Monday, January 13, 2014

What We're Reading - Winter 2014

 
    
Our Family Read-Aloud:  Mary Poppins Opens the Door by P. L. Travers.  If you haven't noticed our family simply cannot get enough of Mary Poppins.  Fortunately, each book seems just as magical and well written as the last. (They might even be getting better)
        
Scout's Independent Reads: 
 Christmast in Camelot,Ghostale at Christmastime,and Midnight on the Magic Flute by Mary Pope Osborne.  Minstrel in the Tower by Gloria Skurzynski. Goonie Bird Greene by Lois Lowry.  The Never Girls by Kiki Thorpe.



                
  Scout's Read Alouds: Lives of Extraordinary Women by Kathleen Krull.  St. George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges.
                                 
     
River's Read-Aloud: Boxcar Children              



 
Ryder's current Favorite book: Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle
               

         
Ally's Winter reads:
Circle of Quiet by Madeline L'Engle.  Breathe by Kerri Wyatt Kent.  Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear.   
         
Tony's Winter Reads: 
The Core by Leigh A. Bortins.  Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear