Katharine Drexel: Friend of the Oppressed  by Ellen Tarry - I read an older version of this book from Ignatius Press's Vision Saints ser...

The Sun is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds   by Caroline Van Hemert Caroline Van Hemert is a scientist and adventurer...

Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery My ten-year-old daughter recently finished the Anne series. I started along with her, but don'...

You can find  links to any other 2016 Grand Adventure posts at the "home page."   Day 21: Finally, we set off for another countr...

Mikis and the Donkey by Bibi Dumon Tak is the story of a young boy on a Greek island who adores the donkey his grandfather purchases to car...

In the third term in this year's Reading-Around-the-World, we focused on books set in Canada, Alaska, the Arctic, and Antarctica, to cor...

I already wrote about our American History read-aloud books . The ones below were selected to match up with Connecting with History Volume 3...

The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery L. M. Montgomery is best known for her Anne of Green Gables books . My favorite of these is Rila...