Here are the “Read Alouds” that we have read and enjoyed as a family (often times in the car while driving to and from places). Many of these followed our history curriculum while others were just selections from the shelves of the library (particularly Caldecott, Newberry, and other award winning books).
Come On, Seabiscuit (Ralph Moody)
Little Britches/Father and I were Ranchers, Man of the Family, The Home Ranch, The Fields of Home, Mary Emma and Company, Shaking the Nickel Bush, The Dry Divide, Horse of a Different Color (Ralph Moody…autobiographies)
Cricket in Times Square, Tucker’s Countryside, Harry Kitten & Tucker Mouse, Chester Cricket’s Pigeon Ride, Chester Cricket’s New Home, Harry Cat’s Pet Puppy, The Old Meadow (Selden)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Baum)
Hittite Warrior (Joanne Williamson)
God King (Joanne Williamson)
The Bronze Bow (Elizabeth George Speare)
Escape by Sea (LS Lawrence)
Roman Mysteries (Caroline Lawrence)
The Golden Goblet (E McGraw)
The Flames of Rome (P Maier)
Beyond the Desert Gate (M Ray)
King Arthur
The Eagle of the Ninth (Sutcliff)
Twice Freed (St John)
Black Fox of Lorne (M DeAngeli)
Beorn the Proud (M Pollard)
Adam of the Road (Elizabeth Gray)
A Door in the Wall (M Deangeli)
The King’s Shadow (E Alder)
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston (E Jewett)
Pontius Pilate (P Maier)
A Single Shard (Linda Parks)
The Striped Ships (E. McGraw)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (J Verne)
Trumpeter of Krakow (Kelly)
A Cry From Egypt (Hope Auer)
Stand at Sinai (Hope Auer)
Not Regina (Kaufman)
The Whipping Boy (Fleischman)
Duncan’s War, King’s Arrow, Rebel’s Keep (D. Bond)
Timna (L Travis)
The Slave Dancer (P Fox)
For the Temple (GA Henty)
Let my People Go (McKissack)
Guns of Thunder, Guns of the Lion, Guns of Providence (D Bond)
With Wolfe in Canada (GA Henty)
True to the Old Flag (GA Henty)
Nory Ryan’s Song (Patricia Reilly Giff)
The Heart of a Samurai (Margi Preus)
The Lost Battalion
Blue Willow (Doris Gates)
The Bamboo Sword (Preus)
Angel on the Square (Gloria Whelan)
Letters from Ritka (Karen Hesse)
The Fugitive King (Handford)
Victory on the Walls (Hyman
The Exiled Prince (Handford)
Jubal and The Prophet (Hyman)
Rabbit Hill (Robert Lawson)
We ended up buying GA Henty’s books in 2020 and have started working our way one book at a time through his stories.