Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Animals, Award Winner, Horses, Marguerite Henry 
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Paul and Maureen Beebe have their hearts set on capturing the Phantom, a wild mare. But when Paul goes on the roundup with the other men, he finds that the Phantom has a foal. Now the children want both the Phantom and her foal. How will they get enough money to buy both?
This story is both heart-warming and funny. I really liked it.
Categories: All Ages, Fiction, Review
Tags:Animals, Award Winner, Robert Lawson Add a comment »
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New folks are coming to live on the hill, and the animal population have standards for them to meet. Will they be planting folk? Or will they set traps?
A humorous story packed with unforgettable characters.
Categories: Incredibook!, Non Fiction, Older Readers, Review
Tags:Award Winner, Genevieve Foster, History, Joanna Foster, Long Read Add a comment »
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This is a great book! It’s extremely hard to write a review for, so I’m just going to give you the highlights. It’s especially good for history. Listen to me on this, it makes reading about history fun! Yes, you heard that right! (Crowd gasps then applauds.) It doesn’t just follow George Washington; it follows famous people around the world at the same time. Including Catherine the Great of Russia, Voltaire, Daniel Boone, and Benjamin Franklin, to name just a few. Bet you didn’t know that Pompeii was discovered, Bach died, James Cook ran away to sea, the first air travel tests were being attempted, and Mozart was born during George Washington’s time! This is a really interesting book. I will give you a brief warning: Genevieve Foster treats all religions as equal and it shows up a little bit in her books. However, her books are really good. For you Charlotte Mason style home-schoolers out there, this is a very living book.
Categories: Adventure, All Ages, Fiction, Incredibook!, Review
Tags:Award Winner, Funny, Good Read Aloud, William Pene du Bois 1 Comment »
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When Professor William Waterman Sherman begins his long-planned balloon voyage, he hopes to take a long trip (about a year) on which he might easily end up being the first to fly across the Pacific Ocean, but when his planning goes awry, he ends up on the supposedly uninhabited island of Krakatoa. Far from it! The society and lifestyle established on the island is extremely unique, packed with amazing inventions, and containing a giant diamond mine.
This is a book I enjoy reading again and again. A highly imaginative story, based off of scientific facts and absolute nonsense. I definitely recommend this one.
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Incredibook!, Older Readers, Review
Tags:Award Winner, Elizabeth George Speare, Seafaring 1 Comment »
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Kit Tyler has left her house in Barbados and has come to live with her aunt’s family in colonial Connecticut. But everything seems so different that Kit, unaccustomed to the strict Puritanical lifestyle, can’t seem to do anything right. Soon, however, she finds a friend in Hannah Tupper, a sweet old Quaker woman, whom everyone believes to be a witch, living by herself near Blackbird Pond. But if Kit’s friendship with Hannah is discovered, she will never be accepted by the colonists. She must decide between her duty, and what her heart tells her.
This is a wonderful book full of love, anger, rejection, fear, sadness, and relief. It’s also fascinating to see how the colonists lived. Once you start this book, you’ll have a hard time putting it down until you’ve finished. All that to say, I can’t decide which of Elizabeth George Speare’s I like the most: The Bronze Bow or The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
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