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Reading should be the most exciting activity in a child's life. Nothing can give a child such a good education as being a good reader. The wonderful world of reading starts when a caring adult teaches the child the right skills before the child is taught the bad word-guessing methods used in most schools today.
Maria and Juliet, twin girls, were taught to read by their parents before entering the first grade using the pre-publication manuscript of First Reader (now Turbo Reader). They are now age 10-1/2 and just entered the 5th grade. Here is a partial list of books that one or both of the twins have already read. Many of the books marked "B" (for boy) have also been read by their brother, Alexander, who is 9-1/2 and just entered the 4th grade.
G = more suitable for girls, B/G = suitable for both boys and girls. |
| Historical Fiction | |||
 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett Easy to read — More suitable for girls | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1 | G |
 A Little Princess Frances Hodgson Burnett Easy to read — More suitable for girls | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1 | G |
 The Little White Horse Elizabeth Gouge Easy to read — More suitable for girls | Elizabeth Gouge | 1 | G |
 Linnets and Valerians Elizabeth Gouge Easy to read — More suitable for girls | Elizabeth Gouge | 1 | G |
 Mandy Julie Edwards Easy to read — More suitable for girls | Julie Edwards | 1 | G |
 Under the Lilacs Elizabeth May Alcott Easy to read — More suitable for girls | Elizabeth May Alcott | 1 | G |
 Little Women Louisa May Alcott Medium difficulty reading — More suitable for girls | Louisa May Alcott | 2 | G |
 Eight Cousins Louisa May Alcott Medium difficulty reading — More suitable for girls | Louisa May Alcott | 2 | G |
 Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery Easy to read — More suitable for girls | L. M. Montgomery | 1 | G |
 Anne of Avonlea L. M. Montgomery Medium difficulty reading — More suitable for girls | L. M. Montgomery | 2 | G |
 The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Medium difficulty reading — More suitable for girls | Elizabeth George Speare | 2 | G |
 The Perilous Gard Elizabeth Pope Medium difficulty reading — More suitable for girls | Elizabeth Pope | 2 | G |
 Freckles Gene Porter Medium difficulty reading — More suitable for girls | Gene Porter | 2 | G |
 A Lantern in Her Hand Bess Aldrich Medium difficulty reading — More suitable for girls | Bess Aldrich | 2 | G |
 A Girl of the Limberlost Gene Stratton Porter Medium difficulty reading — More suitable for girls | Gene Stratton Porter | 2 | G |
 National Velvet Enid Bagnold Medium difficulty reading — More suitable for girls | Enid Bagnold | 2 | G |
 The Silver Pencil Alice Dalgliesh Medium difficulty reading — More suitable for girls | Alice Dalgliesh | 2 | G |
 Understood Betsy Dorothy Canfield Fisher Medium difficulty reading — More suitable for girls | Dorothy Canfield Fisher | 2 | G |
 Outlaws of Ravenhurst Sister M. Imelda Wallace Medium difficulty reading — Suitable for both boys and girls | Sister M. Imelda Wallace | 2 | B/G |
 The Wouldbegoods E. Nesbit Medium difficulty reading — Suitable for both boys and girls | E. Nesbit | 2 | B/G |
| Swiss Family Robinson | Johann Wyss | 2 | B/G |
| Knights of the Round Table | Howard Pyle | 2 | B/G |
| The Scottish Chiefs | Jane Porter | 2 | B/G |
| Adam of the Road | Elizabeth Janet Grey | 2 | B/G |
| The Trumpeter of Krakow | Eric Kelly | 2 | B/G |
| Hans Brinker | Mary Mapes Dodge | 2 | B/G |
| Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | 3 | G |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Orczy | 3 | B/G |
| Sherlock Holmes Stories | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 3 | B/G |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 3 | B/G |
| Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott | 3 | B/G |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 4 | G |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | 4 | G |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 4 | G |
| The American Senator | Anthony Trollope | 4 | G |
| Science Fiction | |||
| Mirror of Destiny | Andre Norton | 2 | B/G |
| Dread Companion | Andre Norton | 2 | B/G |
| Ordeal in Otherwhere | Andre Norton | 2 | B/G |
| Secret of the Lost Race | Andre Norton | 2 | B/G |
| Brother to Shadows | Andre Norton | 2 | B/G |
| Dare to Go A-Hunting | Andre Norton | 2 | B/G |
| Key Out of Time | Andre Norton | 2 | B/G |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne | 3 | B/G |
| Contemporary Fiction | |||
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 2 | B/G |
| White Fang | Jack London | 2 | B/G |
| Thunderhead | Mary O'Hara | 2 | B/G |
| My Friend Flicka | Mary O'Hara | 2 | B/G |
| Biography | |||
| Cheaper by the Dozen | Gilbreth & Carey | 3 | B/G |
| Belles on Their Toes | Gilbreth & Carey | 3 | B/G |
| A Chainless Soul: The Life of Emily Bronte | 4 | G |
| Adventure | |||
| The Adventure Series(15 books) | Willard Price | 2 | B/G |
| (The ORIGINAL) Hardy Boys | Franklin W. Dixon | 2 | B |
| Kim | Rudyard Kipling | 2 | B/G |
| Captains Courageous | Rudyard Kipling | 3 | B |
| Tom Swift series of books | Victor Appleton | 2 | B |
| The Great Escape | Paul Brickhill | 3 | B/G |
| Science | |||
| Frontiers II | Isaac Asimov | 3 | B/G |
| Myth/Legend | |||
| The Children's Homer | Padraic Colum | 2 | B/G |
| Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends | Lewis Spence | 3 | B/G |
| The Arabian Nights | Anonymous | 3 | B/G |
| The Odyssey | Homer | 4 | B/G |
| Fantasy | |||
| Five Children and It | E. Nesbit | 1 | G |
| The Phoenix and the Carpet | E. Nesbit | 1 | G |
| The Light Princess | George McDonald | 1 | G |
| The Golden Key | George McDonald | 1 | G |
| The Land of Green Ginger | Noel Langly | 1 | G |
| New Treasure Seekers | E. Nesbit | 1 | G |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | 2 | G |
| The Water Babies | Charles Kingsley | 2 | G |
| Around the World in 80 Days | Jules Verne | 2 | B/G |
| Andrew Lang Fairy Tales | Andrew Lang | 2 | B/G |
| Chronicles of Narnia | C. S. Lewis | 2 | B/G |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 2 | B/G |
| The Well-Wishers | Edward Eager | 2 | B/G |
| The Wood Beyond the World | William Morris | 3 | B/G |
| The Time Machine | H.G. Wells | 3 | B/G |
| Nature | |||
| Bambi | Felix Salten | 1 | B/G |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 3 | B/G |
| Reference | |||
| The Dorling Kindersley Science Encyclopedia | 2 | B/G | |
| The Usborne Series of History Science and Geography | 2 | B/G | |
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Parents' advice:
It's rather obvious, isn't it, that television will never be a problem in a household where the children enjoy this kind of reading! | |||
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