Happy New Year! I'm going to try to keep up with what we are reading, too :)
Katherine:
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
This is a book lover's book! Paula McLain also wrote The Paris Wife, which I liked, too. Her prose lets me escape to colonial Africa. I randomly picked this one off of a list I found on my phone at the book club Christmas party, and within a week, 3 other book lovers (in real life) had recommended it to me. I love it.
Michael:
just finished The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey on Audible. It's (another!) post-apocalypse YA book that will be made into a movie sometime this year. It's also on the Louisiana Teen Reader's list, so many of our students have read and enjoyed it.
D
Warriors series by Erin Hunter.
These books were recommended by his teacher; I'd never heard of them, but he likes them. They are about clans of cats and combine his love of animals and fantasy.
Read aloud to W & D
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
I loved these growing up and was scared, since I have boys they may not ever be interested. I was soooo wrong. My boys love the way Wilder describes every aspect of pioneer life, from making the bullets (in Little House in the Big Woods) to making a door without nails (the chapter we read last night). There are also great animal interactions.
