January's reading list

So far so good.  I love my new schedule- the kids love the new schedule.

Memory work: the Beatitudes, Lamentation 3:22-24

What we are reading this month (some titles will be continued for the rest of the year) and generally enjoying:

8 year old's list (mostly read alouds):

• Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• The Story of the World Vol. 1 by Susan Wise Bauer
• America's Paul Revere, by Esther Forbes
• Black Ships Before Troy, Rosemary Sutcliff
• Usborne Complete First Book of Nature
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling

10 year old's list:

• The Wheel on the School, DeJong
• The Gawgon and the Boy, Lloyd Alexander
• Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Story of the World Vol. 1, by Susan Wise Bauer
• America's Paul Revere, by Esther Forbes
• Black Ships Before Troy, Rosemary Sutcliff
• All About Horses, Marguerite Henry

13 year old's list:

• Othello, Shakespeare
• The Once and Future King, T.H. White
• Public Enemies, Bryan Burrough
• Mystery of History Vol. II
• Love Comes Softly Series

15 year old's list:

• Hamlet, Shakespeare
• Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
• Les Miserable, Victor Hugo
• And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
• The Complete Collection of Edgar Allen Poe
• The History of The English Speaking People, Winston Churchill
• Francis Bacon The Temper of a Man, Catherine Bowen
• The Song of Albion Book 2, 
• How To Read a Book, Mortimer Adler

17 year old's list:

• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin
• Hamlet, Shakespeare
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis
• The African Queen, C.S. Forester
• History of The English Speaking People, Vol. I, Winston Churchill

My list:

• Your God Is Too Small, J.B. Phillips
• The Twelve Spiritual Disciplines,
• City of Thieves, David Benioff
• Breaking Dawn, Stephanie Meyers
• The Tipping Point,
• Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos