Louise’s booklist–first six weeks term 2015

I shared Lulu’s booklist a couple of weeks ago, so I wanted to be sure to share Louise’s, too.  Louise is in the fourth grade this year, and she will turn ten years old before the week is out.  Here are the books she read mostly for pleasure the first six weeks or so of this school year.

• Our Only May Amelia by Jennifer Holm

• Penny from Heaven by Jennifer Holm

• Seven Alone by Honore Morrow

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (Side note:  what do y’all think of this cover?  I love it!)

• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

• The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman

• Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

• Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane by Suzanne Collins
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

• Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley

• Betti on the High Wire by Lisa Railsback

• So Far From Home by Barry Denenberg

• Dreams in the Golden Country by Kathryn Lasky

• A Time for Courage by Kathryn Lasky

• Where Have All the Flowers Gone? by Ellen Emerson White

• One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping by Barry Denenberg

• Under the Stars by Ben M. Baglio

• Chasing the Dream by Ben M. Baglio

That’s most of the fiction she read.  This girl, though, is all about the nonfiction.  She also read four books from the Wonders of the Sea collection by Kimberley Jane Pryor:  Rocky Shores, Seagrass Beds, The Open Sea, and The Coral Reef.  
By far Louise’s favorite book, however, is Collecting Seashells by Kathleen Yerger Johnstone.  She has checked it out numerous times from the library.  In fact, I believe it might be time to purchase her a copy.  

The only book of the bunch that I assigned is Seven Alone.  I chose it because it went along with the time period we were studying, and I remember reading it and enjoying it when I was a child.

I’m not sure that this is really helpful to anyone.  I do like to see what other children the ages of mine are reading just to get ideas of new things to offer mine.  If nothing else, I’ll have a little snapshot into what my girls’ reading lives were like at ages nine and eleven.