Violet's Stack: The Story Girl by LM Montgomery, Ginger Pye, Emily of Deep Valley (also on my to-read list) Minuk - a Girls of Many Lands book, Rilla of Ingleside LM Montgomery, Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff, Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott, some Saddle Clubs, Carney's House Party (my list too) Nancy Drew #51, The Moffat Museum, Miracles on Maple Hill (recommended by Alicia), A Girl of the Limberlost....and some other titles which I failed to write down and can't remember at this point ;-o
Matthias' Stack: Still working on A Boy's King Arthur, some Star Wars novels, Ichiro Suzuki baseball book, some Dan Gutman baseball novels (he's reading these alous to Seamus), The Way Science Works.
Seamus' Stack: Some Magic Tree House books, a Seton Reader, Bears on Hemlock Mountain, Jackie Robinson (Childhood of Famous Americans Reader) and our current lunchtime read aloud - Swallows and Amazons!
Sean-Paul's Bedside Basket: A House for Birdie, Boynton's A to Z, Mother West Wind, and he loves listening to James Herriot's Treasury stories.
My Stack(s): Really, they're all over the house, and Violet keeps organizing them all for me in different baskets. In addition to the ones in Violet's pile: still listening to A Room With a View (excellent narrator, so good), How Your Child Thinks (this one is really good), slowly working through Belloc's Volume 2 History of England (focuses on Catholic History of the time), re-reading For the Children's Sake (cause it's so good), and there are many others just begun: The Deep End of the Ocean, Christian Unschooling (just perusing), Edmund Spenser Shorter Poems: A Selection (Everyman's Library edition), and just picked up from the library hold shelf: The Mysterious Benedict Society, What Einstien Told His Cook, How the Scots Invented the World, Mother West Wind's Children, Gifted Children. Oh and Violet just thrust - Chocolate Holidays at me and exclaimed, "You have to look through this one mommy!"
Okay, happy reading to you, off to enjoy!
I love this....it looks so much like my house. I have books stacked up everywhere and in baskets in different rooms. Doesn't it just make you feel good to be surrounded by books? I can't get enough of them! I just wish that I had more time to read all the ones I want to! God Bless!
Posted by: Dianne | July 10, 2009 at 09:22 PM
What fantastic lists! I also have Carney's House Party, Emily of Deep Valley, and the Mysterious Benedict Society on my TBR list. I love Lily's Crossing and everything by Eleanor Estes.
Posted by: Sarah N. | July 11, 2009 at 04:39 AM
Oh, my- you will LOVE Emily of Deep Valley- it is full of great lessons about blooming where you are planted. And Carney's House Party is just fun, fun, fun.
I want to be invited.
Happy reading!
Posted by: Jennifer N | July 11, 2009 at 08:34 PM
After things slow down around here, I want to sit and read and read and read!!!!!!! With which one should I start?
Hugs and Many Blessings!
Posted by: Betty | July 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM