A Second-Grade Year in Chapter Books

• The London Underground by Andrew Emmerson
• The Story of the Amulet by E. Nesbit (did not finish)
• Discovering London's Railway Stations by Oliver Green
• Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
• Henry and the Clubhouse by Beverly Cleary
• Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
• Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome
• Paddington At Large by Michael Bond
• Paddington Helps Out by Michael Bond
• Ben and Me by Robert Lawson (did not finish)
• The Autobiography of S. S. McClure by Willa Cather (read by T.)
• Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome (did not fin...

A First-Grade Year in Chapter Books

• Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (read by T.)
• Return to Gone-Away by Elizabeth Enright
• The Giraffe, The Pelly, and Me by Roald Dahl
• Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
• The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes
• Rufus M. by Eleanor Estes
• On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Moffat Museum by Eleanor Estes
• Magic or Not by Edward Eager
• Pippi Goes on Board by Astrid Lindgren
• Pinky Pye by Eleanor Estes
• The Borrowers by Mary Norton
• Seven-Day Magic by Edward Eager
• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (did not finish)
• All Creatures Great and Small by James He...

This is for students in my eighteenth-century British fiction course who want reading recommendations beyond the syllabus.

If you liked Evelina (by Frances Burney) and liked OR hated Pamela (by Samuel Richardson):

• The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Haywood
• Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
• A Simple Story by Elizabeth Inchbald
• The Wild Irish Girl by Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan)
• Cecilia by Frances Burney
• Journals and Letters by Frances Burney (Penguin edition)
• Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (abridgement published by Broadview is a reasonable option here)

If you liked Robinson Crusoe (by Daniel Defoe):

[for future reference; haven't actually read these yet]

• Actually, Factually by Guy Campbell
• Really, Really Big Questions by Dr. Stephen Law
• The Book of When by Laura Jaffe
• The Burgess Book of Birds for Children

• If you lived here
• The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood
• ✔ Return to Gone-Away
• Swallows and Amazons books
• the rest of the Little House books
  • ✔ Little Town on the Prairie
• ✔ more books by Edward Eager (loved Knight's Castle, Half Magic, etc.)
• ✔ All of a Kind Family by Sidney Taylor
  • sequels
• ✔ The Rescuers
• ✔ The Borrowers
• ✔ The Saturdays
• everything by Lois Lenski
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Cheaper by the Dozen
• My Father's Dragon
• Alice in Wonderland

[My son loves buildings, especially if they are old. These books give significant attention to one or more building.]

• Iggy Peck, Architect
• Eloise [The Plaza!]
• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Gone-Away Lake and Return to Gone-Away by Elizabeth Enright
• The Children of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• Betsy-Tacy; Betsy, Tacy, & Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace [Tib's chocolate-colored house]
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald [Mrs. P-W's upside-down house]
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren [Pippi's crazy house]
• The Boxcar Children (#1) by Gertrude Chandler Warner
• The Giraffe, The Pelly, and Me by Roald D...

• ✔ Pride and Prejudice
• ✔ Sense and Sensibility
• ✔ Great Expectations
• ✔ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• ✔ A Christmas Carol
• ✔ The Picture of Dorian Gray
• ✔ Oliver Twist
• ✔ 1,001 Nights
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles
• Treasure Island
• ✔ Emma
• Persuasion
• Mansfield Park
• Northanger Abbey
• ✔ Hard Times
• Dracula
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Middlemarch
• Gulliver's Travels
• Jane Eyre
• The Woman in White

• ✔ My first French/English visual dictionary. Corbeil, Jean-Claude, Firefly Books: 2006. ISBN: 1554071933 [central library]
• ✔ Milet picture dictionary, English-French. Turhan, Sedat. Milet Publishing: c2003. ISBN: I840593520 [central library]
• Baby's first steps in French [CD-Unabridged] Random House Information Group: 2005. ISBN: 1400023165 [central library]
• Easy French. Daynes, Katie. EDC Publishing: 2002. ISBN: 1580864295
• Beth Manners' fun French for kids
  
  Future Boomers Corp: 1996. ISBN: 0966287622

20 Places to Find Free Books Online by CHRISTINA on NOVEMBER 5, 2010

E-books

• Google Books - Google Books is a great place to find free classic books in the public domain. All of the public domain books are in PDF format and can be read online, downloaded to your computer, or transferred to an e-book reader.
• Amazon's list of free books for Kindle: ...
• Read Print - Read Print makes thousands of novels, poems, and stories freely available online. All of the books are easy to read using the site's "reading mode" and can be quickly located by title, author, or genre.
• Online Books Page - This University of Pennsylvania website lists over 800,000 books that can be read for free online. Books are sorted by author, title, and genre so that they are easy to find.

Second Grade (2011-2012). This list only includes books read in their entirety.

• Paddington At Large by Michael Bond
• Paddington Helps Out by Michael Bond
• Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
• The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
• Chester Cricket's New Home by George Seldon
• Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
• Calvin & Hobbes: Scientific Progress Goes Boink
• Calvin & Hobbes: Something Under the Bed is Drooling
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
• Roderick Rules: Diary of a Wimpy Kid #2 by Jeff Kinney
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ...

A Kindergarten Year in Chapter Books

• The Five Little Peppers by Margaret Sidney
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgred
• Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
• Besty, Tacy, and Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace
• Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill by Maud Hart Lovelace
• Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown by Maud Hart Lovelace
• Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
• Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
• Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
• James Herriot's Treasury for Children
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond

• Mary Poppins (1/2012)
• Miracle on 34th Street (12/2011)
• The General (2/2011)

A collection (in progress) of links to Book Blogs and Reading Lists

• Poetry Resources for Kids
• We Too Were Children Mr. Barrie Children's Books by 20th-Century Adult Authors
• Storied Cities
• DaddyRead: The Best Read Aloud Books
• I.N.K.: Interesting Nonfiction for Kids ...
• KidsReads.com
• Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook
• Five In A Row Book Lists
• Ambleside Online/ Charlotte Mason Bookli...
• Books to Explore
• Mother Reader
• Jen Robinson's Book Page
• 32 Pages
• How To Find Good Children's Books
• Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves
• Great Kid Books
• Database of Award-Winning Children's Lit...
• Chapter Book Read Alouds for 4 year olds...

[So many of the classic children's books either have girls as the main characters or feature boys who are troublemakers, don't like school, etc. This is a list of books that we've read starring good/smart/nice boys.]

• Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes
• Rufus M by Eleanor Estes
• Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Children of Green Knowe by L.M. Boston
• Homer Price and More Tales from Centerburg by Robert McCloskey
• The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
• Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald Sobol
• Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Beyond What to Expect When You’re Expecting: A list of intelligent, thought-provoking books about pregnancy and child-rearing

• Our Babies, Our Selves: How biology and culture shape the way we parent by Meredith F. Small. A comparative study in “ethnopediatrics,” looking at Asian, African, and Western cultures. Really eye-opening!
• The Baby Book by William and Martha Sears (I like all the books they’ve done, including The Pregnancy Book, The Sleep Book, The Discipline Book, and The Family Nutrition Book). This is a very useful resource for baby’s developmental milestones, advocates breast-feeding and “attachment parenting,” especially carrying baby in a sling. Our mantra during the first months, “his desires are his needs,” came from this book. Good to have on...

Philip Pullman

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Indispensable. The great classic beginning of English children's literature.
• Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. What effortless invention looks like.
• Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner. A great political story: democracy in action.
• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome. As clear and pure as Mozart.
• Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken. If Ransome was Mozart, Aiken was Rossini. Unforced effervescence.
• The Owl Service by Alan Garner. Showed how children's literature could sound dark and troubling chords.
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Superb wit and vigorous invention.
• Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson. Any...

• Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Invented Architecture by Ross King
• The Multicultural Math Classroom - Bringing the World In
• The Language of Mathematics - Making the Invisible Visible
• Strange Universe, the Weird and Wild Science of Everday Life - on Earth and Beyond
• The Elements by Theodore Gray
• Journey Through Genius- the Great Theorems of Mathematics
• Jump Math
• ✔ Joy Hakim The Story of Science
• Sir Cumference math books
• The Mystery of the Periodic Table
• Fizz Bubble and Flash
• Basher science books

• Jenny and the Cat Club by Esther Averill
• The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon
• The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily by Dino Buzzati
• The Island of Horses by Eilis Dillon
• The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay
• Mistress Masham's Repose by T.H. White
• The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater
• Carbonel: The King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh
• An Episode of Sparrows by Rumer Godden
• D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
• Jenny Goes to Sea by Esther Averill
• Jenny's Birthday Book by Esther Averill
• The Bear and the People by Reiner Zimnik
• Jenny's Moonlight Adventure by Esther Averill
• The School for Cats by Esther Averill
• Captains of the City Streets by Esther Averill