Middle Ages and Renaissance Reading Lists

These are the rest of our books for this school year. I have divided them into Middle Ages, Renaissance, and a few "Just for Fun."

Middle Ages

Flame Over Tara (Polland)
Beowulf -- A New Telling (Nye)
The Apple and the Arrow (Buff)
Tam Lin (Yolen)
Inferno (Dante -- Pinsky verse translation + Italian)
Otto of the Silver Hand (Pyle)
The Beduins' Gazelle (Temple)
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (Konigsburg)
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Adam of the Road (Gray)
Catherin, Called Birdy (Cushman)
The Door in the Wall (de Angeli)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien)
The Once and Future King (White)
Matilda Bone (Cushman)
Joan of Arc (Stanley)
Saint George and the Dragon (McCaughrean)


Renaissance

Michelangelo (Stanley)
Leonardo Da Vinci (Stanley)
Treasure Chests: Da Vinci
Luther (Nohl)
Master Cornhill (McGraw)
I, Juan de Pareja (de Trevino)
The Prince and the Pauper (Twain)
The Shakespeare Stealer (Blackwood)
Shakespeare Stories (Garfield)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)
Sonnets (Shakespeare)

"Just for Fun"

Mountain Born (Yates)
The Wheel on the School (DeJong)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster)
A Little Princess (Burnett)
The Hobbit (Tolkien)