Note: All of these books are in the public domain if you would like to source them for free. If at all possible, your child should read from a physical book. This can either be traditionally bound or printed at home and put in a binder to read. Before giving your children any of these books you need to pre-read them first to make sure that they meet your family's personal standards. You should look for unabridged versions of these books. The recommended print editions are linked below. These are affiliate links, if you use them it helps to support the curriculum. Thank you. ​

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Level 1

 

Old Mother West Wind by Thornton W. Burgess
🍎Click here for full instructions and work text for Old Mother West Wind
📕Recommended print edition if you're not using the work text: Available on Amazon | Dover Thrift

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Holidays and Happy Days by Hamish Hendry

🍎Click here for full instructions and work text for Holidays and Happy Days
📕Recommended print edition: not currently available

 

Among the Meadow People by Clara Dillingham Pierson
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Photographic Edition

 

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition 

 

Viking Tales by Jennie Hall
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Beatrix Potter Treasury by Beatrix Potter (the following stories are assigned: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tailor of Gloucester, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Story of Miss Moppet, The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles, The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, The Tale of Mr. Tod, The Tale of Pigling Bland, The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse)
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | All-in-One Treasury 

📗Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Boxed Set

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Original

 

Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Complete Tales

 

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Louisa May Alcott Reader by Louisa May Alcott
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Public Domain Print 

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Level 2

 

The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Ways of the Wood Folk by William J. Long
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition
📗Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Photographic Edition

 

Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Robert Ingpen Illustrated Edition
📗Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Original Illustrations 
📘Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Inga Moore Illustrations 

 

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition
📗Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Tasha Tudor Illustrations 

 

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

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Level 3

 

Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Aladdin Edition

 

Wilderness Ways by William J. Long
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition
📗Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Photographic Edition

 

An Island Story (or Our Island Story) by H.E. Marshall
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Heidi by Johanna Spyri
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Classics 

 

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

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Level 4

 

The Story of the Greeks by H.A. Guerber
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
📗Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Ingpen Illustration Edition

 

Unknown to History by Charlotte Yonge
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Puffin Classics

 

Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The Story Book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

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Level 5

 

Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Oxford World Classics

 

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Red Fox by Charles G.D. Roberts
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank P. Bachman
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Puffin Classics 
📗Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Original Print

 

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Thrift

 

Peter Pan (or Peter and Wendy) by J.M. Barrie
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
📕Recommended print edition: Sleepy Hollow, Living Book Press

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Level 6

 

Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Bantam Edition

 

The Great Astronomers by Robert S. Ball
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

A Little Brother to the Bear by William J. Long
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The Loss of the S.S. Titanic by Lawrence Beesley
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

The Call of the Wild by Jack London
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

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Level 7

 

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Oxford World Classics

 

Philip K. Dick Collection by Philip K. Dick (the following stories are assigned: The Defenders, Beyond Lies the Wub, Mr. Spaceship, The Eyes Have It, Second Variety, Piper in the Woods, The Gun, The Crystal Crypt, Tony and the Beetles, and Adjustment Team)
📕Recommended print edition: not currently available

 

Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
📕Recommended print edition: not currently available

 

Wild Animals at Home by Ernest Thompson Seton
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Oxford World Classics

 

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics

 

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition 

 

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics 

 

Tales of the Alhambra by Washington Irving
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

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Level 8

 

Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

In the Days of Queen Elizabeth by Eva March Tappan
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Walden by Henry David Thoreau
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics

 

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Thrift 

 

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

To Have and to Hold: A Tale of Providence and Perseverance in Colonial Jamestown by Mary Johnston 
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics 

 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition 

 

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Thrift

Level 9

 

Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Rural Hours by Susan Fenimore Cooper
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics

 

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

The Life of Black Hawk by Black Hawk
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics

 

The Complete Tales by Edgar Allan Poe (the following stories are assigned: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Gold-Bug, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Oval Portrait, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, A Descent into the Maelström, The Oblong Box, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket)
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon 

 

Anthem by Ayn Rand
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics

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Level 10

 

My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Travels in Alaska by John Muir
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics

 

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics

 

American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics

 

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics

 

The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Thrift

 

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Oxford Classics

 

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Thrift

 

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

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Level 11

 

A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis by Glen W. Watson
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Plutarch: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

A Daughter of the Samurai by Etsuko Sugimoto
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Warbler Classics

 

The Iliad by Homer
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics

 

The Odyssey by Homer
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics

 

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Thrift

 

The Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Macbeth by William Shakespeare
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Thrift

 

The Aeneid by Virgil
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Penguin Classics

Level 12

 

Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency by Nikola Tesla
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas Edgar Wilson
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

South by Ernest Shackleton
📕Recommended print edition: not currently available

 

The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
📕Recommended print edition: Living Book Press | Illustrated Edition

 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Thrift

 

Dracula by Bram Stoker
📕Recommended print edition: not currently available

 

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon

 

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
📕Recommended print edition: Available on Amazon | Dover Thrift