Reading List

Books are full of the voices of the wise, full of lessons from antiquity, full of moral and legal wisdom, full of religion... Without books, we should have almost no memory of the past, no example to follow, no knowledge of either human or divine affairs.

                                                                                                   - Cardinal Bessarion, Greek scholar


Madeline L’Engle:  A Wrinkle in Time

Patricia Beatty:  Campion Towers

L.M. Montgomery:  Anne of Green Gables

Robin McKinley:

    Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978)
    The Door in the Hedge (1981)
    The Blue Sword (1982)
    The Hero and the Crown (1985)
    The Outlaws of Sherwood (1988)
    Deerskin (1993)-  a little mature 
    Rose Daughter (1997)
    Spindle's End (2000)
"Heidi" ... Spyri
"The Spirit Flyer Series" ... Bibe
"Tin Tin" 
Caddie Woodlawn"
Stone Fox" ... Gardner
"The Deliverers of Their Country" ... Edith Nesbitt
"The Cooper Family Adventures" ... Peretti
 Elizabeth Goudge:
     A City of Bells
    The Blue Hills
    The Little White Horse
Gene Stratton-Porter:
    A Girl of the Limberlost 
    Freckles
    Keeper of the Bees  
    Laddie: A True Blue Story 
Black Beauty, Sewell


Freddy the Pig, Walter R. Brooks  http://www.freddythepig.org/bibliography.htm

Bambi, Felix Salten
The Black Stallion, Walter Farley
Bridge to Terebithia, Katherine Paterson
Caddie Woodlawn, Carol Ryrie Brink
The Call of the Wild, Jack London

Captain Grey, Avi
Charlotte's Web, E B White
The Child of the Silent Night, The Story of Laura Bridgman, Edith Fisher Hunter
Emily Upham's Revenge, Avi
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E L Konigsburg
Good Night, Mr. Tom, Michelle Magorian
James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
Mr. Popper's Penguins, Richard and Florence Atwater

Ginger Pye, Eleanor Estes... books/stories mentioned in Ginger Pye:
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel DeFoe
Treasure Island,  Robert Louis Stevenson
Swiss Family Robinson, Johann Wyss
The Tinder Box, Hans Christian Andersen
Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow    
Hans Brinker, Mary Mapes Dodge
Dog of Flanders,  Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Anderson (Naomi Lewis)

Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan
 http://www.redeemedreader.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/A-Childrens-Guide-to-Pilgrims-Progress-by-Emily-Whitten.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/doc/29108604/Pilgrim-s-Progress-Study-Guide-for-Kids
http://www.gradesaver.com/pilgrims-progress/study-guide/character-list/


http://www.historylivesseries.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_White_(missionary) Jungle Doctor series

LInks with Additional Reading Lists:
     
Virginia Sole Smith 
List of Great Books - Well Trained Mind http://www.welltrainedmind.com/great-
http://simplycharlottemason.com/planning/scmguide/literature/
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/21764.Charlotte_Mason_Method_Living_Book_List_Elementary_School