Monday, October 6, 2008

Living Books of Today--Teen Years to Adults

Character

Augustine's Conversion
Beautiful Girlhood by Karen Andreola
Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson
Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
Eric by Doris Lund
Every Young Man's Battle by Stephen Arterburn
Every Young Woman's Battle by Shannon Ethridge
Footprints of a Pilgrim by Ruth Bell Graham
How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer
In His Steps by Charles Sheldon
Just as I am by Billy Graham
A Man Called Peter by Catherine Marshall
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan


Bible Study & Devotionals

Genesis Finding Our Roots by Ruth Beechick


History [Divided by Country or Era)

American History


Autobiography of Malcolm X

Nature Study & Natural History

All Creatures Great and Small

All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot

All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot

The Lord God Made them All by James Herriot

Every Living Thing by James Herriot

Catwatching by Desmond Morris

Dogwatching by Desmond Morris

Horsewatching by Desmond Morris

Man Who Listens to Horses by Monty Roberts

That Quail, Robert by Margaret Stanger

The Sierra Club Guide to Sketching in Nature, Revised Edition

Science


Cuckoo's Egg, Clifford Stoll
Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
I am Joe's Body by Ratcliff [out-of-print but available used]

Geography and other Cultures


Across China by Peter Jenkins

Along the Edge of American by Peter Jenkins

Listening to America by Bill Moyers

Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins

Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins

Walk West by Peter and Barbara Jenkins


River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard [I am creating lesson plans to go with this book. It is amazing!]


Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

Kingdom by the Sea by Paul Theroux

Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux

Literature

Fine Arts

Agony and Ecstacy by Irving Stone
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Janson's 7th edition
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence by Martin Gayford


Poetry

Hymns

Folksongs

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