Ambleside Online — Year 5: Assigned Reading

Ambleside Online is a free, Charlotte Mason–style homeschool curriculum built around "living books." Below is the assigned literature for Year 5 (Grade 5 (ages 10–11)) — the novels, tales, and poetry children read this year. (History spines, science, nature study, and artist/composer study are part of the full curriculum but listed separately on Ambleside Online.)

5 books · Grade 5 (ages 10–11).

1. 
   1Oliver Twist

   by Charles Dickens

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2. 
   2Kim

   by Rudyard Kipling

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3. 
   3King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

   by Roger Lancelyn Green

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4. 
   4Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable

   by Thomas Bulfinch

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5. 
   5The Song of Hiawatha

   by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Assigned literature from the Ambleside Online Year 5 booklist (amblesideonline.org). View the official Ambleside Online booklist. Last verified 2026-06-29.