Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Little Men

by Louisa May Alcott. The sequel to Little Women, this book is set at Plumfield (Aunt Josephine March's old home) and is about boys who go to the school which Jo and her husband started there. While I would say that Little Women is decidedly a girls' book (though boys might enjoy bits of it), Little Men would probably be enjoyed by boys and girls alike.

Friday, December 16, 2011

The Lilies of the Field

by William E. Barrett. I read this book for school, and enjoyed reading it. Although it isn't a book that I would read over and over again, there are amusing parts in it and it was a good book.

Homer Smith, an ex-GI is on his way to "see the West", and stops to help some nuns build a fence. When they ask him to build a chapel, he, and everyone in the the town are sure he won't do it. However, thanks to the faith of Mother Maria (and partly the people from town, Homer gets the chapel built for "Lilies of the Field".

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

The Texas Panhandle Series

by Loula Grace Erdman is an excellent series! Each book focuses mainly on one of the three Pierce girls during their 15th year of life.

The three books are:
  1. The Wind Blows Free
  2. The Wide Horizon
  3. The Good Land
I really enjoy reading all of these books over, and over, and over again.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Father Damien and the Bells

by Arthur and Elizabeth Sheehan. This is a Vision book, one of my favorite series of saint books. This story teaches us about the courage of a wonderful priest named Fr. Damien. This is a great read-aloud book.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

The Wind Blows Free

by Loula Grace Erdman is about a family who goes to live in Panhandle, Texas. In order, the children are:
Melinda~15
Bert~11
Dick~11
Katie~8 and
Carolyn~4

The Wind Blows Free would make an absolutely wonderful read-aloud.