Years 5-8
A Child's Geography of the World by Virgil Hiller Year 5 Geography option (Halliburtong)
A Christmas Carol* by Charles Dickens Year 5 Free Reading
A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea* by William Tyre Year 7 History
A History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford Year 8 History
A History of the English Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill Year 7, 8, 9, 10 First choice for history
A Little Brother to the Bear* by William J. Long Year 6 Free Reading
A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt Year 8 History
A Taste of Chaucer by Anne Malcolmson Year 7 Literature
Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster Year 5 history
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Year 5 Free Reading
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity by Robert Cwiklik Year 6 Science option (McPherson)
Always Inventing by Tom L. Matthews Year 5 Science option (Talking Wire)
An Island Story* by H.E. Marshall Year 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 History
Animal Farm, George Orwell Year 6 Literature
Anne of Green Gables* by Lucy Maud Montgomery Year 5 Free Reading
Apologia science by Dr. Jay Wile Year 7 Science
Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick Year 6 Science
Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster Year 6 History
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff Year 6 Literature option (Iliad or Lang)
Blue Willow by Doris Gates Year 6 Free Reading
Captains Courageous* by Rudyard Kipling Year 5 Free Reading
Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Teddy Roosevelt by George Grant Year 5 History
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham Year 5 Free Reading
Christian Liberty Nature Reader 5 by Michael J. McHugh Year 5 Science
Christopher Columbus, Mariner by Samuel Eliot Morison Year 8 geography option (Hale)
Desiring God by John Piper Year 8 devotional
Ecclesiastical History of the English People* by Bede Year 7 History
Everyman, a Morality Play* Year 8 Literature
Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell Year 8 devotional option (Strobel)
Explore the Holy Land by Ann Voskamp Year 5 geography option (Exploring Creation With . . . series by Jeannie Fulbright) Years 3, 4, 5, 6 Science
Falcons of France by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall Year 5 Free Reading
Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves by Roy Maynard Year 8 Poetry
Galileo and the Magic Numbers by Sidney Rosen Year 6 Science
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Year 8 History
Genesis, Finding Our Roots by Ruth Beechick Year 6 History
God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew Year 6 Free Reading
Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton Year 5 Free Reading
How the Heather Looks by Joan Bodger Year 7 Geography
How To Read a Book, revised edition by Mortimer Adler and Chares Van Doren Year 7
I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed)* by Alessandro Manzoni Year 8 Literature
I, Pencil* by Leonard Read Year 8 economics
In Freedom's Cause* by G.A. Henty Year 7 History
Hans Brinker* by Mary Mapes Dodge Year 5 Free Reading
Ivanhoe* by Sir Walter Scott Year 7 Literature
Jack and Jill* by Louisa May Alcott Year 6 Free Reading
Joan of Arc* by Mark Twain Year 7 History
Johannes Kepler: Giant of Faith and Science by John Hudson Tiner Year 8 History option
Jungle Pilot: The Life and Witness of Nate Saint by Russel T. Hitt Year 6 Free Reading
Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl Year 8 Geography
Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune Year 5 Free Reading
Kim* by Rudyard Kipling Year 5 Literature
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse Year 6 Free Reading
Life of Sir Francis Bacon* by William Rawley Year 8 History
Little Men* by Louisa May Alcott Year 6 Free Reading
Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Year 5 Free Reading
Little Women* by Louisa May Alcott Year 5 Free Reading
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis OR More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell Year 7 devotional
Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics by Charles Ludwig Year 5 Free Reading
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen Year 6 Free Reading
Missionary Travels* by David Livingstone Year 6 History
Never Give In (Winston Churchill) by Stephen Mansfield Year 6 History
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Year 6 Free Reading
Of Courage Undaunted: Lewis and Clark by James Daugherty Year 5 History
Oliver Twist* by Charles Dickens Year 5 Literature
Ordinary Genius by Stephanie McPherson Year 6 Science option (Cwiklik)
Our Mother Tongue: A Guide to English Grammar by Nancy Wilson Year 7 or 8 Grammar
Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter by Miriam Huffman Rockness Year 5 History
Penrod* by Booth Tarkington Year 6 Free Reading
Physics Lab in a Housewares Store by Robert Friedhoffer Year 5 Science
Poetry by Alfred Noyes* Year 6 Poetry Poetry by Carl Sandburg* Year 6 Poetry
Poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow* Year 5 Poetry
Poetry by John Donne* Year 8 Poetry
Poetry by John Greenleaf Whittier* Year 5 Poetry
Poetry by Keats* Year 7 Poetry
Poetry by Paul Lawrence Dunbar* Year 5 Poetry
Poetry by Milton* Year 8 Poetry
Poetry by Robert Frost* Year 6 Poetry Poetry by Rudyard Kipling* Year 5 Poetry
Poetry by Tennyson* Year 7 Poetry
Puck of Pook's Hill* by Rudyard Kipling Year 5 Free Reading
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm* by Kate Douglas Wiggin Year 5 Free Reading
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith Year 5 Free Reading
Rilla of Ingleside* by Lucy Maud Montgomery Year 5 Free Reading
Rob Roy* by Sir Walter Scott Year 6 Free Reading
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Year 6 Free Reading
School of the Woods* by William J. Long Year 6 Science
Secrets of the Universe by Paul Fleisher Year 6 Science option (Holden or Lewellen)
Selected Essays* by Francis Bacon Year 8 citizenship
Selected Sonnets* by Shakespeare Year 8 Poetry
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan Year 6 Free Reading
Tales of Troy* by Andrew Lang Year 6 Literature option (Iliad or Sutcliff)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* by Mark Twain Year 6 Free Reading
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer* by Mark Twain Year 5 Free Reading
The Age of Chivalry* by Thomas Bulfinch Year 7 Literature
The Age of Fable* by Thomas Bulfinch Year 4, 5, 6 Literature
The Ark by Margo Benary-Isbert Year 6 Free Reading
The Boy Scientist by John Bryan Lewellen Year 6 Science option (Holden or Fleisher)
The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin Year 7 Geography
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare Year 6 Free Reading
The Call of the Wild* by Jack London Year 6 Free Reading
The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel Year 8 devotional option (McDowell)
The Circle of Seasons or others by Edwin Way Teale Year 7,8 Science Option (Cooper or Sharp)
The Complete Book of Marvels by Richard Halliburton Year 5 Geography option (Hillyer)
The Cricket on the Hearth* by Charles Dickens Year 6 Free Reading
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Year 7 History
The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys Year 8 Literature
The discovery* by Sir Walter Raleigh Year 8 geography
The Discovery of Muscovy* by Richard Hakluyt Year 8 geography
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig Year 6 Free Reading
The Fairy-land of Science by Arabella Buckley Year 5 Science
The First Four Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder Year 5 Free Reading
The Grammar of Poetry by Matt Whitling Year 7 Grammar
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien Year 6 Literature The Holy War* by John Bunyan Year 8 Literature
The Iliad* Year 6 Literature option (Sutcliff or Lang)
The Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp Year 7,8 Science Option (Teale or Cooper)
The Life of Christopher Columbus* by Edward Everett Hale Year 8 geography option (Morison)
The Life of Dr. John Donne* by Izaak Walton Year 8 History
The Life of King Alfred* by Asser Year 7 History
The Life of Sir Thomas More* by William Roper Year 8 History
The Life of the Spider by Fabre Year 7 science
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder Year 5 Free Reading
The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers Year 8 devotional
The Once and Future King by T. H. White Year 7 Literature
The Oxford Book of English Verse* Year 7 Poetry
The Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison Year 11 History Option (Gilbert)
The Prince and the Pauper* by Mark Twain Year 5 Free Reading
The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer Year 7 devotional The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges Year 7 devotional
The Roar on the Other Side by Suzanne Clark Year 8 Poetry
The Sciences* by Edward Holden Year 6 Science option (Lewellen or Fleisher)
The Sea Around Us by Rachael Carson Year 6 Science
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights* by Howard Pyle Year 5 Literature
The Story of Mankind* by Hendrick Van Loon Year 5,6 history
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller Year 5 Free Reading
The Story of Painting by H.W. Janson Year 7
The Story of the Greeks* by H. A. Guerber Year 6 History
The Story of the Romans* by H. A. Guerber Year 6 History
The Story of the World Volume 4 The Modern Age by Susan Wise Bauer Year 5, 6 history
The Swiss Family Robinson* by Johann Wyss Year 6 Free Reading
The Talking Wire by O.J. Stevenson Year 5 Science option (Always Inventing)
The Treasure Seekers* by Edith Nesbit Year 5 Free Reading
The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp Year 6 Free Reading
The Voyage of the Armada The Spanish Story by David Howarth Year 8 History
The Wouldbegoods* by Edith Nesbit Year 5 Free Reading
These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder Year 5 Free Reading
Treasure Island* by Robert Louis Stevenson Year 5 Free Reading
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea* by Jules Verne Year 6 Free Reading
Utopia* by Sir Thomas More Year 8 citizenship
Watership Down by Richard Adams Year 7 Literature
Westward Ho!* by Charles Kingsley Year 8 Literature
Whatever Happened to Justice by Richard Maybury Year 8 economics
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy by Richard Maybury Year 7 Economics
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Year 6 Free Reading
William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood by Thomas H Huxley Year 8 science
William of Malmesbury's account of the Battle of Hastings* by William of Malmesbury Year 7 History
Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum Year 6 Free Reading
Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton Year 5 Science
