Now that summer, and the summer sports have begun, I'm sure you have periodic panic attacks about whether your kids are learning enough in the few precious years available for learning. If you're like me, you feel guilt about the school year--you didn't make the kids read enough good books, and as we all know, we are what we read. Check these out:
Younger teens will like these:
In the Wilds of Africa
By W. H. G. Kingston
David Livingtone
Henry M. Stanley
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates Mary Mapes Dodge
New Testament
Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop
Tom Brown’s School Days
Tom Brown at Oxford
Westward Ho!
Thomas Hughes
Charles Kingsley
Robinson Crusoe
Swiss Family Robinson
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Little Men
The Boys King Arthur
CC Coffin’s Boys of 76 (revolutionary war)
Old times in the Colonies (French and Indian War) CC Coffin
Boys of 61
The War Trail Captain Mayne Reid
The Scalp Hunters
Captain Marryat’s Children of the New Forest
Jules Verne The Survivors of the Chancellor,
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The English at the North Pole,
Around the World in Eighty Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
From the Earth to the Moon by Michael Strogoff
Oliver Twist,
Great Expectations,
David Copperfield,
A Tale of Two Cities,
Dombey and Son
Mystery of Edwin Drood
James Fenimore Cooper The Spy
Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe
Quentin Durward
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Bret Harte The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Plain Language from Truthful James
Older teens will like these authors (so do adults!!)
Thackeray
George Eliot
Merediths
Hardy
Defoe,
Bulwer-Lytton The Last Days of Pompey
Thackeray
George Eliot
Merediths
Hardy
Defoe,
Bulwer-Lytton The Last Days of Pompey
