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Book lists for parents choosing their children's reading. Classic books for each stage of a classical Christian education, many of them cited in our courses. Where the Classics Library has a close reading of a book, we link it. Where it also has the full text, Read free opens its online reader. Start every day with the Bible.
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Kindergarten–Grade 2 · 35 books
Read-aloud and first readers: rhyme, fable, picture study and the Bible stories.
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King James Version
The Holy Bible
Read aloud daily: Genesis, the Psalms, the Gospels. The foundation of every band.
Aesop
Aesop's Fables
Short fables with plain morals; ideal for first narrations.
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Blanche Fisher Wright (illus.)
The Real Mother Goose
The 1916 nursery-rhyme collection; rhythm, rhyme and memory work.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses
Gentle poems of childhood for recitation.
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Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Disobedience and its consequences, with Potter's watercolors for picture study.
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Margery Williams
The Velveteen Rabbit
A tender story of love and becoming 'real'.
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A. A. Milne
Winnie-the-Pooh
Friendship and good humor in the Hundred Acre Wood (1926, now public domain in the US).
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Andrew Lang (ed.)
The Blue Fairy Book
Classic fairy tales; the parent can choose which to read aloud.
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Virginia Lee Burton
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Hard work and faithfulness; pairs with Kindergarten Engineering.
Virginia Lee Burton
The Little House
A house watches the country change around it; good for talking about time and place.
Robert McCloskey
Make Way for Ducklings
Family, order and care in Boston's Public Garden.
Robert McCloskey
Blueberries for Sal
A Maine hillside, a mother's care and a gentle mix-up.
Arnold Lobel
Frog and Toad Are Friends
Easy-reader stories about patience and friendship; good for new readers.
Else Holmelund Minarik
Little Bear
A warm, simple early reader about a loving home.
Esphyr Slobodkina
Caps for Sale
A peddler, a tree full of monkeys and a lot of repetition.
Donald Hall
Ox-Cart Man
A year of honest work on a New England farm; pairs with Business and Gardening.
Barbara Cooney
Miss Rumphius
Make the world more beautiful; ties to gardening and stewardship.
Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
D'Aulaires' Abraham Lincoln
Caldecott-winning picture biography of an honest man.
Virginia Lee Burton
Katy and the Big Snow
A steady little snowplow digs a whole town out of a blizzard; work done faithfully for others.
Marcia Brown
Stone Soup
Three hungry soldiers coax a wary village into sharing a feast; generosity and good humor.
Robert McCloskey
One Morning in Maine
Sal loses her first tooth on a family day by the sea; the Blueberries for Sal family again.
Hardie Gramatky
Little Toot
A playful tugboat proves his worth when a ship is in trouble.
Jane Yolen
Owl Moon
A father and child walk into the winter woods to look for owls; patience and quiet wonder.
Margaret Hodges
Saint George and the Dragon
The Red Cross Knight's battle from Spenser, retold with rich Caldecott pictures; courage and faith.
Astrid Lindgren
The Tomten
A small farm guardian keeps watch over animals and people through a long Swedish winter night.
Munro Leaf
Wee Gillis
A Scottish boy torn between Lowlands and Highlands finds the use for his own gift.
William Steig
Brave Irene
A girl carries her sick mother's work through a blizzard; duty and grit.
Tomie dePaola
The Clown of God
An old juggler gives his one gift to the Christ Child; a legend about offering what you have.
Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola's Book of Bible Stories
Old and New Testament stories for young listeners, with dePaola's warm pictures.
Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
George Washington
A picture-book life of Washington from the makers of our Lincoln.
Michael Bond
A Bear Called Paddington
A polite bear from Peru finds a home with a London family; kindness to a stranger.
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A. A. Milne
When We Were Very Young
Milne's first book of verses for children, for reading aloud and learning by heart.
Paul Galdone
The Little Red Hen
Who will help? The old tale of work and its reward.
C. W. Anderson
Billy and Blaze
A boy and the pony he loves; the care an animal needs.
Marie Bradby
More Than Anything Else
Young Booker T. Washington works at the saltworks and longs, more than anything, to read.
Grades 3–5 · 43 books
Grammar-stage favorites read independently or aloud: animals, adventure, fairy tale and history.
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Anna Sewell
Black Beauty
Kindness to animals told by a horse; used in the Explore Horses track.
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Marguerite Henry
Misty of Chincoteague
Ponies, the sea and patient work; referenced in the Horses track.
Marguerite Henry
King of the Wind
Newbery winner about the Godolphin Arabian and a faithful stable boy.
Walter Farley
The Black Stallion
A shipwreck, a wild horse and courage; referenced in the Horses track.
Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows
Friendship, home and loyalty on the riverbank.
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Johanna Spyri
Heidi
A Swiss mountain girl, her grandfather and the return to faith.
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George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin
Fairy tale of trust and courage by the man C. S. Lewis called his master.
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Howard Pyle
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
The great outlaw tales retold with chivalry and humor.
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Thornton W. Burgess
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Nature study of common birds; pairs with Explore Birds and Life Science.
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Helen L. Taylor
Little Pilgrim's Progress
Bunyan's allegory retold for children.
C. S. Lewis
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Sacrifice, betrayal and redemption in Narnia.
E. B. White
Charlotte's Web
Friendship, sacrifice and the turn of the farm year.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House in the Big Woods
Pioneer family life, chores and seasons; read on through Farmer Boy.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Farmer Boy
Hard work and thrift on an 1860s New York farm.
Jean Lee Latham
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Self-taught navigator and mathematician; a natural fit with math and geography.
Holling C. Holling
Paddle-to-the-Sea
A carved canoe travels the Great Lakes; geography in story form.
Marguerite de Angeli
The Door in the Wall
A medieval boy learns patience and service after illness.
Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
The standard first book of the myths behind Homer and Latin roots.
Alice Dalgliesh
The Courage of Sarah Noble
A girl keeps up her courage on the colonial frontier.
E. B. White
The Trumpet of the Swan
A swan born without a voice learns to read, write and play the trumpet, and pays his father's debt.
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Eleanor Estes
The Hundred Dresses
Two girls learn too late what their teasing cost a classmate; a short, searching book about kindness.
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Patricia MacLachlan
Sarah, Plain and Tall
A prairie family waits to see whether the woman who answered their letter will stay.
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Richard and Florence Atwater
Mr. Popper's Penguins
A house painter's home fills with penguins; a comic classic read-aloud.
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Robert McCloskey
Homer Price
Small-town scrapes and a runaway doughnut machine, told with dry humor.
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Robert Lawson
Rabbit Hill
The animals of a Connecticut hill wait to learn what the new folks in the big house will be like.
George Selden
The Cricket in Times Square
A country cricket, a mouse and a cat help a newsstand family in New York; friendship and loyalty.
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Mary Norton
The Borrowers
A family of tiny people lives under the floor of an old English house.
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Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories
Kipling's playful origin tales, written to be read aloud.
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Marie McSwigan
Snow Treasure
Norwegian children sled their country's gold past the invaders in 1940; courage under occupation.
John Reynolds Gardiner
Stone Fox
A boy and his dog race to save his grandfather's farm.
Alice Dalgliesh
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
A boy sent over the mountain learns to face his fear; a short first chapter book.
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Eleanor Estes
The Moffats
A fatherless family gets by with love and good cheer in a small New England town.
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George MacDonald
The Light Princess
A princess without gravity, and the prince whose sacrifice cures her.
Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book
Mowgli and the Law of the Jungle; loyalty, duty and the rules a community lives by.
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Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Pinocchio
The original puppet who must learn honesty and obedience the hard way.
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Lois Lenski
Strawberry Girl
A Florida farm girl and a feud between neighbors; patience and peacemaking.
Meindert DeJong
The Wheel on the School
A Dutch village's schoolchildren work together to bring the storks back.
Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
A bored boy drives into a land of words and numbers and learns to care about learning.
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Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy-Tacy
Two five-year-olds become best friends in a turn-of-the-century Minnesota town.
Natalie Savage Carlson
The Family Under the Bridge
A Paris hobo who wants no family is won over by three homeless children at Christmas.
Sydney Taylor
All-of-a-Kind Family
Five sisters in a Jewish family on New York's Lower East Side around 1912.
Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths
The Norse gods and giants, from the makers of our Greek myths.
Wilson Rawls
Where the Red Fern Grows
An Ozark boy works two years to buy two hound pups; love, grief and hard work.
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Grades 6–8 · 40 books
Longer classics for the logic stage: adventure, allegory, history and a first Shakespeare.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Pirates, greed and a boy's growing judgment; cited across the courses.
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Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Shipwreck, ingenuity and a man's return to God.
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John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress
The great Christian allegory, read in full.
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Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Boyhood on the Mississippi, with mischief and conscience.
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Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Four sisters grow in character through hardship.
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Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol
Repentance and generosity; referenced in the courses.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden
Neglected children and a garden brought back to life.
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Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days
Precision, pluck and geography; referenced in the Travel track.
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Johann David Wyss
The Swiss Family Robinson
A shipwrecked family builds a life by faith and skill.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped
Highland adventure, loyalty and friendship.
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Howard Pyle
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Chivalry and its failures, in Pyle's own retelling.
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L. M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables
Imagination, gratitude and growing up on Prince Edward Island.
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Rudyard Kipling
Captains Courageous
A spoiled boy learns work and manhood on a fishing schooner.
Gilbert White
The Natural History of Selborne
A country parson's patient nature notes; used in Explore Birds.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
An unlikely hero, courage and the danger of greed.
Rosemary Sutcliff
Black Ships Before Troy
The Iliad retold for young readers; prepares for Homer in high school.
Esther Forbes
Johnny Tremain
An apprentice silversmith in revolutionary Boston.
Elizabeth George Speare
The Bronze Bow
Hatred and forgiveness in Galilee in the time of Jesus.
Elizabeth Janet Gray
Adam of the Road
A minstrel's son on the roads of medieval England.
Corrie ten Boom
The Hiding Place
Faith and forgiveness in wartime; for grades 7–8 with a parent.
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A first Shakespeare comedy to read aloud and act.
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Armstrong Sperry
Call It Courage
A Polynesian boy who fears the sea sails out alone to face it.
Sheila Burnford
The Incredible Journey
Two dogs and a cat cross the Canadian wilderness to find their family.
Jean Craighead George
My Side of the Mountain
A boy runs off to live a year alone in the Catskills; self-reliance and woodcraft.
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Fred Gipson
Old Yeller
A Texas frontier boy, the stray dog who saves his family, and a hard choice.
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Mary Mapes Dodge
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
A poor Dutch boy, a skating race and a family's faithfulness.
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Scott O'Dell
Island of the Blue Dolphins
A girl survives alone for years on an island off California.
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Rosemary Sutcliff
The Eagle of the Ninth
A young Roman officer goes north of Hadrian's Wall to recover his father's lost legion's eagle.
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Eric P. Kelly
The Trumpeter of Krakow
A family guards a great treasure in medieval Poland; honor and the trumpeter's broken note.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
The Golden Goblet
An Egyptian boy uncovers tomb robbers in ancient Thebes.
Lois Lowry
Number the Stars
A Danish girl helps her Jewish friend escape in 1943; courage and neighborly love.
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Irene Hunt
Across Five Aprils
An Illinois farm family is divided by the Civil War.
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Arthur Ransome
Swallows and Amazons
Children sail, camp and explore an English lake on their own one summer.
Elizabeth Yates
Amos Fortune, Free Man
An African prince sold into slavery buys his freedom and others' in colonial New England.
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Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper
A prince and a beggar boy trade places in Tudor England.
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Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman; Irving's American tale.
Charles and Mary Lamb
Tales from Shakespeare
Twenty plays retold in prose; a first step toward Shakespeare himself.
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Padraic Colum
The Children's Homer
The Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus, told for young readers.
Harold Keith
Rifles for Watie
A Kansas boy serves in the Civil War's western theater and sees both sides.
Ian Serraillier
The Silver Sword
Polish children cross war-torn Europe to find their parents.
Grades 9–12 · 41 books
The great books for the rhetoric stage, from Homer to the founders. Parents preview the mature works marked below.
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Homer
The Iliad
Wrath, honor and mortality; the foundation of Western literature.
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Homer
The Odyssey
Homecoming, hospitality and faithfulness.
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Sophocles
The Theban Plays
Oedipus and Antigone: pride, fate and law.
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Plato
The Last Days of Socrates
The Apology and the death of Socrates.
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Plato
The Republic
Justice and the soul; read with a parent (its ideal city is not a model).
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Aristotle
The Nicomachean Ethics
Virtue, habit and the good life.
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Virgil
The Aeneid
Duty and the founding of Rome; pairs with Latin.
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Plutarch
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Character studies of great men, read in selections.
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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
A Stoic emperor's notes on self-command.
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Augustine of Hippo
Confessions
Restless heart, grace and conversion.
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Augustine of Hippo
The City of God
The two cities; selections.
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Boethius
The Consolation of Philosophy
Fortune, providence and true happiness.
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Anonymous
Beowulf
Courage and kingship in the Old English epic.
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Anonymous
The Song of Roland
Loyalty and sacrifice at Roncevaux.
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Anonymous
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Honesty, courtesy and a test of faith.
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Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
The soul's journey to God; Inferno first.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Selected tales (General Prologue, Knight, Nun's Priest); parent chooses.
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William Shakespeare
Macbeth
Ambition and conscience.
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William Shakespeare
King Lear
Flattery, loyalty and the honoring of parents.
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William Shakespeare
Henry V
Kingship and courage; referenced in the courses.
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William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Rhetoric and conspiracy; pairs with Public Speaking.
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William Shakespeare
Hamlet
Conscience, revenge and providence ('a divinity that shapes our ends').
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Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
Idealism and folly; selections.
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John Milton
Paradise Lost
The Fall told in epic verse; referenced in the courses.
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Blaise Pascal
Pensées
Faith and reason from a mathematician.
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Hamilton, Madison and Jay
The Federalist Papers
The case for the Constitution.
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Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention
The Founding Documents
Declaration, Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Benjamin Franklin
Autobiography and Poor Richard's Almanack
Industry and thrift; used in Business and Composition.
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Literacy, liberty and faith in a slave narrative.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
Selections on American religion, associations and character.
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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Judgment, humility and marriage.
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Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Ambition, gratitude and loyalty.
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George Eliot
Silas Marner
A miser restored by love of a child.
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Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Justice, revenge and mercy.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
Guilt and redemption; grade 11–12, read with a parent.
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Herman Melville
Moby-Dick
Obsession and providence at sea; selections.
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C. S. Lewis
Mere Christianity
The case for the faith in plain prose.
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
Faithfulness, mercy and the long defeat.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Cost of Discipleship
Costly grace and following Christ.
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Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel
An English fop who is secretly rescuing victims of the French Terror.
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Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
A young Union soldier's fear and courage in his first battle.
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A note for parents
Pick editions with care: unabridged where you can, and the King James Version for Scripture. A few high school works deal with crime, war or false ideas; read them alongside your student. See also the YouTube creators our courses use.