Year 8
September
Robert Louis Stevenson
Flint’s Island (Wibberley)
+Francis of Assisi (Chesterton)
*Darwin on Trial (Johnson)
October
Wuthering Heights (Bronte)
Jane Eyre (Bronte)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
+Surprised by Truth (Madrid)
*Life’s Matrix: A Biography of Water (Ball) [This contains evolutionary content. Read after Darwin on Trial and discuss.]
Eyewitness: Chemistry (Newmark)
November
Charles Dickens
+Blessed Margaret of Castello (Bonniwell)
*Antoine Lavoisier: Science, Administration, and Revolution (Donovan)
Eyewitness: Chemistry (Newmark)
December Dickens
Christmas Stories (includes the above and more)
January/February Howard Pyle:
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
The Story of Sir Launcelot and his Companions
The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
+ The Great Heresies (Belloc)
+ The Citadel of God (deWohl)
*Galileo’s Daughter (Sobel)
*Castle (Macaulay)
March
Canada
With Pipe, Paddle and Song (Yates)
Madeline Takes Command (Brill)
Calico Captive (Speare)
+Father Marquette and The Great Rivers (Derleth)
*Incident at Hawk’s Hill (Eckert )
April
Colonial America/Revolutionary War
The Reb and The Redcoats (Savery)
*Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (Latham)
*Diary of An Early American Boy (Sloane)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Speare)
+Our Lady of Guadalupe & the Conquest of Darkness (Carroll)
May
Coming of Age
*The Tracker (Brown, Jr)
*The Search (Brown,Jr)
Under a Changing Moon (Benary-Isbert)
The Rose Round (Trevor)
+The Song of Bernadette (Werfel)
June
World War II
The Diary of Anne Frank (Frank )
The Borrowed House (Von Stockum)
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (Von Trapp)
Escape From Warsaw (Serraillier)
+Forget Not Love: The Passion of Maxmillian Kolbe (Frossard)
*Madame Curie: A Biography (Curie) [Includes a brief description of Mme. Curie leaving the faith after her mother dies.]
July Modern Church Inspiration
+Witness To Hope (Weigel)
+Edith Stein (Herbstrith)
+We’re On a Mission From God (Bonacci)
*Walden (Thoreau)
*The Outermost House : A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod (Beston)
August James Herriott
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Lyrical Life Science Volume Three: The Human Body (Eldon)
The Anatomy Coloring Book (Kapit)
+Story of a Soul –The Autobiography of St Therese of Lisieux (John Clarke translation) [This is currently out of print, but well worth the hunt.]
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