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C.C. Long’s Home Geography is a lovely introduction to the subject for children. Broken into short chapters with beautiful illustrations and poetry along with questions to help the child remember what has been taught, this book forms a solid foundation that can be built on in later years.4 GradesSku: 9781925729153
Home Geography
By: C.C. Long$10.50 – $25.50 -
Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and pet skunk. The comic genius of Robert McCloskey and his wry look at small-town America has kept readers in stitches for generations!Sku: 9780142404157
Homer Price
By: Robert McCloskey$12.50 -
The age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform eating habits worldwide. Hungry Planet profiles 30 families from around the world--including Bosnia, Chad, Egypt, Greenland, Japan, the United States, and France--and offers detailed descriptions of weekly food purchases; photographs of the families at home, at market, and in their communities; and a portrait of each family surrounded by a week's worth of groceries. Featuring photo-essays on international street food, meat markets, fast food, and cookery, this captivating chronicle offers a riveting look at what the world really eats.Sku: 9780984074426
Hungry Planet
By: Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio$29.99 -
The great events of Revolutionary Boston as seen through the shrewd eyes of an observant fourteen-year-old boy.As compelling today as it was seventy years ago, to read this riveting novel is to live through the defining events leading up to the American Revolutionary War.Sku: 9780547614328
Johnny Tremain
By: Esther Forbes$12.50 -
This is the story of the little runt who became the father of the world-famous breed of American horses -- the Morgan.Sku: 9781416927853
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
By: Marguerite Henry$10.99 -
Based on the author's own childhood memories and filled with adventure and suspense, Lassie Come-Home – Eric Knight's best-loved novel and a huge best-seller, famously adapted into a 1943 Hollywood movie – is a timeless classic and one of the greatest dog stories ever written.Sku: 9781847495785
Lassie Come-Home
By: Eric Knight$13.00 -
Ralph was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes, the pleasures and perils of ranching in the early twentieth century are experienced... auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms all give authentic color to Little Britches. So do wonderfully told adventures, which equip Ralph for the path his life will take...Sku: 9781948959902
Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
By: Ralph Moody$33.95 -
A literary science book with section marks to align with the Ambleside Online reading schedule.2 GradesSku: 9781925729443
Madam How and Lady Why
By: Charles Kingsley$16.50 – $30.95 -
Follow Marco Polo from his home in Venice to the wonders of the Orient.4 GradesSku: 9781925729221
Marco Polo
By: George Makepeace Towle$16.50 – $30.95 -
In an unprecedented effort, sixteen of the world’s foremost photographers traveled to thirty nations around the globe to live for a week with families that were statistically average for that nation. At the end of each visit, photographer and family collaborated on a remarkable portrait of the family members outside their home, surrounded by all of their possessions—a few jars and jugs for some, an explosion of electronic gadgetry for others. Vividly portraying the look and feel of the human condition everywhere on Earth, this internationally acclaimed bestseller puts a human face on the issues of population, environment, social justice, and consumption as it illuminates the crucial question facing our species today: Can all six billion of us have all the things we want?Sku: 9780871564306
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
By: Peter Menzel, Charles C. Mann$40.00 -
The history of the Mississippi River Valley is told in text and pictures through the adventures of Minn, a snapping turtle, as she travels downstream.Sku: 9780395273999
Minn of the Mississippi
By: Holling C. Holling$18.99 -
The fourth book in the series that began with the Newbery Medal–winning Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan. I am a watcher. I am a listener, too. I am invisible. I can make myself so small and quiet and hidden that sometimes no one knows I am there to watch and listen. Cassie spends her days watching Grandfather and Caleb in the barn, looking out at Papa working the fields, spying on her mother, Sarah, feeding the goslings. She's an observer, a writer, a storyteller. Everything is as it should be. But change is inevitable, even on the prairie. Something new is expected, and Sarah says it will be the perfect gift. Cassie isn't so sure. But just as life changes, people change too. And Cassie learns that unexpected surprises can bring great joy.Sku: 9780060751791
More Perfect than the Moon
By: Patricia MacLachlan$9.99 -
When mouse widow Mrs. Frisby needs advice on how to move her children safely, she consults the rats who live under the rosebush. Not only do they help her, they tell her of their escape from a laboratory where experimentation had made them literate, and of the brave death of her husband. Newbery Medal; ALA Notable Children's Book; "Horn Book" Fanfare Book.Sku: 9780689710681
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
By: Robert C. O'Brien$11.99 -
Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever.Sku: 9780141312422
My Side of the Mountain
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Used in Charlotte Mason’s schools, Herbert Hatch’s Outdoor Geography provides teachers with 100 lessons in practical geography, complete with experiments, activities, questions, and answers to help students understand the world around them.4 GradesSku: 9781925729467
Outdoor Geography
By: Herbert Hatch$11.95 – $26.50 -
Everything you need to successfully do picture study is in this easy-to-use portfolio. Just one 15-minute lesson once a week is all it takes to spread this feast and cultivate within your children an appreciation for what is just, true, and beautiful.6 GradesSku: 9781616341992
Picture Study Portfolios: Botticelli
By: Emily Kiser$32.95