Does anyone have a prepared reading list for boys aged 7 to 11 that is relatively safe for honest white folk? Mrs Shields looks after the homeschooling for our brood, but recently has become despondent about the local library selection, and rightly so. We followed Sonlight for a while, adding our own selections here and there, but I'd like to know if there's a good list I've missed.
My boy is not ready for The International Jew, Mein Kampf, 200 Years or the Turner Diaries yet, so you can skip those recommendations for now.
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[–] Norroenir_Menn ago (edited ago)
A list I’d take a look at is the Newbery Medal winners and honorees, especially in the early days. This award was for ‘distinguished contribution to American literature for children’. They include books about the rise and greatness of Western Civilization like ‘The Story Of Mankind’ by Hendrik Willem van Loon. Books about pioneers and frontiersmen like ‘Davy Crockett’ by Constance Rourke and ‘Daniel Boone‘ by James Daugherty. It looks like they were corrupted in later years like all our other institutions so I’d be wary with the more recent books.
The list can be found here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbery_Medal
Looks like someone else has already suggested ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ and ‘Hardy Boys’, I second those.