Every end of the year, we'd anxiously await the final school bell to dismiss us from class for our summer break. With just minutes to freedom, the teacher would hand out a last-minute sheet of paper to each of us - the dreaded summer reading list! Naturally, that was just what we wanted to think about when the sunshine was luring us away from our dusty halls of learning. It seemed to mar our anticipated months of freedom before the Fall and school revisited our lives.
Naturally, I plunged into this assignment immediately . . . as in a week before school began again. Well, an early morning in the present centuary got me to brain storming what my summer reading list might look like today.
My Summer Reading List
by Barbara Barthelettte
Prunes and Prejudice - A family decides that health is more important than what people think about their diet.
Withering Heights - A scientific look at global warming in Tibet.
Cents and Sensibility - A practical book which shows how financial help can be done with sensitivity.
Great Expectorations - A true story about a young boy's dreams to win the annual spitting contest.
Drapes of Wrath - A young housewife fights depression as she struggles to get her home decorating woes sorted out before her husband's mother visits.
The Rise and FAll of the Third Bike - A young boy tries to learn to ride a bike on his own. In the process, he not only learns a valuable lesson but destroys two bicycles.
The Son Also Rises - A mother's continued efforts to get her son up in time for Mass.
The Bungle Book - The dummy's guide on how to undo complicated entanglements in life of their own stupid making.
Little House in the Big City - Pa and Laura fight city hall when they want to build the city hall in Pa's corn field.
Miracle on 1/4th Street - A very short story that deals with more of a coincidence than a miracle. Easy reading.
Old Green - A very strange dog story.
