Library Time 85

As usual I have several books on the go right now, but the best one is Faith and Victory in Dachau. This is the memoir of a Dutch pastor who survived Dachau in World War II. His crime? Encouraging his church school board to stand up to the Germans and not give in to the Nazi agenda for education.

I haven’t read this book since I married and had children. I find it so much more thought provoking now. Would I encourage my husband to take a stand as this man’s wife did knowing I could be left a single mom with a toddler? Would I stand up as a parent and continue to send my children to the Christian school in the face of Gestapo threats? This man’s faith is such an encouragement and example to me.

17-year-old daughter – The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. This is a re-read for her, and when she finished she wrote a review of it on her blog which you can read here.

15-year-son – The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places by Robert Young Pelton. This is the autobiography of a man who has traveled to some of the world’s most dangerous places and lived to tell the story.

14-year-old son – The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A scientist goes to a remote jungle in South America in search of dinosaurs. What happens when he brings a pterodactyl back with him?

12-year-old daughter – Royal Diaries: Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136 by Kristiana Gregory. A fun way to learn history.

10-year-old daughter – Twice Upon a Time: Sleeping Beauty by Wendy Mass. A re-telling of the Sleeping Beauty story in chapter book format.

8-year-old son – Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World by Margret and H.A. Rey. A very cute story about a curious penguin who explores the world but goes back to Antarctica in the end.