Reading Resources Humor & Comedy - Exodus Books

Reading Resources Humor & Comedy Series Books Biographies
Mystery & Suspense
We have put a tremendous amount Myths, Fairy Tales & Folklore Plenty of kids just want the next If you prefer true stories, then
of energy into making our website Nautical Fiction book in the series. In Series Books, biographies are for you. Search or
one of the best tools for helping Poetry for Children we offer some collections worth browse for those of interest to you.
you find great literature for readers Princess Stories their time (at least in limited doses)
of all ages, from the earliest Realistic Fiction Best In Children's Books Classic Literature
readers to the deepest thinkers. Romantic Fiction Bobbsey Twins
The lists here help to give you… Science Fiction Dear America Books If you’re ready for the big-leagues,
Short Stories for Kids Happy Hollisters this section allows you to sort and
Doorways to Great Reading Westerns Hardy Boys filter great literature. You can be
Wilderness & Survival Stories Jungle Doctor specific and find that 18th
First, may we start by giving you… Magic Tree House century/British/Novel you’ve been
Recommended Book Lists Prize-Winning Books Nancy Drew looking for!
Sugar Creek Gang Literature by Genre
We’ve created lists based on the Next, we’ve been focusing on the Trailblazer Books Literature by Period
above books, that show you which books that have won major prizes. Trixie Belden Mysteries Literature by Place
books we carry from each: For the Newbery medal, we have Boxcar Children
been rating and reviewing them. Classic Comparisons
Booklists for kids So far, we just have a list of the Wholesome Reading
Caldecott winners and runners-up. The Classic Comparisons pages are
Book Tree If you find our general taste in totally unique to Exodus. Each page
Books Children Love Popular Fiction literature too liberal, or just want introduces the text with an essay,
Hand That Rocks the Cradle something more specifically offers fantastic (and free!) online
Honey for a Child's Heart There is plenty of Popular Fiction Christian, check out this section. teaching resources, and gives an
Honey for a Teen's Heart out there. We’ve collected some Adventures Series overview of both children’s
Reading Roadmaps Booklists themes, and reviewed a few series BibleTime & BibleWise Books adaptations and the various
Teaching the Classics Booklist some find controversial. Building on the Rock Series translations we offer. You can even
Anne of Green Gables CF4Kids Trail Blazers compare passages from each
Booklists for adults Elsie Dinsmore Emma Leslie Church History Series translation side-by-side!
Exploring Narnia Grace & Truth Fiction Aeneid of Virgil
Invitation to the Classics G. A. Henty Books Hero Tales Beowulf
Teaching the Classics Worldview Harry Potter Inheritance Fiction Canterbury Tales
Well-Educated Mind Jane Austen Materials Lamplighter Rare Collector Series Divine Comedy
Western Culture's Top 50 King Arthur Light Keepers Don Quixote
Little House Materials Louise Vernon Historical Fiction Epic of Gilgamesh
Classic Fiction Lord of the Rings Miller Family Series Histories of Herodotus
Percy Jackson & the Olympians Rod & Staff Fiction Iliad of Homer
This page offers you a grade and R. M. Ballantyne Books Sisters in Time Milton's Paradise Lost
genre filter for the nearly 10,000 Redwall Trailblazer Books Odyssey of Homer
titles we offer. Overwhelming! Robin Hood Yesterday's Classics Pilgrim's Progress
Adventure Stories Shakespeare Materials Also, see our Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Animal Stories Wizard of Oz Bible Storybook Overview
Fantasy Fiction
Historical Fiction

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 1

Preschool & Burton, Virginia Lee Johnson, Crockett Peet, Bill
Kindergarten Choo Choo Harold & the Purple Anything, but especially:
Read-Aloud Favorites Little House Crayon (sequels) Caboose Who Got Loose
Mike Mulligan How Droofus the Dragon
Preschool & kindergarten are Leaf, Munro Lost His Head
formative years, so you should be Carle, Eric Story of Ferdinand Jennifer & Josephine
careful with the books and media Very Hungry Caterpillar Kermit the Hermit
you expose to your children. We try Lobel, Arnold Kweeks of Kookatumdee*
here to focus on books that are Eastman, P.D. Frog & Toad series Spooky Tale of Prewitt
aesthetically good—beautiful art, Are You My Mother? Rose In My Garden Peacock
well-written prose, solid worldview Go, Dog, Go!
(but still fun for the kiddos). This Lubell, Winnifred & Cecil Pfister, Marcus
page is a VERY SMALL sampling of Flack, Marjorie & Kurt Weise Rosalie: Bird Market Turtle* Rainbow Fish
some of our favorites. (You’ll find Story About Ping
plenty more in the following list) MacLachlan, Patricia Piper, Watty
Gag, Wanda Sick Day* Little Engine That Could
Remember when you’re reading Millions of Cats
aloud to read slowly, articulate McBratney, Sam Potter, Beatrix
clearly, and express Gramatky, Hardie Guess How Much I Love Anything, but especially:
enthusiastically! Little Toot You Peter Rabbit
Tom Kitten
Picture Books Hall, Donald & Barbara Cooney McCloskey, Robert Jemima Puddleduck
Ox-Cart Man Blueberries for Sal Mrs. Tiggywinkle
Bemelmans, Ludwig One Morning in Maine Jeremy Fisher
Madeline (sequels) Helm, David
Big Picture Story Bible McLerran, Alice Provensen, Alice
Berenstain, Stan & Jan Roxaboxen How to Make an Apple
Old Hat, New Hat Herriot, James Pie & See the World
Treasury for Children McLintock, Mike
Bishop, Claire & Kurt Weise Fly Went By Seuss, Dr.
Five Chinese Brothers Heyward, Du Bose Stop That Ball!* Horton Hatches the Egg
Country Bunny and the Horton Hears a Who
Brown, Marcia Little Gold Shoes Mosel, Arlene If I Ran the Zoo
Stone Soup Tikki Tikki Tembo Sneetches and Other Stories
Hoban, Russell & Lillian 500 Hats of Bartholomew
Brown, Margaret Wise Bedtime for Frances Numeroff, Laura Cubbins
Color Kittens Baby Sister for Frances If You Give a Mouse a
Little Fur Family Bread & Jam for Frances Cookie Silverstein, Shel
Mister Dog The Light in the Attic
Runaway Bunny Jackson, Kathryn Paterson, Katherine
Tawny Scrawny Lion King’s Equal Slobodkina, Esphyr
Caps for Sale

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 2

Spier, Peter Chapter Books Jansson, Tove Saint-Exupery, Antoine De
Bored, Nothing to Do* Comet in Moominland Little Prince
Noah’s Ark Banks, Lynne Reid (Moomintroll 8 book series)
People Indian & the Cupboard Selden, George
Star-Spangled Banner Juster, Norton Cricket in Times Square
Baum, L. Frank Phantom Tollbooth
Steig, William Wonderful Wizard of Oz Sperry, Armstrong
Pete’s a Pizza Kaye, M.M. Call It Courage
Sylvester & the Magic Brink, Carol Ryrie Ordinary Princess
Pebble Caddie Woodlawn St. John, Patricia
Lewis, C. S. Treasures of the Snow
Stewart, Sarah Bulla, Clyde Robert Lion, the Witch & The
The Gardener Viking Adventure Wardrobe White, E. B.
Riding the Pony Express Charlotte’s Web
Thomas, Patricia Lindgren, Astrid Trumpet of the Swan
“Stand Back,” Said the Burnett, Frances Hodgson Pippi Longstocking
Elephant, “I’m Going to Rackety Packetty House Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Sneeze!” Little Princess Lloyd-Jones, Sally Little House in the Big
Jesus Storybook Bible Woods
Tison, Annette & Talus Taylor Cleary, Beverly Little House on the Prairie
Barbapapa (series)* Mouse & the Motorcycle McCloskey, Robert Farmer Boy
Homer Price
Titus, Eve Dahl, Roald This list is created by the
Anatole Charlie & the Chocolate Milne, A. A. staff of Exodus Books.
Factory Winnie-the-Pooh Out site can be found at
Tolstoy, Leo Fantastic Mr. Fox House at Pooh Corner www.exodusbooks.com
Shoemaker Martin* When We Were Very Or, you can reach us by
De Angeli, Marguerite Young phone at 503-655-1951
Van Allsburg, Chris Door in the Wall Now We Are Six
Jumanji * marks out-of-print books
DiCamillo, Kate North, Sterling
Williams, Margery Tale of Despereaux Rascal
Velveteen Rabbit
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield O’Brien, Robert
Wood, Audrey & Don Understood Betsy Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of
Little Mouse, The Ripe NIMH
Red Strawberry, and Gannett, Ruth Stiles
the Big Hungry Bear My Father’s Dragon trilogy Robinson, Barbara
Best Christmas Pageant
Zelinsky, Paul George, Jean Craighead Ever
Rapunzel My Side of the Mountain
Rumpelstiltskin

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 3

1st Grade Reading List Hoban, Russell & Lillian McCloskey, Robert Shulevitz, Uri
Bargain for Frances Make Way for Ducklings The Treasure
Anderson, C. W. Birthday for Frances
Billy & Blaze (series) Best Friends for Frances McGovern, Ann Slobodkina, Esphyr
Stone Soup Caps for Sale
Bemelmans, Ludwig Hopkinson, Deborah
Madeline (sequels) Apples to Oregon McLerran, Alice Steig, William
Sky Boys Roxaboxen Dr. DeSoto
Benchley, Nathan Pete’s a Pizza
Oscar Otter Hyman, Trina Schart McNulty, Faith & Marc Simont
Little Red Riding Hood How to Dig a Hole to the Stevens, Janet
Berenstain, Stan & Jan Other Side of the World Tops & Bottoms
Old Hat, New Hat Johnson, Crockett
Harold & the Purple Minarik, Else Holmelund Stewart, Sarah
Burton, Virginia Lee Crayon (sequels) Little Bear (series) The Library
Katy No Fighting, No Biting
Mike Mulligan & His Steam Joslin, Sesyle Thayer, Ernest Lawrence
Shovel What Do You Do, Dear? Numeroff, Laura Casey at the Bat
What Do You Say, Dear? If You Give a Moose a
Cooney, Barbara Muffin Turkle, Brinton
Chanticleer and the Fox Kellogg, Steven Rachel & Obadiah
Miss Rumphius Mysterious Tadpole Peet, Bill (and others in series)
Paul Bunyan Ant & the Elephant
Demi No Such Things* Turner, Priscilla
Empty Pot Leaf, Munro (anything by author) War Between the Vowels
Story of Ferdinand & the Consonants
Flack, Marjorie Perkins, Al
Angus & the Cat Lewis, Kim Digging-est Dog Viorst, Judith
Story About Ping Floss Alexander & The Terrible,
Plume, Ilse Horrible, No Good, Very
Freeman, Don Littledale, Freya Bremen Town Musicians Bad Day
Corduroy Magic Fish
Pocket for Corduroy Rey, H.A. & Margaret Waber, Bernard
Lobel, Arnold Curious George stories House on East 88th Street
Galdone, Paul Frog & Toad (sequels)
Little Red Hen Grasshopper on the Road Robertson, M.P. Ward, Lynd
Gingerbread Boy Mouse Soup The Egg Biggest Bear
(others) Owl at Home
Seuss, Dr. Zion, Gene
Hall, Donald McClintock, Mike Green Eggs & Ham Harry the Dog books
Ox-Cart Man Fly Went By Horton Hatches the Egg

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 4

2nd Grade Reading List Gramatky, Hardie Martin, Jacqueline Briggs Raven, Margot Theis
Little Toot Snowflake Bentley Song of the Swallows
Brunhoff, Jean de
Story of Babar (series) Harris, Joel Chandler & Don Daily Mayer, Marianna Seuss, Dr.
Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit Twelve Dancing Princesses How the Grinch Stole
Burn, Doris Christmas
Andrew Henry’s Meadow Herge McCully, Emily Arnold King’s Stilts
Mirette on the High Wire
Cleary, Beverly King Ottokar’s Sceptre Sewall, Marcia
Mouse & the Motorcycle (or any Tintin book) Napoli, Donna Jo Pilgrims of Plimoth
Beezus & Ramona Albert
Hodges, Margaret & Trina Hyman Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman
Craft, K.Y. Kitchen Knight Ness, Evaline Nate the Great series
Cinderella Saint George & the Dragon Sam, Bangs, and Moonshine
Sleeping Beauty Steig, William
Hughes, Shirley Neuschwander, Cindy Amos & Boris
Dahl, Roald Alfie & Annie Rose Stories Sir Cumference (series) Sylvester & the Magic
Fantastic Mr. Fox Pebble
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie Newell, Peter
Davies, Jacqueline Bear That Heard Crying Slant Book Stewart, Sarah
Boy Who Drew Birds The Gardener
Kroll, Steven O’Brien, Patrick
Demi Lewis & Clark: Explorers of Making of a Knight Swift, Hildegarde
Alexander the Great the American West Little Red Lighthouse & the
Oakley, Graham Great Gray Bridge
DiCamillo, Kate Lester, Julius Church Mouse
Mercy Watson to the Rescue John Henry Van Allsburg, Chris
Paterson, Katherine Jumanji
Donnelly, Jennifer Locker, Thomas King’s Equal
Humble Pie Boy Who Held Back the Sea Williams, Margery
Peet, Bill Velveteen Rabbit, or, How
Estes, Eleanor Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Buford the Little Bighorn Toys Became Real
Hundred Dresses Hiawatha Cowardly Clyde
Paul Revere’s Ride Winter, Milo
Gannett, Ruth Stiles Peterson, John Aesop’s Fables for Children
My Father’s Dragon MacAulay, David The Littles (series)
Elmer & the Dragon Angelo Young, Ed
Dragons of Blueland Pinkney, Jerry Lon Po Po
MacLachlan, Patricia Ugly Duckling
Gerstein, Mordicai Sarah, Plain & Tall Ziefert, Harriet & Anita Lobel
Man Who Walked Between Pittman, Helena Clare New Coat for Anna
the Towers Maestro, Giulio & Betsy Grain of Rice
More Perfect Union

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 5

3rd Grade Reading List Field, Rachel Lofting, Hugh Sproul, R. C.
Hitty, Her First 100 Years Story of Doctor Dolittle Barber Who Wanted to Pray
Atwater, Richard & Florence (others by author)
Mr. Popper’s Penguins Fritz, Jean Lovelace, Maud Hart
Shh! We’re Writing the Betsy-Tacy (sequels) St. John, Patricia
Banks, Lynne Reid Constitution Treasures of the Snow
Indian in the Cupboard (or others by author) Macaulay, David (others by author)
(and others in series) Pyramid (others by author)
Grahame, Kenneth Stanley, Diane & Peter Vennema
Bendick, Jeanne Reluctant Dragon Macdonald, Betty Bard of Avon: The Story of
Herodotus & the Road to Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle (sequels) William Shakespeare
History Herge
Adventures of Tintin series Macdonald, George Steig, William
Buff, Mary & Conrad Light Princess Abel’s Island
Apple and the Arrow Herriot, James
Treasury for Children McCloskey, Robert Streatfeild, Noel
Burgess, Thornton W. Homer Price Ballet Shoes (series)
Old Mother West Wind Holling, Holling Clancy Centerburg Tales
Paddle-to-the-Sea Taylor, Sydney
Chrisman, Arthur Bowie (others by author) McSwigan, Marie All-of-a-Kind Family
Shen of the Sea Snow Treasure All-of-a-Kind Family
Kaye, M. M. Downtown
D’Aulaire, Ingri & Edgar Ordinary Princess Milne, A. A. More All-of-a-Kind Family
Book of Greek Myths Winnie the Pooh
Leif the Lucky King-Smith, Dick House at Pooh Corner Wheeler, Opal
(or others by authors) Babe, the Gallant Pig Great Composers series
Norton, Mary
DiCamillo, Kate Lattimore, Eleanor Frances Borrowers (sequels) White, E. B.
Tale of Despereaux Little Pear Charlotte’s Web
Platt, Richard
Edmonds, Walter Lawson, Robert Castle Diary Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Matchlock Gun Mr. Revere & I Little House (series)
Robinson, Barbara
Enright, Elizabeth Levine, Gail Carson Best Christmas Pageant Willard, Nancy
Thimble Summer Fairy’s Return & Other Ever Visit to William Blake’s Inn
Princess Tales
Estes, Eleanor Seuss, Dr. Williams, Garth
Moffats (sequels) Lindgren, Astrid 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cricket in Times Square
Ginger Pye (sequel) Pippi Longstocking Cubbins
Wilson, N. D.
Ferguson, Sinclair B. Lobel, Arnold Sperry, Armstrong Leepike Ridge
Irenaeus of Lyons Fables Call it Courage

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 6

4th Grade Reading List DeJong, Meindert Kipling, Rudyard Sandburg, Carl
House of Sixty Fathers Just So Stories Abe Lincoln Grows Up
Aiken, Joan
Wolves of Willoughby Chase DiCamillo, Kate Kjelgaard, Jim Schlitz, Laura Amy
Miraculous Journey of Big Red (others by author) Good Masters! Sweet
Avi Edward Tulane Ladies!
Crispin: The Cross of Lead Knight, Eric
du Bois, William Pene Lassie Come-Home Smith, Bradford
Barrie, J. M. Twenty-One Balloons William Bradford, Pilgrim
Peter Pan Levine, Gail Carson Boy
Eager, Edward Ella Enchanted
Baum, L. Frank Half Magic (sequels) Two Princesses of Bamarre Snedeker, Caroline Dale
Wonderful Wizard of Oz Theras & His Town
Enright, Elizabeth Lewis, C. S.
Beeke, Joel R. Gone-Away Lake Chronicles of Narnia (any) St. John, Patricia
How God Used a (and others by author) Tanglewoods’ Secret
Thunderstorm Macaulay, David (or others by author)
Fritz, Jean Motel of the Mysteries
Bendick, Jeanne Bully for You, Teddy Sutcliff, Rosemary
Archimedes & the Door of Roosevelt MacDonald, George Wanderings of Odysseus
Science Princess & the Goblin
Along Came Galileo Henry, Marguerite Taylor, Theodore
King of the Wind Morpurgo, Michael Air Raid: Pearl Harbor!
Brink, Carol Ryrie (others by author) Beowulf
Caddie Woodlawn Travers, P. L.
Hess, Donna Lynn Morris, Gerald Mary Poppins (series)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson Father’s Promise Squire’s Tale (series)
Little Princess Travis, Lucille
Jacques, Brian Nesbit, Edith Tirzah
Carr, Simonetta Redwall (series) Five Children and It
John Knox Beautiful Stories from White, Paul
John Owen (or others) Jansson, Tove Shakespeare Jungle Doctor (series)
Moomintroll (series)
Collodi, Carlo Prins, Piet Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Pinocchio Jones, Diana Wynne Scout (series) Farmer Boy (series)
Howl’s Moving Castle
Dahl, Roald Ransome, Arthur Wilson, N. D.
Charlie & the Chocolate Juster, Norton Swallows & Amazons 100 Cupboards (trilogy)
Factory Phantom Tollbooth
Robertson, Keith Winterfeld, Henry
Daugherty, James Kaye, M. M. Henry Reed, Inc. Detectives in Togas
Poor Richard Ordinary Princess

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 7

5th Grade Reading List Dodge, Mary Mapes Maclean, Alistair Sewell, Anna
Hans Brinker Lawrence of Arabia Black Beauty
Alcott, Louisa May
Little Women (sequels) DuPrau, Jeanne McGraw, Eloise Jarvis Taylor, Helen L.
City of Ember (sequels) Golden Goblet Little Pilgrim’s Progress
Alexander, Lloyd
Book of Three (sequels) Eckert, Allan W. Meigs, Cornelia Speare, Elizabeth George
Incident at Hawk’s Hill Incredible Louisa Witch of Blackbird Pond
Andersen, Hans Christian Sign of the Beaver
Fairy Tales (various) Farley, Walter Meserole, Mike
Black Stallion (sequels) Great Escape Spinelli, Jerry
Armstrong, Jennifer Maniac Magee
Shipwreck at the Bottom of Frazier, Neta Lohnes Montgomery, Lucy Maud
the World Stout-Hearted Seven Anne of Green Gables Steele, William O.
We Were There on the
Balliett, Blue Funke, Cornelia Moody, Ralph Oregon Trail
Chasing Vermeer Dragon Rider Come On, Seabiscuit!
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Baum, L. Frank Gray, Elizabeth Janet Nesbit, Edith Treasure Island
Queen Zixi of Ix Adam of the Road Enchanted Castle
Thurber, James
Burnett, Frances Hodgson Green, Roger Lancelyn North, Sterling Thirteen Clocks
Secret Garden Adventures of Robin Hood Rascal
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Catherall, Arthur Grimm, Jakob & Wilhelm O’Brien, Robert C. Farmer Giles of Ham
Strange Intruder Grimm’s Fairy Tales Mrs. Frisby & the Rats The Hobbit
of NIMH
Cohen, Roger Hale, Lucretia P. Twain, Mark
Danger in the Desert Peterkin Papers Paulsen, Gary Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Hatchet
Colum, Padraic Kantor, Mackinlay Uchida, Yoshiko
Children’s Homer Lee & Grant at Appomatox Prins, Piet Journey to Topaz
Lonely Sentinel (sequels)
Cousins, Margaret Lenski, Lois Van Stockum, Hilda
Ben Franklin of Old Strawberry Girl Pumphrey, Margaret Mitchells: Five for Victory
Philadelphia Pilgrim Stories
Lewis, C. S. Wyss, Johann
Daugherty, James Voyage of the Dawn Treader Sachar, Louis Swiss Family Robinson
Of Courage Undaunted Holes
Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman Zeeuw, P. de
DeMallie, H. R. Young Fu of the Upper Seredy, Kate Augustine, the Farmer’s
Behind Enemy Lines Yangtze White Stag Boy from Tagaste

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 8

6th Grade Reading List Hawes, Charles Boardman Moody, Ralph Sutcliff, Rosemary
Dark Frigate Little Britches (series) Shining Company
Ballantyne, R. M.
Coral Island Hess, Donna Lynn Perez, N. A. Thomson, Andy
In Search of Honor Slopes of War Morning Star of the
Bliven, Bruce Jr. Reformation
Invasion: Story of D-Day Hunt, Irene Pope, Elizabeth Marie
Across Five Aprils Perilous Gard Tolkien, J. R. R.
Collier, James L. & Christopher Roverandom
My Brother Sam is Dead Keith, Harold Pyle, Howard
Rifles for Watie Men of Iron Trevino, Elizabeth Borton
Colum, Padraic I, Juan de Pareja
Children of Odin Kelly, Eric P. Raskin, Ellen
Trumpeter of Krakow Westing Game Twain, Mark
Coray, Henry W. Prince & the Pauper
Against the World: The Kipling, Rudyard Rawls, Wilson
Story of Athanasius Jungle Books Where the Red Fern Grows Ullman, James Ramsey
Banner in the Sky
Daugherty, James Lansing, Alfred Rinaldi, Ann
Landing of the Pilgrims Endurance: Shackleton’s The Staircase Van Halsema, Thea B.
Incredible Voyage This Was John Calvin
Dokey, Cameron Savery, Constance
Golden Latham, Jean Lee Reb & the Redcoats Van Stockum, Hilda
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Winged Watchman
Fletcher, Susan Story of Eli Whitney Sawyer, Ruth
Shadow Spinner Roller Skates Watkins, Dawn L.
L’Engle, Madeleine Zoli’s Legacy
Forbes, Esther Wrinkle in Time (sequels) Selznick, Brian
Johnny Tremain Invention of Hugo Cabret Willard, Barbara
London, Jack Wonderstruck If All the Swords in England
Forester, C. S. Call of the Wild
Barbary Pirates Speare, Elizabeth George Williamson, Joanne
Lowry, Lois Bronze Bow Hittite Warrior
Goudge, Elizabeth Giver (sequels)
Little White Horse Sperry, Armstrong Wilson, N. D.
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis All Sail Set Ashtown Burials (series)
Green, Roger Lancelyn Mara, Daughter of the Nile Boys of Blur
King Arthur & His Knights Stead, Rebecca
of the Round Table Merrill, Jean When You Reach Me Withrow, Brandon & Mindy
Pushcart War* History Lives (series)
Haddix, Margaret Peterson Stratton-Porter, Gene
Among the Hidden (series) Freckles

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 9

7th Grade Reading List Frank, Anne Lortz, Roseanne Stevenson, Robert Louis
Diary of a Young Girl I Serve: A Novel of the Black Kidnapped
Andrew, Brother Prince
God’s Smuggler Gay, David Stratton-Porter, Gene
Voyage to Freedom MacDonald, George Girl of the Limberlost
Asimov, Isaac Sir Gibbie
I, Robot Gilbreth, Frank & Ernestine Carey Sutcliff, Rosemary
Cheaper by the Dozen MacLean, Alistair Eagle of the Ninth (sequels)
Becker, May Lamberton Belles on Their Toes Where Eagles Dare
Miss Jane Austen Swift, Jonathan
Glaspey, Terry Marrin, Albert Gulliver’s Travels
Blake, William Not a Tame Lion Hitler
Songs of Innocence & Songs Tolkien, J. R. R.
of Experience Grahame, Kenneth McPherson, Joyce Lord of the Rings
Wind in the Willows Ocean of Truth
Bradbury, Ray Trapp, Maria Augusta
Martian Chronicles Haggard, H. Rider Meroff, Deborah Story of the Trapp Family
King Solomon’s Mines Coronation of Glory Singers
Card, Orson Scott
Ender’s Game Hannula, Richard Milne, A. A. Trevino, Elizabeth Borton de
Trial & Triumph Red House Mystery My Heart Lies South
Dickens, Charles
Tale of Two Cities Henty, G. A. Morrison, J. A. Twain, Mark
In the Reign of Terror Martin Luther Adventures of Huckleberry
Doman, Regina (or others by author) Finn
Shadow of the Bear Orwell, George
Hope, Anthony Animal Farm Verne, Jules
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Prisoner of Zenda Around the World in Eighty
Lost World Park, Linda Sue Days
Jiang, Ji-Li Single Shard
Dumas, Alexandre Red Scarf Girl Webster, Jean
Three Musketeers Peck, Richard Daddy-Long-Legs
Man in the Iron Mask Konigsburg, E. L. Year Down Yonder
View from Saturday Wells, H. G.
Eliot, George Pope, Elizabeth Marie Time Machine
Silas Marner Lamb, Charles & Mary Sherwood Ring
Tales from Shakespeare Wilder, Thornton
Forbes, Kathryn Rostand, Edmond Our Town
Mama’s Bank Account L’Amour, Louis Cyrano de Bergerac
Sackett’s Land York, Alvin
Funke, Cornelia Sabatini, Rafael Sergeant York & the Great
Inkheart (trilogy) Captain Blood War*

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 10

8th Grade Reading List Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Hinton, S. E. Sabatini, Rafael
Rime of the Ancient Rumble Fish Scaramouche
Adams, Richard Mariner & Other Poems
Watership Down Houghton, S. M. Shelly, Mary
Collins, Wilkie Sketches from Church Frankenstein
Bjorn, Thyra Ferre The Moonstone History
Papa’s Wife Seinkiewicz, Henryk
Costain, Thomas B. Kipling, Rudyard Quo Vadis
Boom, Corrie ten Silver Chalice Captains Courageous
Hiding Place Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
Crane, Stephen Landon, Margaret Little Prince
Bradbury, Ray Red Badge of Courage Anna & the King of Siam
Fahrenheit 451 Steinbeck, John
Defoe, Daniel Lee, Harper Of Mice and Men
Bronte, Charlotte Robinson Crusoe To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre Stevenson, Robert Louis
Dickens, Charles Lewis, C. S. Black Arrow
Buchan, John Great Expectations Mere Christianity
Thirty-Nine Steps (sequels) Thal, Lilli
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Macdonald, George Mimus
Bulfinch, Thomas White Company Phantastes
Bulfinch’s Greek and Roman Sherlock Holmes Twain, Mark
Mythology Marrin, Albert Connecticut Yankee in King
Elliot, Elisabeth America and Vietnam Arthur’s Court
Carpenter, Humphrey Through Gates of Splendor
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Marshall, James Verne, Jules
Biography Forester, C. S. Walkabout Michael Strogoff
Horatio Hornblower (series)
Carroll, Lewis Olson, Bruce Wallace, Lew
Alice in Wonderland & Goldman, William Bruchko Ben-Hur
Through the Looking Glass Princess Bride
Orczy, Baroness Wells, H. G.
Christie, Agatha Hemingway, Ernest Scarlet Pimpernel War of the Worlds
Death on the Nile Old Man and the Sea
Peters, Ellis Wilkerson, David
Christie, Vance Herriot, James Morbid Taste for Bones Cross and the Switchblade
Hudson Taylor: Gospel All Creatures Great & Small
Pioneer to China Poe, Edgar Allen Wodehouse, P. G.
Heyerdahl, Thor Stories of Edgar Allen Poe Leave it to Psmith
Clarke, Arthur C. Kon-Tiki
2001: A Space Odyssey Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
The Yearling

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 11

High School Cather, Willa Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Greene, Graham
Fiction & Literature My Antonia The Idiot Power & the Glory

Adams, Douglas Cervantes, Miguel de Du Maurier, Daphne Harris, Joel Chandler
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Don Quixote Recbecca Tales of Uncle Remus
Galaxy (series)
Chaucer, Geoffrey Dumas, Alexandre Heinlein, Robert A.
Anonymous Canterbury Tales Count of Monte Cristo Starship Troopers
Beowulf
Epic of Gilgamesh Chesterton, G. K. Eliot, T. S. Heller, Joseph
Saga of the Volsungs Man Who Was Thursday Waste Land & Other Poems Catch-22
Sir Gawain & the Green Manalive Four Quartets
Knight Hemingway, Ernest
Song of Roland Christie, Agatha Faulkner, William Farewell to Arms
And Then There were None As I Lay Dying For Whom the Bell Tolls
Aristophanes Carribean Mystery
Four Comedies Murder on the Orient Fforde, Jasper Herbert, Frank
Express Eyre Affair (sequels) Dune (sequels)
Asimov, Isaac
Foundation Trilogy Clarke, Susanna Fitzgerald, F. Scott Hinton, S. E.
Jonathan Strange & Great Gatsby The Outsiders
Austen, Jane Mr. Norrell
Emma Frank, Pat Homer
Mansfield Park Collins, Wilkie Alas, Babylon The Iliad
(others by author) Woman in White The Odyssey
Gaiman, Neil
Blackmore, R. D. Conrad, Joseph Coraline Hugo, Victor
Lorna Doone Heart of Darkness Les Miserables (abridged)
Gardner, John Hunchback of Notre Dame
Bradbury, Ray Cooper, James Fenimore Grendel
Dandelion Wine Last of the Mohicans Huxley, Aldous
Something Wicked This Gaskell, Elizabeth Brave New World
Way Comes Dahl, Roald North & South
Going Solo Jerome, Jerome K.
Bulfinch, Thomas Goethe Three Men in a Boat
Bulfinch’s Greek & Roman Dickens, Charles Faust
Mythology Little Dorrit Joyce, James
Our Mutual Friend Golding, William Dubliners
Bunyan, John Lord of the Flies
Pilgrim’s Progress Dillard, Annie Kaye, M. M.
Holy War Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Goldsmith, Oliver Far Pavilions
Vicar of Wakefield

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 12

Kipling, Rudyard Nordhoff, Charles & James Hall Shakespeare, William Verne, Jules
Plain Tales from the Hills Bounty Trilogy Hamlet Paris in the 20th Century
Henry V
Knowles, John Norris, Frank Much Ado About Nothing Virgil
Separate Peace Octopus (many by author!) The Aeneid

Le Guin, Ursula O’Brian, Patrick Shaw, George Bernard Wangerin, Walter
Wizard of Earthsea (sequels) Master & Commander Pygmalion Book of the Dun Cow
(21 book series!)
Lewis, C. S. Smith, Betty Wein, Elizabeth
Screwtape Letters O’Connor, Flannery Tree Grows in Brooklyn Code Name Verity
Space Trilogy Violent Bear It Away
Smith, Dodie Wells, H. G.
MacDonald, George Orwell, George I Capture the Castle Invisible Man
Lilith Nineteen Eighty-Four
Sophocles White, T. H.
Malory, Sir Thomas Paton, Alan Oedipus the King (sequels) Once & Future King
Le Morte d’Arthur Cry, the Beloved Country
Spenser, Edmund & Roy Maynard Wilde, Oscar
Marlowe, Christopher Portis, Charles Fierce Wars / Faithful Loves Picture of Dorian Gray
Dr. Faustus True Grit Ideal Husband
Steinbeck, John
McCarthy, Cormac Potok, Chaim Travels with Charley Wodehouse, P. G.
The Road The Chosen Code of the Woosters
Stoppard, Tom
McKinley, Robin Remarque, Erick Maria Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Wroblewski, David
Outlaws of Sherwood All Quiet on the Western Are Dead Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Front
Melville, Herman Tennyson, Lord Alfred Yeats, W. B.
Moby-Dick Saroyan, William Idylls of the King Yeats Reader
Omoo Human Comedy
Typee Tolkien, J. R. R. Zelazhny, Roger
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Silmarillion Lord of Light
Miller Jr., Walter M. Lord Peter mystery series
Canticle for Leibowitz Man Born to Be King Tolstoy, Leo Zusak, Markus
Death of Ivan Ilych Book Thief
Milton, John Schaefer, Jack & Other Stories
Paradise Lost Shane
Twain, Mark
Mitchell, Margaret Scott, Sir Walter Life on the Mississippi
Gone with the Wind Ivanhoe Pudd’nhead Wilson

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 13

High School Chesterton, G. K. Hagopian, David G. Kreeft, Peter
Non Fiction Everlasting Man Back to the Basics Best Things In Life
Orthodoxy Philosophy of Tolkien
Adler, Mortimer Hakim, Joy Unaborted Socrates
How to Read a Book Colson, Charles W. Story of Science:
Born Again Aristotle Leads the Way Leithart, Peter
Andrews, Robert Newton at the Center Brightest Heaven of
Family: God’s Weapon for Dana, Richard Henry Jr. Einstein: New Dimension Invention
Victory Two Years Before the Mast Fyodor Dostoevsky
Harris, Joshua Jane Austen
Ashton, John F Douglass, Frederick Stop Dating the Church Heroes of the City of Man
In Six Days Narrative of the Life of Dug Down Deep
Frederick Douglas Lewis, C. S.
Bahnsen, Greg L. Harris, Lisa Ohlen Abolition of Man
By This Standard Durant, Will Through the Veil Surprised By Joy
Story of Philosophy
Bainton, Roland H. Harvey, Dave Little, Bruce
Here I Stand Elliot, Elisabeth Am I Called? Francis Schaeffer
Mark of a Man
Baucham, Voddie Jr. Let Me Be a Woman Henry, Matthew Lownie, Andrew
Ever-Loving Truth Discipline: The Glad Method of Prayer John Buchan: Presbyterian
Surrender Cavalier
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich Chance to Die Hersey, John
Ethics Hiroshima Lundgaard, Kris
Letters & Papers from Fee, Gordon D. Enemy Within
Prison How to Read the Bible for Horne, Mark
Cost of Discipleship All It’s Worth J. R. R. Tolkien Machiavelli, Niccolo
The Prince
Booth, Robert Foxe, John Johnson, Phillip E.
Children of the Promise Foxe’s Book of Martyrs Defeating Darwinism by Mahaney, C. J.
Opening Minds Worldliness
Bridges, Jerry Franklin, Benjamin
Respectable Sins Autobiography of Benjamin Jordan, James B. Maier, Paul L.
Pursuit of Holiness Franklin Primeval Saints Flames of Rome

Bunyan, John Gaarder, Jostein Keller, Tim Marrin, Albert
Grace Abounding to the Sophie’s World Reason for God Yanks Are Coming
Chief of Sinners Meaning of Marriage
Godawa, Brian Every Good Endeavor Mathison, Keith A.
Chandler, Matt & Jared Wilson Hollywood Worldviews Dispensationalism: Rightly
Explicit Gospel Koukl, Greg Dividing the Word of
Tactics God?

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 14

Metaxas, Eric Rybczynski, Witold Stott, John Wilberforce, William
Amazing Grace Home: A Short History of Living Church Practical View of
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, an Idea Radical Disciple Christianity
Prophet, Spy Your Mind Matters
Ryken, Leland Wilkins, J. Steven
Miller, Paul E. How to Read the Bible as Sun, Tzu Call of Duty
Praying Life Literature Art of War Face to Face

Nichols, Stephen J. Ryken, Philip Graham Tchividjian, Tullian Wilson, Doug
Jonathan Edwards Art for God’s Sake Jesus + Nothing = Easy Chairs, Hard Words
J. Gresham Machen Everything Persuasions
Shaeffer, Francis
Packer, J. I. How Should We Then Live? Tiner, John Hudson Wilson, N. D
Knowing God God Who Is There Exploring the World of: Notes From the Tilt-a-Whirl
Concise Theology Escape from Reason Astronomy Death by Living
He Is There & He Is Not Biology
Pink, Arthur W. Silent Physics
Sovereignty of God Chemistry
Schmidt, Alvin J. Medicine
Piper, John How Christianity Changed Mathematics
Let the Nations Be Glad the World
Think Tozer, A. W.
Shelly, Bruce L. Pursuit of God
Plato The Republic Church History in Plain
Language Tucker, Ruth A.
Postman, Neil From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya
Amusing Ourselves to Sire, James W.
Death How to Read Slowly Twain, Mark
Joan of Arc
Pratt, Richard L. Sproul, R. C.
Every Thought Captive Chosen by God Veith, Gene Edward Jr.
Consequences of Ideas God at Work
Purtill, Richard L. Holiness of God Postmodern Times
Lord of the Elves and Eldils What Is Reformed
Theology? Vincent, Milton
Ray, Bruce Gospel Primer
Celebrating the Sabbath Standage, Tom
History of the World in 6 Voskamp, Ann
Rose, Darlene Deibler Glasses One Thousand Gifts
Evidence Not Seen
Stokes, Mitch Washington, Booker T.
Shot of Faith to the Head Up from Slavery

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 15

Adult Fiction Ellison, Ralph Marlantes, Karl Rivers, Francine
Invisible Man Matterhorn Last Sin Eater
Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart Enger, Leif Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Sinclair, Upton
Peace Like a River Love in the Time of Cholera The Jungle
Berry, Wendell One Hundred Years in
Fidelity Faulkner, William Solitude Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Go Down, Moses One Day in the Life of Ivan
Bradbury, Ray Light in August Matthiesen, Peter Denisovich
Illustrated Man Mister Watson trilogy
Griffin, John Spark, Muriel
Buck, Pearl S. Black Like Me McCall-Smith, Alexander Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Good Earth No. 1 Ladies Detective
Hardy, Thomas Agency (series) Steinbeck, John
Camus, Albert Tess of the D’Urbervilles East of Eden
The Plague McCarthy, Cormac
Him, Chanrithy Blood Meridian Sterne, Laurence
Capon, Robert Farrar When Broken Glass Floats Tristram Shandy
Supper of the Lamb McCullers, Carson
Hurston, Zora Neale Heart is a Lonely Hunter Stewart, George
Cather, Willa Their Eyes Were Watching Earth Abides
Death Comes for the God O’Brien, Tim
Archbishop Things They Carried Thackeray, William
Kerouac, Jack Vanity Fair
Coelho, Paulo On the Road Orwell, George
The Alchemist Down & Out in Paris & Tolstoy, Leo
Koestler, Arthur London War & Peace
Chambers, Whittaker Darkness at Noon Homage to Catalonia
Witness Road to Wigan Pier Trumbo, Dalton
Le Carre’, John Johnny Got His Gun
Doig, Ivan Spy Who Came In From the Peake, Mervyn
The Sea Runners Cold Gormenghast Novels Uris, Leon
Exodus
Dos Passos, John Le Guin, Ursula K. Percy, Walker
Three Soldiers Lathe of Heaven Lancelot Weil, Simone
Second Coming Waiting for God
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Levi, Primo
Brothers Karamazov Survival in Auschwitz Portis, Charles Williams, Tennessee
Crime & Punishment Gringos Streetcar Named Desire
MacDonald, Betty
Eco, Umberto Egg & I Potok, Chaim Winchester, Simon
Name of the Rose My Name is Asher Lev Professor and the Madman

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 16

Adult Non-Fiction Erasmus, Desiderius Jordan, James Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
In Praise of Folly Through New Eyes Social Contract
Athanasius
On the Incarnation Esolen, Anthony Kierkegaard, Soren Rushdoony, R. J.
Ten Ways to Destroy the Fear & Trembling Institutes of Biblical Law
Augustine Imagination of Your Child
Confessions Langland, William Ryken, Leland
Faber, Adele & Elaine Mazlish Piers the Ploughman Windows to the World
Berkhof, Louis How to Talk So Kids will Worldly Saints
Systematic Theology Listen & Listen So Leithart, Peter
Kids Will Talk House for My Name Schaeffer, Edith
Calvin, John Hidden Art of Homemaking
Institutes of the Christian Frame, John M. Lewis, C. S. What is a Family?
Religion Apologetics to the Glory of Grief Observed
God Schlossberg, Herbert
Crabb, Larry Luther, Martin Idols for Destruction
Fully Alive Gentry, Ken Bondage of the Will
Inside Out God Gave Wine Severin, Tim
Meyers, Jeff Brendan Voyage
De Tocqueville, Alexis Gladwell, Malcolm Table in the Mist
Democracy in America Outliers Smith, Ralph
O’Brien, Michael D. Trinity & Reality
Descartes, Rene Ham, Ken & Britt Beemer Landscape with Dragons
Discourse on Method Already Gone Tripp, Paul David
Oliphint, K. Scott Sex & Money
DeYoung, Kevin Hayek, F. A. Covenantal Apologetics
Crazy Busy Road to Serfdom Turnau, Ted
Just Do Something Packer, J. I. Popologetics
Hughes, Barbara Quest for Godliness
Donne, John Disciplines of a Godly Weaver, Richard M.
Devotions Upon Emergent Woman Pearcey, Nancy & Charles Thaxton Ideas Have Consequences
Occasions Soul of Science
Jankovic, Rachel Wilson, Douglas
Duguid, Barbara Loving the Little Years Pieper, Josef Against the Church
Extravagant Grace Fit to Burst Leisure, the Basis of Culture Future Men
Reforming Marriage
Edwards, Jonathan Jenkins, Philip Pratt, Richard L.
Freedom of the Will Next Christendom He Gave Us Stories Wright, N. T.
Evil and the Justice of God
Eliot, T. S. Johnson, Paul Robertson, O. Palmer
Christianity & Culture Intellectuals Israel of God Young, Hal & Melanie
Raising Real Men

www.exodusbooks.com Outside of a Dog 17