Discussion Guides include a synopsis of the story for the teacher, questions, writing prompts and sometimes art projects.

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A Single Shard -Book by Linda Sue Park

A Triumph for Flavius -Book by Caroline Dale Snedeker

Adam of the Road – book by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Adventures of Robin Hood – Book by Roger Lancelyn Green

Augustine Came to Kent – Book by Barbara Willard

Brendan the Navigator – book by Jean Fritz

Cleopatra – Book by Diane Stanley

Cross Among the Tomahawks- book by Milton Lomask

Fingal’s Quest – Book by Madeleine Polland

Ides of April -book by Mary Ray

I, Juan de Pareja – book by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Master Puppeteer -book by Katharine Paterson

Nacar, the White Deer – Book by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

Ships Boy with Magellan – book by Milton Lomask

Son of Charlemagne -book by Barbara Willard

Stone Fox – book by John Reynolds Gardiner

Sutcliff Series: Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, and The Lantern Bearers – Books by Rosemary Sutcliff

Sword of Clontarf – book by Charles Brady

The Black Arrow – book by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Bronze Bow  – book by Elizabeth George Speare

The Courage of Sarah Noble – book  by Alice Dalgliesh

The Good Master -book  by Kate Seredy

The King’s Thane – book by Charles Brady

The Matchlock Gun -book  by Walter Edmunds

The Samurai’s Tale -book by Eric Christian Haugaard

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights – Book by Howard Pyle

The Whipping Boy -book by Sid Fleischman

The White Stag -book  by Kate Seredy

Mother of Divine Grace Titles

Ancient Titles used in MODG Syllabus 7th grade: Children’s Homer, A Triumph for Flavius, Caesar’s Gallic War, The Bronze Bow, Ides of April, Eagle of the Ninth, and The Silver Branch

Medieval Titles used in MODG Syllabus 8th grade: Fingal’s Quest, Augustine Came to Kent, Son of Charlemagne, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, The Door in the Wall, Adam of the Road, and The Black Arrow