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All books in this list are first listed by reading level. (Each reading level will have it's own chart.)History Book List CODE:
(H) = Henty book
(R) = Robinson book
(S) = Sonlight book
(A) = American Adventure Series
Levels used:Then the books are arranged choronologiclly by year within each reading level. So if you have a child that would like to read in more than one reading level, you will need to more than one chart.
Level 1 and 2 - Early Elementary and older - Picture books and Bailey Level
Level 3 and 4 - Mid-Elementary level and older - Pollard Level and Americn Adventure books
Level 5 and 6 - High Elementary/Middle School and older- Henty Level
Level 7 and 8 - Advanced Middle School and older
Level 9 and 10 - High School and older
Level 11 and 12 - College Level/Adults
Color Code used:
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Need the year these books took place in:
| Search for a Secret | G.A. Henty |
| All but Lost Vol. 1-3 (H) | G.A. Henty |
| Condemned as a Nihilist (H) | G.A. Henty |
| Dorothy's Double (H) | G.A. Henty |
| Facing Death (H) | G.A. Henty |
| In the Heart of the Rockies (H) | G.A. Henty |
| Out on the Pampas (H) | G.A. Henty |
| Sturdy and Strong (H) | G.A. Henty |
| The Lost Heir (H) | G.A. Henty |
| The Plauge Ship (H) | G.A. Henty |
| The Queen's Cup (H) | G.A. Henty |
Ancient History - Creation - 400 AD (Fall of Rome)
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 5 | 1250 BC | The Cat of Bubastes (H) | G.A. Henty | Ancient Egypt |
| 5 | 220 BC | The Young Carthaginian (H) | G.A. Henty | Hannibal |
| 5 | 61 | Beric the Briton (H) | G.A. Henty | Roman Invasion of England |
| 5 | 70 | For the Temple (H) | G.A. Henty | Fall of Jerusalem |
The Middle Ages - 400 AD - 1491 AD
Dark Ages (400 AD - 1100 AD)
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 5 | 870 | The Dragon and the Ravan (H) | G.A. Henty | King Alfred |
| 5 | 1066 | Wulf the Saxon (H) | G.A. Henty | Norman Conquest - Battle of Hastings |
Middle Ages (1101 AD - 1399 AD)
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 5 | 1190 | Winning His Spurs (H) | G.A. Henty | Third Crusade |
| 5 | 1314 | In Freedom's Cause (H) | G.A. Henty | Wallace & Bruce - Scottland |
| 5 | 1340 | St. George for England (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1380 | The Lion of St. Mark (H) | G.A. Henty | 14th Century Venice |
| 5 | 1381 | A March on London (H) | G.A. Henty |
Early Renaissance and Early Reformation time periods (1400 AD - 1492 AD)
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 5 | 1400 | Both Sides of the Border (H) | G.A. Henty | Scottland, Wales |
| 5 | 1415 | At Agincourt (H) | G.A. Henty | Hundred Years War |
| 5 | 1480 | A Knight of the White Cross (H) | G.A. Henty | Crusades |
American History I
- 1492 AD - 1860 AD
(includes world history and
the rest of the renaissance and reformation time period during this section)
1492 - 1620
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 3 | Various | Famous Explorers for Young People | Ramon P. Coffman & Nathan G. Goodman |
Exploration |
| 3 | 1492 | Christopher Columbus and The Discovery of The New World (R) | Josephine Pollard | Exploration |
| 3 | 1562-1618 | Sir Walter Raleigh | Adele DeLeeuw | Exploration |
| 3 | 1620 | The Mayflower Adventure (A) | Colleen L. Reece | Pilgrims |
| 3 | 1620 | Plymouth Pioneers (A) | Colleen L. Reece | Pilgims |
| 3 | 1620 | Squanto: Friend of the Pilgrims | Clyde Robert Bulla | Pilgrims |
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 5 | 1567 | St. Bartholomew's Eve - A Tale of the Huguenot Wars (H) | G.A. Henty | Huguenot Wars |
| 5 | 1579 | By Pike and Dyke (H) | G.A. Henty | Dutch Republic |
| 5 | 1580 | Under Drake's Flag (H) | G.A. Henty | Exploration |
| 5 | 1588 | By England's Aid (H) | G.A. Henty | Freeing of Netherlands |
| 5 | 1595 | By Right of Conquest - with Cortez in Mexico (H) | G.A. Henty | Exploration |
1621 - 1750
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 3 | 1634 | Dream Seekers (A) | Lough, Loree | Colonial America |
| 3 | 1636 | Fire by Night (A) | Lough, Loree | Colonial America |
| 3 | 1710 | Queen Anne's War (A) | JoAnn A. Grote | Colonial America |
| 3 | 1713 | Danger in the Harbor (A) | JoAnn A. Grote | Colonial America |
| 3 | 1721 | Smallpox Strikes (A) | Norma Jean Lutz | Colonial America |
| 3 | 1744 | Maggie's Choice (A) | Norma Jean Lutz | Colonial America |
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 5 | 1630 | The Lion of the North (H) | G.A. Henty | Thirty Years War |
| 5 | 1640 | Won by the Sword (H) | G.A. Henty | Thirty Years War |
| 5 | 1650 | Friends Though Divided (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1666 | When London Burned (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1680 | John Hawke's Fortune (H) | G.A. Henty | Monmouth's Rebellion |
| 5 | 1690 | Orange and Green (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1695 | A Jacobite Exile (H) | G.A. Henty | Thirty Years War |
| 5 | 1703 | The Cornet of Horse (H) | G.A. Henty | Malborough's Wars |
| 5 | 1705 | The Bravest of the Brave (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1710 | In the Irish Brigade (H) | G.A. Henty | War in Flanders and Spain |
| 5 | 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlie (H) | G.A. Henty |
1751 - 1860
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 3 | 1764 | Boston Revolts (A) | Miller, Susan Martins | Colonial America |
| 3 | 1770 | The Boston Massacre (A) | Miller, Susan Martins | Colonial America |
| 3 | 1773 | The American Revolution (A) | JoAnn A. Grote | American Revolution |
| 3 | 1781 | The American Victory (A) | JoAnn A. Grote | American Revolution |
| 3 | 1807 | Adventure in the Wilderness (A) | Veda Jones | Traveling West |
| 3 | 1812 | Earthquake in Cincinnati (A) | Bonnie Hinman | |
| 3 | 1818 | Trouble on the Ohio River (A) | Norma Lutz | |
| 3 | 1828 | Escape from Slavery (A) | Norma Lutz | Pre Civil War America |
| 3 | 1832 | Cincinnati Epidemic (A) | Veda Jones | Pre Civil War America |
| 3 | 1836 | Riot in the Night (A) | Bonnie Hinman | Pre Civil War America |
| 3 | 1840 | Fight for Freedom (A) | Norma Lutz | Pre Civil War America |
| 3 | 1849 | Enemy or Friend (A) | Norma Lutz | Pre Civil War America |
| 3 | 1854 | Danger on the Railroad (A) | Susan Miller | Pre Civil War America |
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 5 | 1751 | With Clive in India (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1759 | With Wolfe in Canada (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1760 | With Frederick the Great (H) | G.A. Henty | Seven Years War |
| 5 | 1780 | True to the Old Flag (H) | G.A. Henty | American War of Independence |
| 5 | 1780 | Hold Fast for England (H) | G.A. Henty | Siege of Gibraltar |
| 5 | 1782 | Colonel Thorndyke's Secret (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1786 | With Clive in India (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1789 | Final Reckoning (H) | G.A. Henty | Bush life in Australia |
| 5 | 1793 | In the Reign of Terror (H) | G.A. Henty | French Revolution |
| 5 | 1795 | No Surrender! (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1795 | A Roving Comission (H) | G.A. Henty | French Revolution |
| 5 | 1795 | The Tiger of Mysore (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1795 | By Conduct and Courage (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1798 | At Aboukir and Acre (H) | G.A. Henty | Napoleon Invades Egypt |
| 5 | 1800 | At the Point of the Bayonet (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1807 | Through the Fray (H) | G.A. Henty | Luddite Riots |
| 5 | 1807 | With Moore at Corunna (H) | G.A. Henty | Peninsular War |
| 5 | 1808 | Under Wellington's Command (H) | G.A. Henty | Peninsular War |
| 5 | 1810 | The Young Buglers (H) | G.A. Henty | Peninsular War |
| 5 | 1812 | Through Russian Snows (H) | G.A. Henty | Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow |
| 5 | 1813 | With the British Legion (H) | G.A. Henty | Carlist Wars |
| 5 | 1815 | One of the 28th (H) | G.A. Henty | Waterloo |
| 5 | 1819-1901 | Queen Victoria (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1819-1901 | The Sovereign Reader (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1820 | With Cochrane the Dauntless (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1824 | On the Irrawaddy (H) | G.A. Henty | First Burmese War |
| 5 | 1829 | The Treasure of the Incas (H) | G.A. Henty | Adventure in Peru |
| 5 | 1825 | In Greek Waters (H) | G.A. Henty | Grecian War of Independence |
| 5 | 1832 | The Hands of the Cave Dwellers (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1840 | To Herat and Cabul (H) | G.A. Henty | First Afghan War |
| 5 | 1849 | Captain Bayley's Heir (H) | G.A. Henty | Gold Fields in California |
| 5 | 1850 | Through the Sikh War (H) | G.A. Henty | Conquest of Punjaub |
| 5 | 1850 | The Curse of Carne's Hold (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1851 | Redskin and Cowboy (H) | G.A. Henty | Western Plains |
| 5 | 1854 | Jack Archer (H) | G.A. Henty | Crimean War |
| 5 | 1854 | Gabriel Allen M.P. (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1856 | In Times of Peril (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1856 | Rujub the Juggler (H) | G.A. Henty |
American History II
- 1861 AD - Present
(include world history during
that time period)
1861 - 1900 (Begins with Civil War)
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 3 | 1861 | Time for Battle (A) | Susan Miller | Civil War |
| 3 | 1862 | The Rebel Spy (A) | Norma Jean Lutz | Civil War |
| 3 | 1865 | War's End (A) | Norma Jean Lutz | Civil War |
| 3 | 1875 | Centennial Celebration (A) | JoAnn A. Grote | |
| 3 | 1877 | The Great Mill Explosion (A) | JoAnn A. Grote | |
| 3 | 1881 | Lights for Minneapolis (A) | Susan Miller | |
| 3 | 1886 | The Street Car Riots (A) | Susan Miller | |
| 3 | 1893 | Chicago's World Fair (A) | JoAnn A. Grote | |
| 3 | 1896 | A Better Bicycle (A) | Norma Jean Lutz |
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 5 | 1861 | With Lee in Virginia (H) | G.A. Henty | Civil War |
| 5 | 1862 | A Hidden Foe (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1865 | Out with Garibaldi (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1867 | The March to Magdala (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1870 | A Woman of the Commune (H) | G.A. Henty | Two Sieges of Paris |
| 5 | 1870 | Maori and Settler (H) | G.A. Henty | New Zealand War |
| 5 | 1870 | The Young Franc-Tireurs (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1873 | By Sheer Pluck (H) | G.A. Henty | Ashanti War |
| 5 | 1873 | The March to Coomassie (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1879 | For Name and Fame (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1880 | The Young Colonists (H) | G.A. Henty | Sulu and Boer Wars |
| 5 | 1882 | A Chapter of Adventures (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1885 | The Dash for Khartoum (H) | G.A. Henty | Nile Expedition |
| 5 | 1896 | Through Three Campaigns (H) | G.A. Henty | Ashanti War |
| 5 | 1898 | With Kitchener in the Soudan (H) | G.A. Henty | |
| 5 | 1899 | With Buller in Natal (H) | G.A. Henty | Boer Wars |
| 5 | 1900 | With Roberts to Pretoria (H) | G.A. Henty | Boer Wars |
| 5 | 1900 | With the Allies to Pekin (H) | G.A. Henty |
1901 - 1928 (Includes World War I)
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 3 | 1903 | The New Citizen (A) | Veda Boyd Jones | |
| 3 | 1906 | The San Francisco Earthquake (A) | Bonnie Hinman | |
| 3 | 1907 | Marching with Sousa (A) | Norma Jean Lutz | |
| 3 | 1914 | Clash with the Newsboys (A) | Norma Jean Lutz | |
| 3 | 1916 | Prelude to War (A) | Norma Jean Lutz | World War I |
| 3 | 1918 | The Great War (A) | Norma Jean Lutz | World War I |
| 3 | 1919 | The Flu Epidemic (A) | JoAnn A. Grote | |
| 3 | 1920 | Women Win the Vote (A) | JoAnn A. Grote | |
| 3 | 1923 | Battling the Klan (A) | Norma Jean Lutz | |
| 3 | 1927 | The Bootlegger Menace (A) | Bonnie Hinman |
1929 - 1949 (Great depression and
World War II)
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
| 3 | 1929 | Black Tuesday (A) | JoAnn A. Grote | The Great Depression |
| 3 | 1933 | The Great Depression (A) | JoAnn A. Grote | The Great Depression |
| 3 | 1935 | Starting Over (A) | Susan Miller | |
| 3 | 1938 | Changing Times (A) | Susan Miller | |
| 3 | 1939 | Rumblings of War (A) | Norma Jean Lutz | World War II |
| 3 | 1942 | War Strikes (A) | Norma Jean Lutz | World War II |
| 3 | 1943 | The Home Front (A) | Bonnie Hinman | World War II |
| 3 | 1945 | Coming Home (A) | Veda Boyd Jones | World War II |
1950 - 1963 (Korean War and Civil
Rights Era)
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |
1964 - present (Vietnam War, Cold
war, Space age)
| Level | Year | Book Title | Author | Topic |