Summer Reading List

Hello, ladies! I hope you are enjoying your summer. 

I am basking in my family's last few days visiting relatives and and seeing sights in Mexico, so I wrote this post WAAAAY long ago (sometime in June). Since then, my reading list hasn't changed, but I've already finished some, so those have been marked.

Here's a peek at my Mexico trip, and my summer reading list will follow!

(In both photos, you can see my white self on the far right, by my clearly not-white cousin America.)

At the start of 2014, I set a few resolutions. One of them involved increased time spent with friends. What better way is there to bring friends together than with a great story and great coffee?

Granted, I'm not too much of a coffee drinker, but I'll take a good story any day. 

So I formed a book club, albeit a small one (just a couple of friends and me). We read a book each month and discuss it weekly-ish over coffee (or tea) and a flaky pear tart,....or an almondine, or a croissant cinnamon roll, or a blueberry muffin, or...shall I go on? Don't worry. I won't. Because that's not the purpose of this post.

*Ahem.*

Without further ado, 

My summer reading list:

Book Club books:

1. At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald (now finished! It was a re-read.)

2.  The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

Teacher books:

3. The Essential 55 by Ron Clark (Finished during a camping trip in June. :)

4. The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease (Also finished, during this trip to Mexico! I HIGHLY recommend this book to ALL parents, teachers, aunties, older siblings...)

4th Grade Books:

5. How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor

6. Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O'Dell

So there it is! 6 books, which is perfect, because I dug up some research to share with my students that said the magic number of books to read over summer break, in order to retain what you've learned as a reader, is 6. I am *expecting* them all to read 6 books over the break, and I'll be reading my 6, as well. 

What are you reading? I'm interested to see!

Linking up with Morgan at Follow and Believe (here's the URL to her blog, since I can't embed a link on my iPad: http://follow-and-believe.blogspot.com/2014/07/july-nas-post-summer-reading-list.html )