The following books are included in the Sonlight homeschool curriculum for children ages 10-13. The focus of this curriculum is non-Western cultures. These books can be purchased as a package from Sonlight or directly from Amazon or another retailer. If you decide not to purchase the books from Sonlight and you want to use them for homeschool I recommend purchasing the Level F Instructor's Guide from Sonlight.
Bible:
Case for Kids: Case for a Creator
by Lee Strobel
Recommended Age: 1
1
Bible:
Case for Kids: Case for Christ
by Lee Strobel
Bible:
Case for Kids: Case for Faith
by Lee Strobel
History & Geography:
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?
by Richard J. Maybury
History & Geography:
Living Water in the Desert
by Rebecca Davis
History & Geography:
100 Gateway Cities
by YWAM Publishing
History & Geography:
Journey to the Eastern Hemisphere
by April Lotempio
History & Geography:
William Carey: Obliged to Go
by Janet and Geoff Benge
History & Geography:
Mary Slessor: Forward into Calabar
by Janet and Geoff Benge
History & Geography:
God's Adventurer: Hudson Taylor
by Phyllis Thompson
History & Geography:
Sadako And The Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr
History & Geography:
Fun with Easy Origami
by Dover
Read Aloud:
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
by Grace Lin
Also: Amazon's 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime
Read Aloud:
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
by Diane Wilson
Read Aloud:
A Long Walk to Water
by Linda Sue Park
Also: New York Public Library's 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2010
Core F:
Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum
by Ashley Bryan
Category: Read Aloud
Read Aloud:
Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
by Lesley M. M. Blume
Read Aloud:
The Master Puppeteer
by Katherine Paterson
Also: National Book Award Children's Book Winners
Read Aloud:
The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
Also: Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Grades 4-6
Also: Veritas Press 3rd Grade Literature
Read Aloud:
Journey to Jo'burg
by Beverley Naidoo
Read Aloud:
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
by Elizabeth Lewis
Recommended Age: 12
Also: Newbery Medal Winners
Read Aloud:
Seven Daughters and Seven Sons
by Barbara Cohen and Bahija Lovejoy
Read Aloud:
The Land I Lost
by Quang Nhuong Huynh
Read Aloud:
All the Small Poems
by Valerie Worth
Read Aloud:
Daughter of the Mountains
by Louise S. Rankin
Read Aloud:
Shadow Spinner
by Susan Fletcher
Read Aloud:
Teresa of Calcutta
by D. Jeanene Watson
Read Aloud:
Call It Courage
by Armstrong Sperry
Recommended Age: 9
Also: Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Grades 7-8
Also: Newbery Medal Winners
Read Aloud:
Rickshaw Girl
by Mitali Perkins
Read Aloud:
Breaking Stalin's Nose
by Eugene Yelchin
Reader:
The House of Sixty Fathers
by Meindert DeJong
Also: Picture Books for Minor Holidays
Reader:
The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Also: Former Sonlight Books
Also: Mensa for Kids Excellence in Reading Grades 7-8
Reader:
Water Sky
by Jean Craighead George
Reader:
The Kite Fighters
by Linda Sue Park
Reader:
The Big Wave
by Pearl S. Buck
Reader:
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Recommended Age: 8
Also: Newbery Medal Winners
Reader:
Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
Also: Angelicum Academy 1st Grade Good Books
Also: Mater Amabilis Level 1B Book List for Ages 6-7
Reader:
A Girl Named Disaster
by Nancy Farmer
Reader:
Burying the Sun
by Gloria Whelan
Reader:
King of the Wind
by Marguerite Henry
Recommended Age: 9
Also: Newbery Medal Winners
Reader:
The Turning
by Gloria Whelan
Reader:
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Reader:
Ali and the Golden Eagle
by Wayne Grover
Reader:
Li Lun, Lad of Courage
by Carolyn Treffinger
Reader:
Mission to Cathay
by Madeleine Polland
Reader:
Red Sand, Blue Sky
by Cathy Applegate
Reader:
Born in the Year of Courage
by Emily Crofford
Reader:
Habibi
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Reader:
Listening for Lions
by Gloria Whelan