Quiet Life Homestead

Davenport Academy of Home Education's Reading List Part 1

Before I start, let me tell you a few things about our "list books."  Ever since we lived in Panama and I first heard of homeschooling, I started collecting books for us to read.  Through the years, we've read tons of books and switched back and forth between unit studies, textbooks, and unschooling.  What we do now really works for us.  I'm not saying it is right for everyone or that what didn't work for us isn't right for someone else.  I have friends who use all types of approaches and we all have to find what works for us.  One last thing, the list has 171 books on it (long, I know).  As the children are reading the books they are on, I also am reading (I'm currently 3 books ahead of the closest child's book) ahead to be sure the books are not only appropriate but also of some educational value.  When I first purchased many of these books I had different goals and different values (I was saved but didn't realize that a Christian needs to let Jesus be Lord over all their life).  When I do find a book that isn't appropriate in one form or another, I remove it from our list and from our home.  

1. Wilbur and Orville Wright - Boys With Wings (Augusta Stevenson)

2. John Paul Jones (Stewart Graff)

3. The Story of Flight (Mary Lee Settle)

4. Francis Scott Key - Poet and Patriot (Lillie Patterson)

5. Ben Franklin - Printer's Boy (Augusta Stevenson)

6. Project Apollo - Mission to the Moon (Charles Coombs)

7. Marconi's Battle for Radio (Beverly Birch & Robin Bell Cornfield)

8. Flying Ace - The Story of Amelia Earhart (Angela Bull)

9. Thomas A Edison - Young Inventor (Sue Guthridge)

10. Twenty and Ten (Claire Huchet Bishop)

11. The World of Christopher Robin (A.A. Milne)

12. Paul Revere's Ride (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

13. The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

14. Early American (Mildred Pace)

15. Little Sure Shot (Stephanie Spinner)

16. Savage Sam (Fred Gipson)

17. The Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever (Ralph Nading Hill)

18. Daily Life on a Southern Plantation, 1853 (Paul Erickson)

19. Inside the HIndenberg (Mireille Majoor)

20. ...if you grew up with Abraham Lincoln (Ann McGovern)

21. The Mouse of Amherst (Elizabeth Spires)

22. Robert E Lee - Brave Leader (Rae Baines)

23. Mr. President (George Sullivan)

24. The Story of Ford's Theater and the Death of Lincoln (Zachary Kent)

25. We Were There With Lewis and Clark (James Munves)

26. Pioneering on the Plains (Edith McCall)

27. The Devil's Arithmetic (Jane Yolen)

28. The Battle for the Atlantic (Jay Williams)

29. Attack on Pearl Harbor (Shelley Tanaka)

30. Daniel Boone - Pioneer Trailblazer (Jim Hargrove)

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{ 10:18, Monday, January 15, 2007 } { Posted by thatday }

I did not grow up with books - and have always said I married a book. Am now retired and just love to read and read. First is the Bible, then have read many Christian authors. A very favorite is Randy Alcorn and am now reading Michael Phillips. Your list is enticing - must see if the library has some of these.
Thanks for posting the list.
Barb

wonderful goals

{ 11:25, Monday, January 15, 2007 } { Posted by deedee06 }

Your book list is amazing. A few months ago I read A Children's Blizzard. It wasn't an easy read, considering the suffering of the homesteaders, but I appreciated the reality of the situation. It didn't glamorize homesteading at all. It made it understandable why most homesteaders gave up and moved on to other ventures. If I think of other books that would be valuable, I will let you know. My daughter is 18 and for the past couple of years, I have given books to her about godly homemaking. I believe Vision Forum has books for boys on the subject of being godly fathers. ..............Blessings from the Big Sky Country.........Denise (prairiemom)