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