1. Choosing Gratitude by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
2. Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy by Susan Patron
3. A Tangled Web by L.M. Montgomery
4. Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend, edited by Ravi Zacharias (unfinished)
5. Darth Paper Strikes Back by Tom Angleberger
6. The Shadow of Ghadames by Joëlle Stolz
7. Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis by Lauren F. Winner
9. Let the Hurricane Roar by Rose Wilder Lane
10. The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure
11. Organized Simplicity by Tsh Oxenreider (e-book; no review)
12. Mindset for Moms by Jamie Martin (e-book; no review)
13. Dead Reckoning by Laurie Lawlor
14. Close to Famous by Joan Bauer
15. A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd
16. Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
17. Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
18. “Jeeves Takes Charge” by P.G. Wodehouse (short story)
19. Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
20. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds by P.G. Wodehouse
21. Heart of a Shepherd by Rosanne Parry (audiobook)
22. City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell
23. Echo in Celebration by Leigh Bortins
24. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
25. King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (audiobook)
26. Breaking Stalin’s Nose by Eugene Yelchin
27. Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter
28. Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
29. Enemies of the Heart by Andy Stanley
30. Like the Willow Tree by Lois Lowry
31. Ghost Knight by Cornelia Funke
32. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
33. Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
34. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
35. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (no review)
36. A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel by Annie Griffiths Belt
37. A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle
39. Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms by Lissa Evans
40. Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
41. Summer of the Gypsy Moths by Sara Pennypacker
42. The Prairie Thief by Melissa Wiley
43. The Year of the Book by Andrea Cheng
44. The Encyclopedia of Me by Karen Rivers
45. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (no review)
47. The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
49. Laugh with the Moon by Shana Burg
50. Splendors and Glooms by Laura Ann Schlitz
51. Liar and Spy by Rebecca Stead
52. Prairie Evers by Ellen Airgood
53. The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee by Tom Angleberger
54. The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
55. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Chapter books read aloud:
1. Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
2. Lincoln and His Boys by Rosemary Wells
3. Maybelle Goes to Tea by Katie Speck (read with Louise)
4. Maybelle in the Soup by Katie Speck (read with Louise)
5. Who in the World Was the Unready King? by Connie Clark
6. Who in the World Was the Acrobatic Princess? by Robin Phillips
7. The Shadow of the Wolf by Gloria Whelan (read with Louise)
8. Little Britches by Ralph Moody
9. Knight’s Castle by Edward Eager
10. Little Pilgrim’s Progress by Helen L. Taylor
11. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
12. Star of Light by Patricia M. St. John
13. Man of the Family by Ralph Moody
14. The Children’s Homer by Padraic Colum
15. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
16. The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
17. Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary (read with Louise)
18. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
19. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Read for the 2012 Award Winning Books Challenge at Gathering Books:
- Red Sings from Treetops by Joyce Sidman; illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski (Caldecott)
- Ella’s Big Chance by Shirley Hughes (Kate Greenaway Medal)
- Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray (Newbery)
- Castle by David Macauley (Caldecott)
- Close to Famous by Joan Bauer (Schneider Family Book Awards)
- Song of the Water Boatman and Other Pond Poems by Joyce Sidman (Caldecott)
- Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (Newbery honor and National Book Award)
- Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (Newbery)
- Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Newbery honor and Coretta Scott King)