2024-25 Book Lists

These are the non-textbook books we read together in our two groups for school.  For the teens, we could add in their various texts--especially the American Lit book--but I choose to keep the list as-is with living books.

I can say with complete honesty,  that I recommend every book on these lists.  If it wasn't worth our time, it didn't make these lists.

With Teens
The Scarlet Letter -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Macbeth -- William Shakespeare
A Comedy of Errors --William Shakespeare
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
The Last of the Mohicans --James Fenimore Cooper
The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men --John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee


With Kids

The Story Girl -- L.M. Montgomery 

The Interrupted Tale -- Maryrose Wood

Super -- Matthew Cody 

Powerless -- Matthew Cody

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh -- A.A. Milne

The Witch of Blackbird Pond -- Elizabeth George Speare

The Sign of the Beaver -- Elizabeth George Speare 

Sarah Whitcher’s Story -- Elizabeth Yates

The Boy Who Fell off the Mayflower -- P.J. Lynch

Moby Dick -- retold by Geraldine McCaughrean

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever -- Barbara Robinson

The Forgotten Carols -- Michael McClean

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus -- L Frank Baum

Patterns on the Wall -- Elizabeth Yates 

Charlotte's Web -- E.B. White

Across Five Aprils -- Irene Hunt

The Jesus Storybook Bible -- Sally Lloyd-Jones

The Story of Davy Crockett -- Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Mark Twain

Little House on the Prairie -- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Mary Poppins -- P.L. Travers

Counting Thyme -- Melanie Conklin

Prairie Lotus -- Linda Sue Park

The Bible Story (vols 5-7) -- Arthur S Maxwell

The Story of Science: Newton at the Center -- Joy Hakim

Theodore Roosevelt -- Genevieve Foster

Edith Cavell: Nurse, Spy, Heroine -- Adele de Leeuw

The Black Arrow -- Robert Louis Stevenson 

Over There! Stories of World War I -- Phyllis R Fenner

The Wind in the Willows -- Kenneth Grahame

Bitter Victory, A History of Black Americans in WWI -- Florette Henri

Down Cut Shin Creek -- Kathi Appelt

Rowan Farm -- Margot Benary-Isbert
The Tale of Despereaux -- Kate DiCamillo
Mishka -- Edward van de Vendel and Anoush Elman
Gooney Bird Greene -- Lois Lowry
Villainous -- Matthew Cody

These two lists run from July 2024-June 2025.
I've already started our July 2025 book list with The Mysterious Benedict Society!

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