2007 Reading

Bumped to the top so I can find it and keep updating it.

J:
The Ravenmaster's Secret - Elvira Woodruff
Henry Reed, Inc. - Keith Robertson
Little Pilgrim's Progress
Three Tales of My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett
The First Marathon: The Legend of Pheidippides - Susan Reynolds
On Noah's Ark - Jan Brett
Mirette on the High Wire - Emily Arnold McCully
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Dahl
The Water of Life - retold by Rogasky
In process - Midshipman Hornblower - C. S. Forester
Pennsylvania - Capstone Press
Dear Fish - Chris Gall
Aliens are Coming! - Meghan McCarthy
All the Tintins
Flying the Hot Ones - Steven Lindblom
The Ballad of the Pirate Queens - Jane Yolen
Hank the Cow Dog and the Case of the Hooking Bull -
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story - S. D. Nelson
Abridged version of Around the World in 80 Days - Usborne
Across the Blue Pacific - Louise W. Borden
The Glorious Flight - Alice and Martin Provensen
The Green Men of Gressingham - Philip Ardagh
Various books and website on aviation, particularly fighter planes, for Student Showcase
Great Illustrated Classics version of The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
Why Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? - Jean Fritz
Kathleen Stinson Otero: High Flyer - Neila Skinner Petrick
Hank the Cowdog: The Case of the Hooking Bull - John R. Erickson
Started but did not finish: The Fighting Ground - Avi
Started but did not finish: The Arrow over the Door

July 2007 (now keeping track by month due to PA homeschooling requirements)

Akiko and the Alpha Centauri 5000 - Mark Crilley
It's a Dog's Life - John R. Erickson (Hank the Cow Dog)
Pick of the Litter - Bill Wallace

August

The Sands of Time - Michael Hoeye
The Castle in the Attic - Elizabeth Winthrop
Knight's Castle - Edward Eager
Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius - Frank Asch

September

Nonfiction
Winter at Valley Forge (Landmark)
Hero of the High Seas: John Paul Jones and the American Revolution - Michael Cooper
Partial: The Wind Masters - Pete Dunne (Peregrine Falcon)
The Snake Scientist - Sy Montgomery

Fiction
Rats! - Jane Cutler
George's Marvelous Medicine - Roald Dahl
Tree Castle Island - Jean Craighead George
The Witches - Roald Dahl
Dr. Dolittle -Hugh Lofting
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle - Hugh Lofting
Tree Castle Island - Jean Craighead George
Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder

October

Nonfiction

Snakes - Maria Mudd Ruth
The Palace at Versailles - Linda Tagliaferro
The Stone Age News - Fiona MacDonald


Fiction

James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
Tut Tut - Jon Scieszka
Summer Reading is Killing Me! - Jon Scieszka
Marco? Polo! - Jon Scieszka
Hey Kid! Want to Buy a Bridge? - Jon Scieszka

November

Nonfiction

Men of War - Patrick O'Brien
Dogs - DK Eyewitness
Stone Age News - Fiona MacDonald
Aztec News - Fiona MacDonald
various books on aviation (partial)
Pony Express (Landmark)

Fiction

Several "Time Warp Trio" books

December

Nonfiction

Hero of Trafalgar: The Story of Lord Nelson - A. B. C. Whipple (Landmark)
Watt Got You Started, Mr. Fulton? - Robert Quackenbush
You Wouldn't Want to Live in a Wild West Town! - Peter Hicks
The Bermuda Triangle: Strange Happenings at Sea - David West
The World's Greatest Fighters - Robert Jackson (partial)


Fiction


E:
Twig - Elizabeth Orton Jones
Little Pilgrim's Progress
Across Puddingstone Dam - Melissa Wiley
Down in the Bonny Glen - Melissa Wiley
George Handel - Mike Venezia
The Water of Life - retold by Rogasky
The Golden Key - George MacDonald
On the Far Side of the Loch -Melissa Wiley
The Ballad of the Pirate Queens - Jane Yolen
The Bobbsey Twins and the Mystery at Snow Lodge - Laura Lee Hope
American Diaries: Agnes May Gleason - Kathleen Duey
Beyond the Heather Hills - Melissa Wiley
The Bobbsey Twins' Wonderful Winter Secret - Laura Lee Hope
The Great Good Thing - Roderick Townley
Various Tintins
Strawberry Girl - Lois Lenski
Abridged version of Around the World in 80 Days - Usborne
Nothing Can Separate Us: The Story of Nan Harper - Tracy M. Leininger
Unfading Beauty: The Story of Dolley Madison - Tracy M. Leninger
Meet Felicity - and the rest of the series.
The Ordinary Princess - M. M. Kaye
The Light Princess - George MacDonald
Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
Cinderellis and the Glass Hill - Gail Carson Levine
Why Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? - Jean Fritz
Toliver's Secret - Esther Wood Brady
American Quilts: Ida Lou's Story - Susan E. Kirby
The People in Pineapple Place - Anne Lindbergh
The Prisoner of Pineapple Place - Anne Lindbergh
Molly Pitcher, Young Patriot - Augusta Stevenson (COFA series)
Standing in the Light - Mary Pope Osborne
Five Smooth Stones - Kristiana Gregory
Winter of Red Snow -Kristiana Gregory
Standing in the Light - Mary Pope Osborne (Dear America series)
Nellie's Promise - Valerie Tripp (American Girls)
The Borrowers - Mary Norton
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 - Beverley Cleary

July 2007 (now keeping track by month due to PA homeschooling requirements)

Emily's Runaway Imagination - Beverly Cleary
Dick Whittington and his Cat - Marcia Brown
Ramona the Brave - Beverly Cleary
It's a Dog's Life - John R. Erickson (Hank the Cow Dog)
Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Ryrie Brink


August
Too many Beverley Cleary books to keep track of
More American Girls
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
Pippi in the South Seas - Astrid Lindgren
Ramona the Pest - Beverley Cleary
Ramona's World - Beverley Cleary
Ramona and Beezus - Beverley Cleary

September

Nonfiction

Honey Makers - Gail Gibbons
Bees - Deborah Hodge

Fiction

The Penderwicks - Jeanne Birdsall
Everything on a Waffle - Polly Horvath
The Trolls - Polly Horvath
Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle - Betty MacDonald
Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Dr. Dolittle -Hugh Lofting
The Cabin Faced West - Jean Fritz
Baby Island - Carol Ryrie Brink
Everything on a Waffle - Polly Horvath
Into the Labrynth - Roderick

October

Nonfiction

The Palace at Versailles - Linda Tagliaferro


Fiction

Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle - Betty Macdonald
The Trolls - Polly Horvath
The Happy Yellow Car - Polly Horvath
The Pepins and their Problems - Polly Horvath
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH -
The Hundred Dresses - Eleanor Estes
The Moffats - Eleanor Estes
Tut Tut - Jon Scieszka

November

Nonfiction

Aztec News - Fiona MacDonald
Stone Age News - Fiona MacDonald
Pocahontas - D'Aulaire
A Look At Saturn - Suzanne Slade
Pony Express

Fiction

Several "Time Warp Trio" books
Return to Gone Away - Elizabeth Enright
The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Mary Poppins - P. L. Travers
Mary Poppins Comes Back - P. L. Travers
The Moffats - Eleanor Estes
The Moffat Museum - Eleanor Estes

December

Nonfiction

Fiction

Ginger Pye - Eleanor Estes
A Room With a Zoo - Jules Feiffer




Read-alouds General

Secret Water - Arthur Ransome
The Big Six - Arthur Ransome
Missee Lee - Arthur Ransome
The Picts and the Martyrs - Arthur Ransome
The Children of Green Knowe - Lucy M. Boston
The Treasure of Green Knowe - Lucy M. Boston
Great Northern? - Arthur Ransome
The River at Green Knowe - Lucy M. Boston
A Stranger at Green Knowe - Lucy M. Boston (audiobook)
An Enemy at Green Knowe - Lucy M. Boston (audiobook)
Gone-Away Lake - Elizabeth Enright (a re-read from a few years ago, still great)
The Stones of Green Knowe - Lucy M. Boston
The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo (audiobook)
The Swing in the Summerhouse - Jane Langton
The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
The Astonishing Stereoscope - Jane Langton

September

Justin Morgan Had A Horse - Marguerite Henry

October

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

November

Uncle Remus Tales - Julius Lester
Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West - Marguerite Henry
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Misadventures of Mad Maude (audiobook) -

December

Through the Lookingglass - Lewis Carroll (partial)
Maude March on the Run -



Bible:

Psalms (last 1/2)
Exodus
Hurlbut's Story of the Bible (for a change of pace and to catch up on stories we may have missed)


Read-Alouds History

Story of the World #3
Madeleine Takes Command - Ethel C. Brill
The Story of William Penn - Aliki
Isaac Newton - Kathleen Krull (Giants of Science series)
Peter the Great - Diane Stanley
Struggle for a Continent - Besty and Giulio Maestro
The Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth George Speare
Mr. Revere and I - Robert Lawson
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia - Margaret Cousins
Daniel Boone - John Mason Browne (Landmark)
Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride - Marsha Amstel

July

Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes

August
Ben and Me - Robert Lawson
American Revolution - Bruce Blivens (Landmark)

September

George Washington, Spymaster -Michael L. Cooper
George Washington's World - Genevieve Foster
Story of the World, chapters 22 - 24
Amos Fortune, Free Man - Elizabeth Yates
By Wagon and Flatboat - Enid Meadowcroft

October

Stowaway - Karen Hesse
Sightseers Guide - Paris 1789 - Rachel Wright

November

Eli Whitney - Jean Lee Latham

December


Read-Alouds Science

Leonardo the Beautiful Dreamer
Along Came Galileo - Jeanne Bendick
Isaac Newton - Kathleen Krull (Giants of Science series)
Benjamin Franklin's Adventures with Electricity - Beverley Birch

September
Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes - Beverley Birch
The Chemist Who Lost His Head: The Story of Antoine Laurent Lavoirsier - Vivian Grey
Sugaring Time - Kathryn Lasky

October

November


M:
The Pilgrim's Progress
Celebrating the Sabbath - Bruce A. Ray
Rascal - Sterling North (making a study guide for the kids) (March)
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult (March)
Praying Backwards - Bryan Chapell (March)
The Red House Mystery - A. A. Milne (March)
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards (March)
Upgrade - Kevin Swanson
The Swallows of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Scattered - Gabor Mate
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
Garden Angel - Mindy Friddle
The Girl with the Pearl Earring - Tracey Chevalier