Our Summer Reading List | Mountains of Books

Sonlight is having a monthly blog linkup this year, in honor of their 25th anniversary. Find out how we decided to homeschool in the February hop and my best advice for new homeschoolers in March and in April shared a day in the life of my homeschool.
Now for May's prompt:
Share your best homeschool convention tips and experiences.

I'll be honest, between the three local (very active) homeschool groups I belong to, I've not gotten around to attending the (humongous) Texas Home School Convention (practically in our backyard.) Therefore instead of pretend an answer, in honor of our first homeschool-iversary (is that a thing?) this past Tuesday and Kylee's kindergarten graduation this past weekend, I am doing our recent reading lists!

Books on Every Subject!

Core C Books
The Bible (mostly the gospels and the book of Acts)
The Awesome Book of Bible Facts
Usborne Book of World History
Window on the World
Geography
Medicine News: The Germ of an Idea
Red Sails to Capri
The Aesop for Children
Cornstalks: A Bushel of Poems
Sir Lancelot the Great
Sticks Across the Chimney
Maps and Globes
Time Traveler
Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky
A Child's History of the World
Castle Diary
Tales of Robin Hood
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
The Minstrel in the Tower

Chris Library List
The Water Hole
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Explosions, Incredible Cross-Sections, Castle
World Atlas
How to be a Roman Soldier
You Wouldn't Want to (Be Tutankhamen, Sail on the Mayflower, Be a Roman Soldier, Be a Viking Explorer, Be a Ninja Warrior, Sail on the First Submarine, and Sail on the Titanic)
The Berenstain Bears (and the Double Dare, Too Much TV, the Messy Room, Don't Pollute (Anymore), Trick or Treat,Get Their Kicks, Trouble With Money, New Neighbors, the real Easter Bunny, the Bully, Get the Gimmies, Too Much Pressure, Lend a Helping Hand)
The Stinkly Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch
The Frog Prince, Continued
Not Your Typical Dragon
The Marshmallow Incident
Franklin's Class Trip (and Goes to the Hospital, and New Friend and the School Treasury)
Amazing Buildings
The Magic Schoolbus Shows and Tells: Archaeology
Star Wars: The Complete Saga
And several others...

We've been slowly reading through the Chronicles of Narnia as a family for fun.

Kylee Library List
A Dictionary of Dance
A Child's Introduction to Ballet
Beatrice Doesn't Want To
Dooby Dooby Moo
Pinkalicious: Fairy House (and The Royal Tea Party)
Ballet School
Becoming a Ballerina: A Nutcracker Story
My Ballet Book
First Lessons in Ballet
Prima Princessa Ballet for Beginners
Dancing Through Fire
Marie: An Invitation to Dance
Gooney Bird and the Room Mother
Arthur's Valentine (and Teacher Trouble)
Fancy Nancy and the Too Loose Tooth (and At the Museum)
Adventures in Ancient China
Disney's The Little Mermaid
The Berenstain Bears and Mama's New Job (and Get Their Kicks)
Robin Hood and the Great Coach Robbery
Amelia Bedelia
Dance
Franklin's Holiday Treasury
Angelina and the Royal Wedding (and Angeline Ballerina and Ice Skates)
You Wouldn't Want to be Cleopatra
Hi! Fly Guy
Etc.

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I'm a big believer in letting the kids pick out their own books (within reason and guidance.)

My reading list lately has consisted of:
Pre-reading Seamless by Angie Smith before leading it at our summer Bible Study
Unoffendable by Brant Hansen
and for the opposing view Reclaiming Anger by David Dorn
Love Does by Bob Goff

and I just started reading
The Trouble with the Truth: Balancing Truth and Grace by Rob Renfroe

What's on your reading list?

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 For more homeschoolers (who actually have tips about attending conventions), visit the May blog party!

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