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BEFORE PURCHASING:

These are books we will be using in class. Not all books are required. Please see a member of the Director Team for a recommended list for your student's class.

This list is for the 2025-2026 school year. Subject to change. Check with a Director before purchasing.

PRIMARY

Claritas Cycle 1 Memory Work Guide (NOT required to purchase)

Language Arts (4-5th)

  • Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) Frontiers in Writing Student Workbook

 

Advanced Language Arts (4th-6th)

  • Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW): Following Narnia Volume 2 Student Workbook (subject to change)

PREP A (7th Grade)

1ST SEMESTER

Reasoning

  • Analogies for All of Us

Science 

  • Apologia Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics 

English

  • Lost Tools of Writing, 5th edition

  • The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe by CS Lewis

  • Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

  • Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 

  •  Amos Fortune, Free Man

  • The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett

History

  • Atlas of your choice

2ND SEMESTER

Reasoning

  • The Fallacy Detective, workbook edition by Bluedorn

Science

  • Apologia Exploring Creation with Chemistry and Physics

English

  • Lost Tools of Writing, 5th edition

  • The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett

  • A Door in the Wall by Marguerite De Angeli 

  • Crispin, Cross of Lead by AVI

  • The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

History

  • Atlas of your choice

PREP B  (8th)

1ST SEMESTER

Reasoning

  • Speech*

Science

  • Apologia General Science

English

  • The Grammar of Poetry by Matt Whitling Student Book

History

  • Current Events (your own sources)

2ND SEMESTER

Reasoning

  • TBD

Science

  • Apologia General Science

English

  • Short Stories from Gutenburg.org* (Curriculum to be provided​ over Google Classroom)

History

  • The Mysteries History Holds (Textbook purchased from LSA for est. $15)

HIGH SCHOOL

1ST SEMESTER
 

History

  • Titanic Studies (book is ordered through LSA for $15)

or

  • Western Civilization, Culture, and Philosophy (book is ordered through LSA for $15)

Reasoning

  • Speech*

or

  • Psychology (book is ordered through LSA for $15)

Science

  • Biology (book is ordered through LSA for $15)

or

  • Anatomy & Physiology (textbook TBD)

or

  • Zoology (book is ordered through LSA for est. $15)

English

  • American Lit & Composition

or

  • British Lit & Composition (age 15+ and have previously taken American Lit at LSA)
     

Am Lit Books:

  • The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain

  • The Giver by Lowery

  • The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Robinson

  • The Outsiders by Hinton

  • The Hiding Place by ten Boom (over Christmas Break)

British Lit Books:

  • The Hobbit by Tolkien

  • Screwtape Letters by Lewis

  • A Christmas Carol by Dickens

  • Pride and Prejudice by Austen
     

* Curriculum provided

2ND SEMESTER
 

History

  • Holocaust Studies (book is ordered through LSA for est $15)

or

  • Western Civilization, Culture, and Philosophy (same book as 1st semester) 

Reasoning

  • Speech*

or

  • TBD  

Science

  • Biology  (same book as 1st semester) 

or

  • Anatomy & Physiology (textbook TBD)

or

  • Natural Medicine (book is ordered through LSA for est. $15)

English

  • American Lit & Composition (any high school age)

or

  • British Lit & Composition (age 15+ and have previously taken American Lit at LSA)
     

Am Lit Books:

  • Hiding Place by ten Boom

  • Up from Slavery by Washington

  • In His Steps by Sheldon
     

British Lit Books:

  • Pride and Prejudice by Austen

  • Out of a Silent Planet by Lewis

  • Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan

  • Animal Farm by Orwell

  • The God Smuggler by Brother Andrew 
     

* Curriculum provided or TBD

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