The Jack of All Trades(Boys' Leisure Ideas)/Google Books

The Jack of all trades: fair weather ideas
Author Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher C. Scribner's sons, 1904
Length 185 pages
Overview

Table of Contents

Text-book of Palaeontology/Google Books

Text-book of palaeontology
Volume 2 of Text-book of Paleontology, Charles Rochester Eastman
Author Karl Alfred von Zittel
Editor Charles Rochester Eastman
Publisher Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1902
Overview

For Playground, Field and Forest: The Outdoor Handy Book‎/Google Books

For playground, field and forest: the outdoor handy book
Author Daniel Carter Beard
Publisher C. Scribner's sons, 1907
Length 496 pages
Overview

Calvert of Maryland: a Story of Lord Baltimore's Colony/Google books

Calvert of Maryland: a story of Lord Baltimore's colony
Author James Otis
Publisher American book company, 1910
Length 166 pages
Overview

Children's Book of Patriotic Stories: the Spirit of '76/Google Books

Children's book of patriotic stories: the spirit of '76
Editors Asa Don Dickinson, Helen Winslow Dickinson Dickinson
Publisher Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917
Length 305 pages
Overview

The American Republic: a Text in Civics for High Schools

The American republic: a text in civics for high schools, academies and normal schools
Author Samuel Eagle Forman
Publisher The Century Co., 1911
Length 359 pages
Overview

The Way of the King's Palace, Eighth Grade Reader/Google Books

The way of the king's palace, Volume 8; Volume 1916
King's highway series
The Way of the King's Palace, Elias Hershey Sneath
Author Elias Hershey Sneath
Publisher Macmillan, 1916
Length 284 pages
Overview

The Master of the Strong Hearts: a Story of Custer's Last Rally

The master of the strong hearts: a story of Custer's last rally
Author Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Publisher E.P. Dutton and Company, 1898
Length 314 pages
Overview

I'll Be Back

Just taking a little time - the beach is calling.

The Long Walls: an American Boy's Adventures in Greece/Google Books

The long walls: an American boy's adventures in Greece; a story of digging and discovery, temples and treasure
Elbridge Streeter Brooks, John Alden
Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896
Length 328 pages
Overview

Historic Boys: Their Endeavors, Their Achievements and Their Times/Google Books

Historic boys: their endeavors, their achievements and their times
Author Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Publisher G. P. Putnams̓ Sons, 1885
Length 259 pages
Overview

Course of Study and Manual of Methods/Google Books

Course of study and manual of methods for the district schools of Michigan
Author Michigan. Dept. of Education
Publisher Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., State Printers, 1914
Length 200 pages

For grades one through eight, helpful lists and reading suggestions sorted by grade.

Overview

Fortune of the Republic/Google Books

Fortune of the republic
Author Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher Houghton, Osgood and company, 1878
Length 44 pages
Overview
Eighth grade reading.

Enoch Arden: Including also the Lotus Eaters, Ulysses, Tithonus for School and Home Use/Google Books

Student version with Cliff Notes type background and analysis.

Enoch Arden: including also the Lotus eaters, Ulysses, Tithonus for school and home use
Author Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
Publisher E. Maynard & co., 1890
Length 54 pages
Overview

Practical Things with Simple Tools: a Book for Young Mechanics/Google Books

Practical things with simple tools: a book for young mechanics
Publisher Sully and Kleinteich, 1916
Length 214 pages
Overview

Easy Lessons on the Constitution of the United States/Google Books

Easy Lessons on the Constitution of the United States
Author Alfred Bayliss
Publisher W.W. Knowles & Co., 1891
Length 143 pages
Overview

Manual of Geography Combined with History and Astronomy: Designed For Intermediate Classes in Public and Private Schools/Google Books

Manual of Geography Combined with History and Astronomy: Designed For Intermediate Classes in Public and Private Schools
Author James Monteith
Published 1877
Overview

Richly illustrated, and still useful despite being outdated in places.

Easy Lessons in Popular Science(Science and Geography)/Google Books

Items on maps are numbered, and each area is covered in a chapter section. Designed for use with a multi-grade elementary school class.

Easy lessons in popular science: and handbook to pictorial chart ...
Author James Monteith
Publisher American Book Co., 1879
Length 251 pages
Overview

George Washington: The Man/Google Books

George Washington: the man
The Riverside literature series
Author Henry Cabot Lodge
Publisher Houghton Mifflin company, 1917
Length 94 pages
Overview

Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle(1775): and Other Verse and Prose/Google Books

Generally read in 7th grade.

Grandmother's story of Bunker Hill battle: and other verse and prose
Riverside school library
Author Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891
Length 93 pages
Overview

Curious Homes and Their Tenants(Nature Studies 7th and 8th Grades)

Curious homes and their tenants
Appleton's home reading books
Author James Carter Beard
Publisher D. Appleton, 1897
Length 275 pages
Overview

Mother's Day Literature: Short Stories and Poems

Click here for multigrade selections.

Synonyms/Google Books

Synonyms: Designed to Give Skill in the Choice and Right Use of Words, and to Afford Variety and Facility in Expression
By John H. Bechtel
Penn Publishing Group, 1915
Overview

Handbooks for Boys/Google Books

Handbooks for boys
Author Boy Scouts of America
Published 1917
Overview

Simple Experiments for the School Room/Google Books

Simple experiments for the school-room: that may be made by teachers wholly without previous experience : and adapted to introduce young pupils to a knowledge of elementary science by experimental methods and arouse a spirit of inquiry.
Author John Francis Woodhull
Publisher E.L. Kellogg, 1889
Length 99 pages
Overview

The Vision of Sir Launfal/Internet Archives

The Vision of Sir Launfal: with notes and aids to study
Author James Russell Lowell
Publisher Houghton, 1905
Length 87 pages
Overview

"A narrative poem about a proud medieval knight who spends his life seeking abroad for the Holy Grail in vain, only to find it at home when he humbly gives a crust of bread and cup of water to a leper."

Sewing and Textiles: First Lessons for Elementary Schools/Google Books

Sewing and textiles: first lessons for elementary schools
Author Mary Lockwood Matthews
Publisher Little, Brown, and Co., 1921
Length 155 pages
Overview


Sections of this books are still very usable for modern sewing on a machine.

Primer of Industry(Crafts)/Google Books

Primer of industry
Author Austin Craig
Publisher World book company, 1912
Length 80 pages
Overview

Mosaic Essays : Friendship, Love, Happiness, Nature & Success(Emerson)/Internet Archives

Mosaic essays : friendship, love, happiness, nature & success ([c1906])
Author: Elder, Paul, 1872-1948
Subject: Happiness; Friendship; Nature in literature
Publisher: San Francisco ; New York : P. Elder and Company
Overview

Snow-bound: Among the Hills and Songs of Labor(Classic Poetry)/Google Books

Snow-bound: Among the hills and Songs of labor. With explanatory notes
Author John Greenleaf Whittier
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883
Length 74 pages
Overview

Ivanhoe: Condensed for Use in Schools/Google Books

Ivanhoe: condensed for use in schools, with an introduction and explanatory notes
Author Sir Walter Scott
Publisher Univ. Pub. Co., 1897
Length 208 pages
Overview

High School English: Composition, Rhetoric, Literature

High school English: composition, rhetoric, literature

Authors Alfred Allan Kern, Stuart Grayson Noble
Publisher The Southern publishing company, 1922
Length 592 pages
Overview

The First Year English Book(9th/10th Grade)/Google Books

The First Year English Book(High School)
Author Harriet Eve Crandall
Publisher Atkinson, Mentzer & Grover, 1908
Length 237 pages
Overview

Tales of A Grandfather(Sir Walter Scott)/Google Books

Tales of a Grandfather(History of Scotland)
Author Sir Walter Scott
Editor J. Hutchison
Publisher Macmillan & co., 1908
Length 108 pages
Overview

A Course of Study for the Eight Grades of the Common School /Google Books

A course of study for the eight grades of the common school including a hand book of practical suggestions to teachers
Author Charles Alexander McMurry
Publisher Public-School Publishing Co., 1895
Length 152 pages
Overview

Standard Catholic Reader, Book One

Standard Catholic Readers, Mary E. Doyle
Author Mary E. Doyle
Publisher American Book Co., 1909
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Richard III/Google Books

Richard III
By Jacob Abbott
Publisher Harper, 1901
Length 337 pages
Overview

Boy and Girl Heroes/Google Books

Boy and Girl Heroes
Everychild's series
Author Florence Virginia Farmer
Publisher Macmillan Co., 1912
Length 137 pages
Overview

Nature Myths of Many Lands/Google Books

Nature myths of many lands
Eclectic readings
Author Florence Virginia Farmer
Publisher American Book Co., 1910
Overview

A History of England

A history of England from the first invasion by the Romasn to the 14th year of the reign of Queen Victoria: with conversations at the end of each chapter.

By Mrs. Markham
Publisher J. Murray, 1851
Overview

Stories of Other Lands/Google Books

Stories of Other Lands
Book 3, Part 2 of Appletons' instructive reading-books
Book 3, Part 2 of Historical series
Stories of other lands
Author James Johonnot
Publisher American Book Co., 1888
Length 232 pages
Overview

Richard I/Google Books

Richard I
Author Jacob Abbott
Publisher Harper, 1901
Length 336 pages
Overview

History of William, the Conqueror/Google Books

History of William, the Conqueror
Author Jacob Abbott
Publisher Henry Altemus Company, 1900
Length 251 pages
Overview

Neighbors with Claws and Hoofs, and Their Kin: for Boys and Girls

Neighbors with claws and hoofs, and their kin: for boys and girls
Book 4 of Appleton's instructive reading-books
Book 4 of Natural history series

Author James Johonnot
Publisher American Book Company, 1885
Length 256 pages
Overview

The Story of Archer Alexander from Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863/Google Books

Quite interesting; however, parents should preview this book first for comfort level, as the language is old fashioned(19th century). Some references are pejorative by today's standards.

The story of Archer Alexander from slavery to freedom, March 30, 1863
Author William Greenleaf Eliot
Publisher Cupples, Upham, 1885
Length 123 pages
Overview

A Syllabus for the History of Western Europe

A syllabus for the history of western Europe
Published 1907
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A Short History of Ancient Times: for Colleges and High Schools

A short history of ancient times: for colleges and high schools
Author Philip Van Ness Myers
Publisher Ginn & Company, 1906
Length 388 pages
Overview

The Story of Old France/Google Books

The Story of Old France
Author Hélène Adeline Guerber
Publisher American book company, 1910
Length 374 pages
Overview

The Age of Charlemagne/ Google Books

The Age of Charlemagne (Charles the Great)

Author Charles Luke Wells
Publisher Christian Literature Co., 1898
Length 472 pages
Overview

Free Lesson Plans/Curriculum Guide for Grades Pre-K through Sixth

Using mostly free public domain books, Ivory shares her homeschool lesson plans here. It's Charlotte Mason style, mainly combining resources from these three sites: http://www.oldfashionededucation.com, http://www.materamabilis.org, and http://www.amblesideonline.com.