blue daisy Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I'd love to hear what your family is reading together right now. :) We're visiting the ocean in a few weeks, so we're currently reading Seabird and I have the Burgess Seashore Book ready after that. When we kick off our school year in August, I am planning to read The Hobbit (so excited to share this with them!) I'm about to start looking through books lists to write up a list of read alouds I want to do this year, and I'd love to hear what your family is enjoying too! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsunshine Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 The Hobbit is such a fun read aloud! Enjoy. We are kicking off our summer read alouds with 1984. After that, I think we will go with something more lighthearted like The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Almost done with Eagle of the Ninth. Next up: Little Britches. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minerva Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I loved Seabird and might just add that to our summer reading. We are reading The Children of Oden The book of Northern Myths. It is great. My son and I are also about to complete the Favorite Thornton Burgess Animal Stories, always a hit. Looking forward to hearing what others are reading as I have nothing on deck. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Just finished Tuck Everlasting, now reading Along Came Galileo and random chapters from Winnie the Pooh. I have The Year of Billy Miller checked out, but I'm not sure what I want to do with that yet. I thought I'd requested Ella Enchanted, but apparently not. The Saturdays is also on my list. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoMom Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 We're currently reading Fahrenheit 451 and The Amazing Dr. Ransom's Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies.We recently returned from a road trip where we listened to The Green Ember, Watership Down, And The Sign of Four.When we're done with Fahrenheit 451, we'll probably read another Hank the Cowdog. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl. I'm having lots of fun with all the Dahl books I never read as a child! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexi Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 King of the Wind Trumpet of the Swan Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters On the Banks of Plum Creek Getting ready to begin: The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryAtHope Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Great Expectations to my teen :-). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busymama7 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 The Prairie Thief, The Green Ember and the Penderwicks have been recently finished. We are now starting on the second Penderwicks and then will be the first Harry Potter. I am following as I need a good one for the whole family. I do night time one with just thte younger ones which is where Penderwicks falls. The Green Ember was to everyone and greatly loved. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlsdMama Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) We are doing a little kids book right now... Charlotte's Web. But who doesn't like EB White at any age?. Almost done, should finish up tonight or tomorrow and then we're going to start our first Lamplighter book. We're also almost half way through Swallows and Amazons, but no one is super excited about it yet. I was surprised that I haven't fallen in love... I've heard so many good things about it. Edited June 17, 2016 by BlsdMama 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birchbark Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 American Tall Tales by Stoutenburg. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Robinson Crusoe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 The Mysterious Benedict Society Centerburg Tales Moby Dick (Illustrated Classics) in anticipation of our trip to the Massachusetts coast 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insertcreativenamehere Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 The Hundred Dresses with my 6 yo daughter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arliemaria Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Pinocchio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKT Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 We are working our way through the entire Little House series (by Laura Ingalls Wilder). We are just about to finish book four, On the Banks of Plum Creek. My girls cannot get enough! I hope to finish the series by the end of the summer, though, because I am also excited to move onto other things. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethel Mertz Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 We're reading: What Darwin Saw: Based on Charles Darwin's Recollections of his Voyage Around the World in the Ship Beagle and Thirty More Famous Stories Retold (James Baldwin). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue daisy Posted June 17, 2016 Author Share Posted June 17, 2016 These are so fun to read. Thanks for sharing, and keep 'em coming! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue daisy Posted June 17, 2016 Author Share Posted June 17, 2016 Just finished Tuck Everlasting, now reading Along Came Galileo and random chapters from Winnie the Pooh. I have The Year of Billy Miller checked out, but I'm not sure what I want to do with that yet. I thought I'd requested Ella Enchanted, but apparently not. The Saturdays is also on my list. Oh, Winnie the Pooh! It's been a few years since we've read through the whole thing. I think we need to do that this year. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppleGreen Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Anne of Avonlea The Return of Meteor Boy? from The Ordinary Boy series w/ the 7 year old I usually only read one book aloud during summer because of crazy schedules and late nights, but my littlest got into OBoy and wanted me to continue the series. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holly Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 We have two going: Half Magic series--This is such a fun series and everyone is enjoying it! Mary Pope Osborne's Odyssey series We're also continuing with SOTW 2, since we started it a bit late in the year. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 I'm reading The Tale of Desperaux to the girls and my husband is reading The Phantom Tollbooth at bedtime. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alice Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 On the Shores of Silver Lake Over Sea, Under Stone and listening to Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane in the car 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue daisy Posted June 17, 2016 Author Share Posted June 17, 2016 I'm reading The Tale of Desperaux to the girls and my husband is reading The Phantom Tollbooth at bedtime. One of our all time favorites! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Sherlock, still, Itch, still and listening to "we have always lived in the castle" which is not usually my sort of genre but both DS and I are loving it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black-eyed Suzan Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 (edited) Stuff Matters by Mike Miodownik Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling Audiobooks (for the car and at home): Secret Garden Pilgrim's Progress (in short increments) ETA: I forgot the audiobook The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. I didn't realize we read/listened to so many at a time. :) Edited June 17, 2016 by Black-eyed Suzan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaOz Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 We just finished Seven Daughters and Seven Sons. Now reading Mary Slessor: Forward into Calabar, and Redwall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ondreeuh Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Interrupted Tale (book 4). We read the last chapter tomorrow, will then start book 5: The Unmapped Sea. I've already typed up all the Agatha Swanburne quotes to use as copywork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 (edited) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, but when we're done, I dunno... maybe Cuckoo Song or Zahrah the Windseeker which I just found hiding under my bed or The Mighty Miss Malone. I feel like we're going to want something comparatively short after this one. Edited June 17, 2016 by Tanaqui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 We're reading The Land Of Oz, or as it's known here, a hundred year old fairy tale of a transgender child. :lol: Up next is undecided. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCF612 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 (edited) I'm reading them My Side of the Mountain. My husband is reading them Harry Potter. In the car we're listening to The Books of Umber Dragon Games. Up after that is the final book in Gregory the Overlander. We're chomping at the bit to get to it! Edited June 17, 2016 by UCF612 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UCF612 Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 I hit our new Goodwill up the other day and found a number of the books listed here for $.50 each. Glad I bought them! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjeepa Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 I'm reading The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery to my almost 13 year old. Such beautiful language! We are also listening to three audiobooks right now, which is kind of unusual. We usually only have one going. They are The Crossover (really interesting book in verse), To Kill a Mockingbird and The Penderwicks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 The Mysterious Benedict Society same here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Flora and Ulysses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayath Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 Wow, those are all really long lists! Great to see that kids are reading so much. I'm a high school English teacher, and I'm absolutely passionate about reading. We do a lot of family reading time, and often at meals, we'll all go around the table and share what we've been reading. Both my kids (DS age 11 and DD age 7) are avid readers as well. I'm trying to continue reading aloud to them despite their ability to read on their own, but it's often hard to find the time! But here are the read alouds we did last year, and here's my plan for summer read alouds: Over the school year: Flora and Ulysses I Lived On Butterfly Hill A Single Shard Listen, Slowly We loved all of them. I'm contemplating really stretching them a bit over the summer by reading something a bit older/more challenging to them: - Maybe a Dickens' novel like Oliver Twist? Suggestions welcome! I also want to get them to read more mythology from both East and West, and maybe read more historical fiction with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 TumTum & Nutmeg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebcoola Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 We are reading through all the Roald Dahl books inspired by the BFG movie coming out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 (edited) I love read-aloud threads!! Currently: 1. Children of Odin (Padraic Colum) - we are loving this book 2. Superfudge (Judy Blume)) - 8 year-old loves this book, too Edited June 18, 2016 by Evanthe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
three4me Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 We just finished The Sign of the Beaver and started The Wishing Chair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edeemarie Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 We just finished the third book in the Growly series. We are also reading The Black Star of Kingston while we anxiously await the release of the Green Ember sequel, and for our summer book club we are reading The League and the Lantern. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinaBlue Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 We just finished The Magician's Elephant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverMoon Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 We had a combo of Eragon (when Dad was home/had the energy to read) and The Horse and His Boy (when he wasn't/didn't), but out of loyalty to the kid currently at summer camp we're shelving them. I can't decide what we should do next. The Bridge to Neverland sounds pretty good. Or one of the Eager magic tales. Or BFG. I'm trying to avoid a series so the camper doesn't have a big hole and keep it short enough to finish during camp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrittanyM Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Prince Caspian with my 7 and 5 year old. So far their most favorite has been "The BFG" and they frequently beg me to read it aloud again lol. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 We have 3 chapters to go on The Black Stallion. Next up is Understood Betsy, because the leaders of their upcoming farm camp recommend that all kids read this book first. I might do a read-aloud or audiobook on Hold Fast by Blue Balliett, because my kids are supposed to read this for a middle school book club meeting July 7 (just got it this Thursday). One of my 9yos will find this a real challenge to finish on time, with all the other stuff that's going on around here. Plus, there are probably things in there that my kids are too young to understand without explanation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J&JMom Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 (edited) About half way through Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - taking 2 summers (and a Christmas break) to finish the series. Then we will continue with Series of Unfortunate Events (finished #5). Edited June 18, 2016 by J&JMom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LynnS Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 We're reading "The Warm Place" by Nancy Farmer. It's about a baby giraffe trying to get back home to Africa (better than it sounds, promise). Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lecka Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 I am reading Charlie and the Charlie Factory to my daughter. Other two kids have no interest. She prefers it is just the two of us sometimes. I am reading a lot of Berenstain Bears and Elephant and Piggie to the two younger kids right now. I read a few pages to my older son out of his book now and then. He does not like to wait on me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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