Betsy Bee: The Umbrella Book (Sing, Spell, Read and Write)
Karate Kid: Forever Amber Brown by Paula Danziger
Brown Bear Daughter: Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo and The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. Also Nancy Drew books. BB Daughter likes to keep several books going at the same time.
Organizer Daughter: The Odyssey by Homer
Dancer Daughter: Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Computer Guru Son: The Anarchist’s Cookbook ( A friend gave us this book because Engineer Husband used to make his own fireworks back in his adolescence. It’s a little scary that Computer Guru Son is reading about blowing up bridges and making dynamite, but at least he’ll be prepared to write his own spy novel someday. Or he may join the FBI.)
Eldest Daughter: Paradise Lost by Milton, Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Me: Right Turns by Michael Medved and The Children of Men by P.D. James
Engineer Husband: General Science and Botany (Apologia science textbooks) He says it’s all he can find time for besides the Bible.
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What we’re reading . . .
Dancer Daughter, Organizer Daughter, and I: Ann Rinaldi She writes great historical fiction, and each book has this warning on the back cover: “WARNING: This is a historical novel. Read at your own risk. The writer feels it necessary to alert you to the fact that you might enjoy it.” So far, I’ve read two of her books, and I’m impressed. The girls have read more, and they’re hooked.
Brown Bear Daughter: Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden. I read both when I was her age, and I can’t say it ruined my taste in literature. I really liked Trixie better than Nancy.
Karate Kid: Hardy Boys. He saw BB Daughter reading Nancy Drew and wanted something like it for boys.
Bee and Z-Baby: Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans. They checked out about three or four Madeline books from the library. We like Madeline. “She was not afraid of mice–she loved winter, snow, and ice. To the tiger in the zoo, Madeline just said, “Pooh-pooh.” She’s definitely a positive role model–brave, bold, and adventurous.
I don’t know what Eldest Daughter and Computer Guru Son are reading. Eldest Daughter just finished her finals, so maybe she’ll have time for some reading. And Computer Guru Son is supposed to have read Huckleberry Finn by January, so he’d probably better be reading that.
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What we’re reading . . .
Eldest Daughter: Shakespeare’s Sonnets She wants to know why some of the sonnets seem to be written to a man? I don’t really want to get into that controversy!
Number One Son: Nothing. He says, in a house FULL of books, that there’s “nothing to read.” What would you recommend for a 17 year old boy who likes John Grisham, Stephen Lawhead, and computers?
Dancer Daughter: Beauty by Robin McKinley A retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
Third Daughter: Dear America books. A series of books about girls living at different times in American history. The books are written in first person as journal or diary entries.
Brown Bear Daughter: Meet the Austins by Madeleine L’Engle
Karate Kid: Cam Jansen mysteries
Curly Redhead: Berenstain Bears: The Bear Detectives (These annoy me, but her sister checked it out for her at the library.)
Z-baby: Play With Me by Marie Hall Ets
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You asked, “Number One Son: Nothing. He says, in a house FULL of books, that there’s “nothing to read.” What would you recommend for a 17 year old boy who likes John Grisham, Stephen Lawhead, and computers?”
I, Robot
Foundation
(Isaac Asimov)Childhood’s End
(Arthur C. Clarke)Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow and all of the the books that follow
The Alvin Maker series
(Orson Scott Card)Digital Fortress
(Dan Brown)Fear
Prey
(Michael Crichton)The Cobra Event
(Richard Preston)The Space Merchants
(– Pohl)Many of Richard North Patterson’s books actually far outstrip Grisham. Has he tried those?
And if he enjoyed Lawhead’s Arthur books, I’d suggest the Mary Stewart Arthur tales, beginning with The Crystal Cave.
Hope something here interests him. Best regards.
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Ahhh, Beauty, one of my all time favorite books, and I am pleased to see is one of my dd’s all time favorites as well.
Enjoy!
Vienna.
I preferred Trixie to Nancy as well. Nancy Drew was too scary and gave me nightmares. I always wondered if Trixie and Jim ended up together.
I don’t think those books ruined my taste in literature either, but I do wish I hadn’t wasted so much time reading Sweet Valley High and The Cheerleaders series. Ugh.