For many homeschoolers, the McGuffey Readers need no introduction. But for those of you who may not have heard of them, a short introduction is in order. For a detailed history, please read this article: http://www.answers.com/topic/william-holmes-mcguffey

The following list comprises all of the Mcguffey Readers we have on our CD. I believe it to be a complete collection, and it has many books difficult to find elsewhere.

"These School Books possess the highest merit, are more widely introduced than any other series published, and have received the cordial endorsement of the most intelligent and successful teachers, throughout the Union."

Economy to Parents- Combining the rare advantages of superior intrinsic merit, typographical beauty, cheapness, and extensive uniformity of adoption and use, this series has been officially recommended by more than 10,000 school boards.

These are the 1879 edition of McGuffey's Readers, or third edition.
 

• McGuffey's 1^st Eclectic Reader and McGuffey's Primer;containing the alphabet and lessons, simple and easy, for little learners.

• McGuffey's 2^nd Eclectic Reader and McGuffey's Alternate 2^nd Eclectic Reader; easy lessons in reading and spelling, for young pupils.

• McGuffey's 3^rd Eclectic Reader and McGuffey's Alternate 3^rd Eclectic Reader; interesting and instructive primary lessons, for young pupils.

• McGuffey's 4^th Eclectic Reader and McGuffey's Alternate 4^th Eclectic Reader; chaste and instructive lessons in prose and poetry, for the young.

• McGuffey's 5^th Eclectic Reader and McGuffey's Alternate 5^th Eclectic Reader; choice extracts in prose and verse, for middle classes.

• McGuffey's 6^th Eclectic Reader; a rhetorical reading book, for the more advanced classes.

• McGuffey's New High School Reader; copious classic exercises, for the highest classes in schools and academies.

• McGuffey's Word List; contains the words of McGuffey's Revised Primer and Readers in the order in which they are first met in the successive lessons.

• McGuffey's Eclectic Speaker; comprising three hundred exercises for reading or declamation. This book may be used as a reader or speaker; the selections being peculiarly adapted to the double purpose of declamation and reading in High Schools.

• McGuffey's Juvenile Speaker, for Common Schools: choice and animating exercises in speaking or reading, designed for young pupils.

• McGuffey's Eclectic Speller; containing more than 12,000 words, with rules and examples for the formation of derivatives.

• McGuffey's Familiar Animals and McGuffey's Living Creatures: McGuffey's Natural History Readers are intended to furnish supplementary reading within a field which is always fresh, interesting, and instructive to children.

• Hemans Reader for Female Schools; containing extracts in Prose and Poetry.