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Budget Homeschool Links
Books Online Links
Welcome to the Budget Home$chool Books Online section! If reading is your favorite thing
in the world, you will love these selections. Here you will find links to inexpensive or
totally free online books, some are interactive, while others allow you to read online or
download them to read on your computer or print them off to read later.
Included is a selection of generally low-cost options to purchase books for your family.
The Anne of Green Gables & The Sugar Creek Gang Sections were included to provide
resources to those who are fans, some options are free, others offer items for purchase.
If you own an Amazon Kindle, be sure to check out the Amazon ads (scroll down), where you
will find free Kindle book downloads for the kids.
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| |  The Online Books Libraryby John Mark Ockerbloom Ages: 12+Listing over 35,000 free books online. The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all.Subjects: books, online, database, writers, foreign language, archives
Children's Storiesby Grace Ages: 3 - 16You will find a huge collection of bible stories featuring famous bible characters like Samson, David, Mary and Martha, and Daniel with a bible study of God's Word at the end of some bible stories.Subjects: kids, stories, fairy tales, humor, illustrated, teens, preschool, Bible stories, audio, illustrated Children's Storybooks Onlineby Carol Moore Ages: 4 - 15Illustrated children's stories for kids of all ages. One day, overnight, the world turned violet. Just about everything turned violet from the sky and ocean and mountains to the trees and animals and people and from the tallest skyscrapers to ...Subjects: books, children, preschool, youth, animals, treasure, audio, reading skills, primary grades, students, reading skills  Free Electronic Books Online Ages: 12+Books have changed. Not the words but how books are shared. This simple reading program is going to help you make the most of electronic format classic books. You can share them through your website too.Subjects: books, classic, Java applet, electronic, reading
SparkNotes Today's Free Online Study Guidesby Barnes & Noble Ages: 13+Study guides and discussion forums offered on various academic subjects. Literature section includes brief analyses of characters, themes and plots.Subjects: resources, vocabulary, learning, literature, writing LibriVox Children's Literatureby Various Volunteers Ages: 5+LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. All our audio is in the public domain, so you may use it for ...Subjects: audio book downloads, public domain, acoustical liberation, catalog, Aesop's Fables, podcast, volunteer, recording, teens, children, books Spaghetti Book Clubby Happy Medium Productions Ages: 7 - 14Book reviews by kids for kids! The Spaghetti Book Club is an innovative literacy program that integrates reading, writing, art and technology by teaching students how to write and illustrate book reviews. Much to their delight, the reviews are then published on the Spaghetti Book Club.Subjects: book reviews, kids, titles, authors, clubhouse, literacy  Free Online Illustrated Classic Children's Stories Ages: 3 - 12byGosh features illustrated short stories for children, such as: Jack in the Beanstalk, Cinderella, The City Mouse and the Country Mouse, The little Red Hen and many more titles.Subjects: literature, reading, classics, illustrated childrens books, electronic books, ebooks, novels, Aesop's Fables, short stories, children's stories
Bibliomania - Free Online Literature and Study Guidesby PanEris Ages: 10+Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts. Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free. You can read the world's greatest fiction by authors such as Dickens and Joyce, Sherlock Holmes mysteries, all Shakespeare's plays, or just dip into some short stories by writers such as Mark Twain, Anton Chekov and Edgar Allan Poe.Subjects: books, reading, study guides, search engine, literature, students, e-books, poems, articles, short stories, plays Fish Tales by J. Kearns Ages: 5+I decided to rewrite a number of tales for reading to my son. It is not a matter of historical revisionism. A good deal of thought and research went into my revisions, which I trust will be evident to those who are intimately familiar with the older talesSubjects: free, children's, books, stories, Rapunzel, Beauty and the Beast, Wise Folks, The Frog King  Campfire Stories with George Catlin: An Encounter of Two Culturesby Smithsonian American Art Museum Ages: 8+Take a virtual journey to meet American Indians of the 1830s with artist, ethnologist, and showman George Catlin. This site compiles paintings, historical documents, and commentary from contemporary experts so you can explore the interaction...Subjects: interactive, storytelling, campfire stories, Great Plains, native culture, American Indians, multimedia stories, historical figures, ecology, geography Page By Page Books Ages: 12+Read Classic Books Online for Free - Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne a classic story about the adventures of Phineas Fogg as the circle the world in order to win a bet. The whole time he is being trailed by a detective who thinks he is a bank robber. Subjects: resource, books, e-book, electronic text, database, presidents, classic, books, online, library, literature, history, stories, Dickens, Thackeray, Lucy Maud Montgomery  Free e-books and Digital Libraries (by Country) Ages: 18+New Zealand Digital Library Collections available include historical documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science technical reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines.Subjects: resource, digital libraries, free books, reading, open access, students, historical, searchable, library, treasures, humanities
Free e-Book Linksby HEC National Digital Library Program Ages: 15+This growing collection of e-texts - includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Medicine. Subjects: links, resources, ebooks, repository, journals, Gutenburg, Australia, electronic text, digital library, free medical books Virtual American Biographies - Free onlineOver 30,000 personalities with thousands of 19th Century illustrations, signatures, and exceptional life stories.Subjects: Virtual Museums of Art, History, Library, Science, Natural History and War Okay Kids, Time for Bedlam!by Debbie Harbeson Ages: 16+Free download - A pdf book on the lighter side of homeschooling. This is what happens to you, when you purposely allow your children to skip school to learn at home... and it's a riot! The whole endeavor, needless to say, has been a learning experience for everyone. And hopefully, a story you all can enjoy from the safety of your own home.Subjects: PDF, book, humor, free download, homeschooling, bedlam, reading, funny BookSpot - Links to online booksby StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc. Ages: 10+You may not be able to get John Grisham ebooks yet, but book lovers can get their hands on both classics and new authors' works via the Internet. In addition, most downloadable books are much cheaper than printed editions. (Some are even free!) Subjects: literature, reading, search engines, library, classics, public domain, e-books, electronic text Project Gutenberg - 18,000 free electronic books  The Call of the Wildby Jack London Ages: 10+Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller's place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half-hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides.Subjects: reading, books, children, 1903, history, Klondike, law of club and fang, literature, Northland, environment, body building, survival
Questia Online Libraryby Questia Media America, Inc. Ages: 12+Read more than 5,000 books -- for free. Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.Subjects: books, free, research, academic, humanities, tools, footnotes, resource Classic literature, poems, and quotes - Essays & Summaries - The Literature Network OnlineSearchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast.Subjects: reading, books, poems, bible, quotes  The Adventures of Daniel Booneby Archiving Early America Ages: 12+Daniel Boone's Adventures is presented here for the first time on the Internet. His first-person narrative appears as he actually wrote it, using the grammar and syntax current in America in the 1700s. Subjects: narrative, frontiersman, Kentucky, history, adventures, wilderness
Fables from Aesop - Four Animated Fables by Viking Children's Booksby Tom LynchDarling animated fablesSubjects: Aesop's Animated Fables Rape of the Mind - The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide and Brainwashing [Parents]by Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.DThe Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and BrainwashingSubjects: psychology, brainwashing, thought control Good Stories for Great Holidaysby Olcott, Frances Jenkins Ages: 5+Subjects: stories, holiday, electronic, text, books, reading, children, library ED Pubs - Free publications Indian Boyhoodby Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) Ages: 12+What boy would not be an Indian for a while, when he thinks of the freest life in the world? This life was mine. Every day there was a real hunt. There was real game. Occasionally there was a medicine dance away off in the woods...Subjects: book, online, Eastman, 1858-1939, Indian, heritage Your source for swapping paperback books for FREE! - PaperBackSwap.com Purchase - Usborne books Questia Online Library [Free Book of the Week] Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainA searchable online version at The Literature Network.Subjects: books, education Knitting - Illustrated Book by Maran The deliberate dumbing down of America by Charlotte Iserbyt Words On Us - Book Lovers and Home Scholars [Free & For Sale]This site is dedicated to noble and timeless ideas: that making people laugh can be the first step toward making them think...Subjects: books, discussion forums, humor Children's Authors & Illustrators on the WebA great source of information about a great many children's writers and illustrators. The websites listed here include authors' personal websites and websites maintained by fans, scholars, and readers.
Subjects: Children's literature, authors websites Facsimiles of Historical Children's Booksby Kay E. Vandergrift Ages: 16+Facsimiles of early children's books provide an alternative to original texts and offer opportunities to examine reproductions of rare and expensive volumes. To what extent does Aesop contribute to our understanding of many early children's books? How much did early publishers influence the writing and illustrating of books for children?Subjects: literature, classics, books online, children's literature, reading, collection, history, books, education, classical literature Rapunzel by Grimm - byGosh The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - Project Gutenberg Paul Bunyan Trail - A Tall Tale - The Giant Lumberjack The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Project Gutenberg Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - Literature.org How to Get the Right Education for your Child The Adventures of Beowulf Dog Training - Illustrated Book by Maran Grand Illusions - The Legacy of Planned Parenthood by George Grant [html book] Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving; Page by Page Books The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain Puppies - Illustrated Book by Maran The Underground History of American Education [Parental Guidance Suggested] Free Book Notes Summary - Literature Notes - Free Booknotes The Story of the Three Little Pigs - Children's Classics  Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw - The Literature Network
Treasure Island Online - Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate classic book Yoga - Illustrated Book by Maran Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ~ The Electronic Literature Foundation Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - The Literature Network The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain A searchable online version at The Literature Network The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - Literature.org Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson A searchable online version at The Literature Network Weight Training - Illustrated Book by Maran Digital Library (by Title) - The University of Adelaide Library, Australia The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane - The Literature Page Bookshare.org - Book Reviews by Category Computers Guided Tour - Illustrated Book by Maran Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand - Project Gutenberg Education and Capitalism - How overcoming our fear of markets and economics can improve American's Schools How Mandy Went Rowing With The Cap'n - St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, May 1878 Issuu - Free digial magazines and publications (parental guidance recommended) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - The Literature Network Tempest by William Shakespeare - The Literature Network Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare - The Literature Network Parent Magazine - Honoring Dad (Healthy Relationships) Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen - The Literature Network The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain The Poisoned Needle by Eleanor McBean [Parental Guidance Suggested] Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas - An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - The Literature Network Amsterdam Weekly Magazine - Issuu Arts Houston Magazine (Feb. 2008) - Issuu Hamlet by William Shakespeare - The Literature Network My Antonia by Willa Sibert Cather Purchase - BiggerBooks.com Purchase - Just For Kids - Children's Bookstore Purchase - The Language Specialists - Books in French, German, Spanish, Italian... The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry - Project Gutenberg Grand Illusions - The Legacy of Planned Parenthood by George Grant [pdf book] Purchase - Barrons Educational Books Purchase - Garrett Books Educational Purchase - Learn-A-Lot Purchase - Oak Knoll Books & Oak Knoll Press [some free books online] Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Macbeth by William Shakespeare - The Literature Network Purchase - Alibris - Used, Rare, and Out-of-Print Books Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - The Literature Network The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Literature Network
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