Dialectic: Medieval/Early Renaissance: 400 A.D. - 1600 A.D.
Ancient Japan by Captivating History (Nonfiction/Survey/Poorly named as it goes through the Middle Ages--198,000 B.C.-1603 A.D.)
Timelines of World History by Jane Chisholm (Nonfiction/Five primary continents side-by-side--30,000 B.C.-2000 A.D.)
The Story of Scotland: Inspired by the Great Tapestry of Scotland by Allan Burnett (Nonfiction/Survey of great events and people/Fascinating!)
Exploration by Anna Claybourne (from 2270 B.C.-2003 A.D.)
The Story of Ancient China by Suzanne Strauss Art (Nonfiction/Survey--1750 B.C.-907 A.D.)
Mighty Men by Eleanor Farjeon (Narrative nonfiction/Biographical stories from Achilles to William the Conqueror--1194 B.C.-1066 A.D.)
Mysterious Polynesia: The Myths, Legends, and Mysteries of the Polynesians by Charles River Editions (Some history/Cultural--c. 900 B.C.-1878 A.D.)
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aztec & Maya: The History, Legend, Myth and Culture of the Ancient Native Peoples of Mexico and Central America by Charles Phillips (Nonfiction/Survey--500 B.C.-1521 A.D.)
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air by Stewart Ross and Stephen Biesty (Nonfiction/Cross-sections/Mechanics of exploration--340 B.C.-1969 A.D.)
The Usborne Encyclopedia of the Roman World by Fiona Chandler (27 B.C.-476 A.D.)
History of Britain and Ireland by DK Publishing (Nonfiction/Survey--43-present)
Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John H. Haaren (Short Biographical Sketches--394-1471 A.D.)
The Medieval Messenger (Nonfiction/"Newspaper" format--394-1471)
The Byzantine Empire by Jennifer Ann Fretland VanVoorst (Nonfiction--395-1453)
Theras and His Town by Caroline Dale Snedeker (Greece/Sparta--400s A.D.)
Flame Over Tara by Madeleine Polland (Ireland/St. Patrick--432 A.D.)
Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey (Roman Celts/Saxons--440s A.D.)
The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff (Roman Britain--440s A.D.)
Art in the Middle Ages by Jennifer Olmsted (Nonfiction/Origins, materials, and media--476-1453)
Exploring Ancient Civilizations: Medieval Times by Robynne Eagan (Nonfiction/Activity book that Chloe liked--476-1500)
The Story of Europe: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Reformation by H. E. Marshall (Nonfiction/Survey--476-1517)
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green (Arthurian legend/England--late 5th or early 6th century)
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great by Gerald Morris (Arthurian legend/England--late 5th or early 6th century)
Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey (Celtic horse master to King Arthur--late 5th century)
The Story of Beowulf by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (Epic Poem/Scandinavia--early-6th-century)
Beowulf by Michael Morpurgo (Epic poem in easier language/Out of print-avail. on Kindle--early 6th century)
The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai: Life in Medieval Africa by Patrick McKissack (Nonfiction - West Africa--500-1700)
Chinese Myths and Legends: The Monkey King and Other Adventures by Shelley Fu and Patrick Yee (First began to be recorded as we know them today at the beginning of the Sui Dynasty--581)
The Genius of Islam: How Muslims Made the Modern World by Bryn Barnard (Nonfiction--600s on)
The Story of the Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Pool (Nonfiction/Survey--600s-1490s)
The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis (Tales go back centuries but were first recorded in the--8th-century)
Best Loved Celtic Fairy Tales by Neil Philip and Isabelle Brent (From Scotland, Ireland, Wales/Tales go back centuries but were first recorded in the--8th-century)
Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment by Kate Forrester (Tales from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales/Tales go back centuries but were first recorded in the--8th-century)
Black Bird, Blue Road by Sofiya Pasternack (Novel/Khazar Empire/Judaism/Siblings/Leprosy/Magic--c. 740-965)
Son of Charlemagne by Barbara Willard (Carl's story--781)
Norse Myths and Legends by Cheryl Evans (Viking Era--793-1066)
Usborne Illustrated Arabian Nights retold by Anna Milbourne (Arabia--c. 800s)
In the Days of Alfred the Great by Eva March Tappan (England--849-899)
Kings and Queens by Ruth Brocklehurst (Nonfiction/Survey of English monarchs-886-present)
Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale by Donna Jo Napoli (Novel/Seafaring/Slave traders--c. 900)
How Would You Survive in the Middle Ages? by Fiona MacDonald
Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen (Iraqi legend/Baghdad--genesis from the 11th century)
Children's Encyclopedia of American History by David C. King [DK Smithsonian] (1000-2000 A.D.)
Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki by Kevin Crosslay-Holland (Ancient tales, but usually studied with Viking history--c. 1000)
Treasury of Norse Mythology, Stories of Intrigue, Trickery, Love, and Revenge by Donna Jo Napoli (Usually studied with Viking history--c. 1000)
The Viking Invader by Fergus Fleming (Nonfiction/"Newspaper" format--c. 1000)
Raiders from the Sea by Lois Walfrid Johnson (Viking adventure series, Book 1--c. 1000)
The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by Allen French (Iceland--c. 1000)
Comic Book Shakespeare: Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Timber Frame Publishers (Play/Scotland and England--1040-1057)
In the Days of William the Conqueror by Eva March Tappan (France/England--1066)
The Middle Ages: an interactive history adventure by Allison Lassieur; You Choose Books (1100s-1300s)
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (Korea--1100s)
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver by E. L. Konigsburg (England--1137-1204)
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through three continents in the twelfth century by Uri Shulevitz [picture book, but great info] (1159-1173)
Samurai Rising: The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune by Pamela S. Turner and Gareth Hinds (Nonfiction/Graphic Biography/Japan--1160-1189)
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green (England--c. 1160)
The King's Shadow by Elizabeth Adler (England/Harold of Wessex--c. 1060s)
The Hidden Treasure of Glaston by Eleanor M. Jewett (England--1171)
Blood Red Horse by K. M. Grant (Third Crusade--1189-1192)
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (England--1194)
Tales of Robin Hood by Tony Allan (England--c. 1194)
Sisters of the Sword by Maya Snow (Japan/female samurai--1200s)
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (Novel/England--1200s)
Otto and the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle (Novel/Germany--1200s)
The Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the Constitution by Roberta Baxter (Nonfiction/English charter/Influence on U.S. Constitution--1215)
Blue Flame by K. M. Grant (Languedoc France/Catholics/Cathars--1242)
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry (Novel/France/Inquisition/Female preacher--mid-13th century)
Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction by David Macaulay (England--1252)
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz (Fiction/England/22 portraits of villagers--1255)
The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean (Novel/China/Kublai Khan--c. 1260-1294)
Marco Polo: The Boy Who Traveled the Medieval World by Nick McCarty (Nonfiction/Biography--1254-1324; suggest reading concurrent with his journey to China--c. 1271)
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Lee Wilson (Mongolia/horses--1270s or 80s)
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray Vining (1294-1295)
Giotto and Medieval Art: The Lives and Works of the Medieval Artists by Lucia Corrain (Nonfiction/Art history/Italian Renaissance--1295-1337)
The Great and Terrible Quest by Margaret Lovett (orphan/wounded knight--late Middle Ages)
Comic Book Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and Timber Frame Publications (Play/Verona--exact time period unknown, c. 1300)
The Ramsay Scallop by Frances Temple (Novel/England/Spain/Pilgrimage--c. 1300)
Famous Men of the Renaissance and the Reformation by Robert G. Shearer (Collection of short biographies--1300-1550)
The Beduins' Gazelle by Frances Temple (Arabia--1302)
Girl in a Cage by Jane Yolen (Robert the Bruce's daughter Marjorie/Scotland--1306)
A Golden Web by Barbara Quick (Biographical novel/Alessandra Gilini/Italy/first female anatomist--1307-1326)
Mansa Musa and the Empire of the Mali by P. James Oliver (Nonfiction/Mali/Emperor--1312-1337)
The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli (England/during reign of Edward III---1327-1377)
The Cure by Sonia Levitin [6th-8th grades] (Time travelBlack Death/antisemitism--1348)
The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock (Novel/Hunchback/Pilgrimage--1350)
Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi (Novel/England/Orphan--1377)
The Beggar's Bible by Louise Vernon (England/Wycliffe Bible--1382)
The Usborne Illustrated Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Classic retelling--c. 1380s or 90s)
Renaissance Art (Eye on Art) by Stuart A. Kallen (Nonfiction/Art History/Roots, components, pioneers--1400-1550)
The Age of Colonialism by Don Nardo (Nonfiction/Survey--1401-20th-century)
Seven Voyages: How China's Treasure Fleet Conquered the Sea by Lawrence Bergreen & Sara Fray (Nonfiction/Ming Dynasty/Zheng He/Explorers/Commerce--1405-1433)
The Apprentice by Pilar Molina Llorente (Florence, Italy--1410s-1440s)
Comic Book Shakespeare: Henry V by William Shakespeare and Timber Frame Publications (Play/England--1413-1422)
Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan by Jean Fritz (Nautical exploration--1421-1522)
Joan of Arc by Demi (Nonfiction/Illustrated Biography/France/Hundred Years' War--1431)
Who Was Joan of Arc? by Pam Pollack (Nonfiction/Biography/France/Hundred Years' War--1431)
Joan of Arc: The Teenager Who Saved Her Nation by Philip Wilkinson (Nonfiction/Biography/France/Hundred Years' War--1431)
Joan of Arc: A Photographic Story of a Life by Kathleen Kudlinski (Nonfiction/Biography/France/Hundred Years' War--1431)
The Ancient Ritual Sites: The Citadel of Machu Picchu and Stonehenge by Ricard Regas, et al. (Nonfiction--c. 3000 B.C. and c. 1450 A.D.)
Leonardo da Vinci by Emily Hahn (Nonfiction - Italy--1452-1519)
The Emperor's Winding Sheet by Jill Patton Walsh (Fiction/Fall of Constantinople--1453)
Johannes Gutenberg: Inventor of the Printing Press by Fran Rees (Nonfiction/Biography--1400-1468, suggest reading around Gutenberg Bible time period, 1455)
Ink on His fingers by Louise Vernon (Germany/Gutenberg Bible--1455)
Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World by Gregory Blanch (Nonfiction/Art History/Botticelli-Anguissola--1465-1625)
Children of the Longhouse by Joseph Bruchac (Mohawk territory/modern New York--late 1400s)
The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park (Korea--1473)
King Richard III by Rex Gibson [simplified from work of William Shakespeare] (Play/England--1483-1485)
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Polynesia--before 1500, when outsiders arrived)
Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 by Charles Mann (The Americas until 1491)
First Voyage to America: From the Log of the "Santa Maria" by Christopher Columbus (Nonfiction/Primary source--1492)
The Story of the Moors After Spain by Stanley Lane-Pool (Nonfiction/Survey--1490s on)
The Samurai's Tale by Erik Christian Haugaard (Japan--1500s)
The Second Mrs. Gioconda by E. L. Konigsburg (Florence, Italy--1503)
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark (Peru--early 1500s)
This Was John Calvin by Thea B. Van Halsema (Biography/France/Switzerland/Protestant Reformation--1509-1564)
Thunderstorm in the Church by Louise Vernon (Germany/Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation--1517)
Walk the World's Rim by Betty Baker (Cabeza de Vaca--1527-1536)
Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer (Biographical Fiction/Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn for viewpoint of Mary--1533-1536)
Beware, Princess Elizabeth by Carolyn Meyer (England--1533-1603)
Good Queen Bess: the story of Elizabeth I of England by Diane Stanley (Biography/England--1533-1603)
The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary, Queen of Scots by Carolyn Meyer (Scotland/France--1542-1587)
The Amethyst Ring by Scott O'Dell (Mayans, Incans, Spanish--1500s-1600s)
A Murder for Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner (Elizabethan England--sometime between 1558-1603)
The Sea King: Sir Francis Drake and His Times by Albert Marrin (Nonfiction/Naval history/Born in 1540s but active--1563-1596)
Mosque by David Macaulay (Istanbul/Ottoman Empire--mid to late 1500s)
Cate of the Lost Colony by Lisa Klein (Novel/Banished love of Sir Walter Raleigh/Elizabethan court/Roanoke Colony--1587)
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood (England--1589-1613)
Daughter of Venice by Donna Jo Napoli (Novel/Venice--1590s)
Blood Secret by Kathryn Lasky (Novel/Catholic Inquisition against Jews/New Mexico Catholic girl's religious struggle--many dates throughout history; I suggest reading this one at the time of a known Jewish settlement in New Mexico--c. 1598)