Book Mania 2009-2010
Are you having trouble finding fun books that you aren’t tired of after the first page?
Has reading become a chore and you just can’t find anything to make it more exciting?
Or do you just absolutely love to read books?
If any of these apply to you, Book Mania is what you are looking for!!!!
Book Mania is a fun filled competition that quizzes you on 6 enjoyable books (4 books if you are in high school).
The competition is open to any homeschooler in grades one through twelve.
(Younger students are welcome if they are absolutely dying to do it.)
NOTE TO PARENTS:
YOU ARE WELCOME TO READ THE BOOKS OUT LOUD TO YOUR CHILD (REN)
NO MATTER WHAT GRADE THEY ARE IN. YOU CAN ALSO LISTEN TO THEM ON CD.
The date as of now is sometime late Jan. early Feb. Location TBA.
Book List
1st and 2nd grade (also kindergarten)
1. Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slbodkina
2. The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy by Jane Thayer
3. The Secret Shortcut by Mark Teague
4. The Selfish Crocodile by Faustin Charles and Michael Terry
5. The Caboose Who Got Loose by Bill Peet
6. The Big Balloon Race by Eleanor Coerr
3rd and 4th Grade
1. The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
2. Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch by Eileen Spinelli
3. Solomon’s Ring of Wisdom; and also The Magic Seed. Both found in the book Solomon and the Ant and Other Jewish Folktales by Sheldon Oberman
4. Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
5. Snowflake Bentley by J. Martin
6. Sam, the Minuteman by N. Benchley
5th and 6th Grade
1. Ralph S. Mouse by B.Cleary
2. Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet
3. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming
4. Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
5. Missionary Stories with the Millers by Mildred A. Martin
6. The Sword in the Tree by C. Bulia
7th and 8th Grade
1. Lives of the Presidents: Fame ,Shame, and what the Neighbors Thought by Kathleen Krull
2. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
3. The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood
4. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
5. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
6. Streams to the River, River to Sea by Scott O’Dell
High School
1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2. Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
3. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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