Thank goodness for Kindle

76 titles on Kindle downloaded to 2 Kindles and 4 Kindle for PC readers. How did we get here?
*    Take the required reading list from DSMS for Grades 6&8
+    Get fabulous input from home-school mentors DianeS and LauraB
–     Subtract all the titles not on Kindle (classics appear to be the last to go digital)
+    Add location-specific titles
+    Add reference books for science and social studies to supplant text-books

Now what?

Spend 2 hours creating the “White Family Reading List” excel spreadsheet organized in chronological order, by continent, by reader.   Excerpts:

Early
E, A/R        Mango Shaped Space (Wendy Mass)
E, A/R        Schooled, (Gordon Korman)
ABW          Huck Finn (Mark Twain)
Africa
Kids     africa    Don’t Let’s go to the Dogs Tonight (Alexandra Fuller)
ABW    africa    Naughts and Crosses (Malorie Blackman)
D/G     africa    Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
D/G     africa    Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone (Martin Dugard)
Survival unit
E, A/R    survival    Before We Were Free (Julia Alvarez)
E, A/R    survival    Diary of Ma Yan (Ma Yan)
E, A/R    survival    Hatchet (Gary Paulsen)

Reference
Kids        all      Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
All           writing    Rulebook for Arguments (Anthony Weston)
A, A/R    science    Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science (Natalie Angier)
A, A/R    science    Galileo for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 25 Activities (Richard Panchyk)
E, A/R    social studies    Don’t Know Much About Mythology: Greatest Stories in Human History (Kenneth Davis)
ABW       social studies    Don’t Know Much About History: American History (Kenneth Davis)

Thank goodness for Kindle!