dying We Live

● Henry S. Commager: The Great Constitution

● Henry S. Commager: The Great Proclamation

● Howard Fast: April Morning

● Howard Fast: Citizen Tom Paine

● Howard Fast: Haym Salomon

● Howard Fast: The Hessian

● Howard Pyle: Champion of the Round Table

● Howard Pyle: King Arthur and his Knights

● Howard Pyle: Sir Lancelot and his Companions

● Ingwe: Ingwe (Stories of the Akamba people of Kenya)

● Irene Hunt: Across Five Aprils

● Irene Hunt: Up a Road Slowly

● Irving Stone: Michelangelo

● Irwin R. Blacker: Cortes and the Aztec Conquest

● Isaac Asimov: the Kite That Won the Revolution

● J. Alvin Kugelmass: Louis Braille

● J. D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye

● J. R. R. Tolkien: Lord of the Rings (trilogy)

● J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit

● Jack London: Call of the Wild

● Jack London: Sea-Wolf

● Jack London: White Fang

● Jacob Streit: Columban

● Jacob Streit: Geron and Virtus

● Jacques Lusseyran: And There Was Light

● Jakob Wasserman: Casper Hauser

● James Boyd: Drums

● James Collier: Became a Winner

● James Collier: My Brother Sam is Dead

● James Collier: The Teddy Bear Habit or How I

● James F. Cooper: Last of the Mohicans

● James F. Cooper: The Spy

● James Fisher: And Long Remember

● James Fisher: Shackleton

● James H. Daugherty: Abraham Lincoln

● James H. Daugherty: Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

● James H. Daugherty: Of Courage Undaunted

● James H. Daugherty: Poor Richard

● James Hilton: Good Bye, Mr. Chips

● James Ramsey Ullman: Banner in the Sky

● Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

● Janet Whitney: Elisabeth Fry

● Jean Bothwell: The Lost Colony

● Jean Craighead George: My Side of the Mountain

● Jean Lee Latham: Anchors Aweigh

● Jean Webster: Daddy Long-Legs

● Jeanette Mirsky: Balboa

● Jeanette Mirsky: Discoverer of the Pacific

● Jessamyn West: The Friendly Persuasion

● Jill Paton Walsh: Children of the Fox

● Jim Bishop. The Day Lincoln Was Shot

● Jim Kjelgaard: The Explorations of Pere Marquette

● Jo Manton: Elizabeth Garret-Anderson

● Joan Blos: Gathering of days: A New England Girl’s journal 1830-32 ● Johann Wyss: Swiss Family Robinson

● John Buchan: Salute to Adventurers

● John Christopher: City of the Golden Lead

● John Christopher: Pool of Fire

● John Christopher: White Mountain

● John F. Kennedy: Profiles in Courage

● John Fenner: Brother Against Brother

● John Fenner: The Prince of Liberty

● John Fox: Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

● John G. Neihardt: Black Elk Speaks

● John Gunther: Death Be Not Proud

● John Kent: Elizabeth Fry

● John Lewis: Martin Luther King

● John Masefield: The Bird of Dawning

● John Nechardt: Eagle Voice

● John Steinbeck: Red Pony

● John Steinbeck: The Pearl

● John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley

● Johnathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

● Joseph Krumgold: Onion John

● Joy Adamson: Born Free

● Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days

● Julia Davis: No Other White Man

● Julia Davis: Ride with the Eagle

● Katherine Paterson: The Master Puppeteer

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)

● Kathleen Krull: Lives of the Writers: Comedies, Tragedies (and What the Neighbors Thought)

● Kenneth Roberts: Arundel

● Kenneth Roberts: Lydia Bailey

● Kenneth Roberts: Northwest Passage

● Kenneth Roberts: Oliver Wiswel

● Kenneth Roberts: Rabble in Arms

● Landmark Books: Landing of the Pilgrims

● Landmark Books: Story of Thomas Edison and others

● Landmark Books: The Vikings

● Lauren Elder: And I Alone Survived

● Laurens van der Post: Bar of Shadow

● Laurens van der Post: Heart of the Hunter

● Laurens van der Post: Lost World of the Kalahari

● Laurens van der Post: Prisoner and the Bomb

● Laurens van der Post: Seed and the Sower

● Leonard Wibberley: All the Treegate

● Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass

● Lloyd Alexander: Taran Wanderer

● Lloyd Alexander: The Black Cauldron

● Lloyd Alexander: The Book of Three

● Lloyd Alexander: The Castle of Llyr

● Lloyd Alexander: The High King

● Lloyd Alexander: The Truthful Harp

● Lois Lenski: Indian Captive, The Story of Mary Jemison

● Lorenz Graham: Dove

● Lorenz Graham: Return to Southtown

● Louis Haber: Black Pioneers of Science and Invention

● Louisa May Alcott: A Double Life: Newly Discovered Thrillers of Louisiana May Alcott

● Louisa May Alcott: Hospital Sketches

● Louisa May Alcott: Little Men

● Louisa May Alcott: Little Women

● Louisa May Alcott:Glimpses of Louisiana

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Christopher Columbus

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Drake

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Marco Polo

● Louise Andrew Kent: He Went with Vasco da Gama

● Louise S. Rankin: Daughter of the Mountains

● Lynn Hail: Dog of the Bondi Castle

● M. Benary-Isbert: Ark

● M. McKendrick: Ferdinand and Isabella

● Madeleine L'engle: Meet the Austins

● Madeleine L'engle: The Arm of the Starfish

● Madeleine L'engle: The Young Unicorns

● Manfred Kyber: Three Candles of Little Veronica

● Mara Kay: Masha

● Marcel Migeo: St. Exupery

● Margaret A. Stanger: That Quail Robert

● Margaret L. Coit: The Flight for Union

● Margaret Mitchell: Gone with the Wind

● Margiad Evans: Ray of Darkness

● Marguerite Vance: Elisabeth Tudor

● Marguerite Vance: Martha, Daughter of Virginia

● Marian King: Young Mary Stuart

● Marie Curie: Madam Curie

● Marilyn Sachs: A Summer’s Lease

● Marjorie K. Rawlings: The Yearling

● Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King

● Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

● Mark Twain: Adventures of Tom Sawyer

● Mark Twain: Arthur’s Court

● Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper

● Martin Luther King: Chaos or Community

● Mary Johnston: To Have and to Hold

● Mary Stewart: Crystal Cave

● Mary T. Carroll: Keep My Flag Flying

● May McNeer: Stranger in the Pines

● McNeer-Ward: Martin Luther

● Mel Ellis: Flight of the White Wolf

● Michael Crichton: Andromeda Strain

● Michal Rusinek: Land of Nicholas Copernicus (about astronomy) ● Mildred Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

● Mollie Hunter: A Sound of Chariots

● Nancy Bona: A String in the Harp

● Nancy Wilson Ross: Joan of Arc

● Natalie Babbitt: Tuck Everlasting

● Nina Brown Baker: Henry Hudson

● Nina Brown Baker: Juan Ponce de Leon

● Noah Brooks: The Story of Marco Polo

● Norma Johnston: The Keeping Days

● Norma Klein: Mom, the Wolfman, and Me

● O’Henry: Short Stories

● Paul Brickhill: Reach for the Sky

● Paula Fox: Slave Dancer

● Pearl S. Buck: The Big Wave

● Pearl S. Buck: The Good Earth

● Peter Abrahams: Tell Freedom

● Peter Burchard: North by Night

● Prince Madupe: I Was a Savage

● R Hayes Platt: Wilderness

● R. & S. Benet: Book of Americans

● R. & S. Benet: America

● R. & S. Benet: The Devil and daniel Webster

● R. Newton Peck: Hang for Treason

● R. Newton Peck: The King’s Iron

● Rachel Carson: Silent Spring

● Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine

● Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451

● Ray Bradbury: Martian Chronicles

● Rebecca Caudill: The Far-Off Land

● Reginald Berkeley: Lady With the Lamp

● Regine Pernoud: The Story of Joan of Arc

● Retold by Robin Lester: The Legend of King Arthur

● Richard Adams: Watership Down

● Richard E. Byrd: Alone

● Richard Peck: The Ghost Belonged to Me

● Rickard Peck: Ghosts I Have Been

● Robert Falcon Scott: Scott's Last Expedition

● Robert L. Stevenson: Kidnapped

● Robert Lawson: Ben and Me

● Robert Newton Peck: Soup

● Robert Spetch: Tisha

● Roger Duvoisin: The Four Corners of the World

● Roger Greene: Tales of King Arthur

● Ronald Syme: Balboa, Finder of the Pacific

● Ronald Syme: Captain Cook, Pacific Explorer

● Ronald Syme: Champlain of the St. Lawrence

● Ronald Syme: Henry Hudson

● Rosemary Harris: Bright and Morning Star

● Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous

● Rudyard Kipling: Kim

● Rumer Godden: Episode of Sparrows

● Rumer Godden: The Diddakoi

● Ruth Cromer Weir: Marco Polo

● Ruth Painter Randall: Courtship of Mr. Lincoln

● S.E. Hinton: That Was Then, This Is Now

● S.E. Hinton: The Outsiders

● Sandburg: Abe Lincoln Grows Up

● Saxby & Ingma: Great Deeds of Heroic Women

● Seymour Gates Pond: Ferdinand Magellan, Master Mariner

● Shannon Garst: Jim Bridger

● Sharon Mathis: A Teacup Full of Roses

● Shirley Wheeler: Dr. Nina and the Panther

● Sidney Rosen: Doctor Paracelsus

● Sidney Rosen: Galileo and the Magic of Numbers

● Sidney Rosen: The Harmonious World of Johann Kepler

● Silviu Craciunas: Last Footsteps

● Simone Weil: Gravity and Grace

● Simone Weil: Waiting on God

● Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe

● Stephen Crane: Red Badge of Courage

● Stewart E. White: Daniel Boone

● Stewart E. White: The Sword and the Stone

● Stewart H. Holbrook: America’s Ethan Allen

● Stewart H. Holbrook: Swamp Fox of the Revolution

● Susan Cooper: Dark is Rising

● Silviu Craciunas: Lost Footsteps

● T. E. Bethancourt: Instruments of Darkness

● Theodora Kroeber: Ishi in Two Worlds

● Theodora Kroeber: Ishi, Last of his Tribe

● Theodore Taylor: The Cay

● Theodore Taylor: Timothy of the Cay

● Thomas Nelson Page: Two Little Confederates

● Thor Heyerdahl: Kon-Tiki

● Thor Heyerdahl: Ra

● Thornton Wilder: Bridge of San Luis Rey

● Timothy Leary: Politics of Ecstasy

● Tom Cliff: Minutemen of the Sea

● Tom Dooley: The Night They Burned the Mountain

● Tom Galt: Peter Zenger

● Ursula Le Guin: The Farthest Shore

● Ursula Le Guin: The Tombs of Atuan

● Ursula Le Guin: A Wizard of EarthSea

● Van Der Rol & Verhoeven: Anne Frank, Beyond the Dairy

● Virginia Hamilton: The Great M. C. Higgins

● Virginia Hamilton: The House of Dies Drear

● Virginia L.S. Eifert: Out of the Wilderness

● Wallace Stegner: Great American Short Stories

● Walter D. Edmonds: Drums Along the Mohawk

● Walter D. Edmonds: In the Hands of the Senecas

● Washington Irving: Legend of Sleepy Hollow

● Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

● Washington Irving: The Voyages of Columbus

● Wilfred T. Grenfell: 40 Years for Labrador

● Wilfred T. Grenfell: A Labrador Doctor

● Will James: Smoky

● Willa Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop

● Willa Cather: My Antonia

● Willa Cather: O Pioneers!

● Willa Cather: Shadows on the Rock

● William Armstrong: Sounder

● William Bixby: The Universe of Galileo and Newton

● William Blinn: Brian’s Song

● William Gibson: Miracle Worker

● William Henry Hudson: Green Mansions

● William James: Smoky, the Cowhorse

● William Mayne: Earthfasts

● William O. Steele: The Perilous Road

● William O. Steele: Westward Adventure

● William O. Steele: Flaming Arrows

● William O. Steele: The Lone Hunt

● Willian E. Barrett: Lilies in the Field

● Willo Davis Roberts: The View from the Cherry Tree

● Wilson Rawls: Where the Red Fern Grows

● Zilpha Keatley Snyder: Black and Blue Magic