Book Recommendations

Book Recommendations

Besides the links below,  you can visit my Amazon Shop Recommendations link here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/homegrowncatholics

HOME SCHOOLING

The Homeschool Experiment, a Novel
Charity Hawkins (Paperback)

Catholic Education: Homeward Bound - Useful Guide to Catholic Home Schooling
Kimberly Hahn, Mary Hasson (Paperback - Feb 1, 1996)

Haystack Full of Needles, A Catholic Home Educator's Guide to Socialization
Alice Gunther (Perfect Paperback - Jul 14, 2008)

Catholic Homeschool Companion
Maureen Wittmann, Rachel Mackson (Paperback - Feb 1, 2006)



DISCIPLINE

The Temperament God Gave Your Kids: Motivate, Discipline, and Love Your Children
Art Bennett, Laraine Bennett (Paperback - Feb 17, 2012)


WOMANHOOD, MOTHERHOOD and MARRIAGE

The Domestic Church: Room by Room
Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle (Paperback - Apr 29, 2011)

Please Don't Drink the Holy Water!
Susie Lloyd (Paperback - Sep 1, 2004)
Bless Me, Father, For I Have Kids
Susie Lloyd (Paperback - Mar 15, 2009)
Homegrown Faith: Nurturing Your Catholic Family
Heidi Bratton (Paperback - Aug 1, 2011)

Courageous Love

The Love Dare

CATHOLIC EVANGELIZATION and FAITH
We're On a Mission from God: The Generation X Guide to John Paul II, The Catholic Church and the Real Meaning of Life
Mary Beth Bonacci (Paperback - Mar 1996)

Did Adam & Eve Have Bellybuttons...And 199 other questions from Catholic Teenagers
Matthew J. Pinto (Paperback - Jan 2, 1998)

College Apologetics
Rev. Anthony Alexander (Paperback - Jan 1, 2009)
The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom
Gerald L. Schroeder (Paperback - Jun 16, 2009)



LIFE SKILLS (Sex Education Alternatives)
All Things Girl Leader's Guide
Teresa Tomeo, Molly Miller, Cops Monica (Paperback - Jan 5, 2009)
All Things Girl: Friends, Boys, and Getting Along
Teresa Tomeo, Cheryl Dickow (Paperback - Aug 8, 2008)

All Things Girl: Girls Rock!
Teresa Tomeo, Cheryl Dickow (Paperback - Oct 1, 2008)
All Things Girl: Modern and Modest
Teresa Tomeo, Cheryl Dickow (Paperback - Nov 17, 2008)

All Things Girl: Mind Your Manners
Teresa Tomeo, Cheryl Dickow (Paperback - Jan 5, 2009)
All Things Girl: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...What is Beauty, After All?
Teresa Tomeo, Cheryl Dickow (Paperback - Sep 19, 2008)

All Things Girl: Truth for Teens
Teresa Tomeo, Cheryl Dickow (Paperback - Aug 20, 2009)
All Things Girl Journal
Teresa Tomeo, Molly Miller, Monica Cops (Paperback - Sep 1, 2008)

FOR TEENS and YOUNG ADULTS
I Kissed Dating Goodbye: Study Guide
Joshua Harris (Paperback - Apr 1, 2003)
Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
Joshua Harris (Paperback - Jul 26, 2005)

Real Love: The Ultimate Dating, Marriage and Sex Question Book
Mary Beth Bonacci (Paperback - Sep 1, 1996)

HOME ECONOMICS
Sewing With Saint Anne
Alice Cantrell (Spiral-bound - May 1, 2002)
Tea & Cake with the Saints
Alice Cantrell (Spiral-bound - Sep 20, 2007)

The Dangerous Book for Boys
Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden (Hardcover - Apr 24, 2012)

The Daring Book for Girls
Andrea J. Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz (Hardcover - Mar 27, 2012)

DEVOTIONALS  and GOOD READS
Devotional Stories for Little Folks
Nancy Nicholson (Paperback - Jan 1, 2002)

Bigger Stories for Little Folks
Nancy Nicholson (Paperback)
The Father Brown Reader: Stories from Chesterton
(Perfect Paperback - Oct 26, 2007)

The Father Brown Reader II: More Stories from Chesterton
Nancy Carpentier Brown (Perfect Paperback - Nov 10, 2010)

Books for Read-Alouds or Ages 7-12
Certainly look up Sarah Mackenzie's Read Aloud Revival. She never let's me down on her recommendations. Otherwise I'd recommend these found in my home library! 
Chronicles of Narnia
James Herriot Treasury for Children
Magic Tree House books
Hardy Boys books
American Girls
Box Car Children
Claire's Costly Cookies & The Costly Cookie Chronicles
A Book of Angels
St Patrick's Summer
[Ignatius & Tan Books] Saint series
Holling geography series: Paddle to the Sea, Tree in the Trail, Minn of the Mississippi,  Sea Bird
A Life of Our Lord for Children & The First Christians by Marigold Hunt
Little House on the Prairie
Little House in the Big Woods
The Father Brown Readers
Devotional Stories for Little Folks
Seton Homeschool Readers
Jr Classics
Will Wilder series
Wingfeather Saga
Prince Martin series
The Green Ember series
Flat Stanley series
Sarah Plain and Tall
Betsy-Tacy books
Charlotte's Web
The Incredible Journey
Sounder
Lassie
Because of Winn Dixie
Five Children & It
The Phantom Tollbooth
Holes
My Side of the Mountain & On the Other Side of the Mountain
Berenstain Bears Books
Mercer Meyer Books
Catholic Treasurebox Books (set of 20)
The Good & The Beautiful Readers and free library

That's a start of what I see on my shelves. We don't visit the library often,  and when we do it's to pickup books we've preselected.  I've slowly been building my own library instead.

1 comment:

  1. Thank you... Pax Christi---Modest Catholic Roses

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