A Tale of Two Cities...Charles Dickens...excellent, romantic
The Scarlet Pimpernel...Baroness ...good
I decided to read the entire series of Thrush Green by Miss Read, I enjoyed it years ago:
Thrush Green...Miss Read...loved
Winter in Thrush Green...Miss Read...good
News From Thrush Green...Miss Read...good
Gossip From Thrush Green...Miss Read...good
Affairs in Thrush Green...Miss Read...good
Friends at Thrush Green...Miss Read...good
Battles at Thrush Green...Miss Read...good
February 2009
Return to Thrush Green...Miss Read...good
At Home in Thrush Green...Miss Read...good
The School at Thrush Green...Miss Read...okay, not great
Celebrations at Thrush Green...Miss Read...okay, not great
The Year at Thrush Green...Miss Read...pretty good
March 2009
Village School...Miss Read..started, not as good
Children's Literature:
The Bat Poet...Randall Jarrett...interesting
My Father's Dragon..too whimsical
Professional Reading:
What Struggling Readers Need Most...Richard Allington, excellent, research based
April 2009
Professional Reading:
Choice Literacy and The Daily Cafe archives online
May 2009
Wallander's First Case...Henning Mankell...excellent short stories, my favorite Mankell so far
June 2009
The Dogs of Riga...Henning Mankell...good
Jellicoe Road...tried, Jordan liked
Hunger Games...Suzanne Collins...good in parts
Thornyhold...Mary Stewart...reread, loved again
I, Keturah...Ruth Wolff, reread. loved absolutely
Faceless Killers...Henning Mankell, pretty good
Hamlet, Revenge...Michael Innes...complicated, but good
Short Stories of Marjorie Rawlings...excellent
Professional Reading:
Mosaic of Thought...Keene and Zimmerman...good
July 2009
Inkheart...Cornelia Funke...very good
The House at Riverton...tried, boring
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday...Alexander McCall Smith...good
Professional Reading:
Why Students Don't Like School...Daniel T. Willingham
Hamlet...Shakespeare...adapted by Bruce Coville
Midsummer Night's Dream...Shakespeare...adapted by Bruce Coville
Twelfth Night...Shakespeare...adapted by Bruce Coville
The Five Love Languages...Gary Chapman...good
The World According to Bertie...Alexander McCall Smith
Professional Reading:
The Complete Four...Pam Allyn..good
August 2009
My Life in France...Julia Child...fascinating
September 2009
Catching Fire...Suzanne Collins...not as good as Hunger Games
The Brutal Telling...Louise Penny, mesmerizing
Professional Reading:
Teaching Wonder...Georgia Heard...good ideas
Literacy Cafe...Boushey and Moser
October 2009
The Case of the Gilded Fly...Edmund Crispin...rereading
Holy Disorders...Edmund Crispin...rereading
November 2009
Professional Reading:
How to Ignite a Passion for Reading...Steven Layne...online...different book choices than I would make
December 2009
Buried for Pleasure...Edmund Crispin...complicated!
The Elegance of the Hedgehog...Muriel Barbery....translated from the French, okay
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