Parking my thoughts here on some literature choices for the girls ... mostly taken from Kolbe's lists for the older two girls, and Sonlight for the younger two, and edited for what they have already read!
Juliet (almost 12yo - audiobooks allowed due to dyslexia)
all our saint stories (mostly Windeatt... maybe 10 of them?)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (heard on audio)
The Black Arrow, Robert Louis Stevenson
Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury
Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
Fellowship of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (heard on audio)
Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Out of the Silent Planet, C.S. Lewis
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
**and anything from Maggie's list that has not been read yet (most!)
Maggie (10)
all our saint stories
The Black Cauldron, Lloyd Alexander
The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Speare
Captains Courageous, Rudyard Kipling
The Children’s Homer, Padraic Colum
Fingal’s Quest, Madeleine Polland
The Great Brain, John Fitzgerald
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkein
I am David, Ann Holm
The Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell
Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl
The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
Old Yeller, Fred Gipson
Outlaws of Ravenhurst, Sr. M. Imelda Wallace
The Secret of Pooduck Island, Alfred Noyes
Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
White Fang, Jack London
Grace (6.5)
The Sword in the Tree
Cora Frear
The House on Walenska Street
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
The Last Little Cat
The Littles
The Long Way Westward
The Long Way to a New Land
The Paint Brush Kid
Prairie School
Riding the Pony Express
Secret Valley
Tornado (about a dog)
Viking Adventure by Clyde Bulla
Along Came A Dog
B is for Betsy
the first three Betsy-Tacy books
Emily's Runaway Imagination
Llama in the Family
Lumber Camp Library
McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm
Misty of Chicoteague
More Stories from Grandma's Attic
Shadrach
The Whipping Boy
Leah (4.5)
FROG AND TOAD books
LITTLE BEAR books
MOUSE TAILS
OWL AT HOME
One Fish, Two Fish
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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