Books at Camp

While we were at fiddling camp, we read. (Because there were no TVs in the rooms!)

We read some awesome books.

I would recommend these to anyone going anywhere on vacation, and can I just say now that I have two books that I know will go on my all-time-favorites in 2013?

I can and I will. I've blogged about them before, but I've reread them since and my kids have read them and they are AWESOME.


Jinx by Sage Blackwood


The Water Castle by Megan Frazer Blakemore

I am in the process of deeply analyzing (deeply!) what makes these books so good. The story? The writing? I don't know, but they are magical.

Shaemus read these and LOVED them:


Grasshopper Magic by Lynne Jonell (part of a series—hooray! He wants to get them all.)


(I already blogged about this one)

Flannery loved:


Murilla Gorilla: Jungle Detective by Jennifer Lloyd (there are more of these too!)


Odd Duck by Cecil Castellucci

Calvin read and loved:


P.K. Pinkerton and the Petrified Man by Caroline Lawrence


The House with the Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs


Lucy read and loved:


Mable Riley by Marthe Jocelyn


Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope

Mary read and loved:


The Loud Silence of Francine Greene by Karen Cushman

We all enjoyed:



And we listened to:



We also got a flat tire, which is a funny story I'm writing up for tomorrow's post. Thank goodness for kids who can sit on the side of the road and read books for hours at a time... In the rain...