As a missionary mama living overseas, I created this list to be a resource and source of encouragement to other overseas moms that you don't have to be in America with access to a physical library to give your kids great literature! MANY of these wonderful books are available for FREE to download on your children's Kindles.
Don't have a Kindle? You can download the desktop app for Kindle and have your child read the books on your laptop!
Children Story Books (K-1st Grade)
- The Little Red Hen
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff
- The Three Bears
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Stone Soup
- Rumpelstiltskin
- The Emperor’s New Clothes
- The Three Little Pigs
- The Gingerbread Boy
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Cinderella
- The Boy Who Cried Wolf!
- The Tortoise and the Hare
- The Ant and the Grasshopper
- The Pied Piper
- Hansel and Gretel
- The Ugly Duckling
- The Lion and the Mouse
- Jumanji
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- Corduroy
- Dr. Seus Collection
- The Beatrix Potter Collection
- Berenstain Bears Collection
- Little Critter Collection
- The Giving Tree
- The Big O
- The Story of Babar
- My Best Friend on Wheels
- Mama Zooms
- Super Duper Safety School
2nd Grade
- Lewis, C. S. The Chronicles of Narnia (7 book series) ($7 per book Kindle – Own) – Mom Read Aloud
- Jenson, Kristen and Poyner, Gail. Good Pictures, Bad Pictures ($9 Kindle – Own) – Mom Read Aloud
- Dahl, Ronald. The BFG ($8 Kindle – Own) – Mom Read Aloud
- Brammer, Deb. Peanut Butter Friends in a Chop Suey World ($7 Kindle – Own) – ABWE Read Aloud
- Roop, Peter and Connie. Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie ($5 Kindle – Own)
- Brown, Jeff. Flat Stanley Collection (4 books) ($11 Kindle – Own)
- Dalgliesh, Alice. The Courage of Sarah Noble ($5 Kindle – Own)
- Dalgliesh, Alice. The Bears on Hemlock Mountain ($5 Kindle – Own)
- Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Shiloh ($7 Kindle – Own)
- Gardiner, John. Stone Fox ($5 Kindle – Own)
- de Angeli, Marguerite. The Door in the Wall ($5 Kindle – Own)
- Cleary, Beverly. The Mouse and the Motorcycle ($7 Kindle – Own)
- Tripp, Valerie. American Girl: Maryellen ($9 Kindle – Own)
- Warner, Gertrude. The Box-Car Children (volume 1) ($4 Kindle – Own)
- Williams, Marjorie. The Velveteen Rabbit ($1 Kindle – Own)
- Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes ($7 Kindle – Own)
- Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de. The Little Prince ($7 Kindle – Own)
- Sharmat, Marjorie. Nate the Great ($6 Kindle – Own)
- Hope, Laura Lee. The Bobbsey Twins of Lakeport (Book 1 ) ($6 Kindle – Own)
- Besanceney, Valerie. B at Home: Emma Moves Again ($5 Kindle – Own)
- Osborne, Mary Pope. Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House Book 1) ($4 Kindle – Own)
3rd Grade
- Harris, R.P. Tua and the Elephant ($5 Kindle – Own) – Mom Read Aloud
- Gladys Aylward (Christian Heroes: Then and Now) ($8 Kindle – Own)
- Jim Elliott (Christian Heroes: Then and Now) ($8 Kindle – Own)
- George Washington (Heroes of History) ($8 Kindle – Own)
- Barrie, James. Peter Pan (FREE Kindle – Own)
- The Frog Prince (Faerie Tale Collection) (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Collodi C. Pinocchio (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Milne, A. A. Winnie the Pooh ($11 Kindle – Own)
- MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall ($5 Kindle – Own)
- Selden, George. The Cricket in Times Square ($5 Kindle – Own)
- Robinson, Barbara. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever ($5 Kindle – Own)
- White, E. B. Charlotte’s Web ($5 Kindle – Own)
- Atwater, Richard. Mr. Popper’s Penguins ($5 – Own)
- Buck, Pearl S. The Big Wave ($5 Kindle – Own)
- Wilder, Laura. Little House on the Prairie ($7 Kindle – Own)
- White, E. B. Stuart Little ($3 Kindle – Own)
- Levine, Gail Carson. Ella Enchanted ($7 Kindle – Own)
- Keene, Carolyn. Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock ($6 Kindle – Own)
- Osborne, Mary Pope. Tales from the Odyssey (Part One) ($5 – Own)
- Osborne, Mary Pope. Tales from the Odyssey (Part Two) ($5 – Own)
- Lee Stewart, Trenton. The Mysterious Benedict Society ($8 Kindle – Own)
4th Grade
- Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ($8 Kindle – Own) – Mom Read Aloud
- Burnett, Frances H. A Little Princess (FREE Kindle – Own) – Mom Read Aloud
- Amy Carmichael (Christian Heroes: Then and Now) ($8 Kindle – Own)
- Harriet Tubman (Heroes of History) ($8 Kindle – Own)
- George Muller (Christian Heroes: Then and Now) ($8 Kindle – Own)
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Sidney, Margaret. Five Little Peppers (book 1) (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Verne, Jules. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Knowles, Sir James. The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Speare, Elizabeth. The Sign of the Beaver ($7 Kindle – Own)
- Richardson, Arleta. In Grandma’s Attic ($4 Kindle – Own)
- Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting ($6 Kindle – Own)
- Spinelli, Jerry. Maniac Magee ($7 Kindle – Own)
- Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars ($7 Kindle – Own)
- Jacques, Brian. Redwall ($9 Kindle – Own)
- L’Engle, Madeliene. A Wrinkle in Time ($7 Kindle – Own)
- Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter (7 book series) ($9 per book Kindle – Own)
- Snicket, Lemony. A Series of Unfortunate Events ($6 Kindle – Own)
- Wilson, N. D. 100 Cupboards (3 book series) ($8 per book Kindle – Own)
- Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit ($10 Kindle – Own)
- Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series (5 book series) ($7 per book Kindle – Own 1)
- Du Bois, William Pene. The Twenty-one Balloons ($5 Kindle – Own)
- Speare, Elizabeth. The Bronze Bow ($8 Kindle)
- James and the Giant Peach ($8 Kindle)
- Farley, Walter. The Black Stallion ($7 Kindle)
- Smith, Dodie. The 101 Dalmations ($7 Kindle)
- Travers, P. I. Mary Poppins ($5 Kindle)
- Dahl, Ronald. Matilda ($8 Kindle)
- DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie ($5 Kindle)
- Felming, Ian. Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang ($5 Kindle)
5th Grade
- Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings (3 book series) ($10 per book Kindle – Own)
- Porter, Eleanor. Pollyanna (FREE Kindle – Own) – Mom Read Aloud
- Abraham Lincoln (Heroes of History) ($8 Kindle – Own)
- Alcorn, Randy. Heaven ($8 Kindle – Own)
- Hudson Taylor (Christian Heroes: Then and Now) ($8 Kindle)
- Elisabeth Elliot (Christian Heroes: Then and Now) ($8 Kindle)
- Godlman, William. The Princess Bride ($9 Kindle – Own)
- Spyri, Johanna. Heidi (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Alcott, Louisa. Little Men (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Verne, Jules. Around the World in Eighty Days (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Montgomery, Lucy. Anne of Green Gables ($1 Kindle – Own)
- Lofting, Hugh. The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle ($1 Kindle)
- Banks, Lynne Reid. The Indian in the Cupboard ($7 Kindle)
- Gipson, Fred. Old Yeller ($5 Kindle)
- Norton, Mary. Borrowers ($7 Kindle)
- Wallace, Barbara. Peppermints in the Parlor ($7 Kindle)
- Katherine Paterson. Bridge to Terabithia ($5 Kindle)
- Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows ($8 Kindle)
- Speare, Elizabeth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond ($7 Kindle)
- Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain ($8 Kindle)
- Wyss, Johann. Swiss Family Robinson ($1 Kindle)
- Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows ($1 Kindle)
- Verne, Jules. Journey to the Center of the Earth ($1 Kindle)
- Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet ($7 Kindle)
- Taylor, Theodore. The Cay ($7 Kindle)
- Trapp, Maria Augusta. The Story of Trapp Family Singers ($11 Kindle)
- Rawlings, Marjorie. The Yearling ($7 Kindle)
- Pollack, Pam. Who Was Joan of Arc? ($6 Kindle)
6th Grade
- Baum, Frank L. The Wizard of Oz ($1 Kindle – Own) – Mom Read Aloud
- C.T. Studd: No Retreat (Christian Heroes: Then and Now) ($8 Kindle – Own)
- Clara Barton: Courage Under Fire (Heroes of History) ($8 Kindle)
- Fanny Crosby: The Hymn Writer (Heroes of the Faith) ($4 Kindle)
- Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage (FREE Kindle – Own)
- London, Jack. White Fang (FREE Kindle - Own)
- Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book (FREE Kindle – Own)
- London, Jack. The Call of the Wild (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Orczy, Emmuska. The Scarlet Pimpernel (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Twain, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (FREE Kindle – Own)
- O’Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphin ($7 Kindle)
- Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ($8 Kindle)
- Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils ($5 Kindle)
- Orwell, George. Animal Farm ($9 Kindle – Own)
- Pyle, Howard. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood ($1 Kindle – Own)
- Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 ($12 Kindle)
- Irving, Washington. Rip Van Winkle ($1 Kindle)
- Irving, Washington. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ($1 Kindle)
- Marshall, Catherine. Christy ($10 Kindle)
7th Grade
- George Washington Carver: From Slave to Scientist (Heroes of History) ($8 Kindle)
- Mary Slessor: Queen of Calabar (Heroes of the Faith) ($4 Kindle)
- Charles Spurgeon (Heroes of the Faith) ($4 Kindle – Own)
- Don and Carol Richardson. The Peace Child ($10 Kindle)
- Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe (FREE Kindle - Own)
- Grimm, Jacob. Grimm’s Fairy Stories (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Austen, Jane. Emma (FREE – Own)
- Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Dumas, Alexandre. The Man in the Iron Mask (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Aesop. Aesop’s Fables (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Lewis, C. S. Out of the Silent Planet ($3 Kindle – Own)
- Lewis, C. S. Perelandra ($9 Kindle – Own)
- Lewis, C. S. That Hideous Strength ($11 Kindle – Own)
- Blos, Joan. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal ($7 Kindle)
- Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans ($1 Kindle)
- Sheldon, Charles. In His Steps ($1 Kindle)
- Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea ($1 Kindle)
- Wells, H. G. War of the Worlds ($1 Kindle)
- Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief Kindle ($10 Kindle)
8th Grade
- Gilbreth & Carey. Cheaper By the Dozen ($9 Kindle – Own) – Mom Read Aloud
- Harris, Alex & Harris, Brett. Do Hard Things ($15 Kindle)
- Thomas Edison: Inspiration and Hard Work (Heroes of History) ($8 Kindle)
- Joni Eareckson Tada. Joni ($3 Kindle)
- Mother Teresa: Missionary of Charity (Heroes of the Faith) ($3 Kindle)
- Watchman Nee: Man of Suffering (Heroes of the Faith) ($4 Kindle – Own)
- Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Chesterton, G. K. The Complete Father Brown ($1 Kindle)
- Colson, Charles. Born Again ($10 Kindle)
- Herriot, James. All Creatures Great and Small ($9 Kindle)
- Lewis, C. S. The Screwtape Letters ($5 Kindle – Own)
- Wallace, Lew. Ben Hur (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Bradley, James. Flags of Our Fathers ($5 Kindle)
- Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ($9 Kindle)
- Kantor, MacKinlay. Gettysburg ($6 Kindle)
- Hamilton, Alexander. The Federalist Papers (Annotated) ($1 Kindle)
- Byone, John. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ($10 Kindle)
High School
- Chan, Francis. Crazy Love ($2 Kindle – Own)
- C.S. Lewis. Mere Christianity ($9 Kindle – Own)
- Platt, David. Radical ($15 Kindle – Own)
- Piper, John. Don’t Waste Your Life ($8 Kindle – Own)
- Packer, J.I. Knowing God ($10 Kindle)
- DeYoung, Kevin. Just Do Something ($4 Kindle – Own)
- Davis, Katie. Kisses from Katie ($4 Kindle)
- Strobel, Lee. The Case for Christ ($10 Kindle – Own)
- David Livingston (Heroes of the Faith) ($8 Kindle)
- Foxe, John. Fox’s Book of Martyrs (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Brother Yun. The Heavenly Man ($11 Kindle)
- Bruce Olson. Bruchco ($10 Kindle)
- Corrie ten Boom. The Hiding Place ($7 Kindle – Own)
- Shakespeare. William. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Shakespeare, William. Macbeth (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Shakespeare, William. Othello (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Shakespeare, William. Hamlet (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Shakespeare, William. The Tempest (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird ($11 Kindle)
- Keller, Hellen. The Story of My Life (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Hugo, Victor. Les Miserables (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Homer. The Iliad (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Homer. The Odyssey (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations (FREE Kindle – Own)
- De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel. Don Quixote (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Melville, Herman. Moby Dick (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Leroux, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Thoreau, Henry. Walden (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (FREE Kindle)
- Founding Fathers. The United States Constitution (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Milton, John. Paradise Lost (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Wells. H.G. The Time Machine (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Thackeray, William. Vanity Fair (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Henry, Patrick. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Fitzgerald, Scott. This Side of Paradise (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Poe, Egar Allan. The Raven (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Eliot, George. Silas Marner (FREE Kindle – Own)
- Golding, William. Lord of the Flies ($10 Kindle)
- Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye ($4 Kindle)
- Steinback, John. Of Mice and Men ($8 Kindle)
- Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games ($7 Kindle – Own)
- Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield ($1 Kindle)
- Stoker, Bram. Drakula ($1 Kindle)
- Bronte. Emily. Jane Eyre ($1 Kindle)
- Hemingway, Ernest. For Who the Bell Tolls ($1 Kindle)
- Steinback, John. The Grapes of Wrath ($14 Kindle)
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gasby ($12 Kindle)
- Huzley, Aldous. Brave New World ($4 Kindle)
- Litfin, Bryan. The Sword (The Chiveis Series) ($10 per book Kindle – Own)
- Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth ($10 Kindle)
- Hall, Leslie. Beowulf ($1 Kindle)
- Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms ($13 Kindle)
- Orwell, George. 1984 ($10 Kindle)
- Lowry, Lois. The Giver ($8 Kindle)
- Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale ($11 Kindle)
- Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest ($10 Kindle)
- Wilder, Thornton. Our Town ($7 Kindle)
- Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina ($1 Kindle)
- Martel, Yann. Life of Pi ($10 Kindle – Own)
- Roth, Veronica. Divergent ($8 Kindle – Own)
- Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club ($12 Kindle)
- Frank, Anne. The Diary of Anne Frank ($2 Kindle)
- Mitchel, Margaret. Gone with the Wind ($4 Kindle)
- Paine, Thomas. Common Sense ($1 Kindle)
- Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man ($10 Kindle)
- Walker, Alice. The Color Purple ($9 Kindle)
- Hamilton, Edith. Mythology ($10 Kindle)