I can’t believe this is Library Time 50. I should have done something to celebrate it, but it kind of snuck up on me. I have a lot of fun making these lists every week, and I hope they’ve helped you and your children find new books to read.
This week I read an incredible book. Ghost Boy is the true story of a young man who was trapped in his own body due to an illness his doctors could not identify. He had no way of communicating and everyone thought he was brain damaged. For twelve years he lived like that – horrifying when you think of it – until a care worker saw something in it and started advocating for him. I won’t spoil it, but it is amazing where he’s at today. You can buy his book in paperback or ebook form here.
16-year-old daughter – Devil at My Heels. This is the autobiography of Louis Zamperini which he wrote long before Unbroken was published.
14-year-old son – The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
12-year-old son – The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket. I talked about this series last week that we just discovered. It is now making its rounds through all the children.
10-year-old daughter – My Story: D-Day by Bryan Perrett. My daughter enjoyed learning about World War II while reading this book.
9-year-old daughter – The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
7-year-old son – The Biggest Bear by Lynd Ward
3-year-old son – Horton Hatches The Egg by Dr. Seuss. A favourite choice with Ethan.
2-year-old son – Biscuit and the Little Pup by Alyssa Satin Capucilli. For an adult Biscuit books can be mind-numbingly boring, but for a little one the simple plots and fun puppy make it a book worth reading. So if you can steel yourself to it, your little one will love Biscuit and his (mis)adventures.
What did you read this week?
Intentional Simplicity 
Wow – 50 🙂 That is something to celebrate – make some cupcakes LOL.
I’m deep into a series I borrowed from the digital library about WWII – Tricia Goyer and it is sooo good. I just hope that I can finish the four books before the 8th of Feb or I have to try to reborrow it and hope no one else has it on hold :).
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I feel your pain on needing to reborrow and hoping no one else wants it. 🙂 Give the kids a day off school and spend it reading. 🙂 If only. Right?
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Oh I’ll tell them you authorized it LOL 🙂
This is a series of 4 and I finished the first one in tears of emotions and then started the next a little “down” that the first set of people weren’t in the second book 🙂 but within minutes I was hooked onto the next set of people!
C’est la vie avec les livres! (That’s life with books!)
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That’s the nice thing about series – there’s another one. Until, of course, there isn’t. Then you can start over again on the series. 🙂
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