Found this link that suggested a reading list for 1st grade to 12th.
Then there are some additional suggested books.
Here's the basic list, but go visit the site and see all that is suggest?
Then come back and tell me what do you think you would add (or subtract).
Obviously the list is created by someone who cares very deeply about a well organized doctrine...but the idea of having a list like this is a good idea.
When would you introduce Harry Potter?...that's important as well.
1st Grade:
The Lightlings, R.C. Sproul
The King Without a Shadow, R.C. Sproul
The Child’s Story Bible, Catherine Vos
The Gospel for Children, John B. Leuzarder
The Big Book of Questions and Answers About Jesus, Sinclair Ferguson
2nd Grade:
Dangerous Journey, John Bunyan, Ed. Oliver Hunkin
The Child’s Story Bible, Catherine Vos
Grandpa's Box: Retelling the Biblical Story of Redemption, Starr Meade
3rd Grade:
Against the World, Henry Coray
The 100 Most Important Events in Christian History, A. Kenneth Curtis, et al.
Heroes of the Reformation: Life-Changing Lessons for the Young, Richard Newton
Training Hearts, Teaching Minds, Starr Meade
4th Grade:
Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis (box set)
Luther the Leader, Virgil Robinson
Ten Boys/Ten Girls Who Changed the World (box sets), Irene Howat
Training Hearts, Teaching Minds, Starr Meade
5th Grade:
The Young Peacemaker: Teaching Students to Respond to Conflict God's Way, Corlette Sande (Kit, grades 3-7)
Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea, Edmund S. Morgan
Survey of the Bible, William Hendriksen
According to Plan: The Unfolding Revelation of God in the Bible, Graeme Goldsworthy
6th Grade:
Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
The Gospel for Real Life, Jerry Bridges
(Interim Recommended Reading: Shelf Life: How Books Have Changed the Destinies and Desires of People and Nations, George Grant; Read Any Good Books, Sinclair B. Ferguson; and Invitation to the Classics: A Guide to Books You've Always Wanted to Read, Eds. Louise Cowan & Os Guinness)
7th Grade:
The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
Church History Plain Language, Bruce L. Shelley
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations, Alex & Brett Harris
Chosen by God, R.C. Sproul
The Holiness of God, R.C. Sproul
(Interim Essential Purchases: Systematic Theology, Wayne Grudem; Concise Theology, J.I. Packer; and How to Read Slowly: Reading for Comprehension, James W. Sire)
8th Grade:
Crown & Covenant Trilogy, Douglas Bond
Confessions, St. Augustine of Hippo (Ed. Henry Chadwick)
The Heidelberg Catechism: A Study Guide, G.I. Williamson
Knowing God, J.I. Packer
9th Grade:
The Screwtape Letters & Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
The Peacemaker (Student Ed.), Ken Sande
Humility: The True Greatness, C.J. Mahaney
Living the Cross-Centered Life, C.J. Mahaney
Basic Christianity & Cross of Christ, John Stott
10th Grade:
The Bondage of the Will, Martin Luther
Christianity and Liberalism, J. Gresham Machen
The Sovereignty of God, Arthur W. Pink (Baker Books edition)
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, J.I. Packer
Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer
11th Grade:
Hostage Lands, Douglas Bond
Reading Between The Lines, Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography, Iain H. Murray
The Great Exchange, Jerry Bridges
The Truth of the Cross, R.C. Sproul
The Atonement: Its Meaning and Significance, Leon Morris
12th Grade:
Paradise Lost, John Milton
John Owen on the Christian Life, Sinclair B. Ferguson
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The Reason for God: Belief in God in an Age of Skepticism, Timothy Keller
The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross, Leon Morris
1 comment:
I come from a Roman Catholic (and Italian) background and grew up in Montreal…I'm, like, a recovering Catholic…
I read your blog thru my daughter Julie Hibbard almost every day but I’ve never commented before...
For a while today I hesitated commenting on the ‘books’, and did, because for the most part young Catholic kids were never thought to read the Bible or religious books…instead we had to memorized the Baltimore Catechism and then every Sunday listen to the priest’s gospel- readings at Mass ……I remember the priests saying “it’s the fourth Sunday in Lent and Jesus said….blah blah blah”… ( I’m checking for lightning behind me ) We had a fancy looking gold-bound Bible at home sitting prominently on the coffee table just for looking at…but hardly touched it…
Instead I read books…probably not too much in grade school but certainly in high school… during the winter when I didn’t play hockey or go to the library after school…TV in Canada was just coming into being …would have been great to have religious books because I was a good Catholic kid in those days…an altar boy I was, who memorized Latin responses at Mass…
In your list you mentioned Robinson Crusoe, a classic, like some I loved to read:
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Charles Dickens’ books, the Count of Monte Cristo, the Three Musketeers, Moby Dick, Treasure Island, Sherlock Holmes’ mysteries, etc.
In high school we were particularly interested in the Count of M.C., Three Musketeers and the Man in the Iron Mask because they were condemned by the Catholic Church…it was said these three were based on revenge, Catholics were not permitted to read these, and others…
but the public library had them all including a list of other condemned books…but I don’t recall reading...
I enjoy reading your posts on so many various and different topics...
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