Sonlight Core 200

Church history is the focus of Core 200, and uses The Story of Christianity as its foundational text. This book was particularly chosen because it was authored by a Catholic priest (Michael Collins) and a Protestant scholar (Matthew A. Price), ensuring that its narrative is balanced in content and approach. Other Christian books for this program include From Jerusalem to Irian JayaChurch of the East, and What If Jesus Had Never Been Born.

The literature focus for this year is classic fiction, from The Best of Father Brown, to Shakespeare, to Jane Eyre and the Screwtape Letters. The curriculum at this level is both extensive and challenging, and as kids look at the history of the Church, study their Bibles, and read more widely than ever before, their thinking will be shaped and molded the entire way to help them use reason and knowledge to robustly defend their faith in the face of all opposition.

Please Note: Sonlight Curriculum does not sell their materials to Exodus Books. We carry many of the same titles, and are often able to obtain used copies of books they publish. The following is culled from their 2013 website and includes much of their selection, though it is not comprehensive, nor is it in any sort of curricular order. For a complete listing, visit the Sonlight Curriculum website.

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100 Most Important Events in Christian History
by A. Kenneth Curtis, et al.
from Revell Publishing
Church History Reference for 9th-Adult
in Church History Overviews (Location: XCH-OVE)
$21.99 $11.50 (1 in stock)
Annotated Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Revised & Expanded from Anchor Books
for 9th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$20.00 $12.00 (1 in stock)
Best of Father Brown
by G. K. Chesterton
from Everyman's Library
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$9.95
Child's Anthology of Poetry
by Elizabeth Hauge Sword
from Ecco Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Poetry for Children (Location: POET-CHIL)
Church of the East
by John Holzmann
3rd edition from Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd.
in Church History (Location: XCH-HIS)
From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya
by Ruth Tucker
2nd edition from Zondervan
History of missions for 11th-Adult
in History of Missions (Location: XCH-MIS)
$32.99 $14.00 (3 in stock)
Hawk and the Dove
Hawk and the Dove Series #1
by Penelope Wilcock
3rd Revised edition from Lion Publishing
for 6th-9th grade
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$13.99
Jane Eyre
Puffin Classics
by Charlotte Bronte
from Puffin Books
Realistic Romantic Fiction for 8th-Adult
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$7.19
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte
from International Collectors Library
Realistic Romantic Fiction for 8th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
Jesus I Never Knew
by Philip Yancey
from Zondervan
in Knowing & Loving God (Location: XCL-KNOW)
$16.99
Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool
from Yearling
for 6th-10th grade
2011 Newbery Medal Winner
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
Moon Over Manifest
by Clare Vanderpool
1st edition from Delacorte Press
for 6th-10th grade
2011 Newbery Award Winner
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
More Than a Carpenter
by Josh McDowell
from Tyndale House
in Evidential Apologetics (Location: XAP-EVI)
$2.50 (2 in stock)
More Than a Carpenter
by Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell
Revised from Tyndale House
in Evidential Apologetics (Location: XAP-EVI)
$6.99
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
from Oxford University
Realistic Fiction for 7th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$6.95
Outlaws of Sherwood
by Robin McKinley
from ACE Publishing
for 8th-12th grade
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
Parcel of Patterns
by Jill Paton Walsh
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
for 7th-12th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$9.99 $5.00 (1 in stock)
Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English
by John Bunyan
from Moody Press
Christian Prose Epic/Allegory for 9th-Adult
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
$9.99
Pontius Pilate
by Paul L. Maier
2nd edition from Kregel Publications
for 9th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$8.50 (1 in stock)
Ramsay Scallop
by Frances Temple
from HarperTrophy
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
from Oxford University
for 8th-12th grade
in 18th Century Literature (Location: LIT5-18)
$7.95
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, with an introduction by Virginia Woolf
Reissue from Modern Library
for 8th-12th grade
in 18th Century Literature (Location: LIT5-18)
$9.00
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare Made Easy
by William Shakespeare
from Barron's
for 10th-Adult
in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN)
$6.99 $4.50 (1 in stock)
Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
from HarperCollins
Allegory/Religion for 9th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$17.99
Shining Company
by Rosemary Sutcliff
from Sunburst Book
Historical Fiction for 6th-9th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$15.99
Shining Company
by Rosemary Sutcliff
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Historical Fiction for 6th-9th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
Solitary Blue
Tillerman Cycle #3
by Cynthia Voight
Reprint from Atheneum
for 6th-10th grade
1984 Newbery Honor Book
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$11.99
Story of Christianity
by Michael Collins, Matthew A. Price
1st edition from DK Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Church History Overviews (Location: XCH-OVE)
$15.00 (2 in stock)
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Signet Classics
by Robert Louis Stevenson
from Oxford University
Mystery/Suspense for 8th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$7.95
Till We Have Faces
by C. S. Lewis
Reissue from HarperOne
for 9th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$16.99
Treasure Island
by Sir Robert Louis Stevenson
from Bantam Books
for 6th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$4.95
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
from Barron's
Comedy for 8th-12th grade
in Renaissance & Reformation Literature (Location: LIT3-REN)
$6.99 $4.50 (3 in stock)
Westminster Shorter Catechism For Study Classes
by G. I. Williamson
2nd edition from P&R Publishing
for 9th-Adult
in Creeds, Confessions & Catechisms (Location: XTH-CREED)
$15.99
What Hearts
by Bruce Brooks
from HarperCollins
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$8.99 $5.00 (1 in stock)
What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?
by D. James Kennedy, Jerry Newcombe
from Thomas Nelson Publishers
for Adult
in Church History Overviews (Location: XCH-OVE)
$16.98
Wise Woman
by George MacDonald
from Eerdmans
Fantasy for 10th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
$17.00
Wounds of God
Hawk and the Dove Series #2
by Penelope Wilcock
3rd Revised edition from Lion Publishing
for 6th-9th grade
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$13.99