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  • Patricia Cornwell: Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, No. 15)

    Patricia Cornwell: Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, No. 15)
    I only put myself through this out of some sick completist compulsion. She jumped the shark when she brought Benton back to life. Although, reading this one reminded me of whatser in Misery. Maybe if someone kidnapped Cornwell ... she would write better books ... Hm.

  • Jennifer 8 Lee: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

    Jennifer 8 Lee: The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
    This was cute, something light to read on vaca. But seriously, when I got to the end, at the big internment camps! reveal? I just thought ... What? She seemed real smart up till now. She couldn't figure that out? This is why an intense history curriculum is the cornerstone of our home education program.

  • Julie Kavanagh: Rudolf Nureyev

    Julie Kavanagh: Rudolf Nureyev
    This is the finest piece of writing I have read in five years, maybe longer -- maybe ever. It is a fascinating biography, sure, but the writing! The writing!! Applause! Clapping! She is drawing from so many sources and narratives and different kinds of material to weave this whole story together, but she makes it look so easy, and it is a technical marvel, aside from a great yarn. The account of his defection is masterful and pulse-pounding and page-turning! Also, when Fillette came to me and asked me why her new school teaches second position differently from her old school: I had a real smart, accurate & informed history-of-ballet answer for her! Five stars!

  • Sheherazade Goldsmith, ed: Slice of Organic Life

    Sheherazade Goldsmith, ed: Slice of Organic Life
    This had pretty photographs and sweet, matter-of-fact introductions to all manner of suburban-y farmstead, carbon-fp-reduction things, without all that kind of wooden-necklace attitude that made that Kingsolver book so insufferable. I fantasized for 8 or 12 whole minutes about keeping bees, but a. don't look good in white and b. neighbor keeps bees and will trade honey for vegetables I grow as ornaments. I love my neighborhood.

  • Debra W. Haffner: From Diapers to Dating : A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children, from Infancy to Adolescence.

    Debra W. Haffner: From Diapers to Dating : A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children, from Infancy to Adolescence.
    [while reading this book, I groaned in a singsong, "transphooobiaaaa!" Mari sang back, "Sweeeeediiiiiiiiish!"]
    the one for older children is better, though when my children are actually that age, I may find it as basic as I found this one. apparently, I am totally Swedish in my uptight heart. she talks about not omitting the concepts of family planning, contraception, and HIV transmission from the family's culture of quotidian sex talk, even to the littlest, which was good to remember. also, in the introduction reveals that in 21stc, there are still parents telling children they came from cabbage patch. (not in sweden)

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third-grade bibliography -- fin

The Wampanoags, Flanagan, Alice K,

Colonial Life, January, Brendan

The Complete Fairy Tales & Stories of Hans Christian Anderson, Anderson, H.C.; Haugaard, Eric C., trans

Henry Hudson and His Voyages of Exploration in World History, Judith Edwards

Daily Life in the Pilgrim Colony, 1636, Erickson, Paul

The New Americans: Colonial Times 1620-1689, Maestro, Betsy and Giulio

Farmer Boy, Wilder, Laura Ingalls (autobiography)

Little House in the Big Woods, Wilder, Laura Ingalls (autobiography)

Olga de Polga, Bond, Michael

Tales from the Odyssey, The One-Eyed Giant, Osborne, Mary Pope (classics)

____The Land of the Dead

____Sirens and Sea Monsters

____The Gray-Eyed Goddess

____Return to Ithaca

____The Final Battle

Piranhas, McAuliffe, Emily (nonfiction)

Tomie dePaola's Book of Poems, dePaola, Tomie, ed (poetry)

Charlotte's Web, White, E.B.

Adventures with Atoms and Molecules: Chemistry Experiments for Young People, Mebane, Robert C., Rybolt, Thomas R. (science, nonfiction)

The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry, Gonick, Larry and Criddle, Craig (science, nonfiction)

Day of the Dead, Gnojewski, Carol (nonfiction)

The BFG, Dahl, Roald

Maine, Dornfield, Margaret

Acadia National Park, Fazio, Wende (nonfiction, Geography)

Children of Native America Today, Dennis, Yvonne Wakim; Hirschfelder, Arlene (nonfiction)

The Giraffe, the Pelly and Me, Dahl, Roald

Utterly me, Clarice Bean, Childs, Lauren

The Witches, Roald Dahl

The True Story of Balto, Standiford, Natalie (biography)

The Thirteen Colonies: Pennsylvania, DeFord, Deborah

The Lenape Indians, Wilker, Josh

African-Americans in the Thirteen Colonies, Kent, Deborah

Henry Huggins, Cleary, Beverly

Henry and Ribsy, Cleary, Beverly

Ribsy, Cleary, Beverly

Henry and the Paper Route, Cleary, Beverly

Henry and Beezus, Cleary, Beverly

The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Cleary, Beverly

Runaway Ralph, Cleary, Beverly

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl, Roald

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Dahl, Roald

Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing, Blume, Judy

Superfudge, Blume, Judy

Manners Can Be Fun, Leaf, Munro (nonfiction)

How to Behave and Why, Leaf, Munro (nonfiction)

Double Fudge, Blume, Judy

26 Fairmount Ave, dePaola, Tomie (autobiography)

Here We All Are, dePaola, Tomie (autobiography)

On My Way, dePaola, Tomie (autobiography)

What a Year, dePaola, Tomie (autobiography)

Understanding Comics, The Invisible Art, McCloud, Scott (nonfiction)

George vs George: The Revolutionary War as seen from both sides, Schanzer, Rosalyn (US/W Euro History)

Valley Forge, Stein, R. Conrad

The Colony of Pennsylvania, Whitehurst, Susan

William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania, Kroll, Steven

Explorers of North America, January, Brendan

The Revolutionary War, January, Brendan

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Coerr, Eleanor (biography)

The Black Regiment of the American Revolution, Brennan, Linda C.

A Picture Book of Benjamin Franklin, Adler, David (biography)

A Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson, Adler, David (biogaphy)

Struggle for a Continent: The French-Indian Wars, Maestro, Betsy

Will you sign here, John Hancock?, Fritz, Jean

Can't you make them behave, King George?, Fritz, Jean

Shhh, we're writing the Constitution, Fritz, Jean

States, Stienecker, David

Olivia Kidney, Potter, Ellen

Henry and the Clubhouse, Cleary, Beverly,

Carpentry for Children, Walker, Lester, MacAuley, David (nonfiction, art)

Trumpet of the Swan, White, E.B.

Smoking, Condon, Judith (Safety Education/Health)

Emergencies, Loewen, Nancy (health, nonfiction)

Kids' Guide to First Aid, Gale, Karen B. (health, nonfiction)

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