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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThis classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 Read Online | ![]() | Discovery/ Colonial | Middle | Literature |
Autobiography by Benjamin FranklinFew compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, and successful diplomat. At: Local Library Amazon $8.76 Read Online | ![]() | Discovery/ Colonial | Middle | Biography |
Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainA seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | ![]() | 1800's | Middle | Literature |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainFew books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain. The... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.95 Read Online | ![]() | 1800's | Middle | Literature |
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. LewisSenior demon Screwtape coaches Wormwood in the tempting his "patient" away from God. A masterpiece of reverse theology, giving an inside look at temptation. At: Local Library Amazon $6.07 | ![]() | Modern 1900-present | Middle | Philosophy & Religion |
The Song of RolandThe Song of Roland is the most famous of the "chansons de geste" (songs of deeds) of the Middle Ages. It provides a fascinating view into... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | ![]() | Middle Ages 600-1300 | Middle | Literature |
Daniel Boone by Daniel BooneFirst published in the early 1800s, this true-life account set the record straight on the mythic Daniel Boone and established him as an... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $10.17 Read Online | ![]() | Discovery/ Colonial | Middle | Biography |
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter ScottPublished in 1819, this classic historical romance unfolds in a 12th-century kingdom torn asunder by the hatred between Saxons and Normans.... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.00 Read Online | ![]() | Middle Ages 600-1300 | Middle | Literature |
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensClassic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, as icons of the true meaning of Christmas. At: Local Library Amazon $3.99 Read Online | ![]() | 1800's | Middle | Literature |
Carry On Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee LathamReaders today are still fascinated by "Nat," an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.95 | ![]() | 1800's | Middle | General |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareForced to leave her sunny Caribbean home for the bleak Connecticut Colony, Kit Tyler is filled with trepidation. As they sail up the river... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.93 | ![]() | Discovery/ Colonial | Middle | Historical Fiction |
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan SwiftShipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver's encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.91 Read Online | ![]() | Discovery/ Colonial | Middle | Literature |
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| Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.99 | ![]() | 1800's | Middle | Historical Fiction |
| The Call of the Wild by Jack London Buck, stolen from his comfortable family home and forced into the harsh life of an Alaskan sled dog, embarks on an extraordinary journey with a wolf pack. At: Local Library Amazon $3.99 Read Online | ![]() | 1800's | Middle | Literature |
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| Outlet by Andy Adams Fictional story of the American West At: Local Library Amazon $16.98 | ![]() | 1800's | Middle | Historical Fiction |
| The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling No child should be allowed to grow up without reading The Jungle Books. Published in 1894 and 1895, the stories crackle with as much life... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.95 | ![]() | Not History Related | Middle | Literature |
| Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare In the year 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid. Young Miriam... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $4.73 | ![]() | Discovery/ Colonial | Middle | Historical Fiction |
| Mara Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw Mara, the spunky 17-year-old slave girl, far from perfect (in fact, rather devious), but brave and eventually quite heroic as she risks death rather than betray the people and ideals that she loves. At: Local Library Amazon $4.87 | ![]() | Ancient before 500BC | Middle | Historical Fiction |
| The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Based on the Civil War Battle of Chancellorsville, an accurate representation of war; its stylistic strength the mark of a literary classic. At: Local Library Amazon $3.99 Read Online | ![]() | 1800's | Middle | Literature |
| Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Dickens' later novel, a work of artistic maturity; symbolic narrative rather than realistic; plot of coincident events true to the internal, psychological, logic of the story. At: Local Library Amazon $6.40 | ![]() | 1800's | Middle | Literature |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards Edwards' most famous sermon on God's wrath. There's no need for God to be merciful if there's no eternal wrath to fear. At: Local Library Amazon $2.50 | ![]() | Discovery/ Colonial | Middle | Philosophy & Religion |
| David Copperfield by Charles Dickens David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $6.84 | ![]() | 1800's | Middle | Literature |
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| Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Eleven-year-old Adam loved to travel throughout 13th century England with his father, a wandering minstrel, and his dog, Nick. But when Nick is stolen and his father disappears... At: Local Library Amazon $4.00 | ![]() | Middle Ages 600-1300 | Middle | Historical Fiction |
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| Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson The story of a young man overcoming adversity to gain maturity and his birthright. At: Local Library Amazon $3.99 | ![]() | Discovery/ Colonial | Middle | Literature |
| Little Women by Louisa May Alcott In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $3.95 | ![]() | 1800's | Middle | Literature |
| Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle Born into a robber baron's household in medieval Germany, young Otto is caught in the middle of a violent blood feud. Captured in battle... Source: Amazon At: Local Library Amazon $5.60 Read Online | ![]() | Middle Ages 600-1300 | Middle | Historical Fiction |
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