by Elizabeth Yates This book was excellent! One of my favorite things about the curriculum we use is the heavy use of...
Book Reviews
The Whipping Boy
by Sid Fleischman When buying books for the next school year, there was a Sid Fleischman book on the list that I...
The Black Arrow
by Robert Louis Stevenson The novel opens with the murder of a man by a black arrow. A letter is later...
The Door in the Wall
by Marguerite De Angelo This was a very readable book about a young boy named Robin who was the son of a nobleman. His father was off at war and Robin, at the ripe old age of 10, was to...
Saint Dominic and the Rosary
by Catherine Beebe This was a great biography. It read well and was really helped along by the fact that Saint Dominic had a very fascinating life. He was born to older parents after his other brothers and sisters were grown-up and moved out. He knew he...
To Know Christ Jesus
by FJ Sheed I read this book for Lent. It was a nearly perfect Lent book. It even had 45 chapters so you could read one per day and be finished by Holy Week....
Francis and Clare
by Helen Walker Homan This was an engaging biography on Saint Francis, though not so much on Saint Clare – she kind of pops up at the beginning of the book for a minute and then again at the end. Saint Francis, whose father was a successful merchant, came...
Adam of the Road
by Elizabeth Janet Gray In 13th century England, Adam, the son of Roger the minstrel, is ready to live life on the road with his father so that one day, he too can become a...
The Secret Garden
by Francis Hodgson Burnett What an excellent book! A bossy, spoiled girl named Mary is living in India until she is sent to Yorkshire England to live with her very rich uncle in his mansion when her parents die in an epidemic. The whole place...
Away Goes Sally
by Elizabeth Coatsworth Sally is a young orphan that lives with her aunts and uncle in late 18th-century Massachusetts. After receiving a letter from their cousin that had settled in...
Charles Dickens
by GK Chesterton This was a near perfect biography. If I were Charles Dickens, I would have been waiting for Chesterton at the gates of heaven to hug the stuffing out of him for writing...
The Magna Charta
by James Daugherty This was a well-written book especially considering that with the material it covered, it could have been a snoozefest. Instead, the story of the Magna Charta was...