the old list of stuff i did/wanted to do in my life

  • what i was reading
      • what i should have been reading

Hazel - Cooking - June

  • fairy tales
  • berenstein bears early readers and older picture books
    • the berenstein: messy room, learn about strangers, too much vacation, too much tv, week at grandma's, too much vacation, no girls allowed
  • (country version) cinderella picture books: korean, egyptian, persian, irish cinderlad
  • beatrix potter: the tale of benjamin bunny
  • leo lionni: sylvester and the magic pebble (is actually by Steig), alexander and the wind-up mouse
  • eric carle: the very hungry caterpillar
  • margaret wise brown: the golden egg book, the important book, the little island, golden bunny and 17 poems, sneakers the seaside cat, where have you been
  • jan brett: the mitten
  • ezra jack keats: apt. 3, louie's search
  • pokey the puppy golden picture books
  • Ping
  • each peach pear plum
  • poo-poo and the dragons, by cs forester
  • a dark dark tale, by ruth brown

David - Friendship - July

  • just any early readers (the berenstein bears)
  • fox in socks, hop on pop, green eggs and ham
  • little bear
  • commander toad
  • go, dog, go - eastman (maybe all the eastmans)
  • sam and the firefly
  • frog and toad
  • ! check my list of ER books in the work book list just in case
  • chicken soup with rice, maurice sendak (do all the sendaks)
  • bread and jam for frances, by russell hoban

Penny - Fashion, Literature - August

  • a long Galileo biography
  • that book from 1st grade where everyone could take one book aboard a spaceship
  • molly's heart
  • babysitter's little sister
  • little house in the big woods
  • American Girl
    • Felicity 4-6
    • Cecile and Marie Grace
    • Addy 2-6
    • Samantha 1-6
    • Rebecca
    • Courtney 1986
  • golly sisters
  • here comes ginger
  • Heidi
  • farmer boy

Fern - Writing - September

  • a random gary paulsen novel?
  • miss nelson is missing
  • rainbow fish!!!
  • dav pilkey catzilla and dogzilla
  • sweet valley twins/high
  • goosebumps (the vampire one)
    • fear street
    • any adventure
    • the stinky cheese man
  • little house on the prairie
  • sarah plain and tall
  • mandie and the secret tunnel, other mandie books
    • a little princess
    • the secret garden
    • a wind in the willows
  • on the banks of plum creek

Ginny - Science - October

  • wolves of willoughby chase
  • baby sitter's club (reserve "Stacey's Mistake", #18) also read any from the complete list that look interesting to me; if it's summer time, reread the ghost at dawn's house!)
  • who comes with cannons
    • anne of green gables
    • other historical fiction classics
  • beverly cleary (beezus and ralph s. mouse)
  • by the shores of silver lake
  • roald dahl
  • e.b.white
    • the trumpet of the swan
  • judy blume
    • Nancy Drew
    • Hardy Boys
  • who comes with cannons
  • mint cookie miracles
  • the long winter

Prissy - Recreation - November ??

  • BSC
  • mcguffey readers!
  • maniac mcgee (do all the jerry spinelli)
  • orphan train novel (a family apart by joan lowery nixon?)
    • bridge to terabithia
  • the following collection: My Side of the Mountain, White Fang, Call of the Wild, Hatchet,that White Lotus book paul had, Witch of Blackbird Pond, Bridge to Terabithia
  • little house: little town on the prairie
  • Night, Wiesel
    • other elie wiesel books
  • when hitler stole pink rabbit
    • Girls of Many Lands (AG series)
    • Dear America
    • My America
  • read "Boy with the Butterfly Mind" now cuz this was when i was diagnosed with adhd
  • The Cay
  • little house: these happy golden years

no child assigned

  • any horror or adventure
    • wait till helen comes
  • animorphs
    • the dark is rising series
    • that selkie book
  • judy blume
    • bridge to terabithia
    • summer of the monkeys
    • little women
  • laura ingalls wilder: the first four years (and that's the end of this series!)
  • Are you there god, it's me margaret
    • roll of thunder hear my cry
  • Peter and Veronica
    • The Iceberg Hermit
    • zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
  • shel silverstein
  • Homecoming, cynthia voigt
    • the complete little house on the prarie (yes i know i already listed it)
    • adventurous classics: the three musketeers, man in the iron mask, wars of the roses (or was it the seven years war?), ivanhoe, robinson crusoe
    • zane grey
    • david copperfield (by charles dickens) because mom had it

THE HEATHEN YEARS

  • apparently these 2 were right up my alley in 6th grade:
    • the dragon of never-was, downer
    • a hidden magic, vande velde
  • that selkie novel
  • that herb witch novel i read twice:Herb Witch by Elizabeth Mccoy?
  • the face on the milk carton
  • teen horror
  • (almost read) sixth grade secrets, apparently by louis sachar (buy it online!)
  • fairies and twisted fairy tales
  • lloyd alexander black cauldron or whatever they're called
      • lion witch and wardrobe
  • The Hiding Place, corrie ten boom
  • jane yolen (pit dragon trilogy, and more! everything! 12 impossible)
  • anything greek myth!
  • anything celtic!
    • Celtica
    • Book of Kells
    • Welshman's Way
    • Highland Destiny
  • sabrina celtic novel
  • c.s.lewis
    • wrinkle in time series
  • Abarat by Clive Barker? is that the wizard scientist book?
  • tamora pierce circle of magic
  • hex
  • The Giver
  • Dealing with Dragons, Wrede
  • that novel with a dragon and a fairy, i forget who wrote it!
    • Dragon Cauldron by Lawrence Yep?
  • blood and chocolate (or tried to read it)
    • hero and the crown and blue sword
    • hey! I would like the Erin Hunter warrior's series
  • Flowers for Algernon
    • free lunch by rex ogle
  • Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan (read any Duncan)
  • the princess bride
  • that mercedes lackey novel i own

Willow - Health, Housework

  • holocaust fiction, (The Cage)
    • harry potter
    • sabriel series
    • rachel's tears
    • imported bridegroom
  • all the fantasy dime novels (dragonlance)
    • pigs don't fly, and the sequel
    • get from HenLib: dragonlance legends - margaret weiss - collection of 3(?) books, complete
  • villains victorious
    • any fantasy paperback
  • forbidden doors
    • left behind series
    • this present darkness, other christian adult novels i bought
  • briar rose by jane yolen
    • the chocolate war
    • Kate DiCamillo
    • Redwall series
    • robin mckinley, all of it!
  • the scarlet pimpernel
    • finally reserve/read The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel at Hen
    • all the victoria holt/philippa carr/jean plaidy
  • Sabriel, series
    • diana wynne jones
  • closer than a brother (the book mom owned till i took it)
  • that arthurian looking novel from the st john's library (last name starts with L) that i almost read and now i own)

Benjamin - Arts

  • the poison master
  • dark is a color
  • the cross and the switchblade
  • to kill a mockingbird
    • watchman sequel
    • great gatsby (should have read)
    • catch 22 (should have read)
  • manga
    • donna jo napoli
    • golden compass series
    • ursula k leguin
    • should have read the handmaid's tale
  • outlaws of sherwood
    • Ursula k le Guin

Lottie and Poppy - Spirituality and friendship online

  • anything by Avi
  • 1984
  • historical fiction from 1700s (victoria holt and philippa carr)
  • poetry
  • edgar allan poe
    • my VC Andrews novel, or just Flowers in the Attic
  • i am the cheese
    • the chocolate war
  • johnson and boswell
    • wordsworth
    • tolkien
    • dune
  • the dark clue
    • shogun and gaijin
    • i know why the caged bird sings
    • les miserables, hunchback of notre dame
    • lord of the flies

Tobias - History

  • historical fiction from the 1700s (victoria holt and philippa carr)
    • could maybe read Chelynne now
    • stephen king
  • PG Wodehouse
  • Johnny Tremain

Milly - Pop Culture

  • mary doria russell - keep reading all of her stuff!
  • frederick douglass
    • The color purple
    • song of solomon
    • uncle tom's cabin
    • gone with the wind
  • general fiction
  • craig ferguson's novel
  • hugh laurie's novel

Felix - Finance

  • self help and memoir
  • YA and newish kids books
    • percy jackson
    • all the new YA releases from back then
  • all the children's classic novels
  • nonfiction
  • peter pan fiction
  • coffee information
  • MG and YA class: Feed, Holes, Brian Selznick, Watsons Birmingham, Esperanza Rising
  • comic books
  • language learning
    • brand new YA
    • cinder series
    • daughter of smoke and bone
    • code name verity
    • the book thief
    • all the john green
    • daughter of smoke and bone
    • cinder series
  • late night tv show memoirs
  • celebrity memoirs, celebrity novels
  • Paul Cleave
  • The Night Circus
  • curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
    • clan of the cave bear
  • more manga
  • Stephen King
  • Good Omens
  • hunger games
    • gregor the overlander
  • graphic novels in general (not manga or comic books)
  • everything!
  • biographies
  • steinbeck
  • the scarlet pimpernel and other french revolution books

an old list that used to be at the top:

  • finish series i happen upon
    • Paul Cleave
    • Leigh Bardugo
    • Jim Butcher
    • YA club series started
    • Anne Rice
    • Ben Aaronovitch
  • children's classics i forgot to pursue
    • newberry winners, other classics like Anne, and little women
    • jane yolen
    • the whole Little House series
    • AG all the new ones
    • stuff friends wanted me to read
      • finish Circle of Magic
      • HP
  • reread my favorites
    • stuff i own, of course
    • favorite authors
      • patricia wrede - dealing with dragons
      • jenny valentine
      • donna jo napoli
      • robin mckinley
      • dennis lehane
      • roald dahl
      • pete fromm
      • jane yolen
      • stephen king
  • suggestions from friends
    • soulless
    • jane eyre
    • shades of grey (fforde).
    • brandon sanderson - all
  • new favorites
    • laura ruby
    • leigh bardugo
    • in other lands
jul 29 2020 ∞
nov 20 2023 +