13 More Good Books from my Homeschooling Shelf

If you wanted more books for your homeschooling shelf here are a few more I consider worthy of shelf space.

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.

1. 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 myths we've all grown up with. (Like never ending a sentence with a preposition.) It's a great book to have your high school student read.
2. Cooking for Beginners (Usborne Cooking School). This book is a great first cookbook. There are lots of instructions for each recipe, with each step illustrated.
3. What's the Big Deal?: Why God Cares About Sex by Stan and Brenna Jones. This is book 3 in the God's Design for Sex series. Each book in the series is very well done and aimed at specific age groups.
4. Marie Curie's Search for Radium (Science Stories Series) by Beverley Birch. This is a great elementary biography which also happens to be used in Beautiful Feet's History of Science guide.
5. Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes (Science Stories Series) by Beverley Birch. Another great science biography, also used in the Beautiful Feet study guide.
6. Fine Print: A Story About Johann Gutenberg by Joann Johansen Burch. Yet another great biography. This one is used in the Beautiful Feet Medieval History study guide. (What's awesome is that my mom picked up these last three books from a garage sale, not knowing that they are books we'll be needing for our history curriculum in the next couple years.)
7. The Light and the Glory for Children by Peter Marshall & David Manuel. This is the children's version of The Light and the Glory (which is also on the shelf) which covers U.S. history from Christopher Columbus to George Washington. Also on the shelf is the study guide that accompanies the text.
8. My Book about Life in Jesus' Time by Robert Baden. This little book, perfect for little ones, explores the culture of Jesus time using easy to read poetry. I purchased this book years ago when we first started homeschooling.
9. Before I Was Born by Carolyn Nystrom. This is book #2 in God's Design for Sex Series, intended for children ages 5 to 8.
10. Alpha Bakery Children's Cookbook (Gold Medal). I've had this book for ages, and honestly, I have no idea where it came from. But it's full of delicious and easy-to-make recipes!
11. Survival Kit for New Christians (children and adult's editions). This is a discipleship text for new Christians.
12. Streams of Civilization (Vol 1) by Mary Stanton & Albert Hyma. We used this text with our Beautiful Feet Ancient History study guide this year, and although it is a textbook, we were very pleased with the quality.
13. Singing Sack: 28 Song-stories from Around the World. I picked this unique book up at the homeschool store for next to nothing earlier this year. It's filled with folk stories and music with words in the original languages (like Swahili). They make excellent read-alouds.

I love recommending books for the homeschooler's shelves. Through the years we have added and deleted books but these I recommend you keep onhand.

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