Leah’s friend Martha is wild and rebellious, interested only in boys, movies, and partying. She is, understandably, in trouble in her Amish community, and Leah’s Daet and Maem worry about her bad influence on their daughter. So they encourage Jacob Yoder, hoping Leah will settle down and become a good Amish wife. And, as her […]
Reviews
Review: Daily Grams
It hurt to let it go, our old silver Daily Grams book. It had been a faithful companion through many years of homeschooling and had helped our children so much. Every morning, I would sit on the couch with my latest middle school child and we would spend a few minutes together learning basic grammar […]
Review: Daisies are Forever by Liz Tolsma
Twenty-year-old Gisela Cramer, an American, is living in a nightmare. In 1945, as the Third Reich is crumbling, Prussian Germans are fleeing west, always west, to escape the cruelty of the invading Russians. Gisela is among them, taking along her cousin’s two daughters, her Opa’s best friend, two senile sisters, a disguised British POW, and her own anguished memories of a […]
Review: Candle Bible Handbook
Any person, Christian or not, who aims to understand Western literature, art, thought, and science must have a working knowledge of the Bible. After all, it is the most read and most influential book in Western culture over the last two millennia. In terms of homeschooling, this means that the Bible should be a foundational […]
Review: Henry Hudson by Ronald Syme
What a moving biography Syme has written of the tragic explorer Henry Hudson! This story for middle school children, the best I have read about Hudson, is unusual for this age range. Very few children’s biographies attempt to present a person’s complex character in the way Syme did in this book. For that reason, Henry […]