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Where to Find Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation & Epistles Books
Here are our suggestions for where to find the books we recommend for the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation & Epistles study. You can also see these suggestions categorized by grade level.
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)
- A Castle with Many Rooms: The Story of the Middle Ages by Sonya Shafer (Family)
- Discovering Doctrine by Sonya Shafer (one for each student in grades 7–12)
- Life in the Word by Sonya Shafer (one for each student in grades 7–12)
- Material World and Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel (Family)
- The Stuff They Left Behind: From the Days of the Middle Ages portfolio (Family)
- Visits to South & Central America, Australia 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.)
- The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson (grades 10–12)
- In Freedom’s Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce by G. A. Henty (grades 7‐9)
- Men of Iron by Howard Pyle (grades 10–12)
- “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” by Robert Browning (grades 4–6)
- The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (grades 7–9)
- The Book of Arthur by Howard Pyle (grades 7–9 are assigned only “The Book of Arthur” in The Story of King Arthur and His Knights)
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.)
- Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (grades 4–6)
- Brother Francis and the Friendly Beasts by Margaret Hodges (grades 1–3)
- Castle by David Macaulay (Family)
- Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess by Richard Platt (grades 1–3)
- Cathedral by David Macaulay (Family)
- The King’s Fifth by Scott O’Dell (grades 10–12)
- Marguerite Makes a Book by Bruce Robertson (grades 1–3)
- A Medieval Feast by Aliki (grades 1–3)
- Pippo the Fool by Tracey E. Fern (grades 1–3)
- The Sword in the Tree by Clyde Robert Bulla (grades 1–3)
- Viking Adventure by Clyde Robert Bulla (grades 1–3)
Your Favorite Book Store
(The links will take you to Amazon.com or other book sources.)
- Around the World in a Hundred Years by Jean Fritz (Family)
- The Bible Smuggler by Louise Vernon (Family)
- Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland, edited by Rob Shearer (Greenleaf Press edition) (Grades 10–12)
- Famous Men of the Renaissance and Reformation by Rob Shearer (Grades 10–12)
- King Arthur and His Knights audio by Jim Weiss (grades 4–6)
- The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff (grades 10–12)
- The Magna Charta by James Daugherty (grades 7–9)
- The Second Mrs. Giaconda by E. L. Konigsburg (grades 10–12)
- The Shining Company by Rosemary Sutcliff (grades 7–9)
- The Vikings by Elizabeth Janeway (grades 4–6)
- Voices of the Renaissance and Reformation edited by Rob Shearer (grades 10–12)
- The White Stag by Kate Seredy (grades 7–9)