Good Reads

The kids and I have a goal to read more this year.  Sissy & Brody love it when we read together at night.  Let's face it - as they are getting older, the less time they want to spend with me, so I am going to take as much of it as I can!!

Mom's 2012 Reads:

Sarah's Key- Tatiana de Rosnay

The Scorch Trials- James Dashner

We grabbed a list of "must reads" from the local library and away we went.
Here is what we have read so far in 2011:

The BFG - Roald Dahl
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher - Bruce Coville
Mr. Popper's Penguins- Richard & Florence Atwater 
Sideways Stories of Wayside School- Louis Sacher
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling

We have read these great books in the years past:

The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks

The Mouse & the Motorcycle - Beverly Cleary

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
James & the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
Because of Winn-Dixie - Kate DiCamillo

The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis

The Lighting Thief - Rick Riordan

The Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner

Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
Stuart Little - E.B. White

Mom's Reads for 2011:

Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins

The Brightest Star in the Sky - Marion Keyes

The Red Tent - Anita Diamont

Labor Day - Joyce Maynard

Replay- Ken Grimwood

Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris

Decision Points - George W. Bush

Pride & Prejudice- Jane Austen

SuperBaby - Jenn Berman

Raw Energy - Stephanie Tourles

The Zen of Social Media Marketing- Shama Kabani
On the Corner of Bitter & Sweet - Jamie Ford
All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris
Summer Affair - Elin Hildebrand
Love & Logic Magic for Early Childhood - Foster Cline
You'll Never Nanny in this Town Again - Suzanne Hansen
Black Heels to Tractor Wheels - Ree Drummond
From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris
11 Birthdays - Wendy Mass
Summer Island - Kristen Hannah
Dead & Gone - Charlaine Harris
Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris
Unbroken- Laura Hillenbrand
Confessions of A Prairie Bitch- Alison Arngrin
Petty Magic- Camille Deangelies
Stories I Only Tell My Friends- Rob Lowe
The Maze Runner- James Dashner
The Island- Elin Hilebrand