Where to Find Modern Times, Epistles & Revelation Books

Here are our suggestions for where to find the books we recommend for the Modern Times, Epistles & Revelation 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)
• Material World and Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel (Family)
• Only a Dog: A Story of the Great War by Bertha Whitridge Smith is also available in its original edition as a free download (grades 1–3)
• (AH) Stories of America, Volume 2, by Charles Morris, et al. (Family)
• Stories of the Nations, Volume 2, by Lorene Lambert (Family)
• (AH) The Story of Thomas A. Edison by Frances M. Perry is also available as part of a free download (Family)
• Strong in the Word by Sonya Shafer (one for each student in grades 7–12)
• The Stuff They Left Behind: From the Days of Modern Times portfolio (Family)
• Visits to Asia notebook by Sonya Shafer (one for each student) (Family)

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.)

• (AH) Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House by Sterling North (grades 4–6)
• (AH) Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (grades 7–9)
• (AH) Always Inventing: A Photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell by Tom L. Matthew (grades 4–6)
• Animal Farm by George Orwell (grades 7–9)
• (AH) A Boy Named FDR by Kathleen Krull (grades 1–3)
• (AH) The Brooklyn Bridge by Elizabeth Mann (Family)
• (AH) Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt by Jean Fritz (grades 7–9)
• (AH) Empire State Building by Elizabeth Mann (Family)
• The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig (grades 7–9)
• Gandhi: The Young Protester Who Founded a Nation by Philip Wilkinson (Famiy)
• (AH) The Hoover Dam by Elizabeth Mann (Family)
• (AH) I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King by Margaret Davidson (grades 1–6)
• The Journey that Saved Curious George by Louise Borden (grades 1–3)
• (AH) Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (grades 7–12)
• Mandela: The Rebel Who Led His Nation to Freedom by Ann Kramer (Family)
• (AH) Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca (grades 1–3)
• (AH) Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (grades 7–9)
• The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (grades 4–6)
• Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (grades 4–6)
• (AH) Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh (grades 4–6)
• (AH) The Unbreakable Code by Sara Hoagland Hunter (grades 1–3)
• The War to End All Wars: World War I by Russell Freedman (grades 10–12)
• (AH) The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman (grades 7–12)

Your Favorite Book Store

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

• Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy (grades 7–9)
• 7 Men Who Rule the World from the Grave by Dave Breese (grades 10–12)
• (AH) America: The Last Best Hope, Volume 1: From a the Age of Discovery to a World at War by William Bennett (grades 10–12)
• (AH) America: The Last Best Hope, Volume 2: From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom by William Bennett (grades 10–12)
• (AH) America: The Last Best Hope, Volume 3: From the Collapse of Communism to the Rise of Radical Islam by William Bennett (optional, 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) Billy Graham: God’s Ambassador by Russ Busby OR Billy Graham: Just Get Up Out of Your Seat by Catherine Mackenzie (Family)
• George Mueller by Faith Coxe Bailey (Family)
• Hitler by Albert Marrin (grades 10–12)
• How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer (grades 10–12)
• Louis Pasteur: Founder of Modern Medicine by John Hudson Tiner (grades 4–9)
• (AH) Our Country’s Presidents by Ann Bausum (reference book for Family)
• Rescue and Redeem: Volume 5, Chronicles of the Modern Church by Mindy and Brandon Withrow (grades 7–12)
• Stalin: Russia’s Man of Steel by Albert Marrin (grades 10–12)
• (AH) Victory in the Pacific by Albert Marrin (grades 7–12)
• (AH) The Yanks Are Coming by Albert Marrin (grades 7–12)