Read-Alouds B+C

One Year Condensed Intro to World History

Build a legacy of family memories

  • Take a balloon ride to a volcanic island of incredible wealth—and find out what happens when the volcano threatens to blow!
  • Cheer a handicapped medieval boy as he saves a town and discovers that although he cannot be a knight, there is more than one way to serve the king.
  • Travel from one miraculous escape to another with Gladys Aylward as she follows God's call to be a missionary to China in spite of incredible odds.

You'll go on many Read-Aloud adventures this year. Some real. Some fictional, but all are sure to end with your children asking for more!

The Twenty-One Balloons

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An inventive scientist lands on Krakatoa only days before the volcano blows.

The Door in the Wall

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Newbery Medal-winning story of the crippled son of a medieval lord.

Strawberry Girl

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A proud, poor family overcomes nature and feuding neighbors to become strawberry farmers.

A Little Princess

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Beloved story of a girl who grows up in India but becomes an orphan while at an English boarding school.

Ginger Pye

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Delightful tale of intrigue about an exceptionally intelligent dog and his devoted human owners.

Red Sails to Capri

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The mountainous island of Capri has a mystery and it takes the innkeeper's son, Michele, and three foreigners to get to the bottom of it.

And the Word Came with Power

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The moving story of how God's word transformed an entire people--as well as the woman whom He had sent to translate the Scriptures for them.

Gladys Aylward

The Adventure of a Lifetime
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A story built around the work of Gladys Aylward, an uneducated British housemaid who went to China via Russia in the midst of the Soviet-Chinese war in the early 20th century.

The Cricket in Times Square

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Chester, a cricket from Connecticut, moves into the Bellinis' Newspaper Stand in New York City.

Detectives in Togas

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Seven ancient Roman boys become entangled in a fast-paced and humorous, though apparently deadly-serious mystery.

Little Pear

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The only boy in a Chinese family, Little Pear has greater latitude for mischief than others.

A Poke in the I

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Thirty delightful concrete poems, where the shape of the poem is as fun as the words.

The Little Riders

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Johanna and her grandparents, with the help of a friendly German soldier, save the figurines of their town's church clock.

The Apprentice

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A boy's desire to become a master painter triumphs in the face of overwhelming odds.

The Aesop for Children

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Handsome, full-color, oversize reprint of the 1919 classic.

White Stallion of Lipizza

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Award-winning author tells the story of a young boy and his rigorous apprenticeship and training at Vienna's Spanish Court Riding school, home of the famous Lipizzan stallions.

Cornstalks: A Bushel of Poems

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Explore the ordinary from fresh new angles with four of James Stevenson's beloved corn poem books in one special volume.