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Recommended Literature and Websites

Carden literature books are listed to acquaint parents with the stature and sequence of the study grade by grade.  Miss Carden is the author of the workbooks and literature manuals which direct the teachers’ presentations of the lessons.

Children should avoid both reading these books ahead of their grade level and any of their film versions before the literature has been presented in the curriculum.

Kindergarten
Literature
Over in the Meadow  Play With Me
The Little Engine That Could Marshmallow

Grade 1  
Literature  Workbook
The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
Pelle’s New Suit The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse

Grade 2
Literature  Workbook
The Story About Ping      Mother West Wind's Children
The Country Bunny  
Old Mother West Wind

Grade 3
Literature Workbook
Grimm’s Fairy Tales   The Tailor of Gloucester
Black Beauty   Jemima Puddle-Duck
Jeremy Fisher
Fairy Tales Retold
Adventures of a Brownie
Tom Thumb

Grade 4
Literature Workbook
The Story of Dr. Dolittle The Little Lame Prince
Swiss Family Robinson Two Tales From Uncle Remus
Bambi Bambi
     
Grade 5  
Literature Workbook
Robin Hood Robin Hood
Wind in the Willows  Wind in the Willows
Arabian Nights

Grade 6
Literature  Workbook
Tom Sawyer   Tom Sawyer
Dog of Flanders Dog of Flanders
Alice in Wonderland
[Story of the Odyssey]

Grade 7
Literature  Workbook
Last of the Mohicans Last of the Mohicans
Treasure Island
[Story of the Aeneid)
 
Grade 8
Literature Workbook
Julius Caesar Julius Caesar
Huckleberry Finn
King Arthur
The Man Without a Country
The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Grades 9 and 10
The House of Seven Gables   The Merchant of Venice
The Tragedy of Coriolanus   Ivanhoe
The Prince and the Pauper Macbeth
The Lady of the Lake Billy Bud
A Tale of Two Cities   Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

                            

Recommended For Your Child’s Personal Library:
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Call number is for the Corvallis-Benton County Library ]

Aardvarks, Disembark! [J222.1109 Jonas]           Picture Book
Written and Illustrated by Ann Jonas, 1990


Recommended Websites:

http://www.ala.org/yalsa
The American Library Association’s site for young readers provides recommended book lists [for teens].

http://www.beritsbest.com
A collection of sites maintained by the Canadian creators of “Theodore Tugboat” which runs on PBS-TV.  [Kg-3rd]

http://bensguide.gpo.gov
Created by U.S. Government Printing Office to teach children about how our government works.  ‘Benjamin Franklin’ is your tour guide. Children can choose their grade level to learn at their own speed.

http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov
NASA’s sight for children aimed at 5 to 9 year olds.

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
This umbrella site, which offers several links to other NASA-sponsored Web sites, is for the science-oriented.  Many link sites have a ‘Kid’s Corner’ that includes activities and artwork.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
National Geographic has a huge site for adults that has this impressive section for children.  Great for middle schoolers as well as accelerated younger children interested in animals, exotic places, archaeology, geography, and more.

http://2k.si.edu/
This is the Virtual Smithsonian 

 

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