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Book Reviews
Book Review: A Lion to Guard Us
by Clyde Robert Bulla Amanda, about 10 I think, and her two younger siblings (8 and 6) were living in the...
Book Review: The Family Under the Bridge
by Natalie Savage Carlson I was hoping for a...
Book Review: Fearing the Stigmata
by Matt Weber It does seem that really young people and really old people have a good handle on their faith/life whereas those of us in the middle are still working on how to Catholic in our post-Christian culture.This book was about one man’s story of searching for...
Book Review: Amos Fortune: Free Man
by Elizabeth Yates This book was excellent! One of my favorite things about the curriculum we use is the heavy use of books like this one that do a great job of bringing the historical context to life.So with this book, we were taken from a village in Africa where...
Book Review: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 purchased which must have been what made Ebay suggest “The Whipping Boy” to me. I forgot all about this book! It was one of my favorites as a kid.Happily,...
Book Review: The Black Arrow
by Robert Louis Stevenson The novel opens with the murder of a man by a black arrow. A letter is later found attached to a door that informed the reader that more men were marked for the black arrows - a powerful and crafty knight named Sir Daniel and two...
Book Review: Tranquility by Tuesday
by Laura Vanderkam I heard an interview with Laura Vanderkam on Jon Acuff’s podcast. Since I’m going through a very busy and disorganized season of my life, it sounded as though her...
Book Review: King Solomon’s Ring
by Konrad Lorenz My daughter read this book for her high school science class. She so enjoyed the book she told me all about it practically verbatim. Her stories peaked my interest and since I had a little free summer reading time, I thought I'd give it a read. It was...
Book Review: The Treasure Seekers
by E. Nesbit I came across this author, E. Nesbit, on a list of suggested reading by the woman who designed the curriculum I’m using this year. She’s got excellent taste and my daughter, always devouring books, is in need of some new reading material. We’re using it...
Book Review: Money Secrets
by Dave Barry I bought this book – in particular – because someone in the reviews said they bought it thinking it was a serious book on money and it had them in hysterics when they started reading it and realized it was humor. That just tickled me.This book was...
Book Review: The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Graham For the kids, this started a bit slow. As an adult who loves beautiful language, I loved it from the first word. This book followed the adventures of Rat,...