World History Living Resource for Teens

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  • February 18, 2009 at 7:05 pm
    CM mom
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    Hello, All. 🙂 I’m planning for next year. I’ll be using Susan Wise Bauer’s Story of the World Series as a World History spine for my 11 year-old child, and I’d like an equivalent which is *not* dry and textbook-ish for my 15 year-old.

    Can anyone suggest a title or two? Thank you!

    February 20, 2009 at 5:16 pm
    Sonya Shafer
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    I wonder if The Story of Mankind by Van Loon would do? I haven’t read it all myself, but from what I’ve read of his other books, he is definitely not dry. He does approach the origins from an evolutionary perspective, so you would need to be on the lookout for that. The text is available on gutenberg and Google Books if you want to take a look and see what you think.

    February 20, 2009 at 6:05 pm
    SueinMN
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    Twice I’ve typed an answer for you but the forum wouldn’t let me post. We’ll see if this gets through.

    February 20, 2009 at 6:09 pm
    SueinMN
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    I think that if you add the Genevieve Foster books to The Story of the World you get a good picture for older students. Currently there are six in print.

    Augustus Caesar’s World

    World of Columbus & Sons

    World of Capt. John Smith

    World of William Penn

    George Washington’s World

    Abraham Lincoln’s World

    These books study World History including American History during the time span of the titled person’s lifetime. I have read some of these three times. They are definitely interesting.

    February 20, 2009 at 7:18 pm
    LivingUnderGrace
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    There is the *original* The Story of the World series by MB Synge, it is 5 books, but then you’ll need to add something more for modern as it does not come up to as current as Susan Wise Bauers volume 4 does.

    I too really like the ones mentioned above by Genevieve Foster. 🙂

    February 20, 2009 at 8:44 pm
    Sonya Shafer
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    We enjoy Genevieve Foster books too. I didn’t realize World of WIlliam Penn was back in print now. Woohoo! Guess what’s going on my birthday list? 😉

    February 21, 2009 at 2:33 am
    Gem
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    I tried to post this reply yesterday, but the forum kept giving me an error – here it is now!

    I enjoyed Gombrich’s A Little History of the World. I haven’t read it to my kids, but I did read it myself. It is very conversational. I know that I own that Van Loon book that Sonya mentioned and I have been looking for it for months – it is lost somewhere in the “stacks”. It is driving me crazy that I can’t find it! This reminds me about it and now I will have to start another round of searching.

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