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2024:

Treasures of the Snow - Patricia St. John

The Rifle - Gary Paulsen (Audiobook)

Michael Vey book 6 (Audiobook)

The Winter King - Christine Cohen (Audiobook)

First Boy - Gary D. Paulsen (Audiobook)

Old Yeller - Fred Gipson (Audiobook) - 2nd time

Penrod - Booth Tarkington (Audiobook)

Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome (Audiobook) didn't finish

Rabbit - Charles Higgins (as a family)

Michael Vey book 7 (Audiobook)

Holes - Louis Sachar (Audiobook) - 2nd time

Summer of the Monkeys - Wilson Rawls

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy - Gary D. Schmidt (Audiobook)

The Sinking City - Christine Cohen (Audiobook) as a family

****Ferris - Kate DiCamillo (Audiobook) with the Garretts

 

 

2023:

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (Audiobook) as a family

The Wanderings of Odysseus - The Story of the Odyssey - Rosemary Sutcliffe

*****Okay for Now - Gary Schmidt (Audiobook)

God King - A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah - Joanne Williamson

Just Like That - Gary Schmidt (Audiobook)

Victory on the Walls - A Story of Nehemiah - Frieda Clark Hyman

Pay Attention Carter Jones - Gary Schmidt (Audiobook)

*****Holes - Louis Sachar (Audiobook)

Mysterious Benedict Society #3 (Audiobook)

Dr. DooLittle (Audiobook)

Blackthorn Winter - Doug Wilson (Audiobook)

Call it Courage - Armstrong Sperry (Audiobook)

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum (Audiobook)

***Smoky the Cowhorse - Will James (Audiobook)

** 1/2 - Have Space Suit, Will Travel - Robert Heinlein (Audiobook)

*** -The Pushcart War - Jean Merrill (Audiobook)

**** 1/2 - The Labors of Hercules Beal - Gary D. Schmidt (Audiobook)

***Fuzzy Mud - Louis Sachar (Audiobook)

*****The Forbidden Child - Canon press book (Audiobook)

**** 1/2 - The Prisoner of Cell 25 - Michael Vey book 1 - Richard Paul Evans (Audiobook)

** 1/2 - A Ranger's Guide to Glipwood Forest - Andrew Peterson (Audiobook)

Swiss Family Robinson

Michael Bey book 2 (Audiobook)

Michael Vey book 3 (Audiobook)

Harris & Me - Gary Paulsen (Audiobook)

Michael Vey book 4 (Audiobook)

Michael Vey book 5 (Audiobook)

 

 

2022:

Corrie Ten Boom (Heroes then and now) (Audiobook)

Snow Treasure (Audiobook)

The Tortoise and the Soldier

The Endless Steppe - Esther Hautzig (Audiobook)

Georges Marvelous Medicine - Roald Dahl (Audiobook)

Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts - Roald Dahl (Audiobook)

The Twits, the Minpins & the Magic Finger - Roald Dahl (Audiobook)

Twenty and Ten - Claire Huchet Bishop

Surviving the Applewhites - Stephanie Tolan (Audiobook)

Harris and Me - Gary Paulsen (Audiobook)

Buzztail: the story of a rattlesnake - Robert McClung

Brother Andrew (Heroes then and now) (Audiobook)

Nate Saint (Heroes Then and Now) (Audiobook)

Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie (Audiobook)

The Great Brain - John Fitzgerald (Audiobook)

More Adventure of the Great Brain - John Fitzgerald (Audiobook)

The Mysterious Benedict Society (Audiobook)

A Place to Hang the Moon - Kate Albus (Audiobook)

Cheaper by the Dozen - Frank Gilbreth (Audiobook)

Lunch Money - Andrew Clements (Audiobook)

Mr. Popper's Penguins - Richard & Florence Atwater (Audiobook)

Going Solo - Roald Dahl (Audiobook)

The Wednesday Wars - Gary Schmidt (Audiobook)

The Mysterious Benedict Society (Audiobook)

The Golden Goblet (Audiobook)

The Children's Homer - Padraic Colum (Audiobook)

The Bronze Bow - Elizabeth George(Audiobook)

The Cat of Bubastes - G.A. Henty (Audiobook) - didn't finish

Black Ships Before Troy - The Story of the Iliad - Rosemary Sutcliffe

Cameron Townsend (Heroes then and now) (Audiobook)

 

 

2021:

Henry & the Clubhouse (Audiobook)

Ribsy (Audiobook)

Jesse Benton Fremont:  California Pioneer - Marguerite Higgins

By the Great Horn Spoon - Sid Fleischman (Audiobook)

John Muir - Kathryn Lasky

Riders of the Pony Express - Ralph Moody

The Warden and the Wolf King (wingfeather book 3) - Andrew Peterson (Audiobook)

Mr. Tucket - Gary Paulsen (Audiobook)

Farmer Boy (Audiobook)

Call Me Frances Tucket - Gary Paulsen (Audiobook)

Tucket's Ride - Gary Paulsen (Audiobook)

Tucket's Gold - Gary Paulsen (Audiobook)

Tucket's Home - Gary Paulsen (Audiobook)

Lawn Boy - Gary Paulsen (Audiobook)

Lawn Boy Returns - Gary Paulsen (Audiobook)

Boy - Roald Dahl (Audiobook)

Esperanza Rising - Pam Munoz Ryan (Audiobook)

With Open Hands - the Biddy Mason story

Gladys Aylward - Benge (Audiobook)

Wingfeather Tales (Audiobook)

Who Was Walt Disney?

Blue Willow - Doris Gates

Dandelion Fire (Audiobook)

Rascal (Audiobook)

Down the Long Hills - Louis L'Amour (Audiobook)

Hudson Taylor - Benge (Audiobook)

Going Solo - Roald Dahl (Audiobook)

The Mystery of Cabin Island (Hardy Boys) (Audiobook)

The Chestnut King (Audiobook)

The BFG (Audiobook)

Across Five Aprils (Audiobook)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Janet & Geoff Benge (Audiobook)

The Hobbit (Audiobook)

Frindle (Audiobook)

Revolting Rhymes & Dirty Beasts - Roald Dahl (Audiobook)

Sarah Plain and Tall (Audiobook)

Lost and Found - Andrew Clements (Audiobook)

The Perilous Road (Audiobook)

War Horse (Audiobook)

Lunch Money - Andrew Clements (Audiobook)

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Audiobook)

Animal Farm - George Orwell (Audiobook)

School Story - Andrew Clements (Audiobook)

Gone to the Woods - Gary Paulsen autobiography (Audiobook)

Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe (Audiobook)

 

 

2020:

Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis (Audiobook)

Johnny Tremain (Audiobook)

The Diary of Joseph Plumb Martin, a Revolutionary War Soldier

Wild Animals I have Known - Ernest Seton (Audiobook)

Stickeen - John Muir

The Penderwicks #4 (Audiobook)

Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Audiobook)

The Silver Chair (Audiobook)

The Penderwicks at Last (Audiobook)

The Secret World of Paddy Beaver - Thornton Burgess (Audiobook)

The Horse and His Boy (Audiobook)

The Magician's Nephew (Audiobook)

The Incredible Adventures of Reddy Fox - Thornton Burgess (Audiobook)

The Adventures of Johnny Chuck - Thornton Burgess (Audiobook)

The Cabin Faced West - Jean Fritz

On the Edge of the Sea of Darkness - Andrew Peterson (Audiobook)

The Last Battle (Audiobook)

Runaway Ralph (Audiobook)

Nate Saint (Audiobook)

Homer Price (Audiobook)

The Matchlock Gun - Walter D. Edmonds

The Princess and the Goblins - George MacDonald (Audiobook)

The Call of the Wild - Jack London (Audiobook)

North!  Or Be Eaten - Andrew Peterson

Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell

The Fable of Old Mother West Wind - Thornton Burgess (Audiobook)

The Wonderful World of Buster Bear - Thornton Burgess (Audiobook)

The New Adventures of Old Mister Toad - Thornton Burgess (Audiobook)

The Magic World of Jimmy Skunk - Thornton Burgess (Audiobook)

The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse - Thornton Burgess (Audiobook)

The Amazing Adventures of Bowser the Hound - Thornton Burgess (Audiobook)

The Unlikely Adventures of Old Man Coyote - Thornton Burgess (Audiobook)

The Grand Adventures of Mrs. Peter Rabbit - Thornton Burgess (Audiobook)

Adopted by Indians - Thomas Jefferson Mayfield

Patty Reed's Doll:  The Story of the Donner Party - Rachel Laurgaard

The Yearling (Audiobook)

The Great Brain - John Fitzgerald (Audiobook)

The Cruise of the Arctic Star (partial) - Scott O'Dell

Henry Huggins (Audiobook)

Henry & Beezus (Audiobook)

Henry & Ribsy (Audiobook)

Henry & the Paper Route (Audiobook)

 

2019:

The Reluctant Dragon - Kenneth Grahame 

Dangerous Journey (The Story of Pilgrim's Progress)

Ramona the Pest (Audiobook)

Father and I were Ranchers (Little Britches #1) - Ralph Moody (Audiobook)

The Borrowers - Mary Norton

The Railway Children - E. Nesbit (Audiobook)

The Chestnut King (100 Cupboards #3) - N.D. Wilson (Audiobook)

The Borrowers Afield - Mary Norton

The Door Before - N.D. Wilson (Audiobook)

Man of the Family (Little Britches #2) - Ralph Moody (Audiobook)

Frindle - Andrew Clements (Audiobook)

Lunch Money - Andrew Clements (Audiobook)

Gone Fishing - A Novel in Verse

The Penderwicks (Audiobook)

Farmer Boy (Audiobook)

Hatchet (Audiobook)

King of the Wind - Marguerite Henry (Audiobook)

Penderwicks #2 (Audiobook)

River (#2) (Audiobook)

Brian's Winter (Audiobook)

Brian's Return (Audiobook)

Brian's Hunt (Audiobook)

Survivors - Extraordinary Tales from the Wild and Beyond - David Long

The Legend of Sam Miracle - N.D. Wilson (Audiobook)

The Penderwicks #3 (Audiobook)

Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (Audiobook)

Old Wolf - Avi (Audiobook)

The Vanderbeekers of 141st St. - Karina Yan Glaser

 

 

 

2018:

Mrs Piggle Wiggle on the Farm (Audiobook)

Danny the Champion of the World (Audiobook)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (Audiobook)

The BFG (Audiobook)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Audiobook)

Minn of the Mississippi

Charlie and the Glass Elevator (Audiobook)

 

The Green Ember

 

The Yearling (Audiobook)

Frindle (Audiobook)

Ramona the Pest (Audiobook)

Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm - Taschen

Poppy (Audiobook)

American Tall Tales - Adrien Stoutenburg (AO list)

Poppy and Rye (Audiobook)

Fantastic Mr. Fox - Roald Daul

The Sign of the Beaver (Audiobook)

Rascal (Audiobook)

My Side of the Mountain (Audiobook)

Caddie Woodlawn (Audiobook)

G.A. Henty's William Wallace (audio production)

The Cricket in Times Square (Audiobook)

The Incredible Journey (Audiobook)

Julie of the Wolves (Audiobook)

The Far Side of the Mountain

The 21 Balloons (Audiobook)

 

100 Cupboards (Audiobook)

Frightful's Mountain

The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Audiobook)

Ralph S. Mouse (Audiobook)

The One and Only Ivan (Audiobook)

Ramona and Her Mother (Audiobook)

Ramona and Her Father (Audiobook)

Beezus and Ramona (Audiobook)

Muggie Maggie (Audiobook)

Ramona Forever (Audiobook)

Runaway Ralph (Audiobook)

Ramona Quimbly, Age 8 (Audiobook)

The Best Christmas Pagaent Ever

The Family Under the Bridge 

The Door in the Wall - Marguerite De Angeli

Dandelion Fire (#2 in 100 Cupboards series - Audiobook)

 

2017:

Heidi (Audiobook)

Old Mother West Wind - Thornton Burgess

The Wizard of Oz - Frank Baum (Audiobook)

The First Four Years (Audiobook) - Laura Ingalls Wilder

Bedtime Math 2

Charlotte's Web (Audiobook)

Henry Huggins and the Paper Route (Audiobook)

Little Pear - Eleanor Lattimore

Stuart Little (Audiobook)

Buster Bear - Thornton Burgess

The Trumpet of the Swan -  (Audiobook)

James and the Giant Peach (Audiobook) 

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain - Alice Dagliesh (Audiobook)

Come Look with Me - The Artist at Work

The Wind in the Willows (Audiobook

Henry and the Clubhouse (Audiobook)

Mother West Wind's Animal Friends

Boxcar Children - Books 1-4 (Audiobook)

My Father's Dragon (all 3 books) (Audiobook)

Brer Rabbit

The Secret Garden (Audiobook)

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle (Audiobook)

Boxcar Children - Books 5-8 (Audiobook)

Boxcar Children - Books 7-9 (Audiobook)

Boxcar Children - Books 10-12 (Audiobook)

Alice in Wonderland (Audiobook)

Peter Pan (Audiobook)

Homer Price

The Year of Miss Agnes

Old Yeller (Audiobook)

Savage Sam

Where the Red Fern Grows (Audiobook)

Hank the Cowdog (Audiobook)

White Fang (Audiobook)

Boxcar Children - Books 13-15 (Audiobook)

The Ology - marty Machowski

Pilgrim Stories

Tom Sawyer (Audiobook)

Pagoo

 

 

2016:

Little House on Plum Creek

Mountain Born

When We Were Very Young - Poetry book by A.A. Milne

Paddington Bear (Audiobook)

The Mouse & the Motorcycle (Audiobook)

Runaway Mouse (Audiobook)

Ralph S. Mouse (Audiobook)

Where the Sidewalk Ends - Poetry by Shel Silverstein

In Grandma's Attic

Winnie the Pooh (Audiobook)

House at Pooh Corner (Audiobook)

The Adventures of Grandfather Frog - Thornton Burgess

2nd Paddington Bear (Audiobook)

Henry Huggins (Audiobook)

Henry and Beezus (Audiobook)

The Adventures of Peter Cottontail - Thornton Burgess

Little House in the Big Woods (Audiobook)

Sing a Song of Popcorn - Every Child's Book of Poems

Little House on the Prairie (Audiobook)

The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse - Thornton Burgess

The Adventures of Reddy Fox - Thornton Burgess

Farmer Boy (Audiobook)

On the Banks of Plum Creek (Audiobook)

A Child's Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson)

By the Shores of Silver Lake (Audiobook)

Bedtime Math

The Long Winter (Audiobook)

Little Town on the Prairie (Audiobook)

These Happy Golden Years (Audiobook)

The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel - Thornton Burgess

The Adventures of Happy Jack - Thornton Burgess

Come Look with Me - Landscape Art

 

 

2015:

Farmer Boy

The Courage of Sarah Noble

Squanto

Sarah Whitcher's Story

Mr. Poppers Penguins

 

Memphis:

2015

Huck Finn

 

2016

Ribsy 

Goin' to California (Going West Book 1) 

Henry Huggins 

Beezus and Ramona

Henry and Beezus

Henry and Ribsy

Mark (NirV Bible)

John (NirV Bible)

??

Revelation

 

2017

Matthew

Swiss Family Robinson (Great Illustrated Classics)

Henry and the Paper Route - Beverly Cleary

Henry and the Clubhouse - Beverly Cleary

Tin Tin Vol. 1

lots of Encyclopedia Brown books

lots of calvin and hobbes

 

2018

Morgan

abridged Robinson Crusoe

The Trumpet of the Swan - E.B. White

Stuart Little - E.B. White

Charlotte's Web - E.B. White

Old Yeller

Savage Sam

Journey to the Center of the Earth (Great Illustrated Classic)

Viking Adventure - Clyde Robert Bulla

War of the Worlds (Great Illustrated Classic)