Southern Reading Challenge

Maggie at Maggie Reads is hosting the Southern Reading Challenge 2008. I also did this challenge last year and enjoyed it.

My list is

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (DONE) I loved this book!!! I love the movie too.
Light in August by William Faulkner

For more information or to join this challenge click on the graphic above.

Non-Fiction Five 2008

Here's the list:

High School Form+U+La by Barb Shelton

Piecing Together the High School Puzzle by Joanne Mastronicola

Homeschooling High School by Jeanne Gowen Dennis

The Well Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer

High School @ Home: You Can Do It! by Diana Johnson

April Reads

APRIL

1. An Imperfect Lens by Anne Roiphe
2. Deconstructing Penguins: Parents, Kids and the Bond of Reading by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
3. The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs
4. Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen
5. A Girl From Yamhill by Beverly Cleary
6. The Last Girls by Lee Smith

Summer Reading List

Here's my list. I will incorporate some of these into reading challenges, esp. the homeschool books, I'm going to read for the Non-Fiction Five.

High School Form+U+La by Barb Shelton
Piecing Together the High School Puzzle by Joanne Mastronicola
Homeschooling High School by Jeanne Gowen Dennis
The Well Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer (reread)
High School @ Home: You Can Do It! by Diana Johnson
(do we see a theme here?)
Homeschooling at the Speed of Life by Marilyn Rockett
Losing It, and Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time by Valerie Bertinelli (DONE)
Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson

The following are prereads for Sonlight Core 200 so I can discuss with my son.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Parcel of Patterns by Walsh
Twelfth Night by Shakespeare
The Shining Company by Satcliff
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
What Hearts by Brooks
Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis
A Christmas Carol by Dickens