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Read-Alouds J
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The Readers and Read-Alouds for HBL J's Literature are loosely gathered under the theme "Award-Winning Titles and Authors." The fifteen Read-Alouds in J are the last collection of Sonlight books intended for you to read aloud with your children. (Though you are welcome, of course, to read any of the high school books aloud, it is neither expected nor required.)
The Literature for J is compelling and interesting. You'll read Newbery Honor and Newbery Medal books, and more titles by authors who have either won those awards or others (like Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, who won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. This award is given annually, can only be won once per author, and is selected from a panel of British children's writers. Quite the honor!)
Enjoy this year of reading brilliant books with your Middle Schooler.


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The Readers and Read-Alouds for HBL J's Literature are loosely gathered under the theme "Award-Winning Titles and Authors." The fifteen Read-Alouds in J are the last collection of Sonlight books intended for you to read aloud with your children. (Though you are welcome, of course, to read any of the high school books aloud, it is neither expected nor required.)
The Literature for J is compelling and interesting. These books are not, for the most part, stretching or challenging in the way that, say, Hamlet is stretching and challenging. These are thoughtful books that don't require slow reading to ensure comprehension.
You'll find a lovely array of genres in the Read-Alouds:
- novels
- historical fiction
- genre-bending experimental work (Echo)
- school story
- coming-of-age
- mystery
- poetry
- family lore
- missionary biography
You'll read Newbery Honor and Newbery Medal books, and more titles by authors who have either won those awards or others (like Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, who won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. This award is given annually, can only be won once per author, and is selected from a panel of British children's writers. Quite the honor!)
Enjoy this year of reading brilliant books with your Middle Schooler.
- HolesWinner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award. Stanley Yelnats, unjustly sentenced to a boys' detention center, spends every day digging holes five feet wide by five feet deep. But there's something...Retail: $8.99
- Penny from HeavenNewbery Honor. A shining story about the everyday and the extraordinary, inspired by the author's own Italian-American family. Told with all the richness and the layers, the love and the laughter of a...Retail: $7.99
- Belle Prater's BoyNewbery Honor. When Belle Prater disappears, her son Woodrow moves in with his grandparents, right next door to his cousin Gypsy and her family. Over the course of their sixth grade school year, the two...Retail: $8.99
- Shakespeare's SecretWhen sixth grade Hero (a girl named for a character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing) moves to a new town, her elderly neighbor tells her of a missing diamond, and Hero sets out to find it, even...Retail: $8.99
- Fish in a TreeAlly struggles in school, but because of frequent moves (dad is military), no one picks up on it. The author is dyslexic, and writes from a place of deep empathy for her dyslexic main character. Great...Retail: $8.99
- Half a ChanceWhen Lucy moves to a lakeside house in New Hampshire, her photographer father leaves for a summer assignment. He'll judge a photography contest for youth in a few months, and Lucy wants to win. As the...Retail: $7.99
- Code TalkerFrom Navajo education, to developing and learning the code, and the Pacific Theater of WWII: Guam, Iwo Jima, Okinawa. Deals with hard things in a sensitive and appropriate way. Age appropriate, informative,...Retail: $10.99
- EchoNewbery Honor. Three dark periods in history: a Pennsylvania boy during the Great Depression, a German boy during the rise of Nazi Germany, and a California girl during World War II. Their stories converge...Retail: $19.99
- The Mozart SeasonA talented young musician spends her summer practicing a Mozart concerto for a competition. Luminous.Retail: $12.99
- SoarWhen baseball-loving Jeremiah turns to coaching in a new town, he has to contend with a scandal. Can his cheerful, can-do attitude affect an entire town? A beautiful story of resilience.Retail: $8.99
- National Geographic Book of Nature PoetryGorgeous, gorgeous collection. Stunning nature poetry paired with superb National Geographic photography. Don't miss this one.Retail: $24.99
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about an unforgettable family on a road-trip during one of the most important times in the civil rights movement.Retail: $8.99
- WhittingtonThis is an unforgettable tale about the healing, transcendent power of storytelling, and how learning to read saves one little boy.Retail: $7.99
- Our Only May AmeliaInspired by diaries of a real person, this book chronicles the adventures of a young girl growing up in Washington in 1899.Retail: $9.99
- Which None Can ShutSee the diverse, creative, unexpected, and thrilling ways God is reaching the author's Muslim neighbors with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. An unprecedented number of Muslims are becoming followers of Jesus....Retail: $15.99


100% MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
Take up to one year to use your curriculum. If you don’t love it, return it! Complete details here.

