A List of Books From Which To Choose (over the next few years)

Parking my thoughts here on some literature choices for the girls ... mostly taken from Kolbe's lists for the older two girls, and Sonlight for the younger two, and edited for what they have already read!



Juliet (almost 12yo - audiobooks allowed due to dyslexia)



all our saint stories (mostly Windeatt... maybe 10 of them?)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

Animal Farm, George Orwell

Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (heard on audio)

The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson

Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury

Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

Fellowship of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (heard on audio)

Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare

Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane

Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

**and anything from Maggie's list that has not been read yet (most!)



Maggie (10)

all our saint stories

The Black Cauldron, Lloyd Alexander

The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare

Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling

The Children’s Homer, Padraic Colum

Fingal’s Quest, Madeleine Polland

The Great Brain, John Fitzgerald

The Hobbit, JRR Tolkein

I am David, Ann Holm

The Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell

Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson

Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl

The Miracle Worker, William Gibson

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien

My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George

Old Yeller, Fred Gipson

Outlaws of Ravenhurst, Sr. M. Imelda Wallace

The Secret of Pooduck Island, Alfred Noyes

Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss

Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls

White Fang, Jack London



Grace (6.5)

The Sword in the Tree

Cora Frear

The House on Walenska Street

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie

The Last Little Cat

The Littles

The Long Way Westward

The Long Way to a New Land

The Paint Brush Kid

Prairie School

Riding the Pony Express

Secret Valley

Tornado (about a dog)

Viking Adventure by Clyde Bulla

Along Came A Dog

B is for Betsy

the first three Betsy-Tacy books

Emily's Runaway Imagination

Llama in the Family

Lumber Camp Library

McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm

Misty of Chicoteague

More Stories from Grandma's Attic

Shadrach

The Whipping Boy



Leah (4.5)

FROG AND TOAD books

LITTLE BEAR books

MOUSE TAILS

OWL AT HOME

One Fish, Two Fish