[amazon_link asins=’054569082X,0545690854,0545690870′ template=’CopyOf-ProductCarousel’ store=’homeschoolrealm-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’468f8463-2877-11e8-a7f1-c53476eabf95′] My 12 year old son just finished this trilogy and is RAVING about it. So I asked him if he’d write a review about them, to share here…and this is what he had to say… PLEASE NOTE: The book links are Amazon affiliate links, and
Continue reading
[amazon_link asins=’0142414123′ template=’CopyOf-ProductAd’ store=’fresnofamilyc-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’b18b80ad-e383-11e7-9280-050600f6c943′] Three Cups of Tea: Young Reader’s Edition by Greg Mortenson My rating: 4 of 5 stars My kids and I (age 9 boy, 14 girl) really enjoyed this book. I know there’s a lot of controversy around it and the lies the author has
Continue reading
[amazon_link asins=’0590486780′ template=’CopyOf-ProductAd’ store=’fresnofamilyc-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’d01a1df0-e384-11e7-b0d3-1bc94e105388′] Dear Dr. Bell…Your Friend, Helen Keller by Judith St. George My rating: 4 of 5 stars Wow. This is a fascinating book! I had NO idea Alexander Graham Bell and Helen Keller were such good friends…or friends at all! And everyone I’ve talked to
Continue reading
[amazon_link asins=’0316517291′ template=’CopyOf-ProductAd’ store=’fresnofamilyc-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’685fe174-e3b1-11e7-acd9-bd9ee1a58806′] Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere,Esq. as Revealed by his Horse by Robert Lawson My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a really neat historical fiction book written from the perspective of Paul
Continue reading
Do you have a voracious reader in your home? Is he a boy around age 7/8yrs old? My nearly 8yr old son is just devouring books lately! The problem is finding books that are high enough quality for him, on a topic that interests him. He does enjoy the [amazon_textlink
Continue readingI read this one aloud to my daughter a few years back and I still remember how fabulous it was! An 11yr old girl is left in the care of her housekeeper most of the time as her mother travels (she’s a professional pianist). She gets a new neighbor (they
Continue readingThis week I finished reading this book aloud for the second time. My kids LOVED it! Originally written in 1908, you would think that the language and plot would be too antiquated for young children. Not so. This was my daughter’s second time hearing it and my son’s first. My
Continue reading
(continued from the last post) [amazon_link asins=’B00DEKDUFU’ template=’CopyOf-ProductAd’ store=’homeschoolrealm-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’84c8ece1-31fc-11e8-91c0-6bda1ce9e9b3′]I think “[amazon_textlink asin=’B00DEKDUFU’ text=’Witch Week’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’homeschoolrealm-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’95d73a90-31fc-11e8-a935-eff964fd5ac6′]” was the hardest to get through the beginning…The entire first half felt less intriguing than the other books we had read in the series up til then and I found
Continue reading
[amazon_link asins=’006447268X’ template=’CopyOf-ProductAd’ store=’homeschoolrealm-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’9b113a88-31fb-11e8-9778-f3efa30eb8b0′] I started talking about this series in April, when we first discovered it and started reading the first volume (which included 2 of the books: “Charmed Life” and “The Lives of Christopher Chant”). At that point I was intrigued and had just started enjoying
Continue reading
I found the book “The Pinhoe Egg” on the shelf at the library recently (facing out on top of a shelf…that is such a brilliant way to get people to find new books to read! I find things for my kids and myself like this all the time!) and checked
Continue readingFinished reading this book aloud to my children today and we are in love with the characters in this series and can’t wait to read more! This is the 2nd in the 1920s Dr. Dolittle series, but the first we’ve read. My 9.5yr old was enthralled with the British Doctor
Continue readingI found this on the library bookshelf and was intrigued…Just finished it today…was reading to see if my 9.5yr old would like it and if it was appropriate. I am handing it to her with a big thumbs up! This is the story of 2 very hard headed and mostly
Continue readingJust finished this book, a quick read, even for my 9yr old. My daughter and I both give it a thumbs up! Can’t wait to read the sequel! I found this on the shelf at the library and gave it to my daughter to read…which she whizzed through and then
Continue reading
I can’t believe I never read this book as a child. I would have loved it! I recently finished reading this book to my 9yr old and both agreed it was a great book! A little boy befriends and tames a brown bear in Alaska, before its statehood. The small
Continue reading
My daughter and I just loved this story about a little girl (Emily) that finds out she is half mermaid. Her mother is phobic about water and doesn’t allow her daughter to ever enter the water even though they live on a houseboat surrounded by water! When she finally does
Continue reading