Most homeschoolers I know, including myself, are continually looking for reading lists with ideas for books their children can and should read. A good friend of mine gave me this book by Leslie Raynor and Christopher Perrin to peruse and asked me my opinion of it. I read through all of the lists in the books and found it to be problematic. It tries to do too much in a small space. The lists are divided into K, Lower Grammar (1-3), Upper Grammar (4-6), Rhetoric (7-9) and Dialectic (10-12). Within the lists, books are classified by genre and then by level (1-3--easy, normal, challenging). I discovered as I read that book that I would not recommend this book for several reasons. 1. There is almost no realistic fiction in this book. I only found 2 books--From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenwiler and Bridge to Terabithia in the 4-9 lists. Dickens is considered realistic fiction by these authors. 2. The way the books were leveled d...