Adventures in Reading

Peanut is a reader. I am so very thankful, as studies have shown that the more children read, the better their fluency and educational success. His AR results came back today with him having levelved out at a 12.9. In other words, Senior Year (high school), 9 months into the school year. He’s 10 and in the 5th grade. Yeah, I am still dumbfounded.

After I read the recommendations (more non-fiction, news, and classic literature),  I did what any Mom that is a heavy user of all things Social Media does. I took to Twitter and polled my friends for a book list that I am sharing with you.

• Animal Farm (@JustWarrenC)
• Anthem (@JustWarrenC)
• The Prince (@JustWarrenC)
• Atlas Shrugged (@RNAdvocate)
• The Fountainhead (@G33kgurrl)
• Great Expectations (@VolatilitySmile and @msfrancisco)
• War and Peace (@VolatilitySmile)
• Call of the Wild (@msfrancisco)
• Catcher in the Rye (@JudyatTate, @MecklenGuy)
• Portrait of Dorian Gray (@VolatilitySmile)
• Lord of the Flies (@MrsDevilAngel)
• Starship Troopers (@JustWarrenC)
• Ender’s Game (@JustWarrenC)
• Treasure Island (@VolatilitySmile)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (@cafemercury and @jerseygrl61)
• The Grapes of Wrath @cafemercury
• The Pearl @cafemercury
• Anything by Leo Tolstoy (@JamesWillamor)
• 1984 (@msfrancisco, @MecklenGuy)
• Around the World in 80 Days (@capitalfellow)
• Mists of Avalon (@FoodSafetyLady)
• Huckleberry Finn (@MecklenGuy)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (@MecklenGuy)
• Chocolate Wars (@MecklenGuy)
• Flowers of Algernon (@MecklenGuy)
• Down and Out in Paris and London (@MecklenGuy)
• Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream (ILLiadQueen)
• The Tempest (@ILLiadQueen)
• King Lear (@ILLiadQueen)
• Metamorphoses (Ovid) (@ILLiadQueen)
• Anything Pushkin, Dostoevsky or Tolstoy (@InTheQueenCity)

What books would you recommend? Leave a comment below.