The King Nobody Wanted/Project Gutenberg

"In a very real and interesting way, The King Nobody Wanted tells the story of Jesus. Where the actual words of the Bible are used, they are from the King James Version. But the greater part of the story is told in the words of every day.

Since you will certainly want to look up these stories in your own Bible, the references are given on pages 191 and 192. You will discover that often more than one Gospel tells the same story about Jesus, but in a slightly different way. In The King Nobody Wanted, the stories from the Gospels have been put together so that there is just one story for you to read and understand and enjoy."

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Champion Spelling Book/Google Books

Champion Spelling Book: For Public and Private Schools

By Warren Edwin Hicks

Published by American book company, 1909

238 pages

I believe this is for grades one - six, a section a grade.

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Mother Carey's Chickens/Google Books

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Mother Carey's Chickens
By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911
355 pages

Mother Carey's Chickens
Amazon review: . Another heartwarming tale from the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In this story the reader follows a strong-willed widow, Nancy Carey, as she struggles for the future of her beautiful daughters Nancy and Kitty and her beloved son Peter. Good humor and folksy grit help Mother Carey keep poverty and the wrong fellows for her daughters at bay.

An old fashioned story with old fashioned values - uplifting and edifying fiction.

Days of the Discoverers /Google Books

Days of the Discoverers

By Louise Lamprey

Published by Frederick A. Stokes company, 1921

300 pages

Living history, Vikings - 17th century. Begin reading here.

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The Boy of Mount Rhigi/Google Books

The Boy of Mount Rhigi
By Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Published by Crosby and Nichols, 1862
252 pages

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Review:

"Senior High to Adult: Besides fishing in the beautiful wooded hills of Mount Rhigi, Massachusetts, Harry Davis and Clapham Dunn have little in common as far as their upbringing. Harry can hardly relate to the brutal existence that Clapham endures every day—which has molded his character and produced tormenting frustration and fear in his heart. Emotionally and spiritually bankrupt, Clapham, like a magnet, is drawn to the love and acceptance of the Davises. But one sad day he is seized and threatened to do that which is unthinkable. Long, miserable, dark days follow. But though sorrow endures for the night, the healing balm of truth brings joy in the morning.

About the author...

Both the public and her contemporaries regarded Catharine Maria Sedgwick highly. Catharine was actually one of the first American female authors to gain fame. She gained her recognition through writing stories with Christian morals such as were popular during her day."

In the Days of the Guild/Google Books

In the Days of the Guild

By Louise Lamprey

Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1918

291 pages

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Elementary Composition/Google Books

Elementary Composition(advanced middle school and up)
By Dorothy Canfield Fisher, George Rice Carpenter
Published by The Macmillan company, 1906
274 pages

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Stories of the Pilgrims/Google Books

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Stories of the Pilgrims
By Margaret Blanche Pumphrey, Lucy Fitch Perkins
Published by Rand, McNally & Company, 1912
241 pages

This book has been republished by Christian Liberty Press, and is a part of their fourth grade curriculum. Yesterday's Classics also has this in reprint. See main page for all book links.

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A Spring Flora for High Schools/Goggle Books

A Spring Flora for High Schools
By Henry Chandler Cowles, John Gaylord Coulter
Published by American book company, 1915
144 pages

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Ten Boys who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now/Google Books

Ten Boys who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now

By Jane Andrews

Published by Ginn & company, 1913

249 pages

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Appropriate for about ages 10 -12.

The Madonna and of the Goldfinch/Internet Archive

Published in 1917 by Amy Steedman. "Stories of Italy and of little Italian boy and girls, into which has been woven much interesting information concerning Italian customs and beliefs. Beautifully illustrated." ~ 1918 Publishers Weekly

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Knights of Art; Stories of the Italian Painters/ Internet Archive

Published in 1907 by Amy Steedman, art history with pictures for elementary aged children.

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The Child's World Fourth Grade Reader/ Google Books

The Child's World Fourth Reader

By Sarah Withers, Hetty Sibyl Browne, William Knox Tate

Published by B.F. Johnson, 1917

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The Facts and Backgrounds of Literature: American and British/Google Books

All this and more:

THE CASTLE V CHIVALRY	344
Chivalry , joust , minstrels
THE VILLAGE FARM	347
middle ages , farmed in common , scat
THE GUILDS	349
craft guilds , merchant guild , main purpose
ENGLISH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS	350
Inns of Court , Middle Temple , Twelfth Night
THE ENGLISH FAMILY	354
single houses , male heir , American readers
THE ENGLISH STAGE	355
proscenium , actors , Elizabethan plays
ENGLISH SPORTS	363
bear-baiting , falconry , judicial combat
NOTABLE DAYS IN THE CALENDAR	370
Boy Bishop , Whitsunday , Childermas
CHURCHES AND FORMS OF WORSHIP	378
Roman Catholic church , established church , nonconformist
BYGONE BELIEFS AND SUPERSTITIONS	383
astrology , Ptolemaic astronomy , Alchemy

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The Facts and Backgrounds of Literature: English and American
By George Fullmer Reynolds, Garland Greever
Published by The Century Co., 1920
425 pages

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Bird World: A Bird Book for Children/Google Books

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My Country: A Textbook in Civics and Patriotism for Young Americans/Google Books

From the introduction: "Many of the pupils in whose hands this book is placed will never read or study another discussion of civics and patriotism. Is it more important that they get from this text a detailed knowledge of the machinery of town, city, county, state, and national government, or that they get deeply implanted in their minds and hearts the conviction that America is really a nation founded on liberty, that it is a nation which looks to them to-day and every day to help in its building, that patriotism means making the most of every opportunity that this land of opportunities offers. The author has felt that unless the boy and the girl leave the elementary or junior high school with a definite conception of what America stands for, what it expects them to do now as boys and girls and later as men and women, they will be futile, even if well-meaning, citizens.

This book therefore aims to create a background which will help the teacher develop a spirit of true patriotism (this is accomplished by the early chapters in the book), and, when this has been kindled, to take the pupil into the technical part of the subject (the chapters on laws, government, taxes, thrift, etc.). In these chapters, as in the earlier ones, the pupil is never allowed to lose touch with the American spirit which is the keynote of the whole text. And finally he is led to symbolize love of country in a consideration of the flag. The Appendix will assist those teachers who wish to emphasize the mechanics of the subject in a broad way. The minor details of local government vary in each state and cannot be included in a text of this kind."

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My Country: A Textbook in Civics and Patriotism for Young Americans

By Grace Alice Turkington, Newell Convers Wyeth

Illustrated by Newell Convers Wyeth

Published by Ginn and Company, 1918

394 pages

A Helpful Compilation fo Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Business Mathematics/Google Books

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Business Mathematics: A Textbook for Schools
By Edward Ira Edgerton, Wallace Edgar Bartholomew
Published by The Ronald press company, 1921
305 pages

Vocational Mathematics for Girls/Google Books

Politically incorrect math for girls. ;) This book covers: household budgets, kitchen math, dress making, thrift and investment, farm math, and math in formally traditional female occupations outside the home.

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Vocational Mathematics for Girls

By William Henry Dooley

Published by D.C. Heath & co., 1917

369 pages

May or may not be useful for homeschool math, but it is interesting for cultural/history studies.

Warne's Victoria Picture Spelling Book(and more)

Warne's Victoria picture spelling book by Laura Valentine, Published by , 1866:

EASILY GRADUATED SPELLING LESSONS.
EASILY GRADUATED READING LESSONS.
EASY LESSONS IN GRAMMAR.
EASY LESSONS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
EASY LESSONS IN CHRONOLOGY.

USEFUL INFORMATION.

SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION.

ARITHMETICAL TABLES.

POETRY.

WRITING LESSONS, ETC., ETC.

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