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Filter by the night you have, by a measure at 8 or above, or by the gap — the measure a story is worst at. The address is the cut. Send it, and the other house opens the same list.

Of 65 titles at 80 or above, the thin measure is temperance, at 8.5. Open that gap

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75 or above, temperance at least 7, household at least 6.

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• 100The Holy Bible, King James VersionBook · 1611 · Living historicallyThe standard itself. Read it. The meter does not improve it.Audit this
• 93The Declaration of IndependenceBroadside · 1776 · Living historicallyA people stating why they are leaving a king. The sheet was heard in a yard, not kept as a private letter.Audit this
• 91Common SensePamphlet · 1776 · Living historicallyPlain words, written to be read aloud. The name stayed off the first printing because the charge was treason.Audit this
• 91Little House on the PrairieSeries · 1974 · Living historicallyThe standard, filmed. Work, a house, prayer, a town, and something left in the ground for the people after them.Audit this
• 91Poor Richard's AlmanackAlmanac · 1732 · Living historicallyWeather, planting, and a proverb. A tool kept the whole year.Audit this
• 91Robinson CrusoeStory · 1719 · Living historicallyThe work is the glory. The lack of a house to go back to is the hole.Audit this
• 91The American CrisisPamphlet · 1776 · Living historicallyWritten to be read to men who were about to cross a river in the dark.Audit this
• 91The New England PrimerSchoolbook · 1680s · Living historicallyMemorized. The alphabet and a doctrine, in the same rhyme.Audit this
• 91The Pilgrim's ProgressStory · 1678 · Living historicallyEvery easy path is a trap. The book says so in plain pictures.Audit this
• 90A ballad broadsideSong · 1776 · Living historicallyHow a child learned the new words. He already knew the British melody.Audit this
• 90A grandfather's warSpoken · 1763 · Living historicallyNo book. Who died, who held the farm, how the family got here.Audit this
• 90A Little Pretty Pocket-BookStory · 1744 · Living historicallyThe first book meant as a child's pleasure. Morals are sewn on. They are lighter than the Primer.Audit this
• 90A penny chapbookStory · 1776 · Living historicallyThe shelf children actually passed around. Short, pictured, cut down.Audit this
• 90A town's ghost storiesSpoken · 1776 · Living historicallyThe night's entertainment. Superstition was ordinary.Audit this
• 90Babes in the WoodStory · 1595 · Living historicallyTold so a child would not wander, and would not trust the stranger.Audit this
• 90Beauty and the BeastStory · 1756 · Living historicallyThe one fairy tale here that scores like a novel. A promise is kept, and the sisters' greed is not the prize.Audit this
• 90Bickerstaff's Boston AlmanackAlmanac · 1776 · Living historicallyYou met the war while you looked up the frost.Audit this
• 90BluebeardStory · 1697 · Living historicallyThe murders are the crime. The old tale is more interested in the woman who looked. That is the fault in the tale.Audit this
• 90ChesterSong · 1770 · Living historicallyTrust in God, sung in parts. The famous verse about a tyrant's iron rod was printed in 1778. This score is the hymn a child already had.Audit this
• 90CinderellaStory · 1697 · Living historicallyThe work and the test are worth keeping. The prize is a court, which is thinner than a house.Audit this
• 90Free AmericaSong · 1775 · Living historicallyA dead man's song. It told a boy the country would outgrow Rome and Britain.Audit this
• 90Jack and the BeanstalkStory · 1734 · Living historicallyThe lowest tale on this shelf. The story cheers a theft and calls the boy clever.Audit this
• 90Little Red Riding HoodStory · 1697 · Living historicallyThe rule is small enough for a child: stay on the path, and do not tell a stranger the house.Audit this
• 90Pennsylvanischer StaatsboteNewspaper · 1776 · Living historicallyA house that did not read English was not left outside the sentence.Audit this
• 90Rivington's New York GazetteerNewspaper · 1773 · Living historicallyThe other argument. A child in a town the British held could hear it.Audit this
• 90The Connecticut CourantNewspaper · 1764 · Living historicallyThe war, carried to a town that was not the battlefield.Audit this
• 90The Hiding PlaceBook · 1971 · Living historicallyRead it as adults first. Then decide which child is old enough.Audit this
• 90The History of Little Goody Two-ShoesStory · 1765 · Living historicallyA story about a child with no house, and the house as the thing to be repaired.Audit this
• 90The Liberty SongSong · 1768 · Living historicallyBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. A chorus a crowd could shout.Audit this
• 90The Massachusetts SpyNewspaper · 1775 · Living historicallyThe early fights, told so a town would stay angry. Sensation is part of the method.Audit this
• 90The OdysseyStory · Ancient · Living historicallyThe point is the return, not the monsters.Audit this
• 90The Pennsylvania Evening PostNewspaper · 1776 · Living historicallyA small sheet, openly on a side, read aloud at the tavern because a child did not buy it.Audit this
• 90The squareSpoken · 1776 · Living historicallyThe Declaration, the enlistment, and the anger, all where you already were.Audit this
• 90The Sunday pulpitSpoken · 1776 · Living historicallyFor many houses, Sunday was the news, and the news had a conscience in it.Audit this
• 90The tavern readingSpoken · 1776 · Living historicallyHow a thirteen-year-old, too young for the drink, got the war.Audit this
• 90Whittington and His CatStory · 1605 · Living historicallyTold at the fire. A story about leaving, and coming back rich.Audit this