Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Jared and I read this book for book group and although I liked it a lot, I didn't feel that it had the same quality of literature to it that many of the other books we read have. However, the Greek mythology themes that it teaches the kids are priceless and they quickly became the theme for most of our family conversation for the whole year. We even dressed up as the characters for Halloween.

Charlotte's Web

We read Charlotte's Web for our homeschool book group. We loved every bit of it. One of my favorite things was that there was some activity that we could do to continue the learning from each chapter.  I cried through the whole last two chapters, which is probably the reason why I have never read this book before. 

Ender's Game

I read this book because it is on the Thomas Jefferson Education list of books that are good mentor reads for youth. I hated everything about this book from the language to the videogaming and couldn't understand why it was recommended until the very last page.  Then...I got it, and I really liked it. The movie came out in December 2012 and we went to see it and loved it too.  We even ordered the sequels and I look forward to reading the rest of the series.