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Reviews: Nonfiction

How to Raise Your High School Grades by Half a Point in One Semester

Teens need to think about thinking, studying, time management, and the future. There are all sorts of serious, sober, and expensive approaches to these topics. However, if your family has a sense of humor and likes outside-the-box ideas, Gary North’s free study course might work for you. How to Raise Your High School Grades by […]

Review: Summer on Ross Farm, a DVD

What was life like for pioneers in the 1800’s?  While reading can tell us a lot, families can learn even more by watching Summer at Ross Farm, a video of Nova Scotia’s Living Museum of Agriculture. This DVD is a feast for the eye as well as the imagination. Summer was a time to prepare food […]

Review: Katherine’s Farm, a DVD

Katherine, an energetic, enthusiastic young girl, has written a diary of a year on her family’s farm.  She and her mother take turns reading the diary while we tour the farm through the seasons. We begin with the horse, Tim, who’s much nicer than a tractor because he starts even in the cold Manitoba winters. […]

Review: The House of Hope

The Hills, just an ordinary couple living in China, felt called to open their home to sick and abandoned babies.  They started with a cot in the dining room.  Soon another baby came, and another.  All with medical issues.  The Hills found experts willing to treat them, and besides using their own savings for these […]

Review: The Glorious Victory: An Exposition of Revelation

Finding Bible curriculum for my teens is not too difficult, except when it comes to the book of Revelation.  While much has been written about this Bible book, most of it is either very scholarly or else full of sensation.  For my teens, I want an accessible resource that interprets Revelation in the light of […]