We got home from our trip to America a few days ago. The bulk of our luggage was books–see the pile we had to add to the library?
Not all of them are going directly on the shelves, but over half are. I’ll highlight part of them here, and save the rest for next month.
First up: the books that will go on the Junior Fiction shelf. A number of families around here have been eagerly waiting for these last two books in The Brady Street Boys series. We thoroughly enjoyed the whole series, and the ending was satisfying. See my reviews of the series here and here.
I also acquired the fifth and sixth books in the Tree Street Kids series. We listened to the first few books in this series and I decided that we needed all of them in our library. I’m looking forward to reading these! The Goldtown Adventures series by Susan K. Marlow, for 10-12-year-olds follow the Goldtown Beginnings series for 6-8-year-olds. This series is about the same person, a few years older. I was in a discount grocery store in Michigan that has a book corner (they actually bought out my bookstore 18 years ago), and saw this series. Since I had been thinking about getting the series anyway, I bought it then.
We listened to several of the Clementine books a few months ago, so when I found a couple of copies to buy, I snatched them up. My mom read one of them while we were still at her house, and loved it.
I also brought home a lot of picture books. We love the Frances books, and books by Ezra Jack Keats, and books by Patricia Polacco…
I was tickled to find a hardcover of In the Small, Small Pond at a secondhand shop I went to with my mom. This book has been a favorite of our family since it was given to us by one of my aunts who worked in a school library for many years. She sent us a boxful of books a few weeks before my third baby was born, and it was great to have new stories to read my two older toddlers while I was feeding the new baby. That copy, though, is nearly worn out, so now we have one that will keep going for many years.
I also brought home some more easy readers. We now have all the Frog and Toad books, and two Henry and Mudge books–both quite popular with my youngest!
I found a lot of books to add to the Junior Biography section, too. The two about Ben Franklin are easy readers, and very fun stories. I got the one about Teddy Roosevelt because I love that author’s style of presenting history. I also like Jean Fritz’s books, and the Scholastic biographies. The Childhood of Famous Americans books are good for children who need books just above the level of the books we have on the Independent Readers shelf. Wangari’s Trees of Peace is a beautiful picture book about a woman in Africa.
Then there are some miscellaneous books that I’ll add to this post. I got What Am I Feeling? because it is part of a level of Sonlight Curriculum that I am doing with one of the girls. The Search and Rescue Files is a review book, and I really enjoyed it. I had Elijah read it, too, and he reported that it is pretty accurate. It goes on the Young Adult Fiction shelf. I got When God Writes Your Love Story because there has been some interest in it among our young people. It’s a book I had many years ago, but when someone borrowed it, someone else burned it. Treasures of the Wise and The Bible Companion Book were both review copies. I used both as daily devotionals and liked them. I got The Constitution of the United States to go with another level of Sonlight Curriculum. I actually ordered it well over a year ago for Esther and the boys to bring back from the States, and it didn’t arrive at my mom’s house till about 9 months after I ordered it.
That’s all for now! I’ll write another post about the rest, sometime in the next month. I have a lot to catch up on after being away from home for over five weeks.
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