Belles on their Toes / Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
The Elements : A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe / Theodore Gray
Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold / Michael Benanav
Lost Empire / Clive Cussler with Grant Blackwood
Higher Education? How colleges are Wasting our Money and Failing our Kids, and What We Can Do About It / Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus
How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior / Laura Kipnis
The Return of Meteor Boy? / William Boniface
Binky the Space Cat / Ashley Spires
Binky to the Rescue / Ashley Spires
Sticky Burr: The Prickly Peril / John Lechner
Road to Revolution / Stan Mack and Susan Champlin
The Chaos King / Laura Ruby
A Froggy Fable / John Lechner
Cool Stuff and How it Works / Chris Woodford
Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies / Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
The Last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper
Dreadful Acts: Book Two of the Eddie Dickens Trilogy / Philip Ardagh
Tales from the House of Bunnicula. Books 1-4 [sound recording] / James Howe
Dinosaur Hour! Volume 1 / Hitoshi Shioya [translation by Katherine Schilling]
Whales on Stilts / M.T. Anderson
Lost / Sarah Prineas
The Last Invisible Boy / Evan Kuhlman
Scat / Carl Hiaasen
The Underneath / Kathi Appelt
Life / Keith Richards
Tunnels / Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams
Rat / Matthew Rayner
There Was a Man Who loved a Rat and Other Vile Little Poems / Gerda Rovetch
The Haunted Monastery and The Chinese Maze Murders: Two Chinese Detective Novels / Robert Van Gulik
Gulliver's Travels / Jonathan Swift
The Art of the North American Indian / Shirley Glubok
David Balfour, Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad / Robert Louis Stevenson
USKids history. Book of the American Civil War / Howard Egger-Bovet and Marlene Smith-Baranzini
Welcome to Felicity's World, 1774 / Catherine Gourley
The Dreadful, Smelly Colonies: The Disgusting Details about Life During Colonial America / Elizabeth Raum
The Capture / Kathryn Lasky
Mystery at Meadowbrook / Laura Lee Hope
Inkheart / Cornelia Funke
Molly Moon Stops the World / Georgia Byng
Stanley in Space / Jeff Brown
The Lemming Condition/ Alan Arkin
Eric the Red: The Viking Adventurer / Neil Grant
Betrayal / Patricia Finney [writing as Grace Cavendish]
Conspiracy / Patricia Finney [writing as Grace Cavendish]
Lizards / David R. Moenich
Now, obviously not all the books are for the kids. Not only that, not all the books are going to be read (or have been read would be more accurate. Most of them will be going back tomorrow). I think that the main point of the library books is that they are in the house. It's sort of a Montessori approach, and it works fairly well. There are some books that I read to them or with them that are not optional, but a lot are. It always surprises me what gets read, and sometimes what doesn't. I tried reading Gulliver's Travels out loud, and it was a spectacular failure. Not for the kids; they said they were enjoying it! I just couldn't do it. It's Full of Random Capitallization and rather Archaic Language. It makes it Hard to Read out loud. Ugh.
Anyway, I guess the point is that this may seem like a crazy number of books to have out of the library, but it's fairly typical for us. We have a shelf specifically designated for library books. With the number we have out, we need to! Honestly, it surprises me that there has only been ONE book we couldn't find and had to pay for. This in the 8 or so years of going to the library with the kids. All I can say is I LOVE the LIBRARY!!
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