2011 Read Alouds (Chapter Books)

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

*Black Ships before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff

The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park

Homer Price by Robert McCloskey

The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong

*The Wanderings of Odysseus by Rosemary Sutcliff

Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

*Aesop's Fables for Children by Milo Winter

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

James Herriot's Treasury for Children by James Herriot

*A Triumph for Flavius by Caroline Dale Snedeker

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

*Gladiator by Richard Watkins

Half Magic by Edward Eager

Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Audio Books (usually we listen in the van--doesn't include the many Hank the Cowdog books we've listened to):
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White

The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

*Read for school