Build Your Library
Build Your Library is a literature-based curriculum with Charlotte Mason methods, sold as one PDF of lesson plans per level from kindergarten to 12th grade. Each level follows a history theme, and the plans give a daily and weekly schedule for 36 weeks with a reading list, narration cards, copywork, vocabulary, poetry memorization, timeline figures, mapwork, science lessons and art projects. You buy or borrow the books yourself, add your own math, and may want separate spelling and grammar programs.
- Subjects
- All subjects: language arts, science and history and geography
- Grades
- Level 0 (kindergarten) to Level 12 (12th grade) source ↗
- Method
- Literature-based, Charlotte Mason source ↗
- Format
- Books and workbooks source ↗
- Faith label
- Secular
- Cost a year
- $39.95 a year. Level 3 (The Early Modern World) lesson plans, a 302-page PDF with a 36-week schedule, reading list, narration cards, activity pages and science lessons: $39.95. The books are bought or borrowed separately, and math is not included. Read on October 29, 2026; prices change. source ↗
- Placement
- Level, grade and age chart ↗
What it does well
- A full year of lesson plans costs $39.95, so most of the spending goes to books, which you can also borrow from a library.
- Each level gives a daily and weekly schedule for 36 weeks, so the planning is done for you.
- History, literature, science and art follow one history theme each year, so the subjects connect to each other.
- Updates are free: you download the newest PDF again from your original purchase link.
Watch for
- Math is not included, and you may need separate spelling and grammar programs.
- The books are not included; each level has a long booklist, and the publisher recommends buying the main books used for many weeks.
- The lesson plans come only as a PDF, and digital products cannot be returned or refunded.
- Much of the reading is done aloud by the parent, especially before readers are scheduled from Level 3.
It fits
A family that wants a book-centered year planned for them at low cost, with time to read aloud together.
It doesn’t fit
A family that wants math included, printed teacher guides, or a box that arrives with every book.
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Lists it is on
- Homeschool all-in-one curricula 22
- Secular homeschool curricula 30
- Literature-based homeschool curricula 12
- Charlotte Mason homeschool curricula 9
- Homeschool curricula for pre-K and kindergarten 48
- Homeschool curricula for middle school 51
- Homeschool curricula for high school 38
- Print homeschool curricula 44
- Homeschool curricula under $100 a year 17
- Secular homeschool all-in-one curricula 8
- Secular literature-based homeschool curricula 6
- Secular homeschool curricula for pre-K and kindergarten 25
What we read, and how we label
Every fact on a card was read on the publisher's own website on the date shown, and the page it came from is linked. A fact we could not confirm there is left out. Costs are for one child and one year of the main package, as the publisher's page showed them that day; prices and sales change. Method and format are the publisher's own description where it gives one. The only thing we say about religion is one label, secular or faith-based, given by the rule above; where the publisher's pages don't settle it, the card has no label.
The publisher’s pages we read on October 29, 2026:
- buildyourlibrary.com/
- buildyourlibrary.com/about-build-your-library/
- buildyourlibrary.com/overview/
- buildyourlibrary.com/frequently-asked-questions/
- buildyourlibrary.com/purchase-level-3-curriculum/
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