Reviewing the "leisure" books that A has read during this academic year, I realize that he has read more books "of substance" as a homeschooler than as an "institutional school" student in the past. It could be that he has read more books because he is now a more advanced reader, or, that because is he a homeschooler he simply has had "more time" and/or "less pressure" to read. I do not know. But here they are so far (in no particular order):
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
Boy by Roald Dahl
The Magician's Nephew, and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (as part of The Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis
The Two Towers by J.R. R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Children of Odin by Padraic Colum
Knight's Castle by Edward Eager
Viking It and Liking It by Jon Sciezska
King Arthur by Don Nardo
Atalanta's Race retold by Shirley Climo
Treasure Island (current) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Structured Reading:
D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
The Trojan War by Olivia Coolidge
The Children's Homer by Padraic Colum
(Tidbits of) The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
Beowulf translation by Seamus Heaney (current)
Wtih Catherine: Le Petit Prince (in French) by Antoine St. Exupery
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