Hermoine's Reading List

Books read by Hermoine during the 2011-12 school year.   An asterisk prior to the title means it was read for school. 

August 2011 

The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P.Hale
The One-Eyed Giant by Mary Pope Osborne
Crookedstar's Promise by Erin Hunter
*Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Pandora Gets Jealous by Carolyn Hennessy
How to Speak Dragonese by Cressida Cowell
How to Be a Pirate by Cressida Cowell
*Handel, Who Knew What He Liked by M.T. Anderson
*Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
*Johann Sebastian Bach by Mike Venezia


Read Alouds:
By Fire, By Moonlight by Mary Stanton
Search for the Star by Mary Stanton
Secrets of the Scepter by Mary Stanton

Audio books:
The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
Radiance by Alyson Noel
portions of Aesop's Fables

September 2011

How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse by Cressida Cowell
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Meet Josefina by Valerie Tripp
*Mozart Tonight by Julie Downing
*The Birchbark House by Louise Erdich
How to Twist a Dragon's Tale by Cressida Cowell
*Marguerite Makes a Book by Bruce Robertson
Moonsilver by Kathleen Duey
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
*portions of Favorite Norse Myths by Mary Pope Osborne
*The Silver Crown by Robert C. O'Brien

Read Alouds:
Night of the Shifter's Moon by Mary Stanton
Shadows over Balinor by Mary Stanton
The Moffats by Eleanor Estes

Audio books:
The Burning by Kathryn Lasky
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

October 2011

*Seabird by Holling C. Holling
The Silver Thread by Kathleen Duey
*The Tower of London by Leonard Everett Fisher
*Tchaikovsky by Mike Venezia
The Silver Bracelet by Kathleen Duey
The Mountains of the Moon by Kathleen Duey
The Sunset Gates by Kathleen Duey
True Heart by Kathleen Duey
Castle Avamir by Kathleen Duey
The Journey Home by Kathleen Duey
A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons by Cressida Cowell
*A Medieval Feast by Aliki
*Saint George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges
*The Samaurai's Daughter by Robert San Souchi
Neela: Victory Song by C.B. Divakaruni
Josefina Learns a Lesson by Valerie Tripp
Spring Pearl: The Last Flower by Laurence Yep
*You Wouldn't Want to Be a Medieval Knight by Fiona MacDonald
Josefina's Surprise by Valerie Tripp
*The House of Arden by Edith Nesbit

Read Alouds:
 The Akhenaten Adventure by P.B. Kerr
Rascal by Sterling North
Hank the Cowdog: Slim's Goodbye by John R. Erickson 

Audio books:
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

November 2011
Little House on Rocky Ridge by Roger MacBride
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
*The Giver by Lois Lowry
*Eyewitness Classics: Robin Hood by Neil Philip
Shimmer by Alyson Noel
*Abigail Adams, Girl of Colonial Days by Jean Brown Wagoner
Dreamland by Alyson Noel
How to Ride a Dragon's Storm by Cressida Cowell
*Fa Mulan by Robert D. San Socui
Happy Birthday Josefina by Valerie Tripp
Josefina Saves the Day by Valerie Tripp
Voyage on the Great Titanic (Dear America book) by Ellen Emerson White
*Beautiful Warrior by Emily Arnold McCulley

Read Alouds:
Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson

Audio books:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling

December 2011
Rosa Moreno, Hollywood, 1928 -American Diaries by Kathryn Lasky
Changes for Josefina by Valerie Tripp
Blackbringer by Laini Taylor
*The Littlest Matryoshka by Corinne Demas Bliss
*The Seven Wise Princesses, a Medieval Persian Epic by Wafa' Tarnowska
Silksinger by Laini Taylor
*Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan Eckert
*The Golden Sandal by Rebecca Hickox
*The Black Death by Tracee de Hahn
*The Acrobat and the Angel by Mark Shannon

Read Alouds:
Hank the Cowdog and the Case of the Night-Stalking Bone Monster by John Erickson
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
The Christmas Dolls by Carol Beach York


January 2012
*Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Legon Awakening by Nicholas Taylor
Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson
*Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright
Into the Wild by Erin Hunter
The Forgotten Warrior by Erin Hunter
Meet Kirsten by Janet Shaw
The Messenger by Lois Lowry
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Read Alouds:
The Blue Djinn of Babylon by P.B. Kerr

Audios:
Theater Shoes by Noel Streatfeld

February 2012
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Kirsten Learns a Lesson by Janet Shaw
Happy Birthday Kirsten by Janet Shaw
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
The Death Cure by James Dashner
*Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
*Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman


Read Alouds:
The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Big Red by Jim Kjelgaard

Audios:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling