Our 2018-2019
Homeschool Book
Recommendations
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This is a living list of all the books we have read and loved during our 2018-19 homeschool year. Be sure to check back regularly because we will be adding to it each week!
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Books we have read and loved this year:
I will try to keep these organized by category to make your library wishlist easier to manage! If you've read something recently that you think we would love, please let us know! We are always looking to grow our library list!
Picture Books:
Chapter Books:
Biographies:
nonfiction & reference:
- An Anthology of Intriguing Animals
- A Victorian Flower Dictionary
- Big Fat Notebooks
- Flora: Inside the Secret World of Plants
- Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History
- Mushrooms: How to Identify and Gather Wild Mushrooms and Other Fungi
- Guinness Book of World Records 2019
- Harry Potter Page to Screen
- Pocket Guides: Inventions
- Pocket Guides: Space
- Seeing Stars: A Complete Guide to the 88 Constellations
Story Collections:
Poetry:
Audiobooks:
History & Geography:
Science:
What the kids have been reading on their own:
- A Boy Called Bat
- Adventure Time
- Barmy British Empire {Horrible Histories series}
- Bridge to Terabithia
- Big Nate
- Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
- Dracopedia: A Guide to Drawing the Dragons of the World
- Dracopedia: The Bestiary
- Dracopedia: The Great Dragons
- Flyte
- Fortunately, the Milk
- Fyre
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter Film Wizardry
- Harry Potter Page to Screen
- Harry Potter: The Wand Collection Book
- Hunting Monsters: Cryptozoology and the Reality Behind the Myths
- Lies My Teacher Told Me {Young Reader's Edition}
- Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard
- Magyk
- Mandy {Julie Andrews collection}
- Marauder's Map Guide to Hogwarts
- Microscopic Monsters {Horrible Science series}
- Mud, Sweat and Tears: The Autobiography
- Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales
- Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
- Physik
- Queste
- Raina Telgemeier Collection
- Sophie Quire and the Last Story Guard
- The Fearsome Fight for Flight {Horrible Science series}
- The Fourteenth Goldfish
- The Mythical Creatures Bible
- The Third Mushroom
- The Unofficial Harry Potter Spellbook
- The View from Saturday
- The War that Saved My Life
- Turtle in Paradise
- Twelve Diseases that Changed the World
- What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?
- When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
- Who is the Dalai Lama?
- Who Was Marie Curie?
- Wildwood
What mom has been reading:
- Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
- Becoming
- Before We Were Yours
- Department of Speculation
- Digital Minimalism
- Freeing Your Child from Anxiety
- Free to Learn
- Girl, Stop Apologizing
- Introverted Mom
- It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
- Late Bloomers
- Play
Don't forget to check out our other living resource pages:
2019 Amazon
Recommendations
A living list of all of our favorite resources. You'll find it all here, from books to games to other creative resources. And it's all organized by subject and category!
2019 Documentary Recommendations
A living list of all the documentaries we have watched this year on one of our top five homeschool resources, CuriosityStream.
2019 Gameschool
Recommendations
Stay tuned! This page is coming soon my gameschool friends!