Book Titles
The first story we read this semester
What is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi?
grew up in India
Rudyard Kipling
fantasy genre
George Macdonald's books
suffering to spread the Kingdom of God
Bound for Burma
Gloria was convinced he was a bad father
Adoniram Judson
Both George Macdonald titles
Day Boy and Night Girl
The Light Princess
Grew up on the prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Missionary Biography
Adoniram Judson: Bound for Burma
Magic changes things
A Little Princess
Bad writing, good sacrifice
Boy in the Alamo
a book we read only selections from
believed in Christian Scientism
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Autobiography
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Some things are worth dying for
Boy in the Alamo
Boys hated this one the most. Calvin became neutral at the end of the book.
A Little Princess
Exact Title of Missionary Biography
Bound for Burma: Adoniram Judson
Father of modern fantasy
George Macdonald
Collection of short stories
Jungle Book
Facing your fears
Day Boy and Night Girl
The only person (in class) who likes fairy tales
Gloria :)
Coming of age story
By the Shores of Silver Lake
Father in debtor's prison
Charles Dickens
Short stories that began and ended our semester
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Christmas Carol
theme of the book is "Change"
By the Shores of Silver Lake:
Mary goes blind
Wolves and wild animals leave, trains and towns come to the prairie
Ends with foreshadowing Almanzo's arrival in Laura's life
"Not enough people dying."