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1 August 2001

• Joan Aiken, Dangerous Games, Dido and Pa
• David and Micki Colfax, Hard Times in Paradise: An American Family's Struggle to Carve Out a Homestead in California's Redwood Mountains, Homeschooling for Excellence
• Edward Eager, Half Magic
• David Guterson, Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense
• Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight, Dragonquest, The White Dragon, Dragonsdawn, The Renegades of Pern, All the Weyrs of Pern
• Stephen B. Oates, With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
• Jane Smiley, Ordinary Love and Good Will

Books read: 14

3 August 2001

• Paula Kamen, Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution
• Anne McCaffrey, The Chronicles of Pern: First Fall, The Dolphins of Pern, Dragonseye, The Masterharper of Pern, The Skies of Pern

Books read: 6

8 August 2001

• Helen Dore Boylston's Sue Barton books are on my favorites page.
• Alan Garner, The Owl Service
• Jean Kilbourne, Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel
• Peter Nathanielsz, The Prenatal Prescription
• Garth Nix, Sabriel, Lirael
• Steven Saylor, Catilina's Riddle, The Venus Throw
• T.P. Wiseman, Catullus and His World
• Laura Zigman, Animal Husbandry

Books read: 16

14 August 2001

• Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems
• Lord Dunsany, The Charwoman's Shadow
• Margaret Forster, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Margaret Forster, Lady's Maid
• Robert Graves, I, Claudius, Claudius the God
• Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren
• Agnes Leistico, I Learn Better by Teaching Myself
• John McPhee, Rising from the Plains
• Nancy Wallace, Better than School: One Family's Declaration of Independence

Books read: 11

17 August 2001

• Douglas Botting, Gerald Durrell
• Jonathan Carroll, Sleeping in Flame
• Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
• Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party and Other Stories
• Noel Streatfeild, Apple Bough
• Claire Tomalin, Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life

Books read: 6

25 August 2001

• Joan Aiken, Is Underground, Cold Shoulder Road
• Gerald Durrell, The Ark's Anniversary
• Harry Harrison, The Hammer and the Cross, One King's Way, King and Emperor
• Michael Korda, Another Life
• Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
• Anthony Trollope, An Autobiography

Books read: 9

31 August 2001

• Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, The Tin Princess
• Anthony Trollope, Ralph the Heir, The Claverings
• Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer, The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
• Laura Zigman, Dating Big Bird

Books read: 8

Total books read this month: 70
Total books read this year: 440

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