The Wanderings of Odysseus
10 best books like The Wanderings of Odysseus (Rosemary Sutcliff): The Golden Goblet, The Bronze Bow, The Box of Delights, All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir, Return to Gone-Away, Baby Island, The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life, Hurry Home, Candy, The Story of the Greeks, The Mystery of the Periodic Table
| Author | Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
I really liked this book when I was 11, and I really liked this book twenty-one years later. Somehow Eloise Jarvis McGraw makes Ranofer, the main character, easily relatable without turning him into a kid that thinks, talks and acts like a twentieth century American kid who happens to be living in ancient...
| Author | Elizabeth George Speare |
He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. –from the Song of David (2 Samuel 22:35)
The Bronze Bow, written by Elizabeth George Speare (author of The Witch of Blackbird Pond) won the Newbery Medal in 1962. This gripping, action-packed novel tells the story of eighteen-year-old...
| Author | John Masefield |
| ISBN | 1405210117 |
Strange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to go home for Christmas and finds himself under observation by two very shifty-looking characters. Arriving at his destination, the boy is immediately accosted by a bright-eyed old man with a mysterious message: “The wolves...
All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir
| Author | Brennan Manning |
| ISBN | 1434764184 |
It has been over twenty years since the publication of The Ragamuffin Gospel, a book many claim as the shattering of God’s grace into their lives. Since that time, Brennan Manning has been dazzingly faithful in preaching and writing variations on that singular theme – “Yes, Abba is very fond...
| Author | Elizabeth Enright |
| ISBN | 0152022635 |
A wish come true. That's what Portia thinks when her parents buy Villa Caprice, a tumbledown Victorian house along the swampy edge of Gone-Away Lake. A new house is always full of surprises, but Porcia is completely unprepared for the extraordinary things that happen when her family moves into a new...
| Author | Carol Ryrie Brink |
| ISBN | 0689717512 |
My wife read this book to me while I was driving on a roadtrip. Her mom had found her childhood copy and sent it to her. It has to be one of the most awesomely bad books ever written. It's intended for children of course, but that doesn't make it any less terrible. It's some screwy adventure tale of two young...
The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
| Author | Julie Bogart |
| ISBN | 0143133225 |
A joyful and accessible approach to homeschooling that harnesses children's natural curiosity and makes learning a part of everyday life, whether they're in elementary or high school
Parents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids....
| Author | Meindert DeJong |
| ISBN | 0064400255 |
Enjoyed on openlibrary.org.
Didn't feel a lot of depth. Some insights are nice, though. such as the description of Candy learning to play for the first time as a grown dog, how he took it so seriously.
The pictures by Sendak didn't quite reveal his genius, imo, but they are enjoyable....
This is basically a children's book, but an excellent one at that.
It's a straightforward chronological history of Greece, with
authors and philosophers basically getting a passing mention.
The early history is by its own admission mythological and the
only myths covered...
Leads the reader on a delightful and absorbing journey through the ages, on the trail of the elements of the Periodic Table as we know them today. He introduces the young reader to people like Von Helmont, Boyle, Stahl, Priestly, Cavendish, Lavoisier, and many others, all incredibly diverse in personality...
| Author | Erik Christian Haugaard |
| ISBN | 0618615121 |
When the powerful Lord Takeda’s soldiers sweep across the countryside, killing and plundering, they spare the boy Taro’s life and take him along with them. Taro becomes a servant in the household of the noble Lord Akiyama, where he meets Togan, a cook, who teaches Taro and makes his new life bearable....
| Author | Jeanne Bendick |
| ISBN | 1883937124 |
Jeanne Bendick, through text and pictures, admirably succeeds in bringing to life the ancient Greek mathematician who enriched mathematics and all branches of science. Against the backdrop of Archimedes's life and culture, the author discusses the man's work, his discoveries and the knowledge...
America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
Listening Length: 17 hours and 16 minutes
The concluding volume of the Fingerprints of the Gods trilogy.
Could shattering secrets about the deep past of humanity await discovery in North America?
Until very recently there was almost universal agreement amongst scientists...
