What we are reading next

These are the books we have chosen to read to the upcoming meetings

2 July 2015 at Circus Circus

• Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
• A long way from Chicago by Richard Peck
• Little house in the Big Woods by Laura Inglis Wilder

Additional read: From Little Houses to Little Women by Nancy McCabe

6 June 2015 - The Botanist - City Works Depot

•  Witness  by Karen Hesse
• The cricket in Time Square by George Selden

2 May 2015 - Odettes - City Works Depot

• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• May be interested in Brown Girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woods

28 March 2015 - City Works Depot (beside the Best Ugly Bagels)

• The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents by Terry Pratchett. (out of respect at his recent death)

14 March 2015 - Ironique Mt Eden
The intention is that members read, at their leisure over the summer. 

• The Arabian nights
• The one and future king by T.H. White

22 November 2014

• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld and Keith Thompson
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan 

11 October 2014 - Meeting at The Block at Britomart  (meeting deferred for a week)
Every one selected a book from both the junior section and teen section of the Auckland Central Public Library - ideally, the 19th book of the selected author's letter - a truly eclectic mix of books.

20 September 2014 - Meeting at Auckland Public Library

• The wee free men by Terry Pratchett
• The witch in the Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
• Joey Pigza swallowed the key by Jack Gantos

30 August 2014 - Meeting at Roskill Coffee Project

• From Neil Gaiman - Ocean at the end of the lane, or the Graveyard book
• E.L. Konigsburg - My Father's daughter / Fathers Arcane Daughter
• and Sounder by William H. Armstrong

2 August 2014 - 9:30 am One 2 One  (121) Cafe near Women's Bookshop 105 Ponsonby Rd

• Nancy Drew mystery - any one
• Milkweed by Jerry Spinnelli
• Bone (graphic novel) by Jeff Smith - any one

12 July 2014 - Meeting in Bronwyn's home at 12:30 pm (bring a plate!)

• An Asterix book
• Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner 
• Roll of Thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D. Taylor 

21 June 2014 - Meeting in Pt Chev at 9:30 am

• The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
• Walk two moons by Sharon Creech
• A Tin-Tin book by Herge

31 May 2014 - Meeting at The Block Cafe, Blockhouse Bay

• Finish Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
• Trash by Andy Mulligan
• Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

3 May 2014 - Meeting at The Block Cafe, Blockhouse Bay  Olaf's in Mt Eden 

• Go Saddle the sea by Joan Aiken
• Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (okay, I conceded on this one!)
• 100 dresses by Eleanor Estes

29 March 2014 - Meeting at Roskill Coffee Project

• A Meg book as supplied by Kat
• Flora and Ulysses by KateDiCamillo
• Stand Tall by Joan Bauer

1 March 2014 - Meeting up at Britomart -  From the exhibition that we saw (see Meeting of 8 February 2014)

• One of Enid Blyton Famous Five books
• Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (2012 Newbery winner)
• Possibly Moonfleet by J Meade Falkner

• Barbara to find out about "The Lantern Bearers" by Rosemary Sutcliffe to see if we can get this. 

8-February-2014 (Meeting to be held at the Auckland Public Library)
8-February-2014 The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay
8 February-2014 13 clocks by James Thurber 

For Christmas holidays - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

5-December-2013 Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

5-December-2013 Charlotte's Web by E.B.White
5-December-2013 Girl gone by Gillian Flynn Need to rethink this - not a children's book
5-December-2013 Flowers for Algenon by Daniel Keyes

7- November-2013 The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann
7- November-2013 The owl service - Alan Garner
7- November-2013 The grey king by Susan Cooper
7- November-2013 The boy on the wooden box by Leon Leyson (because everyone but I have already read it!)

10-October-2013 The little prince / written and illustrated by Antoine de Saint-Exupâery

10-October-2013 The giver by Lois Lowry
10 October-2013 Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan (2012)

19-September-2013 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

19-September-2013  The light princess by George MacDonald
19-September-2013  One and Only Ivan is a childrens' book by K.A. Applegate (New book)
Kat is unable to make this meeting

29-August-2013 Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

29-August-2013 Are you there God? It's me Margaret - Judy Blume
29-August-2013 The Freedom Merchants - Sherryl Jordan (the latest one)
NOTE: Meeting is at Yvonne's place.  Come to dinner before hand!

8-August-2013 The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

8-August-2013 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
8-August-2013 A Ramona book by Beverley Cleary
NOTE: Changed the meeting date

11-July-2013 Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

11-July-2013 Aleutian Sparrow - Karen Hesse

20-June-2013 The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

20-June-2013 Emil and the detectives / Erich Kästner
20-June-2013 Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli  (new book)

30-May-2013 The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois

30-May-2013 The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

9-May-2013 The wind in the willows/ Kenneth Grahame

9-May-2013 A wrinkle in time / Madeleine L'Engle