:: Home School/Christian Three Book Lists 2025-26 ::

HomeSchool/Christian School Book List 3-5 Grades
Author Title
Anderson, C.W. Billy and Blaze
Bolden, Tonya Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man
Bulla, Clyde Pocahontas and the Strangers
Cleary, Beverly Muggie Maggie
Cohen, Barbara Molly’s Pilgrim
Gelders Sterne, Emma The Story of Amistad
Hobbs, Valerie Sheep
Jones, Kelly Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer
Orr, Wendy Nim’s Island
Pennypacker, Sara Clementine
Scieszka, Jon Knights of the Kitchen Table
Tarshis, Lauren I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919
Warner, Gertrude Boxcar Children
Wilder, Laura Ingalls On the Banks of Plum Creek
Winthrop, Elizabeth Castle in the Attic

HomeSchool/Christian School Book List 6-8 Grades
Author Title
Avi, Greg City of Orphans
Boyne, John The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Burgan, Michael Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor
Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud, Not Buddy
Freedman, Russell Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
George, Jean Craighead On the Far Side of the Mountain
Holm, Jennifer Our Only May Amelia
Lowry, Lois Number the Stars
Park, Linda Sue A Single Shard
Ryan, Pam Munoz Becoming Naomi Leon
Sloan, Holly Counting by 7’s
Soto, Gary Baseball in April and Other Stories
Tolan, Stephanie S. Surviving the Applewhites
Peterson, Andrew On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness: The Wingfeather Saga, Book 1, Christian Action Adventure
Yolen, Jane Devil’s Arithmetic

HomeSchool/Christian School Book List 9-12 Grades
Author Title
dc Talk Jesus Freaks: Stories of Revolutionaries Who Changed Their World: Fearing God, Not Man
Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
Hemingway, Ernest Old Man and the Sea
Henderson, Bruce Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to fight Hitler
Hillenbrand, Laura Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Lord, Walter A Night To Remember
O’Reilly, Bill Killing Jesus
Peretti, Frank E. This Present Darkness
Rimmer, Kelly The Things We Could Not Say
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet
Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men

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