Book Recommendations

Book Recommendations

Besides the links below,  you can visit my Amazon Shop Recommendations link here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/homegrowncatholics

HOME SCHOOLING

The Homeschool Experiment, a Novel
Charity Hawkins (Paperback)

Catholic Education: Homeward Bound - Useful Guide to Catholic Home Schooling
Kimberly Hahn, Mary Hasson (Paperback - Feb 1, 1996)

Haystack Full of Needles, A Catholic Home Educator's Guide to Socialization
Alice Gunther (Perfect Paperback - Jul 14, 2008)

Catholic Homeschool Companion
Maureen Wittmann, Rachel Mackson (Paperback - Feb 1, 2006)



DISCIPLINE

The Temperament God Gave Your Kids: Motivate, Discipline, and Love Your Children
Art Bennett, Laraine Bennett (Paperback - Feb 17, 2012)

Discipline That Lasts a Lifetime: The Best Gift You Can Give Your Kids
Dr. Ray Guarendi (Paperback - Apr 1, 2003)

Raising Your Spirited Child Rev Ed: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka (Paperback - Nov 28, 2006)

WOMANHOOD, MOTHERHOOD and MARRIAGE

The Domestic Church: Room by Room
Donna-Marie Cooper O'Boyle (Paperback - Apr 29, 2011)

Please Don't Drink the Holy Water!

Susie Lloyd (Paperback - Sep 1, 2004)

Bless Me, Father, For I Have Kids
Susie Lloyd (Paperback - Mar 15, 2009)

Homegrown Faith: Nurturing Your Catholic Family
Heidi Bratton (Paperback - Aug 1, 2011)

Courageous Love

The Love Dare

CATHOLIC EVANGELIZATION and FAITH

We're On a Mission from God: The Generation X Guide to John Paul II, The Catholic Church and the Real Meaning of Life
Mary Beth Bonacci (Paperback - Mar 1996)

Did Adam & Eve Have Bellybuttons...And 199 other questions from Catholic Teenagers
Matthew J. Pinto (Paperback - Jan 2, 1998)

College Apologetics

Rev. Anthony Alexander (Paperback - Jan 1, 2009)

The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom
Gerald L. Schroeder (Paperback - Jun 16, 2009)

Catholic For A Reason: Scripture and the Mystery of the Family of God
Emmaus Road Publishing

LIFE SKILLS (Sex Education Alternatives)

All Things Girl Leader's Guide
Teresa Tomeo, Molly Miller, Cops Monica (Paperback - Jan 5, 2009)

All Things Girl: Friends, Boys, and Getting Along
Teresa Tomeo, Cheryl Dickow (Paperback - Aug 8, 2008)

All Things Girl: Girls Rock!
Teresa Tomeo, Cheryl Dickow (Paperback - Oct 1, 2008)

All Things Girl: Modern and Modest
Teresa Tomeo, Cheryl Dickow (Paperback - Nov 17, 2008)

All Things Girl: Mind Your Manners
Teresa Tomeo, Cheryl Dickow (Paperback - Jan 5, 2009)

All Things Girl: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...What is Beauty, After All?
Teresa Tomeo, Cheryl Dickow (Paperback - Sep 19, 2008)

All Things Girl: Truth for Teens
Teresa Tomeo, Cheryl Dickow (Paperback - Aug 20, 2009)

All Things Girl Journal
Teresa Tomeo, Molly Miller, Monica Cops (Paperback - Sep 1, 2008)

FOR TEENS and YOUNG ADULTS

I Kissed Dating Goodbye: Study Guide
Joshua Harris (Paperback - Apr 1, 2003)

Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
Joshua Harris (Paperback - Jul 26, 2005)

Real Love: The Ultimate Dating, Marriage and Sex Question Book
Mary Beth Bonacci (Paperback - Sep 1, 1996)

HOME ECONOMICS

Sewing With Saint Anne
Alice Cantrell (Spiral-bound - May 1, 2002)

Tea & Cake with the Saints
Alice Cantrell (Spiral-bound - Sep 20, 2007)

Tin Cups & Tinder: A Catholic Boy's Little Book of Fire, Food & Fun
Alice Cantrell (Paperback - Sep 18, 2010)

The Dangerous Book for Boys
Conn Iggulden, Hal Iggulden (Hardcover - Apr 24, 2012)

The Daring Book for Girls
Andrea J. Buchanan, Miriam Peskowitz (Hardcover - Mar 27, 2012)

DEVOTIONALS  and GOOD READS

Devotional Stories for Little Folks
Nancy Nicholson (Paperback - Jan 1, 2002)

Bigger Stories for Little Folks
Nancy Nicholson (Paperback)

The Father Brown Reader: Stories from Chesterton
(Perfect Paperback - Oct 26, 2007)

The Father Brown Reader II: More Stories from Chesterton
Nancy Carpentier Brown (Perfect Paperback - Nov 10, 2010)

Books for Read-Alouds or Ages 7-12

Certainly look up Sarah Mackenzie's Read Aloud Revival. She never let's me down on her recommendations. Otherwise I'd recommend these found in my home library! 

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Chronicles of Narnia

James Herriot Treasury for Children

Magic Tree House books

Hardy Boys books

American Girls

Box Car Children

Claire's Costly Cookies & The Costly Cookie Chronicles

A Book of Angels

St Patrick's Summer

[Ignatius & Tan Books] Saint series

Holling geography series: Paddle to the Sea, Tree in the Trail, Minn of the Mississippi,  Sea Bird

A Life of Our Lord for Children & The First Christians by Marigold Hunt

Little House on the Prairie

Little House in the Big Woods

The Father Brown Readers

Devotional Stories for Little Folks

Seton Homeschool Readers

Jr Classics

Will Wilder series

Wingfeather Saga

Prince Martin series

The Green Ember series

Flat Stanley series

Sarah Plain and Tall

Betsy-Tacy books

Charlotte's Web

The Incredible Journey

Sounder

Lassie

Because of Winn Dixie

Five Children & It

The Phantom Tollbooth

Holes

My Side of the Mountain & On the Other Side of the Mountain

Berenstain Bears Books

Mercer Meyer Books

Catholic Treasurebox Books (set of 20)

The Good & The Beautiful Readers and free library

That's a start of what I see on my shelves. We don't visit the library often,  and when we do it's to pickup books we've preselected.  I've slowly been building my own library instead.