Where to Find Early Modern & Epistles Books

Here are our suggestions for where to find the books we recommend for the Early Modern & Epistles study. You can also see these suggestions categorized by grade level.

(AH) = American History book, so if you are in a different country you can easily identify and substitute books as desired.

Where to Find the Books

Simply Charlotte Mason

• Book of Centuries (one for each student in grades 7–12; download a free basic one or purchase an expanded edition)
• Discovering Doctrine by Sonya Shafer (one for each student in grades 7–12)
• Growth in the Word by Sonya Shafer (one for each student in grades 7–12)
• Material World and Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel
• (AH) Stories of America, Volume 1 by Charles Morris and Sonya Shafer (Family)
• Stories of the Nations, Volume 1 by Charles Morris, Lorene Lambert, and Sonya Shafer (Family)
• The Stuff They Left Behind: From the Days of Early Modern portfolio
• Visits to North America notebook by Sonya Shafer (one for each student)

Public Domain

(You should be able to download these books as electronic files or read them online for free. The links will take you to a public domain source.)

• (AH) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (grades 10–12)
• Master Skylark by John Bennett (optional for Family)
• The Story of Modern France, chapters 1–23, by H. A. Guerber (grades 7–9)
• The Story of Napoleon by H. E. Marshall (grades 4–6)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (grades 10–12)

Your Local Library

(These are the titles that a library is most likely to have. The links will take you to the CM Bookfinder, where you can find out if a library near you has a copy. If your library does not have access to a book listed here, add it to your Book Store list.)

• Along Came Galileo by Jeanne Bendick (grades 4–6)
• (AH) Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (grades 4–6)
• Bard of Avon by Diane Stanley (grades 1–6)
• Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George? by Jean Fritz (grades 1–3)
• (AH) Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (grades 7–9)
• (AH) The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh (grades 1–3)
• (AH) Early Thunder by Jean Fritz (grades 7–9)
• Galileo’s Leaning Tower Experiment by Wendy Macdonald (grades 1–3)
• Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley (grades 1–6)
• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (grades 7–9)
• (AH) The Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall (grades 1–3)
• (AH) Poor Richard by James Daugherty (grades 7–9)
• (AH) Samuel Eaton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy by Kate Waters (grades 1–3)
• (AH) Sarah Morton’s Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl by Kate Waters (grades 1–3)
• (AH) The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (grades 4–6)
• (AH) Tapenum’s Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times by Kate Waters (grades 1–3)
• (AH) Toliver’s Secret by Esther Wood Brady (grades 1–3)
• (AH) A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy by Jim Murphy (grades 4–6)

Your Favorite Book Store

(The links will take you to Amazon.com or other book sources.)

• (AH) America: The Last Best Hope, Volume 1 by William Bennett (grades 10–12)
• (AH) American Voices: A Collection of Documents, Speeches, Essays, Hymns, Poems, and Short Stories from American History edited by Ray Notgrass (grades 10–12)
• (AH)Benjamin Franklin by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire (grades 1–3)
• Dangerous Journey by Oliver Hunkin (grades 1–3)
• (AH)Diary of an Early American Boy by Eric Sloane (grades 7–9)
• Famous Men of the 16th and 17th Century by Robert G. Shearer (grades 7–12)
• Hearts and Hands: Chronicles of the Awakening Church by Mindy and Brandon Withrow (grades 7–12)
• Lafayette and the American Revolution by Russell Freedman (grades 7–12)
• (AH) The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty (grades 4–6)
• (AH) Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns (grades 7–12)
• A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla (grades 1–3)
• The Ocean of Truth: The Story of Sir Isaac Newton by Joyce McPherson (grades 4–6)
• Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille by Russell Freedman (grades 1–3)
• Strangers in the Land by Louise A. Vernon (grades 4–6)
• The World of William Penn by Genevieve Foster (grades 7–12)
• The Year of the Horseless Carriage by Genevieve Foster (grades 7–12)