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FORGOTTEN CLASSICS FAMILY LIBRARY
Freedom Series (F)
1 Stories of Columbus
2 Stories of the Pilgrims
3 Stories of Early American History
4 Stories of George Washington
5 Stories of Lafayette
6 Stories of the Government
7 Stories of the American Frontier
8 Stories of Abraham Lincoln
9 Stories of Grant and Lee
10 Stories of World War I
11 Stories of American History
12 Stories of Great Lives
Story Hour Series (S)
1 Stories of Paintings
2 Stories and Rhymes for Young Children
3 Imaginative Stories from Many Lands
4 Stories from Greek Mythology
5 Stories of Legendary and Epic Heroes
6 Stories of Great Lives
7 Stories from Nature
8 Stories from the Bible
9 Stories from History
10 Stories from Great Literature
11 Stories That Teach Values
12 Stories of Christmas
World History Series (W)
1 Stories of China and India
2 Stories of Holland and Spain
3 Stories of the British Isles
4 Stories of Greece and Rome
5 Stories of France and Canada
6 Stories of the Holy Land & Ancient Civilizations
7 Stories of Arabia and the Crusades
8 Stories of Ancient Egypt and Africa
9 Stories of Mexico and South America
10 Stories of Germany and Russia
11 Stories of World History
12 Stories of Notable Lives
Nature, Art and Music Series (N)
1 Stories of Stars
2 Stories of Rocks
3 Stories of the Ocean and Sea-Life
4 Stories of Plants and Trees
5 Stories of Insects
6 Stories of Animals
7 Stories of Birds
8 Stories of Gardening
9 Stories of Music and Art History, Part I
10 Stories of Music and Art History, Part II
11 Stories of Hymns, Folk Songs and Great Music
12 Stories from Operas
Great Lives Series (G)
1 Stories of Great African-Americans
2 Stories of Great Artists
3 Stories of Great Greeks and Romans
4 Stories of Great Humanitarians
5 Stories of Great Inventors
6 Stories of Great Leaders
7 Stories of Great Men
8 Stories of Great Musicians
9 Stories of Great Spiritual Leaders
10 Stories of Great Scientists
11 Stories of Great Women
12 Stories of Great Writers
Resources (R)
1 Children’s Classics
2 Classics
3 Music
4 Plays
5 Rediscovered Classics
6 Things to Make and Do
7 Images
8 Links and Videos
MONTH 1
Stories of Christopher Columbus
The Age of Exploration (1500s)
Learn more about Columbus as well as other explorers of the New World.
Forgotten Classics Library
Foundation Reading: F1 (1-119)
Childhoods of Famous Americans:
John Smith by Barton
Pocahontas by Seymour
Movies, Music, and Audios
Eric the Conqueror (1961)
Viking/British story in 786 A.D.
Christopher Columbus (1949)
Starring Frederic March
*Pocahontas (1995)
Animated Disney
Jim Weiss:
Tales from Cultures Far and Near
Landmark Books:
The Voyages of Christopher Columbus
By Sperry Armstrong 1451-1506
Balboa: Swordsman and Conquistador
By Felix Riesenberg 1475-1519
Ferdinand Magellan: Master Mariner
By Seymour Pond 1480-1521
The Voyages of Henry Hudson
By Eugene Rachlis 1560-1611
Pocahontas and Captain John Smith
By Marie Lawson 1595-1617
Exploration - 1500s (1)
Online Library: F1
Viking: Leif Erikson
English: Henry Hudson
The Cabots
Sir Walter Raleigh
John Smith
French: Samuel de Champlain
Robert de la Salle
Portuguese: Ferdinand Magellan
Spanish: Alvar Nunez Cabeza deVaca
Ponce de Leon
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Hernando de Soto
Bartolome de las Casas
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Italian: Amerigo Vespucci
Recent Books
Year of Columbus 1492
by Genevieve Foster (1969)
Columbus by d’Aulaire (1955)
Leif the Lucky by d’Aulaire (1941)
Junior Classics:
6-260, 272, 274
The Story of China
Connecting Thought: Columbus wanted to find a shorter route to China because he had read all about it in Marco Polo's writings.
Foundation Reading: W1 (Part 1: China)
Online Library: W1
*Fairy and Folk Tales of China: S3
*Epic and Legendary heroes of China: S5
Religion: G9
Had You Been Born in a Different Faith
(Ch. 4: Confucianist)
*Mulan (1998) animated Disney
The Conqueror (1956)
John Wayne as Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan (1965)
Omar Sharif
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
1779 Qing Dynasty
Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Gregory Peck as young priest in China
55 Days in Peking (1963)
Boxer RebellionCharlton Heston, Ava Gardner
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
1920's China, aboard American gunboat
Steve McQueen
The Last Emperor (1987) (not for children)
Life of Puyi (1908-1967)
9 Academy Awards
The Blue Kite (1993)
Life after Mao in China
Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955)
Hong Kong during Cultural Revolution
William Holden, Jennifer Jones
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
Ingrid Bergman
The Good Earth (1937)
China (1)
FC Stories:
Confucius S9-69
*The Story of Ping (1933)
By Marjorie Flack
*The 5 Chinese Brothers (1996)
By Claire Bishop
*Tikki-Tikki-Tembo (1968)
By Arlene Mosel
*Little Pear (1931)
By Eleanor Lattimore
House of 60 Fathers (1956)
By Meindert DeJong
(Second Sino-Japanese War)
Red Scarf Girl (1998) by Ji-Li Jiang
(Memoir of young girl in Cultural
Revolution)
Homesick, My Own Story (1982)
By Jean Fritz
Gladys Aylward, the Little Woman (1970)
By Christine Hunter
The Small Woman (1957)
By Alan Burgess (The Inn of the
Sixth Happiness based on book)
Pageant of Chinese History (1934)
By Elizabeth Seeger
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze (1933)
By Elizabeth Lewis
The Good Earth (1932)
By Pearl S. Buck
+Wild Swans by Jung Chang (1991)
(3 generations of women in modern
China)
MONTH 1
The Story of China (Cont.)
Recent Books
China (1)
Landmark Books:
Genghis Khan and the Mongol Horde
By Harold Lamb 1162-1227
The Adventures & Discoveries of Marco Polo
By Richard Walsh 1259-1324
Clipper Ship Days
By John Jennings mid 1800’s
The Man Who Changed China: The Story of
Sun Yat-Sen by Pearl S. Buck 1866-1925
My Book House:
1-76
4-137
Junior Classics:
2-198
4-168
9-22
Stories of Japan
Connecting Thought: China and Japan are neighbors with two distinct histories.
Foundation Reading: W1-Smith’s ‘History
of Japan In One-Word Syllables’
Online Library: W1
*Folk and Fairy Tales: S3
*Epic and Legendary Heroes: S5
Religion: G9
Had You Been Born in Another Faith
(Ch. 5: Shintoist)
*The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
By Katherine Paterson (2001)
Crow Boy (1955) Taro Yashima
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
(1977) by Eleanor Coerr,
Post-WWII Japan
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
(1997) by Ken Mochizuki
(1940, WWII Japan. One man can
make a difference.
Landmark Books:
Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
By Ferdinand Kuhn 1794-1858
Junior Classics:
2-191
4-205
Music:
Opera: The Mikado (1939) R12
Gilbert and Sullivan
Sakura Cherry Blossoms R3
Jim Weiss:
A Treasury of Wisdom, Japan in 1890
Japan (1)
My Book House:
1-78
3-165
6-222
Shogun (1980) TV miniseries
1600's Japan
Richard Chamberlain
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Japan-China conflict, 1937
A young Christian Bale
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
1941 attack on Pearl Harbor
Martin Balsam
Midway (1976)
Battle of 1942
Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
WWII bombing mission in Japan
Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson
Sayonara (1957)
Post WWII Japan
Marlon Brando
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
Satirical post WWII look at
Japanese/American relations
Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Animated but definitely not for children
under 12. Very sad and emotional war
story of young children.
MONTH 1
Stories of Other Asian Countries: Thailand (Siam),
Vietnam, Korea, etc.
Foundation Reading: W1
Recent Books
My Book House:
6-191
Online Library: W1
Music:
Musical: The King and I (1956)
1860’s Siam (Thailand)
Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr
Other Asian Countries (1)
Junior Classics:
2-178
4-310
Anna and the King of Siam (1944)
Irene Dunn, Rex Harrison
Anna and the King (1999)
Jodie Foster, Yun Fat-Chow
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
WWII film, 1942-3 Burma
Railway construction filmed in Sri Lanka
William Holden, Alec Guinness
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
Korean War 1951-2
William Holden, Grace Kelly
The Overture (2004)
A story of Thailand’s classical music
Objective, Burma! (1945)
Special ops in remote Burmese jungle
Errol Flynn
Stories of Polynesia, Australia, and New Zealand
Connecting Thought: More neighbors in the South Pacific.
Foundation Reading: W1 –The Story of
Australia by A. Grove Day (1960)
(Landmark book online)
Online Library: W1
Call It Courage (1941) by Armstrong Perry
Journey of Mafatu, Newbery Award
Kon-Tiki (1950) by Thor Heyerdahl
True account of sea voyage to prove
Polynesia settled by native Peruvians.
Landmark Books:
Captain Cook Explores the South Seas
By Armstrong Sperry 1728-1779
Junior Classics:
4-1
9-306
Music:
Musical: South Pacific (Rodgers &
Hammerstein)
(1958) Rosanno Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor
(2001) Glenn Close, Harry Connick, Jr.
South Pacific (1)
My Book House:
3-59, 81
6-202
*Babe (1995)
Set in New Zealand
Kon Tiki (1950) Thor Heyerdahl
Recreating the Kon-Tiki trip between
Peru and the South Seas
Mutiny on the Bounty
(1939) Clark Cable, Charles Laughton
(1962) Marlon Brando, Richard Harris
Mutiny in the South Seas
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
Stranded on a South Pacific island in
1944 WWII
Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr
The Other Side of Heaven (2001)
Missionary work in Tonga, 1950’s
Anne Hathaway
Man From Snowy River (1982)
Set in Australia
Kirk Douglas
Return to Snowy River (1988)
MONTH 1
The Story of India
Connecting Thought: Columbus originally thought he had reached India and so he called the natives 'Indians'.
Foundation Reading: W1 (Part 2: India)
Online Library: W1
Recent Books
*One Grain of Rice (1997) by Demi
*Rikki-Tivvi-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling
+Gandhi-An Autobiography:
The Story of My Experiments With Truth
*Fairy Tales of India: S3
Religion: G9
(Ch. 1: Hindu)
(Ch. 3: Buddhist)
My Book House:
1-79
2-118, 178
3-76
5-182
9-129
10-175
Junior Classics:
2-15, 25, 212, 349
4-23
Classics:
*Little Black Sambo by Helen Brennerman S3 8-38
*#Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling R1
10-365
*#The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling R1
*#The Secret Garden
By Frances Hodgson Burnett R1
(The story originates in India)
*#A Little Princess
(Story originates in India)
Mother Theresa: In the Name of God’s Poor
(1997)
Million Dollar Arm (2014)
Filmed partly in India
India (1)
FC Stories:
*The Gift of Poesy S10-4
From the Ramayana of India
*The Quails S11-82
Prince Siddartha S9-78
A Lesson for Kings (Buddha) S11-263
The Red Thread of Courage S11-72
Landmark Books:
Exploring the Himalaya
By William O. Douglas
Bollywood movies: R8
*The Jungle Book (1967) animated Disney
The Jungle Book (1942)
Real people and animals
*Rikki-Tivvi-Tavi, animated R8
Narrated by Orson Welles
*The Secret Garden
(1949) Margaret O’Brien
(1993)
*A Little Princess
(1939) Shirley Temple R8
(1995)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
Crimean War, Trevor Howard
The Jewel in the Crown (1984)
End of the British raj in India
Gandhi (1982)
Story of Gandhi (1869-1948)
Ben Kingsley
Music:
Opera: Song of India from Sadko R3
By Rimsky-Korsakov
Musical: The Secret Garden
Classic: India music R3
Jim Weiss:
The Jungle Book (1800’s)
Stories of Scandinavia: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway
Connecting Thought: Learn about the land of the Viking explorers.
Sidgwick’s ‘The Story of Norway’
Online Library: W1
*Epic and Legendary Heroes:
Frithiof S5-285
Norse and Scandinavian Heroes S5
FC Stories:
Ole Bull (Norway) S6-135
Jenny Lind (Sweden) S6-94
Jacob Riis: A Pigrim from Denmark S6-295
*Leif the Lucky by d’Aulaire (1941)
*D’Aulaire’s Norse Gods and Heroes (1969)
*All the Flicka, Dicka and Rikka books
(Sweden) by Maj Lindman (1940's)
*Pippi Longstocking (Sweden)
By Astrid Lindgren (1945)
*Pelle’s New Suit (1900)
By Elsa Bestow
*The Golden Name Day (1955)
By Jennie Lindquist
Landmark Books:
The Vikings
By Elizabeth Janeway (8th-11th Centuries)
*Frozen (2013) animated Disney
Inspired by Andersen’s Snow Queen
*The Little Mermaid (1989) animated Disney
Inspired by Andersen’s Little Mermaid
Music:
*Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
Danny Kaye
Song of Norway (1970)
Florence Hendersen
Story of Edward Grieg. Gorgeous scenes
of Norway and beautiful music.
BallerinaDanish film shown on Disney’s
Wonderful World of Color (1954-55)
(Continued on next page)
Scandinavia (1)
*Fairy and Folk Tales:
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland
*Children of the Northlights by d’Aulaire (1935)
MONTH 1
The Story of Scandinavia (Cont.)
Recent Books
My Book House:
1-60, 74, 144, 168, 206
2-26, 47, 131, 141, 145
3-12, 137, 204
4-24, 45
5-144, 157
6-80, 98
7-48
9-164, 172
Classics:
#The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Sweden) 10-130, 151
By Selma Lagerlof R5
Hamlet (takes place in Denmark)
Junior Classics:
Shakespeare S10-318
2-149, 156
4-48, 142, 323
7-161
8-197
Classical: Edward Grieg, Peer Gynt Suite R3
Anitra’s Dance
Solveig’s Song
Swedish Rhapsody R3
Jim Weiss:
Heroes in Mythology (Norse-500 AD)
Scandinavia (1)
Great Lives:
Artists:
Thorvaldsen G1-293
Musicians:
Lind G8-318
Scientists:
Linnaeus G10-62
MONTH 2
Stories of the Pilgrims
Settling the 13 Colonies (1600s)
Online Library: F2 More stories of the
Pilgrims and settlement of the 13 colonies.
Some colonists came primarily for
religious freedom:
(Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New
Hampshire, Maryland, Connecticut,
Rhode Island)
FC Stories:
A Fire to Light the Way F12-6
William Penn F12-11
Words of Comfort F12-18
Some colonists came primarily for ‘gold’
economic opportunity:
(Virginia, Georgia, New York, North and
South Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey)
FC Stories:
The Virginia Wife Market S9-346
Childhood of Famous Americans:
Anne Bradstreet by Dunham
James Oglethorpe by Parks
John Alden by Parks
Myles Standish by Stevenson
Peter Stuyvesant by Widdemar
Squanto by Stevenson
Virginia Dare by Stevenson
William Bradford by Smith
William Smith by Mason
Settling the Colonies - 1600s (2)
Classics:
#The Scarlet Letter
By Nathaniel Hawthorne R2
Young People’s Pilgrim’s Progress
By John Bunyan R5
Recent Books
Year of the Pilgrims-1620
By Genevieve Foster (1964)
The World of William Penn
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
By Elizabeth Speare (1958)
A Lion To Guard Us (1981)
By Clyde Robert Bulla
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims (1982)
Landmark Books:
The Landing of the Pilgrims
By James Daugherty 1620
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies
By Clifford Alderman
Peter Stuyvesant of Old New York
By Anna and Russel Crouse 1612-1672
The Explorations of Pere Marquette
By Jim Kjelgaard 1637-1675
The Witchcraft of Salem Village
By Shirley Jackson 1692-1693
William Penn: Quaker Hero
By Hildegarde Dolson 1644-1718
The Hudson’s Bay Company
By Richard Morenus 1760
The World of Captain John Smith
My Book House:
5-113
Junior Classics:
6-332, 340, 342, 343
9-317
10-246
Stories of Holland
Connecting Thought: The Pilgrims fled to Holland before settling in America.
Learn why Holland was free from religious persecution.
Online Library:W2
*Fairy Tales and Folk Tales: S3
The Hiding Place
By Corrie Ten Boom (1971)
True account-Dutch family provides safe
haven for Jewish family in WWII.
*Hans Brinker-Disney’s Wonderful World
of Color
1860's Holland
The Hiding Place (1975)
Based on Corrie Ten Boom’s book
Holland (2)
Foundation Reading: W2 (Part 1: Holland)
MONTH 2
The Story of Holland (Cont.)
Recent Books
The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank (1947)
Hiding from the Nazis in WWII
The Franks were Dutch
FC Stories:
*The Little Hero of Haarlem S11-44
The Troublesome Burghers S9-182
Siege of Leyden S9-189
William the Silent S6-108
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Academy Award Winner
Music:
Netherlands Music R3
Holland (2)
My Book House:
1-126
My Book House (Cont):
2-164
4-57
Great Lives:
Artists:
Rembrandt S1-179
Van der Meere S1-174
Henrietta Bonner S1-103
de Hooch S1-170
Inventors:
Laurence Coster G5-17
Junior Classics:
4-184
10-394
Classics:
#Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
By Mary Mapes Dodge R1
Stories of Belgium (Flemish)
Connecting Thought: Learn the connections between the Dutch and the Flemish people.
Online Library: W2
Belgium (2)
*Fairy Tales: S3
*Nursery Rhymes of Belgium, France and
Russia S2
My Book House:
2-141
2-143
Stories of Spain
Connecting Thought: Spain was the country Holland had to free herself from.
Foundation Reading: W2 (Part 2: Spain)
Online Library: W2
Topics also include stories of pirates and the
Spanish Main, the Moors in Spain
*The Story of Ferdinand
By Munro Leaf (1936)
I, Juan de Pareja (1987)
By Elizabeth de Trevino
Pirate’s Promise (1958)
*Fairy Tales S3
FC Stories:
Sir Philip Sidney S11-295
The Invincible Armada S9-288
The Invincible Armada S9-296
(Two different points of view of the event)
The Search for Seven Cities S9-301
Landmark Books:
Queen Elizabeth and the Spanish Armada
By Frances Winwar 1533-1603
Famous Pirates of the Newth World
By A.B.C. Whipple 16 -19th-Cent.
Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
By Henry Castor 1898
My Book House:
1-64
10-108
11-90
William Randolph Hearst’s involvement in
Spanish war. Orson Welles
Spain (2)
El Cid S5-273
El Cid (1961)
11th Century Spain
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren
The Castillian (1963)
Uniting against invading Moors
Frankie Avalon, filmed in Spain
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Spanish Armada
Errol Flynn
The Spanish Main (1945)
Pirate movie. Maureen O'Hara
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1944)
Spanish Civil War
Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman
Citizen Kane (1941)
MONTH 2
The Story of Spain (Cont.)
Great Lives:
Artists:
*Velasquez S1-33
*Murillo S1-99
G2-281
Music:
Classical: Caprice Espagnol
By Rimsky-Korsakov R3
Ritual Fire Dance by Manuel de Falla R3
Musical: Man of La Mancha
Opera: Pirates of Penzance N12, R3
Barber of Seville by Rossini R3
Carmen Overture by Bizet R3
Toreador Song from Carmen by Bizet R3
Anvil Chorus from Verdi’s Il Travatore R3
Spanish guitar R3
Jim Weiss:
Tales from Cultures Near and Far—
Medieval Spain
The Queen’s Pirate (1500’s)
Spain (2)
Classics:
*Don Quixote for Children S10-13
Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew
By James Baldwin R1
The Story of Don Quixote, Retold R1
Don Quixote by Cervantes R2
#Treasure Island
By Robert Louis Stevenson R1
*Much Ado About Nothing
By Shakespeare S10
Recent Books
Junior Classics:
2-137
2-143
9-1
10-173, 229
MONTH 3
Stories of Early Americans History
Moving Towards Independence (1700s)
Online Library: F3
Topics include French settlements, the
Acadians, the French and Indian Wars,
Declaring independence, introduction to
Revolutionary War and key figures as well
as a review of events to this point.
Classics:
The Story of Evangeline R5
#Evangeline by Longfellow
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
#The Last of the Mohicans
By James Fenimore Cooper R2
The Last of the Mohicans
1756 French and Indian Wars
(1936) Randolph Scott
(1992) Daniel Day-Lewis (R-rated)
Northwest Passage (1940)
Spencer Tracy, Walter Brennan
Jim Weiss:
Rip Van Winkle, late 1700
Thomas Jefferson’s America, 1700s
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1770s to early 1800s
John Peter Zenger by Long
Ben Franklin by Stevenson
Ethan Allen by Winders
John Fitch by Stevenson
John Hancock by Cleven
Nathan Hale by Stevenson
Patrick Henry by Barton
Paul Revere by Stevenson
Thomas Paine by Myers
Tom Jefferson by Monsell
Abigail Adams by Wagoner
Benjamin West by Snow
Moving Towards Independence - 1700s (3)
FC Stories:
Prayer Answered S9-344
Nathan Hale S11-49
A Mother’s Daring Rescue F12-9
Franklin His Own Teacher F12-21
A Great Good Man F12-24
The Dark Day F12-30
Stories About Jefferson F12-33
The Landlord’s Mistake F12-35
The Story of Benjamin Franklin F12-38
The Declaration of Independence F12-78
The Liberty Bell F12-83
Rumford-scientist G10-98
Recent Books
Calico Bush
By Rachel Field (1932)
Main Coast mid 1700's
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
By Jean Lee Latham (1956)
Sea adventures and self-learning
Ben and Me by Robert Lawson (1939)
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
By d’Aulaire (1950)
The Real Thomas Jefferson
By Andrew Allison (1983)
The Real Benjamin Franklin
*The Courage of Sarah Noble
By Alice Dagliesh (1954)
Johnny Tremain (1943)
By Esther Forbes
Abigail Adams (1995)
By Natalie Bober
Landmark Books:
Rogers Rangers & the French & Indian Wars
Bradford Smith 1754-1763
L’Evangeline and the Acadians
By Robert Tallant 1755-1763
Stories of the British Isles - England
Connecting Thought: The Thirteen Colonies were under British rule and it is from the British they declared independence.
Foundation Reading: (W3: Part 1)
Online Library: W3
St. George S5-161
Beowulf S5-103
King Arthur S5-185
Robin Hood S5-165
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle R5
FC Stories:
Titus Salt S6-247
*Robin Hood (1973) animated Disney
*The Story of Robin Hood and His Merry Men
(1952) Disney
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Errol Flynn
*Beowulf (1998) animated
*Sword in the Stone (1963) animated Disney
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner
Prince Valiant (1954)
James Mason, Janet Leigh, Vivian Leigh
First Knight (1995)
Sean Connery
England (3)
*English Fairy Tales: S3
*When We Were Very Young (1924)
*Winnie the Pooh by A.A.Milne
The Door in the Wall
By Marguerite d’Angeli (1949)
14th century knighthood
Adam of the Road
By Elizabeth Janet Gray (1943)
13th century England
*The Borrowers
By Mary Norton (1952)
Fantasy novel set in England: 5 volumes
Castle by David Macaulay (1982)
The Hobbit (1937)
Lord of the Rings (1937-1949)
By J.R.R. Tolkien
MONTH 3
The Story of British Isles - England (Cont.)
Great Lives:
Writers:
Thackerey S6-51
Tennyson S6-44
Musicians:
Handel G8-59, 71
Artists:
*Landseer S1-36
*Van Dyck S1-23
*Sir Joshua Reynolds S1-70
*Gainsborough S1-172
*Raeburn S1-94
*Millais S1-96
G2-303
*G.A. Holmes S1-110
*Herring S1-176
*Watts S1-198
*Boughton S1-202
Bewick G2-288
Inventors:
George Stephenson S11-141
Classics:
*#Beatrix Potter series S2
*Chaucer- The Unknown Bride
The Wife of Bath’s Tale S10-90, S10
*Spencer-Faerie Queene S10-96
*#The Wind in the Willows
By Kenneth Grahame R1
The Lost Prince
Little Lord Fauntleroy
*#Peter Pan
By J. M. Barrie R1
Lorna Doone
By R.D. Blackmore R2
The Little Lame Prince
By Dinah Craik R2
Five Children and It
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Enchanted Castle
The Railway Children
By E. Nesbit R2
Shakespeare
(Tragedies) S10
Cymbeline
King Lear
(Historical)
King John
King Richard II
My Book House:
1-118, 148, 149, 150, 151, 154, 155
2-13, 42
3-20, 176, 198
4-119
5-20, 33, 76
6-140
8-189
10-7, 8, 54, 80, 89
11-8, 49
12-11, 15, 102, 213
Junior Classics:
2-36, 43, 53, 59
8-174, 298
9-213, 284
10-208, 324, 337
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
(1948)
(1985)
Seven Seas to Calais (1962)
Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
Fire Over England (1937)
The Armada-Laurence Olivier
Henry V (1945)
Shakespeare-Laurence Olivier
Richard III (1955)
Shakespeare-Laurence Olivier
*The Sword and the Rose (1953) Disney
Mary Tudor England
The Virgin Queen (1955)
Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth
Bette Davis, Richard Todd
The Lion in Winter (1955)
Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitane
Peter O’Toole, Katherine Hepburn
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII
Richard Burton
Charge of the Light Brigade
(1936) Errol Flynn, Olivia deHavilland
(1968) Crimean War
Ivanhoe
(1952) Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor
(1982) James Mason
Cromwell (1970)
Richard Harris, Alec Guinness
A Man for All Seasons (1988)
Sir Thomas More
Elephant Man (1980)
True story set in Victorian England
The King’s Speech (2010)
King George VI
PG-13 version available, Colin Firth
Oliver Twist (1948)
Jane Eyre
(1943) Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine
(1970) George C. Scott
(1996) William Hurt
(1997)
(2006) BBC TV Series
(2011)
Lorna Doone (2000)
Pride and Prejudice
(1940) Laurence Olivier
(2005) Keira Knightly
Lark Rise to Candleford
BBC Series set in 1850’s English
Countryside
Shadowlands (1993)
Story of C.S. Lewis
Anthony Hopkins
The Princess Bride (1987)
(Takes place in a fictional kingdom)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1939)
Miss Potter
Story of Beatrix Potter
England (3)
Scientists:
Charles Darwin G10-210
Isaac Newton G10-50
Davy G10-126
Lyell G10-142
Tyndall G10-258
Recent Books
Landmark Books:
King Arthur and His Knights
By Mabe Louise Robinson 5th-6th C.
William the Conqueror
By Thomas Costain 1028-1087
The Magna Charta
By James Daugherty 1215
Walter Raleigh
By Henrietta Buckmaster 1554-1618
Will Shakespeare and the Globe Theater
By Anne Terry White 1564-1616
The Flight and Adventures of Charles II
By Charles Norman 1630-1685
Hero of Trafalgar
By A.B.C. Whipple 1805
Queen Victoria
By Noel Streatfeild 1819-1901
Florence Nightingale
By Ruth Hume 1820-1910
The Story of Scotland Yard
By Laurence Thompson 1829
MONTH 3
The Story of British Isles - England (Cont.)
Recent Books
Musical: Camelot (1967)
Oliver
Mary Poppins (1964)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Operetta: HMS Pinafore N12, R3
Gilbert & Sullivan
Classical: Ralph Vaughn Williams
Greensleeves R3
Handel (born in Germany but became
British citizen)
Music for Royal Fireworks R3
Messiah R3
Gustav Holst-The Planets R3
England (3)
Shakespeare - History (Cont.)
King Richard III
King Richard IV
Dickens S6-1
#David Copperfield R2
#A Christmas Carol S12
#Oliver Twist R2
#Great Expectations R2
#Prince and the Pauper R1
#A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur’s Time R1
Bronte S6-73
#Jane Eyre R2
Eliot
#Middlemarch R2
#Silas Marner R2
The Mill on the Floss R2
Austen
#Pride and Prejudice R2
Sense and Sensibility R2
Jim Weiss:
Beric the Briton (62 AD)
King Arthur and His Knights
Wulf the Saxon (Henty, 1066 AD)
Robin Hood (1100s)
Men of Iron (1400-1450)
The Prince and the Pauper (1500’s)
Newton (1700)
Treasure Island (1800’s)
Stories of the British Isles - Scotland
Foundation Reading: W3 (Part 2)
*Always Room for One More
By Sorche Nic Leodhas
Online Library: W3
*Fairy Tales S3
Great Lives:
Scientists:
John Muir G10-276
Humanitarians/Missionaries:
David Livingston G4
John G. Paton G4
Writers:
Sir Walter Scott G12
Robert Louis Stevenson G12
Inventors:
James Watt G5-70
Classics:
Sir Walter Scott S6-30
#Ivanhoe R2
Waverly Novels-Red Cap Adventures R5
George MacDonald
*#The Princess and the Goblin R5
*#The Princess and Curdie R5
My Book House:
1-158, 159
2-209
3-99
5-45, 90
6-18
10-21
Junior Classics:
10-33
Music:
Musical: Brigadoon (1954)
Gene Kelly, Van Johnson
Classical: Ave Maria by Schubert R3
Composed as a setting of a song
from Walter Scott’s ‘Lady of the Lake’
Scottish bagpipe music R3
Jim Weiss:
In Freedom’s Cause (Henty)
1296-1314
Scotland (3)
FC Stories:
Mary Queen of Scots S6-19
Robert Bruce S9-101
How a Boy Saved the Queen S9-114
The Burning of Carlyle’s Book S6-118
Partners S6-9
Hugh John and the Scots Greys S11-257
The Lesson of the Teakettle
James Watt S11-129
Landmark Books:
Mary, Queen of Scots
By Emily Hahn 1542-1587
Captain Kidd
By A.B.C. Whipple 1645-1701
Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1953)
Disney; 1715-Scotland
MacBeth (1948)
Orson Welles
Braveheart (1995)
William Wallace and Robert the Bruce
look for edited version; pretty gruesome
not historically accurate, but inspiring
Mel Gibson
MONTH 3
The Story of British Isles - Scotland (Cont.)
Recent Books
Scotland (3)
Robert Louis Stevenson
#The Black Arrow R5
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes R2
Robinson Crusoe Retold for Children R1
#Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe R2
Based on real life experiences of
Scotsman Alexander Selkirk
Macbeth by Shakespeare S10-288
Stories of the British Isles - Ireland
Trinity by Leon Uris (1976)
From the Great Famine to 1916
Robert Boyle: Founder of Modern Chemistry
(1962)
Birkhead’s Tales of Irish History
Online Library: W3
*Irish Fairy Tales: S3
Landmark Books:
The Life of St. Patrick
By Quentin Reynolds 387-493
*Epic and Legendary Heroes
Brian Boru S5-280
Classics:
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift R2
#Gulliver’s Travels Told to the Children R1
Junior Classics:
2-28
4-348
6-82
10-117
Music:
Musical: Finian’s Rainbow (1968)
Fred Astaire
Celtic harp music R3
Ireland (3)
My Book House:
1-59
2-155
10-188
FC Stories:
At the Ford of the Tribute S9-96
*Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)
Disney; Sean Connery
The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966)
Disney; 1587 Ireland
Gulliver’s Travels
(1939) animated musical
(1996) Ted Danson
St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (2000)
Michael Collins (1996)
Establishment of Irish free state in 1920
R-rated, Liam Neeson
The Quiet Man (1952)
John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara
Beautiful Irish countryside
Jim Weiss:
Celtic Treasures (500 AD)
Stories of the British Isles - Wales
Short History of Wales
*Fairy Tales: S3
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Welsh mining family at turn of the
century.
Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara
Wales (3)
Online Library: W3
My Book House:
7-20, 182
MONTH 4
Stories of George Washington
In-Depth Study of One Man of Virtue
Online Library: F4
Recent Books
The Crossing (2000)
Crossing the Delaware- Jeff Daniels
Jim Weiss:
George Washington (1732-1799)
Childhoods of Famous Americans
George Washington by Stevenson
Martha Washington by Wagoner
Landmark Books:
George Washington: Frontier Colonel
By Sterling North 1732-1799
Junior Classics:
6-60, 66, 73, 77, 78, 80
George Washington (4)
George Washington
By d’Aulaire (1936)
George Washington’s World
The Real George Washington
Stories of Greece
Connecting Thought: Many of our Founding Fathers drew from the lessons of the Ancient Greeks and Romans.
(Part 1: Ancient Greece)
Online Library: W4
*Greek Mythology S4
Achilles-The Iliad S5-1
Aeneas S5-84
Landmark Books:
The Adventures of Ulysses
By Gerald Gottlieb 1100 BC
The Exploits of Xenophan
By Geoffrey Household 430-354 BC
Alexander the Great
By John Gunther 356-323 BC
My Book House:
1-204
2-33, 35, 50, 84, 92, 106, 108
3-196, 197
4-104
6-38
7-90
9-140, 151
10-217
Junior Classics:
2-3
7-83, 86, 90, 95, 101, 105, 107, 111, 114
The Odyssey (1997)
Armand Assante
Helen of Troy (1956)
Brigitte Bardot
The 300 Spartans (1962)
Richard Egan
Barefoot in Athens (1966)
Peter Ustinov as Socrates
Alexander the Great (1956)
Richard Burton
Music:
Classic: Mendelssohn-Wedding March R3
Ancient Greece
From Midsummer Night’s Dream, set
in Greece
Greek Dance R3 (Greece)
Jim Weiss:
Greek Myths (1000 BC)
She and He: Adventures in Mythology
(1000 BC)
A Midsummer’s Night Dream (1000 BC)
Heroes in Mythology (1000 BC)
Animal Tales (Aesop) (600 BC)
A Treasury of Wisdom Diogenes (400 BC)
Alexander (300 BC)
Galileo and the Stargazers
Archimedes (400 BC)
Greece (4)
FC Stories:
*The Theogany of Heiod (800 BC) S10-1
The Greek Slave
Who Won the Silver Crown S11-63
What Lycurgus Did for Sparta S9-1
What Solon Did for Athens S9-4
How the Spartans Fought
at Thermopylae S9-15
How Themosticles Saved Greece S9-18
Aristides the Just S9-22
How Pericles Made Athens Beautiful S9-25
Alcibiades-War
Between Athens and Sparta S9-29
Socrates-S9-33
How Epaminodes Made Thebes Free S9-38
King Philip and Demosthenes S9-44
Alexander the Great S9-50
Damon and Pythius S11-216
Atlantis-Plato’s Republic S10-8
A Modern Bayard-Samuel Howe S11-304
*#Aesop’s Fables S2
*Chaucer-Emelia S10-65
(Knight’s tale, set in Greece)
D’Aulaire’s Greek Myths (1962)
Black Ships Before Troy
By Rosemary Sutcliffe (1993)
Archimedes and the Door of Science (1962)
By Jeanne Bendrick
MONTH 4
The Story of Greece (Cont.)
Recent Books
Shakespeare:
*Comedy of Errors S10, R4
*Twelfth Night S10-190
*A Midsummer Night’s Dream S10-226
Plutarch’s Lives G3
Greece (4)
Great Lives:
Agesilaus G3-77
King Agis G3-85
Alcibiades G3-61
Alexander the Great G3-132
Aratus G3-163
Aristides G3-20
Cimon G3-36
Cyrus G3-69
Demetrius G3-155
Demosthenes G3-124
Dionysius G3-102
Lycurgus G3-3
Lysander G3-53
Pelopidas G3-93
Pericles G3-45
Philpoemen G3-179
Phocion G3-147
Pyrrhus G3-170
Solon G3-11
Timoleon G3-116
Themistocles G3-28
Archimedes G10-3
Stories of the Byzantine Empire
Connecting Thought: Greece after the fall of Rome.
Constantine and the Cross (1961)
Cornel Wilde
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Set in modern day Greece
Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn
Byzantine (4)
Online Library: W4
Landmark Books:
The Fall of Constantinople
By Bernardine Kielty 1453
Stories of Rome
Connecting Thought: George Washington was often compared to Cincinnatus of Ancient Rome. Learn Why.
(Part 2: Ancient Rome)
*Epic Hero
Ulysses(Odysseus) S5-37, 40, 82
Landmark Books:
Julius Caesar
By John Gunther 100-44 BC
Caesar and Cleopatra (1946)
Julius Caesar (1970)
Charlton Heston
Ben-Hur (1959)
Charlton Heston
The Robe (1953)
Richard Burton
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
Sequel to the Robe-Victor Mature
Rome (4)
Online Library: W4
Augustus Caesar’s World
City by David Macaulay (1983)
Story of Roman planning and construction.
MONTH 4
The Story of Rome (Cont.)
FC Stories:
The Sacred Mount S9-55
Cincinnatus S9-58
Cornelia’s Jewels S9-60
The Story of Regulus S11-20
The Boy Who Loved Justice S11-341
(Marcus Aurelius)
The Keeping of the Bridge S9-65
Recent Books
My Book House:
7-145
10-203
Classics:
Shakespeare:
Corialanus S10
Julius Caesar R4
#Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace R2
#Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz R2
Barabbas (1962)
Anthony Quinn
Quo Vadis (1951)
Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd
Sign of the Pagan (1955)
Atila the Hun-Jack Palance
Spartacus (1960)
Kirk Douglas
Jim Weiss:
Julius Caesar (44 BC)
Rome (4)
Great Lives:
Brutus G3-371
Camillus G3-214
Cato G3-258
Cato the Younger G3-341
Cicero G3-355
Coriolanuas G3-230
Crassus G3-293
Fabius G3-222
The Gracchi G3-348
Julius Caesar G3-319
Lucullus G3-283
Marcellus G3-250
Marius G3-266
Mark Antony G3-362
Mutius G3-205
Numa G3-196
Perseus G3-241
Pompey G3-310
Romulus and Remus G3-187
Sertorius G3-302
Sulla G3-275
Stories of Italy
Connecting Thought: Rome in modern days.
Troutbeck’s ‘Stories from Italian History'
Online Library: W4
Landmark Books:
Garibaldi: Father of Modern Italy
By Marcia Davenport 1860’s
Leonardo da Vinci
By Emily Hahn 1452-1519
Legendary Heroes:
King Robert S5-305
Religion: G9
(Ch. 8:Roman Catholic)
My Book House:
1-62, 156, 157
6-164
7-119, 199
11-152
Music:
Opera: Pagliacci R3
Folk music R3
Ballet: Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky R3
Italy (4)
*Fairy Tales S3
*Pinocchio (1940)Animated Disney
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Charlton Heston as Michelangelo
Prince of Foxes (1949)
About Cesare Borgia- Tyrone Power
The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
Medieval Italy-Burt Lancaster
MONTH 4
The Story of Italy (Cont.)
FC Stories:
Lampblack S11-109
The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Sculptor
Canova S11-119
Garibaldi and the Lost Lamb S11-326
The Story of Venice S9-127
Francesco Petrarch S9-141
Guiseppi Garibaldi S6-208
Great Lives:
Artists:
Fra Angelico G2-27
Giotto G2-3
G2-14
Botticelli G2-35
Perugino G2-47
DaVinci G2-65
Lippi G2-86
Carpaccio S1-196
G2-119
Michelangelo G2-125
Classics:
*#Pinnochio by Carlo Collodi R1
Shakespeare:
*The Tempest S10-248, R4
*Merchant of Venice S10-354, R4
Romeo and Juliet S10
Dante:
*The Divine Comedy S10-151
Chaucer:
Griselda S10-78
(The Clerk’s Tale)
Classical: Capriccio Italienne
By Tchaikovsky R3
Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ R3
Jim Weiss:
The Lion of St. Mark’s (1300’s Venice)
Romeo and Juliet
Taming of the Shrew
Masters of the Renaissance
Raphael
Michelangelo
Galileo and the Stargazers
Copernicus, Brake,
Kepler, Galileo
Italy (4)
Great Lives (cont.):
Raphael G2-130
Del Sarto G2-196
Titian G2-217
Coreggio G2-227
Tintoretto G2-238
Reni G2-250
Musicians:
Stradivarius G8-3
Verdi G3-301
Scientists:
Galileo G10-14
Inventors:
Marconi G5-322
Recent Books
Junior Classics:
4-246
8-151, 331, 18
MONTH 5
Stories of Lafayette
The Story of Two Revolutions: American and French
Online Library: F5
More stories of Lafayette, stories of the
Revolutionary War
Landmark Books:
Benjamin Franklin of Old Philadelphia
By Margaret Cousins 1706-1790
Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
By Slater Brown 1738-1789
Paul Revere and His Minute Men
By Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1735-1818
The Swamp Fox of the American Revolution
By Stewart Holbrook 1732-1795
John Paul Jones: Fighting Sailor
By Armstrong Sperry 1747-1792
The Winter at Valley Forge
By Van Wyck Mason 1777-1778
Thomas Jefferson, Father of Democracy
By Vincent Sheen 1743-1826
My Book House:
1-101
8-82
Junior Classics:
9-97
American Revolution:
Liberty! The American Revolution (1999)
TV mini-series
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Family in Mohawk Valley during war
Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert
Mary Silliman’s War (1999)
True story of a patriot woman seeking
release of kidnapped husband
April Morning (1988)
Afternoon before battle of Lexington
Tommy Lee Jones
The Devil’s Disciple (1959)
General Burgoyne
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas
Johnny Tremain (1957) Disney
All For Liberty (2009)
Tory Vs. Whig, neighbor against neighbor
The Scarlet Coat (1955)
Major Andre and Benedict Arnold
Cornel Wilde
Revolution (1985)
Al Pacino
Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot (1957)
Lafayette (5)
FC Stories:
Brotherhood of Long Ago S11-297
A Hero At Valley Forge S11-357
Two Obscure Heroes S9-354
The Midnight Ride F12-87
The Truth Speaker F12-92
Liberty or Loyalty F12-98
Israel Israel’s Experience
With the Tories F12-106
A Mother’s Faith F12-112
A Patriot Mother’s Prayers F12-114
The Green Mountain Boys F12-117
The Martyr Patriot F12-119
The Patriotism of Lydiah Darrah F12-127
Washington’s Christmas Gift F12-130
How Washington Got Out of a Trap F12-133
A Winter at Valley Forge F12-136
Captain Molly Pitcher F12-141
‘Mad Anthony’ at Stony Point F12-143
Francis Marion F12-150
Another of Marion’s Men F12-253
A Hero of the Sea F12-158
Washington’s Last Battle F12-167
The Young Scout F12-178
Recent Books
Molly Pitcher by Stevenson
Nathanael Greene by Peckham
Anthony Wayne by Stevenson
Betsy Ross by Weil
Dan Morgan by Bryant
Francis Marion by Steele
George Rogers Clark by Wilkie
Israel Putnam by Stevenson
John Paul Jones by Snow
French Revolution:
Tale of Two Cities
(1935) Ronald Coleman
(1958) Dirk Bogard
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Tyrone Power, Norma Shearer
La Revolution Francaise (1989)
Lafayette (1961)
In French, but a good visual
Music:
Revolutionary War Songs R3 (America)
Stories of France
Connecting Thought: Lafayette hoped to bring the gift of liberty he fought for in America to his own countrymen in France.
FC Stories:
The Boy Who Would Give Up S11-211
William the Conqueror
Genevieve S6-104
Malibran, the Great Singer S6-154
Landmark Books:
Joan of Arc
By Nancy Ross 1412-1431
The Marquis de Lafayette
By Hodding Carter 1757-1834
Online Library: W5
*Fairy and Folk Tales: S3
*Nursery Rhymes of Belgium France
and Russia S2
*Beauty and the Beast (1991) Disney
*La Belle et La Bete (1946)
Beauty and the Beast
*Sleeping Beauty (1959) animated Disney
* The Red Balloon (1956)
Heartwarming story of friendship in Paris
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1939) Charles Laughton
(1982) Hallmark adaptation
Anthony Hopkins
Queen Margot (1954)
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
Cyrano de Bergerac
Set in 1640 France
(1950) Jose Ferrar
(1990) Gerard Depardieu
France (5)
Roland S5-259
*Babar by Jean de Brunhoff (1931)
*Madeline Series
By Ludwig Bemelmans (1939)
*The Little Prince
By Antoine de Saint-Exuperty (1943)
Cathedral by David Macalay (1981)
Louis Braille (1991)
By Margaret Davidson
Touch of Light (1970)
By Anne E. Neimark
Foundation Reading: W5 (Part 1: France)
MONTH 5
Stories of France (Cont.)
The Good Bishop S11-349
From Les Miserables
Queen Philippe and
the Citizens of Calais S9-146
Defense of Rochelle S9-197
The Boy Commander of the Camisards S9-170
Edward the Black Prince S11-354
Joan of Arc S9-218
The French Revolution S9-231
Marie Antoinette S9-239
The Little Corporal S9-271
The Emperor Napoleon S9-276
Napoleon’s Love for Josephine S11-205
Back From Exile S9-280
The Little King of Rome S9-289
Scientists:
Loyal Worker (Louis Pasteur) S11-218
Louis Pasteur G10-272
Audobon G10-136
Cuvier G10-110
Inventors:
The Boy Who Conquered Fire
(Palissy) S11-175, G5-51
Joseph Marie Jacquart S6-253
Classics:
*Chaucer: Dorigen S10-51
(The Franklin’s Tale)
Shakespeare:
*All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It R4
Henry V-Victory at Agincourt in France
Henry VI-Continues war with France
#The Phantom of the Opera
By Gaston Leroux R2
#Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas R2
#A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens R2
#The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy R2
#The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas R2
#Les Miserables by Hugo R2
#Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
By Mark Twain R2
My Book House:
1-124
3-114
4-12
6-11, 184
7-173
10-38, 98, 165
Junior Classics:
2-120, 130
8-251
Count of Monte Cristo
(1934) more true to book than
(2002) version
Man in the Iron Mask
Louis XIV of France
(1977) made for TV
Richard Chamberlain
(1988) Leonardo DiCaprio
Scarlet Pimpernel
(1982) Jane Seymour
(1999) BBC version
Les Miserables
(1935) Charles Laughton
(1978) Anthony Perkins, Richard Jordan
(1998) Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush
(2000) Gerard Depardieu
Three Musketeers (1948)
Gene Kelly
Joan of Arc (1948)
Ingrid Bergman
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Silent, but supposed to be remarkable
Waterloo (1971)
Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer,
Orson Welles
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Jennifer Jones
Story of faith
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
Set in Napoleonic Wars
Gregory Peck
The Duellists (1977)
Based on Joseph Conrad’s The Duel
Set in Napoleonic times
The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
Music:
Musical:
An American in Paris (1951)
Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron
I’ve Got Rhythm R3
Gigi-Lerner & Lowe (1958)
Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier
*Cinderella-Rodgers & Hammerstein
(1957) Julie Andrews
(1965) Leslie Ann Warren
Les Miserables (the musical) (2012)
Phantom of the Opera
(2004) movie
(2011) Live performance at Royal
Albert Hall
Scarlet Pimpernel-the musical
(Catch a live performance-not available
on film.)
Opera:
*Musetta’s Waltz from Puccini’s
La Boheme R3
(Setting in Paris)
*La Cenerentold-Rossini’s Cinderella R3
La Boheme by Puccini R3
Ballet:
*Sleeping Beauty ballet by Tchaikovsky R3
*Cinderella ballet by Prokofiev R3
*Coppelia R3
France (5)
Great Lives:
Artists:
*Corot S1-212
*Millet S1-140, S6-65
Bastien-Lepage S1-200
*Le Brun S1-101
*Julius Adam S1-11
* Renouf S1-207
*Bougueareau, E. S1-137
*Bonheur S1-114
G2-313
G2-321
Lorraine G2-267
*Gabriel and the Hour Book S1
Recent Books
Marie Antoinette
By Bernadine Kielty 1755-1793
Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo
The French Foreign Legion
By Wyatt Blassingame 1831
MONTH 5
Stories of France (Cont.)
Recent Books
Jim Weiss:
Three Musketeers 1600’s
A Tale of Two Cities (1790’s)
In the Reign of Terror by Henty (1793)
France (5)
Classical music:
*Carnival of the Animals
By Saint-Saens R3
*Skater’s Waltz
By Emile Waldteufel R3
Stories of Canada
Connecting Thought: Originally settled by France.
Machar’s ‘Story of New France’
Mrs. Mike
By Benedict & Nancy Mars
Online Library: W5
Landmark Books:
General Brock and Niagara Falls
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
By Richard Neuberger 1920
Great Lives:
Inventors:
Alexander Graham Bell G5-253
Canada (5)
Classics:
#Anne of Green Gables Series
By L.M. Montgomery (1908) R1
Anne of Green Gables
(1985) Megan Fellows
(1987) The Sequel
(2000) The Continuing Story
Mrs. Mike (1949)
Dick Powell
My Book House:
1-130, 131
4-161
6-71
Junior Classics:
2-275
4-99
Stories of Switzerland
Connecting Thought: Switzerland has French and German ties.
Finnemore’s Switzerland
Online Library: W5
Classics:
*#Heidi by Johanna Spyri R1
#Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss R1
My Book House:
1-66
10-44
Junior Classics:
4-268
10-97
*Heidi
*(1937) Shirley Temple
(1952) German film filmed in Switzerland
*Swiss Family Robinson (1960) Disney
John Mills, Dorothy Maguire
Music:
Classic:
William Tell Overture by Rossini R3
Switzerland (5)
Great Lives:
Scientist:
Louis Agassiz G10-159
G10-189
The Apple and the Arrow
By Mary and Conrad Buff (1955)
Story of William Tell in 1291
Treasures of the Snow (1980)
(Find original version if possible)
Patricia St. John
MONTH 6
Stories of the Government
Establishing a New Nation
Online Library: F6
Study of the Constitution, Liberty and Law,
Patriotism, National Landmark Books,
Military, etc.
War of 1812
FC Stories:
The Patriotism of Senator Foelker S11-221
The Case of Mr. Tweed S12-376
Recent Books
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
A filibuster in action
James Stewart
Meet John Doe (1941)
Making a stand against corruption
Gary Cooper
Make Mine Freedom R8
1948 anti-communism cartoon
The Time Machine (1960)
HG Wells' look into the future
Rod Taylor
All the King’s Men (1949)
Corrupt politicians, 1949 Best Picture
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Book burnings in a tale of the future
All the President’s Men (1976)
Watergate scandal (R-rated)
Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman
12 Angry Men (1957)
Jury deliberations, power of one
Henry Fonda
John Marshall by Monsell
Alec Hamilton by Higgins
Andy Jackson by Stevenson
Dolly Madison by Monsell
Francis Scott Key by Stevenson
Oliver Hazard Perry by Long
Rachel Jackson by Govan
Music:
National songs:
Star Spangled Banner R3
This Land is Your Land R3
God Bless America R3
America the Beautiful R3
My Country, ‘tis of Thee R3
Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean R3
Landmark Books:
Betsy Ross and the Flag
By Jane Mayer 1752-1836
Our Independence and Constitution
By Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1776-1788
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
By Anna & Russel Crouse 1804
Old Ironsides
By Harry Hanson 1797-1812
The Pirate Lafitte & the Battle of New Orleans
By Robert Tallant 1815
Medal of Honor Heroes
By Col. Red Reeder 1914
The Story of the Naval Academy
By Felix Riesenberg, Jr. 1845-1958
The Story of Submarines
By George Weller 1954
The Story of the Air Force
By Robert Loomis 1903-1959
The Story of the US Marines
By George Hunt 1775-1950’s
The Story of West Point
By Col. Red and Reeder, 1600s-1950s
The US Border Patrol
By Clement Hellyer 1925-1960
The Story of the US Coast Guard
By Eugene Rachlis 1790-1961
Flat-Tops: The Story of Aircraft Carriers
By Edmund Castillo 1910-1968
Military songs: R3
Army
Navy
Marines
Air Force
Musicals:
1776 (1972)
Congress’ struggle to declare
Independence
*One and Only Genuine Original Family Band
Grover Cleveland/Benjamin Harrison
Election (1968)
Government (6)
Profiles in Courage (1955)
By John F. Kennedy
8 unsung hero acts of US Senators
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
Alas, Babylon
By Pat Frank (1959)
One of first apocalyptic novels of the
Nuclear Age
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1931)
1984 by George Orwell (1949)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)
Making of America
By W. Cleon Skousen (1985)
The 5000 Year Leap
By W. Cleon Skousen (1981)
Principles of freedom from writings of
the founders.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957)
How to Win Friends and Influence People
By Dale Carnegie (1936)
MONTH 6
Stories of the Government (Cont.)
Recent Books
Junior Classics:
6-178, 182, 183, 184, 191, 192, 193
Government (6)
The Story of the Holy Land
Connecting Thought: "The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests." (Andrew Jackson)
Learn who the people of the Bible were and the lessons in liberty they taught us.
Foundation Reading: W6 (Part 1: Holy Land)
(This is not entry level reading. Hopefully
your child has been told Bible stories all
along. This reading will pull the story
together from Abraham forward and will lay
a foundation of understanding Israel and the
Jewish people. It also places Jesus in the
narrative and introduces Christianity.)
Online Library: W6
*Jewish Fairy Tales S3
*Bible Stories S8
Religion: G9
(Judaism)
Classics:
In His Steps (1896)
By Charles Sheldon (R2)
The Bronze Bow (1962)
By Elizabeth George Speare
In the days of Jesus
The Big Fisherman
By Lloyd C. Douglas (1959)
The apostle, Peter
Dear and Glorious Physician
By Taylor Caldwell (1958)
Story of Luke
+Scholem Asch Series (1943)
The Apostle, Mary, The Nazarene
My Book House:
1-218, 223
2-101, 218
3-156
4-80
9-134
10-48
Music:
Opera: Amahl and the Night Visitors R3
(Israel)
The Chorus of Hebrew Slaves
By Verdi R3
Musical:
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Coat
Junior Classics:
8-314
6-346, 353, 363, 364, 365
Jim Weiss:
Tales from the Old Testament
Jewish Holiday Stories
A Treasury of Wisdom
Solomon (1000BC)
The Good Samaritan
For the Temple by Henty (70 AD)
*The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (1949)
7 volumes
*All-of-a-Kind Family (1951)
*More All-of-a-Kind Family by Sidney Taylor
5 volumes
A modern Jewish family in New York
+Exodus
By Leon Uris (1958)
Based on name of 1947 immigration ship
to Israel
+Fantastic Victory by Cleon Skousen
6-day War
Zion Covenant Series, Zion Chronicles Series
By Bodie Thoene
Holocaust & Establishing a new Israel state
Holy Land (6)
Landmark Books:
Jesus of Nazareth
By Harry Emerson Fosdick
The Life of Saint Paul
By Harry Emerson Fosdick 5-67AD
Ben-Gurion and the Birth of Israel
By Joan Comay 1886-1973
Moses, the Lawgiver (1975)
Burt Lancaster
Moses (1996)
Ben Kingsley, Burt Lancaster
Abraham (1993)
Richard Harris
Jacob (1994)
Matthew Modine
Joseph (1995)
Ben Kingsley
Samson and Delilah
(1949) Cecil B. DeMille production
(1996) Dennis Hopper
King David (1985)
Richard Gere
David (1997)
Leonard Nimoy
Jeremiah (1998)
Patrick Dempsey
Esther (1999)
F. Murray Abraham
Peter and Paul (1981)
Anthony Hopkins
Masada (1981)
TV mini-series, Peter O’Toole
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Jewish and Christian men compete in
1924 Olympics
Exodus (1966)
State of Israel after WWII
Paul Newman
A Woman Called Golda (1982)
Prime Minister Golda Meir
Ingrid Bergman
MONTH 6
Stories of Ancient Civilization
Connecting Thought: Learn about Israel’s neighbors and conquerors.
Recent Books
Ancient Civ. (6)
(Part 2: Ancient Civilizations)
Online Library: W6
*Fairy Tales S3 (Persia)
MONTH 6
Babylon (Iraq)
Kismet
Takes place in Babylon
Babylon (6)
Music:
String Quartet No. 2 in D
Alexander Borodin
Persia (Iran)
Religion: G9
(Parsi–Zoroaster)
My Book House:
10-228
Children of Heaven (1997)
Heartwarming story of children in
modern day Iran.
Music:
Xerxes by Handel Largo R3
In a Persian Market by Albert Ketelby R3
Persia (6)
FC Stories:
Truth is Mighty and Will Prevail S11-28
How the Athenians Fought the Persians S9-9
How King Xerxes Marched Against
the Greeks S9-12
Evil Allures, but Good Endures S11-88
The Hidden Treasure S11-97
The Little Persian S11-240
The Persian and His Three Sons S11-308
Three Cups of Tea
By Gregg Mortensen (2007)
Modern Afghanistan, once part of Persian
Empire (There is controversy around the
book as to facts of story details, but still a
very enlightening read of a different culture.
There is also a children’s version.)
MONTH 7
Stories of the American Frontier
Online Library: F7
Topics include Native-Americans, Pioneer
Life, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark
expedition, settlement of the Ohio Valley,
Rocky Mountains, California, and Hawaii
*Indian Fairy Tales: S3 (American Indian)
Epic and Legendary Heroes:
*Hiawatha S5-310
Religion:
Stories of the Mormon Faith G9
Great Lives:
Artists:
Saint-Gaudens G2-333
Scientists:
Luther Burbank G10-336
Inventors:
Eli Whitney G5-77
Samuel Morse G5-130
Charles Goodyear G5-192
Cyrus McCormick G5-211
Elias Howe G5-226
George Westinghouse G5-241
Classics:
#Laddie: A True Blue Story
by Gene Stratton-Porter R5
The Virginian by Owen Wister R2
The Lonesome Gods by Louis L’Amour R2
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink R1
Freckles by Gene-Stratton Porter R5
#A Girl of the Limberlost
By Gene Stratton-Porter R5
#Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
By Kate Douglas Wiggin R1
In My Youth by Robert Dudley R5
#Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By Mark Twain R1
#Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain R1
Pontiac by Peckham
Elias Howe by Corcoran
Henry Clary by Monsell
James Fenimore Cooper by Winders
James Monroe by Widdemer
John Audobon by Mason
John Jacob Astor by Anderson
John Quincy Adams by Weil
Matthew Calbraith Perry by Scharbach
Noah Webster by Higgins
Osceoa by Clark
Robert Fulton by Henry
Samuel Morse by Snow
Sequoyah by Snow
Stephen Decatur by Smith
Stephen Foster by Higgins
Washington Irving by Widdemer
William H. McGuffey by Williams
Sacagawea by Seymour
Simon Kenton by Wilkie
Tecumseh by Stevenson
William Fargo by Wilkie
William Henry Harrison by Peckham
Zeb Pike by Stevenson
Allan Pinkerton by Borland
Chief Joseph by Burt
Cyrus McCormick by Dobler
Dorothea Dix by Melin
Eugene Field by Borland
Henry Wadsworth by Longfellow
Bret Harte by Branham
Brigham Young by Jordan
Crazy Horse by Stanley
*Tom Sawyer (1938)
*Daniel Boone
(1936)
(1964) Fess Parker-Disney Series
The Far Horizons (1955)
Fred MacMurry, Charlton Heston
*Little House on the Praire Series
TV series, Michael Landon
How the West Was Won (1962)
John Wayne, James Stewart
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
The Old West Justice-Henry Fonda
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Shootout at the OK corral
Henry Fonda
Seven Cities of Gold (1958)
Junipero Serra and Missions in 1769
Richard Egan, Anthony Quinn
Brigham Young (1940)
Mormon migration to Salt Lake Valley
Tyrone Power
17 Miracles (2011)
Mormon pioneers
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Story of the Cheyenne
Richard Widmark
Geronimo (1993)
Apache chief resistance, Jason Patric
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Life among Sioux in Civil War Days
Kevin Costner
Captains Courageous (1937)
Spoiled young man grows up
Mickey Rooney
Love Comes Softly Series (2003)
*Calamity Jane (1953)
Doris Day, Howard Keel
*Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
Bill Bixby
Molokai (1999)
Father Damien in Hawaii
Music:
Musicals:
Oklahoma (1955)
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
1850 Oregon
Jane Powell, Howard Keel
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
Colorado gold mining days
Debbie Reynolds
Classical:
Appalachian Spring
By Aaron Copland R3
(America)
Rodeo by Copland R3 (America)
New World Symphony by Dvorak R3
American folk songs
Jim Weiss:
Gone West 1803-1869
GA Henty’s Short Stories:
Frontier Ohio
American Frontier (7)
FC Stories:
Moving West-A Perilous Story F12-170
The Whisperers F12-181
The Surly Guest F12-185
Why He Carried a Turkey F12-188
The Star-Spangled Banner (young) F12-191
The Star-Spangled Banner F12-194
Webster and the Poor Woman F12-219
John Sutter F12-229
Horace Greeley as a Boy F12-255
The Story of Daniel Webster F12-262
A Lonely Life on the Frontier F12-365
A Daring Rescue Across the Rocky
Mountains F12-369
Ezra Cornell S6-261
Perseverance Wins S11-53
The Girl Who was a Loving Sister S11-364
The Forgiving Indian S11-364
Recent Books
*Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall (1979)
*Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1929)
By Rachel Field
The Year of the Horseless Carriage-1801
Buffalo Bill by d’Aulaire (1952)
*Sarah, Plain and Tall
By Patricia MacLachlan (1986)
*Little House on the Prairie Series
By Laura Ingalls Wilder (1932)
Sign of the Beaver
By Elizabeth George Speare (1983)
Of Courage Undaunted
By James Daugherty (1951)
Lewis and Clark expedition
Naya Nuki
By Kenneth Thomasma (1983)
Shoshone Tales
Ishi:Last of His Tribe
By Theodora Kroeber (1964)
Stone Fox
By John Reynolds Gardiner (1980)
*Betsy-Tacy Series
By Maud Hart Lovelace (1940-1955)
Island of the Blue Dolphins
By Scott O’Dell (1960)
(1835-1853 off California coast)
Invincible Louisa (1968)
Cornelia Meigs
MONTH 7
Stories of the American Frontier (Cont.)
Toby Tyler
By James Otis R5
#Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving R1
#Captains Courageous
By Rudyard Kipling R5
A Lantern in Her Hand
By Bess Streeter Aldrich (1928) R5
Life on the Nebraska frontier
#What Katy Did Series
By Susan Coolidge
(5 volumes) R5
1860's Ohio
The Story of Opal: The Journal of an
Understanding Heart
By Opal Whiteley
Oregon
Great Lives:
Artists:
William Hunt S6-223
Scientists/Inventors:
Charles Goodyear S6-274
Landmark Books:
Daniel Boone
By John Mason Brown 1734-1820
The Mississippi Bubble
By Thomas Costain 1716-1720
Robert Fulton and the Steamboat
By Ralph Hill 1765-1815
Sequoyah: Leader of the Cherokees
By Alice Marriot 1770-1843
John James Audobon
By Margaret & John Kieran 1786-1851
The Louisiana Purchase
By Robert Tallant 1803
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
By Richard Neuberger 1804-1806
War Chief of the Seminoles
By May McNeer 1804-1838
Heroines of the Early West
By Nancy Ross 1806-1912
Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier
By Ralph Moody 1809-1868
The World’s Greatest Showman: PT Barnum
By John Bryan III 1810-1891
Trappers and Traders of the Far West
By James Daugherty 1810-1812
The Santa Fe Trail
By Samuel Adams 1821-1880
The Erie Canal
By Samuel Hopkins Adams 1825
The Golden Age of Railroads
Young Mark Twain and the Mississippi
By Harnett Kane 1835-1851
Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel
By Katherine Shippen 1835-1919
Remember the Alamo!
By Robert Warren 1836
Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too!
By Stanley Young 1840
To California by Covered Wagon
By George Stewart 1844
Jim Weiss (cont.):
A Christmas Carol
California Gold Rush
Tales from Cultures
Native Americans
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
I Said I Could and I Did
(Nellie Bly-1884-1972)
Men:
Daniel Webster S11-68, 236
Henry Clay S11-124
Theodore Parker S11-164
Farragut S11-169
The Newsboy of Gary S11-276
Stephen Girard S6-120
Edward Everett Hale S6-160
Peter Cooper S6-235
Recent Books
Daniel Boone by Stevenson
James J. Hill by Comfort
Jed Smith by Burt
Jessie Fremont by Wagoner
Jim Bridger by Winders
Kit Carson by Stevenson
Lotta Crabtree by Place
Meriwether Lewis by Bebenroth
Narcissa Whitman by Warner
Laura Ingalls Wilder by Gormley
Louisa Alcott by Wagoner
Luther Burbank by Burt
Mark Twain by Mason
Mary Mapes Dodge by Mason
Sitting Bull by Stevenson
George Westinghouse by Dunham
James Whitcomb Riley by Mitchell
Liliuokalane by Newman
Black Hawk by Cleven
Dan Webster by Smith
DeWitt Clinton by Widdemer
Eli Whitney by Snow
MONTH 7
Stories of the American Frontier (Cont.)
Recent Books
The Coming of the Mormons
By Jim Kjelgaard 1846
Wyatt Earp: US Marshall
The California Gold Rush
By May McNeer 1849
The First Overland Mail
By Robert Pinkerton 1857
The Pony Express
By Samuel Adams 1860
Geronimo: Wolf of the Warpath
By Ralph Moody 1861
The Story of Thomas Alva Edison
By Margaret Cousins 1869-1910
Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone
By Katherine Shippen 1870’s
Custer’s Last Stand
By Quentin Reynolds 1876
Wild Bill Hickock Tames the West
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
By Walter Havigshurst 1880-1908
The Building of the First Transcontinental
Railroad by Adele Nathan 1880
Disaster at Johnstown: The Great Flood
By Dolson Hildegarde 1889
The Alaska Gold Rush
By May McNeer 1897-1899
Hawaii, Gen of the Pacific
By Oscar Lewis
My Book House:
1-80, 100
2-58, 94, 96
4-183, 195, 213
5-222
6-102, 127, 198
8-144
9-9, 25, 66, 72, 78, 127
12-99, 122, 135, 143, 147
Junior Classics:
2-227, 241, 249
5-1, 17, 35, 85, 120, 232
8-55, 212, 287, 344
9-32
10-1, 15, 50, 76, 285
Stories of Arabia
Connecting Thought: Learn about another expanding frontier in the rise of Islam.
Sheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov R3
Online Library: W7
Rise of Islam and a study of the Crusades
My Book House:
8-92, 109
*Fairy Tales
Arabian Nights S3
Junior Classics:
7-3, 57
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Oliver Reed, Anthony Quinn
Lion of the Desert (1981)
Arabia’s struggle in Mussolini’s Day
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Set in WWI
Peter O’Toole
Arabia (7)
Foundation Reading: W7 (Part 1: Islam)
MONTH 7
Stories of Arabia (Cont.)
Recent Books
Arabia (7)
Mohammed, Messenger of God (1977)
7th Century, filmed in Morocco
Anthony Quinn
Arabian Nights (1942)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)
7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
Religion: G9
(Ch 7: Moslem)
The Crusades
Blythe’s ‘Jerusalem and The Crusades’
Landmark Books
The Crusades
By Anthony West 1095-1291
My Book House:
10-30
Crusades (7)
Lionheart (1987)
King Richard and the Crusades (1954)
Crusades (1935) Cecil B. DeMille
Stories of Turkey-Ottoman Empire
Connecting Thought: The spread of Islam throughout the region.
Sell’s ‘Ottoman Turks’
*Fairy Tales: S3 (Turkey)
Gallipoli (1981)
Australian fight against Turkish
army, WWI
Mel Gibson
Music:
Traditional Turkey Music R3
Turkey-Ottoman (7)
Online Library: W7
Junior Classics:
2-207
MONTH 8
Stories of Abraham Lincoln
Slave Issue and Civil Rights
Online Library: F8
In depth study of Lincoln as well as slave
issue and Civil Rights issues; AfricanAmericans.
*Uncle Remus Stories S3 (Africa)
#Nights With Uncle Remus R5
Told By Uncle Remus R5
Uncle Remus and the Little Boy R5
#Friends With Uncle Remus
#Brer Rabbit
#Uncle Remus Returns
Great Lives:
Stories of African Americans G1
Classics:
#Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By Harriet Beecher Stowe R2
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Simply Retold R1
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Young Folks Edition R1
Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
By Solomon Northup
Abe Lincoln by Stevenson
Phyllis Wheatley by Borland
Lucretia Mot by Burnett
Nancy Hanks by Stevenson
Harriet Beecher Stowe by Widdemer
Harriet Tubman by Winders
Mary Todd Lincoln by Wilkie
Booker T. Washington by Stevenson
Jesse Owens by Eboch
Mahalia Jackson by Dunham
Martin Luther King by Millender
Mary McLeod Bethune by Burt
Frederick Douglass by Myers
George Carver by Stevenson
Robert Todd Lincoln by Anderson.
Joel Chandler Harris by Weddle
Landmark Books:
Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House
By Sterling North 1809-1865
Lincoln and Douglas: The Years of Decision
By Regina Kelly 1858
George Washington Carver: The Story of
A Great American
By Anne Terry 1864-1943
The Slave Who Freed Haiti: The Story of
Toussaint Louverture
By Katherine Sherman 1743-1803
My Book House:
2-87
3-116, 123
4-130
5-133
6-108
12-79, 104, 138, 154, 198
Junior Classics:
8-72, 231
6-24, 44, 45, 46
*Song of the South (1946) animated Disney
Uncle Remus stories
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Raymond Massey
Lincoln (2012)
Daniel Day-Lewis
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Depression Era in the South
Gregory Peck
Lilies of the Field (1963)
Sidney Poitier
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
Black regiment in WWII
Amazing Grace (2006)
William Wilberforce and the abolition
of slavery in England
Roots (1977)
TV Mini-series
LaVar Burton
Gifted Hands (1996)
Story of Dr. Ben Carson
Amazing Grace (2006)
William Wilberforce and fight
against slavery in England
Music:
Musical:
Porgy and Bess
By George Gershwin (1959)
Classical:
Dvorak’s New World Symphony R3
Negro spirituals R3
Jim Weiss:
Abraham Lincoln and the Heart of
America (1809-1865)
Abraham Lincoln (8)
FC Stories:
A Beautiful Story F12-326
The Kindness of a Great Soul F12-325
Lincoln’s First Reading F12-308
Lincoln’s Proposal S11-197
The Uplift of a Slave Boy’s Ideal
Frederick Douglass S11-134
The Boy Who Wanted to Learn
Booker T. Washington S11-138
Some Scenes in the
Life of Harriet Tubman F12-313
Samuel C. Armstrong F12-336
Booker T. Washington F12-343
Recent Books
*The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats (1962)
Abraham Lincoln’s World
Abraham Lincoln by d’Aulaire (1939)
Amos Fortune, Free Man
By Elizabeth Yates (1951)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)
I Have a Dream
By Margaret Davidson (1991)
Martin Luther King
Gifted Hands
By Dr. Ben Carson (1996)
+Amazing Grace (2007)
By Eric Metaxas
William Wilberforce and fight against
Slavery in England.
MONTH 8
Stories of Africa
Connecting Thought: The spread of Islam throughout the region.
Foundation Reading: W8 (Part 1: Africa)
Online Library: W8
*African Folk and Fairy Tales S3
Music: R3
FC Stories:
The Story of General Gordon S11-228
(Sudan)
The Dutch Boer and His Horse S11-300
(South Africa)
David Livingstone S6-85
Henry Stanley S9-328
Classics:
#Jungle Tales of Tarzan
By Edgar Rice Burroughs R1
Beau Geste by Beau Sabreur
Recent Books
*A Story, A Story (1970)
By Gail Haley
*Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughter
By John Steptoe (2008)
African Cinderella tale
*From Ashanti to Zulu
By Margaret Musgrove (1976)
African traditions, Caldecott award
*Why the Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears
By Verna Aardema (1992)
West African Tale
The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano
Adapted by Ann Cameron (1995)
Cry, The Beloved Country
By Alan Paton (1948)
South Africa
+Unbowed by Wangaari Maathai (2006)
Good background of modern day Kenya
Landmark Books:
The Barbary Pirates
By C.S. Forester 16th to 19th Centuries
The Story of Albert Schweitzer
By Anita Daniel 1875-1965
Junior Classics:
2-214, 220
4-38
Jim Weiss:
The Young Carthaginian (220 BC)
Rome/Carthage
Africa (8)
My Book House:
1-146, 147
6-132, 159
8-36
12-70
*The Lion King (1994) animated Disney
*Tarzan (1999) animated Disney
Born Free (1966)
About a lion.
Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Johnny Weismuller
Roots (1977)
Especially Part One in Africa
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Bush man encounters civilization
God Grew Tired of Us (2006)
Excellent documentary of Lost Boys
of Sudan relocated to America
The Good Lie (2014)
Reese Witherspoon
Lost Boys of Sudan
Casablanca (1942)
Unoccupied Africa, WWII
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
The African Queen (1951)
Humphrey Bogart, Katherine Hepburn
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
Spencer Tracy
Khartoum (1966)
General Gordon
Laurence Olivier, Charlton Heston
Beau Geste (1939)
Tale of brothers in French Legion of
Northern Africa
Gary Cooper, Robert Preston
Mountains of the Moon (1990)
Sir Richard Burton’s expedition to find
Nile River Source
Zulu (1964)
British vs. Zulus
Zulu Dawn (1979)
Zulu nation
Burt Lancaster, Peter O’Toole
Shaka Zulu (1986)
Life of Zulu King Shaka
Hotel Rwanda
Tragic story of Tutsi-Hutu
struggle in Rwanda; violence
Invictus (2009)
Nelson Mandela
Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
Africa Trek
Incredible footage of young French
couple who trekked 3700 miles across
Africa, relying entirely on the hospitality
of villagers along the way.
Alexandre Poussin- africatrekseries.com
Albert Schweitzer R8
Award winning documentary on youtube
MONTH 8
Stories of Ancient Egypt
Connecting Thought: Learn about northern Africa in Ancient times.
(Part 2: Ancient Egypt)
Online Library: W8
Recent Books
The Golden Goblet
By Elois Jarvis McGraw (1961)
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
By Elois Jarvis McGraw (1953)
Pyramid by David Macaulay (1975)
*Fairy Tales: S3
Music:
Opera :
The Magic Flute-Mozart R3
In the days of Pharoah Ramses I
Aida by Verdi R3
Ancient Egypt and war with Ethiopia
Jim Weiss:
Egyptian Mummies:
Mummies and Myths (3000 BC)
The Cat of Bubastes by Henty (1250 BC)
Ancient Egypt (8)
Landmark Books:
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
By Elizabeth Payne
Cleopatra of Egypt
By Leonora Hornblow 69-30 BC
*Prince of Egypt (1998) animated musical
Cleopatra (1963)
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
The Egyptian (1954)
18th Dynasty Egypt, 1300 BC
Jean Simmons
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Charlton Heston
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
Sudan (1945)
Great scenery and costumes
Princess of the Nile
AD 1249
MONTH 9
Stories of Grant and Lee
Texas History, The Civil War and Reconstruction
Foundation Reading: F9 (1-169, 239-254)
Online Library: F9
FC Stories:
A Soldier’s Pardon S11-347
Robert E. Lee and the Union Soldier S11-366
Clara Barton F12-327
Classics:
Louisa May Alcott:
#Little Women R1, R4
#Little Men R4
#Jo’s Boys R4
#Jack and Jill R4
#Eight Cousins R4
#Rose in Bloom R4
#Under the Lilacs R4
Recent Books
Across Five Aprils
By Irene Hunt (1965)
The Perilous Road
By William O. Steele (1962)
Gone With the Wind
By Margaret Mitchell (1936)
Andrew Johnson: Defender of the Constitution
(1962) by Margaret Green
Landmark Books:
Davy Crockett
Sam Houston, the Tallest Texan
By William Johnson 1793-1863
The Texas Rangers
By Adle Nathan 1835
Up the Trail from Texas
By J. Frank Dobie 1866-1894
Robert E. Lee and the Road of Honor
Gettysburg
By MacKinlay Kantor 1863
Stonewall Jackson
By Jonathan Daniels 1824-1863
The Monitor and the Merrimac
By Fletcher Pratt 1862
Lee and Grant at Appomattox
By MacKinlay Kantor 1865
Clara Barton, Founder of the American
Red Cross
By Helen Boylston 1821-1912
Junior Classics:
8-1
The Great Locomotive Chase (1956) Disney
Based on a true story-Fess Parker
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Audie Murphy
Shenandoah (1965)
Virginian family in Civil War day
James Stewart
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
John Wayne in the Union Cavalry
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Quaker family in 1862 Indiana
Gary Cooper
Escape from Ft. Bravo (1953)
William Holden
Major Dundee (1965)
Charlton Heston, Richard Harris
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh
Glory (1989)
First all-black volunteer company in
Civil War
Matthew Broderick (r-rated)
Gettysburg (1993)
Martin Sheen
Gods and Generals (2003)
‘Stonewall’ Jackson-Robert Duvall
Little Women
(1933) Katharine Hepburn
(1949) Elizabeth Taylor
(1994) Wynona Ryder
Music:
Civil War Songs:
Battle Cry of Freedom R3
Dixie R3
Battle Hymn of the Republic R3
When Johnny Comes Marching Home R3
Jim Weiss:
Women in Blue or Gray (1850-1865)
Grant & Lee (9)
Jim Bowie by Winders
Lew Wallace by Schaaf
Zack Taylor by Wilkie
Davy Crockett by Parks
Sam Houston by Stevenson
Gail Borden by Paradis
Geronomio by Stanley
Abner Doubleday by Dunham
Bedford Forrest by Parks
Clara Barton by Stevenson
Harriet Beecher Stowe by Widdemer
Harriet Tubman by Winders
Jeb Stuart by Winders
Jeff Davis by de Grummone and Delaune
Julia Ward Howe by Wagoner
Raphael Semmes by Snow
Robert E. Lee by Monsell
U.S. Grant by Stevenson
The Alamo (1960)
John Wayne, Richard Widmark
The Man from the Alamo (1953)
Glenn Ford
Davy Crockett (1955)
Fess Parker, (Disney)
MONTH 9
Stories of Mexico
Connecting Thought: Both Grant and Lee served in the war against Mexico. Learn about our neighbors south of the border.
Foundation Reading: W9 (Part 1: Mexico)
Online Library: W9
*Fairy Tales S3 (Latin America)
Recent Books
Landmark Books:
Captain Cortez Conquers Mexico
By William Johnson 1485-1547
My Book House:
1-70, 224
Mexico (9)
Junior Classics:
2-263
4-71
5-134
Captain from Castile (1947)
Invasion of Mexico by Cortez
Tyrone Power
Juarez (1939)
Benito Juarez’ fight for freedom in
Civil War era
Bette Davis
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Tyrone Power
Zorro (1957-9) Disney TV series
Fighting corrupt tyrants of 1820's
Spanish California
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Antonio Banderas
Stories of South America
Connecting Thought: Mexico and much of South America were both conquered at the same time by Spain.
(Part 2: South America)
Tales from Silver Lands (1925)
By Charles Finger
Online Library: W9
Walter Reed by Higgins
(Panama Canal)
*Fairy Tales S3 (Latin America)
My Book House:
1-68
2-37
3-172
9-41
12-45
Junior Classics:
2-257
4-117
9-332
South America (9)
Landmark Books:
Simon Bolivar, the Great Liberator
By Arnold Whitridge 1783-1830
The Royal Hunt of the Sea (1969)
Pizarro in Peru
Christopher Plummer
The Mission (1986)
18th Century Spanish Jesuits protect
remote South American Indian tribe.
Robert deNiro
The Knight of the Sword (1970)
Life story of Argentine hero,
Jose deSan Martin
MONTH 10
Stories of World War I
A World Superpower (1900s)
Online Library: F10
Turn of the century life, WWI, the
Depression, WWII, Space Program
FC Stories:
Jack Binns, Hero of
the Steamship Republic S11-57
A Hero of Flight
Samuel Pierpont Langley S6-189
Frances E. Willard F12-333
Jane Addams F12-359
Great Lives:
Inventors:
Thomas Edison G5-267
Henry Ford G5-267
Langley and Wright Brothers G5-306
Jane Addams by Wagoner
Tom Edison by Guthridge
Kate Douglas Wiggin by Mason
Wilbur and Orville Wright by Stevenson
Will and Charlie Mayo by Hammontree
Teddy Roosevelt by Parks
Albert Einstein by Hammontree
Amelia Earhart by Howe
Babe Ruth by Van Riper Jr
Douglas MacArthur by Long
Eddie Rickenbacker by Cleven
Dwight D. Eisenhower by Hudson
Edward Bok by Myers
Edward R. Murrow by Myers and Burnett
Eleanor Roosevelt by Weil
Franklin Roosevelt by Weil
George S. Patton by Stanley
Harry S. Truman by Stanley (or Hudson)
Helen Keller by Wilkie
Henry Ford by Aird and Ruddiman
Herbert Hoover by Comfort
John F. Kennedy by Frisbee
John Glenn by Burgan
Walt Disney by Hammontree
Will Rogers by Van Riper, Jr.
Woodrow Wilson by Monsell
Landmark Books:
The First Automobile
By Elizabeth Janeway – turn of century
The Story of San Francisco
By Charlotte Jackson 1906
HOME AND FAMILY:
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy
I Remember Mama (1948)
Norwegian immigrant family in 1910
San Francisco-Irene Dunne
*Pollyanna (1960) Disney
Hayley Mills
*Summer Magic (1963) Disney
Hayley Mills
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
James Stewart, Donna Reed
Our Town (1940)
Early 1900's in New Hampshire Town
William Holden
Follow Me, Boys (1966)
Helping youth in small town as Scoutmaster
Fred McMurray
Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
A boy and his dogs
Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House
Cary Grant
Spencer’s Mountain (1963)
Henry Fonda
Dreamer (2005)
Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning
WORLD WAR I:
Nurse Edith Cavell (1941)
Sargeant York (1941)
Gary Cooper
All Quiet on the Western Front
(1930)
(1979) Richard Thomas
Saints and Soldiers (2003)
THE DEPRESSION:
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Henry Fonda
Cinderella Man (2005)
Russell Crowe
Rigoletto (1993)
Seabiscuit (2003)
Toby Maguire
The Butterfly Circus (2009)
WORLD WAR II:
MacArthur (1977)
Gregory Peck
Patton (1970)
George C. Scott
The White Rose (1982)
German student resistance to Nazis
PT 109 (1963)
John F. Kennedy story, Cliff Robertson
The Longest Day (1962)
D-Day-John Wayne
Bataan (1944)
Japanese conquest of Philippines,
Early 1942
Battle of Britain (1960)
1940 vs. Nazis
World War I (10)
Classics:
#The Peterkin Papers
By Lucretia Hale R5
Mother Carey’s Chickens
By Kate Douglas Wiggin R5
(Inspired Disney’s Summer Magic)
#Five Little Peppers Series
By Margaret Sidney R5
(5 volumes)
#Understood Betsy
By Dorothy Canfield R5
#Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter R1
#Pollyanna Grows Up R5
Just David by Eleanor Porter R5
(a ‘Pollyanna’ book for boys)
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
By Alice Rice R5
#Daddy Long-Legs by Jean Webster R5
Our Home by Charles Sargent R5
Classic on building strong homes
Recent Books
*The Little House by Margaret Burton
*The Little Ships:The Heroic Rescue at
Dunkirk
By Louise Borden (2003)
Little Britches series by Ralph Moody (1950)
Littleton, Colorado in early 1900s
8 volumes
Cheaper by the Dozen
By Frank Galbraith (1948)
*The Moffats Series
By Eleanor Estes (1941)
Swallows and Amazons
By Arthur Ransome (1930-47)
Series of 12 books, children’s adventures
In England and Scotland between World
Wars
Mama’s Bank Account (1943)
By Kathryn Forbes
Thimble Summer (1935)
By Elizabeth Enright
Streets of Gold
By Rosemary Wells (1999)
Story of Russian immigrant, Mary Antin
Blue Willow
By Doris Gates (1976)
Story of Depression in California
Come On, Seabiscuit
By Ralph Moody (1963)
MONTH 10
Stories of World War I (Cont.)
Recent Books
Women of Courage
By Adele Nathan 1900’s
The Panama Canal
By Bob Considine 1880-1914
The Wright Brothers
The Conquest of the North and South Poles
By Quentin Reynolds 1909, 1929
The Flying Aces of WWI
By Gene Gurney 1914-1918
The Story of the Paratroops
By George Weller
The Story of Oklahoma
By Lon Tinkle 1930’s
The Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever
By Ralph Hill 1940
The United Nations in War and Peace
By T. Fehrenback
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
World War II:
Winston Churchill
By Quentin Reynolds 1874-1965
The Battle of Britain
The Sinking of the Bismarck
By William Shirer 1941
The Commandos of World War II
The Battle of the Atlantic
By Jay Williams 1940-1945
Great American Fighter Pilots of WWII
By Wyatt Blassingame 1939-1945
The Seabees of World War II
Combat Nurses of World War II
Medical Corps Heroes of World War II
The U.S. Frogmen of World War II
From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
By Bruce Bliven 1941-1945
The Flying Tigers
By John Toland 1941-1942
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
By Considine and Lawson 1942
Guadalcanal Diary
By Richard Tregaskis 1942
Midway: Battle for the Pacific
By Edmund Castillo 1942
John F. Kennedy and PT 109
By Richard Tregaskis 1943
From Casablanca to Berlin
By Bruce Bliven, Jr. 1943-1945
The Story of D-Day
By Bruce Bliven, Jr. 1944
Battle of the Bulge
By John Toland 1944
The Battle for Iwo Jima
By Robert Leckie 1945
EVOLUTION:
Inherit the Wind (1960)
1925 Scopes Trial
Spencer Tracy
TITANIC:
Titanic (1953)
Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck
A Night to Remember (1958)
1912 sinking of Titanic
SPACE PROGRAM:
October Sky (1999)
True story of Homer Hickham and
rocketry
Apollo 13 (1995)
Tom Hanks
The Right Stuff (1983)
Mercury Astronauts (R-rated)
Music:
Musicals :
Annie (1982)
Aileen Quinn
West Side Story (1961)
Natalie Wood
Music Man (1962)
Robert Preston, Shirley Jones
Newsies (1992)
1899 NYC newsboy strike
Christian Bale
Carousel (1956)
Shirley Jones
Singing in the Rain
Gene Kelly R3 (America)
Operetta :
Babes in Toyland by Victor Herbert R8
Depression era song: ‘Try a Little
Tenderness’ R3 (America)
World War I songs: R3 (America)
It’s a Long Ways to Tipperary
Over There
Pack Up Your Troubles
Til We Meet Again
World War II songs: R3
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
The White Cliffs of Dover
We’ll Meet Again
World War I (10)
My Book House:
11-216
12-31, 218
British family struggles to survive in WWII
Holocaust (1978)
TV mini-series
Meryl Streep
Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
3 soldiers return home after WWII
Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Cary Grant
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Cary Grant
MONTH 10
Stories of World War I (Cont.)
Recent Books
World War I (10)
Junior Classics:
5-58, 66, 152, 184, 263, 278, 311
6-302, 304, 306
9-46, 87, 189
Stories of Germany
Connecting Thought: Germany led the world into World War I.
(Part 1: Germany)
Online Library: W10
Landmark Books:
Martin Luther
By Harry Fosdick 1483-1546
The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
By William Shirer 1889-1945
*German Fairy Tales S3
*Epic and Legendary Heroes S5
Siegfried S5-122
Religion: G9
(Ch. 9: Protestant)
FC Stories:
The Golden Pears S11-3
The Honest Farmer S11-26
Hans the Little Shepherd Boy S11-32
The Little Loaf S11-104
Musicians:
Bach G8-11, 28
Beethoven G8-122, 138
Mendelssohn G8-251
Schumann G8-280
Wagner G8-292
Scientists:
Kepler G10-39
Herschel G10-80
Inventors:
Gutenberg G5-24, 31
Bottgher G5-61
Junior Classics:
2-70, 76, 79, 91, 96, 106, 114
Music:
Ballet : Nutcracker Ballet R3
Set in early 1800's Germany
Opera : Hansel and Gretel R3
Englebert Humperdinck
Lohengrin by Wagner R3,
Wagner’s Neibelungenlied N12
Classic : Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony R3
Ode To Joy R3
Bach Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring R3
Organ Toccato R3
Siciliano, flute R3
Movie music: The Great Escape
By Elmer Bernstein R3
German accordian music R3
Germany (10)
Great Lives:
Artists:
*Ludwig Knaus S1-16
*von Bremen S1-18
Albrecht Durer G2-92
My Book House:
1-121, 122, 123
2-140
3-95, 111
4-159, 73
5-162
6-59
7-134, 126
11-73
The Great Escape (1963)
WWII Nazi POW camp
Steven McQueen
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
1948 court tries 4 Nazis for war crimes
Schindler’s List (1993)
Liam Neeson (R-rated)
The Book Thief (2013)
The Monuments Men (2014)
Rescue of art in WWII
George Clooney
MONTH 10
Stories of Russia
Connecting Thought: Russia was also a key player in World War I.
Foundation Reading: W10 (Part 2: Russia)
Online Library: W10
*Fairy Tales S3
*Nursery Rhymes of Belgium France
and Russia S2
*Epic and Legendary Heroes S5
Classics:
#War and Peace by Tolstoy R2
#Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky R2
Landmark Books:
Chief of the Cossacks
By Harold Lamb 1630-1671
Catherine the Great
By Katherine Scherman 1729-1796
My Book House:
1-132, 133
2-149, 182
7-112
10-119
11-173
12-190
*Anastasia (1997) animated musical
Anastasia (1956)
Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner
War and Peace (1956)
Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda
Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 & 2 (1943, 1946)
16th century Russia
Music by Prokofiev
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Czar Nicholas I
Peter the Great (1971)
Peter I-1682
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Young Princess Sophia of Germany
Marlene Dietrich
Music:
Ballet:
The Firebird by Stravinsky R3
Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky R3
Russian waltz R3 (not ballet, but dancing)
Musical:
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Jewish peasants in pre-revolutionary
Russia
Opera:
Polovetsian Dance No. 2 by Borodin R3
From Prince Igor
Classical:
*Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev R3
*Flight of the Bumblebee
By Rimsky-Korsakov R3
*Pictures at an Exhibition
By Mussorsgky R3
Russian Balalaika Music R3
Russia (10)
FC Stories:
The Girl Who Saved Her Father S11-37
Where Love Is, God Is
By Leo Tolstoy S11-267
The Charge of the Light Brigade S9-154
A War for An Archbishop S9-162
The Story of Catherine S9-210
Recent Books
*Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkin (1938)
The Endless Steppe (1968)
By Esther Hautzig
Family’s exile to Siberia in WWII
Nicholas and Alexandra
By Robert Massie (1967)
Stories of Eastern Europe: Austria, Hungary,
Poland, Slavic Countries
Connecting Thought: All of these countries have had Russian and/or German ties.
Online Library: W10
*Fairy Tales S3 Poland, Slavonic
My Book House:
1-73, 129, 128, 72, 73, 136, 137, 145
2-52, 71, 150
7-11, 40, 96, 102
11-29
Junior Classics:
2-170
9-62, 205
I Am David (2003)
Bulgarian Communist concentration
Camp—James Caveziel
The Courageous Heart of Irene Sendler (2009)
True story of Polish underground, WW2
Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
Stallion rescue of WWII Austria
The Great Waltz (1938) (Austria)
Music:
Musical:
Sound of Music (1965)
Pre-WWI Austria, Julie Andrews
Classical:
The Moldau by Smetana R3 (Austria)
Slavonic Dances by Dvorak R3 (Austria)
Hungarian Dance #5 by Brahms R3
(Russia)
Kaisar Waltz R3 (Austria)
Austrian folk music R3 (Austria)
Eastern Europe (10)
Great Lives:
Musicians:
Chopin (Poland) G8-267
Haydn (Austria) G8-193
Mozart (Austria) G8-212, 216, 226
Schubert (Austria) G8-244
Trumpeter of Krakow (1929) by Eric P. Kelly
1462 fire in Poland, Newbery Award
The Story of the Von Trapp Family Singers
By Maria Augusta von Trapp
The Good Master
The Singing Tree
Both by Kate Seredy, 1935
Hungary
MONTH 11
Stories of American History
Putting It All Together
Recent Books
Online Library: F11
American History (11)
Foundation Reading: F11 (Entire Book)
Stories of World History
Online Library: W11
World History (11)
Foundation Reading: W11 (Entire Book)
MONTH 12
Stories of Great Americans
Celebrating Heroes and Notable Lives
Recent Books
Online Library: F12
Great Americans (12)
Foundation Reading: F12 (Entire Book)
Stories of Great Lives from World History
Foundation Reading: W1 (Entire Book)
Great Lives (12)
Online Library: W 12
Landmark Books:
Great Men of Medicine
By Ruth Hume 1500s to 1900s

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