Summer Read-Aloud Checklist: Charlotte Mason Living Books

 

🌞 Summer Read-Aloud Checklist: Charlotte Mason Living Books

✅ Nature & Adventure

☐ The Burgess Animal Book for Children – Thornton W. Burgess (Grades 1–4)
☐ Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome (Grades 4–8)
☐ The Railway Children – Edith Nesbit (Grades 3–7)
☐ Paddle-to-the-Sea – Holling C. Holling (Grades 2–6)

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✅ Historical & Noble Themes

☐ Children of the New Forest – Frederick Marryat (Grades 5–8)
☐ Carry On, Mr. Bowditch – Jean Lee Latham (Grades 5–9)
☐ The Bronze Bow – Elizabeth George Speare (Grades 6–9)
☐ Amos Fortune, Free Man – Elizabeth Yates (Grades 5–8)

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✅ Wholesome Family Stories

☐ Understood Betsy – Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Grades 3–6)
☐ All-of-a-Kind Family – Sydney Taylor (Grades 2–5)
☐ The Family Under the Bridge – Natalie Savage Carlson (Grades 3–6)
☐ Miracles on Maple Hill – Virginia Sorensen (Grades 4–7)

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✅ Imaginative & Moral-Rich

☐ The Princess and the Goblin – George MacDonald (Grades 3–6)
☐ At the Back of the North Wind – George MacDonald (Grades 5–8)
☐ The King of the Golden River – John Ruskin (Grades 3–6)
☐ The House at Pooh Corner – A.A. Milne (Grades 1–4)