THEMEI know many of you either have a long list of books yourself or have one for the children for schooling. Please share your lists of reading material for this year. You can put them in any way you like - by genre, age, author, fiction, subject. You can also share your list from last year.
My List
I do not have a list of books I read last year. I do not have a list of books that I want the boys to read this year or next, we take those as them come. I do however had a detailed list of the books we plan to use for History so... here goes... I hope this is helpful to someone.
Our History Reading For This Year (This Section of Books are Read Aloud I read them to the boys)
This year we are studying the Dark Ages, Age of the Vikings and the Middle Ages. We started the dark ages last year and so were partway through our main texts. We started the school year in the year 622 AD in History. For our main text I use The Mystery of History by Linda Lacour Hobar. We are currently on Volume II - The Early Church and the Middle Ages we started on lesson 29. We also read Famous Men of the Middle Ages (started at chapter 8 this year) by Cynthia Shearer, and Story of the Middle Ages (A Revised and Expanded Edition of The Story of Old France and The Story of the English by H. A. Guerber) by Christine Miller (started at chapter XXXIV this year) . In all these books we were on Mohamed and the Birth of Islam.
There are some other books that we read each week, little by little. We read the chapters as they go along with the topics or time period we are doing for the 3 main texts we use.
The books are:
Streams of Civilization Volume 1 by Mary Stanton and Albert Hymast
Choosing Your Way Through the World's Medieval Past by Anne E. Schraff
100 Most Important Events in Christian History by Curtis, Lang and Petersen
Medieval Messenger by Fergus Fleming
Mathematicians are People, Too Volume 1 and 2 by Luetta and Wilbert Reimer
Everyday Life in the Middle Ages - With Cross-Curricular Activities in Each Chapter
We also do Blackline Maps of World History by Knowledge Quest and
History Through the Ages timeline book with the History Through the Ages Collection of Historical Timeline Figures (we have the CD
Other Middle Ages books (in Chronological order, the way we read them, read-aloud)
Dark Ages
Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard
Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard
Vikings
The Viking News by Rachel Wright
The Viking Invader by Fergus Fleming
Beorn the Proud by Madeleine Polland
Viking Raiders (Usborne Time Traveller) by Anne Civardi, James Graham-Campbell, and Heather Amery
Growing Up in Viking Times
How Would You Survive as a Viking? By Jacqueline Morley
Cultural Atlas of the Viking World by Colleen Batey
A Viking Town by Fiona Macdonald
The Dragon and the Raven by G.A. Henty
Warming up to Iceland Odyssey Magazine Adventures in Science (A Cobblestone Publication)
The Vikings (Landmark Books) by Elizabeth Janeway
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow (Living History Library) by Allen French
Wulf the Saxon by G.A. Henty
Middle Ages
The Crusades by Anthony West
Knights by Catherine Daly-Weir
In the Time of the Knights by Shelley Tanaka
Red Falcons of Tremoine by Hendry Peart
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
The Red Keep by Allen French
If All the Swords in England (Living History Library) by Barbara Willard
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore M. Jewett
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades by G.A. Henty
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
Richard the Lion Heart by L. Du Garde Peach
A Samurai Castle by Fiona Macdonald
Big John's Secret (Living History Library) by Eleanore M. Jewett
The Lost Baron (Adventure Library (Warsaw, N.D.).) by Allen French
In Freedom’s Cause: A Story of Wallace & Bruce by G.A. Henty
Castle by David Macaulay
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
St. George for England by G.A. Henty
The Beggars’ Bible – John Wycliffe by Louise A. Vernon
Morning Star of the Reformation by Andy Thomson
The Lion of St. Mark by G.A. Henty
A March on London by G.A. Henty
Both Sides of the Border by G.A. Henty
At Agincourt by G.A. Henty
Joan of Arc by Nancy Wilson Ross (World Landmark book)
Ink on His Fingers by Louise A. Vernon
Books on the Middle Ages that we use for Activities Research and Independent Reading (not read-aloud
What Do We Know About the Middle Ages by Sarah Howarth
I Wonder Why Castles Had Moats and Other Questions About Long Ago by Philip Steele
How Would You Survive the Middle Ages? By Fiona Macdonald
The Middle Ages by Mike Corbishley
Castle (DK Eyewitness) by Christopher Gravett
Castle: Medieval Days and Knights (a pop up book) by Kyle Olmon
Castles by David Alderton
The Great Castle Search by Jane Bingham
Design Your Own Coat of Arms: An Introduction to Heraldry by Rosemary A. Chorzempa
Knights and Castles: 50 hands-on activities to experience the Middle Ages by Hart and Mantell
Knights in Armor – a Living History book by John D.Clare, Editor
Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Medieval Castle by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
A Medieval Cathedral – An Inside Story book by Fiona Macdonald
A Medieval Castle – An Inside Story book by Fiona Macdonald
Forts and Castles – A See Through History book by Brian Williams
Medieval Knights – A See Through History book by David Nicolle
The Medieval Castle – A Building History book by Don Nardo
The Medieval Cathedral – A Building History book by William W. Lace
The Middle Ages – A History Opens Windows by Jane Shuter
I Hope this helps someone in their Middle Ages Study,
Debbie
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Debbie,
We're studying this same time period this year. The older boys are doing it in a co-op and some of the titles overlap.
I'm also reviewing Tapestry of Grace's unit on Middle Ages and have great book suggestions from there.
Just the other night I saw Mystery of History Vol. 2 and wish that was on my bookshelf as well.
I'll have to do a post soon about our Middle Ages studies and what we're using. It's definitely a great time period in history that engages boys and girls alike.
I really enjoyed reading over your book list for MOH II. I am wondering if you did MOH I and if you have a list of additional books similiar to this list?
Thank you,
Dixie
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