2014 Retired Sonlight® Book List

Retired Sonlight® Books, a list.. These will make great recreational or supplemental ready for you or your children. 

(I am still looking for the 1990, 91, 92, 93 and 96 catalogs. If you have any of these and would like to sell or give it to me, I would be grateful and could make this list more complete. Please email me at bluegrassjill@gmail.com)

Core P3/4

Fiction, Fairy Tales, and Fun for Little Learners

A Robert McCloskey Collection (3 Stories) (swapped for Make Way for McCloskey. 8 Stories)

Core P4/5

Exploring God’s Word (Level Pre.K or Core B):

25 Stories for Little People ~ cassette

101 Favorite Children's Songs ~ cassette

A Bear Called Paddington – Bond

A Family Treasury of Little Golden Books - (Buell)

A Treasury of Children’s Literature – Elsen

Children’s Choice Bible – Chancellor

Curious George ~ Rey (early edition used in 1994-1995)

Emperor's New Clothes ~ ?

Ken Taylor's Favorite Bible Stories ~ Taylor (earlier edition of Family Time Bible in Pictures)

Let's Talk about Animals ~ published by Ladybird

Mother Goose Classic ~ Volland edition

My Book about Hudson~Miller

My First Encyclopedia ~ Watson

Noah's Ark ~ Spier

Opposites ~ Tyler and Gee

Peter and the Wolf / R Maltby Presents the Orchestra's Instruments ~ 2 cassettes

Real Mother Goose – illust by Blanche Fisher Wright

Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy World ~ Scarry

Right Choices – Taylor

Shapes ~ Usborne

Tall Book of Fairy Tales, The ~ Vance

Tall Book of Nursery Tales, The ~ Rojankovsky

Treasury of Little Golden Books

Ugly Duckling, The ~ ?

You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You (same pub as 20th Century Children’s Treasury)

Core A-Intro to the World: Cultures (Previously named Core K or Core C):

A Boy, A Dog, A Frog ~ Mercer Mayer

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland (Illustrated Condensed) ~ Carrol

Apple and the Arrow, The - Buff

Capyboppy – Peet

Chimney Sweep's Ransom: John Wesley ~ Jackson

Family Under the Bridge, The – Carlson

Granny Han’s Breakfast (Groves)

Hero Tales (Jackson)

Johnny Appleseed (different author) - Kellogg

Johnny Appleseed (different author) - Holland

Kidnapped by River Rats: William and Catherine Booth ~ Jackson

My Book about Hudson: Hudson Taylor ~ Miller

Peter Pan (Condensed and Illustrated edition)~Barrie

Poems to Read to the Very Young ~ Frank

Stop that Ball – McClintock

Winnie the Pooh - Milne

Wizard of Oz - Baum

Core B- Intro to World History, Part 1 (Previously named Core 1)

Bandit of Ashley Downs: George Mueller – Jackson

Chimney Sweep's Ransom:John Wesley~ Jackson

Fables – Lobel

Flight of the Fugitives - Jackson

Follow My Leader – Garfield

From Arapesh to Zuni ~ Lewis (Replaced with From Akebu to Zapotec)

Half Magic ~ Eager

Heidi (condensed version) – Spyri

Hero Tales. Vol. II ~ Jackson

Hero Tales. Vol. III ~ Jackson

Hidden Jewel, The: Amy Carmichael ~ Jackson

Kildee House~Montgomery

Leah's Song ~ Clifford

Now We are Six ~ Milne

Prince & the Pauper (abridged/illustrated ed.) - Twain

Queen's Smuggler, The: William Tyndale ~ Jackson

Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest – McGovern

Shoeshine Girl - Bulla

Stop that Ball~McClintock (1st grade reader)

Thieves of Tyburn Square: Elizabeth Fry – Jackson

Time Traveller's Omnibus~Usborne 

To the Top - Kramer

Velveteen Rabbit – Williams

Core C-Intro to World History: Part 2 (Previously name Core 2):

A Child’s Garden of Verses (Stevenson)

A Little Princess - Burnett

A Poke in the I - Janeczko

Alexander the Great – Green

* Alexander the Great ~ Wepman ...SL lists the authors as Wepman & Ash. We were unable to find a book written by both of these authors. We found 2 separate titles:

• 1: Alexander the Great : Empire Builder ~ Maureen Ash
• 2 :Alexander the Great (World Leaders Past & Present) ~ Dennis Wepman, Arthur M .Schlesinger

Ben & Me - Lawson

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – Fleming

Explorer's News – Johnstone

Fine Print: A Story About Johann Gutenberg ~ Burch (also used in, then drop from, Core 6)

Flight of the Fugitive:Gladys Aylward~Jackson

Florence Nightingale ~ (author not detailed in catalog)

Gladys Aylward ~ Swift

Great Dinosaur Mystery and the Bible~ Taylor

Hans Brinker, Condensed ~ Dodge

How our Bible Came to Us ~ Daney

Indian in the Cupboard – Banks

Joan of Arc ~ Stanley

Kildee House – Montgomery

Little House in Rocky Ridge - MacBride

Magellan – Brewster

Old Ramon – Schaefer

Ordinary Princess, The – Kaye

Shadrach – DeJong

Swiss Family Robinson, Condensed ~ Wyss

Treasure in an Oatmeal Box ~ Gire

Trial by Poison: Mary Slessor - Jackson

Trojan Horse, The – Little

You Can Change the World ~ Johnstone (updated to the new book called Window on the World, same author)

2012 Switch:

Ginger Pye – (Estes) (moved to Grade 4-5 reader package)

Readers Removed from Core C--These are about a 3rd-4th grade reading level:

• Diving Bell, The~Strasser
• Every Living Thing~Rylant
• Five Little Peppers and How They Grew~ Sidney
• Three Dollar Mule~ Bulla
• To the Top~Kramer

Core D-Intro to American History: Part 1 (Previously named Core 3):

A Twister of Twists, A Tangle of Tongues ~ A Schwartz

American Adventures I – Greenberg

A Drinking Gourd - Monjo

Betsy Ross~Childhood of Famous Americans

Bold Journey – Bohner

Boone, Wilderness Explorer ~ Retan

Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? – Fritz

Columbus ~ D'Aulaire

Crispus Attucks~Childhood of Famous Americans

Daniel Boone~ Daugherty

Erie Canal, The – Stein

Every Day With God – Nichols (?)

Fish do the Strangest Things ~ Hornblow

Flight of the Fugitive ~ Jackson

Giant Treas'ry of Brer Rabbit ~ JC Harris

Hannah - Whelan

Hopeful Trout & Other Limericks - Ciardi

Imprisoned in the Golden City: Adoniram & Ann Judson – Jackson

In God We Trust – Crater & Hunsicker

Insects do the Strangest Things ~ Hornblow

Landmark History of the American People {replaced with From Plymouth to the West, updated version of Landmark Book ~ Boorstin}

Martha Washington (Childhood of Famous Americans) – Wagoner

Molly Pitcher~Childhood of Famous Americans

Mother West Winds Children - Burgess

One Year Bible for Kids~NLT

Paddle-to-the-Sea - Holling

Poem Stew - Cole

Secret of the Andes – Clark

Silver ~ Whelan

Story of the Lone Star Republic, The - Stein

Story of the USA, Book 1 ~ Franklin Escher

Story of the USA, Book 2 ~ Franklin Escher

War of 1812, The - Morris

2012 Switch:

The Story of Eli Whitney - (Latham) (switched from Hist to advanced reader)

Core E-Intro to American History: Part 2 (Previously named Core 4):

A Bundle of Beasts ~ Hooper

All Sail Set – Sperry

American Adventures 1 – Greenberg

American Adventure 2 - Greenberg

American Wars: World War 1 – Stewart

An Arkful of Animals - Cole

Behind Rebel Lines - Reit

Bolivar – Guyatt

Bully for You Teddy Roosevelt - Fritz

California Gold Rush (Landmark) ~ McNeer

Canada ~ Sabin

Canada the Land - Kalman

Cheaper By the Dozen – Gilbreth

Churcaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa – (Kalnay)

Day it Rained Forever, The ~ Gross

Dog Jack - Biros

Every Living Thing ~ Rylant

Flames Across the Susquehanna – Banner

Great Depression, The ~ Stein

He Free Britain's Slaves: William Wilberforce ~ Ludwig

If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake – Levine

Landmark History of the American People {replaced with, From Ft Sumter to the Moon, updated version of Landmark Book ~ Boorstin}

Learning About God From A to Z - (Erickson)

Lincoln: A Photobiography~Russell Freedman

Light Princess, The ~ MacDonald

Monitor and the Merrimac, The – Stein

Mr. Blue Jeans: The Story About Levi Strauss - Weidt

On the Banks of Plum Creek ~ Wilder

Prairie Boy's Winter ~ Kurelek

Simon Bolivar: The Liberator – de Varona

Shoes for Everyone – Mitchell

Story of the Golden Spike (SL pub) - Stein

Story of the USA Book 2 ~ Franklin Escher

Story of the USA Book 3 ~ Franklin Escher

Where the Red Fern Grows ~ Rawls

World War I - (Kent)

Zooful of Animals, An – Cole

2012 Switch:

Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt (Hist to Read-Aloud)

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (now a Read-Aloud)

The Great Turkey Walk (now a reader)

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (now a reader)

Core F-Eastern Hemisphere (Previously named Core 5):

101 Differences Between Cats and Dogs! ~ Sjogren

A Glorious Age in Africa – Chu & Skinner

Aladdin &  Other Favorite Arabian Nights Stories – Smith

Ancient China - Cotterell

Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions ~ Musgrove, illust Leo & Diane Dillion

Beat the Story Drum, Pum-Pum – Bryan

Captain Cook ~ Humphris

China: History to 1949 ~ Mc Lenigham

Coral Reefs ~ Johnson

Disease Fighters, The: Nobel Prize for Medicine ~ Aaseng

East to the Shifting Sands ~ Poynor

Eastern Hemisphere Explorer – Densmer

Eric Liddell: Something Greater Than Gold – Benge

Eric Liddell: Men of Faith ~ Swift

Escape to the Jungle – (Sim International)

Explorers: from Columbus to Armstrong~Everett (Usborne)

Exploring Planet Earth - Tiner

Faces: Australia Through Time – Faces Magazine Vol.III

Family Under the Bridge~Carlson (This was moved to K in 99, and eventually dropped altogether)

Gandhi: Peaceful Warrior – Bains

Genghis Khan & The Mongol Horde – Lamb

Gengis Khan (World Leaders Past & Present) - Judy Humphrey

Heritage Studies 6 Student Text: Eastern Hemisphere Nations~Creason

Incredible Journey, The - Burnford

India: The Culture - Kalman

India: The People – Kalman

Island of the Blue Dolphins, The – O’Dell

John Newton: Angry Sailor ~ Strom

Louise Braille - Davidson

Mongols, The – Nicholson

Rascal – North

Rat Catcher's Son, The - London

Remembering God's Awesome Acts - Mortimer

Seabird – Holling

Ships, Sailors and the Sea – Usborne

Slave Ship, The ~ Sterne

Stories from Arabian Nights ~ Lang

Story of Islam, The ~ Kanm

Story of Africa & Her Flags to Colour, The ~ Faul

Tales of a Korean Grandmother - Carpenter

Throwing Shadows ~ Konigsburg

Torches of Joy - Dekker

Traditional Africa ~ Addison

Unreached People Groups DVD

Walkabout ~ Marshall

What They Believe: Islam - Berry

White Queen: The Story of Mary Slessor - McFarlan

With Daring Faith: A Biography of Amy Carmichael ~ Davis

Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The – Aiken

Young Man in a Hurry ~ Clinton

Your Place in God's Plan ~ Holtzmann

2012 Switch:

Teresa of Calcutta (from Hist to Read-Aloud)

Mary Slessor by Benge (from Hist to Read-Aloud)

The House of Sixty Fathers (now a Reader)

The Hobbit (now a Reader)

Call It Courage (to Read-Aloud)

Mission to Cathay (to Read-Aloud)

Core G-World History: Part 1 (Previously named Core 6):

A Boy’s War - Michell

Adventures of The Greek Heroes – Mclean & Wiseman

Air Raid – Pearl Harbor! – Taylor

Ancient Egypt ~ Nickelson and Watts

Ancient Greece ~ Clare

Ancient Greeks in The Land of the Gods, The – Descamps-Lequime and Vemery

Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery

Archeology: The Young Scientist - Usborne

Augustus Caesar's World - Foster

Between the Forest and The Hills – Lawrence

Big Red - Kjelgaard

Case of the Baker Street Irregulars ~ Newman (Listed as boys reader)

Children's Homer ~ Colum

Cleopatra - Stanley

Condor of the Andes, The ~ Wagner

Daddy Long Legs ~ Webster (Listed as girls reader)

David Livingstone: First to Cross Africa With the Gospel - Worcester

D'Aulaires' Book Book of Greek Myths ~ D"Aulaire

Eagle of the Ninth, The – Sutcliff

Everything You Need to Know About World History Homework – Zeman & Kelly

Fine Print: The Story of Johann Gutenberg – Burch

Freckles ~ Stratton-Porter

Girl of the Limberlost, A ~ Stratton-Porter

Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day, The – O’Dell

Heritage Studies 7, Student Text: World Studies

Hitler - Wepman

Ink on His Fingers – Vernon

Isobel Kuhn ~ Dick

Johannes Kepler: Giant of Faith & Science ~ Tiner

Marie Curie ~ Birch (different publication to book being used in Science C)

Martin Luther: Hero of the Faith ~ Nohl

Middle Ages, The - Caselli

Monk Who Shook the Word, The - Davey

Morning Star of the Reformation – Thomson

Napoleon - Carol

North To Freedom ~ Holm (this book is still included, now called "I am David")

Nothing Daunted ~ Repp

Otto of the Silver Hand – Pyle

Scarlet Pimpernell - Orczy

Science Discoveries: Isaac Newton & Gravity - Parker

Story of D-Day, The ~ Bliven

Story of Mankind ~ Van Loon

Story of Music, The – Usborne

Treasure of the Snow, The - St. John

* Twenty and Ten ~ Bishop (moved to core A)

Vasco de Gama: Adventures in Discovery ~ Knight

White Queen: The story of Mary Slessor ~ McFarlan

White Stag, The - Seredy

World of Columbus and Sons, The – Foster

World Studies, Student Text~BJU Press

Young Scientists Book of Archeology~Cork and Reid

2012 Switch:

The Great and Terrible Quest (to Read-Aloud)

Core H- World History: Part 2 (Core 7 post 2005, which is different from Core 7 below)

Abraham Lincoln's World ~ Foster

A Jar of Dreams – Uchida

Catherine The Great (Landmark) - Scherman

Captain Cook Explores the South Seas (Landmark) - Sperry

Dark Frigate, The - (Hawes)

George Washington's World ~ Foster

Great Expectations ~ Dickens

Kidnapped Prince, The ~ Cameron

Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo (Landmark) - Winwar

Painless Poetry - (Elizabeth)

Core W-World History

Augustus Caesar's World ~ Foster

Betty Greene: Wings to Serve ~ Benge

Eagle of the Ninth, The ~ Sutcliff

George Washington's World ~ Foster

Otto of the Silver Hand ~ Pyle

World of Columbus and Sons, The ~ Foster

Core 100 (American History in Depth, previously named Core 7, before 2005)

A Gathering of Days - (Blos)

A Jar of Dreams - Uchida

Adventures of the Greek Heroes ~ McLean and Wiseman

After the Dancing Days - (Rostkowski)

* Black Like Me ~ Griffin (Moved to Core 400)

Blue Willow - (Gates)

Called to Die: The Story of American Linguist Chet Bitterman - Estes

Christy - (Marshall)

Constance ~ Clapp

Custer and Crazy Horse ~ Razzi

Down Ryton Water - Gaggin

Dragonwings ~ Yep

Early Thunder – Fritz

Earthquake at Dawn - Gregory

Four Million and Other Stories ~ O'Henry

Frank Delano Roosevelt - Freedman

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - (Konigsburg) (switched to Core E Reader)

Gentle Ben ~ Morey

Gold Bug and Other Tales, The ~ Poe

Greeks, The ~ Usborne

Green Book, The - (Walsh)

Guns for General Washington – Reit

Henry Hudson: Master Explorer ~ Weiner

Home Ranch, The - Moody

Joni - Eareckson

Julius Caesar: Roman Dictator, illustrated ~ ?

Light in the Forest, The ~ Richter

Loner, The - Wier

Martin Luther King Jnr: A Man to Remember - Darby

Mrs Mike ~ Freedman

My Side of the Mountain - (George)

Nothing to Fear - (Koller)

On to Oregon – Morrow

Patty Reed’s Doll - Laurgaard

Pony Express, Cobblestone (1981): - Nankin

Piercing the Darkness ~ Peretti

Red Badge of Courage, The - (Crane)

Rifles for Watie - Keith

Robert E. Lee ~ Roddy

Samuel F.B. Morse: Artist With A Message - Tiner

Sequoyah and the Cherokee Alphabet~Robert Cwiklik

Sounder - (Armstrong)

Smokey the Cowhorse ~ James

Stout-Hearted Seven - Frazier

Streams to the River, River to the Sea - (O’Dell)

Time Enough for Drums ~ Rinaldi

Trails to Posey ~ Cook

Tut-ankh-amun and His Friends ~ Aldred

Two Tickets to Freedom ~ Freedman

Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Stowe

Up a Road Slowly ~ Hunt

Young Scientist Book of Archaeology ~ Usborne

Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee - Peck

We’ll Race Your Henry Ford - Mitchell
Youth Bible Study Notebook~Souter

Core 200-History of God’s Kingdom (Previously named Core 8):

Adventuring Through the Bible~ Stedman and Denney

A Taste of Chaucer (SL pub) – Malcolmson

Americas’ Favorite Poems – Pinsky

Bartholomew Fair ~ Stolz

Black Beauty – Sewell

Beauty – McKinley (listed as girls lit)

Bridge to Terabithia – Paterson

Canterbury Tale, The - Chaucer, retold by McCaughrean
David Copperfield~Dickens

Don't Check Your Brains at the Door ~ Mc Dowell

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Weir of Hermiston - Stevenson

Emperors Winding Sheet, The - Walsh

Fire Upon the Earth - Langford

Flames of Rome, The - (Maier)

Flying to the Moon – Collins (Listed as boys lit)

Good Wives – Alcott (listed as girls lit)

Hang Tough, Paul Mather – Slote (listed as boys lit)

Hatchet – Paulsen

Hawk and the Dove, The – Wilcock

In His Steps - Sheldon

Jackaroo ~ Voight

Little Men – Alcott (listed as boys lit)

Little Women – Alcott (listed as girls lit)

Pride and Prejudice - (replaced with annotated version)

Quo Vadis – Sienkiewicz

Separate Peace, A ~ Knowles

Summer of the Swan, The - Byars

Taste of Chaucer: Selections From the Canterbury Tales ~ Malcomson, editor

Trumpeter of Krakow, The - (Kelly)

Optional Titles for Research Paper for the Core 200 Year:

Thirty Days to Understand Church History ~ Anders-Lundsford

This was John Calvin ~ Van Halsema

Who Moved the Stone? ~ Morrison

William Booth ~ Bennett

Optional Resources for Research Projects

Becoming Orthodox ~ Gillquist

Catholic and Christian ~ Schreck

Catholicism and Fundamentalism ~ Keating

Church of Rome at the Bar of History, The ~ Webster

Common Ground ~ Bajis

Evangelical is Not Enough ~ Howard

Faith Alone ~ Sproul

For the Life of the World ~ Schmemann

Gospel According to Rome, The ~ MeCarthy

Not By Faith Alone ~ Sungenis

Not By Scripture Alone ~ Sungenis

Roman Catholicism: Evangelical Protestants Analyze What Divides and Unites Us ~ Armstrong

Core 300-20th Century World History (Previously named Core 9):
Atlas Shrugged~Rand

Darkness at Noon - Koestler

DK 20th Century Day to Day – Schlesinger (CD-Rom)

DK Visual Timeline of the 20th Century, The ~ Adams

Exodus ~ Uris

For Whom the Bell Tolls - (Hemingway)

I Had Seen Castles ~ Rylant

Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom – Jicai

Life During the Russian Revolution ~ Sherrow

Mammoth Book of Eye-witness History ~ Lewis

More to be Desired than Gold ~ Wilson

Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers’ Rights ~ Pinkerton Josephson

My Life in Advertising & Scientific Advertising – Hopkins

Permanent Book of the 20th Century, The - Lewis

Robert Frost: Selected Poems

Run Baby Run - (Cruz)

Spy Who Came in From the Cold – Le Carre

War of the Worldviews – DeMar

What Everyone Should Know About the 20th Century ~ Axelrod and Philips
You Come Too~Frost

Youth Walk Vol.1 – Walk Thru the Bible Ministries

Core 400-Civics/American Government (Previously named Core 10) :

America's Caesar ~ Durand

Belle Prater's Boy ~ White

Crazy Lady ~ Conly

Crucible, The ~ Miller

Day They Came to Arrest the Book, The ~ Hentoff

Dry Divide, The ~ Ralph Moody

Giver, The ~ Lois Lowry

Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness, The – Kramnick & Moore

Institutes of Biblical Law, The ~ Rushdoony

Julie of the Wolves ~ George

Jungle, The ~ Sinclair

Lies My Teacher Told Me ~ Lowen

Moby Dick ~ Melville

Never Before in History ~ Gary Amos and Richard Gardiner

Our Right to Drugs ~ Szasz [Optional Title]

Outsiders, The ~ Hinton

Shadow of the Almighty ~ Elliot

The Discovery of Freedom ~ Lane [Optional Title]

Tools of Dominion ~ Gary North

Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A ~ Betty Smith

Walden and Civil Disobedience--Thoreau

When in the Course of Human Events ~ Adams

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats ~ Meyer

 530-British Literature

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Sonlight ~ Discontinued Book List (Updated March 2014)

Here’s how we've gone about compiling this list:
Prior to 2012, if a book had been moved to another Core, in general, we've not included it in this list, typing up only the titles that have remained dropped. Quite a few books were dropped out and then added back into SL Cores, at regular intervals, over the years – we've only included the titles that have remained dropped.Electives, or Science titles have not been noted, unless they were a science biography. We have not included a separate listing for Core 6A titles. {Updated in 2013 to show books dropped from Core W}

We have worked through the catalogues: 1994, 1995,1997-2014--- and a jumble of personal notes to come up with this non-exhaustive list of discontinued Sonlight® titles. (All those tiles with this little squiggle ~ between the title and the author are my hours of work). Thanks to Tara of the Sonlight® forums for all her work. If you see the author's name in brackets, this is her generous contribution.

Request for Use:
** Please be considerate and do not copy and redistribute the details off this list as your own work. If you decide to recreate this list, or use portions of it, to place in amongst a list of your own design; in your own document, on a post, in a tweet, on pinterest, or ... Please give credit to the Sonlight® moms/mums who contributed to, or worked on the original: Chelle (NZ)---Tara (SL Forums)--Jill (US)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As a note, you may enjoy my Homeschool Resource Library which is full of great homeschool and parenting help and encouragement. 

~If you have any of the Sonlight® Catalogs from 1990-1993 or 1996, I would love to either have you see what books have been dropped from those years, or to get [or purchase] those catalogs from you so I could do it. It would be great to have a more complete list. Email me, you can find my email on the side of my blog. ~