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Academic_Curriculum

Humanities Reading List

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
~ C.S. Lewis

GRADE 2 - GRADE 4 
(Works include but not limited to:)

  • Blessed Imelda Lambertini, Mary Fabian Windeatt

  • Because of Winn DIxie, Kate DiCamillo

  • Mr. Popper's Penguins, Richard Atwater

  • First Story of Jungle book, Rudyard Kipling

  • The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamillo

  • King of the Golden City, Mother Mary Loyola

  • The Whipping Boy, Sid Fleischman

  • Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren

  • Stuart Little, E.B.White

  • Charlotte's Web, E.B.White

  • King Arthur & His Knights of the Round Table, Howard Pyle

  • Clare & Francis, Saints of Assisi,Helen Walker Homan

  • Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Patricia Edward Jablonski

  • Caddie Woodlawn, Carol, Carol Ryrie Brink

  • Number the Stars, Lois Lowry

  • Cricket in Times Square, George Selden

  • The Moffats, Eleanor Estes  

  • Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald

  • The World of Columbus & Sons, Genevieve Foster

  • Various Poems

  • Scripture Study

 

GRADE 5 - GRADE 8 
(Works include but not limited to:)

  • Kateri Tekawitha, Evelyn Brown  

  • Farmer Boy, Laura Ingalls Wilder 

  • Indian Captive, Lois Lenski 

  • Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss 

  • Heidi, Johanna Spyri

  • The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • My Brother Sam Is Dead, James Lincoln Collier &  

  • Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia, Margaret Cousins

  • Lion, Witch & Wardrobe,C.S.Lewis 

  • Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare

  • Westing Game, Ellen Raskin 

  • A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle

  • Magician's Nephew, C.S.Lewis

  • Odyssey, Homer

  • Lord of the Rings  (Hobbit), JRR Tolkein

  • Princess and The Goblin, George MacDonald

  • The Door in the Wall, Marguerite DeAngei 

  • As You Like It, William Shakespeare 

  • Sword and the Stone, T.H. White

  • Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Janet Gray

  • Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis  

  • Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

  • To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee 

  • The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton

  • The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom

  • Various Poems

  • Scripture Study

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