History Quest
History Quest is a world and US history series for elementary grades, one time period a year: Early Times, Middle Times and United States, plus a Modern History Bridge book. Each year pairs a narrative chapter book (also sold as an audiobook) with a study guide of 34 weekly units: read and map the chapter, take an imaginary trip to the period, do a craft or recipe, write or take dictation, then read more widely. You buy the chapter book and the study guide, in print or as PDFs.
- Subjects
- History and geography
- Grades
- 1st to 6th grade; United States is for 3rd to 6th, and the Modern History Bridge book reaches 7th grade source ↗
- Method
- Literature-based source ↗
- Format
- Books and workbooks source ↗
- Faith label
- Secular
- Works alone from
- The publisher says the chapter book is a read-aloud for 1st to 4th grade and an independent read from 5th grade. source ↗
- Cost a year
- $101.98 a year. Middle Times, 1st to 6th grade: chapter book $36.99 and study guide $64.99 in print, $101.98 together; as PDFs, $22.99 and $48.99, $71.98 together. Read on October 29, 2026; prices change. source ↗
- Placement
- Course map by grade ↗
What it does well
- Every week follows the same five-day pattern (read, imaginary trip, create, write, enrich), so the plan is laid out for you.
- The print study guide comes with a PDF of the student pages, maps and lists, so copying them for your own children is easy.
- One chapter book serves 1st to 6th grade, read aloud to younger children and read alone by older ones, so siblings can share a year.
- Map work, writing, dictation and copywork are built into each week.
Watch for
- You also need The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History and several literature books, which Pandia Press does not sell with the course.
- The chapter book alone is not the course: each year needs both the chapter book and the study guide.
- Weekly crafts, recipes and projects mean gathering supplies and setting aside parent time.
- It stops at 6th grade (the bridge book reaches 7th), so middle and high school history need another program.
It fits
A family with several elementary children who wants history told as a story, with a weekly mix of crafts, mapping and writing.
It doesn’t fit
A family that wants a short, low-prep history workbook, or one program that runs through middle and high school.
Compare History Quest
- History Quest vs The Story of the World side by side
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- Beautiful Feet Books Kindergarten to 12th grade, in grade spans such as K to 3rd, 4th to 6th and 5th to 8th
- The Good and the Beautiful Preschool to 12th grade; high school has language arts and biology only
- Khan Academy Kindergarten to 12th grade, plus early college courses
- The Mystery of History Ages 5 and up, about kindergarten to 12th grade; Volume I reads at a 3rd to 4th grade level and Volume IV at 9th grade and up
- Notgrass History 1st to 12th grade: elementary courses for 1st to 4th, middle school for 5th to 8th, high school for 9th to 12th
- The Story of the World About 1st to 8th grade: Volume 1 is mainly for 1st to 4th grade and Volume 4 for 4th to 8th
- Tapestry of Grace Kindergarten to 12th grade in levels: Primer (K to 1st), Lower Grammar (1st to 3rd), Upper Grammar (4th to 6th), Dialectic (7th to 9th), Rhetoric (10th to 12th)
Lists it is on
- Homeschool history and geography curricula 8
- Secular homeschool curricula 30
- Literature-based homeschool curricula 12
- Homeschool curricula for middle school 51
- Print homeschool curricula 44
- Homeschool curricula for $100 to $300 a year 18
- Secular literature-based homeschool curricula 6
- Secular homeschool curricula for middle school 24
- Secular print homeschool curricula 19
- Print homeschool history and geography curricula 7
- Literature-based homeschool history and geography curricula 3
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:
- pandiapress.com/
- pandiapress.com/pages/history-quest
- pandiapress.com/collections/history-quest-middle-times
- pandiapress.com/products/history-quest-middle-times
- pandiapress.com/products/history-quest-middle-times-study-guide
- pandiapress.com/pages/curricula-map
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