Homeschool - Year 5

by Frank Baum β Δ ($) K Ω ∩
The Good Master ($) and its sequel, The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (K)
The Moffats series by Eleanor Estes ($earch)
Stories from the Faerie Queene by Mary Macleod ($earch) Ω or

Jeanie Lang

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates

Under review;

AO - Old Year 4

* By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder

* Gentle Ben, Walt Morey

* Gone Away Lake, Elizabeth Enright

* Lassie Come Home, Eric Knight

* Pollyanna, Eleanor Porter

* Return to Gone Away Lake, Elizabeth Enright

* The Borrowers, Mary Norton

* The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis

* The Complete Peterkin Papers, Lucretia Hale

* The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry

* The Railway Children, Edith Nesbit

* The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

* Thimble Summer, Elizabeth Enright

World History

Child's History of England by Charles Dickens

* **Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster

** ***The World of Columbus and Sons by Genevieve Foster

Geography

Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Nature Study

Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock

Science

It Couldn't Just Happen by Lawrence Richards

Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley

Physics Lab in the Home by Robert Friedhoffer

Literature

Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch

*Beowulf

*Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford

**Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

**Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle

***Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

***Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

History

Augustus Caesar's World by Genevieve Foster (see comments on Year 6 Booklist page)
The Story of the World Volume 4 The Modern Age by Susan Wise Bauer pgs 244-474 (Years 5 and 6)
Trial and Triumph (Church History) by Richard Hannula (available at Canon Press may be continued into House of Education Years (or, you could skip Trial and Triumph and use Saints and Heroes, volumes 1 and 2, by George Hodges, in Years 7-9.)
Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber (Year 6)
Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber (Year 6)

Literature

Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle
Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan (also sold in an excellent unabridged audio version)
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien (prequel to the Ring trilogy books in Year 7 Free Reading)
Aesop's Fables
a good book of Fairy Tales, such as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

Free Reading

A Very Subjective List of Other Books We Consider Essential From All AmblesideOnline Years

NOTE: The AmblesideOnline Year in which each book appears is given in parentheses, but such placement is quite subjective and flexible. Classic literature is always distinguished by its capacity to appeal to a broad age range. Etexts, where available, are hyper-linked.

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (Year 4) - (Caveat emptor: truly unabridged versions are hard to find.)
Robert Louis Stevenson - Kidnapped (Year 4), Treasure Island (Year 5)
Rudyard Kipling - Jungle Book (Year 3), Kim (Year 5), Captains Courageous (Year 5), Puck of Pook's Hill (Year 5) - If they have to lose a book from this list, Kim and Jungle Book are more dispensible than other books in the free reading lists of the earlier years, and it might be best for the time crunched to omit Puck, although the historical aspects are helpful.
Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables and others (Year 5)
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol (Year 5), Oliver Twist (Year 5), Cricket on the Hearth (Year 6)
Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Year 5), The Prince and the Pauper (Year 6), Huckleberry Finn (Year 6) - If they have to lose a book from this list, Prince and the Pauper is more dispensible than other books in the free reading lists of the earlier years.
Louisa May Alcott - Little Women (Year 5), Little Men (Year 6), Jack and Jill (Year 6) - If they have to lose a book from this list, Jack and Jill is more dispensible than other books in the free reading lists of the earlier years, and perhaps Little Men could wait as well.
Animal Farm by George Orwell (Year 6)
The Iliad - perhaps a version such as Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff, or Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang (Year 6)Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott (Year 6)
Penrod by Booth Tarkington (Year 6) - (sequel is listed in year 7 Free Reading)

Titles we have listed as pre-requisites that ought to be read in the next few years, but not necessarily squeezed in the summer before starting Year 7:

"Musn't Miss" poetry for younger children can be found in the Advisory's Children's poetry collection OR The Oxford Book of Children's Verse, edited by Iona and Peter Opie, and, of course, A.A. Milne's two classic volumes, When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six, all of which are enjoyable for children from 5 to 105. We suggest you also peruse these selections for poems your older student might enjoy for although they are scheduled in Year 1, we observe that many children in upper AmblesideOnline Years choose to revisit these poems on their own for pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln's World by Genevieve Foster
Of Courage Undaunted: Across the Continent with Lewis and Clark by James Daugherty
Charlotte's Web by E. B White (Year 1) - (Wonderful audio read by author available at libraries.)
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (Year 1)
Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder (scheduled in free reading in Years 1-6)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (Year 2) - (We recommend locating the edition illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, who collaborated closely with Grahame.)
Poor Richard by James Daugherty (Year 2)
Elizabeth Enright books (Years 3-4) - (Perhaps not as essential as others here, but well-written and quite engaging.)

Others we can't bear not to mention, though we must stop somewhere . . .

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (Year 1)
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew by Margaret Sidney (Year 2)
Heidi by Joanna Spyri (Year 2)
Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Year 2)
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (Year 3)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewall (Year 4)
A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett (Year 3)
The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett (Year 4)
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge (Year 5)
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
E. Nesbit The Railway Children (Year 4), The Treasure Seekers (Year 5), The Wouldbegoods (Year 5)

Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder (in chronological order)

Little House in the Big Woods.
Farmer Boy.
Little House on the Prairie.
On the Banks of Plum Creek.
By the Shores of Silver Lake.
The Long Winter.
Little Town on the Prairie.
These Happy Golden Years
The First Four Years

Little Britches by Ralph Moody (In historical order)

Little Britches (also known as Father and I Were Ranchers) (1950)
Man of the Family (1951)
The Home Ranch (1956)
Mary Emma & Company (1961)
The Fields of Home (1953)
Shaking the Nickel Bush (1962)
The Dry Divide (1963)
Horse of a Different Color (1968)

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