AO Year 1
Among the ____ People books (five book set)(free)
An Island Story (free)
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare (Nesbit) (free)
Fifty Famous Stories Retold (free)
Handbook of Nature Study (free)
The Jungle Book (free)
Just So Stories (free)
King of the Golden River (free)
Parables from Nature (free)
Peter Pan (free)
Pinocchio (free)
Tales from Shakespeare (Lamb’s) (free)
The Aesop for Children (free)
The Blue Fairy Book (free)
The Red Fairy Book (free)
Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books All twelve (purchase for .95)
The Burgess Bird Book for Children (free)
The Velveteen Rabbit (free)
Viking Tales (free)
A Child’s Garden of Verses (purchase)
When We Were Young (purchase)
AO Year 2 Books
An Island Story (free)
The Discovery of New Worlds (purchase)
This Country of Ours (free)
The Story of Mankind (free)
The Little Duke (free)
Handbook of Nature Study (see Year 1)
The Burgess Bird Book for Children (see Year 1)
Tales from Shakespeare (see Year 1)
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare (see Year 1)
Pilgrim’s Progress (free or purchase)
Parables from Nature (see Year 1)
Understood Betsy (free)
The Wind in the Willows (free)
The Adventures of Robing Hood (free) or The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (free)
Heidi (free)
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (free)
Tanglewood Tales (free)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (free)
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales (free)
Five Children and It (free)
The Story of Doctor Doolittle (free)
Otto of the Silver Hand (free)
AO Year 3 Books
An Island Story (free)
This Country of Ours (free)
The Story of Mankind (free)
The Awakening of Europe (purchase)
Handbook of Nature Study (free)
Secrets of the Woods (free)
Great Inventors and Their Inventions (purchase) (The Story of Inventions on AO’s site)
Parables from Nature (purchase)
Tales from Shakespeare (Lamb’s) (free)
The Heroes (free)
Pilgrim’s Progress (free or purchase)
The Princess and the Goblin (free)
Children of the New Forest (free)
The Jungle Book (free) & The Second Jungle Book: Book Two (free)
A Little Princess (free)
The Water Babies (free) and here is a free Word doc that is linked from AO’s site.
At the Back of the North Wind (free)
Men of Iron (free)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (free and purchase) & Here (free and purchase)
Unknown to History: Captivity of Mary of Scotland (free)
English Fairy Tales (free) More English Fairy Tales (free)
AO Year 3.5 Books (books that are included in both Y3 and Y3.5 are found in Y3)
On the Shores of the Great Sea (purchase)
Heroes Every Child Should Know (free)
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold (purchase)
Four Great Americans (free)
The Book of Missionary Heroes (free)
Home Geography for Primary Grades (free)
Ways of Wood Folk (free)
A Little Brother to the Bear (purchase)
Just David (free)
Stories of Don Quixote (purchase)
Mother Carey’s Chickens (free)
The Enchanted Castle (free)
The Little Lame Prince (free)
Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates (free)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (free)
Arabian Nights Entertainment (purchase) or Here (purchase)
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (free)
Stories from the Faerie Queene (purchase):
For His Friends Sake
How Britomart came to the Castle of the Churl Malbecco
Borrowed Plumes, and the Fate of the Snowy Lady
Holiness fights Faithless and makes Friends with False Religion
Coridon and Pastorella
AO Year 4 Books
Plutarch’s Lives-Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3 (free) or Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch (free) or The Boys’ and Girls’ Plutarch; being part of the “Lives” of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls (free)
Shakespeare- various plays (free) or Here (free and purchase)
This Country of Ours (free)
The Story of Mankind (free)
An Island Story (free)
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution (purchase)
Handbook of Nature Study (free)
Madam How and Lady Why (free)
It Couldn’t Just Happen (purchase)
Age of Fable (free)
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (free)
Kidnapped (free)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (free)
Paul Revere’s Ride (purchase- although can be copied and pasted to a Word doc)
Rip Van Winkle (purchase) or Here-PDF format (free)
Black Beauty (free) Black Beauty: Young Folks’ Edition (free)
Pollyanna (free)
The Secret Garden (free)
The Railway Children (free)
The Book of Golden Deeds (free)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (purchase)
The Borrowers (purchase)
The Peterkin Papers(free)
Calico Captive (purchase)
AO Year 5 Books
Plutarch’s Lives (see Year 4)
Shakespeare (see Year 4)
This Country of Ours (see Year 4)
The Story of Mankind (see Year 4)
An Island Story (see Year 4)
Carry A Big Stick (purchase)
Handbook of Nature Study (see Year 4)
Wild Animals I Have Known (free)
The Fairy-Land of Science (free)
Great Astronomers (for biography of Isaac Newton) (free)
Age of Fable (see Year 4)
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (purchase) or Here-PDF format (free)
Oliver Twist (free)
Kim (free)
Little Women (free)
A Christmas Carol (free)
Captains Courageous (free)
Puck of Pook’s Hill (free)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (free and purchase) or Here (free)
The Prince and the Pauper (free) or Here (free and purchase)
Treasure Island (free)
Lad: A Dog (purchase)
The Treasure Seekers (free)
Edith Nesbit books (free)
Anne of Green Gables (free)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (free)
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates (purchase) or Here (free)
Across Five Aprils (purchase)
Rilla of Ingleside (free)
The Story of My Life, Helen Keller (purchase)
AO Year 6 Books
The Story of Mankind (free)
The Story of the Greeks (free)
The Story of the Romans (purchase)
Never Give In (purchase)
Missionary Travels (free)
Handbook of Nature Study (free)
School of the Woods (purchase) or **Here-PDF format (free)
Galileo and the Magic Numbers (purchase) PDF format
Age of Fable (free)
The Hobbit (purchase)
Animal Farm (purchase) or Here in EPUB format- use Calibre to convert (free- but is under copyright in the US still)
The Iliad (free)
Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of Cities (free)
Number the Stars (purchase)
Rob Roy (free)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (free)
Little Men (free)
Jack and Jill (free)
The Cricket on the Hearth (free)
The Swiss Family Robinson (free)
The Call of the Wild (free and purchase)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (free and purchase)
Penrod (free)
A Little Brother to the Bear (purchase) or Here-PDF format (free)
The Bronze Bow (purchase)