Indian Boyhood, by Charles Eastman, a Sioux Indian.
Full of the manners and customs of the Indians, and containing as well some good stories of adventure. Little, Brown & Co.
Grandfather’s Chair, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Houghton, Mifflin Co. This book contains, besides the stories printed in this set, many other interesting historical tales.
The Boys of ’76, by Charles Carleton Coffin.
Harper and Bros. A fine book that will interest any child in the story of the Revolution. There are other books in a similar vein by the same author.
The Story of the Greeks,
The Story of the Romans, and
The Story of the English
are three good books by H. A. Guerber, which will help to create an interest in the history of those peoples and at the same time give information valuable in reading literature. All are published for school use by the American Book Company.
Child’s History of England, by Charles Dickens.
This book is always interesting to children, and is such good reading that we need not feel afraid of Dickens’ inexactness and apparent prejudices. Read it as literature, not so much as history.