2014 Booklists

Read for my own enjoyment or edification:

• Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein (YA fiction)
• Emily Climbs by L.M. Montgomery (Re-read; YA fiction)
• Miss Buncle’s Book by D.E. Stevenson (Fiction)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (re-read; fiction)
• Anna Was Here by Jane Kurtz (Juvenile fiction)
• “Holy Emotions” (devotional at YouVersion) (Nonfiction)
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Fiction)
• Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus (Juvenile/YA fiction)
• My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (Fiction)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (Fiction)
• The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken (Juvenile fiction)
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (Fiction)
• Praying Circles Around Your Children by Mark Batterson (Nonfiction)
• Finding God When You Need Him Most by Chip Ingram (Nonfiction)
• Boundaries with Kids by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend (Nonfiction)
• A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd (Juvenile fiction)
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (re-read; fiction)
• Teaching from Rest:  A Homeschooler’s Guide to Unshakable Peace by Sarah McKenzie (Nonfiction)
• I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (YA fiction/fiction)
• The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm (Juvenile fiction)
• Nest by Esther Ehrlich (Juvenile fiction)
• Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo (Juvenile fiction)
• Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus by Nabeel Qureshi (Nonfiction)
• Deconstructing Penguins by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone (Nonfiction)
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (Juvenile fiction)
• West of the Moon by Margi Preus (Juvenile fiction)
• Revolution by Deborah Wiles (Juvenile fiction)
• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (re-read; juvenile fiction)
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (reread; unfinished, but worth noting; fiction)
• The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage (Juvenile fiction)
• Greenglass House by Kate Milford (Juvenile fiction)
• The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier (Juvenile fiction)
• Hope Is a Ferris Wheel by Robin Herrera (Juvenile fiction)
• Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin (Juvenile fiction)
• The Spy Catchers of Maple Hill by Megan Frazer Blakemore (Juvenile fiction)
• The Talk(s):  A Parent’s Guide to Critical Conversations About Sex, Dating, and Other Unmentionables by Barrett Johnson (Nonfiction)

 

 

Audiobooks my girls listened to (and sometimes I listened along)

• The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place:  The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood (narrated by Katherine Kellgren)
• Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
• Mystery at Chilkoot Pass by Barbara Steiner (American Girl)
• The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
• Savvy by Ingrid Law (book review here)
• The Light Princess by George MacDonald (again)
• American Girl collection:  Julie
• American Girl collection:  Felicity
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (partial)
• Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

**Incomplete list; I stopped keeping up with it**

Our chapter book read alouds:

1. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
2. Don Quixote retold by Michael Harrison
3. Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
4. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
5. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright 
6. My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
7. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
8. The Old Man Mad About Drawing by François Place 
9. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
10. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
11. The High King by Lloyd Alexander
12. The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright
13. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
14. The 101 Dalmatians by Dodie Smith
15. Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
16. Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
17. Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright
18. Spiderweb for Two by Elizabeth Enright
19. Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen
20. The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
21. The Home Ranch by Ralph Moody
22. Eating the Plates:  A Pilgrim Book of Food by Lucille Recht Penner
23. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
24. The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder
25. Unwrapping the Gift by Ann Voskamp
26. The Box of Delights by John Masefield