The education for a lifetime

First GradeThe 100th Day of School, Angela MedearisLittle Bear, Else MinarikFrog and Toad Are Friends, Arnold LobelAmelia Bedelia, Peggy ParishBlueberries for Sal, Robert McCloskeySam the Minute Man, Nathaniel BenchleyThe Biggest Bear, Lynd WardLentil, Robert McCloskeyAmelia Bedelia Helps Out, Peggy ParishLittle Bear’s Friend, Else MinarikFrog and Toad Together, Arnold Lobel

Second GradeSlide Down the Sky, Open Court ReaderFrom Sea to Shining Sea, Open Court ReaderBears on Hemlock Mountain, Alice DalglieshSenefer, Beatrice LumpkinThree Dollar Mule, Clyde Robert BullaThe Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls

WilderTut’s Mummy Lost and Found, Judy DonnellyThe Courage of Sarah Noble, Alice DalglieshNate the Great and the Lost List, Marjorie

Sharmat

Third GradeKeep the Lights Burning Abbie,

Connie & Peter RoopThe Littles, John Peterson & Roberta Carter

ClarkCharlotte’s Web, E. B. WhiteEncyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective,

Donald J. SobolThe Boxcar Children Mysteries Book 1,

Gertrude Chandler WarnerFables, Arnold LobelOn the Banks of Plum Creek, Laura Ingalls Wilder

Fourth GradeTale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamilloBlack Beauty, Anna SewellCharlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald

DahlThe Magician’s Nephew, C.S. LewisThe Story of Rolf, Allen FrenchKing Arthur and His Knights of the Round

Table, Roger Lancelyn Green

Fifth GradeFrindle, Andrew ClementsWhere the Red Fern Grows, Wilson RawlsSir Gibbie, George MacDonaldWitch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth SpeareCall It Courage, Armstrong SperryJohnny Tremain, Esther ForbesGift of the Magi, O. HenryPunished, David LubarLittle Pilgrim’s Progress, Helen Taylor

Sixth GradeThe Phantom Tollbooth, Norton JusterCall of the Wild, Jack LondonA Christmas Carol, Charles DickensThe Jungle Book, Rudyard KiplingHiding Place, Corrie Ten BoomThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark TwainTales from Shakespeare, Charles & Mary

LambVarious American Short StoriesBiography of student’s choice

BOOK LIST“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest (people) of the past centuries.” – Descartes

Seventh GradeThe Chronicles of Narnia (entire set),

C.S. LewisRomeo and Juliet, William ShakespeareThe Hobbit, J.R.R. TolkienThe Declaration of Independence The Constitution of the United StatesShorter Catechism in Modern English

Eighth GradeTo Kill a Mockingbird, Harper LeeThe Giver, Lois LowryFahrenheit 451, Ray BradburyLord of the Flies, William GoldingAnimal Farm, George OrwellJulius Caesar, William ShakespeareThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,

Robert Louis StevensonA Midsummer Night’s Dream, William

Shakespeare

Ninth GradeMythology, Edith HamiltonClassical Me, Classical Thee: Squander Not

Thine Education, Rebekah MarkelThe Odyssey, Homer, trans FaglesThe Iliad, Homer, trans FaglesInferno, Dante, trans HollanderThe Three Theben Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the

King, Oedipus at Colonus, SophoclesBeowulfThe Canterbury Tales, ChaucerEverymanSir Gawain and The Green Knight,

J.R.R. Tolkien

Tenth GradeThe Once and Future King, T.H. WhiteHamlet, William ShakespeareThe Screwtape Letters, C.S. LewisDr. Faustus, Christopher MarloweThe Pilgrim’s Progress, John BunyanMetaphysical Poetry, An AnthologyThe Cavalier PoetsJane Eyre, Charlotte BronteEnglish Romantic Poetry, An AnthologyA Tale of Two Cities, Charles DickensEnglish Victorian Poetry, An AnthologyShe Stoops to Conquer, Oliver GoldsmithConfessions, St. AugustineThe Case for Christ, Lee StrobelGorgias, PlatoFive Dialogues, PlatoThe Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli

Eleventh GradeGreat American StoriesIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,

Harriet JacobsRooted and Grounded, Abraham KuyperThe Scarlet Letter, Nathanial HawthorneAdventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark TwainOf Mice and Men, John SteinbeckThe Great Catsby, F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sun Also Rises, Ernest HemingwayAs I Lay Dying, William FaulknerDeath of a Salesman, Arthur MillerMere Christianity, C. S. LewisEvery Square Inch, Bruce AshfordThe Great Divorce, C.S. LewisThe Republic, PlatoUp From Slavery, Booker T. WashingtonBrunelleschi’s Dome, Ross King

Twelfth GradeFrankenstein, Mary ShelleyDracula, Bram StokerThe Aenied, VirgilThe Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation

Bearers, The Eumenides, AeschylusParadise Lost, John MiltonEnglish Romantic Poetry, An AnthologyHenry V, William ShakespeareThe Office of Assertion, Scott CriderIdeas Have Consequences, Richard WeaverSix Great Ideas, Mortimer AdlerThe Abolition of Man, C.S. LewisThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,

Robert Louis StevensonCrime & Punishment, Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Complete Stories, Flannery O’ConnerBrave New World, Aldous Huxley1984, George OrwellTill We Have Faces, C.S LewisNotes From the Tilt-A-Whirl, N.D.Wilson

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