For classical schools
A shared text.
A world of conversation.
Bring close reading and thoughtful reflection together. Explore our planned classical reading sequence and tell us what your classrooms need.
The format in practice
Close reading,
made visible.
Numbered lines make passages easy to discuss. Ruled outer margins give students room to record observations beside the text. Brief prompts open conversation without prescribing the answer.
Examine the Frankenstein editionRoom to engage
Space for a student’s observations, connections, and questions alongside the text.
A considered sequence
An initial selection across grades 5–12 to review against your curriculum.
A conversation first
Discuss titles, quantities, and timing before making purchasing commitments.
Good company, from grade 5 to 12.
Our initial selection spans grades 5–12. Grade placement is a planning guide; schools should review fit for their own curriculum. Inclusion does not indicate a released or available edition.
| Grade | Title | Author | Status | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Heidi | Johanna Spyri | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 5 | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 5 | The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 5 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 6 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 6 | Anne of Green Gables | L. M. Montgomery | Forthcoming | View edition ↗ |
| 6 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 6 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 7 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 7 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 7 | The Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 7 | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 8 | The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 8 | The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 8 | Ivanhoe | Walter Scott | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 8 | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 9 | The Iliad | Homer | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 9 | The Odyssey | Homer | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 9 | The Aeneid | Virgil | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 9 | Plutarch's Lives (selected Greek and Roman lives) | Plutarch | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 10 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 10 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 10 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | Printed | View edition ↗ |
| 10 | Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 11 | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 11 | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 11 | Moby-Dick | Herman Melville | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 11 | The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 12 | Paradise Lost | John Milton | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 12 | The Republic | Plato | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 12 | The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
| 12 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | Publishing roadmap | View edition ↗ |
Let’s plan together
What is your school
reading next?
Share your title interests, approximate quantities, and school-year timing.
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