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The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt by Elizabeth Payne (3200 BC -) Pyramid by David Macaulay (2468-2439 B.C.) The Book of Genesis ch. 12-50 Shadow Hawk by Andre Norton (1590) The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Gilbin The Book of Exodus (1440 BC) The Book of Numbers Joshua (1420-1310) Hittite Warrior by Joanne Williamson (1200s) The Book of Judges The Book of Ruth The Children's Homer by Padraic Colum The Tale of Troy by Roger Lancelyn Green (12th or 13th century BC) The Iliad of Homer The Odyssey of Homer The Books of Kings King David and His Psalms by Mary Fabyan Windeatt (1054-971 BC) The Book of Jonah (785 BC) The Aeneid of Virgil (Rome founded 752) God King: A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah by Joanne Williamson (701 BC) (Hezekiah 715-686 BC) The Book of Daniel (635-536 BC) The Book of Job The Story of the Greeks by H.A. Guerber Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green The Book of Esther circa 480 Archimedes and the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick (290-212 BC) The Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky (Eratosthenes 287-192 B.C.) Histories of Herodotus (450 BC Herodotus visits Egypt) City by David Macauley The Story of the Romans by H.A. Guerber The Book of Maccabees (163 BC) Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (100-44 BC) The Holy Gospels The Man Born to be King by Dorothy Sayers The Life of Christ by Fulton Sheen Abigail and the Widow Mary by Noel Trimming The Face of the Nazarene by Noel Trimming Jesus of Nazareth by Mother Mary Loyola Ben Hur by General Lew Wallace The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare The Spear by Louis de Wohl Saint Paul the Apostle by Mary Fabyan Windeatt (Journeys 45-58 AD) The Acts of the Apostles The Ides of April by Mary Ray (62 AD) Beyond the Desert Gate by Mary Ray (67 AD) 2nd Century A.D. Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick (129-200 AD) Between the Forest and the Hills by Ann Lawrence 3rd Century A.D. Four Witnesses: The Early Church in Her Own Words by Rod Bennett The History of the Church by Eusebius The Martyrs of the Coliseum by Rev. Augustine O'Reilly 4th Century A.D. Fabiola by Cardinal Wiseman St. Antony of the Desert by St. Anthanasius (251 - 356 AD) St. Athanasius by F.A. Forbes (295-374 AD) St. Monica by F.A. Forbes (333-387 AD) Confessions of St. Augustine (354-430) Celtic Heritage Saints by Marian Keaney 5th Century A.D. Patrick in His Own Words by Bishop Joseph Duffy (395 - 461 AD) Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland by Tomie de Paola 6th Century A.D. Beowulf the Warrior trans. by Ian Serralier (500s) The Holy Twins: Benedict and Scholastica by Kathleen Norris (480-547 AD) Saint Benedict: Hero of the Hills by Mary Fabyan Windeatt Fingal's Quest by Madeleine Polland ( St. Colum 529-597 AD) Augustine Came to Kent by Barbara Willard (d. 605) 7th Century A.D. Brendan the Navigator by Jean Fritz (486-578 AD) 8th Century A.D. Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard (Charlemagne 768-814) 9th Century A.D. Beorn the Proud by Madeleine Polland (800s) The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton (878) 10th Century A.D. The Little Duke by Charlotte Yonge (943) 11th Century A.D. The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by Allen French (1000) Leif the Lucky by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire (Leif Ericson 1000) William the Conqueror by Hilaire Belloc (1066) The Crusades by Hilaire Belloc (1095-1291) 12th Century A.D. The Red Keep by Allen French (1165) If All the Swords in England by Barbara Willard (1170) Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot (1170) The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanore Jewett (1171) 13th Century A.D. The Lost Baron by Allen French (1200) The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green (King John 1167-1216) Saint Dominic and the Rosary by Catherine Beebe (1170-1221) Francis: The Poor Man of Assisi by Tomie de Paola (1181-1226) Francis and Clare: Saints of Assisi by Helen Walker Homan St. Francis of Assisi by G.K. Chesterton Saint Elizabeth's Three Crowns by Blanche Thompson (1207-1231) Saint Anthony and the Christ Child by Helen Walker Homan (1195-1231) Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction by David Macaulay St. Thomas Aquinas by Mary Fabyan Windeatt (1225-1274) St. Thomas Aquinas by G.K. Chesterton He Went with Marco Polo by Louise Andrews Kent (1271-1295) Castle by David Macaulay (1283) Women in the Days of the Cathedrals by Régine Pernoud 14th Century A.D. St. Catherine of Siena by F.A. Forbes (1347-1380) The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli Henry V by William Shakespeare (1387-1422) 15th Century A.D. Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1412-1431) Joan of Arc by Hilaire Belloc Saint Joan: The Girl Soldier by Louis de Wohl Richard the Third by Paul Murray Kendall (1452-1485) The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric Kelly (1461) Boy Knight of Reims by Eloise Lownsbery Isabella of Spain by William Thomas Walsh (1451-1504) Characters of the Inquisition by William Thomas Walsh (1478) Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley (1452-1519) Columbus by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire (1451-1506) He went with Christopher Columbus by Louise Andrews Kent (1492) Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Grey 16th Century A.D. The Evangelization of the New World by James Leek He Went with Vasco da Gama by Louise Andrews Kent (1460-1524) Michelangelo by Diane Stanley (1475-1564) The Lady of Guadalupe by Tomie de Paola (1531) Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Conquest of Darkness by Warren Carroll How the Reformation Happened by Hilaire Belloc (1517-1648) Characters of the Reformation by Hilaire Belloc St. Thomas More of London by Elizabeth Ince (1478-1536) The King's Good Servant but God's First by James Monti The King's Achievement by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson (Henry VIII 1491-1547) St. Ignatius and the Company of Jesus by August Derleth (1491-1556) St. Ignatius of Loyola by Francis Thompson St. Francis of the Seven Seas by Albert Nevins (1506-1552) Edmund Campion: Hero of God's Underground by Harold Gardiner, S.J. (1540-1581) Tyborne and the Gem of Christendom by Mother Mary Magdalen Taylor The Martyrdom of Father Campion and His Companions by William Cardinal Allen Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal by Robert T. Reilly (1580s) St. Philip of the Joyous Heart by Francis X. Connolly (1515-1595) William Shakespeare and the Globe by Aliki (1564-1616) The Bard of Avon by Diane Stanley 17th Century A.D. The Gunpowder Plot by Hugh Ross Williamson (1604) Pocahontas by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire (1595-1617) St. Francis Solano by Mary Fabyan Windeatt (d. 1610) Squanto: Friend of the Pilgrims by Clyde Robert Bulla (d. 1622) The Outlaws of Ravenhurst by Sister M. Imelda Wallace (17th Century) Come Rack! Come Rope! by Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson St. John Masias by Mary Fabyan Windeatt (1585-1645) St. Isaac and the Indians by Milton Lomask (d. 1646) Saint Among Savages: The Life of St. Isaac Jogues by Francis Talbot S.J. Vincent de Paul: Saint of Charity by Margaret Ann Hubbard (1581-1660) St. Vincent de Paul by F.A. Forbes Saint Margaret Mary by Mary Fabyan Windeatt (1647-1690) The Mystery of the Periodic Table by Benjamin Wiker I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (1610-1670) Blessed Marie of New France by Mary Fabyan Windeatt (1671) Fr. Marquette and the Great Rivers by August Derleth (1637-1675) Kateri Tekakwitha: Mohawk Maid by Evelyn Braun (1656-1680) Madeleine Takes Command by Ethel Brill (1692) 18th Century A.D. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (inspired by true story 1704-1709) The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice D'Algliesh (1707) Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1751) With Pipe, Paddle and Song by Elizabeth Yates (1750s) Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare (1754) Benjamin Franklin by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire (1706-1790) George Washington by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire (1732-1799) Priest on Horseback by Eva K. Betz A Junipero Serra Story by Maureen Wittmann (1713-1783) The Man Who Founded California: Blessed Junipero Serra by M.N. Couve de Murville Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (d. 1801) Flaming Arrrows by William O. Steele The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery (1780s) Guns for General Washington by Seymour Reit Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (1774) Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley (1776) George the Drummer Boy by Nathaniel Benchley (1776) Shhh! We're Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz (1787) The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baronness Orczy (French Revolution 1787-1799) The Song at the Scaffold by Gertrud Von Le Fort (d. July 17, 1794) To Quell the Terror: The True Story of the Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne by William Bush A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The Guillotine and the Cross by Warren Carroll Kat Finds a Friend: A St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Story by Joan Stromberg Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity by Alma Power-Waters (1774-1821) 19th Century A.D. The Midshipman Quinn Collection by Showell Styles (1803-1805) The Flying Ensign by Showell Styles (1809) Downright Dency by Caroline Dale Snedeker (early 1800s) Cleared for Action by Stephen Meader (1812) The Cure of Ars: The Priest Who Out-Talked the Devil by Milton Lomask (1786-1859) The Cure of Ars: The Story of St John Vianney by Mary Fabyan Windeatt The Man Who Fought the Devil: The Cure of Ars by Eva K. Betz The Cure D'Ars: St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney by Francis Trochu They Loved to Laugh by Kathryn Worth (1830s) The Miraculous Medal by Mary Fabyan Windeatt (1806-1876) St. Catherine Laboure and the Miraculous Medal by Alma Power-Waters Under a Changing Moon by Margot Benary-Isbert Thomas Finds a Treasure: A St. John Neumann Story by Joan Stromberg (1811-1860) The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (p. 1851) Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852) Bernadette and the Lady by Hertha Pauli (1844-1879 apparitions 1858) The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire (1809-1865) Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman by Ann McGovern (1820-1913) The Civil War (1861-1865): Willie Finds Victory: A Blessed Francis Seelos Story by Joan Stromberg (1819-1867) Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Gettysburg by Makinlay Kantor (1863) Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (Gettysburg 1863) Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (1864) Caddie Woodlawn's Family by Carol Ryrie Brink (a.k.a. Magical Melons 1863-1865) Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge (1865) Giant of the Western Trail, The Life of Fr. de Smet by Fr. Michael McHugh (1838-1875) St. John Bosco and St. Dominic Savio by Catherine Beebe (1815-1888) Winter Danger by William O. Steele Katie: The Young Life of Mother Katherine Drexel by Claire Jordan Mohan (1858-1955) Little House on the Prairie Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) When Jesuits were Giants by Cornelius Buckley, S.J. (1883) Old Sam: Dakota Trotter by Don Alonzo Taylor (1880s) Brave Buffalo Fighter by John Fitzgerald (late 1800s) Mother Cabrini: Missionary to the World by Frances Parkinson Keyes (1850-1917) The Orphans Find a Home: A St. Frances Cabrini Story by Joan Stromberg A Blessed Damien Story by Rachel Watkins (1840-1889) Damien the Leper by John Farrow Little Thérese (1873-1897) The Little Flower by Mary Fabyan Windeatt St. Thérèse and the Roses by Helen Walker Homan The Story of My Life by Helen Keller (1880-1968) St. Katherine Drexel, Friend of the Oppressed by Ellen Tarry (1858-1955) Saint Pius X: The Farm Boy Who Became Pope (1835-1914 papacy 1903-1914) 20th Century A.D. The Story of the Titanic as Told by its Survivors (1912) Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes The Good Master by Kate Seredy World War I: (1914-1918) The Children of Fatima by Mary Fabyan Windeatt (1917) Our Lady of Fatima by William Thomas Walsh (1917) The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery Rascal by Sterling North Jose Finds the King: A Blessed Miguel Pro Story by Ann Ball (1923) Blessed Miguel Pro by Ann Ball (1923) The Drovers Road Collection: Adventures in New Zealand by Joyce West To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Alice Finds a New Life: A Dorothy Day Story by Leslie Galliker (1897-1980) The Young Life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta by Claire Jordan Mohan (1910-1997) The Young Life of Pope John Paul II by Claire Jordan Mohan (b. 1920) World War II (1939-1945): St. Maximillian Kolbe: The Story of Two Crowns by Claire Jordan Mohan When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp Enemy Brothers: A Story of World War II by Constance Savery The House of Sixty Fathers by Meendert de Jong Escape from Warsaw by Ian Serralier The Shadow of His Wings by Fr. Gereon Goldmann Number the Stars by Lois Lowry The Diary of Ann Frank A Place to Hide: True Stories of Holocaust Rescues by Jayne Pettit The Borrowed House by Hilda Van Stockum Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop (1944) The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom The Small War of Sergeant Donkey by Maureen Daly The Red Horse: A Novel by Eugenio Corti When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan by Peggy Noonan Witness to Hope by George Weigel (Pope John Paul II b. 1920) Rome Sweet Home by Scott and Kimberly Hahn Prodigal Daughters by Donna Steichen Surprised by Truth by Patrick Madrid There We Stood, Here We Stand by Tim Drake The Cross at Ground Zero by Fr. 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