• St. George and the Dragon (Hodges)

• The Princess and The Goblin (MacDonald) *PDF [Wks 1-14]

• The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (Hearn) *Collection used over multiple cycles; or use individual books, such as these:

  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Browning) *PDF (Read in Tales)

  • The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde (de Morgan) *PDF

  • The Reluctant Dragon (Grahame) *PDF

  • The Little Lame Prince and His Traveling-Cloak (Craik) *PDF (Optional Term 4)

• Tales of King Arthur (Lang) *PDF OR The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Pyle) [late 12th c.]

History Reads

• The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane (Millen) *Video [10th c.]

• Leif the Lucky (D'Aulaire)*PDF [~1000] (here or Geography)

• The Race of the Birkenbeiners (Lunge-Larsen) *PDF [1206]

• Apple and the Arrow (Buff) *PDF [1291]      

• A Medieval Feast (Aliki) *Video [15th c.]

Free Reads

• The Viking Adventure (Bulla)

• The Sword in the Tree (Bulla)

• Marguerite Makes a Book (Robertson) [15th c.]

• The Legend of Saint Christopher (Hodges) 

• Merlin and the Making of the King (Hodges) [5-6th c.] *PDF

• The Tale of John Barleycorn: Or From Barley to Beer (Azarian) *PDF

• The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval Falconry (Smith)

• The Hobbit (Tolkien)

• The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow (French) [11th c.] 

• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Pyle) [late 12th c.] OR The Story of King Arthur and his Knights (Pyle) [5-6th c.]

• The Door in the Wall (DiAngeli) [14th c]

History Reads

• Augustine Came to Kent (Willard) [4-5th c.)

• The Little Duke (Yonge) *PDF/ Audio [10th c]

• Joan of Arc (Stanley) [1412-1431]

Free Reads:

• The Princess and Curdie (MacDonald)

• Sigurd and His Brave Companion: A Tale of Medieval Norway (Undset) [13th c.]

• Adam of the Road (Gray) [13th c.]

• Otto of the Silver Hand (Pyle) [13th c.]

• Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry (Fry)

• The Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) 

• The Story of King Arthur and his Knights (Pyle) OR Galahad and the Grail: Merlin's Isle, Book 1 (Guite)

• Prince Caspian (Lewis)

History Reads

• Hakon of Rogen's Saga (Haugaard) [10th c.]

• The Magna Charta (Daugherty) [1215]

• The Emperor's Winding Sheet (Walsh) [1453]

Free Reads:

• The Story of King Arthur and his Knights (Pyle) [5-6th c.]*if not read

• In Freedom's Cause (Henty) [13-14th c.] 

• Men of Iron (Pyle) [15th c.]

• The Silmarillion (Tolkien)

• The Sword in the Stone (White) *aka Bk. 1 of The Once and Future King OR The Coming of Arthur (Merlin's Isle: An Arthuriad, 2) (Guite) 

• The Divine Comedy (Alighieri) [14th c.] (selections)

• The Great Divorce (Lewis) OR 

• Anthem (Rand)

• The Horse and His Boy (Lewis)

History Reads

• Byzantium (Lawhead) [9th c.]

• Daughter of Time (Tey) [15th c.]

Plays, Poems, Short Stories:

• Greek Plays: Aeschylus: The Oresteian Trilogy (OR MP set)

Free Reads:

• Ivanhoe (Scott) [1194] 

• The Once and Future King (White) [~5-15th c.] (other books)

• The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (Hearn)

  • The King of the Golden River (Ruskin)

  • The Rose and the Ring (Thackeray)

  • The Magic Fish-Bone (Dickens)

  • The Golden Key (MacDonald)

• The Light Princess (MacDonald)

• Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (Hodges) *PDF

• The Hero of Bremen (Hodges)

• Stories from the Faerie Queen (Lang) [late 16th c.] *PDF

• The Courage of Sarah Noble (Dalgliesh) [1707]

• King of the Wind (Henry) [early 18th c.]

History Reads

• Michelangelo (Stanley) [1475-1564]

• Columbus (D'Aulaire) [~1492]

• Starry Messenger (Sis) [1564-1642]

• Pocahontas (D'Aulaire) [~1607]

• Benjamin Franklin (D'Aulaire) [1706-1790]

• George Washington (D'Aulaire) [1732-1799]

• Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin (Henry) [1750]

Free Reads:

• The Matchlock Gun (Edmonds) [1756]

• The Cabin Faced West (Fritz) [1784]

• Justin Morgan had a Horse (Henry) [1791]

• Da Vinci (Stanley) [1452-1519]

• Good Queen Bess (Stanley) [1558-1603]

• Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Lewis)

• Bard of Avon (Stanley) [1564-1616]

• Children of the New Forest (Marryat) [1637]

• Treasure Island (Stevenson) [~1750s]

• Sign of the Beaver (Speare) [1769] [3 hrs]

• Paul Revere's Ride (Longfellow) [1775]

Free Reads:

• Prince and the Pauper (Twain) [1547]

• Amos Fortune (Yares) [1710-1801]

• Johnny Tremaine (Forbes) [1773]

• Tree of Freedom (Caudill) [1780]

• The Silver Chair (Lewis)

• The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) [1651]

• Witch of Blackbird Pond (Speare) [1687]

• Calico Captive (Speare) [1754] OR Sign of the Beaver (Speare) [1769] 

• Carry on, Mr. Bowditch (1770s-1800s) [

• The Scarlet Pimpernel (Orczy) [1792]

• Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)

Plays, Poems, Short Stories:

• x

Free Reads:

• x

• Utopia (More) [1516] *excerpts

• The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) (Manzoni) [1628-1630]

• The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) [1642-1649] OR The Shattered Fountain: Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Perelandra (Lewis) *Pair w/ excerpts from Paradise Lost (Milton) [1660] 

• Gulliver's Travels, Parts 1 & 2 (Swift) [1699-1715] & “A Modest Proposal" (Swift) [1720]

• “Prometheus Bound" (~Aeschylus)

• Frankenstein (Shelley) [1770-1790]

• Faust, Part 1 (Goethe) [1749–1832] *Enlightenment to Romanticism

• A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) [1775-1793]

Plays, Poems, Short Stories:

• Sophocles; “The Vision of John Bunyan" by C.S. Lewis; Excerpts from Pilgrim's Progress (Bunyan) [1670]; “The Celestial Railroad" (Hawthorne); Evangeline (Longfellow) [1755-1790]

Free Reads:

• The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) [1642-1649]

• Till We Have Faces (Lewis)

• The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (Hearn)

  • The Fairies (Allingham)

  • Goblin Market (Rossetti)

  • The Stolen Child (Yeats)

  • The Selfish Giant (Wilde)

  • Rocking-Horse Land (Housman)

• Tales from Beatrix Potter OR Mountain Born (Yates) [1800s] 

• Heidi (Spyri) [1850s]

• The Little White Horse (Goudge) [1842]

History Reads

• Saint Patrick and the Peddlar (Hodges) [1845-1852]

• Abraham Lincoln (D'Aulaire) [1809-1865]

• Little House in the Big Woods (Wilder) [1871]

• Sarah Plain and Tall (MacLachlan) [late 1880s]

• Buffalo Bill (D'Aulaire) [1846-1900]

Free Reads:

• Tales from Beatrix Potter

• Winnie the Pooh (Milne)

• Adventures in Brambly Hedge (Barklem)

• Prairie School (Lenski) [1880s]

• Red Sails to Capri (Weil) [1826]

• Across Five Aprils (Hunt) [1861-65]

• Little Lord Fauntleroy (Burnett) [1880s]

• The Jungle Book (Kipling)[1890s]

• A Little Princess (Burnett) [1900]

Free Reads:

• Mountain Born (Yates)

• At the Back of the North Wind (MacDonald) [1850]

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carrol) [1850s] 

• On the Banks of Plum Creek (Wilder) [1874-1876]

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain) [1840s]

• A Christmas Carol (Dickens) [1840s]

• Florence Nightingale (Richards) [1853]

• Rifles for Watie (Keith) OR Across Five Aprils (Hunt) OR The Red Badge of Courage (Crane) [1861-65]

• Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery) [1870-80s]  OR Hans Brinker (Dodge)

• The Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle) [1889]

• The Last Battle (Lewis)

Plays, Poems, Short Stories:

• 19th c. Poetry and Short Stories (selections by Edgar Allen Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Sidney Lanier, O. Henry, etc.)

Free Reads:

• Little Women (Alcott) [1863-1866]

• Oliver Twist (Twain)

• Jane Eyre (Brontë) [early 19th c.] OR Pride and Prejudice (Austen) [1811]

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain) [1840s]

• The Unvanquished (Faulkner) [1862-73] OR Red Badge of Courage (Crane) 

• Crime and Punishment OR Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky) [1860s]

• My Ántonia OR O Pioneers! (Cather) [1880-1900] 

• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life (Saunders)

Plays, Poems, Short Stories:

• Antigone and Oedipus (Sophocles),  “The Fall of the House of Usher" (Poe), “Ozymandias" (Shelley), “A Simple Heart" (Flaubert), “The Grand Inquisitor "(Dostoyevsky), “How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (Tolstoy) [1886]

• The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (Hearn)

  • The Deliverers of their Country (Nesbit)

  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (Barrie)

• The Secret Garden (Burnett) [1900-1910]  OR Understood Betsy (Canfield) [1910s]

• Bambi (Salten) [Post-WWI]

• Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Atwater) [late 1930s]

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Lewis) [1940-41] 

Free Reads

• Peter Pan (Barrie) [1900-1910]

• Understood Betsy (Canfield) [1910s]

• The Moffats (Estes) [1918-1910]

• The Magician's Nephew (Lewis) [early 1900s]

• Pollyanna (Porter) OR Little Britches (Moody) [early 1900s]

• The Singing Tree (Seredy) [1914-1918]

• Homer Price (McCloskey) OR Thimble Summer (Enright) [1930s-40s]

• The Winged Watchman (Von Stockum) [1940s] OR Chestry Oak (Seredy) [1936]

• Rabbit Hill (Lawson) OR Animal Farm (Orwell)

• The Incredible Journey (Burnford) [1960s] OR My Side of the Mountain (George) [1950s]

Free Reads

• Little Britches (Moody) [early 1900s]

• Thimble Summer (Enright) [1930s]

• The Ark (Benary-Isbert) [1940s]

• The Little Prince (de Saint-Exupéry) [1943]

• The Saturdays (Enright) [1930s-40s]

• My Side of the Mountain (George) [1950s]

• The Penderwicks (Birdsall)

• The Bronze Bow (Speare) [~30 AD] 

• War Horse (Morpurgo)

• Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls) OR To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) [1930s]

• The Screwtape Letters (Lewis) [1940-1941] OR Animal Farm (Orwell)

• The Chestry Oak (Seredy) [1936-1942] OR The Borrowed House (von Stockum)

• Watership Down (Adams) [1970s]

Plays, Poems, Short Stories:

• Our Town (Wilder) [1901-1913]

Free Reads:

• Rilla of Ingleside (Montgomery) [1914-1919]

• All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) OR Storm of Steel (Junger) OR Falcons of France (Nordhoff)

• The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) [1922]

• To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee) 

• Jayber Crow (Berry) [1930s-1960s] OR A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Smith) [1912-1918] 

• Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman) [1985]

• Brave New World (Huxley) OR Lord of the Flies (Golding)

• The Abolition of Man (Lewis) [1943]

• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitsyn) [1950s]

• Lewis' Introduction to Athanasius' On the Incarnation [1946] *PDF

Plays, Poems, Short Stories:

• T.S. Eliot selections, “Everything that Rises Must Converge" & “Revelation" (O'Connor), A & P (Updike), “Harrison Bergeron" (Vonnegut), “The Machine Stops" (Forster),  The Master and Margarita- “Pontius Pilate" (Bulgakov)

Free Reads:

• Quo Vadis (Sienkiewicz) 

• The Keeper of Bees (Porter) [1920s]

• Term 4: The Chosen (Potok) OR The Hiding Place (Ten Boom) [1940s]