With the sweet girl on the eve of her 11th
birthday, I thought it might be fun to share a little of what she’s reading
these days.
Most recently, she’s enjoyed The Magic Half by Annie Barrows. (This is not to be confused with
Edgar Eager’s Half-Magic, another
book she’s enjoyed in the past year.) The
Magic Half is about two girls who share a room, decades apart. The girl in
the present time travels back to help the girl in the past.
In the evenings, we’re enjoying Shannon Hale’s sequel to Princess Academy,
Palace of Stone. We’re also wending our way
slowly through Anne of Avonlea, the
second Anne of Green Gables book. We’re not getting much daytime reading
because of camp, but it’s still nice to have a fall-back read-aloud book that’s
this good.
I’ve also seen her reading Jean Craighead George’s All Upon A Sidewalk; Sharon Creech’s Hate That Cat (novel-in-poetry sequel to
Love That Dog) and Annie Barrow’s Ivy and Bean.
She bogged down part-way through her reading of The Hobbit (which she heard read aloud
last year) but (shh!) she’s getting her own rather nifty copy for her birthday.
And yes, she’s getting her own copy of A
Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban (because she loves that book so
much). I am also secretly tap-dancing for joy (did you know you could do that?)
because we’re giving her Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer’s Stone. I’ve been planning to introduce the series to her on
her eleventh birthday (since the stories start on Harry’s eleventh) since she
was about five years old and mispronounced Jo Rowling’s name to rhyme with
Growling. She’s been to Narnia and Prydain and been introduced to Middle-earth,
so I really think she’s ready for Harry. And I’m always ready to re-read Harry!
In the evenings, we’ve been enjoying the third volume of the
Family Read-Aloud series by Augsburg Fortress Press. This one is called Explorers for God and follows up on Early Saints of God (a book we’ve loved
for years) and Kings and Queens for God.
This is a delightful church history series that is, unfortunately, out of
print, but I was blessed to find used copies of the second and third volumes
recently.
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