What We Are Reading

For pleasure, not school books

To see what we are reading for school see AmblesideOnline Years 3, 6 & 7

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MamaLion -

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (I'm reading this because it's Tom's favorite book)

Future Men by Douglas Wilson

Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

Landmark biography of Mary, Queen of Scots

A Defense of Virginia and the South by R.L. Dabney

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AdventureQueen -

C.S. Lewis' The Four Loves

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PearlKeeper -

(to TheLittlestPrincess) Happy Little Family by Rebecca Caudill

To Kill A Mockingbird

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Tom -

The Thief Lord by Corneila Funke

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BLOCHhead -

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

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SmokyBear -

Magic Treehouse Books (not my idea of great literature but at least the boys are finally reading for pleasure!)

audio tape of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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Tigger -

also Magic Treehouse books & Huck Finn

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TheLittlestPrincess -

audio of Clara Barton from the Childhood of Famous Americans series

A Treasury of Children's Literature, edited by Armand Eisen - over & over

Update: She asked me for a poem before she went to bed tonight and we finished Poems to Read to the Very Young and then read her favorites over again. Her favorites are MICE by Rose Fyleman, FURRY BEAR by A.A. Milne and WOOLY BLANKET by Kate Cox Goddard.

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All girls, including MamaLion -

So Much More by the Botkin sisters

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MamaLion with 4 youngers -

The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis