Book Lists

Always Updating!

I will hopefully use this page to keep track of our books we read.  I will list them by child/grade.....This will be a list of mostly their required reading....we may add some of their personal reading material to the list, our read alouds, and some of the history stories from SOTW.  We read so many little books for read alouds to my younger one, so I won't list them all here.  I have most of these books on our Shelfari located on the left side of the blog.  Please check out our book guides that I have made for Homer Price, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Call of the Wild, and our generic weekly lit guide that has a SWB & IEW flare!

2015-2016

Read Aloud List 

Flower 9th Grade List

Bambi 7th Grade List

Thumper 4th Grade List

2014-2015 

(we read more than I could keep up with & failed at writing it down)

This year the kids have their own book baskets filled with Medieval books that pertain to our history studies for this year.  I will use some of them as history read alouds.  They also each have book shelves filled with personal readers which aren't fluff, so they will have free choice of their personal readers.  Each one has a book list to jot down what they have read and I have printed the Mensa book list for encouragement.
Mensa K-3
Mensa 4-6
Mensa 7-8
Mensa 9-12

Read Alouds
Henry and Beezus by Beverly Cleary (T)
Henry and Ribsy (T)
Henry Huggins (T)
Henry and the Clubhouse (T)
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green (all)
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! by Laura Amy Schlitz (all)
The Apple and The Arrow by Mary & Conrad Buff (all)
Human Body Detectives book collection by Dr. Heather Manley (T)

Flower - Transition Year 8/9

*Lord of the Rings Trilogy
*Anne of Green Gables series (6 total books)
Incommunicado by Randall Platt
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
Ten Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

Bambi - 6th Grade
Mosdos Press Pearl (Stories, Poems, Plays)

Ten Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
Marie Curie by Anne Steinke
The Secret Soldier by Ann McGovern
Take Back the Skies by Lucy Saxon
Tales of King Arthur by Felicity Brooks
The Measly Middle Ages by Terry Deary
Castle Diary by Richard Platt
Roman Diary
Egyptian Diary
Pirate Diary
The Twits by Roald Dahl (again from last year)
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Tuesday at the Castle by Jessica Day George
Pack of Dorks by Beth Vrabel

Thumper - 3rd Grade
Mosdos Press Opal (Stories, Poems, Plays)
The Knight at Dawn by Mary Pope Osborne
The Littles and the Lost Children by John Peterson
The Littles Go Exploring
The Littles and the Big Storm
Redwall by Brian Jacques
You Wouldn't Want To Be A.........by John Malam
*Roman Gladiator
*Medieval Cathedral
*In a Medieval Dungeon
*Medieval Knight
*Crusader
*Viking Explorer
Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone by Cindy Neuschwander
Usborne: Eggs and Chicks

2013-2014

Read Alouds

I will list them as we read them.....I used the kids' initials for each book.

Mouse and the Motorcycle- T

Season of the Sandstorms- T

Long Ago Stories of the Eastern Cherokee- All

The Red Pyramid audio book- All

The Keeping Room- All (Flower)

Stone Fox- B&T

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles #1 The Valley of the Kings- All
The Cat of Bubastes audio/book & coloring book- All (T & B mainly)
Pipi Longstocking- T
The Great Turkey Walk- All
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever- All
Pippi Goes on Board- T
Black Ships Before Troy - All
Tales From The Odyssey Part One & Two - Thumper....Bambi listening in
Narnia series (we have audio to fill in for car trips)- All

Flower 8th Grade

(not in any order....hope to get through most of the historical readers with history but won't sweat it if she doesn't.)

Stories and Poems by Harold Bloom (continued from 7th grade and used throughout year)(LL8)

Treasure Island(LL8)

A Day of Pleasure(LL8)

A Christmas Carol (watch original movie)(LL8)

The Hobbit (watch movie)(LL8)

My Family and Other Animals (we have the DVD video for after reading)(LL8)(loved this video....she has watched it several times now!)

To Kill a Mockingbird (watch movie)(LL8)

After LL8.... Teaching The Classics with Mom for 6 weeks.

Amos Fortune, Free Man

Shades of Gray

Rebel Cornbread & Yankee Coffee
Little Town on the Praire

My Side of the Mountain

Far Side of the Mountain

Hatchet

A Long Way from Chicago
All of a Kind Family

War Horse

Bud, Not Buddy

Twenty & Ten

Under the Blood-Red Sun

Snow Treasure

Bambi (5th Grade)

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Twits by Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Esio Trot
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'dell
The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Detectives in Togas by Henry Winterfield
Fudge-A-Mania by Judy Blume
Every Little Bird that Sings by Deborah Wiles
The Rotten Roman:  Terry Deary:  Horrible Histories
Mystery of the Roman Ransom by Henry Winterfeld
Nancy Drew Series


Thumper (2nd Grade) is a great reader but rather be playing!

Billy & Blaze by C.W. Anderson
Billy & the Forest Fire
Blaze & the Lost Quarry
Blaze & the Gray Spotted Pony
Blaze & Thunderbolt
Blaze Finds the Trail
Blaze & the Mountain Lion
How & Why Birds Use Their Bills by Pascoe
How & Why Animals Hatch From Eggs
Mummies in the Morning:  Magic Treehouse
Temple Cat by Andrew Clements
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley
Julius by Syd Hoff (He discovered Hoff in 1st grade...he loves all the books)
Mr. Putter & Tabby Take the Train by Arthur Howard
Henry & Mudge and the Big Sleepover by Cynthia Rylant
Henry & Mudge Under the Yellow Moon
Angus and the Cat by Marjorie Flack
A Ghost named Fred by Nathaniel Benchley
Angus and the Ducks by Marjorie Flack
Angus Lost
Mr. Putter & Tabby Clear the Decks
Polar Bears Past Bedtime: Magic Treehouse
Merry Christmas Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
Afternoon on the Amazon:  Magic Treehouse
I am Not Going to Get up Today!  Dr. Seuss
My Father's Dragon collection (ongoing reader before bed with audio book)
Viking Ships at Sunrise:  Magic Treehouse #15
Dingoes at Dinnertime Magic Treehouse #20
Audio Book:  White Fang; Classic Starts
Finishing Magic Treehouse Series through the summer