Trinitas Reading List

The Trinitas Reading List is a partial list of books and selections that are currently part of the Trinitas curriculum. Selections are either read by students or read aloud by teachers.

Kindergarten Literature

• Amelia Bedelia
• The Cat in the Hat
• Chicken Little
• Corduroy
• The Giving Tree
• Curious George
• Go, Dog, Go
• Goodnight Moon
• Green Eggs and Ham
• The Little Engine that Could
• The Little Red Hen
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Madeline
• Sam and the Firefly
• Stone Soup
• Ten Apples Up on Top
• The Three Little Pigs
• Velveteen Rabbit
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Is Your Mama a Llama?

First and Second Grade Literature

• The Boxcar Children
• The Island of the Blue Dolphins
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• Little House in the Big Woods
• The One-Eyed Giant
• Snow Treasure
• The Whipping Boy

Third and Fourth Grade Literature

• The Adventures of Robin Hood
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Beowulf
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Charlotte's Web
• King Arthur
• The Magician's Nephew
• Misty of Chincoteague
• Old Yeller
• Oliver Twist
• Treasure Island

Fifth and Sixth Grade Literature

• Animal Farm
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Children of the Storm
• Children's Homer
• A Christmas Carol
• Davy Crockett: His Own Story
• Franklin: the Autobiography
• The Fellowship of the Ring
• The Hiding Place
• Hiroshima
• The Hobbit
• Johnny Tremain
• The Journals of Lewis and Clark
• Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth
• The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
• Swiss Family Robinson
• Watership Down
• Where the Red Fern Grows
• White Fang

Thoughtful Reader Book Club Selections

2006-07:

• Black Beauty
• Little Pilgrim's Progress

2007-08:

• At the Back of the North Wind
• Wind in the Willows

Sixth Grade Ancient History Selections

• Aesop
• The Akkadêan Precepts, c. 2200 BCE
• Tales of Anansi
• Aristotle
• Augustus
• D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
• Julius Caesar
• Cicero
• Clement of Rome
• Confucius
• The Didache
• Legend of Elissa
• Eusebius of Caesarea
• The Flood (from The Epic of Gilgamesh)
• Genesis and Exodus
• The Code of Hammurabi [18th Century BCE]
• Herodotus
• Homer
• Ignatius of Antioch
• Irenaeus of Lyon
• Jakata Tales
• Josephus
• Books of the Kings of Israel
• 1 Maccabees
• The Laws of Manu
• Acts and Canons of Nicea I, Constantinople I, Ephesus , Chalcedon
• Osiris and Isis (and other Osirian tales)
• Plato
• Pliny the Younger
• Plutarch
• Proverbs from Ki-en-gir (Sumer), c. 2000 BCE
• Rig Veda
• Right and Might, The Man in the Moon, The Washerman and the Donkey (and other The Legend of Sargon of Akkadê, c. 2300 BCE
• Writings of Siddhartha
• Tacitus
• Tales from Ancient India
• Thucydides
• Trajan
• Virgil
• Xenophon