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Our Book List!

Here is a list of literature we've read over the course of our homeschooling experience.

6th Grade book list:

Around the World in 80 days; Island of the Blue Dolphins; Master Puppetter; House of the 60 Fathers; Journey to Jo/burg; Tales of a Korean Grandmother; Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun; Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde; Call it Courage; The Cat who Went to Heaven; Just So Stories; Aladdin and other Favorite Arabian Night Stories; Ali and the Golden Eagle; Li Lun, Lad of Courage; Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes; Poe's "The Raven" and "the Black Cat"; The History of Medicine; and Dragon Lance.

 

7th GRADE BOOKLIST:

Tales from Ancient Egypt; Mattimeo; Mariel of Redwall; Salamanstron; Peter and the Shadow Thieves; Peter and the Secret of Rundoon; the Golden Goblet; Bronze Bow; Homer's Odessey and Iliad; Augustine; Joan of Arc; Otto of the Silver Hand; Adam of the Road; Atlantis; Bio of Albert Einstein; Theras and His Town; Canterbury Tales

 

8th GRADE BOOKLIST: 

 Lord of the Rings; Witch of Blackbird Pond; Johnny Tremain; Percy Jackson Series; Kidnapped (Robert Lewis Stevenson); Poetry by Stevenson; Streams to the River, River to the Sea; Gift of the Magi; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; The Red Badge of Courage; Pendragon Series  

 

9th Grade Booklist:  

Diary of Anne Frank, Sounder, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lao-Tsu, The Prince, Declaration of Independence, "Franklin's Address to Congress 1941," Boy at War, Of Mice and Men, Poetry of Thomas Hardy, Johnson’s the Great Society speech, and King’s I Have a Dream Speech,

10th Grade Booklist:

Giglamesh, Ozymandius, Egyptian Myths,  Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Great Speeches in History, Joan of Arc, Beowolf, Hamlet by Shakespeare, MacBeth by Shakespeare, Gullivers Travels , Keats Poetry, "The Necklace" 

11th Grade Booklist:

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address,,Great Speeches in History, Letters From Jefferson, American Lion, “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God,” “Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” “A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” ;“I like to see it Lap for miles” Emily Dickenson, “Cask of Amontillado” and “ The tell-tale heart,” “The Last Leaf”  by O. Henry, “O Captain My Captain” and Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman,“Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Hawthorne, Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway, “A jury of her peers” by Susan Glaspell, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut


 12th Grade Booklist:

Canterbury Tales by Chaucer,  Hamlet by Shakespeare, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , John Donne /Study Guide “Bait” and “hymn to God the Father,”      William Blake: Poems, Coleridge: Rime of Ancient Mariner,     Keats: Poetry, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Time Machine by HG Wells,  “Rocking Horse Winner” by D.H. Lawerence,   “Do not go gentle into that Good night ” by Dylan Thomas.

3rd Grade Book List

King of the Wind; The Black Stallion; Justin Morgan had a Horse; Misty of Chincoteague; Brighty of the Grand Canyon; Leif the Lucky; Columbus; Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims; The Courage of Sarah Noble; and The Drinking Gourd.

 

4th Grade Booklist

Lysis and the Play; Little House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie; Farmer Boy; On the Banks of Plum Creek; Charlotte's Web; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; James and the Giant Peach; The Magic Finger, the BFG; Joan of Arc; The Iliad;

 

5th Grade Booklist

Archimedes and the Door of Science; Along Came Galileo; The Story of Thomas Edison; Albert Einstein Young Thinker; Marie Curie's Seach for Radium; Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia; Pastuer's Fight against Microbes; The Redwall Series; American Girl series; 

1st Grade Reading (includes read alouds)

Ramona the Pest; Ramona the Brave; Frog and Toad are Friends; Leif the Lucky; Columbus; Night of the MoonJellies; Finest Horse in Town; A Pair of Red Clogs; Another Celebrated Dancing Bear; and Who Owns the Sun?; Daniel's Duck; Madeline; The Rag Coat;

 2nd Grade Book List

 Where the Wild Things are; Cricket in Times Square; Little House in the Big Woods; Joan of Arc; the Odyssey; Snakes; Naughty Nautical Neighbors; Mrs Piggle Wiggle, Sarah Plain and Tall; Little Bear; Little Bear's Friends; Junie B. Jones;