i love lists like this, and thought this might be of interest to some of you.
here are some books we have enjoyed this year: (some were read-alouds, and some were ones they read)

we've done quite a few reading comprehension tests this year. they are pretty easy to find online for most books.

1. little house in the big woods
2. little house chapter books (Bre read all of these - most are around 70 pages)
3. sarah, plain and tall
4. the courage of sarah noble
5. muggie maggie
6. pippy longstocking
7. george washington
8. breyer stablemates - patch
9. breyer stablemates - starlight
10. breyer stablemates - stormy
11. the seven treasure hunts
12. the littles
13. the box car children (the first 4)
14. the terrible trins
15. life in the great ice age
16. the great dinosaur mystery & the bible
17. one small square - cactus desert
18. one small square - artic tundra
19. one small square - coral reef
20. amelia bedila goes camping
21. amelia bedila, teach us!
22. noah's ark noah's flood
23. meet thomas jefferson
24. blaze books by c.w. anderson
25. ramona the brave
26. absolutely lucy
27. the littles and their amazing new friend
28. pioneer daughter's: hannah's winter of hope
29. hank the cowdog: every dog has his day
30. janette oke's animal books (there are several of these)
31. who was ronald reagan?
32. several magic treehouse books (i don't think all of these are good, but we have enjoyed the early ones and some of the research books that go with them)

we're getting ready to start on betsy tacy stories.