Quickly start your kids as readers! Just read this article

Need to get your kids started on their love-affair with reading? If so, which books are famous (or should be!) for inspiring children & teens to WANT to read?  Michelle was asked to share them in a magazine article, and you can have that headstart right now!


History Recommendations for Middle to Upper Ages:

Hittite Warrior, by Joanne Williamson

Victory on the Walls: A Story of Nehemiah, by Frieda Hyman

Archimedes and the Door of Science, by Jeanne Bendick

Herodotus and the Road to History, by Jeanne Bendick

Galen and the Gateway to Medicine, by Jeanne Bendick

Ides of April, by Mary Ray

Son of Charlemagne, by Barbara Willard

Rolf and the Viking Bow, by Allen French

If All the Swords in England, by Barbara Willard

Golden Hawks of Genghis Khan, by Rita Ritchie

Door to the North, by Elizabeth Coatsworth

DeSoto: Child of the Sun, by William O. Steele

Reb and the Redcoats, by Constance Savery

Enemy Brothers: A Story of World War II, by Constance Savery

Here’s another idea! Discover that yummy “living books” will revolutionize your “history” learning! I’ll list a few here which can be most easily purchased or borrowed from libraries (or through ILL, inter-library loan). Once you see their vitality, you’ll have experienced the power of well-written books to thrill and teach your children & teens in many academic subjects! You’re in for a treat!

History Recommendations for Elementary Ages:

Leif the Lucky, by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Columbus, by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Pocahontas, by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Abraham Lincoln, by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Wagon Wheels, by Barbara Brenner

George Washington, by Janet & Geoff Benge

George Washington Carver, by Janet & Geoff Benge (and many others in series)

With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School, by Suzanne Slade

That Book Woman, by Heather Henson

Rocks in His Head, by Carol Hurst

Dust for Dinner, by Ann Turner

No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas, by Tonya Bolden

Boy of the Pyramids, by Ruth Jones

Sword in the Tree, by Clyde Robert Bulla

Want to use “living books” like these for your entire history curriculum, like Michelle did (even graduating two sons with collegiate history degrees)?

Use Michelle’s TruthQuest History award-winning curriculum, with 11 different guides providing rich, literary coverage of—and deeply biblical commentary on—both American and world history, at various age levels, covering Grades 1-12 altogether.