Summer is a great time for chick flicks and light-hearted reads. This fiction, while still nonfiction, fits that bill nicely. Not that many of you entered our contest for The Panic Years, so that means you each had a really great chance of winning.

The winner was our 4th comment, bashtree. Sounds like bashtree is going to give this book to someone special she knows. She said, “great-sounding book, I know just the person!”
Hope your friend enjoys it, bashtree!
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BalletGirl came home today very excited about that bag she was carrying, it had all types of treasures inside. What was in the bag? Books. If you or if she is anything like me, you will learn that a book can transport you to a new world, time, place in a matter of pages. If it is a good book it can grab you the moment you begin to wait. Now that she is older I see her picking more books that are actually familiar to me. Do you recognize any of the books below?
Summer Reading Books:
Scary Stories: More Tales …read more

Earlier this week I challenged everyone to help me build a reading list for kids 8-18 this summer. I have had a great response so far. Here is what we have to date:
My input:

Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1) – Christopher Paolini; great book for boys ages 10-18
Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-6) – J.K. Rowland; for boys and girls ages 10+
Baseball Boxed Set – Matt Christopher; boys and girls ages 8+

Randa at Lumps of Clay suggests:

Anne of Green Gables Series, by L.M. Montgomery – great books for girls of all ages
The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis – wonderful for …read more