Embassy Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 I am in search of books. What are your favorite reading books for your children in grades 2-4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissel Posted June 11, 2010 Share Posted June 11, 2010 I am in search of books. What are your favorite reading books for your children in grades 2-4? I just started putting together a list for my DD7. She's outgrown much of what's on our "book jar" list, so I'm updating. Here's what I have so far: The Perilous Road By the Great Horn Spoon Freedom Train Shades of Gray Turn Homeward, Hannalee Old Yeller Helen Keller Thimble Summer In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Plain Girl Gone Away Lake The Seventeenth Swap Bruchko The Wright Brothers George Washington Carver The Terrible Wave Sing Down the Moon Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Ballet Shoes Black Ships Before Troy Children's Homer Detectives in Togas The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Door in the Wall From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler The Hobbit Mary Poppins Twenty-One Balloons Adventures of Robin Hood Homer Price The Moffatts Heidi Hatchet Bridge to Terabithia A Wrinkle in Time Shiloh Little House on the Prarie Sarah, Plain and Tall The Indian in the Cupboard Island of the Blue Dolphins The Giver James and the Giant Peach Little House in the Big Woods Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Stone Fox Number the Stars The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Matilda Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing The Trumpet of the Swan The Phantom Tollbooth Tuck Everlasting The Great Gilly Hopkins Harriet the Spy The Penderwicks Because of Winn Dixie Half Magic Dragon Rider Journey to the River Sea More true lies: 18 tales for you to judge The Invention of Hugo Cabret Cricket in Times Square Magyk Time Cat The Book of Three (and follow-ups) Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising books Many of the books on this list are pulled from the Sonlight/VP/Memoria Press book lists for the age range (and a bit higher). The books in red are books I read and loved as a child. My plan is to include these in another book jar, from which she'll pull for both reading to herself and reading aloud. The method has been a LOT of fun, and has forced us both to get started on some books we really didn't think we'd enjoy (the rule is that once a books is pulled, we must read at least two chapters before one of us can decide to give it up). HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embassy Posted June 12, 2010 Author Share Posted June 12, 2010 Thanks for the recommendations!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0mmaBuck Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 My kids are both fans of Roald Dahl. http://www.roalddahl.com/ These are some favorites: Matilda The Enormous Crocodile The Twits The Magic Finger George's Marvelous Medicine DS8 also likes Jack London: Call of the Wild, White Fang and Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book, Just So Stories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber in AUS Posted June 12, 2010 Share Posted June 12, 2010 I am just getting my lit selections together for grade 2. You can find them under the Year 2 tab on my blog, but it happens to be the first post ATM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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