2012 Reads

♥ The Secret Garden* - Frances Hodgson Burnett (another re-read, for the Littles)
♥ The Eagle of the Ninth* - Rosemary Sutcliff
♥ A Severe Mercy** - Sheldon Vanauken
♥ The Storm Before Atlanta** (with discretion, but such that even a Little can have. I previewed this for my little brother, and simply had to remind him to think objectively, and call "wrong," "wrong", even if the main character excused his lies/looting.) - Karen Shwaback
♥ The Princess and the Goblin* (for the kazillionth time - 'cause the Twinkles hadn't heard it yet :) - George MacDonald
♥ From Jest to Earnest* - E.P. Roe
♥ Little Dorrit** - Charles Dickens
♥ Know Why You Believe* - Paul E. Little
♥ Veiled Rose** - Anne Elisabeth Stengl
♥ Heartless** - Anne Elisabeth Stengl
♥ A Posse of Princesses - Sherwood Smith
♥ Twice Upon a Time: Beauty and the Beast - Wendy Mass
♥ Self-Raised* - E.D.E.N. Southworth
♥ Ishmael* - E.D.E.N. Southworth
♥ I Serve: a Novel of the Black Prince* - Rosanne E. Lortz
♥ Perelandra - C.S. Lewis
♥ Same Kind of Different as Me** - Ron Hall and Denver Moore
♥ Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood** - George MacDonald
♥ One of the 28th* - G.A. Henty
♥ Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child** - Anthony Esolen
♥ Cinderellis and the Glass Hill* - Gail Carson Levine
♥ Of Flowers and Shadows - Anna Kirwan
♥ The Ordinary Princess* - Mary Margaret Kaye
♥ The Mother-Daughter Book Club* - Heather Vogel Frederick (consecutive books in this series are not necessarily recommended)
♥The Tehran Initiative** - Joel Rosenberg
♥The Greenstones (book #4 of "King of the Trees" series) - William D. Burt
♥Bleak House* - Charles Dickens
♥The Downs* (book #5 of "King of the Trees" series) - William D. Burt
♥Alice in Orchestralia* - Ernest La Prade
♥Kyleah's Mirrors* (book #6 of "King of the Trees" series) - William D. Burt
♥The Birthing Tree (book #7 of "King of the Trees" series) - William D. Burt
♥Heaven is for Real* - Todd Burpo