Here are our favorite reading books in alphabetical order to use with the Little House Series! Keep in mind this is not a complete list, just somewhre to begin.

A Fourth of July on the Plains by Jean Van Leeuwen--wagon train stops to rest the weary cattle for a few days around Independence Day and the travellers celebrate together

A Pioneer Sampler by B. Greenwood--Excellent resource and great fun

Across Five Aprils by Hunt--The powerful story of a young man for whom the Civil War spans five Aprils.

American Adventures 2 by Greenberg--Fifteen true stories about rarely remembered pioneers in a broad range of endeavors and forgotten events in Americas past from 1870 till today.

By the Great Horn Spoon

Caddie Woodlawn by Bank--late 1800's

Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa by Kalnay

Dakota DugoutThis would go well with Plum Creek when the Ingalls also lived in a dugout.

Dandelions by Eve Bunting--The story of a family that moves to the Nebraska Territory via covered wagon to homestead the land the father claimed for free the spring before - lots of emotion in this tale and it helps you to get into what it must have felt like during that time.

Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman by Sterling

George Washington Carver by Collins--Carver overcame racial prejudice to become an outstanding Christian scientist.

Laura Ingalls Wilder written and illustrated by Alexander Wallner. Spans birth thru death, only takes about 20 minutes to read.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Country by W. Anderson

Little Britches by Moody--ranching in Colorado in early 1900's.

Little House Cookbook

Moccasin Trail by McGraw--Having run away and lived as a Crow for 6 years, Jim Keath finds it almost impossible to accept the ways of white people again when his younger brothers and sister ask him to join them in creating a homestead in Oregon.

Old Yeller by Gibson

Shades of Gray by Reeder--Story of a boy orphaned by the Civil War.

The Story of Thomas Alva Edison: Wizard of Menlo Park by Davidson

The Terrible Wave by Dahlsted--Top-notch historical fiction about the great Johnstown, PA flood of 1889.

Train to Somewhereby Eve Bunting--This book is about the orphan trains, emotional reading.

Turn Homeward, Hannaleee by Beatty

Westward Ho--the craft book by L. Carlson