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Table of Contents Ancient History BC 5000 – 400 AD

Grammar Stage ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 Logic Stage............................................................................................................................................................... 6 Rhetoric Stage ........................................................................................................................................................ 8

Biology

Grammar Stage ................................................................................................................................................... 10 Logic Stage............................................................................................................................................................ 12 Rhetoric Stage ..................................................................................................................................................... 13

Medieval History 400-1600 AD


Astronomy and Earth Science


Renaissance History 1600-1850 AD


Chemistry


Modern History 1850-Present


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Physics


2nd Grade

Literature .............................................................................................................................................................. 39

3rd Grade

Health ..................................................................................................................................................................... 40 Literature .............................................................................................................................................................. 40

4th Grade

Literature .............................................................................................................................................................. 41

5th Grade

Health ..................................................................................................................................................................... 42 Literature .............................................................................................................................................................. 42

6th Grade

Literature .............................................................................................................................................................. 43

7th Grade

Health ..................................................................................................................................................................... 44 Civics and Economics ....................................................................................................................................... 44

8th Grade

English ................................................................................................................................................................... 45 Literature .............................................................................................................................................................. 45 Science ................................................................................................................................................................... 45

High School

Health ..................................................................................................................................................................... 46 Civics (Renaissance Year) .............................................................................................................................. 46 Economics (Renaissance Year) .................................................................................................................... 47 Home Economics ............................................................................................................................................... 47 Bible and Theology ........................................................................................................................................... 48


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Ancient History BC 5000 – 400 AD Grammar Stage

____ Story of the World Vol. 1 by Susan Wise Bauer

____ Insiders Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley

____ Tales from the Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborne The One-Eyed Giant The Land of the Dead Sirens and Sea Monsters The Gray Eyed Goddess Return to Ithaca The Final Battle

____ D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths

____ Archeologists Dig for Clues by Kate Duke

____ Journey through History: Prehistory to Egypt by Gloria Verges

____ Mik’s Mammoth by Gerrard Roy

____ One Small Blue Bead by Byrd Baylor

____ Britannia by Geraldine McCaughrean

____ Egyptian Gods and Goddesses by Henry Barker

____ Spend the Day in Ancient Egypt by Linda Honan

____ Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures: Ancient Egypt by Joanna Cole

____ Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs by Gail Gibbons

____ The Egyptian News by Scott Steedman

____ Tut’s Mummy Lost and Found by Judy Donnelly

____ Tutankhamen’s Gift by Robert Sabuda

____ The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth

____ Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures: Imperial China by Joanna Cole


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____ Maples in the Mist by Minfong Ho

____ The Great Wall of China by Leonard Everett Fisher

____ Confucius by Russell Freedman

____ Misoso by Verna Aardema

____ Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Breakfast by Tololwa M. Mollel

____ West African Folk Tales by William H. Barker

____ The Aztec News by Scott Steedman

____ Monster in the Maze by Stephanie Spinner

____ The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus by Aliki

____ The Trojan Horse by Emily Little

____ The Greek Gazette by Paul Dowswell

____ Spend the Day in Ancient Greece by Linda Honan

____ The Greek News by Scott Steedman

____ The Roman News by Scott Steedman

____ Shakespeare Stories II: Julius Caesar by Leon Garfield

____ Cleopatra by Diane Stanley

____ Shakespeare Stories II: Antony and Cleopatra by Leon Garfield

____ Pompeii… Buried Alive by Edith Kunhardt

____ Spend the Day in Ancient Rome by Linda Honan

____ Saint Valentine by Robert Sabuda


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Ancient History BC 5000 – 400 AD Logic Stage


____ Insiders Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley

____ Tales from the Odyssey by Mary Pope Osborne The One-Eyed Giant The Land of the Dead Sirens and Sea Monsters The Gray Eyed Goddess Return to Ithaca The Final Battle

____ D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths

____ Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green

____ The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

____ Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson

____ The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt by Elizabeth Payne

____ Tut’s Mummy Lost and Found by Judy Donnelly

____ The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin

____ Gilgamesh the Hero by Geraldine McCaughrean

____ Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures: Ancient Egypt by Joanna Cole

____ Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki

____ Egyptian Myths by Jacqueline Morley

____ Spend the Day in Ancient Egypt by Linda Honan

____ The Egyptian News by Scott Steedman

____ Misoso by Verna Aardema

____ The Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber


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____ Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green

____ Spend the Day in Ancient Greece by Linda Honan

____ The Greek News by Anton Powell and Philip Steele

____ Archimedes and the Door to Science by Jeanne Bendick

____ Alexander the Great by Robert Green

____ A Triumph for Flavius by Caroline Dale Snedeker

____ The Ancient Greece of Odysseus by Peter Conolly

____ Theras and His Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker

____ The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky

____ The Greek Gazette by Paul Dowswell

____ Spend the Day in Ancient Rome by Linda Honan

____ The Roman News by Andrew Langley

____ The Aztec News by Scott Steedman

____ The Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber

____ The Great Wall of China by Leonard Everett Fisher

____ Confucius by Russell Freedman

____ The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

____ Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick

____ Cleopatra by Diane Stanley

____ St. Valentine by Robert Sabuda

____ The Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence

____ In Search of a Homeland by Penelope Lively

____ The Secrets of Vesuvius by Caroline Lawrence

____ Against the World by Henry W. Coray


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Ancient History BC 5000 – 400 AD Rhetoric Stage

____ History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer

____ The Bible and Its Influence by Cullen Schippe

____ The Great Courses: 3810 Daily Life in Ancient Times

____ (2500 BC) Gilgamesh by David Ferry

____ The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses by W. W. Davies

____ (850 BC) The Iliad by Homer

____ (850 BC) The Odyssey by Homer

____ (700 BC) Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod

____ (512 BC) The Art of War by Sun Tzu

____ (490 BC) Theban Trilogy (Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles

____ (458 BC) Oresteia Trilogy (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides) by Aeschylus

____ (441 BC) The Histories by Herodotus

____ (405 BC) The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripedes

____ (400 BC) The Birds by Aristophanes

____ (400 BC) Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes

____ (400 BC) The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

____ (375 BC) The Republic by Plato

____ Teaching Company Lectures: Plato’s Republic

____ Aristotle for Everyone by Mortimer J. Adler

____ Intro to Aristotle by Richard McKeon

____ (350 BC) On Poetics by Aristotle

____ (350 BC) Rhetoric by Aristotle


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____ (65 BC) Odes by Horace

____ (60 BC) On the Nature of Things by Lucretius

____ (54 BC) De Republica by Cicero

____ Cicero: Selected Works trans. by Grant

____ (44 BC) Julius Caesar by Shakespeare

____ (30 BC) Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare

____ (30 BC) The Aeneid by Virgil

____ Eclogues and Georgics by Virgil

____ (26 BC) The Early History of Rome by Livy

____ (5 AD) Metamorphoses by Ovid

____ (68 AD) Wars of the Jews by Josephus

____ Josephus: The Essential Writings

____ (100 AD) The Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

____ (117 AD) Annals by Tacitus

____ (121 AD) The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

____ (55 – 135 AD) Epictetus

____ The Apostolic Fathers ed. by Lightfoot and Harmer

____ (180 AD) Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

____ (300 AD) On the Incarnation by Athanasius


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Biology Grammar Stage

____ Wild Life in Woods and Fields by Arabella Buckley

____ By Pond and River by Arabella Buckley

____ Plant Life in Field and Garden by Arabella Buckley

____ Birds of the Air by Arabella Buckley

____ Trees and Shrubs by Arabella Buckley

____ Insect Life by Arabella Buckley

____ Usborne First Encyclopedia of Science

____ Usborne First Encyclopedia of the Human Body

____ Usborne First Encyclopedia of Animals

____ Usborne Understanding Your Senses

____ Usborne Understanding Your Muscles and Bones

____ Usborne Understanding Your Brain

____ Basher Science: Biology

____ Magic School Bus Explores the Senses by Joanna Cole

____ Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body by Joanna Cole

____ Magic School Bus Inside a Beehive by Joanna Cole

____ Magic School Bus In the Time of the Dinosaurs by Joanna Cole

____ Insiders Polar Worlds by Rosalyn Wade

____ Insiders Reptiles by Mark Hutchinson

____ Insiders Rain Forests by Richard C. Vogt

____ Insiders Insects & Spiders by Noel Tait

____ Insiders Sharks by Beverly McMillan and John A. Musick


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____ Insiders Human Body by Linda Calabresi

____ Insiders Predators by John Seidensticker and Susan Lumpkin

____ Insiders Dinosaurs by John Long

____ Botany by Ellen McHenry (PDF)

____ Cells by Ellen McHenry (PDF)

____ The Brain by Ellen McHenry (PDF)


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Biology Logic Stage

____ Exploring the History of Medicine by John Tiner

____ Botany by Ellen McHenry (PDF)

____ Cells by Ellen McHenry (PDF)

____ The Brain by Ellen McHenry (PDF)

____ Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth by Jay Hosler

____ The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson

____ The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre

____ The Life of the Spider by Jean Henri Fabre

____ The Way Life Works by Mahlon Hoagland

____ Basher Science: Biology

____ Insiders Polar Worlds by Rosalyn Wade

____ Insiders Reptiles by Mark Hutchinson

____ Insiders Rain Forests by Richard C. Vogt

____ Insiders Insects & Spiders by Noel Tait

____ Insiders Sharks by Beverly McMillan and John A. Musick

____ Insiders Human Body by Linda Calabresi

____ Insiders Predators by John Seidensticker and Susan Lumpkin

____ Insiders Dinosaurs by John Long


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Biology Rhetoric Stage

____ Biology for Dummies by René Fester Kratz and Donna Rae Siegfried

____ Biology: A Self-Teaching Guide by Stephen D. Garber

____ On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

____ Khan Academy Biology

____ Digital Frog (computer program)

____ The Way Life Works by Mahlon Hoagland

____ Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen C. Meyer

____ The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston

____ The Violinist’s Thumb by Sam Kean

____ Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

____ The Double Helix by James D. Watson

____ When Life Nearly Died by Michael J. Benton

____ Neanderthal by Paul Jordan

____ Cro-Magnon by Brian Fagan

____ After the Ice-Age by E. C. Pielou

____ Microbe by Michael Crichton

____ The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

____ Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid by Wendy Williams

____ The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins

____ Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture by Sepp Holzer


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Medieval History 400-1600 AD Grammar Stage


____ Favorite Medieval Tales by Mary Pope Osborne

____ Insiders Knights & Castles by Philip Dixon

____ The Story of King Arthur by Tom Crawford

____ The Sword in the Tree by Clyde Robert Bulla

____ The Kitchen Knight by Margaret Hodges

____ Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges

____ The Viking News by Rachel Wright

____ The Viking Adventure by Clyde Robert Bulla

____ Castle Diary by Richard Platt

____ Saladin by Diane Stanley

____ The Minstrel in the Tower by Gloria Skurzynski

____ Tales of Robin Hood by Tony Allan

____ The Mongols by Robert Nicholson

____ Marco Polo by Charles P. Graves

____ D’Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths

____ Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley

____ Explorer’s News by Michael Johnstone

____ Pedro’s Journal by Pam Conrad

____ Leonardo Da Vinci by Diane Stanley

____ Michelangelo by Diane Stanley

____ Bard of Avon by Diane Stanley


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Medieval History 400-1600 AD Logic Stage


____ An Island Story by H. E. Marshall (to Chapter 94)

____ The Story of the Middle Ages by H. A. Guerber

____ The Story of the Renaissance and Reformation by H. A. Guerber

____ Insiders Knights & Castles by Philip Dixon

____ Augustine, the Farmer’s Boy of Tagest by P. de Zeeuw

____ King Arthur by Roger Lancelyn Green

____ The Once and Future King by T. H. White

____ Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard

____ The Viking World by Philippa Wingate

____ Favorite Norse Myths by Mary Pope Osborne

____ The King’s Shadow by Elizabeth Adler

____ El Cid by Geraldine McCaughrean

____ If All the Swords in England: A Story of Tomas Becket by Barbara Willard

____ Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo

____ Saint Francis by Brian Wildsmith

____ The Magna Charta by James Daugherty

____ Castle Diary by Richard Platt

____ The Adventures of Robin Hood by Robert Lancelyn Green

____ Favorite Medieval Tales by Mary Pope Osborne

____ A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E. L. Konigsburg

____ Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray


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____ In Freedom’s Cause by G. A. Henty

____ The Door in the Wall by Marguerite D’Angeli

____ The Canterbury Tales by Geraldine McCaughrean

____ The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stephenson

____ Along Came Galileo by Jeanne Bendick

____ Starry Messenger by Peter Sis

____ The World of Shakespeare by Anna Claybourne and Rebecca Treays

____ The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood

____ Macbeth by Bruce Coville

____ Other Shakespeare retellings

____ Don Quixote by Michael Harrison


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Medieval History 400-1600 AD Rhetoric Stage

____ History of the Medieval World by Susan Wise Bauer

____ Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

____ Timeline by Michael Crichton

____ (411) Confessions by Augustine

____ (426) City of God Book 8 by Augustine

____ (524) The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

____ (731) The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede

____ (1000) Beowulf

____ (1050) Mabinogion

____ (1090) Cur Deus Homo by Anselm

____ (1100s) Ivanhoe

____ (1273) Aquinas: Selected Writings ed. by Robert Goodwin

____ (1308) A Treatise on God as First Principle by John Duns Scotus

____ (1320) The Inferno by Dante

____ (1348) William of Ockham

____ (1380) The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena

____ (1400) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

____ (1400) The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

____ (1430) The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe

____ (14550 The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stephenson

____ (1470) Le Morte d’Arthur by Malory

____ (1510) Education of a Christian Prince by Erasmus


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____ (1513) The Prince by Machiavelli

____ (1516) Utopia by Thomas More

____ (1520) Commentary on Galatians by Martin Luther

____ (1536) Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin

____ (1588) Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

____ (1588) The Life of St. Teresa of Avila by Herself

____ (1590) The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser

____ (1611) Shakespeare


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Astronomy and Earth Science Grammar Stage

____ Usborne First Encyclopedia of Seas and Oceans

____ Usborne First Encyclopedia of Our World

____ Usborne First Encyclopedia of Space

____ The Rock Factory by Jacqui Bailey

____ Cracking Up by Jacqui Bailey

____ Sun Up, Sun Down by Jacqui Bailey

____ A Drop in the Ocean by Jacqui Bailey

____ Monster Bones by Jacqui Bailey

____ What’s the World Made Of? By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

____ Don’t Know Much About the Solar System by Kenneth C. Davis

____ Usborne Astronomy and Space

____ Basher Science: Astronomy

____ Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge by Joanna Cole

____ Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane by Joanna Cole

____ Magic School Bus Inside the Earth by Joanna Cole

____ Magic School Bus On the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole

____ Magic School Bus At the Water Works by Joanna Cole

____ Insiders Extreme Weather by H. Michael Mogil

____ Insiders Atlas of the Universe by Mark A. Garlick

____ Insiders Volcanoes & Earthquakes by Ken Rubin

____ Insiders Space by Alan Dyer

____ Insiders Oceans by Beverly McMillan and John A. Musick


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Astronomy and Earth Science Logic Stage

____ Signs and Seasons by Jay Ryan

____ Exploring Planet Earth by John Tiner

____ Exploring the World of Astronomy by John Tiner

____ Basher Science: Astronomy

____ The Secret of Everyday Things by Jean Henri Fabre

____ Insiders Extreme Weather by H. Michael Mogil

____ Insiders Atlas of the Universe by Mark A. Garlick

____ Insiders Volcanoes & Earthquakes by Ken Rubin

____ Insiders Space by Alan Dyer

____ Insiders Oceans by Beverly McMillan and John A. Musick


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Astronomy and Earth Science Rhetoric Stage

____ Astronomy For Dummies by Maran, Stephen P.

____ Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide by Dinah L. Moche

____ Geology For Dummies by Alecia M. Spooner

____ Geology: A Self-Teaching Guide by Barbara Winifred Murck

____ Signs and Seasons by Jay Ryan

____ Khan Academy Cosmology and Astronomy

____ Teaching Company Lectures: Intro to Astronomy

____ Teaching Company Lectures: Science and Religion

____ On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicholas Copernicus (1543)

____ Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler (1619)

____ Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei (1632)

____ The Story of Earth by Robert M. Hazen

____ The Alchemy of the Heavens by Ken Croswell

____ Astrophysics is Easy by Mike Inglis

____ The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

____ Dragon’s Egg by Robert Forward


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Renaissance History 1600-1850 AD Grammar Stage


____ Incans, Aztecs, and Mayans by John Holzmann

____ Hernando Cortez and the Conquest of Mexico by Gina De Angelis

____ Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of the Inca by Gina De Angelis

____ Pocahontas and the Strangers by Clyde Robert Bulla

____ Paul Bunyan by Steven Kellogg

____ The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh

____ Squanto by Clyde Robert Bulla

____ Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

____ Guns for General Washington by Seymour Reit

____ The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh

____ The Bears of Hemlock Mountain by Alice Dalgliesh

____ The Matchlock Gun by Walter D. Edmonds

____ What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? by Jean Fritz

____ Ben and Me by Robert Lawson

____ The Winter at Valley Forge by James E. Knight

____ Why Don’t You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? by Jean Fritz

____ Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? by Jean Fritz

____ George Washington by Calista McCabe Courtenay

____ The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

____ If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution by Joan Holub

____ Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution! By Jean Fritz


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____ How We Crossed the West: the Adventures of Lewis and Clark by Rosalyn Schanzer

____ Lewis and Clark and Me by Laurie Myers

____ Phoebe the Spy by Judith Berry Griffin


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Renaissance History 1600-1850 AD Logic Stage


____ An Island Story by H. E. Marshall

____ The Story of the Thirteen Colonies by H. A. Guerber

____ George Washington’s World by Genvieve Foster

____ First Voyage to America by Christopher Columbus

____ The Look-It-Up Book of Explorers by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

____ Explorers Who Got Lost by Diane Sansevere-Dreher

____ The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson

____ The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

____ Struggle for a Continent by Maestro

____ The American Revolution by Alden R. Carter

____ Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

____ Traitor by Jean Fritz

____ Thomas Jefferson by John B. Severance

____ The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz

____ Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

____ Daniel Boone: His Own Story

____ The Journals of Lewis and Clark by John Bakeless

____ Seaman by Gail Langer Karwoskie

____ Davy Crockett: His Own Story

____ Into Battle with Napoleon by Jakob Walter


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Renaissance History 1600-1850 AD Rhetoric Stage

____ History of the Renaissance by Susan Wise Bauer

____ Teaching Company Lectures: American Ideals: Founding a Republic of Virtue

____ Teaching Company Lectures: The Great Debate

____ Teaching Company Lectures: High School American History

____ (1605) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

____ (1635) Divine Meditations by John Donne

____ (1641) Meditations by Rene Descartes

____ (1644) Paradise Lost by John Milton

____ (1651) Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

____ (1669) Tartuffe by Moliere

____ (1670) Pensees by Blaise Pascal

____ (1679) The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

____ (1690) Two Treatises on Government by John Locke

____ (1726) Gulliver’s Travels

____ (1762) The Social Contract by Rousseau

____ (1774) On American Taxation by Edmund Burke

____ (1776) Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

____ The Essential Adam Smith

____ (1776) The Declaration of Independence

____ (1776) Common Sense by Thomas Paine

____ (1781) Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

____ (1787) The Federalist Papers


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____ (1787) The Anti-Federalist Papers

____ (1788) The Constitution of the United States of America

____ Letters between Jefferson and Madison

____ (1789) Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake

____ (1791) The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin

____ (1792) The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

____ (1798) Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

____ (1812) Into Battle with Napoleon by Jakob Walter

____ (1815) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

____ (1818) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

____ (1820s) Ode to a Nightingale and Other Poems by John Keats

____ (1826) The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

____ (1832) The Lady of Shalott and Other Poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

____ (1838) Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

____ (1844) Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

____ (1847) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

____ (1850) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

____ (1850) The Law by Bastiat

____ (1850) That Which is Seen and That Which is Unseen by Bastiat

____ (1851) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

____ Edgar Allan Poe


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Chemistry Grammar Stage

____ Real Science for Kids Chemistry Level 1

____ The Elements by Ellen McHenry (PDF)

____ DK It’s Elementary!

____ Magic School Bus and the Science Fair Expedition by Joanna Cole

____ Basher Science: The Periodic Table

____ Basher Science: Chemistry


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Chemistry Logic Stage

____ The Mystery of the Periodic Table by Benjamin Wiker

____ Real Science 4 Kids Levels 1 & 2

____ Carbon Chemistry by Ellen McHenry (PDF)

____ Exploring the World of Chemistry by John Tiner

____ The Wonder Book of Chemistry by Jean Henri Fabre

____ The Elements by Theodore Gray

____ Basher Science: The Periodic Table

____ Basher Science: Chemistry


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Chemistry Rhetoric Stage

____ Chemistry for Dummies by John T. Moore

____ Chemistry: A Self-Teaching Guide by Clifford C. Houk and Richard Post

____ Real Science 4 Kids Level 2

____ Mystery of the Periodic Table by Benjamin Wikes

____ Quality Science Lab MicroChem

____ Khan Academy Chemistry

____ The Periodic Kingdom by P. W. Atkins

____ The 13th Element by John Emsley

____ Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission by Bernard Jaffe

____ That’s the Way the Cookie Crumbles: 62 All New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life by Dr. Joe Schwarcz

____ Molecules at an Exhibition by John Emsley

____ The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of Elements by Sam Kean

____ The Elements by Theodore Gray


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Modern History 1850-Present Grammar Stage


____ The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz

____ Naya Nuki by Kenneth Thomasma

____ Sarah Whitcher’s Story by Elizabeth Yates

____ Om-Kas-Toe by Kenneth Thomasma

____ Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

____ Robert Fulton, Boy Craftsman by Marguerite Henry

____ Tikta-liktak by James Houston

____ The Story of the Erie Canal by R. Conrad Stein

____ Kildee House by R. Montgomery

____ Inside the Alamo by Jim Murphy

____ Napoleon by Leslie McGuire

____ Soft Rain by Cornelia Cornelissen

____ They’re Off! The Story of the Pony Express by Cheryl Harness

____ The Drinking Gourd by F. N. Monjo

____ Pioneers Go West by George R. Stewart

____ Gettysburg by MacKinlay Kantor

____ Little Big Horn by R. Conrad Stein

____ The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong

____ Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot by Margot Theis Raven

____ Revolution News by Christopher Maynard


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Modern History 1850-Present Logic Stage


____ Our Century in Pictures for Young People by Richard B. Stolley and Amy E. Sklansky

____ The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

____ Eli Whitney by Jean Lee Latham

____ The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman, Jr.

____ You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? by Jean Fritz

____ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

____ Civil War biography by Albert Marrin (Unconditional Surrender, Virginia’s General, or Commander in Chief)

____ Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

____ Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

____ Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

____ George Armstrong Custer by Zachary Kent

____ The Wright Brothers by Quentin Reynolds

____ Bud and Me by Alta Abernathy

____ All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

____ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

____ The Yanks are Coming by Albert Marrin

____ The Call of the Wild by Jack London

____ White Fang by Jack London

____ The Good Fight by Stephen E. Ambrose

____ WWII biography by Albert Marrin (Stalin or Hitler)


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____ Hiroshima by John Hershey

____ The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp

____ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

____ The Korean War by Maurice Isserman

____ America and Vietnam by Albert Marrin

____ Soviet Leaders from Lenin to Gorbachev by Thomas Streissguth

____ Animal Farm by George Orwell

____ The Persian Gulf War by Zachary Kent


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Modern History 1850-Present Rhetoric Stage

____ Visual History of the 20th Century (OR Modern World) by Terry Burrows

____ Our Century in Pictures for Young People by Richard B. Stolley and Amy E. Sklansky

____ (1830-86) Final Harvest by Emily Dickinson

____ (1835) Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

____ (1848) Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

____ (1851) Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

____ (1854) Walden by Henry David Thoreau

____ Teaching Company Lectures: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement

____ (1855) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

____ (1856) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

____ (1858) Phantastes by George McDonald

____ (1859) On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

____ (1861) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

____ (1861) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

____ (1863) Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln

____ When in the Course of Human Events by Charles Adams

____ Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

____ (1877) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

____ (1878) The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

____ (1879) A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

____ (1881) The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglas

____ (1883) Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche


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____ (1884) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

____ (1887) Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

____ (1890) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

____ (1895) Selected poems by W. B. Yeats

____ (1895) Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

____ (1897) Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

____ (1898) The Man-Eaters of Tsavo by John Henry Patterson

____ (1899) The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

____ (1900) The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

____ (1901) Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

____ (1902) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

____ (1903) The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. DuBois

____ (1905) The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

____ (1911) The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton

____ (1918) Selected poems by Wilfrid Owen

____ (1921) Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey

____ (1924) A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost

____ (1925) The Trial by Franz Kafka

____ (1925) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

____ (1931) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

____ (1934) Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

____ (1935) Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot

____ (1937) On Guerilla Warfare by Mao Tse Tung (Zedong)

____ (1937) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

____ (1937) The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell


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____ (1938) Our Town by Thornton Wilder

____ (1939) The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

____ (1947) The Pearl by John Steinbeck

____ (1947) A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

____ (1947) Are Women Human? by Dorothy Sayers

____ (1949) Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

____ (1952) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

____ (1953) The Crucible by Arthur Miller

____ (1956) Seize the Day by Saul Bellow

____ (1962) A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

____ (1964) Why We Can’t Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.

____ (1965) Dune by Frank Herbert

____ (1967) Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

____ (1974) The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

____ (1985) Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

____ (1991) Collected Poems by Philip Larkin

____ (1991) Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

____ (1995) All Rivers Run to the Sea by Elie Wiesel

____ (2003) ZeroGov: Limited Government, Unicorns and Other Mythological Creatures by Bill Buppert


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Physics Grammar Stage

____ Charged Up by Jacqui Bailey

____ Up, Down, All Around by Jacqui Bailey

____ Forces Make Things Move by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

____ Basher Science: Physics

____ Magic School Bus and the Electric Field Trip by Joanna Cole

____ Magic School Bus and the Science Fair Expedition by Joanna Cole

____ Insiders Flight by Von Hardesty

____ Insiders Inventions by Glenn Murphy


http://books.simonandschuster.com/Flight/Von-Hardesty/Insiders/9781442432772

http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Von-Hardesty/82316955

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Inventions/Glenn-Murphy/Insiders/9781416938651

http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Glenn-Murphy/45792535

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Physics Logic Stage

____ Life of Fred Physics

____ Exploring the World of Physics by John Tiner

____ Secrets of the Universe by Paul Fleischer

____ Basher Science: Physics

____ Insiders Flight by Von Hardesty

____ Insiders Inventions by Glenn Murphy

____ Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper by Michael Reisman

____ Uncle Albert series by Russell Stannard


http://books.simonandschuster.com/Flight/Von-Hardesty/Insiders/9781442432772

http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Von-Hardesty/82316955

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Inventions/Glenn-Murphy/Insiders/9781416938651

http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Glenn-Murphy/45792535

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Physics Rhetoric Stage

____ Physics I for Dummies by Steven Holzner

____ Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide by Karl F. Kuhn

____ Khan Academy Physics

____ Teaching Company Lectures: Physics in Your Life

____ Teaching Company Lectures: Einstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution

____ Quantum Physics for Poets by Leon Lederman

____ How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel

____ How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel

____ For the Love of Physics by Walter H. G. Lewin

____ The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene


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2nd Grade Literature

____ The Littles by John Peterson

____ The Last Little Cat by Meindert DeJong

____ Nim’s Island by Wendy Orr

____ Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary

____ Henry and Ribsy by Beverly Cleary

____ Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

____ Stuart Little by E. B. White

____ Emily’s Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary

____ Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

____ The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Savage Carlson


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3rd Grade Health

____ Blood and Guts by Linda Allison

____ Before I was Born by Carolyn Nystrom

____ Primal Kids by Kathy Jo DeVore

Literature

____ The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill

____ Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

____ Red Sails to Capri by Ann Wei

____ Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

____ Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

____ The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth

____ The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White


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4th Grade Literature

____ Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers

____ Little Pilgrim’s Progress by Helen L. Taylor

____ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

____ Macbeth by Bruce Coville

____ The Tempest by Bruce Coville

____ Romeo and Juliet by Bruce Coville

____ Twelfth Night by Bruce Coville

____ Hamlet by Bruce Coville

____ A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Bruce Coville

____ Othello by Adam McKeown

____ The Borrowers by Mary Norton

____ Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

____ How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

____ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

____ The Discontented Ghost by Scott Corbett


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5th Grade Health

____ What’s the Big Deal? by Stan and Brenna Jones

____ Primal Kids or Primal Teens by Kathy Jo DeVore

____ Usborne Complete Book of the Microscope

____ Usborne Introduction to Genes and DNA

____ The Omnivore’s Dilemma for Kids by Michael Pollan

Literature

____ The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

____ Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

____ Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

____ Faerie Gold ed. by Lindskoog and Hunsicker

____ Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

____ From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg


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6th Grade Literature

____ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain

____ Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

____ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson

____ Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

____ American Literature ed. by Kathy Jo DeVore

____ Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe


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7th Grade Health

____ Facing the Facts: The Truth about Sex and You by Stan and Brenna Jones

____ The Human Body ed. by Charles Clayman

____ Primal Teens by Kathy Jo DeVore

____ Usborne Improve Your Survival Skills by Lucy Smith

Civics and Economics

____ Uncle Eric’s Guide to Personal, Career, and Financial Security by Richard Maybury

____ Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? by Richard Maybury

____ Whatever Happened to Justice? by Richard Maybury

____ Are You Liberal, Conservative, or Confused? by Richard Maybury

____ Ancient Rome: How it Affects You Today by Richard Maybury

____ Evaluating Books: What Would Thomas Jefferson Think? by Richard Maybury


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8th Grade English

____ How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

Literature

____ Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring

____ The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry

____ Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

____ The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

____ The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

Science

____ Science Matters by Robert Hazen


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High School Health

____ Facing the Facts: The Truth about Sex and You by Stan and Brenna Jones

____ Primal Teens by Kathy Jo DeVore

____ The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

____ Fat Head (video) by Tom Naughton

____ Science for Smart People (video) by Tom Naughton

____ Protein Power by Michael and Mary Eades

____ Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

____ The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson

Civics (Renaissance Year)

____ The Everything American Government Book by Nick Ragone

____ The Law by Bastiat

____ The Five Thousand Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen

____ Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law

____ Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

____ Video: Never Talk to the Police by Professor James Duane

____ Federalist Papers

____ Anti-Federalist Papers

____ The Communist Manifesto by Freidrich Engels and Karl Marx

____ Whatever Happened to Justice? by Richard Maybury

____ Are You Liberal, Conservative, or Confused? by Richard Maybury

____ Ancient Rome How It Affects You Today by Richard Maybury


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____ Capitalism for Kids (Chapter: Capitalism and Other Isms)

____ The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein

Economics (Renaissance Year)

____ Life of Fred Economics

____ That Which is Seen and That Which is Unseen by Bastiat

____ Video: Money as Debt

____ New Ideas from Dead Economists by Todd G. Buchholz

____ The Essential Adam Smith

____ Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? by Richard Maybury

____ Economics: A Free Market Reader

____ The Money Mystery by Richard Maybury

____ The Clipper Ship Strategy by Richard Maybury

Home Economics

____ Radical Homemakers by Shannon Hayes

____ The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Fermenting Foods by Wardeh Harmon

____ Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon

____ I’m Just Here for the Food by Alton Brown

____ I’m Just Here for More Food by Alton Brown

____ Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson

____ Sink Reflections by Maria Cilley


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Bible and Theology

____ Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

____ The Untold Story of the New Testament by Frank Viola

____ The Story for Teens: The Bible Told as One Continuous Story

____ Reimagining Church by Frank Viola

____ Miracles by C. S. Lewis

____ Practicing the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

____ The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer

____ Not So Among You by Kathy Jo DeVore

____ The Gospel of Ruth by Carolyn Custis James


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