Reading List
- Books for Kids
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Judith Viorst) is silly and excellent.
- Animalia (Graeme Base) is beautifully illustrated. It is also a fun way to learn numbers, adjectives, and animal names.
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond) is a charming story with plenty of examples of "if" and "when" sentences.
- All of a Kind Family (Sidney Taylor) is a short chapter book about a large family of girls.
- Books for Young Adults
- Chronicles of Avonlea (L.M. Montgomery) is a series of short stories set in eastern Canada. I especially like "Aunt Olivia's Beau." One caveat: the book was published in 1912 and so the language is a bit different from how people speak today.
- Baseball in April and Other Stories (Gary Soto) is a collection of tales about the challenges of growing up.
- The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros) deals with living between two cultures and languages.
- Books for Adults
- Eat Pray Love (Elizabeth Gilbert) is about the author's travels and self-rediscovery. The final section is a little racy.
