Guest post:

Books that have been favorites of Eliza (9 years old right now)

Sisters Eight series (8 sisters with powers)

Whatever After series (kids travel through a mirror to be in fairy tales

The Boys Start The War series (a family of 3 sisters plays pranks on a family of 4 boys and the continued war between the boys and the girls)

The Sisters Grimm series (sisters enter the land where fairy tale characters are realy people and have been kept hidden in the US for years)

My Father's Dragon (a boy goes on an adventure with a dragon - really fun!)

American girl historical series

Roald Dahl - nearly all of his books!

The Enchanted Tunnel series ( books where kids go back into bible stories

Believe and You're there series (kids go into scripture stories and see and meet scripture people)

Magic School Bus - science chapter books and picture books

Wait Till Helen Comes  - Eliza has read this countless times - a ghost story

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Frindle

Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World

by Sy Montgomery 

This was a fascinating book that we all read and enjoyed. It is well written and a quick read as well.