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Tolkein \- *Blood on the River* by Elise Carbone \- *Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison* by Lois Lenski \- *Bull Run* by Paul Fleischman \- *Across Five Aprils* by Irene Hunt \- Walt Whitman Civil War Poetry and Prose \- *Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry* by Mildred D. Taylor \- *Tangier Island*by Rick Parks \- Writings of John Muir, Thoreau, Wendell Berry \- *Waterman’s Child* by Barbara Mitchell \- *A River Ran Wild* by Lynne Cherry \- *Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay* by William Warner \- *Waterman’s Boy* by Susan Sharpe \- *Watersheds* by Clive Dobson and Gregor Beck \- *A Crow Doesn’t Need a Shadow: A Guide for Writing Poetry* from Nature by Lorraine Ferra --- ### Two Years of World History ##### Year 1: Ancient through Medieval World (The Communal Identity) ESV Study Bible *Great Myths of the World* by Padraic Collum *The Tree of Life* by Peter Sis *The Bronze Bow* by Elizabeth Speare *Black Ships Before Troy* by Rosemary Sutcliffe *Julius Caesar* by William Shakespeare (parallel texts) *Confucius* by Russell Freedman *Beowulf* translated by Burton Raffel *The Lais of Marie de France* *Decameron* by Boccaccio *The Canterbury Tales* retold by Geraldine McCaughrean *A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver* by E.L Konigsburg *Muhammad* by Demi *Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam* by Diane Stanley *Saint Francis of Assisi* by Demi *The Feathered Serpent* by Scott O’Dell ##### Year 2: Renaissance to the Present (The Individual Identity) *Leonardo daVinci* by Diane Stanley *Michelangelo* by Diane Stanley *The Merchant of Venice* by William Shakespeare *A Man For All Seasons* by Robert Bolt *John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise* by Marc Aronson The United States Constitution *A Tale of Two Cities* by Charles Dickens *Sugar Changed the World* by Marc Aronson *Kids at Work* by Russell Freedman *Animal Farm* by George Orwell *Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary* by Ruud van der Rol *Snow Falling in Spring* by Moying Li [View our leisure reading lists by grade level](https://www.lorienwood.org/student-reading-page?hsLang=en) Academics Academics - [Form System & Curriculum](https://www.lorienwood.org/form-system-curriculum) - [Educational Philosophy](https://www.lorienwood.org/educational-philosophy) - [Our Distinctives](https://www.lorienwood.org/distinctives) - [FAQs](https://www.lorienwood.org/faqs) Admissions Admissions - [Admissions](https://www.lorienwood.org/admissions) - [Visit Campus](https://www.lorienwood.org/school-tours) - [Request Information](https://www.lorienwood.org/request-information) Parents Parents - [Family Portal](https://accounts.renweb.com/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2Fconnect%2Fauthorize%2Fcallback%3Fclient_id%3DfamilyPortalCode%26redirect_uri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ffamilyportal.renweb.com%252Fsignin-oidc%26response_type%3Dcode%26scope%3Dopenid%2520profile%2520familyPortalUserInfo%2520familyPortalUserConfig%2520offline_access%2520ftApi%26code_challenge%3DfnBfdIahTVR_0kwVd14HGUyCla7gZGS7CPhlAsBMJiY%26code_challenge_method%3DS256%26response_mode%3Dform_post%26nonce%3D638840530982090322.YWM2MmYxZDItNGM2Zi00NmU2LWFiNTgtYWQzN2VhYTQyN2E0ZWY3MDg5ZmUtOWIwMy00ZDM5LTg5NzYtOWQ3MGFjZTg3Yzhh%26state%3DCfDJ8Lq1N5Cgm6tFnilnlNGlkcE7HJ57Gygpa_t0OWRxS-BY16zFQI_OAbOEMIc0RPWq5dm9R5xMPhYBc8n5G_SMGJsHahfCCI71fw35TiNrR8WazTSFierSIZFJghgb0HURKY2tSHoVC-ubSb5tvJa7THTgSkJAZjF29F36mE_-TW_ZLdyVY3VdvEMmHJ8Sxhm1ED7I-ijzI22mmCXC0dRiYzqwmsLIxZ2sWtuoGBnrp-B7z1m9JAYro4FoHSdEFzvxrLczMd2qDnRTgPq4svmpG5ozn0Qn6s9sORMzrF6QB59icabDyMPB3ViYZfhX5w6s0AhNGuI5_pRyxAf2Vbd9_YVXidDYL7i0j4MdgQZJZVtJnYzPyzSksemLtqMccSBNVJh9rfRJrnBwzdmWjG9ed9-sNDuub-JIh_Xffp7DoCfZEHS32_IxI2BaNcOCqPHqIaLD4omvsS3lXaaxRAFDyUI%26x-client-SKU%3DID_NET6_0%26x-client-ver%3D6.35.0.0) - [Student Reading Lists](https://www.lorienwood.org/student-reading-page) - [Parental Service](https://www.lorienwood.org/parents) [![Lorien Wood School\_Reverse Emblem](https://www.lorienwood.org/hubfs/Lorien%20Wood%20School_Reverse%20Emblem.svg)](https://www.lorienwood.org?hsLang=en) - 8200 Bell Lane Vienna, VA 22182 - Main Office: 703-854-1640 - Email: office@lorienwood.org © 2026 Lorien Wood School All Rights Reserved [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/lorienwoodschool)[Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/lorienwoodschool/) Return to top