The books listed for younger students can be enjoyed by all ages as a read-aloud. You may want to select a set of books below that corresponds to your History Module and plan to read those books aloud to the whole family; then if you have older students, select a set of books for those older students to read independently. Or just select a set that your family would enjoy and read them aloud together. We think the main objective of Literature is to enjoy well-written books. These selections are not meant to be analyzed as works, but treasured as old friends. Click on any title to see that book’s details in our CM Bookfinder.




Grade Resources Comments
1 Charlotte’s Web; Stuart Little; Trumpet of the Swan; Mr. Popper’s Penguins; Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; Peter Pan For more good read-aloud book suggestions, check out our Early Years recommendations for five-year-olds.
2 Pollyanna; Pollyanna Grows Up; Black Beauty; Wind in the Willows; Heidi; Wonderful Wizard of Oz We usually read aloud one chapter of our Literature book per day.
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Chronicles of Narnia series: Magician’s Nephew; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Last Battle; also Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates; The Secret Garden
4 Swiss Family Robinson; Rascal; Misty of Chincoteague; Stormy, Misty’s Foal; Sea Star, Orphan of Chincoteague; Pinocchio; Just So Stories
5 Robin Hood; Pilgrim’s Progress; The Railway Children; Bambi: A Life in the Woods; Bambi’s Children; In His Steps; A Basket of Flowers Fits nicely with Middle Ages & Renaissance History Module.
6 Little Women; Little Men; Jo’s Boys; Tom Sawyer; Huckleberry Finn; Call of the Wild Fits nicely with Modern Times History Module. If you haven’t yet read the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, this would be a great time to do so.
7 Five Little Peppers series: Five Little Peppers and How They Grew; Five Little Peppers Midway; Five Little Peppers Abroad; Five Little Peppers Grown Up Several of the Little Pepper books are available as free text documents online.
8 Little Britches series: Little Britches; Man of the Family; The Home Ranch; Mary Emma and Company; The Fields of Home; Shaking the Nickel Bush; The Dry Divide; Horse of a Different Color Be on the alert for some coarse “cowboy language” in the first book of the series and some swearing in the others. You can easily skip it as you read aloud.
9 Freckles; Around the World in Eighty Days; Robinson Crusoe; Anne of Green Gables series: Anne of Green Gables; Anne of Avonlea; Anne of the Island
10 Hound of the Baskervilles; Treasure Island; A Christmas Carol; The Innocence of Father Brown; The Hobbit; Lord of the Rings trilogy: Fellowship of the Ring; Two Towers; Return of the King
11 Watership Down; David Copperfield; Where the Red Fern Grows; Gulliver’s Travels; The Prince and the Pauper
12 Pride and Prejudice; A Lantern in Her Hand; The Innocents Abroad; Great Expectations; A Tale of Two Cities