Without School for 2 Weeks: Book Time

                                                                                                                       By: Avonlea
Books that I would like to read again over Christmas break:

Freckles
Linnets and Valerians
The Wingfeather Saga
The Sherwood Ring         (note: it's not Robin Hood)    

Alone Yet Not Alone
Indian Captive
The Single Shard
Moonstone
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Watership Down
The Old-Fashioned Girl
Ivanhoe
Lord of the Rings
The Borrowers
Papa's Wife
The Chronicles of Prydain
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Agent Nine and the Jewel Mystery
The Mysterious Island
Rosanna of the Amish
Tuck Everlasting
I am David
Banner in the Sky
The Endless Steppe

Authors whose books are amazing:

Andrew Peterson:
The Wingfeather Saga

                                 Eloise Jarvis McGraw:
                                 Moccasin Trail
                    The Golden Goblet            
                                Master Cornhill
                  Mara Daughter of the Nile

Carolyn Keene:
The Dana Girls Mystery Stories
Nancy Drew Mysteries

 

Jules Verne:
Around the World in Eighty Days
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Mysterious Island     (note: a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Madeleine L'Engle:
Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
Many Waters
A Swiftly Tilting Planet            
An Acceptable Time

Wilkie Collins:
The Woman in White
Moonstone

Honorable Author Mentions: E. Nesbit, Martha Finley, Elizabeth Goudge, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and many more!

Random: My favorite holiday movies are Holiday Inn and White Christmas.

Daughters of the Faith - By Avonlea

Daughters of the faith series are like... my favorite books. They are all true. They're filled with character and captives, joy and girlhood of - Pocahontas, Mary Bunyan, Anita Dittman, and Mary Chilton.

We will start with Pocahontas. Pocahontas books I've read so many times that I didn't want to read it but I read it just the same and it was... so incredible, and inspiring. It will capture your heart. In the back of the book, there's an epilogue and some powhatan words: popanow - winter, cattapeuk - spring, cohattayough - summer, taquitock - autumn. So... is that fun or what?

Now on to Mary Bunyan... she's a poor blind girl in the 1600's who doesn't want anybody to help her. Her father is in jail, her mother just had a baby, they hardly have any money, her 7 year old brother Jake is playing with bad boys, and everything is just going wrong. Until... she and her friend find Jesus. They get her father out of jail, help her mother start again... and that is the end of the book. I'll do the 2 other books next post.

The author is Wendy Lawton. She farms 30 acres of almonds.