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Monday, July 24, 2006

There's just something about water...

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  • The Classic Hundred Poems - Ed. William Harmon
  • The Art of Raising a Puppy - The Monks of New Skete
  • Stories from the Old Squire's Farm - C.A. Stephens (read aloud)

2018 Booklist

  • Dandelion Fire - N.D. Wilson (audiobook)
  • 100 Cupboards - N.D. Wilson (audiobook)
  • Mary Emma and Company - Ralph Moody (read aloud)
  • The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street - Karina Yan Glaser (audiobook)
  • The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book II: The Hidden Gallery - Maryrose Wood (audiobook)
  • The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling - Maryrose Wood (audiobook)
  • The Complete Homer Price - Robert McCloskey (read aloud)
  • The Green Ember - S.D. Smith (Read Aloud)
  • The Read Aloud Family - Sarah Mackenzie
  • Reading People - Anne Bogel
  • The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas (audiobook)
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  • The Borrowers - Mary Norton (Read Aloud)
  • Gift from the Sea - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Anne of the Island - L.M. Montgomery

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  • Harry Potter and ... (all 7 books) - J.K. Rowling (audiobooks)
  • The Birchbark House - Louise Erdrich (Read Aloud)
  • Anne of Avonlea - L.M. Montgomery
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  • The First Four Years - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Read Aloud)
  • These Happy Golden Years - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Read Aloud)
  • Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montegomery

2016 Booklist: Completed

  • Little Town on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Read Aloud)
  • The Chain Letter of the Soul: New and Collected Poems - Bill Holm
  • The Secret Life of Men: A Practical Guide to Helping Men Discover Health, Happiness, and Deeper Personal Relationships - Steve Biddulph
  • Mere Motherhood: Morning Times, Nursery Rhymes, & My Journey Toward Sanctification - Cindy Rollins
  • Raising Boys: Why Boys are Different - and How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men - Steve Biddulph
  • New Collected Poems - Wendell Berry
  • Teaching from Rest - Sarah Mackenzie
  • By the Shores of Silver Lake - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Read Aloud)
  • This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald (audio)
  • Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen (audio)
  • Hungry Planet: What the World Eats - Peter Menziel
  • The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou - Maya Angelou
  • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  • On the Banks of Plum Creek - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Read Aloud)
  • Little House in the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Read Aloud)
  • Your Ten-to-Fourteen Year Old - Louise Bates Ames
  • Dear Darkness - Kevin Young
  • Black Beauty - Anna Sewell (Read Aloud)
  • Sailing Alone Around the Room - Billy Collins
  • Dakota: A Spiritual Geography - Kathleen Norris
  • Home Education - Charlotte Mason
  • Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence - Davide Keirsey (again)
  • One Big Self - C.D. Wright
  • Tremble - C.D. Wright
  • Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing - Michael Ruhlman & Brian Polcyn

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