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Reading Rules Homeschool Book Club |
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Love, Ruby Lavender
by Deborah Wiles
A charming and hilarious coming-of-age story relates the trials and tribulations of two Mississippi chicken thieves--nine-year-old Ruby Lavender and her grandmother, Miss Eula. An ALA Notable Children's Book.
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Abby Takes a Stand : 1960
by Pat McKissack
When she questions why her mother has kept an old menu from a restaurant that no longer exists, she is given an important history lesson about the fight for Civil Rights as it related to her life during the era when she and all other black people were not permitted to sit at the counter alongside white customers.
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I Survived True Stories : Five Epic Disasters
by Lauren Tarshis
"From the author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series come five harrowing true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of epic disasters. From a group of students surviving the 9.0 earthquake that set off a historic tsunami in Japan, to a boy nearly frozen on the prairie in 1888, these unforgettable kids lived to tell tales of unimaginable destruction -- and, against all odds, survival. Read their incredible stories: The Children's Blizzard, 1888 The Titanic Disaster, 1912 The Great Boston Molasses Flood, 1919 The Japanese Tsunami, 2011 The Henryville Tornado, 2012"
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Encyclopedia Brown, Super Sleuth
by Donald J. Sobol
Idaville's secret weapon against lawbreakers, ten-year-old Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown, helps the police force solve ten new cases, the solutions to which are found in the back of the book.
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Please click here to register for the December 3 book club.
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