Adjustment -- 6 months into homeschooling

The transition from a traditional school to the life style of homeschooling,  isn't just hard for the children as they take time to deschool, learn to love learning again, and become "undamaged."  Some other huge impacts:

1. It 100% changes the relationship between the primary homeschooling parent and the child -- no longer is there another outside "authority" that you can  use as a tool in parenting ("of course there's school today," "you're doing homework because the teacher assigned it"). An outside authority figure takes the heat off the parent and lets the parent be part of the team who either supports the child on one side against the school/teacher/etc. or helps the authority of the parent. Instead, everyone needs to find a new balance.  In theory, this is not a problem because you're already a parent.  But in reality, it's a huge shift and requires really thinking through what is and isn't important across a broad range of areas -- from schedules to academics to finding and balancing social activities.  This is a huge impact for day in and day out and as everyone's norming again, there can be a very, very long period of storming... (Tuckman's stages of team development).

2.  The (typically) mother loses a huge social base -- directly because the new homeschooling parent no longer has the PTA or the school connections, but also indirectly with all the friends who now don't get why they're doing this and whether or not the friends should feel insulted that their friend is rejecting their educational system.  Every single person the homeschooling parent has to connect with now has to connect at an activity or event where they're also trying to build relationships for their children.  It's really hard -- 6 to 10 months after starting is probably the hardest.  (Similar to moving to a new location -- I've always found it hardest 6 months in.)  Homeschooling parents often spend the first few months signing up for everything possible -- to try to build a new social network quickly for everyone. At the same time, the homeschooling parent is trying to figure out her new role in the lifestyle.  6-10 months in, you feel like you've got it but you don't have any comfortable ruts/niches yet.

3.  The family's entry into a new culture can be rocky.  It may seem very straightforward but there are underlying cultural norms that are very hard to figure out sometimes.  Nothing's written.  The only way to figure it out is trial and error and see what goes badly -- or feels bad at the time.  It's a difficult culture to navigate some times with what seems like it should be one way to respond turn into something unexpected...

The adjustment's worth it. But it does take time. And it could be rocky for the parent and the child -- and maybe even for the rest of the family and friends.  It's a normal adjustment period though, and will get better as everyone finds their niche and new life style patterns.

Fwd: Kinect and Scratch

We've been playing with a Kinect hooked up to a laptop for our highschool robotics team.  This year's FIRST Robotics Competition Kit of Parts will include a kinect for teams to use.  Won't know how it's to be used until January 7:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20111007005793/en/%C2%AE-Adds-Kinect-Xbox-360-Technology-High-School

It's been interesting to watch but one of the most fun things I found was that it can be interfaced with Scratch (MIT:  http://scratch.mit.edu/ ) -- cool early programming tool.  I think my 6 yo will soon be able to be introduced to Scratch.  And it's a great learning tool throughout K-12 -- including being an easy interface for programming and demonstrating understanding of AP physics, etc...

Anyway, someone has written the interface (there's probably a much more appropriate computer-ese word) between the Kinect and Scratch so the kids can actually program with kinect input. (http://stephen-howell.tumblr.com/post/2652736960/scratch-and-kinect-find-instructions-on-doing)

Think we'll keep the kinect I bought -- and not buy an xbox to go with it -- lots of cool apps to download.  Looks like it will work with Scratch, Greenfoot (similar learning tool for Java -- haven't used it yet).  Nothing that I can find to interface with Alice.  However, what a great tool for adding to kids' learning of programming -- beats the TRS-80 and Basic from when I was in high school.

Writing Samples for Comparison

A nice document with writing samples, rubrics and tasks for all different elementary grades (1 to 8).
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/writing18ex.pdf

Good to work through elementary school process with.

Squishy Circuits

Here's a great way to make circuits and talk about conductors and insulators -- by making playdough recipes that conduct and don't conduct electricity.

Very, Very Cool...

http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/index.htm

Social Studies Curriculum Meeting

Dayspring Home Educators had a Humanities Curriculum "show and tell" parent meeting this week.  Here's all the great curriculum examples of their social studies curriculum/resources -- including a great list of series for elementary students:

Social Studies

History Curriculum

Trisms: 

·         Reading Through the Ages book list by the era (any age)
http://stores.shoptrisms.com/-strse-22/Reading-Through-the-Ages/Detail.bok (available in ebook)

·         Also have history programs for Middle-High school
http://trisms.com/  

Classical Conversations (in-person local coops)  (K-12)
http://www.classicalconversations.com/

Tapestry of Grace – full curriculum for multiple ages (K-12)
http://www.tapestryofgrace.com

Connect the Thoughts (Current Wars; Free weekly journal) (K-12)
http://www.connectthethoughts.net/

Winter Promise (literature based curriculum:  PreK-12)
http://www.winterpromise.com/

Sonlight (literature based curriculum:  PreK-12)
http://www.sonlight.com/

 

Resources on CD (timeline, maps) (PreK-12)

·         Hold That Thought (CD’s – maps, timeline)
http://www.holdthatthought.com/

·         Uncle Josh’s Outline Maps from Geography Matters
http://www.geomatters.com/products/details.asp?ID=27

·         Historical Timeline Figures by Liberty Wiggers
http://www.geomatters.com/faq/details.asp?PID=172

History spines:

o   The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia

o   The Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History

o   DK (Dorling Kindersley) – History of the World

Resources for finding books:

o   World History Reading List:  http://www.abookintime.com/worldhistoryreadinglist.html

o   American History Reading List:  http://www.abookintime.com/americanhistoryreadinglist.html

o   Reading Through the Ages book list by the era (any age)
http://stores.shoptrisms.com/-strse-22/Reading-Through-the-Ages/Detail.bok (available in ebook or paper copy)

Preschool-elementary level book examples

o   The Usborne Book of Living Long Ago by Felicity Brooks, Helen Edom

o   Story of the World (Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer)

o   NC Freaks of History (NC curriculum, workshops, field trips)

§  http://www.ncfreaksofhistory.com/

o   Rats and Bulls and Flying Machines (Core Knowledge)
http://books.coreknowledge.org/home.php?cat=300

o   Around the World in 100 Years by Jean Fritz
(Jean Fritz wrote some great history books:  http://www.biblio.com/jean-fritz~105730~author )

o   Explorers Who Got Lost by Diane Sansevere-Dreher

o   Take it to Your Seat Centers (Geography, etc.) by Evan-Moor
http://www.evan-moor.com/centers

Series of great history books

o   Series:  Chester Comix  (graphic novels)
http://www.chestercomix.com/

o   Series: American Kids in …. Colonial Days, etc.  (list: http://www.homeschoolfcgs.com/product_info.php/cPath/21/products_id/929335)

o   Series: Rookie Biography (many available – Amazon/library)

o   Series: Ingri D’Aulaire (list:  http://www.squidoo.com/ingridaulaire)

§  Benjamin Franklin by D’Aulaire

o   Series: Famous Men… Renaissance and Reformation, Medieval (great short biographies of people with study materials if you want them)
http://www.greenleafpress.com/

o   Series:  Timeline Graphic Novels (eg.Queen NZinga) (several reading levels and many topics)
http://steckvaughn.hmhco.com/en/timeline_home.htm

o   Series:  If You…  Sailed on the Mayflower…  (Scholastic) (many topics)
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/search?N=0&isBrowse=Y&Nr=AND%28Collection_ID:WK%29&Ntk=Series_Name&Ntt=If%20You...

o   Series:  Graphic Library from Capstone Press (www.capstonepress.com)

§  American Graphic:  http://www.capstonepub.com/product/9781429654777

§  Graphic Histories: http://www.capstonepub.com/product/9780736865531

§  And several other series

o   Series:  Horrible Histories (from the UK but available in the US)

§  Original website:  http://horrible-histories.co.uk/

§  US order site:  http://www.horriblebooks.com/

§  Some available at Amazon

o   Series:  You wouldn’t want to be…  an American Colonist
Series titles at:  http://www.mymcpl.org/cfapps/juvser/title.cfm?id=1844

Language Arts Curriculum Meeting

Dayspring Home Educators had a Humanities Curriculum "show and tell" parent meeting this week.  Here's all the great curriculum examples:

Language Arts

PreK-Early Elementary

Five in a Row (Pre-K – 10 yo)
http://www.fiarhq.com/fiveinarow.info/index.html

Happy Phonics – learn to read through games (PreK-2)
http://www.lovetolearn.net/catalog/product/07073

All about Reading: (from All About Spelling) (PreK)
http://www.allaboutreading.com

Take it to Your Seat Centers (Phonics, etc.) by Evan-Moor
http://www.evan-moor.com/centers

Grammar/Vocabulary

Michael Clay Thompson (Gr 3-4 through high school)
http://www.rfwp.com/mct.php (this is a summary by age/topic)

• ·         Building vocabulary/grammar – SAT focus
• ·         The Word within the Word (vocabulary)
• ·         Magic Lens (grammar)

Winston-Grammar (kinesthetic approach to grammar)
http://www.winstongrammar.com/

Writing

Four Square Writing Method:  easy – basis for organizing ideas (Gr 1-9)
Available many places, including Amazon.  This is the Rainbow Resource list:
http://www.rainbowresource.com/prodlist.php?sid=1287784692-90000&subject=7&category=1616

Writing Strands (preK-12)
http://www.writing-strands.com/

The Writer’s Jungle/Bravewriter (curriculum and online 6 week classes) (Gr 3-12)
http://www.bravewriter.com/program/home-study-courses/the-writers-jungle/

Institute for Excellence in Writing – lots of material (now Pre-K through high school)
http://www.excellenceinwriting.com/

• ·         The Elegant Essay
• ·         Window to the World
• ·         Excellence in Literature
• ·         Teaching the Classics
• ·         Student Writing Intensive
• ·         Student Intensive Continuation Course
• ·         Portable wall
• ·         (not shown:  PAL – for K-2)

Susan Wise Bauer/The Well Trained Mind (K-4)
http://www.welltrainedmind.com/store/language-arts.html

• ·         First Language Lessons
• ·         Writing With Ease (Strong Fundamentals)

Evan Moore Literature Pockets (Gr 1-6+)
http://www.evan-moor.com/Product.aspx?SeriesID=82

Jensen’s Format Writing – good for essay questions at college (Gr 4-12)
http://www.jsgrammar.com/

Write with the Best: Modeling Writing after Great Authors of World Literature (Gr 6-12)
http://www.edudps.com/WWTB.html

Fairview’s Guide to Composition and Essay Writing by Gabriel Arquilevich (high school)
http://www.amazon.com/Fairviews-Guide-Composition-Essay-Writing/dp/0964904217

Bringing the Classics to Life – CD (abridged) and questions/workbooks (Gr 1-5)
http://www.edconpublishing.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=41_14

Wordly Wise (K through high school)
http://eps.schoolspecialty.com/products/details.cfm?series=2818M

Spelling Resources

Sequential Spelling (AVKO) (kinesthetic/dyslexia)
http://www.avko.org/sequentialspelling.html

Spelling Power (Gr 3 to high school)
http://www.castlemoyle.com/shopping/spelling/spellingpower.htm

Dr. Fry’s Spelling Book (high frequency words) (Gr 1-6)
http://www.amazon.com/Spelling-Book-Words-Needed-Phonics/dp/1576907503

All About Spelling (all the learning styles – kinesthetic, auditory, visual)  (Gr 1 - ??)
http://www.all-about-spelling.com/

Highschool (and Middleschool) Geometry

I never really did get high school geometry -- I could do it, I got an A, but proving things that have already been proven just for the sake of proving them is really not in my personality.

My son is part way through Algebra 1 and it's time to start thinking about Geometry options for him. Not sure how well he'll do. Though he's much more right brained than I am, and he thinks much more spatially than I do, his analytical skills (& motivation) are not nearly as strong as mine. I think I need to look at several approaches.

This is a great article about Geometry, brain development, and introducing concepts early by Home School Math. It discusses the 5 Van Hiele Levels of geometric understanding that is necessary to successfully get to the understanding of proofs:
http://www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/geometry.php. Might be worth introducing some of those concepts early!

Middleschool Geometry recommendations to cover basic levels of geometric understanding in a more visual age-appropriate way:

• Right Start Geometry
• Mammoth Math Geometry (inexpensive e-book)
• Key To..  Geometry

Some online geometry tools:

• Cabri
• Geometer's Sketchpad
• Cinderella
• GeoGebra

High School Geometry

One of the most common high school geometry texts is Jacobs. 

• A review from PA Homeschoolers suggests Jacobs is more for right brained learners than is Saxon, with more visual descriptions, etc. 
• In the reviews on Amazon, there is apparently a big difference between the 2nd and 3rd editions, with the 3rd edition being better (click here)

The people from Key Curriculm Press have a "Discovering Geometry" book that approaches things from more of a discovery/conceptual method.  Not great reviews on Amazon but the Table of Contents looks like an interesting approach to it.

Carnegie Learning (part of Carnegie Mellon for high school math programs) has a Geometry book with online supplement.  It looks easy to use with good reasoning.  One interesting thing I hadn't realized until going through all these options is that there are no proofs.  Is the point of high school geometry and understanding of geometrical thinking or of understanding how to do formal proofs or....?

Teaching Textbooks Geometry is another option -- it does add in proofs.  My problem is that for Algebra I and II, I don't think that Teaching Textbooks covers enough.  Not sure about Geometry.

(Thinkwell doesn't have Geometry, ChalkDust is $354! VideoText is another option but I've heard some unhappy reviews of its algebra from some people -- not sure learning styles)

Visual Learning Fractions Site

Fractions:
A great visual exploration of multiplication of fractions using rectangles and sliders:
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_194_g_2_t_1.html?from=category_g_2_t_1.html

Learning Math with Python

The Python Rag -- a newsletter for beginning python users.
http://www.pythonrag.org/

Pythonic Math -- how to teach math using Python (a bit "up there" but interesting...)
http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/pymath.html

A forum/discussion about using python to teach math:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2009-April/009281.html

There's also a Python Users Meetup group in Raleigh that would be interesting to attend -- or to find out if they would do a career field trip.
http://www.meetup.com/trizpug/

Yenka Physics

Very cool physics gadgets -- free to download for home use:
http://www.yenka.com/

Free Online Math Videos

An amazing group of free youtube videos on various math topics -- from pre-algebra all the way up through differential equations, physics, finance, economics, trig, linear programming, etc.

http://www.khanacademy.org/

From the website:
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.

We have 800+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan. He has also developed a free, adaptive math program available here.

The entire video library is shown below. Just click on a category or video title to start learning from the Khan Academy!

Calculus | Precalculus | Trigonometry | Algebra | Finance | Pre-algebra | Arithmetic | Geometry | Physics | SAT Preparation | Probability | Linear Algebra | Differential Equations | Credit Crisis | Banking and Money | Paulson Bailout | California Standards Test: Algebra II | California Standards Test: Algebra I | California Standards Test: Geometry | Venture Capital and Capital Markets | Statistics | Geithner Plan | Current Economics

History Lesson Plans

http://www.besthistorysites.net/LessonPlans.shtml

Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The British Library Net, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, -- and many others.

BBC Spanish

The BBC website has many language options -- someone on one loop I'm on was using it for a highschool language credit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/

The Cosmic Computer

Might be a good book! Not sure where I saw it referenced.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20727/20727-h/20727-h.htm

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Cosmic Computer, by Henry Beam Piper

Conn Maxwell told them: "There are incredible things still undiscovered; most of the important installations were built in duplicate as a precaution against space attack. I know where all of them are.

"But I could find nothing, not one single word, about any giant strategic planning computer called Merlin!"

Nevertheless the leading men of the planet didn't believe him. They couldn't, for the search for Merlin had become their abiding obsession. Merlin meant everything to them: power, pleasures, and profits unlimited.

Conn had known they'd never believe him, and so he had a trick or two up his space-trained sleeve that might outwit even their fabled Cosmic Computer ... if they dared accept his challenge.

Sixty Symbols

Some very cool 3 to 5 minute videos explaining 60 symbols used in physics and astronomy. You could learn a lot just watching the videos:
http://www.sixtysymbols.com/#

Spanish for Middleschool

Some options:
Breaking the Barrier (French and Spanish)
Workbooks with grammar as the basis, also includes CD
http://www.tobreak.com/home

From HEAV Conference -- may work for whole family?
La Clase Divertida
http://funclase.com

Of course, Rosetta Stone and several others

Engineering for High School Students

Here is a great resource for engineering topics for different grades -- and some great ideas for middle/highschool. It would be very cool to do a coop of kids to explore these topics.

http://www.engineeringk12.org

Of course, lots of their resources are expensive and only work in a public school but the idea would be great -- explore different aspects of engineering over an 8 month period.

Language Arts Resource

Here's a great NING for language arts -- full of teachers talking about lots of different English/LA topics. Look more at the teaching texts groups -- some good thoughts for this fall.

http://englishcompanion.ning.com

Highschool and Middleschool resources

I really need to get Barbara Shelton's Form-U-La book for designing high school classes.
http://www.homeschooloasis.com/
It's time to start collecting the right info so it's on hand for a highschool transcript.

Finding Dulcinea: LOTS of resources by theme for highschool and middleschool
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/guides.topic__ss_categories_ss_education.html

8th Grade Literature

8th Grade Literature... it continues to be a challenge!!!!

Here's a booklist from the people who wrote Teaching the Classics:
http://www.centerforlit.com/booklists/booklist7th.htm

Other options:
K12 8th Grade Literary Analysis and Composition

Institute for Excellence in Writing: Windows to the World

Hewitt's Lightning Literature

Janice Campbell's Introduction to Literature

AND a list of the top classics for highschool and middleschool students to read:
1. The Three Musketeers (1844) Alexandre Dumas
10. Robinson Crusoe (1719) Daniel Defoe
100. Mutiny on the Bounty (1932) Charles Nordhoff & James Hall
101. William Tell (1804) Frederick Schiller
102. The White Company (1891) Arthur Conan Doyle
103. Men Against the Sea (1933) Charles Nordhoff & James Hall
104. Bring 'em Back Alive (1930) Frank Buck & Edward Anthony
105. From the Earth to the Moon (1870) Jules Verne
106. Buffalo Bill (1920) William F. Cody
107. King of the Khyber Rifles (1916) Talbot Mundy
108. Knights of the Round Table (1903) Howard Pyle
109. Pitcairn's Island (1939) Charles Nordhoff & James Hall
11. Don Quixote (1605) Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
110. The Speckled Band (1892) Arthur Conan Doyle
111. The Talisman (1825) Sir Walter Scott
112. Kit Carson (1873) John S.C. Abbott
113. The Forty-Five Guardsmen (1848) Alexandre Dumas
114. The Red Rover (1827) James Fenimore Cooper
115. How I Found Livingstone (1872) Henry M. Stanley
116. Robert Louis Stevenson: The Bottle Imp (1891), The Beach at Falesa (1892)
117. Captains Courageous (1897) Rudyard Kipling
118. Rob Roy (1818) Sir Walter Scott
119. Soldiers of Fortune (1897) Richard Harding Davis
12. Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle (1819), The Headless Horseman (1819)
120. The Hurricane (1936) Charles Nordhoff & James Hall
121. Wild Bill Hickok (no author listed)
122. The Mutineers (1920) Charles Boardman Hawes
123. Fang and Claw (1935) Frank Buck
124. War of the Worlds (1898) H.G. Wells
125. The Oxbow Incident (1940) Walter Van Tilburg Clark
126. The Downfall (1892) Emile Zola
127. The King of the Mountains (1857) Edmond About
128. Macbeth (1606) William Shakespeare
129. Davy Crockett (no author listed)
13. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1883) Robert Louis Stevenson
130. Caesar's Conquests (51 B.C.) Julius Caesar
131. The Covered Wagon (1922) Emerson Hough
132. The Dark Frigate (1923) Charles Boardman Hawes
133. The Time Machine (1895) H.G. Wells
134. Romeo and Juliet (1597) William Shakespeare
135. Waterloo (1868) Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian
136. Lord Jim (1900) Joseph Conrad (Korzeniowski)
137. The Little Savage (1848) Captain Frederick Marryat
138. A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) Jules Verne
139. In the Reign of Terror (1890) G.A. Henty
14. Westward Ho! (1855) Charles Kingsley
140. On Jungle Trails (1936) Frank Bucks
141. Castle Dangerous (1831) Sir Walter Scott
142. Abraham Lincoln (1952) Benjamin Thomas
143. Kim (1901) Rudyard Kipling
144. The First Men in the Moon (1901) H.G. Wells
145. The Crisis (1901) Winston Churchill
146. With Fire and Sword (1890) Henry Sienkiewicz
147. Ben Hur (1880) Lew Wallace
148. Lafitte the Pirate (1930) Lyle Saxon
149. Off on a Comet (1878) Jules Verne
15. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe
150. The Virginian (1902) Owen Wister
151. Won by the Sword (1899) G.A. Henty
152. Wild Animals I Have Known (1898) Ernest Thompson Seton
153. The Invisible Man (1897) H.G. Wells
154. The Conspiracy of the Pontiac (1851) Francis Parkman
155. The Lion of the North (1890) G.A. Henty
156. Conquest of Mexico (1632) Bernal Diez Del Castillo
157. Lives of the Hunted (1902) Ernest Thompson Seton
158. The Conspirators (1843) Alexandre Dumas
159. The Octopus (1901) Frank Norris
16. Gulliver's Travels (1726) Jonathan Swift
160. The Food of the Gods (1904) H.G. Wells
161. Cleopatra (1889) H. Rider Haggard
162. Robur the Conqueror (1886) Jules Verne
163. Master of the World (1904) Jules Verne
164. The Cossack Chief (1839) Nikotai Gogol
165. The Queen's Necklace (1849) Alexandre Dumas
166. Tigers and Traitors (1880) Jules Verne
167. Faust (1808/1832) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
17. The Deerslayer (1841) James Fenimore Cooper
18. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) Victor Hugo
19. Huckleberry Finn (1884) Mark Twain
2. Ivanhoe (1820) Sir Walter Scott
20. The Corsican Brothers (1845) Alexandre Dumas
21. 3 Famous Mysteries: The Sign of the Four (1890) Arthur Conan Doyle, The Flayed Hand (1880) Guy de Maupassant, Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) Edgar Allen Poe
22. The Pathfinder (1840) James Fenimore Cooper
23. Oliver Twist (1838) Charles Dickens
24. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Mark Twain
25. Two Years Before the Mast (1840) Richard Henry Dana Jr.
26. Frankenstein (1818) Mary Shelley
27. Marco Polo (1921) Donn Byrne
28. Michael Strogoff (1876) Jules Verne
29. The Prince and the Pauper (1882) Mark Twain
3. The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) Alexandre Dumas
30. The Moonstone (1868) William Wilkie Collins
31. The Black Arrow (1888) Robert Louis Stevenson
32. Lorna Doone (1869) Richard Doddridge Blackmore
33. Sherlock Holmes Stories: A Study in Scarlet (1887) Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) Arthur Conan Doyle
34. Mysterious Island (1874) Jules Verne
35. Last Days of Pompeii (1834) Edward Bulwer-Lytton
36. Typee (1846) Herman Melville
37. The Pioneers (1822) James Fenimore Cooper
38. The Adventures of Cellini (1562) Benvenuto Cellini
39. Jane Eyre (1847) Charlotte Bronte
4. Last of the Mohicans (1826) James Fenimore Cooper
40. Edgar Allen Poe Mysteries: Pit and the Pendulum (1845), Adventures of Hans Pfall (1845), The Fall of the House of Usher (1838)
41. Twenty Years After (1845) Alexandre Dumas
42. Swiss Family Robinson (1813) Johann Wyss
43. Great Expectations (1861) Charles Dickens
44. Mysteries of Paris (1842) Eugene Sue
45. Tom Brown's School Days (1856) Thomas Hughes
46. Kidnapped (1886) Robert Louis Stevenson
47. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870) Jules Verne
48. David Copperfield (1850) Charles Dickens
49. Alice in Wonderland (1865) Lewis Carroll (C.L. Dodgson)
5. Moby Dick (1851) Herman Melville
50. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) Mark Twain
51. The Spy (1821) James Fenimore Cooper
52. The House of the Seven Gables (1851) Nathaniel Hawthorne
53. A Christmas Carol (1843) Charles Dickens
54. The Man in the Iron Mask (1850) Alexandre Dumas
55. Silas Marner (1861) George Eliot (Marian Evans)
56. Toilers of the Sea (1866) Victor Hugo
57. The Song of Hiawatha (1855) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
58. The Prairie (1827) James Fenimore Cooper
59. Wuthering Heights (1847) Emily Bronte
6. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) Charles Dickens
60. Black Beauty (1860) Anna Sewell
61. The Woman in White (1860) William Wilkie Collins
62. Western Stories: The Luck of Roaring Camp (1870) Bret Harte, The Outcasts of Poker Flats (1870) Bret Harte
63. Man Without a Country (1863) Edward Everett Hale
64. Treasure Island (1883) Robert Louis Stevenson
65. Benjamin Franklin (1817) Benjamin Franklin
66. The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) Charles Reade
67. The Scottish Chiefs (1809) Jane Porter
68. Julius Caesar (1607) William Shakespeare
69. Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) Jules Verne
7. Robin Hood (1883) Howard Pyle
70. The Pilot (1823) James Fenimore Cooper
71. The Man Who Laughs (1869) Victor Hugo
72. The Oregon Trail (1849) Francis Parkman
73. The Black Tulip (1850) Alexandre Dumas
74. Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836) Captain Frederick Marryat
75. The Lady of the Lake (1810) Sir Walter Scott
76. The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) Anthony Hope (Hawkins)
77. The Iliad (962 B.C.) Homer
78. Joan of Arc (1801) Frederick Schiller
79. Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) Edmond Rostand
8. Arabian Nights (1704) Antony Galland
80. White Fang (1906) Jack London
81. The Odyssey (927 B.C.) Homer
82. The Master of Ballantrae (1889) Robert Louis Stevenson
83. The Jungle Book (1894) Rudyard Kipling
84. Edgar Allen Poe: The Gold Bug (1843), The Tell-Tale Heart (1845), A Cask of Amontillado (1845)
85. The Sea Wolf (1904) Jack London
86. Under Two Flags (1868) Ouida (Louisa de la Rame)
87. A Midsummer Night's Dream (185%) William Shakespeare
88. Men of Iron (1891) Howard Pyle
89. Crime and Punishment (1866) Feodor Dostoevsky
9. Les Miserables (1862) Victor Hugo
90. Green Mansions (1904) William Henry Hudson
91. The Call of the Wild (1903) Jack London
92. Henry W. Longfellow: Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Evangeline (1847)
93. Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) Mark Twain
94. David Balfour (1893) Robert Louis Stevenson
95. All Quiet on the Western Front (1928) Erich Maria Remarque
96. Daniel Boone (1939) John Bakeless
97. King Solomon's Mines (1885) H. Rider Heggard
98. The Red Badge of Courage (1895) Stephen Crane
99. Hamlet (1603) William Shakespeare