Literature Guide to Correlate with Mystery of History 3

Week 1: War of the Roses

The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Week 3: Columbus
Pedros Journal by Pam Conrad The World of Columbus and Sons, Part 2 by Genevieve Foster

Week 4: Leonardo daVinci

Leonardos Horse

Weeks 5 6
The World of Columbus and Sons, Part 3 Digging Deeper by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 3: #1 and #2 (week 5) Digging Deeper by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 3: #3 (week 6)

Week 6: Machiavelli
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Weeks 7 9
The World of Columbus and Sons, Part 4

Week 7: Cortez, Magellan, Luther

Cortez in Mexico by G.A. Henty Around the World in 100 Years Chapter 11 by Jean Fritz Kitty, My Rib by E. Jane Mall Thunderstorm in the Church by Louise Vernon True Tales by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 3: #1 Digging Deeper by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 3: #4 What in the World by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 4: #1 Exploration & Politics

Week 7, continued
What in the World by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 4: #2 The Reformation & Its Consequences

Week 8 - Albrecht Durer

Artist of the Reformation by Joyce McPherson

Weeks 8 13
Digging Deeper by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 3: 5 True Tales by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 3: #2 The Moravians

Week 10 John Calvin

The River of Grace by Joyce McPherson

Week 11 (or so) Conquest of South America

Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark

Week 12 Tyndale
Beyond the Sacred Page by Jack Cavanaugh The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day by Scott ODell What in the World by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 4:5 - Religion and the Divine Right of Kings

Week 13 Mary Tudor

Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer

Week 14 (or so)

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Week 15 Queen Elizabeth 1

Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer (recommended with a caution) Elizabeth 1: Red Rose of the House of Tudor (Available in video based on the book)

Weeks 15 -17
The World of Captain John Smith Part 1

Week 17 Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary L. Blackwood Shakespeares Scribe Shakespeares Spy

King of Shadows (stated it is PG so use discretion) by Susan Cooper MacBeth for Kids by Lois Burdett The Tempest retold by Ann Key Beneduce William Shakespeare and The Globe by Aliki

Weeks 18 -19
The World of Captain John Smith, Part 2

Week 18 Cervantes, Jamestown

Digging Deeper by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 3: 7 (anytime after week 17) Don Quixote by Cervantes A Lion to Guard Us (perfect for elementary) by Clyde Robert Bulla The Three Musketeers by Dumas (we may just watch one of the better movie versions) Taj Mahal by Caroline Arnold and Madeleine Comora

Week 19
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Week 20 The Thirty Years War

Digging Deeper by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 3: #6 What in the World by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 4: #4

Weeks 20 22
The World of Captain John Smith, Part 3

Week 21 - Galileo
Galileo by Leonard Fisher

Week 23+
The World of Captain John Smith, Part 4

Week 24 Pascal
A Piece of the Mountain by Joyce McPherson

Week 25 Isaac Newton

Master Cornhill by Eloise Jarvis McGraw True Tales by Diana Waring (CD) Disc 3: #3

Week 26 John Bunyan

Traitor in the Tower by Dave and Neta Jackson Dangerous Journey by Oliver Hunkin

Week 28 Peter the Great

Peter the Great by Diane Stanley The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman