Literature-Reading List
The Reading List Suggested for LCA Students and Parents
One exciting aspect of classical education is your child’s interaction with great works of literature. The Logos Classical Academy reading list carefully reflects chosen historical authors, which help the student to understand the world around them. As part of our goal at LCA, we desire children who are passionate readers, with appetites for some of the best authors and literature in existence. You, as a parent, can help facilitate this by introducing these works to your children. We pray that this will lead to many hours of discovery, where your child is transported through great works to beautiful worlds of imagination.
Click on a grade level to view each reading list with book links.
For a printable version of the LCA Reading List, please see below.
Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley
A Question of Yams by Gloria Repp
Pulling Together by Dawn L. Watkins
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
George and the Drummer Boy by Nathan Benchley
McCall-Crabbs Standard Test Lessons in Reading, Book A
Classic and subject-related poetry, including “The Wind” by Robert Louis Stevenson, “Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore” by William Brighty Rands, “A Bed in the Leaves” by Marian Kennedy, “Once in Royal David’s City” by Cecil Frances Alexander, “All Things Bright and Beautiful” by Cecil Frances Alexander, Off to Plymouth Rock by Dandi Daley Mackall, “Father, We Thank You” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, “How Doth the Little Busy Bee” by Isaac Watts, “The Snowflake” by Walter de la Mare, “The Caterpillar” by Christina Rosetti, “Forgive Others” by Alice Joyce Davidson, and “One Thing at a Time” by M. A. Stodart (all RA)
Abeka Readers (RA, R): Hidden Treasure, Paths of Gold, Silver Sails, Growing Up Where Jesus Lived
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series by Betty MacDonald
Rainbow Garden by Patricia St. John
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Tirzah by Lucille Travis
The Tanglewoods’ Secret by Patricia St. John
Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Belles on Their Toes by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d’Aulaire and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett
Theras and His Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker
Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfeld
The Little Pilgrim’s Progress by Helen L. Taylor
Vinegar Boy by Alberta Hawse
Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick
Pompeii…Buried Alive! by Edith Kunhardt
A Triumph for Flavius by Caroline Dale Snedeker
The Trojan Horse by Emily Little
Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Treasures of the Snow by Patricia St. John
Cleopatra by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
King Arthur by Roger Lancelyn Green
Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
Luther the Leader by Virgil Robinson
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood
Morning Star of the Reformation by Andy Thomson
Augustine: The Farmer’s Boy of Tagaste by P. De Zeeuw
Ink on His Fingers by Louise A. Vernon
Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children by H. E. Marshal
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Rogery Lancelyn Green
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by Allen French
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
The Grammar of Poetry: Imitation in Writing by Matt Whitling
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
“The Bells,” “Ozymandius,” and “Charge of the Light Brigade” taken from Writing with Skill Level 1 by Susan Wise Bauers
Children’s version of a Shakespeare play taken from either Shakespeare with Children: Six Scripts for Young Players by Elizabeth Weinstein and Anna Dallam or from Shakespeare in the Classroom series (out of print)
The Grammar of Poetry by Matt Whitling
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Wright Brothers by Quentin Reynolds
The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
Children of the Storm by Natasha Vins
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
“Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and other poetry selections
Incoming summer read: The Golden Fleece by Padraic Colum and Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
Anchor Works (Read and referred to over the quarter)
The Oresteia – Aeschylus
The Odyssey – Homer, trans. Fagles
Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
Julius Caesar – Shakespeare
Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Luke
Core Works (Read fully)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
The Magician's Nephew – C.S. Lewis
Prince Caspian – C.S. Lewis
Eclogue IV – Virgil
Excerpted Works
Usborne: Greeks (selections) – Peach, et al.
Usborne: The Romans (selections) – Peach, et al.
Plutarch's Lives, v. 1 (“Lycurgus”) and v. 2 (“Alexander the Great,” “Julius Caesar,” “Brutus”) – Plutarch
Histories, selections from Book 1 Herodotus
The Early History of Rome (selections) – Livy
Westminster Confession (selections)
Incoming summer read: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green and St. George for England by G.A. Henty
Anchor Works (Read and referred to over the quarter)
Beowulf
The Song of Roland
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Henry V – Shakespeare
Magna Carta
Core Works (Read fully)
Diet of Worms speech – Martin Luther
The White Horse King – Benjamin R. Merkle
Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C.S. Lewis
The Silver Chair – C.S. Lewis
The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis
Excerpted Works
Medieval Europe: A Short History (selections) – C. Warren Hollister
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (selections) – Bede
Chronicles of the Crusades (selections) – Joinville/Villehardouin
Confessions (selections) – Augustine
The Canterbury Tales (Prologue, “The Knight’s Tale”) – Geoffrey Chaucer
Foxe's Book of Martyrs (selections) – John Foxe
The History of Christianity (selections) – Tim Dowley, ed.