This book list correlates with the program at Living Books Curriculum.
Grade One
A Child’s Garden of Verses by R.L. Stevenson
Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Grade Two
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
American History Stories Volume 1 by Mara Pratt
American History Stories Volume 2 by Mara Pratt
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt by James Baikie
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
Grade Three
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children by Edith Nesbit
On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
selected poems from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Grade Four
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge
When Knights were Bold by Eva March Tappen
God’s Troubador, The Story of Saint Francis of Assisi by Sophie Jewett
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Grade Five
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge
Grade Six
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Olive Twist by Charles Dickens
Treasure Island by R. L. Stevenson
Grade Seven
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
A Book of Discovery by M. B. Synge
Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappen
The Story of the Middle Ages by Samuel Harding
This Country of Ours by H. E. Marshall
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Grade Eight
A Book of Discovery by M. B. Synge
This Country of Ours by H. E. Marshall