Here at The School Down the Lane we love books! I thought I would share some of our favorites. Not all of these are *educational* in the traditional sense, and I haven’t catorgorized them as *for learning* or *for fun* as I think the two intermingle way too much. I’ve included magazines we like also.
This page is going to be an ongoing project as we are constantly finding new books we enjoy!
Book Series we Enjoy
nonfiction
Don’t Know Much About ——-
What Makes a Monet a Monet? (or a Van Gogh a Ven Gogh etc)
Giants of Science
Usborne Encyclopedia of (science, world history, etc)
Children in History
Chemistry for Every Kid (or Earth Science or Ecology or…)
DK Eyewitness Books
Horrible Histories
Murderous Maths
Anything by Allison Weir
Galileo for Kids (or Leonardo Da Vinci, or George Washington or…)
Story of the World (books 1-4)
Story of Science series
Story of the US
fiction
Dear America
Septimus Heap series
My America
Anything by Jane Yolen, Ann Rinaldi or Kathryn Lasky (historical fiction)
Royal Diaries
Magic Tree house (both the stories and companion study guides)
Time Warp Trio
Series of Unfortunate Events
Harry Potter
Spiderwick Chronicles
Faerie Wars
Looking Glass Wars
City of Ember and People of Sparks
Andrew Lost
Inkspell triology (#3 coming soon!)
Pretty much anything by Emily Rhodda-especially Dragons of Deltora and her fairy series)
Almost anything written by Eoin Colfer (*I* love Airman)
Sherlock Holmes
Mary Russell series
Montmorency series
Charlie Bone Series
Books that aren’t series-but are still good!
non fiction
National Geographic Almanac of World History
National Geographic Almanac of American Hisotry
Freedom
The Story of Mankind
An American Plague-the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793
Encounters in the New World-a history in documents
One Thousand Years of Painting-An Atlas of Western Painting from 1000-2000AD (warning-nudity)
Darwin for Beginners
fiction
Rules
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Nory Ryan’s Song
Peter Pan
Peter Pan in Scarlet
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Coraline
Beware Princess Elizabeth
Mary, Bloody Mary
Patience Princess Catherine
Doomed Queen Anne
Flush
Hoot
Bridge to Terabithia
Robin of Sherwood
Thief Lord
Phantom Tollbooth
House of the Scorpian
Holes
The Penderwicks
Matilda Bone
Skellig
Enter Three Witches
Fiction Books the *I* Love (but probably aren’t for kids)
Face Down series of Elizabethan Mysteries by Kathy Lynn Emerson
______ in Death series by JD Robb (AKA Nora Roberts)
Anything by Neil Gaiman (well, in novel or short story form)
The Thief Taker
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime
Michael Jenks Medieval Mysteries
Brother Odd series
A Spot of Bother
Books for Mom and Dad
Hold on to Your Kids
Family Matters-Why Homeschooling Works
The Hurried Child
Last Child in the Woods
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Moral Minority
How Children Learn
Guns, Germs and Steel
Magazines We Love
Learning Through History
Smithsonian
National Geographic (not the kid one!)
Home Education Magazine
Family Fun
Dance Spirit
Mothering
Entertainment Weekly (OK, that one’s for me 
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