It's that time again!! One of our core family traditions--summer reading! As always, I put together summer reading lists for my kids based on a couple of things:
1) Books I think they will love
2) Books to push their normal comfort zones of reading a bit
3) Classic books that I think they should read just to be conversant with book culture
Last year we threw in a prize to motivate the kids a little more (well, one specific kid but everyone benefited) and let them pick out a $40 Lego set or the equivalent thereof (Abigail opted for this Metal Earth set instead).
This year I'm also trying something a little different and having the kids reread a few books that they read in previous years; I'm hoping that they will pick up some different things from the reread as they're a few years older. (I also mourn the fact that some of my children do not love books that I truly deeply love, so this is an attempt to see if I can get them to love those books as well.) One other thing that I'm trying out this year is not only watching film adaptations of the books, but watching multiple film adaptations and then discussing how those different films interpret the original subject matter in different ways. Sounds like a great topic for a master's thesis, doesn't it?
And the final thing I'm doing this year: including a list of some of the books I'm planning to read this summer. Again, a lot of rereads of books I really love; I saved these old favorites for the summer so I could read some of them in tandem with my kids.
And without further ado, here we go!
Abigail (just finishing grade 11):
1) Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
2) Emma (Jane Austen)
2) Emma (Jane Austen)
3) Mystic and Rider (Sharon Shinn)
4) Daughter of the Forest (Juliet Marillier)
4) Daughter of the Forest (Juliet Marillier)
5) Nine Coaches Waiting (Mary Stewart)
6) The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
7) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
8) The Fifth Season (N. K. Jemison)
9)Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through the National Parks
10) Project Hail Mary
11) Circe (Madeline Miller)
6) The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
7) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
8) The Fifth Season (N. K. Jemison)
9)Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through the National Parks
10) Project Hail Mary
11) Circe (Madeline Miller)
Juliet (just finishing grade 9):
1) Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
2) Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
3) Hawk of May (Gillian Bradshaw)
4) Assassin's Apprentice (Robin Hobb)
5) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician's Nephew, The Last Battle
1) Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
2) Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
3) Hawk of May (Gillian Bradshaw)
4) Assassin's Apprentice (Robin Hobb)
5) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician's Nephew, The Last Battle
6) Emma (Jane Austen)
7) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
8) Mystic and Rider (Sharon Shinn)
9) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
10) The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)
11) Drowned Ammet (Diana Wynne Jones)
Isaac (just finishing grade 7):
1) Sorcery and Cecilia (Wrede/Stevermer)
2) The Outlaws of Sherwood (Robin McKinley)
3) Hawk of May (Gillian Bradshaw)
2) The Outlaws of Sherwood (Robin McKinley)
3) Hawk of May (Gillian Bradshaw)
4) The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
5) A Year in Provence (Peter Mayle)
5) A Year in Provence (Peter Mayle)
6) The Hiding Place (Corrie Ten Boom)
7) The Sword of Shannara (Terry Brooks)
8) The Chronicles of Prydain (Lloyd Alexander): The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, The High King
8) The Chronicles of Prydain (Lloyd Alexander): The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, The High King
10) Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt)
11) Watership Down (Richard Adams)
12) The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)
13) The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
12) The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie)
13) The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
Luke (just finishing grade 5):
1) The Fellowship of the Ring (JRR Tolkein)
1) The Fellowship of the Ring (JRR Tolkein)
2) Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Patterson)
3) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
4) Vodnik (Bryce Moore)
3) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
4) Vodnik (Bryce Moore)
5) The Giver (Lois Lowry)
6) Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
7) The Chronicles of Prydain (Lloyd Alexander): The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, The Castle of Llyr, Taran Wanderer, The High King
8) Howl's Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones)
9) Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites (Chris Heimerdinger)
10) From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E.L. Koningsburg)
11) Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
9) Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites (Chris Heimerdinger)
10) From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E.L. Koningsburg)
11) Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
12) Banner in the Sky (James Ramsay Ullman)
Nathan (just finishing grade 3):
1) Fablehaven (Brandon Mull)
Matthew (just finishing pre-K):
1) Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (Siegfriend Engelmann)
2) We are in the process of working our way through 2 giant 500-page out-of-print British fairy tale treasuries and recording them as I read (everyone likes to listen to these later on car trips or as they're falling asleep, etc.). I wish I had links, but they took me years to source and I can't currently find anyone who is selling them! They are books that my parents brought back from Europe in the 1980s and it took me forever to track them down and get them shipped from the UK.
Bedtime read alouds for summer (Neil does this with the boys every night; I could not even begin to count the hundreds of books he's read to our kids over the years--always with voices!!):
1) The Tale of Despereaux
2) The Dark is Rising Sequence (Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree)
Rachael:
1) Fablehaven (Brandon Mull)
2) Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
3) Charmed Life (Dianna Wynne Jones)
4) Time Cat (Lloyd Alexander)
5) The Castle in the Attic (Elizabeth Winthrop)
3) Charmed Life (Dianna Wynne Jones)
4) Time Cat (Lloyd Alexander)
5) The Castle in the Attic (Elizabeth Winthrop)
6) The Iron Trial (Holly Black)
7) Five Children and It (E. Nesbit)
8) Hatchet (Gary Paulsen)
9) Holes (Louis Sacchar)
10) The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
10) The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan)
Matthew (just finishing pre-K):
1) Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (Siegfriend Engelmann)
2) We are in the process of working our way through 2 giant 500-page out-of-print British fairy tale treasuries and recording them as I read (everyone likes to listen to these later on car trips or as they're falling asleep, etc.). I wish I had links, but they took me years to source and I can't currently find anyone who is selling them! They are books that my parents brought back from Europe in the 1980s and it took me forever to track them down and get them shipped from the UK.
Bedtime read alouds for summer (Neil does this with the boys every night; I could not even begin to count the hundreds of books he's read to our kids over the years--always with voices!!):
1) The Tale of Despereaux
2) The Dark is Rising Sequence (Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree)
Rachael:
Monsoon Diary (Shoba Narayan)
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
The Illiad (Homer, trans. Robert Fagles)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
The King Must Die (Mary Renault)
The Book of Longings (Sue Monk Kidd)
Crying in H Mart (Michelle Zauner)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (JK Rowling)
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
The Illiad (Homer, trans. Robert Fagles)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
The King Must Die (Mary Renault)
The Book of Longings (Sue Monk Kidd)
Crying in H Mart (Michelle Zauner)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (JK Rowling)
Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
Ariadne (Jennifer Saint)
A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
Ariadne (Jennifer Saint)
A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)
Trickster's Choice & Trickster's Queen (Tamora Pierce)
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