by Jane Green | Sep 26, 2022
Sweet Home Alaska, by Carole Estby Dagg, is historical fiction based on the 1930’s New Deal Program instituted by President Delano Roosevelt. The government “took two hundred and two families off relief and shipped them up to Alaska to become...
by Jane Green | Aug 29, 2022
Do you ever have times in your life when you are looking for just a little encouragement? Maybe you need to complete a difficult task, or deal with life issues, or fix relationships. This week I was thinking about this and stumbled across a Helen Keller biography in...
by Jane Green | Aug 22, 2022
Lauren Wolk is a great, modern day storyteller for middle graders. This book is a sequel to her Newbery Honor Winner, Wolf Hollow. Although I absolutely loved Wolf Hollow, I would be cautious to recommend it due to the brutality of the bully in that book. I would...
by Jane Green | Aug 8, 2022
In my last post I mentioned that I had only read excerpts from John Bunyan’s book, The Pilgrim’s Progress. The reason is that it was so hard for me to understand, and although I tried reading it several times, I could never keep up with the allegorical...
by Jane Green | Aug 1, 2022
My daughter gave me a booklet to read entitled, Classical Education & the Homeschool, by Douglas Wilson, Wesley Callihan, and Douglas Jones. As I read it, I felt as though I were waking up. I love reading scripture, but I’ve not enjoyed reading books for a...
by Jane Green | Jun 13, 2022
Have you ever thought about the people that made up Jesus’ inner circle. The people He relied on the most? What were they like? There were four men that Jesus called to be His disciples first. Peter, Andrew his brother, and James and John, also brothers. Andrew...
