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June 12, 2009

13 Books My Avid-Reader Daughter Highly Recommends (2nd edition)

My 10-year-old daughter reads constantly, so she has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of books she likes. This week I asked her to bring me just 13 more books that she'd like to recommend to my readers. If you missed her first edition of recommended reads, you can click here. (Unless otherwise stated, the book summaries [...]

May 29, 2009

A Love Affair With Her Thesaurus

If you know me at all, you won't be surprised that I can wax elloquent about a thesaurus. I'm just a geek that way.
But apparently Jerah is the same way, because there's a particular thesaurus which she has fallen in love with. This love affair with her thesaurus began when she started to sprinkle the [...]

May 20, 2009

13 Books My Avid-Reader Daughter Highly Recommends

My daughter, Jerah, is a voracious reader. And by voracious I mean she spends nearly all of her waking moments reading (she reads at the dinner table, in the bathroom, while walking, while she is supposed to be doing her schoolwork…). I asked her to collect 13 books she really liked reading so I could [...]

April 8, 2009

13 More Good Books from my Homeschooling Shelf

Last week I shared 13 books from the top shelf of my homeschooling bookcase. This week, I'm going to finish off the top shelf with 13 more great homeschooling books.

How to Write Clearly: The Meaning Approach. Written by Ruth Beechick, whose writing and philosophy I greatly admire, this book dispels many of the English grammar [...]

January 15, 2009

13 Books My Reluctant-Reader Son Actually Enjoyed!

My sixth grade son is a good reader, but he doesn't really like to read. As is typical of many boys his age, he'd rather be on the Wii, the computer, or playing with his Legos. But these books below actually earned a "That was really good" from him after he finished them, which is [...]

April 3, 2008

Are you looking for good books for your kids to read?

Wouldn't you love to visit a website that regularly posts concise reviews of great children's books and offers an easy way to print off the information for reference? Sounds like the perfect resource for homeschoolers, huh!
I've talked about this wonderful site before, but I just had to mention it again in case you missed it [...]

January 22, 2008

FAMILY READS: A children's book review blog

My husband brought this fantastic blog to my attention. The blog, called Family Reads, is run by a book-loving family of three and it's loaded with tons of reviews of quality children's books. Family Reads is well organized and full of great information—a wonderful resource for homeschoolers!