📖 Reading Resources

Curated book recommendations for every stage

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Ages 5–7 (Early Grammar Stage)
Focus: Foundational stories with biblical themes and rich language
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    The Jesus Storybook Bible
    Sally Lloyd-Jones
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    A Child's Garden of Verses
    Robert Louis Stevenson
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    Little Pilgrim's Progress
    Helen L. Taylor
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    The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter
    Beatrix Potter
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    Aesop's Fables
    Aesop
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    Winnie-the-Pooh
    A.A. Milne
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    Charlotte's Web
    E.B. White
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    The Velveteen Rabbit
    Margery Williams
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    Frog and Toad Are Friends
    Arnold Lobel
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    The Little Engine That Could
    Watty Piper
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Ages 8–10 (Late Grammar Stage)
Focus: Stronger narratives with Christian virtues and adventure
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    The Chronicles of Narnia
    C.S. Lewis
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    Little House on the Prairie
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
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    The Swiss Family Robinson
    Johann Wyss
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    The Secret Garden
    Frances Hodgson Burnett
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    The Green Ember Series
    S.D. Smith
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    The Wind in the Willows
    Kenneth Grahame
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    The Wingfeather Saga
    Andrew Peterson
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    Island of the Blue Dolphins
    Scott O'Dell
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    Black Beauty
    Anna Sewell
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    Where the Red Fern Grows
    Wilson Rawls
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Ages 11–13 (Dialectic Stage)
Focus: Deeper moral complexity and Christian virtue
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    The Pilgrim's Progress
    John Bunyan
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    Treasure Island
    Robert Louis Stevenson
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    Anne of Green Gables
    L.M. Montgomery
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    The Hobbit
    J.R.R. Tolkien
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    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
    Jules Verne
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    The Chronicles of Prydain
    Lloyd Alexander
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    The Giver
    Lois Lowry
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    Robin Hood
    Howard Pyle
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    Little Women
    Louisa May Alcott
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    The Call of the Wild
    Jack London
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Ages 17–18 (Advanced Rhetoric Stage)
Focus: Theology, philosophy, and challenging literature
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    The Institutes of the Christian Religion
    John Calvin
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    The Holiness of God
    R.C. Sproul
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    The Abolition of Man
    C.S. Lewis
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    1984
    George Orwell
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    The Brothers Karamazov
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
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    Les Misérables
    Victor Hugo
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    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Alexandre Dumas
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    The Federalist Papers
    Hamilton, Madison, Jay
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    The Cost of Discipleship
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Desiring God
    John Piper

As Christians, we approach literature with wisdom and discernment, recognizing that while some books contain problematic elements, they also provide valuable insights into human nature, morality, and virtue.

Read with discernment