13 Top school books like The Story of David Livingstone by Vautier Golding

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The Story of David Livingstone

By: Vautier Golding

3.80

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

A clear, simple account of Livingstone's pioneer work in Africa as explorer, medical missionary, an…

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1. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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2. The Story of the Romans (Yesterday's Classics)

By: Hélène A. Guerber

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Elementary history of Rome, presenting short stories of the great heroes, mythical and historical, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • school
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3. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

By: Lew Wallace

4.03

Format: 620 pages, Hardcover

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) by Lew Wallace is one of the most popular and beloved 19th cen… read more

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"In warning there is strength."

-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

"The enemy of man is man, my brother."

-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

"Knowledge leaves no room for chances."

-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

"Pride is never so loud as when in chains."

-Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

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4. The Incredible Journey

By: Sheila Burnford

4.16

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Instinct told them that the way home lay to the west. And so the doughty young Labrador retriever, … read more

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"He broke into a run, faster and faster, until the years fell away, and he hurled himself towards Peter. And as he had never run before, as though he would outdistance time, Peter was running towards …"

-Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey

"Lying awake in the dark that night,unable to sleep, he thought he would have given anything to feel the heavy thud on the bed that used to announce the old dog's arrival. How extremely unloving and i…"

-Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey

"Anyone unaccustomed to the rather peculiar points of bull terrier beauty would have thought him a strange if not downright ugly dog, with the maked, down-faced arc of his profile, his deep-chested, s…"

-Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey

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5. It Couldn't Just Happen (Classical Conv): Fascinating Facts about God's World

By: Lawrence O. Richards

3.63

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

Fascinating facts about God's world that gives us thousands of pieces of evidence to prove that He … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • school
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6. Black Ships Before Troy

By: Rosemary Sutcliff , Alan Lee

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, is one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. Rich with arres… read more

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  • school
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7. The Wanderings of Odysseus: The Story of the Odyssey

By: Rosemary Sutcliff

4.39

Format: None pages,

A master storyteller and an award-winning illustrator evoke the golden age of mythical Greece in th… read more

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8. Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution

By: R. Gregory Christie , Gretchen Woelfle

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War, o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • school
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9. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more

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"And life is all a variorum, at the best."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)

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10. The Mystery of the Periodic Table

By: Benjamin Wiker , Jeanne Bendick , Benjamin D. Wiker

4.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leads the reader on a delightful and absorbing journey through the ages, on the trail of the elemen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • school
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11. Never Give in: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill

By: Stephen Mansfield , George E. Grant

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Winston Churchill was one of the most extraordinary leaders of the twentieth century. What was it t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • school
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12. Paddle-to-the-Sea

By: Holling Clancy Holling

4.28

Format: 64 pages, Library Binding

A 1942 Caldecott Honor Book A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and na… read more

Similar categories in Holling Clancy Holling's Paddle-to-the-Sea book and Vautier Golding's The Story of David Livingstone

  • geography
  • school

13. Bulfinch's Mythology

By: Thomas Bulfinch

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of… read more

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14. The Sea Around Us

By: Rachel Carson , Ann H. Zwinger

3.79

Format: 704 pages,

The Sea Around Usis one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural worl… read more

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15. Archimedes and the Door of Science

By: Jeanne Bendick

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Jeanne Bendick, through text and pictures, admirably succeeds in bringing to life the ancient Greek… read more

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16. Augustus Caesar's World

By: Genevieve Foster

3.11

Format: 216 pages,

Considered the innovator of "horizontal history," Genevieve Foster became frustrated when her two s… read more

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17. Understood Betsy

By: Dorothy Canfield Fisher

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to he… read more

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  • school
"What's the matter?" asked the teacher, seeing her bewildered face. "Why—why," said Elizabeth Ann, "I don't know what I am at all. If I'm second-grade arithmetic and seventh-grade reading and third-gr…"

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy

18. Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

By: Richard J. Maybury

5.00

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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19. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant… read more

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"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

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20. The Burgess Animal Book for Children

By: Thornton W. Burgess , None

4.27

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

When Jenny Wren learns that Peter Rabbit would like to know more about the four-footed friends who … read more

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  • school

21. Measure for Measure

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more

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22. Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline

By: AmblesideOnline Education Foundation

4.72

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

The AmblesideOnline Advisory began as a band of mothers who followed God and the vitalizing ideas o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

By: Cindy Rollins

4.75

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Being a mom can sometimes feel like an overwhelming job with endless tasks and lofty, unattainable … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The truth is that all humans are always seeing something, paying attention to something, learning something. Perhaps, we are learning every sort of sexual innuendo known to man by watching endless re…"

-Cindy Rollins, Beyond Mere Motherhood: Moms Are People Too

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24. Modern Miss Mason

By: Leah Boden

4.30

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

For every mother who desires to cultivate a lasting foundation of curiosity and wonder for her chil… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education

By: Karen Glass

4.69

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Charlotte Mason looked at the world and saw that it was governed by universal laws, such as the law… read more

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  • nonfiction
"One popular trend in education is to emphasize “STEM"

-Karen Glass, In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education

"Faith Is Required to Act upon an Idea. Miss Mason rejected the receptacle view of the mind and embraced the analogy that the mind is a living, spiritual entity that is hungry and must be fed in order…"

-Karen Glass, In Vital Harmony: Charlotte Mason and the Natural Laws of Education

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26. The Story of the Greeks

By: Hélène A. Guerber

3.85

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • school
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27. Galileo and the Magic Numbers

By: Sidney Rosen

4.25

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

Sixteenth century Italy produced a genius who marked the world with his studies and hypotheses abou… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • school
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28. The Story of David Livingstone

By: Vautier Golding

3.80

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

A clear, simple account of Livingstone's pioneer work in Africa as explorer, medical missionary, an… read more

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  • africa
  • biography
  • history
  • school
  • nonfiction
  • geography
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29. Genesis: Finding Our Roots

By: Ruth Beechick

4.19

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Have we been brainwashed about our roots? Read evidence that the writings in Genesis are more ancie… read more

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  • geography
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • school
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30. The Plutarch Project Volume Nine: Alcibiades, Coriolanus, and Cato the Younger

By: Anne E. White

4.67

Format: 219 pages, Paperback

This ninth volume in The Plutarch Project examines the uses (and abuses) of power in the lives of t… read more

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31. AmblesideOnline Poetry Anthology Volume Six: Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, and Other Favorites

By: Donna-Jean A. Breckenridge

4.86

Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition

“The thing is,” Charlotte Mason said in a book she wrote for children, “to keep your eye upon words… read more

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4.62

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4.30

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4.02

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4.15

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4.07

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