Our 5th grade (116-page) Good Books Guide comes with a full-color front cover, Answer Key for each guide, True/False questions, and Essay questions to encourage young writers, and a synopsis of each book.

Our Good Books Literature Guides were written by Dr. James S. Taylor, author of the widely acclaimed Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education. Dr. Taylor took his first formal course in Children’s Literature from Dr. Dennis Quinn at the University of Kansas and had many conversations concerning these poems and stories with his colleague, Dr. John Senior. He has taught Children’s Literature at the high school and college levels for nearly two decades.

“What I have to say about the selections in these guides draws from my childhood memories and adult reflections as well as my conversations with Quinn and Senior. None of the age and literature categories used in the Angelicum Academy Good Books grade list are absolute. Think of the Good Books (grade levels) as notes of music with the freedom to work up and down the scale as you see fit.”

The following list of books is included in the 5th Grade Good Books Guide.

An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott

20,000 leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dogdes

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Bonnie Prince Charlie by G. A. Henty

Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott

Wells Brothers: the Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

The Ranch on the Beaver by Andy Adams

In Freedom’s Cause by G. A. Henty

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott