Books, Books, Books

Our homeschool has been more unconventional than usual this year due to all the leg issues and trips to the "leg guy"! We have kept up with the basics and Gracen has done lots of reading. As a way of congratulating her (and so I would have a permanent list), I wanted to post the books she has read since August.

For School:
Clamshell Boy
The Gift of the Sacred Dog
The Trail of Tears
Soft Rain
California Ranchos
Apples to Oregon
The Oregon Trail
Samuel Morse and the Telegraph
Bound For Oregon
America in the Time of Lewis and Clark
Wagon Train
Moby Dick (an abridged version!)
The Josefina Story Quilt
California Gold Rush
Great Expectations
Florence Nightingale
Shipwrecked
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
The Patchwork Path
Under the Quilt of Night
Moses (Harriet Tubman)
Abraham Lincoln--The Boy Who Loved Books
Across Five Aprils
Thunder at Gettysburg
Clara Barton--Angel of the Battlefield
Kidnapped by River Rats
Turn Homeward Hannalee
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Little Sure Shot--The Story of Annie Oakley
Around the World in 80 Days
The Hobbit
Just So Stories
Marie Curie--A Brilliant Life
When Jessie Came Across The Sea
A Child's Garden of Verses

For Pleasure:
Meet Rebecca--American Girl
Rebecca and Ana-American Girl
Puppy Palace--Princess
Puppy Palace--Flash
Puppy Palace--Goldie
Hansel and Gretel
Meg McIntosh--Stage Fright Secret
Meg McIntosh--Mystery at the Soccer Match
Meg McIntosh--Mystery on Main Street
My Weird School--Miss Roopy is Loopy
My Weird School--Miss Holly is Too Jolly
My Weird School--Mr. Klutz is Nuts
My Weird School--Miss Daisy is Crazy
Nancy Drew and the Secret of the Old Clock
Meg McIntosh--The Mystery in the Locked Library
Mr. Bliss--J.R.R. Tolkien
Magic Tree House--Carnival at Candlelight
Vendela in Venice

She is currently working on The Secret Garden for school and Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh for pleasure.

I didn't realize it until I was typing them but that's 55 books!

Congratulations, Gracen!!!

I've traveled the world twice over,
Met the famous; saints and sinners,
Poets and artists, kings and queens,
Old stars and hopeful beginners,
I've been where no-one's been before,
Learned secrets from writers and cooks
All with one library ticket
To the wonderful world of books.
~ Anonymous