Novel Studies

This is an outline of the materials we will be creating for readers in middle and high school. We have tried to select literature that has both entertainment quality and moral value.  Once these are completed, we will add new series and stand-alone novels.  As unit studies are created for each, the links will become active. All of the teaching guides linked below are free.
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Holiday Homeschool!!  (coming November)

• A Very 1940s Christmas
• Host a Victorian Age Christmas
• Celebrating Christmas in England
• Download a full holiday bundle here!

Series Units

• Serafina series
• Set in the Gilded Age at the Biltmore Estate, these stories are chock full of mystery, adventure, and suspense!
• Black Cloak & Appalachian Folklore
• Splintered Heart & Crafting a Scary Story
• Seven Stars & History of Biltmore
• Twisted Staff & Gilded Age Christmas
• Willa of the Wood & Basic Foraging
• Dusty Sourdough 
• Four books chronicle Dusty's adventures in the Yukon and Klondike gold rushes of the late 19th century.  These are Hi-Lo books at their very best!
• Access the novel studies & cooking adventures here!
• We Were There historical series
• The books in this series each tackle the fictional retelling of an actual historic event. Teens are the primary characters, which makes the books accessible and easy to relate to...an excellent way to learn our history!
• Access all 36 unit studies & the FREE Activity Pack

• Nick & Tesla science series
• These adventures use science-experiments to solve the problem! Each book includes hands-on projects.
• High-Voltage Danger Lab
• Robot Army Rampage
• Secret Agent Gadget Battle
• Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove
• Special Effects Spectacular
• Solar-Powered Showdown 

• Flashback Four time travel series
• Modern-day city teens go whisking through time in search of unique photographs...and they bring some ultra-cool gadgets with them. There's always a unique challenged involved. 
• The Lincoln Project
• The Titanic Mission
• The Pompeii Disaster
• The Hamilton-Burr Duel 

• Modern Mythology
• Charlie Hernandez - Spanish
• Percy Jackson - Greek
• Kane Chronicles - Egypt
• Heroes of Olympus - Roman
• Magnus Chase - Norse
• Aru Shah - Hindu
• Storm Runner - Mayan
• Dragon Pearl - Korean
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon - Chinese
• Mansa Musa - African
• Call it Courage - Pacific Islands
• The Golden Bull - Mesopotamian
• Legends of the Southwest - Native American
• Midsummer Night's Dream - Celtic
• Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky - African-American
• Race to the Sun - Navajo

Singlets (not in a series)

• Sounder + Sharecropping unit
• Ranger's Apprentice + Creative Writing unit
• Breaking Stalin's Nose + Stalin & Communism unit study
• Code Talker + Navajo Code Talkers unit study 
• Within These Lines & This Light Between Us + Internment Camps unit**
• True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle + unit study
• Vietnam + unit study
• War-Torn Heart + Pearl Harbor unit**
• Shouting at the Rain + Stormy Weather unit*
• My Side of the Mountain + unit study
• Theodore Boone + Legal System unit
• Alex Rider + Spies unit
• Sean Livingstone series + Mythical Creatures Unit**
• King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table

Jewish Holidays Series (coming 2020)

• The Queen of Persia + Purim unit study
• Devil's Arithmetic + Passover unit study
• The Secret Shofar of Barcelona + Rosh Hashana unit study
• The Yom Kippur Shortstop + Yom Kippur unit study
• The Mysterious Guests + Sukkot unit study
• All-of-a-Kind Family Hannukah + Chanukah unit study
• Broken Strings + Fiddler on the Roof + Persecution unit study

Off-Site Units

• I Survived series & Scholastic Teaching Guides
• Scholastic has teaching guides already prepared for each of the books in this series, so we are not reinventing the wheel! Tailor them up or down, as needed, for your students. 
• **Chronicles of Narnia & Living the Legacy of C.S. Lewis
• Both the Narnia site and Living the Legacy of C.S. Lewis have put together excellent teaching resources to accompany these books.

State-Specific Series

• Karen Meyer books - Ohio History - notebooking pages
• Mr. Barrington's Mysterious Trunk - Texas History - notebooking page

Graphic Novels
A mix of text and visuals, graphic novels help to bring stories to life for lower-skilled readers.

• Max Axiom & Worksheets
• You can also find worksheets to print on Teachers Pay Teachers. 
• Chester Comix & Teaching Guides
• There are teaching resources for every single book. 

**These have a higher reading level than your traditional hi-lo reader will tackle at first, but many kids are interested in going for it!  (Start with non-starred books unless it's a topic that your student is already very interested in.)